In Soviet Russia the comedian laughs at you.

Mail Robot was the perfect mechanism to report that "the bureau does not feel." Wow, is that ever true, on so many levels. Meanwhile, the KGB truly feels, on so many levels. Gaad needs to connect with Arkady to meditate on this.

I wrote that "everyone eventually gets what they deserve." This is not to say that they don't go through Job-like trials and tribulations. The skater guys got to live. Kim gets to be her own boss! Mike's son was not even a character, and the whole story behind Mike's arc is that he is atoning for the injustice done to…

The Tarzan reading was inspired, but I think Trebek's true calling is Bizarro Reviews Comics.

Yeah, whatever. Let's go ahead and stipulate that Jimmy stole around 5k over the course of many years. Perhaps that amounts to a tenth of a percent of the store's revenue. And that made the difference in the business failing and the dad dying of a broken heart. Jimmy was a really rotten boy. Whatever.

Gilligan previously established that the business failed. Here, he made it clear that the failure was inevitable due to the father's stupidity.

Yeesh, isn't it enough to argue a modest point without having to disclaim this convoluted non-argument of "you sound like someone?"

I really wanted to see him reunited in a scene with McKean. Perhaps they'll have a chance to toast Jimmy at some point in the remaining episodes.

I see that he was an Internal Affairs cop with Miami Metro on Dexter. Don't remember the character, but by definition he must have been an idiotic sucker, much like his character here.

Are you suggesting that the store would have been a success without little Jimmy's presence? They were very obviously showing us that the father was a "sheep" that was destined to fail, and Jimmy consciously decided that he would never be a sheep. Even if he were responsible for the entire $14k, which is obviously not…

No, it is perfectly consistent. The whole argument is over the cause of the business' failure. Some seem to think that the cold open demonstrates that Chuck's analysis is spot on. I believe that it demonstrates that the father was a horrible businessman, and the suggestion that the lost revenue can be laid entirely…

Yes, the kid stole $8, that was wrong and nobody here has defended it. It is the suggestion that the business failure and the father's death can be blamed on the kid that is ridiculous. On this show, it seems that everyone eventually gets what they deserve.

No, even a True Green that argues "if it's yellow, let it mellow" would agree that "when it's brown, flush it down."

The point was that Dad was a foolish sucker, and Jimmy learned early that he did not want to walk in those footsteps. Gilligan previously established that the business failed. Here, he made it clear that the failure was inevitable due to the father's stupidity. To blame it on the kid is ridiculous.

Oh, please. A total of $18 disappeared, eight into Jimmy's pocket, and ten due to the father's idiocy. Clearly not the first time the man was suckered. Who was more responsible for the leaky register over time: the kid, or the dad? I find it hard to blame the kid for that business failing. If anything, this episode…

Jimmy may be an asshole, but at least he's no pigfucker.

I eagerly await a flashback to his childhood visits to the Chicago southside black church where he gained his fashion sense.

How perfect that the actor playing Saul Goodman's saintly father, with the perfect conscience, previously played Jiminy Cricket?

You are too pessimistic. I am holding out hope that the finale will not open with a dark and stormy night.

And thereby improved the empty, boring episode. Hence, not a "time waster," but rather a cheap addition that nonetheless improved the episode. (Cheap in the sense of "easy;" royalties were undoubtedly a substantial hit to the budget.)