The first time my mother-in-law saw a pizza place she asked "What's piz-ah?"

No, that was Cubby Broccoli.

Sounds great! Except I'd give the green beans to the dog.

I took an interest in that serial because I was a girl and it was a model of how/not to behave. Cattiness! Girls fighting and falling into the swimming pool! Roberta What's-her-name as the snotty adversary!

I wonder how many readers recognize who that is in your photo.

When my friends and I saw this at the age of 10 we sobbed through the entire movie.

I lost all interest in teen fiction once I got to junior high.

In the Fifties, Italians were something like the "new" minority group. It took a while before WASPs learned how to pronounce their names.

No, at the initial appearance of the bad guys one of them is brown - ethnicity unknown.

After 9/11 the NY courts allowed the families to fast-track having their loved ones declared dead since there was no reasonable assumption that they could still be alive. This is a different set of circumstances, however.

Don't you mean "boobs"?

Abandonment would be grounds, but as you said it's only been two months and it looks as if she is somehow expecting him to come back. NY does not have no-fault divorce. The divorce document - what is reality, again - could have been a fake to keep her boy toy.

He didn't actually steal the dog - it was essentially blackmail.

When they came up to him on the basketball court one of them looked Hispanic.

It has been done frequently in Britain. At least sitcoms often have a single writer.

Your observation reminds me of Mad Men, where each episode turned out to have a covert theme. While this entire series is in large part about truth/fiction/illusion/delusion, the episode was largely about people lying, or catching out other people's lies, or admitting to lies. Price could easily have been lying about…

It didn't look like an actual hospital to me at all, even given the recent tanking of the economy 2 months earlier.

Yeah, it took me a moment to recognize the voice and align it with the show's timeline.

And here I thought he was using some actual security observation skills, one of the watchwords being JDLR: Just Doesn't Look Right.

I wonder if that was Martin or a stunt double.