I haven't been watching this season because circumstances totally within my control forced me to drop Starz, but I like this show and I'm not encouraged by the fact that this particular rambling will probably constitute just the second reasonable discussion of the thread. Watch this shit, people, so that I can binge…

I have never found anyone less funny than I find Melissa McCarthy.

This Homer line and the one in $pringfield when he flips out about Boogymen are two of my favorites.

Lisa:  "I thought this was a secret ballot?"

"Yes, and a fine mahok to you all"

"My back is crooked. My belly is yellow. I am the American non-voter"

Winning alone wasn't evil enough.

Bush I comes across pretty well in that episode… a might spiteful, maybe… but pretty spry for an old fuck.

Also, I bet Mitt Romney just barley beat out that water cooler to get the nomination… such similar charisma.

I regularly respond to innocent statements about my being required to do something with "WHAT?…. oh, yes. All that stuff I did…"

Don is like a professional athlete that likes to fuck around with the media, or the police, or one that likes to make his very private moments public… the team will tolerate some (or a lot) of fucking around just so long as the on-field returns are suitably excellant. As soon as the hype and buzz start to overtake or…

A few things stuck out to me on re-watch:

Excellent point!

… well that's almost a sentence.

I think they'll cut Pete loose, too, and then Don and Pete will start a new agency from the ground up.

Here's a thought:  Don is Brian Jones. He's too fucked up and now he's out of the band. He'll be dead by June of 1969.

"It's the kiss off! If I never see him again it'll be soon enough!"

Of course Roger and Bert are content to let Don go. Business trumps personal emotion every time.

Hershey Executive:  "Well, son, I do feel bad for you… but I can't have some damned whorehouse orphan running my affairs."

That kind of authority, once relinquished, cannot be regained. Don might find purpose again, but he will never be the commanding presence he once was.