The bald* dude was Burt Peterson, the lead accounts guy at Sterling Cooper who was fired by the British in the Season 3 premiere. He's apparently now an accounts guy at Peggy's firm.

His comment was referring to the limited range of North Korean missiles. The West coast is much closer than the East coast to Korea.

I love how those AMC ads tried to thematically connect all of those shows (and The Walking Dead), with laughable results.

It's Christmas '67. The first heart transplant was in early December, which is why it was in the comedian's monologue.

Thoughts:
1) Absolutely superb episode of television.
2) Have there ever been such good child characters on an adult drama? Outside of Mad Men I mean?
3) Where the hell is Peterborough?
4) Man, Stan is using his undercover time in Southern Arkansas to good effect with that anecdote.

Wait, is that in descending order of excellence? Because Archer's credits are superbly animated, and very evocative of the Bond/spy genre.

I watched 12 Monkeys again. What a wonderfully bleak film, excellent on every level. There are a lot of films that deal with the destruction of a large portion of humanity or the aftermath of such an occurance, but I can't think of any other that deals with the desperate sadness of such an event.

As much as I loath to defend such a crappy film, Sully's background was that he was  former Marine,  the same as Colonel Quaritch, which is how he lost the use of his legs. Australia doesn't have a Marine Corps, and more importantly, it wasn't seen as always fighting small wars around the globe like the US was.

I actually have the first season of Breaking Bad on Blu Ray, sitting on my desk, unopened. Intellectually I know I'll love it, but I don't feel any urgency about watching it. I think I'll wait 16 weeks or so, so I'm not watching it and Mad Men at the same time.

Cookie_Monster: That is correct. Until last month, you could accurately say that the proportion of blacks in the US Senate peaked in the 1870s, when there was one black Senator but fewer states then there are today.

..not really. Kids that age shouldn't have any trouble with the recoil on a typical firearm.

Presumably they call in when they go on shift, and the assassin was aware of that protocol. But yeah there's a lot that could go wrong with that.

Todd says their bosses don't want them to have a "real" marriage, but we really don't know that. I kind of think they wouldn't give a shit, as long as the missions were done successfully. So yeah, revenge seems like a probable motivation for Claudia.

I just go on late night weekdays, when I have the theater almost all to myself. That, plus a flask of whiskey, is how I saw Le Mis and rewatched ZD30.

Joke:

It seems like they wouldn't want to put the idea of desertion in people's heads like that. The idea that she was testing his loyalty didn't occur to me when I was watching. I assumed that she really did love him, and that him fathering her child was a lie to get him to come along. Or he really was the father, and she…

But she also seemed pretty eager to get more leverage on him, just as she did with Vasili. Once she surmised what he wanted, she made the first move rather than dissuading him or seeing if he would back off.

So that she could show use her battered face as evidence that the Polish activist guy had raped her.

No, he wasn't a historical figure. Poland had a government in exile all the way from 1939 to 1990, but none of them left abruptly like that.

The Americans dream: