It's absurd when you consider that he apparently lives in an apartment. What backyard? For that matter, what garage?

The show has almost always opened with a scene that happens later on, then rewinds several hours or days. I don't really have a problem with that—it's a pretty common thing now—but yeah, I could do without the narration that doesn't really add anything.

H5O did a "Bing It" bit a couple of weeks ago, too. If nothing else, it's a relatively subtle bit of product placement…certainly more subtle than Harry Von Zell coming into George & Gracie's home specifically to talk about how swell Swan Soap is.

I think he's also up there with all those Police Chiefs on "The Wire" who just wanted to see big numbers in the arrest stats. Van Alden's spending so much time on this single case that there's nothing else going on, stat-wise, so he's making the boss look bad.

Atlantic City is essentially on a barrier island, and given that they were just by the "Welcome to AC" sign, it's entirely possible that they were on one of the connector roads, which would have water on either side.

Well…that's just silly. "PN1993" is a Library of Congress designation. The corresponding Dewey section would be 791.

Buddy's Dealership
It wasn't spelled out that I recall, but Buddy did have a Chevrolet dealership. Therefore it's not out of the question that his was one of the dealerships that GM just yanked out from under the franchisees.

I don't think it was so terrible that Nucky says something and then we're later shown an example of this (and see Jimmy starting to mull that over); I think the problem here is in the proximity of the two events to one another. If Nucky had said it in, say, the very first scene or perhaps even in a previous episode,…

The coworkers WERE invited, but they were invited by Michael without Pam & Jim's knowledge. (Another facet of Michael's search for family.) Then the minister essentially invited the rest of the church (there was at least one other child being baptized that day), which only made the food shortage that much worse.

Maybe it was Abed's own fault, trying to jam the straw into the box while it was still wrapped in the cellophane. Just sayin'.

It's possible that the producers are taking a "Wire" approach and using real locations, but not necessarily the ones that they're representing. For instance, many of the scenes represented (in "The Wire") as being in the western part of town were definitely shot in locations that would be considered "east" Baltimore.…

I don't think Jay was manipulating Manny.

Studo, sad to say that NBC placed a full-season order for this show.

One of the best callbacks ever.

sarCCastro <—just got back from Atlantic City.

But Hardeen is! And he's just as good!

Maybe we're the problem.
I really liked this episode, for all of the reasons cited above. But I have to wonder what exactly it is we're expecting. We've all seen "The Godfather" films, and "Goodfellas" and so much else in the genre that it's going to be very tough to surprise us. This holds especially true because BE…

LeFebre, that would also be her.

She is played by twins, after all. They probably just grab the one who just woke up.

That's another one of the beauty parts of this series: not only do they not deny the existence of the pop culture gangster films, many times their behavior is INFORMED by these films. They've all seen "The Godfather" films, "Goodfellas" and whatever else, and to a certain extent they act they way they think they…