@avclub-31ae1ca706bab29e890f516eedaab1ad:disqus  Are you saying Bob gave Joan an ovarian cyst? 

Those are such lovely, apt metaphors! I agree; I really appreciate both shows but in different ways, so I find the inevitable comparisons so exhausting.  Mad Men brings out the obsessive in me like nothing else, and I can already tell that I'll probably miss it more than my other favorite shows—but I can't declare it…

If Dick joined the Army the day he turned 18, that would have been 1944, and he'd have fought in WWII, not Korea.  And that would have made perfect sense, but we're told that's not what happened. The thing that's always annoyed me in what's otherwise a meticulous show is the pre-show timeline, because what in hell was…

Well, I think he gets more and more entertaining.  I mean, I'd probably hate him if I knew him, but he's hilarious in every possible way.  I'll never forget his wild-eyed, open-mouthed stare when Lakshmi said she "burns" for him.  Or the "yeah, so?" shrug when Pete said "Everything turns you on, doesn't it?"  Or his…

Until the past few years, my husband was the only person I'd ever heard say it—so I chalked it up either to a New Jersey thing (where he's from) or to the fact that he sometimes comes up with incredibly evocative, vivid, and weird phrases all on his own.  I guess I've got to stop saying, "God, why do you have to be so …

Please, tell us more about how we're dumb for liking a TV show and you're smart for not liking it! Yeah, that's it: don't just disagree and provide your reasons for doing so—insult everyone instead!  What a fruitful and worthwhile discussion it'll be for everyone involved.

I think the stunning lyricism of nearly every line of dialogue in Deadwood operated on this level, and then some.  But I'm not  disagreeing: Mad Men is perfect at what it does, too, and for whatever reason I, like a lot of people, am more obsessive about it than anything else I've ever watched. 

"Make a joke about someone beloved and be prepared to be called the worst human being in history." You just learned that lesson today? And think it only applies to this place? I thought that was kind of universal.

Or—and I know this is crazy, but bear with me—he's from West Virginia and he picked up Spanish somewhere!  Perhaps on that European manservant tour!

You know, I've seen lots of people put Pete's liberalism down to his patrician paternalism, but that doesn't totally make sense to me.  After all, we were reminded in the previouslies that his Dyckman mother would only accept a Spanish nurse from Spain, and Pete has called her out on her racism in other scenes. I…

I'm the only person in the universe who feels this way, but while I think their analyses are fun and interesting, Tom and Lorenzo drive me batshit crazy sometimes.  I think it's because the few times I've ventured into their comments, I've seen them going off on somebody for politely disagreeing about what blue means,…

Like most others, I think Megan has actually been consistently warm and attentive; what makes you say otherwise? Sally's had her snitfits with her, as most adolescents are occasionally wont to do with authority figures, but she still seems to really like her.

I've loved Kiernan Shipka ever since she was, what, 7 years old and yelling at all the grownups to stop laughing because Grandpa Gene died and was never coming back. That scene was just heartbreaking to me, and Shipka's performance truly was extraordinary.

I haven't seen him out of character with the shaved hairline, but I read some interview that mentioned how fucked up his hair looks with the shaved part growing back.  Which is such a shame, because Vincent Kartheiser is really attractive, IMO.  (He doesn't have a paunch in real life, either.)

It didn't happen to me, but if it had I would have lost it—which is why I burned my diary in the back yard when I was 12, after it occurred to me that my arch-nemesis could somehow steal it and somehow give it to my true love.  (My arch-nemesis came over all the time, naturally.)

He's had dreams and daydreams and hallucinations, often stemming from his guilt over someone's death, but I don't think he's actually seen ghosts. 

That's definitely quite old, but it's not terribly unusual, is it? I just realized that I know quite a few people that age and older, and while some of them are in more advanced stages of, uh, decay than others, my 87-year-old grandma is still lively as hell.  And she's still friends with some people she knew in high…

Yeah, Don is apparently three weeks younger than my grandmother, who smoked for 45 years, and who's still as smart and funny and mean as ever!  And she's still alive!

Sharon Tate wasn't stabbed in the uterus, but repeatedly in the chest and back.  Her killers said they didn't even notice she was nine months pregnant.

Yeah, the very idea of frenzied stabbing wigs me out like nothing else, so I think Talisa's death looked so brutal because it was half a dozen stabs in quick succession in one small area. It was made doubly horrifying simply because it was the first death in the scene and ostensibly took people by surprise; moreover,…