and your comment inspired me to google him: dead in a plane crash! 

Up it to 99.9%

Obviously catching up here, but I worked for McDonald’s in the 80’s (store manager, went to Hamburger U, etc...) and they started painting the bricks at my store in probably around 84/85.  Can’t remember the exact year but I left McD’s in 87 and it was awhile before that. 

So funny, I *almost* remember that magazine cover.

This-I feel like this is the obvious answer and I am surprised she didn’t touch on it at all. It became creepy because it’s not usually done any more (and I think it IS somewhat creepy in the manner it was often done where they tried to hide that the subject was dead). It wasn’t creepy then because, as you said, it…

This explains why those pop up ads for Baskets were so confusing. The female lead was so familiar but I couldn’t quite place her.

I have finished watching but not finished reading the reviews, and I have found a lot of verbal anachronisms. Which I believe Amy Sherman-Palladino is probably aware of but doesn’t care about.

Agreed. My younger brother had this soundtrack and just reading this article I can remember all the voices and all the words to these songs.

Speaking of book purists, Martin is a fan of Bernard Cornwell’s books, in which Uhtred, son of Uhtred’s name is changed from Osbert when his older brother Uhtred, dies.

actually keeping that secret and allowing Jon to join the Night’s Watch, as the world stood at that time, was also a big deal, because that nullified his ability to ever take back the throne.

watching their “about the episode” discussions they talk about how they wrote scenes and storylines and the way they say it makes it sound like they had a lot of leeway and were creating scenarios.

There’s been several times when more than one point of view character was in the same place, we don’t get each point of view of the scene, though we may get reflections further down the timeline.

It was better placed in the books. I feel like we knew exactly which battle Ned was returning from when he went to the Tower of Joy, or that the bulk of the war was already over. I’m sure some fan more obssessive than me created a timeline years ago, that’s out on the internet since the 90's