"One of the interns said they were making necklaces out of mattress tags. This is as ugly as things can get…while still being a pillow fight." This killed me, and this, along with Leonard's amateur historical analysis just before, is just one of the dozens of pitch-perfect spoof elements that made this a wildly…

i loved the oliver wendell holmes quote at the beginning: "Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force."

barry enters the safehouse holding a smallish, square cooler - so that's not a plot hole. what bugged me about this episode, in a good way, is that both Pam and Barry used the phrase, "later, tator[s]." the episode is sowing all sorts of suspicion, partly because it's an episode where we learn tantalizingly little…

I wasn't around when you were blogging this, Todd, but thanks for all this great analysis.

I thought Leo's line at the end - "As long as I have a job here, you have a job here." - was an important and moving one, and more than just audience-fodder. To me, what makes Leo powerful - more than simply an excellent wartime consiglieri - is his humility and humanity in the face of grave defect and error, and how…

(not that anyone cares anymore but…)