Can we play a Presidential Immunity Idol to get Trump out of the race?

I'd like to see that too, but I'd like them to not tell the contestants what's going to happen. They'll be sitting there waiting for twists and tribe swaps and idols and they just never will. They won't know what (didn't) hit them.

Never fear, the insipid happy ending is only in the movie! In the musical, everyone gets eaten and dies.

…no. If our show included Over the Rainbow and Ding Dong the Witch is Dead and the line "Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore," then it would be Wizard of Oz. It did not. It included Meet the Wiz and Ease on Down the Road and the script specifically written for The Wiz. Being based on the same source…

I think a lot of people don't realize that the musical is so different from the movie, and so, so much worse.

I was in a youth production of it too. The cast was all white and mostly Jewish. I was 14, it was the 90s, and I wasn't socially conscious enough yet to realize that we had no business putting on that show. I'm casting some serious retrospective side-eye at the adults who sponsored and directed that mess.

Perhaps they could do Little Shop and air it in October, linked to Halloween?

Yes, and Stephanie was the last person who knew him as Dick, not Don. Her rejection of him allows him to shed Dick and all of his pain for good.

I think the cut to the Coke ad was showing that Don is past all of that advertising "love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons" stuff. Let other people sell inner peace; Don has the real thing.

Yes, of course. And Chauncey serves as their ring bearer.

Peggy and Stan elope. They honeymoon in Paris, where a dashing middle aged artist named Sal paints them a portrait.

The best was the one that came with the upside down ice cream cone as a hat. This is an indisputable fact.

#3, for sure. Creepy Glenn may have been creepy, but his creepiness works within the overall story, even if MW can't really see it for what it is. That whole bit with the teacher was just shit. I would ignore that story line altogether if it didn't tie into one of my favorite scenes (Don leaving her in the car…

Oh, that's interesting! You're right, and I never looked at the timeline as it relates to age before. I think I was reacting to The Conversation When Betty Finds Out, and how Don said I ran away to join the Army." I associate the term "ran away" so strongly with adolescence that it never occurred to me that he…

I'm fairly certain that Dick fled for the army the minute he was 18. I expect that he stayed in high school and helped out at the whorehouse before that.

I spotted The Andromeda Strain, and I think someone upthread mentioned The Godfather. I didn't notice any of the others.

Then, because Glenn has to raise the Betty clone from a baby, the story spins off into a retelling of Eugenie de Franval. A panicked network executive sprints through the halls to stop the broadcast partway through the first episode.

Those boxed lunches looked identical to the boxed lunch I ate at a meeting just last week. The more things change…

He also discovers the key to eternal youth, then in the mid 90s rebrands himself as Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne

I made no mention of my personal feelings about Joan, Don, Jaguar, and who should have respect for whom. I'm merely attempting to explain my take on how Joan feels.