yes, i too understand irony.

It's been a long time since I've seen this episode (tried to rewatch the entire show twice, haven't made it past season 4 both times), but knowing how the sausage is made and knowing how to act in that world are two totally different things.  Jackie and AJ realize there are rules to this world, but they didn't grow up…

I can't wait for Community to be canceled so the comment sections of otherwise excellent articles like this one are no longer deluged with idiots whining about notification.  For instance, I don't think I've seen a single instance of the phrase 'mango salsa', which was one of the Cavemen's go-to quips.

I'm defending this show and I don't think it has to be an all-timer.  In fact, I think it's anything but - what it's doing, to me, is capturing the zeitgeist of a certain set of urban, semi-moneyed, college-educated people.  Everything so far is very of-the-time, of-the-place.

Yeah, it's all black people and South Americans at Bushwick music venues, hipster bars, art shows, etc.  Can you 'New York is super diverse' people go away and watch a different show, or come back and complain when a scene is set on the subway or a bus or something and has all white people?  Because otherwise you're…

It's also 4 episodes in.

There was also a significant shot of Don and Megan walking into the office on Megan's last day - the floor is in standard white tile, but one of the tiles on the floor was blue and therefore appeared very out of place.

No way - I transact all my personal finances at the Third Firstie Bank.

Miller:  I don't think Joan is a substitute mom - she knows that Peggy doesn't understand people in the way that she does.  I thought her advice was generally cruel.

I don't think this laughing is unique to Seinfeld.  Well, maybe the laughing is, but on Cheers, there's at least a lot of recognition that what's being said are jokes and people within earshot generally smile at them.

now this is the kind of thing that Sims usually includes in his reviews.

I mean, I'm sure it was well done, but a clip show is still a clip show - it's guaranteed to be worse than the worst episodes, just because it's randomly stitched together.  And the reason I can't remember it even though I'm sure I've seen it more than once is because nothing that happened in a clip show has any…

What people are saying is that NBC aired a clip show before the finale.  The finale is not a clip show, but it does involve bringing back a bunch of old characters, several of which I'm sure were visible in the clip show.  That takes some of the steam out of the 'surprise', if it can be called that.

I have to agree - the premise of the show was generally normal people put in heightened situations, usually making the wrong or most selfish choice.

This might be Sims's best review to date.  Kudos, Sims, on a job…done.

I was at the Astoria Beer Garden this weekend and I was amazed at how few people of minority ethnicities were there.  If I'd've taken a picture, it would've been indistinguishable from a Beer Garden in say, Minneapolis.

Buzz:  Orwell didn't come from a rich family, though.  Yes, he slummed it to write Down and Out…, but he was legitimately starving and poor.

kjohnson:  at that point he was literally don DRAPER.

I think the noose is more about how good Draper's marriage is:  he hates work, instead of tolerating it as an alternative to being with his wife and kids.

probably a coincidence, but i like how it ends on the word 'bear' - that was the title (or at least the subject) of Pete Campbell's story, after all.