Yep - mature vs. startup. Keeping an eye on the bottom line is always good (like the way that Lane did it a few seasons ago) … but not at the expense of the firm's reputation and output.

Or his comment to Pete Campbell when he walked in for Roger and Don's reaming of him for suggesting that Admiral TVs should market to African Americans: "Well if it isn't Martin Luther King?"

Yeah, right? Even though i'm just an observer to a scripted show that is planned in advance and not reality, I was shifting in my seat on the couch at the awkwardness of Don's hanging out in the office, and feeling DREAD about the upcoming meeting that he was surely going to have with the partners.

Oh, my hooks?

Yep, I got Day Nurse too - and oddly enough, that's the one with the pseudoephedrine. PSE is typically in many of our night time OTC cold/flu products.

I've flown quite a bit and have never had a truly awful seatmate like the experience in the article, other than just sitting next to large guys crammed into small regional jet-size seats.

The song is angsty, angry and humorous without being too much of one in particular. It's a perfect song for young punk rock dudes who pine for girls that show them attention from time to time but offer little else. That's why "like a plane crash that never hits the ground" really rings true.

Yeah, the real gold with the Colbert Report is in the news-style monologue and the produced segments. Half the time my wife and I are falling asleep just as the guest segment comes back from commercial …

I hear Blood and Guts Murphy was quite the sousaphone player.

Eastern Iowa is more in line with Wisconsin, Minnesota and (the good part of) Illinois.

everyone looked middle aged in the '80s. Even me, and I was barely out of diapers for most of the decade.

And the Village People performing "In the Navy" on top of a diving submarine. Poor bastards never had a chance.

Yes, Homer the Heretic. When my wife was just my girlfriend, I learned that she had also never seen an episode of the Simpsons. I knew that this was to be an epic moment in our relationship, and that since I liked her a lot, I had better pick her first episode wisely.

(obligatory) It's not a comedy.

No atheists in foxholes either. Or so the saying goes (Stephen Colbert once asked the question "why are there no atheists in fox holes!? I think we should put all of them in fox holes under constant bombardment.")

Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey …

In what way? The essence of science is basically to figure out how God decided everything would work (biology, chemistry, physics), and to explain everything God just intuitively put together (calculus, geometry).

I don't get the vocal minority of Christians who are against evolution.

I forgot he was the DA in the last Seinfeld episode!

well done. i don't think i've ever seen a more apropos yet accurate spelling for Nien Numb's laugh/language.