"The Babysitter's Club?"

"Young asshole auteur Takashi Miike?" What did he do that was so bad, beyond put out like thirty batshit crazy movies a year for a while?

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Man, that's an intense trailer. Who's the lead interrogator slamming his hand on the desk? He looks so familiar, it hurts. Edit: Oh, he was the grindcore-loving journalist from "Treme." Chris Coy.

Note the hanged man behind David in the post-credits scene - a sideways reference to "Dark Side of the Moon (via "The Wizard of Oz")?"

Yeah, I still think about him.

I wonder if Cartman's confusion about vaginas is a callback to the revelation that his mother is hermaphrodite on season two.

I'm as suspicious of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl as I suppose I'm susceptible to it; I thought that flashback to Elliot meeting Shayla was pretty gutting.

Thanks! I guess I did miss it. Okay, if they can't bother vetting the dates, then pretty much everything else in this show is suspect. ;)

Because oak leaves last!

Sorry if I missed it, but was there a title or something that established that this was in 1983? I can't remember when the Reagan speech took place, but the second or third episode has a flyer for a battle of the bands on Friday, Nov 28 - which means 1980 or 1986. That could be a deliberate anachronism in search of a…

Re-watching the "Blackwater" episode, I saw a callback from this episode:

Is that fear? I thought it was just Melisandre-face. Maybe consternation.

But on the other-other hand, GOT, especially in season 6, has introduced plenty of more-or-less one-offs who were significantly functional or just cool, c.f. Ray, that dude from the Iron Bank, and Lyanna Mormont… and I guess Rickon. So, I see your point.

I know her role Tyrion's plan, but she had this bombastic entrance (she was even in the season trailer!) for a function that practically could have been performed off-screen. It's not like Dany and her retinue have converted. I dunno. Just seems weird. Maybe she'll meet Melisandre.

It occurs that the "Game of Thrones" writers are sneaking in more of the callbacks and parallels they seem to love employing: one episode after Tommen bans trial by combat as barbaric and unjust (never mind the High Sparrow's motivations; it is), Jon Snow essentially asks Ramsay for just that, and it clearly would…

It occurs to me that Kinvara, the red priestess in Meereen, had an awfully big introduction this season, yet we never saw her again, and Dany's forces have sailed for Westeros. Another fizzled narrative? Perhaps she sailed with Daenerys?

Mel's expression in those final moments - some blend of haughtiness and fear - was awesome to watch.

I wish that the "rumors" Cersei asked Qyburn about didn't relate to the wildfire. The pyromancer even said in season 2 that they'd been working tirelessly to make wildfire on Cersei's orders. Surely she hadn't forgotten, and it seems unlikely that the pyromancers had stopped making it after Tyrion used it in the…

I've gotten so used to saying "that's when 'Game of Thrones' will really jump the shark," it doesn't really mean anything anymore. I hope and wish they'll limit the family romance (I'm probably not using that term correctly) angle to Jon Snow.