Abraham Lincoln, basis for the evil radio announcer, also died before filming.

I SAID, BLACK OLIVES, COOP

Don't forget the sassy lisp!

A girl has no symptoms?

I know who the character is (Donna has two younger sisters, FWIW), I just didn't catch her, and was pretty sure she wasn't the redheaded mother in the accidental shooting, though Witt is very chameleonic.

But they are not a porn star!

"offhandedly"

Granted, but Cersei's coronation was long After BOTB.

Oh boy do I like this idea.

Alicia Witt was credited in this one, where did she show up?

The detective's unfiltered "OH MY GOD"s were delightful.

I think she's almost certainly another person trapped in a golem like Coop in Dougie's. I had the feeling that maybe she's Annie.

Was I the only one who thought Diane picked up on it as soon as she saw the numbers?

I cannot help but wonder whether Albert pulling Gordon out of "the zone" by the arm confirms that the Japanese Georgia coffee commercials are semi-canon. It's exactly how Coop saves the missing girl from the Black Lodge.

Don't worry, the concept of "thin places" existed long before LOST, and in that case would be more correct to describe 90 percent of the story.

Similarly in this episode, Dougie's trip out to the desert sees pass-bys of the casinos Excalibur (referring to Glastonbury Grove, Twin Peaks' Black Lodge entrance) and Mirage (Where do I start?).

I can't express how much I hated the reveal to Arya. Obviously it needed to happen dramatically, but how would she have not known the outcome of BOTB after spending enough time in Riverrun to murder the entire Frey family?

In the real world, the scientific method did not exist until a few hundred years ago simply because up until that point Western science was the work of the upper class, who not would lower themselves by performing experiments, and would rather just assume their logic-derived theories were correct, leaving…

YEAH BUT IT'S JUST LIKE THE 80S OR SOMETHING

By the same token I've been wondering for a few seasons whether they're setting up Olenna to finally turn on some unsuspecting 'good' character, and now if she'll finally strike by talking Dany into the kind of aggression Dany's never been comfortable with, leading to Dany's fall.