Now we need a supercut of all the times Riker is on the bridge and does that thing where he puts one leg up, and makes whoever's at the helm stare at his crotch.

JESUS CHRIST, VAMPIRE HUNTER

That's why I both love and hate this episode - I love it because it's wildly audacious and borderline experimental in its willingness to force viewers to confront how abjectly terrible its protagonist is; I hate it because it more or less breaks the show. It's hard to go from "Homer, the dumb but lovable sad sack" to…

Ghadafi really hated the Mike Scully years.

But him I can stand, whereas she I want to run over with a cement mixer.

1968 was a hell of a year - things looked wildly different in May than anyone would have predicted in January, to say nothing of December. One can hardly blame Abe for underestimating the number of wild swings history would take in such a short period of time.

Honestly, I'm glad to see Trudy dump Pete, if only because it'll mean less Trudy - Alison Brie plays her like a Stepford mannequin gone wrong.

Then Don can cheat on his wife with someone new! What sultry, well-read, independent-but-not-TOO-independent young brunette will he smoke ponderously in bed with next?!

DIALECTICS!

The Peggy/Ted thing is gross, but fundamentally it makes sense. Abe is ultimately pretty radical (or at least, radical-ish), and he's always going to view Peggy's work - justifiably - as, at best, a bizarre sideshow she has to participate in to make ends meet; Peggy, on the other hand, has been trained by Don and a…

The show has never known how to handle Britta. There's been a lot of valiant fanwanking to try to explain why Britta goes from a straight man/voice of reason/less cynical foil for Jeff in the earliest episodes to the cynical serial campus activist of season 2 to the wannabe psychologist of recent vintage, but there's…

Sorry, @avclub-f9a856c97217af6337113a7a738ae9fd:disqus - the wiretapping of MLK started under JFK and RFK, and while Hoover was the driving force behind it, both Kennedys signed off on it, being all too happy to spy on the civil rights movement in the name of anti-communism and suppressing dissent. Read a book!

Nobody has publicly-owned mini-golf courses; it's clear that the reason the fight was over a mini-golf course was that Ron would be a lot less sympathetic if he were fighting to close, say, a school.

I'd be fine with a show about ad execs during the 60s - if that was the show that Weiner and co. seemed like they wanted to make. But it seems clear from this episode (and the Kennedy assassination episode, and a few others) that the production team has started believing its own press, and thinks that "Mad Men" is…

The weakness of this episode demonstrated one of the weaknesses at the heart of the show - there's only so many things you can say about this period in history with a regular cast that includes no Black people whatsoever. The social movements of the 60s and 70s were largely driven by a radicalizing Black working class…

One week after the death of MLK, the death of one of the guys who was wiretapping him!

Boys, boys, let's not fight - we can hate both Kennedies.

@avclub-9024f9f0a80d2d248c7c6efb2e715c37:disqus - you can kill Greek gods, too. Just ask Phaeton, Uranus, or any of the Titans.

FUCK CANCER

The mind-meld was in Khan. Someone (not Nick Meyer, but one of the producers, I think?) asked Nimoy to add something that could lead to a retcon in case they wanted to write Spock back in, so Nimoy came up with it on the spot.