No mention (from anyone) of the halloween costumes? Leslie and Ben were Buttercup and the Dread Pirate Roberts!

Ow! My skin!

Look around you: Strex. 
Look inside you: Strex. 
Go to sleep: Strex. 
Believe in a smiling god. StrexCorp. It is…
Everything.

Oh thank god - I was concerned that I was the only one who recognized the Dragnet stuff!

Haven't really read the review or comments yet, so maybe this has already been said, but I just watched this, and it's become fairly obvious (I think) that it's Ellie's husband.  (1) She says "How could you not see what's going on in your own home? (2) He's got a similar build/look as Nigel.

@Scrawler2:disqus That's probably a good thing - as I understand it, BBC America sometimes has to cut a scene or two for broadcast, but they remain in the on demand version.  I've started watching exclusively that way.

WOW, were those some blatant cold reading moves from the psychic. Certainly makes him look suspicious.

The first of those.  But are two and three the same person? I've never been sure.

How about this: WITHIN THE FIRST NINE SEASONS, what are the best and worst episodes?

I think you said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet.

I can't figure out what song this is!

Podcast or live show? If I remember right, the live show started well before he got fired, but they didn't record/release episodes until after.

@avclub-3ceebd97be4d15313b9ffff365b2bec3:disqus You mean, "but you would not be successful."  I'm pretty sure, anyway.

I… like to think that paragraph was added later?  Or Bob Benson being a lizard distracted me, maybe…

Sharon Tate was apparently in Rosemary's Baby - which was the book Sally was reading at Don & Megan's.

I too thought it was a Macy's logo.  And was therefore some sort of comment on advertising, since all it took for me to think "Macy's" was a damn red star.

@dr. strangemonkey - strictly speaking, that episode qualifies (chronologically) as early-period.  Or at least first-half.

Yeah, him and the dad of the kid at the table-setting competition is who I thought he was doing.

Was that Jack McBrayer doing two separate guest voices?

My wife, who I swear is well educated and in fact owns the complete works of Shakespeare, thought the line was: