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With Joan talking to her husband, you'll notice her voice changed during that scene. She was the strong office-runner when trying to figure out why Greg didn't get the position, but regressed into the babying voice when telling him to go to bed.

Yeah, I had definitely noticed that aspect of pairing off the gay man and lesbian, but didn't know if anyone else had. Cool.

@Jim Rockford Yeah, that's where it lost me too. But I was down until that point.

I read that the guy who wrote "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" is hard at work on his follow-up "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter."

I've actually heard of him before, but didn't catch that line. Was he actually shown, or was she referring to someone off-screen?

Thanks! Looking forward to this season.

Fear
Wow Amelie, way to bring back a long-buried memory. That movie was awesomely bad.

Yes.

@Maneki, there was a scene in one of the first season episodes (it might've been the fourth) where Paul, Pete and Ken were listening to a Lenny Bruce album.

How seriously can you take a guy if his nickname is the same as a snack cake?

I watch it
I got into it the last few episodes of this past season, and I was surprised by the quality too.
Some of my friends have been into it for awhile, so fans are out there. (We've even talked about it at the bar before.) Now if we could only get them to come here…
So keep recapping it and I'll keep commenting.

@lexicondevil That could tie right into the Midsummer Night's Dream part, since that's what the fairies were all about.
And the shindig was held outside on the lawn. When Betty and Don were kissing, they were at the edge of the woods. Parallels to the play abound.

I liked Connie's line about "no matter how good your cuff links are, you still feel like you have the head of an ass."

Didn't Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in "A Streetcar Named Desire" spend most of his time in a white undershirt. So maybe Weiner was going for the "white undershirt/violence" parallel.

How common was blackface into the 1960s, though? My guess would be not that common, since a good number of the guests look uncomfortable.
And good call on Jane being from the South. I'd completely forgotten about that, but it adds another layer to it.

With Pete and Trudy dancing, it was nice until they started going full-blown Charleston and driving other people off the dance floor. (I'm surprised that wasn't seen as rude.)

She's hot (and I'm a straight girl) and fluent in French, what more do you want?

@ Ask Me I remember those Engvall spots. It looks like you're in good company.

I'm not a fan of
1) Female pratfalls in rom-coms: most girls really aren't that clumsy.
2) Animal reaction shots: that's just lazy.
3) Last Supper seating: when everyone is seated on only one side of the table (I get why they do this, but still).
4) Fat husband/hot wife: enough said.
5) "Quirky": everyone's quirky, but

To be fair, in certain period films, if a character coughs it's pretty certain that they have consumption and will die soon.