Funny, I just watched that movie again this weekend and naturally had the same thought

You met my great-grandson???

That's exactly what I'd expect my other personality to say…

My favorite family tradition growing up was gathering around our little black and white TV in the parlor to watch the Commies every year.

Agreed. I've been watching lots of clips from the '50s and '60s, not just of regular TV, but things like in-company promotional films for refrigerator salesmen, Department of Defense briefing reels, you name it. In particular, and as Jon Teti also mentioned, anything related to the Apollo program that was actually…

I'm about a month older than Taylor Swift, if that helps haha. If she can go on a world tour and have a platinum album called 1989, we can call ourselves '80s kids, dammit!

Weird Al was my primary gateway into 80's pop music, which I otherwise didn't and still don't listen to! Incidentally, I was born near the end of 1989, but I like to point out to people that I was born during the Cold War. Although I certainly don't hide the irony of that, which is more than can be said about that…

WHOA…I have too, and I never caught that one either! I may have to go back and watch it yet again to see what else I can spot…

For what it's worth, I would absolutely love to read an essay about Don, Ginsberg and 2001. The parallels in season 7.1 with 2001 were fascinating to me.

If you think about it, that kind of makes it the perfect career for him to have for the show's purposes. Characters frequently comment (either snidely or in awe) on Don's being an ad man. Those people know what that profession entails thanks to all those shows/movies depicting it as a fairly glamorous (or decadent,…

Or the supply closet beside the bathroom, if you happen to be at the Target I worked at back in the day.

The Walking, Talking Dead: in a meta twist, the set of The Talking Dead is overrun by walkers, and these newly infected can now TALK!

also interesting! I'd vaguely wondered how they counted things like that

That makes sense. 5,000 in the 90s still seems low to me, but then again, I guess the 200th-most popular artist at any given time isn't gonna be selling millions of albums. Thanks for the info!

Wait…so you can actually make it on the Billboard 200 list by selling only 4,000 copies now? I have no idea what the benchmark was at its peak, but that seems really low. I need to get around to making that record I haven't written yet…

I know what it is, but I don't think I ever used it (I'm 25). My parents had a TV with UHF and VHF dials on it from the late 70s, but as far as I can remember, we had a cable box (with, you guessed it, a dial!) hooked up to it.

cool

His Highness King T, learning of his jester's terminal illness, says, "I pity the fool!"

I dunno, he seems like a pretty cagey B****

Glad I wasn't the only one who read that in the voice of the badly burnt Albanian boy from the day before.