That may have been the most baffling part of the movie for me. Why did we need to keep checking in on this asshole? I feel like he got more screentime than Gandalf.

I like all the image choices on this list. I imagine they all perfectly encapsulate the reactions each show had when they were told where the AV Club had ranked them.

Oh, so you're telling me this was all a big joke? Organised by a couple of jesters? Is this you, is it? Oh, let's play a jest! A great big lark, in the courtyard of the king, and see how he takes it? Is it? Is it?! Is that what you're telling me?!

All day long, the poor guy's been watching Spanish galleons and tomato sauce.

Moctezuma: Everything was for the taking. And now it's all over. I can't even get decent food. Right after I was taken hostage, I ordered some tortillas and xocolatl, and I got doritos and a snickers bar. I'm an average nobody. Get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.

That trailer changed things. Forever. There's no going back.

Have we got a thread for favourite episodes yet?

Mike Malone was actually a real IRS agent who infiltrated Capone's organisation. He didn't (to anyone's knowledge) kill any crazy ex-prohies whilst undercover, but his story is still pretty interesting:
http://books.google.co.nz/b…

Love Me or Leave Me played briefly last episode, when Luciano, Lansky and Benny were celebrating their victory.

Even Luciano seemed to be missing him at the end there.

I'm not sure I'd call it especially ballsy to kill off your main character at the end of a gangster story. That's what audiences are expecting to happen. I'd argue that leaving it ambiguous like The Sopranos did was a far ballsier way to end things.

Yeah, especially with all the other pseudonyms the characters have been using this season. Gillian as Nellie Bly, Nucky as Francis X. Bushman, Agent Malone as Mike D'Angelo, Van Alden as George Mueller, Rothstein as Abe Redstone…

To be fair, if the Hobbit films have taught us anything, it's that Peter Jackson knows how to make a battle sequence absurd and wasteful.

Either that, or Nucky, being the impatient asshole he is, skimmed through the letter to get to the key points.

Rothstein has never watched Boardwalk Empire, but he's told that it often does unexpected and amusing things.

[Nelson notices a racist figurine on his desk]
Nelson: This does not belong to me!

"Well, Cookie Monster, it looks like the chocolate chips have a lot less territory."
"You looking at it wrong. Once they only make plain cookies. If you ask me, the chocolate winning."

Tommy was born after Jimmy enlisted, so between 1917-18. So he'd be about 13-14 at this point.

He wears a squid hat, doesn't he? That sounds like it would be up Depp's alley.

I don't think Ice King tossed the poem aside, he stuffed it into his robe. Presumably he'll use it for lyrical inspiration during his next jam session with Marceline (Simon's poems were also still wet with tears).