I absolutely love B99 to bits but this is my one nitpick. It's far too apparent on this show and it can be distracting and frustrating. I feel like Parks and Rec suffered a bit from this as well, or at least there were several guest turns I was disappointed with.

I've never really made this link with postmodernism before and you've given me a lot to think about tonight. I think this is fascinating! I'd love to read your paper, although I imagine you've covered the main ideas in your post here. Thanks for your comment and the food for thought, you created a bit of a stir in my…

I think it's actually this scene:

Speaking of 30 Rock,

How are Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen not mentioned? Aren't they the king and queen of this kind of thing?

Not a good one though, in my opinion, and that's pretty much my only complaint with this show so far because other than that I'm loving it. I think Aubrey Plaza pulls it off (phrasing) so that you can buy April (phrasing!) as genuine whereas it's really forced with Diaz (HEY, PHRASING!).

I think we've learned that from pretty much everything, also especially if it's in the eyes of the CIA. One of my favourites, Burn After Reading:

My take was that it was more about the acts than the retribution. I think the acts aspect makes sense. It seems that with the agent dead, Narcisse is now their manager/agent/owner or whatever so he can tell them not to perform which is just an immediate problem.

@avclub-81e42ebe6b44656990ff91adfd49b5f7:disqus And the Jews laughed and accepted their misfortune and the persecution ceased. Sorry, I forgot, you're right.

My point being it's not like, for example, black people are making racism an issue because they're thinking about it too seriously and haven't adopted a "who cares, we're all somebody" attitude. Just a weird thing to say (Joan anyway, I know Josh didn't say that and admitted he wasn't sure of the intention).

"Doesn't matter as much as we thought it mattered."

I think the show really tipped their hand there. All throughout the episode we got told that Donna knows. Donna would catch on to this. Associates don't get secretaries, which is something that Louis said to her face, so I think she'd figure out something larger was at play. No way that Donna doesn't know. And I think…

I… still don't know when Blake said his one line. Was it off-screen?

Well put! The same sort of principle applies to the dismissal of females for the role.

BUT WHERE'S LARRY SANDERS??

Where is it?! :(

Note of disclosure: I wrote this up several days before this article went up and I didn't read it until quite a while after I posted this. Furthermore, I've only just now discovered that there is a second page!

A lot of what of I've written reflects what Todd and Zach are saying, which is far more eloquent and…

That's rather interesting! A glimpse like that of the themes involved would take some great writing to pull off. Do you, or anyone else for that matter, consider Mad Men in some shape or form (story, characters, or structure) similar to a play? I haven't read or studied enough of them to make a comment but I'd love to…

That was such a brilliant moment. I've watched that final scene many times over now and it's still great. That song and the timing of it is perfect.

It took a while to write up! Thank you for taking the time to read it, I appreciate that.

Every episode definitely ties in and feeds into the following ones. It just wasn't apparent to me until the end which I believe is what Zach is talking about in regard to missing the forest for the trees. I think the reason for…