I've never seen (or read) a scene in any art form that captures exactly this. This was my after school routine at that age, almost precisely. Perfect.

Guy runs around dressed like Kolchack, I think, as a nod toward Morgan's unproduced Night Stalker (reboot) script that he re-purposed for this episode. You can read it here: http://leethomson.myzen.co….

I feel like Don was seeing ads everywhere in that finale.

That Coke ad was classic Don Draper. The process of getting there was deep and painful, destructive and, this time, redemptive. The ad itself was (as most are) a business compromise. Don's brilliance — in advertising and life — was never about the execution. His final ads were uniformly pretty dreadful (the Carousel…

Well, factor in Viet Nam.

Glen is going to outlive Betty.

That is a good catch.

- Everything's shutting down. Betty. The lights go out while Pete eats his pie. Don's TV shuts off. The lights go off at the VA (for a stripper, but still).

How perfect was it that Don got smacked by what I assume is a combined Yellow Pages/White Pages phone book. A giant tome made heavy with thousands of different identities, plus advertisements.

I wonder about that. Stan seems like a great foster dad for Henry when the time comes. Hell, if the show wants to redeem Philip and Elizabeth, the best thing to do would be to have them surrender to Stan — on the condition that Stan adopt Henry and Paige. Oh, and then Stan could trade P&E for Nina! Stan wins…

I totally agree. If S4 gives us a showdown between Stan and the Jenningses, it's going to be incredibly emotionally complicated. (At this point, I think I'll feel the most for Stan, who's going to lose his buddy Phil.) The Martha/Philip relationship works the same way, as does the relationship between Paige and her…

This was the season — and this was the episode — where Philip and Elizabeth began to lose everything, starting with their kids. Paige isn't coming back from this, and it's a situation that's going to get worse. Pastor Tim is either going to betray her, or he's going to die because of her, and that's unlikely to change…

Keeping in mind that Pastor Tim was introduced to Paige by Random Girl On A Bus Who Was Clearly Following Paige, I'm gonna go with KGB.

I would think it was intentional. Elizabeth actually physically trying to shut Paige up was too specific (and too similar in tension to that MASH scene) for it to be a coincidence. Not a lot gets by that production team. Someone somewhere along the line had to look at a list of "Cultural Stuff From 1983 We Can Use"…

I loved all the little period connections. Martha's scenes all had a 1983 soap opera quality. Her reaction at the door when Stan left — with her clothes and her hair and that hidden wedding photo, it all could have been lifted straight out of a Luke & Laura-era episode of General Hospital. Same with (especially) the…

I read that as "great, you get to go to your fake wife while I have to deal with Paige."

I wasn't thinking Agent Cooper in that scene as much as I was the Nazi interrogator from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Same single-minded weirdo menace. And if he's going after Gaad, he's digging in the wrong place. I read upthread that people are looking forward to his interview with Stan. That'll be interesting, but I…

When Jimmy went to pee at the Diner, the big guy in there ahead of him looked an awful lot like one of the mug shots in the opening shot. It's such a small detail (I might be wrong, it might not even be the same guy), but it reminded me of the way Breaking Bad used to capitalize on little moments, using them again…

"Do these vans get good mileage?" I realize that Kevin was not part of that discourse, but still. That kid asking that driver those questions is my favorite John Hughes moment ever. And Henry is, basically, that kid. "Did you know the McCallisters are going to France? Do you know if it's cold there? What's EST?"

I have a sneaking suspicion that the day Stan gets Sandra back is the day he finds out who Philip and/or Elizabeth really are. "This isn't your day, Stan"? It's never Stan's day. Stan doesn't get a day.