The next film will be called "Before Early Bird Dinner", and will have Delpy and Hawke enjoying a AARP-discounted meal at a booth at Hometown Buffet.

I am unreasonably excited to see Before Midnight this weekend.

The SWAT theme was the first theme song I remember just loving as a kid.  Lots of singing it to myself while I did shoulder rolls off the armrest of the couch.  I actually used the theme for a time as my Windows bootup music.

The elevator scene with Don and Sylvia was the longest scene of uncomfortable silence I've ever seen on-screen.  No music queues or anything, just mechanical elevator sounds in the background.  Kudos to the director for just letting us stew in the awkwardness, especially after such a frantic, drug-crazed episode.

@avclub-c54f98debd0af9baaa2943ab9fcef832:disqus  You should see Wrath of Khan immediately.  It still holds up and is still rightfully considered the best of all the Star Trek movies.

I would throw Chicago's "Saturday In the Park" in there too.

Star Trek: The Motionless Picture

I think IMDB has Clara making an appearance in the Season 5 premiere ("A Little Kiss, pts 1 & 2"), but just as a voice in "Tea Leaves" and "The Phantom".  I had to look her up because she just appeared in a Verizon commercial while I was watching the Bulls - Heat game.

I'd buy that if it wasn't for the Heineken spots during the UEFA Champions League, which have more bombast than a Wagner opera.

Wow, that made me go to Wikipedia to check out Mohawk Air flight crashes, but I guess their big one was a year before in 1967.

@avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus @avclub-5bbc67c39fbdf1c74e28b86c595f6e4a:disqus Uh no, Terry Gross doesn't go in with zero preparation.  I heard her give a talk where she said she goes through a book every two days or so in preparation for the guests that she has on her show.  It's clear from listening…

I actually think Don's pitch was in line with his other pitches this season.  Both the Royal Hawaiian and the Heinz pitches also didn't show the product.  Don seems to be hung up on the idea of the audience using their imagination this season.

Peggy did say that she hated change, and wanted everything to stay the same.  Careful wishing what you want, it may come true.

I love that Roger had multiple copies of STERLING'S GOLD ready to give away in his luggage bag.

Gotta hand it to Vincent Kartheiser, the Elmer Fudd-way in which he fell down those stairs was slapstick gold.

God I love Julia Ormond as Megan's mom.  Somehow she's very believable as a mother telling her daughter to get her husband to think about getting between her legs.

I thought it might be a play on the Emerson quote:  "“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”  Which would resonate with Peggy and her escape from SCDP.

Looking up that XP-887 code gave me a laugh.  To hear the two agencies make these grand pitches, and to learn they were describing what would turn out to be the piece of shit Vega…thank you Matt Weiner for that extra-credit hilarity.

Matt Weiner mentioned in his Fresh Air interview last week that the reason they have so many elevator scenes was because it was economical for the show.

I did love the jazzy music cues in this episode, it definitely had an Ocean's Eleven-type of vibe.