He's playing the heel. He'll pull this schtick for as long as possible—maybe even well into the Republican primaries—then drop out in time to make Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio or whoever look like the sensible, moderate candidate.

Anyone else a little bummed by the reveal that Doggett is actually from Virginia? Pennsyltucky is a real thing—the strange, redneck-y expanse of the state between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia—that I don't think I've ever actually seen depicted on screen before and I was a little let-down they didn't go with that here.

I imagine that'd be a tough sell, especially because of the initial expense and the fear that changing technology could render them obsolete within a few years. I was curious, though, if that's something prisons were actually doing. It looks like they aren't really, but here's an interesting post by a prison librarian…

I hope Lolly and Yoga Jones turn out to be long-lost sisters.

I also doubt he's bothered to register this as an actual business, is collecting sales tax on in-state orders, etc. I'm sure he's not reporting it on his taxes, because his inventory is all stolen goods. Man, Piper must have 6-8 months left on her sentence by this point; shouldn't she be making plans for getting out…

Wow! I had no idea. I stand corrected!

Uh, yeah….me, too.

I thought that was the worst "younger self" casting we've seen so far (she was just TOO pretty), and honestly, it wasn't that bad.

Let me just say, no reasonable pervert is gonna buy any used panties without an accompanying photograph of the previous owner wearing 'em.

I think it was on the audio commentary to "Joyride" where Steve Zahn talks about how, if you try to drive a car realistically on-screen it doesn't look like anything, so the directors want you to make these exaggerated movements. Then when you actually drive your real car home at the end of the day, you have to work…

The first time I remember hearing anyone outside of Pittsburgh use that term was when fellow Pittsburgher Michael Keaton said it in "Gung Ho." Is that an insult used nation-wide now?

I don't think Soso is supposed to be Chinese, is she? Have they ever said that, or just referred to her as "Asian"? Kimiko Glenn is half-Japanese, though that doesn't necessarily mean the character is too.

One thing I love about the show is how you'll see a lot of these side characters, and their faces become familiar but you don't remember their names or even think of them as much more than comic relief until BAM! They star in a flashback episode and suddenly they come into focus and remain that way for the rest of the…

The episode titles typically come from lines of dialogue, and someone in this episode (Pennsatucky? It's been a few days since I watched) refers to Chang in this manner. If I was trying to defend that choice, I'd say it's to reinforce the theme that the other prisoners view her as a stereotype; they only see her…

I just want to say that I think GROAN revealed that information in the best possible order.

This episode was okay, but nothing in it was 1/10th as great as Chang pretending to lick a giant dick in the improv class a few episodes back.

Kind of an ooky one, at that.

It doesn't seem to bother most people I've talked to who read the book, but man, I cringed every time a character would unironically say something like "My name is Shadow," or "Call me Wednesday" and everyone else would accept it like that is perfectly normal.

Yeah, she plays Nikki's mother. She appeared in a season 1 episode and is featured pretty extensively in flashbacks in episode 3 of this season.

The flashbacks this season don't seem to line up perfectly with why the subject got sent to jail, so there's a chance this one was just showing the beginning of Flaca's trouble with the law, rather than why she's in Litchfield. I didn't try to figure out what year the flashback took place in, but the actress is like…