The perfect time that a band could have broken up would have been a hair metal act immediately before the release of Nirvana's "Nevermind." Alas, my quick search of groups from metal's last days in the pop limelight (Extreme? Damn Yankees? Ugly Kid Joe?) shows that all of them kept going for several years beyond their…

Franz Ferdinand is almost as big of an omission as Modest Mouse or the Strokes.

That's probably the rationale, but then M83 takes a shovel to the "not rock" argument.

***THE THREAD WHEREIN WE PRETEND THAT SOME BANDS ACTUALLY DID BREAK UP AS THEY WERE ON THE RISE***

In that case, I give you full credit for watching the show in the exact frame of mind as most of its characters, the way it was meant to be enjoyed.

Come on, bro, we have to go through this when she appears for two scenes every season. Get on the ball!

Okay, commentariat, there has to be someone who can tell me where I know Peggy's date from. It was bugging me the whole time as I was watching, but I was never able to put my finger on it.

Roger's mustache has been ridden so hard that the Racing Form shows it entered in claiming race #27 at Aqueduct.

He has a bad-ass eyepatch. He's married to Alex Fucking Mack. Did you ever doubt that Ken Cosgrove was going to take what's his?

He had to push those Seagram's wine coolers onto somebody.

Rittenhouse is definitely still being made, but for a while it was nearly impossible to find. Rittenhouse is a bottled-in-bond whiskey; as such, its production must follow a certain of stringent guidelines mandated by federal law. It has to be the product of one season at one distillery; it has to be aged at least…

The same reason people drink Ciroc, which ruins what would be perfectly good brandy and somehow demands even higher prices because of it.

The show's impact on whiskey and cocktails is slightly overstated, in my opinion. "Mad Men" influenced the tastemakers from the start, but it also debuted just before the recession took hold. Bourbon and rye are a lot cheaper than single-malt scotch or ultra-premium vodka; when drinkers had to cut back from their…

Is that Portuguese?

Worse than not having the ingredients (how is it even possible that a bar following the preceding martini craze would not have any bitters lying around?) is an old-fashioned where the fruit is muddled to a pulp, and the glass is topped off with club soda. For some reason, bartenders' books in the 80s and 90s came to…

There's one distillery in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, that used to be owned by Seagrams but now operates by contract. Basically all of the rye whiskey that has made it to market in the last several years is a a rye this distillery intended for blended rotgut, but now is bottled under dozens of names one the American…

You are spelling the character's name right; however, PFT has said the name comes from the village his wife's Lebanese grandparents emigrated from, so lord only knows whether that's the actual correct spelling or not.

He's also a handsome, well-dressed man in his forties.

(Helicopter Rides!)
(Butterbean!)

Paget plays smashed better than anyone in the business. Her "Drunk History" segments are all dingers.