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There is nothing like watching a movie in an almost empty movie theater. When I was in high school, I worked at a movie theater, and we employees used to watch films the night before they'd open to the public. It was fun to get drunk and yell at the screen.

Wow, that actually reads like someone should consider being molested as a lucky break. "Congratulations, your brother felt you up, which means that God has blessed you with spiritual power!"

You can rhyme with themes, characters, and story. Rhyming just implies a repeating pattern. That said, these films could well be a masterpiece of structuralism, but it's all buried beneath tedious exposition, wooden characters, stiff dialogue, an inert plot, and the cinematographic equivalent of a Geocities page

The bacon cheeseburger burrito was the one that shocked me.

Then you are at Taco Time.

I honestly can't read his name without hearing that anymore.

That's not what Jack Chick taught me!

That's the 'That's the joke' joke.

Ignorance is at an all time high, Hey yo, Chuck, I think he needs to be educated.

Caught, can he get a witness?

Just one? Meh.

Harvey generally gave as good as he got, which was why he was always such a great guest.

There was a moment in the first of these last batches of episodes where Don pushed on the window of his office at McCann, and I was worried that Weiner was going to go for him jumping out a window. The moment made sense, and I'm glad he didn't go any farther with it.

I just thought it was a hilarious juxtaposition. Here's Don having a revelatory moment about who he is, that is suddenly transformed into one of the most iconic commercials in history. Whether or not he ended up being the guy behind it is immaterial. The ending works just as well either way.

There's a great book by Thomas Frank called The Conquest of Cool, about how the ad industry in the early 60s was a precursor to, and ultimately swallowed up, the hippie counterculture. When I first heard about Mad Men, I was excited about it primarily because it was about this same era in advertising. The show

"He's a terrible person" was my favorite line of the night.

I actually thought that last bit with the Coke commercial was a bit dark, in a hilarious way. Here's a group of people, including Don, meditating on a hill, when suddenly that commercial comes on. Even Don's personal revelations are linked with advertising and commerce.

The quaaludes of romantic comedies.

Apparently Todd was gay, and the only reason he was obsessed with Lydia is because he thought she was a sharp dresser.

And Shearer is in his 70s.