Sounds like a good approach - just leave out the pop culture aspect and focus on the real and the personal. Sometimes I feel self-indulgent, learning so much from the beautiful fictions of movies, TV, books, etc, while other people don't have that luxury because they have to make a living (I'm currently in the bubble…

Lovely story, @avclub-ed7db929d473c5593ce0501539c6e19f:disqus , thanks for making that connection between how television can be art and how it can hold up a mirror to our internal lives. I hope you told your dad about this. It sounds like he worked hard to help you get what you got.

Liked for the Croatian truck driver reference. And balls.

I'm so late getting here today - 1300 comments behind - so excuse me if someone's already said this, but I was thinking about the "Carousel" pitch this episode, especially the circularity of what Don revealed about family in the boardroom.

Did anyone else feel like we got a bit shortchanged on Joan this season? I kept waiting to spend more time with on her story but ended up feeling like she didn't really go anywhere, aside from befriending her gay BFFand relenting a little on letting Kevin get to know his real father.

Who would've thought the MVP of Funny would be Pete this season? It seems like he's gotten in a zinger just about every episode in recent memory (and, of course, I can't remember any of them offhand). The elevator line and the part you mention, @avclub-ea091ca6d4f474a765f3777597b384f8:disqus , about the Campbell…

@avclub-219fd9dabd86b069c1f9a7160d2e20a1:disqus I didn't even realize that it had that effect on me until I watched the look pass between Sally and Don, said "Huh." Then burst into tears.

The Philly scenes were shot in Glasgow. Make of that what you will.

I'm late to this thread, but years ago I read and memorized several crappy baby names from real-life hospital rolls listed in an article on the subject. The only two I can still remember are "Fang" and "Cigarette."
Edit: Oh! and "Nicey-horsey." I am not making this up.

I've often wondered if Bob and Manolo go around running scams like this on rich widows. Now that we know Bob is a con artist (not at Don's level, but still), this could be at least part of his modus. I don't know what part SCDP would be playing in a set-up like this except maybe it's all part of a long con on multiple…

That reveal was so telling because, for once, we weren't in Don's world and knowing everything he was doing when he was doing it. We were with Sally, stumbling into that moment cold.

Definitely, @avclub-9cd818ea56273170b63f339aa6f34bca:disqus , Sally is probably re-thinking the divorce and that maybe blaming her mother was the wrong call. Father-son stories are so common that it's really nice to see a father-daughter relationship in deep three dimensions, playing out over years and doing so during…

Pete is unhappy that other people are happy. Bob honed in on the most important question Pete should've been asking himself about his mother: was she happy. I was actually surprised that Pete was honest about this and said yes she was. Pete is so closed off and shut down that, even when awesome people like Trudy and…

Why didn't she just get out her homemade bayonet. A possum ran into our house late one night and my mom beat it to death with a shovel. Key to this whole thing is Long Handle.

I loved that scene SO much. It is, I think, the most human Pete has ever been. The laughter between him and Peggy was genuinely funny and companionable. A world of communication happened all in about 5 minutes. The look on Ted's face when he came back to the table and realized how excluded he was…also perfect.

Speaking of guys on the wall, do we know who the eye-patch man on Stan's wall was?

I'm late to this conversation but, as a fan of Haven (something I never thought I'd say about anything on SyFy) and knowing that it's based on "The Colorado Kid," does anyone here know how closely - or not - the series follows the book? If I read the book, will I get all discombobulated when the 3rd season of the…

Then he'll get sacrificed to the Hellmouth.

And that Mustang makes every car on the road now look like a shitbox.

But his comb-over when he grows out his hair like Danny Strong is going to be painful.