They think that because compliments are so rare. The rarity of compliments raises the value of a compliment. It's like "oh, most women ignore me, so this must be meaningful!"

My mind was blown when I first observed that kind of thing.

Ditto. I was kind of shocked by how good and…youthful she looked. I'm now way more interested in her character.

Elizabeth's Hiroshima/Nagasaki comment got a hard eyeroll from me.

Do bottles really shatter like that when you hit someone over the head with them? Something tells me they don't, on average.

It's Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. They film just about everything on the show in Brooklyn.

West Virginia might have something like that for you.

Of course Desi is with Denise Huxtable.

Slight side question: would Anton (or real life Antons) get released in 1991/1992?

Fucking Communist scum. That wasnt quite at Adrianna murder levels of terror, but it's definitely of the same type and hit me super hard.

I thought Elijah was about to neg that guy, but then he simply insulted Hannah.

Was I the only one trying to guess their likely household income? I'm figuring somehwere around $600 - $700K, based on the house. But then I don't live in LA and I don't know how much is reasonable for a house like that out there.

They're all in Jersey, around here. Seems to be one in Montclair.

Their writing of her as so contemptible in years past made me forget how beautiful January Jones is until this season. Since she hasn't received as much airtime in recent seasons I've been able to reset my feelings towards the Betty character.

My guess is Weiner absolutely planned this episode to air on Mother's Day and I thought that was great. Great in the sense that Motherhood - the end of Betty's and kind of the beginning of Sally's - was a major theme of the episode. It was fitting.

Pete is at the age where he could take or leave NYC now, too. I'm the same age as Pete is in 1970 and I feel the same way, having been here for about 10 years, now.

I've always felt Elizabeth might be partly trying to make up for her father's shame from the war. Maybe like a way to restore honor to the family and her mother, even though I'd be willing to guess, but 1983, no one in Russia would have given much of a shit about that, in particular.

Wouldn't it have to be Eastern Orthodox, for him?

I didn't realize until last night how much Mrs. Beeman looks like Tina Fey. Like a hotter Tina Fey.

I remember being a little kid (born in 1979) and liking Ronald Reagan back then, purely based off his charisma and my non-existent knowledge of his policies. It wasn't until I got older that I found I out I disliked his actual presidency.