I mean, I can see how that's tiresome, but also…. it's pretty in-character for him.

Eh, those little onions you put in stews turn sweet after you cooked them enough, even though you don't cut them.

Maybe they both dye it…. but it's true that I can't really see Lars willingly dyeing his hair the same shade as his mom's.

It's an interesting parallel, but if they go down that route I'd hope they'd include actual native American characters rather than retconning them out of the althistory in favor of fictional analogues as some universes do.

Yeah, the timescales (70 years. 6000 years) she mentions in this episode — although used as parts of jokes/comedic lines — really drive home the fact that this is something she's freshly getting over.

People whose heads are made of men whose wives have been having affairs? That's a weird insult.

I quite liked it, more so than the reviewer and some commenters it seems. Well, mostly the bits with Messrs. Smiley and Frowney, I suppose.

Diana Wynne Jones used "archon", from the same root.