Or the 4th floor in Japanese buildings. Four sounds like their word for death, so usually they skip the fourth floor in building like we do with the 13th.

Yes, and they used as few effects as possible, reused sets they had already built, and had more scenes that were strictly two characters talking to each other than usual. Was it an archetypal bottle episode? No. Was it a bottle episode? Yes.

Well, Isis (the Egyptian goddess) was arguably the most powerful goddess in all of mythology, and the spy agency ISIS was founded and run by a strong woman, Mallory Archer. Their rival agency was ODIN founded by one of Mallory's ex-lovers, and Odin is a powerful Norse god, so it could also be seen as a Take That at…

Gizmo is the John McClane of the Gremlins movies.

The ship they traveled to used the same sets with different colors of LED lights. So they didn't have to build any new sets (a feature typical of a bottle episode). They used a minimal amount of CG (pretty much all laser beams, plus Ray in front of a green screen flying and his HUD, which the graphics for already…

Because they would have blown up an oxygen rich environment, and definitely not for budget reasons during a bottle episode.

Kind of like how Mickey was upset that Gus was having fun at the party she invited him to (then ignored for most of the night) playing music rather than dropping it right away to come hang out with her when she was rejected by her ex? It would have been a good line and sentiment, if it wasn't coming from the…

The teacher played by Brian Posehn. The one who gets the students to do his yard work for a field trip.

I though he was getting ready to loot. Six of one half a dozen of the other I guess.

What about Lorenzo?

I don't think either character has quite reached the level of irredeemable yet, but they definitely haven't started to redeem themselves, if they are going to.

Right, and somehow the co-dependent Gus isn't also out of control on the day where his professional aspirations die and he ends his relationships with and is rejected by second potential romantic interest in two days (a week or two after he broke up with his long term girlfriend), only to have one of them seek him out…

I kind of thought she kind of only took away the surface lessons of the SLAA meeting, she listened to the one lady's story about how she had been single for a year and decided to do that. She didn't take the deeper lesson of instead of concentrating on only your romantic relationships, you should find some solace in…

Yep, they both gave in to their self destructive ways in that scene, and showed off some of their worst behaviors (Mickey's emotional manipulation and desire for instant gratification and Gus' co-dependence).

She shouldn't have stalked him to the store when he made it clear that he didn't want to see her again. If she had have kept their distance while talking, instead of continuing in to a very intimate distance, and if after she says "I think I just need to be by myself, for maybe like a year" she didn't then say "and…

The problem with Mickey though, is she only starts these healing processes and doesn't fully commit to any of those processes. She just kind of puts herself at the edge of them (like how she lies during her AA meeting, and doesn't talk during the SA meeting), and doesn't really follow the spirit of their dogmas. She…

I think you're the only other person I've seen who seems to have noticed/remembered that Gus is going to therapy. I kind of view the series as having two Anti-Villain protagonists in Gus and Mickey, in that they aren't malicious and are trying to work on their issues, but their actions are destructive to themselves…

Except Gus is going to therapy, which also shows that he knows he has some issues and is trying to work on them, and Mickey shows that she doesn't really believe in her AA meetings by lying during it and not making amends for her past actions (for example, continuing to lie to her ex about cheating on him), and hasn't…

She was also selfish, and she was seeking that out. She has been in AA, so she knows you shouldn't be revisiting old wrongs you have done to others at this point in your addiction recovery. You need to work on making yourself better before you go around making amends for what you have done, which is why actually…

They are equally shitty at the moment. She is very manipulative in all her relationships (not just her romantic ones). I'm not sure how she deserves better and he doesn't. They both should be by themselves right now, continuing to work on themselves.