Very underrated movie. I remember there were talks of rebooting it with Jeffrey Wright and Mos Def as Easy and Mouse after their success onstage in Topdog/Underdog.

Beane's strategy was to basically compose a team strong enough to hit a projected number of wins over a full season. That works fine for 162 games because that's a large enough sample size for most players to perform to expectation. 5 or 7 games is too small a sample for that method to be dependable. In addition, that…

Or on the syndicated Hercules show, where all they used to indicate the presence or anger of Hera (queen of the gods) was a closeup of her eyes and a floating peacock feather (an animal associated with her).

And the running joke that Santiago is a terrible dancer continues.

Yes, she was. She was also the second lead to Katie Holmes in Teaching Mrs. Tingle.

Eh, he was decent as a crappy cop on Southland.

They were blending it with the Donald Sterling case (secretly racist old white guy profiting off black athletes AND angry that a woman in his life is seeing a black guy).

It was an SVU episode, not Original Recipe. The plot(eventually) focused on rare animal smuggling.

Wilmore was on board with the first 12 episodes produced and didn't leave until a few weeks ago so I'm pretty sure he was heavily involved on this episode.

While he is one of the sexiest performers out there, Prince is a TERRIBLE kisser - at least on film. I love Purple Rain and was getting my fiancee to watch it for the first time when she pointed it out and it's one of those things you can't stop noticing once you see it.

Definitely - the last season lineup with Roache, de la Garza, Sisto and Anderson was the best in years. Unfortunately they were doomed by the ratings fall brought on by the dip in writing quality of the previous seasons.

Marks is a 'legit' businessman but he still controls the One-Niners - they're the street gang but they can't make any moves without Marks' approval. That was how Jax convinced the One-Niner leader to join him: he was commiserating about the fact that Marks won't let them retaliate against the Mayans like he won't let…

Jax didn't send the One-Niners to bust up Lin's club; he sent the Grim Bastards (SOA's allied black MC) posing as purple to set Lin against them.

YOU SHUT YOUR WET MOUTH!

Exactly - we went from Babette's and the pharaoh party referenced in this ep to the Onyx with its top black talent to its current incarnation as a barely respectable jiggle joint with boorish conventioneers and Mickey pouring served booze back in the bottle.

That was "Kings" with McShane and the Winter Soldier himself, Sebastian Stan.

Juice's haircut is just a buzzcut growing in/over his tats.

The character and actor is Scottish; it's handwaved as the character having been a Scottish member of the British army who was raised in Belfast and defected to the Irish cause through the Belfast chapter.

Great - I was really feeling a lack of rom-sitcoms starting a hetero white couple in their late 20s/early 30s. I was starting to run low on options.

Tonino, formerly Gyp Rossetti's lieutenant who gave Gyp up to Nucky to save his own skin. Went back to working for Masseria but secretly in league with Luciano and Lansky. Murdered by Nucky's hitman as a message to L&L and as revenge for his role in the bombing of Babette's, which killed Nucky's mistress Billie Kent.