The awning of the building they came out of said Sugar Daddies. It was a strip club.

All that money sounds mighty tempting Marty, but I'm going to have to go with the elephant.

In the episode of CCC with, to the best of my recollection, Julia Louis Dreyfuss Seinfeld told her about his "talking to normals" (his words) strategy: just ask questions with numbers. I've got a certain amount of sympathy in that it must no doubt be exhausting to have routinely deal with total strangers wanting to…

How I Met Your Mother also suffered from the problem you identified.

The Wire generally saved it's bigger moments for the penultimate episode of the seasons.

The falcon is House Arryn's sigil, which is why Littlefinger was giving it to Robin.