Like a huge, hairy, stank-ass Silver Surfer, who doesn't actually tell anyone about anything. Other than that, it's a perfectly apt comparison!

*sobs*
"I'm a glue-tooooon!"

The set-up for that one's so absurd, too. "We oughta take all the sea mammals, put 'em on a boat, send it to the middle of the ocean, then sink it!"

Well, not explicitly, but I thought something about his "being with the king" could have been interpreted that way, though I admit I don't remember exactly what got said.

I thought that was a pretty weird character trait for her. I don't know much about dietary habits in the early middle ages, but how prevalent could vegetarianism have been in a time when the threat of starvation, even in the elites, was just a bad harvest or two away? I suppose it's possible that a princess of the…

I mean, for one of his ilk, the crap he thinks is practically standard, but gods, that name! I just can't believe that anyone, anywhere, would take him seriously enough to elect him. Especially with Florida's huge population of pirate cosplayers.

Seriously, the guy's so ridiculous, I think it's the only way my brain can handle that he was actually elected and has any national decision-making power.

"Increasingly Joffrey-like" is a good description for him.

I'm better now.

There's a congressman from Florida by the name of Ted Yoho, and literally every single time I hear the man's name, my mind hears lines from the episode where Ed and Bev go see a pirate-themed play that traumatized Ed in his youth.

No, his son died in the ambush not long after they'd landed the first time, after which Ragnar gave Athelstan that wristband.

That was so funny. Lagertha's cruisin' through her hall, greeted by all and sundry, and what's her first thought? Heading straight to the throne and saying hello to her huge cat! Dude was so jealous, the look on his face was priceless.

I thought maybe the line about Athelstan's betrayal was referring back to what the seer said about him, because that's the only way it made sense to me.

As much as I like to watch him squirm (and be undressed), if that woman got her claws into Athelstan I don't think it would be good for his poor psyche, which is fragile enough as it is. Hopefully something will distract her before that happens.

This is absolutely it. When it first came up, I too felt kind of blindsided by it, like "Where's this coming from?" But when the rerun started up and Floki's first scene played out again, it suddenly seemed so obvious. His line about how he and Helga have always been such good friends to the gods (implying that…

I agree with your main point, but my only quibble is that I don't think Lagertha got raped. They showed a lot of beating, but no tearing of clothing to suggest that the guys had their way with her. I was actually relieved because I thought that was where they were going with that scene, then it turned out to be just…

That guy was the master of saying stupid shit. Two weeks ago it was "You're still a handsome woman, Lagertha." This week's was "Why don't you speak? Why don't you smile?" Oh, maybe because you hired four guys to beat me to a pulp! Sooo glad that asshole is dead.

I would have thought that they could have just barred the door and told them beforehand, you can change sides now and live, or you can oppose us and die, that way they could have salvaged a few at least. But what do I know, I'm not an unstoppable Viking commander anointed by Odin.

I can't even understand the logic behind it, unless they had some kind of data indicating that most people were changing channels during the commercials or something. They made it through the first season without that crap just fine, why start now?

One of my favorite moments of the night: