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Thank you for at least using the preposition in the headline.

Now that you mention it, I can't think of anyone alive who has seen The Ring 2.

Or the supposed quote from Flaubert, or Wilde, depending on who's quoting, about having spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon taking it out.

Pregnant AND crying.

I wouldn't say it proves anything, exactly, but it's an interesting twist in the whole "spoiler" discussion.

There's this 2011 study that claims "knowing the ending of a story before you read it doesn’t hurt the experience of the story. It actually makes you enjoy the story more. This is the 'Spoiler Paradox.'"

Maybe not their own biography, but I always thought They Might Be Giants could write the best Broadway musical ever.

There are plenty of Americans genuinely invested in the World Cup, and I have the list of Facebook friends I've unfollowed this week to prove it.

Was the beetle-killing speech in the books? It was an interesting indictment of the show's creators — Tyrion basically calling the gods/writers inscrutable morons who kill characters arbitrarily and mindlessly.

It ends up just being about making room in your cynical heart for the possibility that your bus will come on time.

"…like they’re on a blank stage."

Man, these are even worse than I remembered. I think my childhood just got more ruineder than it already was.

Dawn and Shirley now occupy the same social-professional roles that Peggy (and to some extent Joan) occupied in Season 1. Mad Men's treatment of its black characters has often been troubling, but I think the arcs of the black women in this episode are a deliberate and interesting echo of the white women's early arcs.

No cutting in line, Midwest. The South has been waiting for real accents since Gone With the Wind.

Kelly Macdonald made a pretty great Texan, against all odds. So…maybe…?

Elmore?

Given how much Marty, in 2012, has talked about Rust's loneliness and lack of family driving him kind of crazy, it was really poignant in this episode to see that all along he was really talking about himself.