The best part of that lyric is the self-mocking guitar lick from Reelin' that comes in right after the Steely Dan T-shirt line.

That's interesting. It's easy to see on one level how Melfi can distance herself from Tony's profession, that all the advice she gives him is advice she'd give any other patient. But Melfi's not dumb, and you do have to wonder if she realizes, when she tells Tony over and over that his feelings for his cousin are…

"God, he's such a mope."

What I remember most about this episode was that it was the last new one we got for the next TWENTY-ONE months. Is there another show on the planet that could have gotten away with that?

When this episode first aired, I thought this scene had deus ex machina written all over it, not to mention that I hated that one of my favorite characters was going to be out of the game.

Two other lines that stand out and I use in semi-regular rotation:

"The Ride" really is fantastic. It kind of got lost in the disappointment of the second half of 6a, but I still remember saying, "Oh shit" when the Tony and Chris scene came up and I figured out what it was.

SVZ says in one of the extras somewhere that it was the most difficult acting he's ever done, and that de Matteo had to implore him to physically grab her harder and throw her to the ground.

Ade may have known subconsciously on the car ride what her fate was, but I don't believe she knew for sure until Silvio turned into the woods. There's a sudden recognition of A) I am going to be killed and B) I am going to be killed HERE.

You may recall that a couple days before an episode aired, HBO would preview it on their website with a screenshot and a deliberately vague tagline. Maybe you guys can confirm this, but I could swear when this one was previewed, there was an image of Tony at dream-Vesuvio's looking over at AJ and Tracee, the dead…

Don't worry, kid, you're still on the clock.

And, of course, Mad Men is spearheaded by Matthew Weiner, who gets writing credits for this episode and the second coma episode in 6a. Probably not a coincidence.

True, but no way Livia gets up from dinner. She'd probably have shrugged her shoulders and said, "What? What did I say?" Then dug right back in for another bite.

Agree totally. I don't feel anything good for Tony in that scene. It's beyond mean, it's just disgusting. What makes it worse is that Tony knows Bobby & Janice are impotent to really do anything about it; they simply have to put up with it and stew behind the scenes.

It's amazing how much mileage the show got from its pilot. They kept referencing it right to the very end. Christopher's "canned peaches," of course, is E-mail, the dude he shot in Satriale's.

This is fuckin' priceless.

Let me throw out a theory, totally unverified. It seems to me that after the third season, it was always a long dance between Chase and HBO whether the next season would be the last or they'd renew it for more. I feel like we heard on 3 or 4 different occasions that "Chase planned to end it soon" and then soon…

Finn starts detaching right after his big inquisition to Tony and Friends in Satriale's. Later, he gets his customary ration of self-serving bullshit from Meadow and starts putting two and two together.

Brilliant scene, one you could include in an Acting Duets book or something.

Notice the hypocrisy also when Meadow tears into Finn for leaving the construction job. "Do you know how many strings my father had to pull to get you that job?" So she criticizes her mother for still being dependent on Tony, but she relies on him just as much.