What commercials?

Well they do make the Chuck Taylor IIs with arch support and all that other newfangled stuff but they're not cheap.

There are some outstanding headphones for less than $50. The Koss Portapros are $35, and the Koss KSC75 are $15.

Any thoughts on the red/blue color scheme in every episode so far? Blue = control and red = chaos, maybe?

They're doing nods to a lot of Coen bros films this season - The Man Who Wasn't There, Blood Simple, Lebowski.

Our neighbors tried to get my family into Lifespring in the 80s. Their first step was to try to get my parents to set up a direct debit so Lifespring could automatically take payments out.

Not sure if anyone has pointed this out but there was a UFO sequence in the 2001 Coen bros film 'The Man Who Wasn't There', featuring Billy Bob Thornton.