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Smoking Sofia Kovalenko is the best.

FWIW, my 75-year old mother was denied in her application for a kitten adoption from the local shelter. She was a home owner with perfect credit, in excellent health then and now, eight years later. Some shelters are extremely rigid, and it’s more common than you think.

I would have thought by now that clues would start popping up for Stan, but it seems they’re saving that for the end or maybe he’ll catch Phillip meeting with Oleg and have a Usual Suspects like revelation.

May the ghost of Todd VanDerWerff forgive me.

Unnamed people at a website in its waning years are vaguely displeased by this news. Show some respect.

So, what do we make of this Bogdan (besides being disappointed that he doesn’t sport epic eyebrows, of course)? When Adderholt comes for Sophia, he gives her a little shake of his head, telling her not to go. Does that confirm Stan’s suspicions?

Didn’t Gorbachev do a Pizza Hut commercial in his later years? Yes, he did!

That was my thinking, too—that if Renee were meant to infiltrate the FBI, the KGB wouldn’t be so careless to send someone they knew would be too old. They know Stan can be tempted by someone younger (Nina), so they would have sent someone the appropriate age. Besides, it sounds like they were waiting for the second…

Liz is slipping. Whether it’s the exhaustion, or senility from being isolated in the spy bubble for 20 years, the immediacy of this latest mission is exposing her growing weaknesses. She should have known about the girlfriend in security, she should have been more tactful with the general, and she has not yet come to…

Really enjoyed the parallels between the different couples in this episode. For me, it was hard not to see Sofia and Gennadi as a dress-rehearsal for Philip and Elizabeth’s eventual endgame.

If Stan and Aderholt are going to catch Elizabeth, I think it could be through pulling at the Rennhull thread. If they keep digging, they’ll learn he almost caught an illegal. So we have Stan and Aderholt possibly on the Colonel’s trail, plus Phillip and Oleg working together to stop Elizabeth, and Stan knows about…

Woooo, Yakult Swallows! I saw them play the BayStars in 2013. Both teams were terrible, the gane took four hours and the Swallows blew an 11-point lead. It was a blast.

All Phil’s employees are like, “Give it a rest, man. Can’t you go back to the spy stuff? Yeah we all know, that door is really cheap and thin.”

I’ve known people who were turned down by pet shelters in spite of being ready and willing to give an animal a good home. I think the shelter in this episode (and in the same evening’s Black-ish, coincidentally) was a bit exaggerated, but it’s not that far from the truth.

This episode hit me more emotionally than a lot of other current TV shows. I laughed hard and the revelation about what was going on with Becky almost choked me up. Maybe it’s because I’ve known these characters for decades and I’m aware of the real-life tragedy with Glenn Quinn. But I’m convinced that Roseanne still…

She’s still an EP on the show. She might not be inside the writers room anymore, but if Roseanne doesn’t want to do something on the show named for her, she ain’t doing it, so all of this at least has a cursory blessing.

Hell, the Committee for a Reasonable World Trade Center foresaw it before the buildings were even built. There’s a 1968 ad in the NYT with an image of the towers and an airliner about to crash into the North Tower.

Amazing. Every word of what you just said was wrong.

Bin Laden didn’t mastermind anything. He had the money and was willing to write checks for his friends’ crazy-ass plans. What I’m trying to say is that it was other, smarter, shorter members of the Taliban who were inspired by Star Wars to make a 9/11. Open your sheep, eyeple.