News Flash: wealthy people are wealthy.

News Flash: wealthy people are wealthy.

He's 40. Could it be less unclear? They showed his birthday.

He's 40. Could it be less unclear? They showed his birthday.

Just like America Hurrah, Star Trek seems "brutally obvious" only with the benefit of historical perspective. We take social commentary in popular mass media for granted now (for example, Mad Men), so it's difficult to imagine an era in which it was revolutionary and seismic.

Just like America Hurrah, Star Trek seems "brutally obvious" only with the benefit of historical perspective. We take social commentary in popular mass media for granted now (for example, Mad Men), so it's difficult to imagine an era in which it was revolutionary and seismic.

Because they all treated her like "the boss' wife" (behind her back), assuming she didn't do her own work, etc.

It's possible (just like it's possible that the car/driving scenes on Mad Men are "supposed" to look fake) but I really, really don't think so.

Con Don
Petty Betty
Lone Joan
Cheat Pete
Dodger Roger
Curt Bert
Vain Lane
Eggin' Megan

BETTY TO SALLY: "He has a first wife you know."

Interesting analysis. I (and many others on this board and everywhere else) continue to be amazed and impressed by the show's sophistication — by the way that the SCDP work product actually holds up under scrutiny, and has enough depth and complexity to support the story (as opposed to law, cop, or doctor shows where…

Yeah. At first I thought, "How nice: a rare moment of candor overcoming his natural desire for braggadocio." Then I thought, "No, if he claims to have come up with it, then they'll be asking him for 'ideas' and he'll never hear the end of it; better to give the credit away and avoid all the stress of ever having to,…

SmileyTrilogy, that's great. I knew somebody here would be able to help out with this question. (And I LOVE your username.)

I was focusing more on the portion of the common fitness regiment that includes aerobic exercise, focusing on fat-burning and weight loss more than muscle tone.

I couldn't figure out what she was getting at with that line. Your interpretation didn't occur to me, but it's plausible (especially given Betty's startled reaction). But she didn't say, "enough of it," she said, "most of it."

If you imagine me saying the above in the "Comic Book Guy" voice from The Simpsons it's even funnier.

It's got nothing to do with anything except the camera height. The camera must be at the same height as the vanishing point in the flat photographic image on the backdrop or it doesn't work; the lines of perspective don't resolve and the "view" looks tilted or compressed. Whoever is composing the shots just isn't…

He's not consciously aware of it, but it's the reason he included the pig. His first SNO BALL "brainstorming" page says "A treat that'll rot your teeth!" and his second one says "It's something that you name your pig!" His brain goes from the word "Snowball" straight to Animal Farm without him realizing it. When asked…

So is anyone else enough of a "linear perspective nerd" to get annoyed at how little regard the directors have for keeping the camera at the correct height off the floor so that the vanishing points in the outdoor backdrops look right? I'm talking mostly about Don's apartment (and Jane's apartment this week). The SCDP…

Obviously there's no historical period in which women have had it easy with regard to body image expectations etc., but this episode emphasized how totally brutal it must have been for American women in the era when "youth culture" made it necessary for them to be thin, but the "fitness culture" hadn't arrived yet…