Wow. I see the subject (much more fun than last week's which was too ripe for an "Allow me to explain why my bigotries are your fault" fest) and get ready to type in Trashcan Sinatras only to see them in the main article. My day's all askew in a great way.

I wonder if, uh, Rusty had some, uh, you know, cheese sandwiches in his car.

One small detail I found myself wishing had been there was when Gus had his daughter doing a search for "Peterson" having her reflexively ask, "s-e-n or s-o-n?"

It's rather frightening to me that I spent any time trying to consider the ideal bang-bang pairing. But time I did spend.

Admittedly the intake of spirits has me somewhat enamored with that idea that Winston isn't a real person but is some sort of manifestation of the weird energy and nonsense the rest of them bring in. It's nowhere close to even 80%, but in general his attempts to interact with people the others bring in are ignored…

That opening joke hit rather familiar, though in the other direction. I missed my 26th year. Sometime during that year I became convinced I was 27. It was only about a month out from my birthday as I was filling out some online form that required me to fill in my year of birth and my age (it was the turn of the…

I thought both Linda and Louise were too crazy/cruel in this one. However, I was happy that they brought back Tammy's activity based farting.

And the hymns listed were 1x6 and 2x4.

Willard's character being slammed into the ceiling of the spacecraft was a wonderfully shocking moment. By then I got the piling up premise and that the show would be dark, but that it would be that dark? It let me know nothing could be missed because anything could happen and other horribly cliched thoughts.

Mine as well. I was a bit surprised at first that that's how it was going to go, and then impressed at how it all interwove.

My favorite part, small and spare as it was, involved Brick's increasingly stranger dangery suggestions for how Mike could apologize.

And that's Pierre, SD, pronounced "peer", not "pee-AIR" like some sort of sophisticated frenchy.

Yeah, but it was just that shot just after introducing the character to the screen that went right for the hands that excited my expectations despite all other evidence.

One of my hopes for the show for a while now is that the Pod and Brienne stuff will get more play just because of the actors. I think that could be a heck of a lot of fun, so I'm ok with the change. He's not as young and almost pathetic as in the books, and I think the actors will work well together.

And, inspired by Olenna, the last 80s sitcom reference to the episode: "50. If I stretch first."

That focus on the walker's hands misdirected me quite well. Almost so much that I thought it was intentional when it wasn't the case. I guess they were having a bit of fun with that.

Quick! Someone check the back of the Tyrell's bicycle shop for Ser Dudley!

The "Merger, She Wrote" sight gag was one of my favorites. I had to pause the show a good long time to recover after seeing that. Ditto to the manic faced slide-in appearance of the accountant dude.

Another victory for the Helmut Spargle school of motivation.

That was incredible. Clearly the two and a half non-consecutive days the creative staff gets off between seasons energized them.