Journalists aren't really like that, at least not after they stop working for their high school newspapers. Journalism's as much about keeping secrets (such as the identity of sources) as bringing them to light.

The one REALLY smart person on the show tasered the shapeshifter pretty much the second he laid eyes on him. The second smartest was on a field trip. Sadly, Caitlin and Barry are only sporadically smart (him because the Flash has to have some weaknesses, her because she's horribly underwritten).

When I went to Playland back in the late '80s, they had the scariest roller coaster I've ever been on. It was a tiny coaster, but it was old and ricketty and it felt like the whole thing was held together with spit, masking tape, and hopeful thoughts.

I know we're joking, but seriously, would you accept a handjob from a female friend's mom, where you knew said handy would rip your friend's heart out?

It's advertising.

Empty elevator shaft got him. He was actually able to survive for more than a week, tangled up in the elevator cables. Everyone forgot to wonder where he was.

To heck with "wasn't married." I'm pretty sure Betty of a few seasons ago would've totally done him, married or not.

I wouldn't dismiss it that way. Furniture gives you a sense of scale, which actually helps people imagine how they would furnish the place better than just an open space.

Maybe they couldn't get Harry Hamlin to come back in a larger role? Cutler definitely signed off on the McCann deal, and it's hard to believe Ted would've stuck around without him. Likely we just haven't seen him yet, and his cameo is still upcoming.

I was actually just about to add a paragraph on this.

OK, looks like this didn't take the first time out:

That looks right if you reduce it to one awful line of dialogue (and it was an awful line of dialogue) but I'll defend Iris given the situation. She knows that Eddie's keeping a secret from her, and she can probably tell from the sitcom way that Eddie tenses up around her every time they're in a scene together that…

Gotta save that for the Micronauts movie, I guess.

She was in an emotionally horrible place. When she called at the beginning of the episode, she was hoping to get the answering service rather than speaking to Don, so there was a confrontation looming between them, despite her saying the right things over the phone.

Even worse, that's scorching your fields after the enemy has quit your country and gone home.

I thought she was mocking Stan's photos for being overdeveloped, not sexy nurse Elaine.

Respectfully, I'm halfway convinced that the show sending Betty to grad school is a bit of a troll to all the people who used to wishcast the former Mrs. Draper into the role of a Gloria Steinem-like lioness of feminism, despite a huge body of evidence that has shown her not to be terribly sympathetic to the feminist…

DId I forget a scene where Arnold found out or it was indicated that he knew? I don't remember that at all.

Great writeup, John!

…and Henry. And Betty would have Ken's face, eyepatch and all.