yes! i agree. someone last week posted a theory that he's actually the hidden narrator/author of this memoir that is depicted on the show...and I couldn't help thinking of that when he was involved in this episode and it makes sense. i might be forgetting some skeazy plot point, but i don't remember ever hating him…

i agree. when scarlett walked in with the records and was all, "i don't want to just leave these on my desk," it seemed clear to me that this was no airhead like that receptionist that joan threw the plane at (not that she deserved the plane surprise even if she was a bit dim). she had good sense and she was chosen…

maybe they can just borrow some Downton Abbey costumes for the ceremonies. That's all the rest of the world knows about England at the moment (and circa 1920) anyway. Better yet, just have Edith hand out all the medals while sobbing over her inferiority and plotting sweet, smug revenge.

i'm listening to the original soundtrack on spotify right now to get me through. if i didn't have officemates, i'd be singing, too. so you can imagine what i'll be doing to cope tomorrow when i'm working from home :).

I don't really know who Nick Gruber is, nor do I really care, because when I see his name I read it as McGruber, the SNL character, and it's just so much more fun.

excellent reference!

Actually I just assumed McConaughey paid them to be in this movie. The man loves his shirtless fun.

Me too!! to all of it.

me too! their good-bye was so...ominous. i thought maybe she was dead/about to die.

Yeah, when he made that comment about, "why do the women always get to decide what happens?" I thought, "well they don't always because sometimes you just rape them." he seems to have forgotten all about that...or maybe he remembers that the only way he can get laid is by force or for money.

[raises hand]

Yeah, I don't think anyone, least of all the women of France, want to see him go buck wild if what he's done so far is considered restrained in some way.

Given the reputation of the French, I'm sort of surprised one existed at all...or that it was enforced enough for someone to think it was necessary to repeal it. I'm not surprised that they decided to create a span of time where harassers get a free pass rather than, say, creating a new law or amending the old one…

I've also never watched the show...I am not surprised that there's never been a black "lead" but have there been contestants that weren't white on either the Bachelor or Bachelorette?

I think the allure of money and fame and that dream of their kids being "discovered" has some effect on parents' thinking. just look at all the parents who sent their kids to Michael Jackson's house. It's something parents don't want to see and kids don't want to admit about the people that changed their families'…

phoebe was a masseuse who eventually wised up and realized the benefit of having health insurance and retirement savings and ended up working for a spa chain to get them. even when she wasn't working at a massage parlor (the legit kind) she was freelancing.

well, they were only AT their jobs when it suited the plot. they always had them and when they didn't it was a part of the story that they needed to get a job. little different than people who don't have even unseen jobs or want to be bothered with looking for one.

1) prediction: pete will use the shotgun on roger who is a symbol of everything pete doesn't want to become. if it wasn't a shot gun, i would think suicide more likely, but i think he would feel like a man by killing someone else and would be too chicken shit to kill himself.

hmm...did they maybe not get that the scene in "Saved" with the attempted drive-by exorcism was satire and not, ya know, a good idea?

c'mon...you know that baby bjorn is just a decoy. the magical Blue Ivy just levitates in front of whatever parent is "carrying" her. she'd float right out of one of those sling things so this just makes the most sense to hider her powers until she's ready to carry-out her plan for total world domination.