Hopefully this will be better than when they tried to make an edgy film adaptation of Boy Meets World and we ended up with Apt Pupil.

"…will do their best to include a scene of a giant robot battling Caroline Rhea to the death."  This image made my day.

I kind of hope they do.  Dickie, Dewey, and Errol would make a hell of a Three Stooges team.

Errol's probably dead.  But in the Sepinwall S3 post-mortem, Yost says that they like to shoot first, figure it out later with respect to character deaths.  He says that they haven't even decided whether or not Dickie bit the dust, although they'll likely keep him around.

More importantly, how has John Hawkes not been on the show yet?

And then the brief furrow of exasperation he shot Quarles as Quarles reached for the arm.  Like, "Wait…what?  Fuck no."

"You know something, Mr. Cunningham, entailments are bad.  Entailments…"

Betty=Zoo bison bison?

Isn't Ginsburg basically just her boyfriend Abe, but a copywriter instead of a journalist?  The writing seemed like a rehash of Abe's lines at the cocktail party.

Up in the Air is an interesting case to look at.  The book and the movie have almost nothing at all in common, beyond being about an emotionally isolated businessman who travels.  Both are really great pieces of art, but shockingly different if you're looking for anything resembling adaptation.

Love the book, but LOVE the movie.  I try not to compare them, because they're both great and separate, but if I had to pick one, I'd go with the movie—cuts out some of the Ellroy weirdness* to make a tighter, more grounded crime drama.

rolla, I believe misanthropic is the word for which you are looking.

I hope the actress line was a red herring.  She's fun.  I'd enjoy watching her and Don in a constant power struggle, but not if she turns into a one-note villain.  Jane already gets just the right amount of screentime.

Speaking of Roger's Camels, did Don smoke at all in this episode?  I realized toward the end that if he had been smoking, I hadn't noticed.  Any chance he stopped/Megan got him to stop/he took part of that whole letter thing to heart?

I guess Hildy was his gateway drug.

He's the Lindsey Lohan of Sterling Cooper.

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I hated the bulk of this episode, but for me, everything Bobby Moynihan touches turns to shit, so I'll just blame him.  I enjoyed the Brad/Jane plot though.

Naw.  She started having fits and her doctor wanted her confined to the state hospital.  But Patrick Henry was appalled by the conditions in the asylum, and so he constructed a special apartment for her in the basement of their home and watched over her, fed her, and took pretty devoted care of her until she died four…

If Ted marries Barney's sister, and if Robin marries Barney, then Aunt Robin and Uncle Barney would actually be Aunt Robin and Uncle Barney to the kids.  But I guess he's referred to Lily and Marshall as aunt and uncle before (right?), so that's not really useful as a clue.