I'm not saying payola doesn't happen in radio, but it happens in other communication mediums as well, and radio gets singled out for scrutiny.

"Can I borrow your copy of Solid Gold Soul?"
"No, my brother. You got to get your own."

Brits probably say the same thing about the American versions of Now!

About payola: the things that radio stations got into trouble for doing in the 50s and 60s were the same things that movie studios, television networks, book publishers, and others were also doing, and are still doing today. It became a scandal because in the early days of rock and roll conservative politicians flatly…

He actually gets some work done.

FWIW: as the experience of Northern Ireland, Iraq, and Uncle Bill and I at Thanksgiving dinner 1997 shows, people disagree not because they speak different languages, but because they speak the same language.

It was a cute idea, but they went wrong when they made Betsy's speech too much like H.I.'s - word for word, it sounded like in some places.

Maybe the fake ID guy isn't entirely ethical (shocking!) and sells the name Tripoli to three different people. (There were {are?} three cities called Tripoli). And next season all three can fight to the death for rights to the name.

Tripoli didn't strike me as an "average white guy," if that means anything anymore. In the few moments we saw him he looked ambiguously Middle Eastern - Turkish? Lebanese? Maybe it was the name. The guy with the fake ID alluded to the significance of the name Tripoli, though I can't recall exactly what he said.

When "New Wave" fashion hits KC, in 1982 or so, Mike will wish he'd kept his western suits and skinny ties.

Maybe the flying saucer came because Rye was killing three people. To observe. And they came to the motel massacre for the same reason. "Check it out, Gort. These supposedly intelligent life-forms are killing each other. No way they're getting into the Galactic Federation."

To mobsters, putting somebody's money in a 401(k) would be a hilarious joke: "Don't worry, Bugsy, once you're released you can get your share of the loot - from the Feds, haw haw!"

Those restrictive covenants that forbid whites from selling their houses to blacks were declared unconstitutional in1948. Problem solved!

Peggy's motivations are inspired less by feminism than by something called the Human Potential movement, which was huge in the Seventies. All that talk about "self-actualization," the endless seminars and workbooks, recall such real-life groups as EST and Silva Mind Control. It was a weird mix of pop psychology,…

It wasn't White Supremacist, just German. Though it's a fine line….

Seemed like the two auto racers who wanted Don to stake them were a nod to Two Lane Blacktop.

After the argument in the kitchen with Lindsay, we see Paul peeling the label off a beer bottle - the universal sign of sexual frustration.

I think I saw Cerie from 30 Rock, too.

I know Don is the main character, but I think Bert's song and dance would have made more sense if Roger had been the one to see it. First, because Bert was closer to Roger than he ever was to Don, and second, because Roger has done enough acid to make such a hallucination completely plausible.