Ann-Margret and Dick Van Dyke are on board but Bobby Vinton is holding out for too much money. 

I thought they were doing Bye Bye Birdie? Also, if they want a musical that everyone loves*, why not do Little Shop of Horrors around Halloween (or even Thanksgiving/Christmas like they usually do, cause it’s never the wrong time for Little Shop of Horror.)

*Yeah, I know they’d probably have to do the more feel good…

This is the dawning of the age of ambivalence.

That’s actually considered a public service. Someone has to step up and save me from killing myself devouring a full bag of Funyuns in one sitting. This way, I don’t have to develop my own willpower.

Interesting timing on this settlement. A friend got me a huge box of Ghiradelli peppermint square candies for Christmas. The box could easily have fit 100 of them in there. I think there were 20. There was a big cardboard divider inside to keep them from rattling around and telling people that it was mostly empty. I…

No one, because they disclose it right on the bag, and it’s because they need the air to keep the chips from being crumbs by the time you eat them.

Who does BIG POTATO CHIP pay to avoid getting sued for giving us bags half full of air?

There’s nothing worse than tearing into that box of Russell Stover’s

Waitstaff:

How pedantic can you get? Who fucking cares, dude? You don’t own the restaurant. It’s literally nothing out of your pocket.

This is perhaps the dumbest question to date.

David Chase probably agonized over how to end the show for a very long time, and if you don't think choosing the ending that he did wasn't a hard choice, or a choice at all—that it wasn't chosen for a very specific purpose to say a very specific thing—well, I'm not really sure how to respond to that.

In a sick way, I could just imagine the part of Don that was picturing an ad featuring that refrigerator metaphor.

The episode showed all the conclusions Don Draper couldn't get.

thats the great thing about art though. I think thats excactly how it should work and i very much prefer this ending and the sopranos, to the ending of breaking bad. So why do you think to presume that asking people to figure it out for themselves is not exactly what makes great art for at least some of the audience?…

If getting with Stan is settling, we should all wish to settle in our own lives.

Showing the Coke ad after the 'ding' and Don's peaceful face was the conclusion. He made peace with himself and it allowed him to create something great - the ad to share with the world. At least to me personally. I didn't need to see him hitch across the country or fly in an airplane to know that yes indeed he…

It isn't laziness that prompts these kinds of endings. Do you really think Weiner/Chase were sitting at their desks, looking at their scripts and thinking to themselves "boy, I really don't want to write another 12 pages. How about we just cut to black/coke ad and let those dumb fans figure it out. Yeah, he he he,…

Thank you Megan for making me never want to eat Sherbert again.

— Updated this, 5pm Monday, with some personal thoughts, after the fold —