As an observer, I can limit myself to an eyeroll and a ‘C’mon man.’

Not a cover

It’s more telling, throughout all cinematic portrayal of fire, that more effort isn’t put into a realistic combustion profile. Gasoline, particularly agitated gasoline, combusts in the airborne vapor, not the liquid surface. The instant the boyfriend sparked the lighter, he would have been engulfed in cloud of…

I can appreciate the narrative of the faked mental breakdown to distract the company and security, but it’s tough to get around the niggling lingering fact now that the entire story hinges on the head of security being too rattled to escort the friend five feet out of his office while he dealt with the crisis.

E.T. ‘caused a real commotion’ was the apex of Holtiness.

Neutral tone pants

I wouldn’t go all the way to ‘pissed off’ yet, but I’m firmly in the realm of imagining myself pulling a Jean-Ralphio and getting uncomfortably close and whispering ‘THE WOOOOORST’ in his ear as he chides everyone.

‘find’ a stranger. . . ;)

I haven’t kept a running tab, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the answer wasn’t Lebowski.

Marilyn Hack deserved an Academy Award. . .

Seemed to open quite a bit in the second episode. Adding the [grand]parents, and casting them brilliantly, refined the narratives. Martin’s character is still a snippy, cursey, malcontent, but they started filling in his motivations.

garçon means boy.

It’s SAY-chim, not Sah-CHUM.

I swear that ‘you know I just found out I might have a kid’ line was appropriated from somewhere, but I can’t for the life of my recall where.

Seems like a weiss choice.

Is it overthinking to think the number of chimneys bit was a writer’s room reference to Howard Stern’s move to The Hamptons?

It’s 15 great tastes all rolled into one!!

I just thought you’d like to hear it from me, face to face, so there’s no great mystery.

It seemed pretty clear to me that the clog was from the crazy 50% off crew buying 10 packets at once. That stashhouse Sally would be one smart cookie to see that order as an opportunity to clog the pipe and set things in motion. More likely she was just too dull to think ahead and drop the packets 1-2 at a time.