Just imagine, from a hambone scenery-chewing perspective, how awesome the show would be if it was made in 1976 and Frank was played by William Shatner.

It's as if the Founding Fathers deliberately constructed the Constitution in such a way as to make it difficult to craft long-form DC-based tv dramas. Ben Franklin probably saw Season 4 of House of Cards on some wrought-iron steam-powered time viewer and showed it to Madison, who said "Oh, hell, no."

Smoking makes you look cool?

I had a job at a theme park back when I was in school, and British tourists would just helplessly hold out handfuls of American change because they found it so baffling.

I could see the Avengers attorneys appealing this all the way to the Supreme Court, would rule that "Acts of God" refers to a singular monotheistic entity, no specific, named, corporeal individuals like Thor or Loki, thus overturning the lower court rulings in New York v Galactus and Baxter Building Management…

I'm ok with that.

if ALL of the contestants had ended up with zero, that would have opened The Dark Portal and life as we know it would have come to an end.

Jeff Goldblum. Now, I could totally see a movie with Jeff Goldblum who plays a character who goes on Jeopardy and does exactly that.

But nobody sane, who had rung up $283,200, would bet it all and risk losing to one of the two hapless, near-impoverished also-rans.

A scene where the Sec of Treasury is showing Frank some mockups of a frisbee-sized platinum coin would be nice.

I would watch THE SHIT out of that.

They should have Frank change his toupees to indicate HIS inner turmoil.

Were the AmericaWorks jobs supposed to be jobs you did until retirement, though? I thought they were "until you get back on your feet" kinds of things.

I kind of was waiting for Stamper to finally bed his physical therapist, actually.

Well, that'll be the feel-good hit of the summer of 20-whenever.

If you want to know how long my dissertation data analysis took, it took as long as it takes to listen to every "This American Life" ever made.

I was sort of thinking Gerald Ford.

Ford?

At this point I think we're at Phoning It In 2: Phone Harder. Or maybe Phoning It In 3: A New Beginning.

I agree, it was much more interesting to watch him scheme to get the presidency than to watch him actually BE president.