Because it's 10 years after the beginning of the series, and he's not a young pup any more. He's not a silver fox like Roger, classically suave like Don, nor does he have Stan's hirsute virility.

Just want to add my thanks to Dennis for your perceptive observations, and to my fellow viewers for your humor and insights!
Now I can watch "Dig" and maybe figure out what's going on.

Robert Ferguson, in "The Vikings: a history," which I gather was a major source for Hirst, points out that when the Vikings conquered what are now France and Russia, the local languages were so much more unlike Norse than Old English that they abandoned Norse and adopted Old French and Russian.

I'm sorry to say that Odo's dungeon was a true WTF moment for me. I don't know what ended up happening, because I didn't watch it. And there was nothing exotic and playful about that stuff, it was a feature of their legal/political culture.

Ragnar's coffin deserves its own Emmy.

You've got "natural" peanut butter, which doesn't have the additives found in Skippy, Jif, Peter Pan, et al. When you're used to conventional peanut butter, the texture of the natural kind can seem strange, and presumably vice versa.

She only met him that day.

Twelve states, a couple of nights in some of them, will take a couple of weeks I would think.

Those jeans have archival value!

It's not realy as silly an idea as it sounds. Rooms look larger with furniture in them, and you want to remove the owner's knick-knacks, piles of magazines, sneakers and toys on the floor, so that the viewer doesn't see the house as someone else's home.

She is nearly 40 and he is probably 50-ish, which would be fine, except that as he points out through circumstances she is at the beginning of her parenting years while he wants to be finished. The Tom Selleck character on Friends said the same thing to Courtney Cox (forgot the character's name).

I was so glad that was a joke on her part.

Sesame Street premiered in 1969, but they re-broadcast the sequences often.

1964, right? and I remember those waffles!

Yes, but he started acting in this show when he was 9 or so, and you would think he would have improved by now.

You're wrong about Peggy. First of all, her pregnancy itself came as a surprise. She never had any bonding with the baby. There was nothing callous about giving him up. In 1961 or whenever that was It was very difficult economically and very unacceptable socially to be an unwed mother. She certainly thought of him…

Being married was just a very convenient excuse for her to do the sensible thing and turn him down.

It can happen - I saw my husband's nephew for the first time in several years. I'd met him when he was 20-ish, and now he's in his forties, but man, he was hot…

You're not a teenaged girl!

I am sure the Emperor Charles will eventually tell Rollo, "We'll give you some land if you go away, and here, have a princess."