Peter knew that strong-arming the senator was the only play. After his first call, Eli asks if Peter thinks the senator will tell the truth, and his reply is a flat "no", leading to a wonderful look of confusion and consternation on Eli's face, which is then paid off later in the "we're not worthy!" Wayne's World…

Nobody freaks out with graphs and spreadsheets better than Ben Wyatt.

The powers the be at NBC have not decided yet whether the show will be renewed. It's really in a tough spot: it's ratings are pretty low (generally 1.2 ~ 1.3 in A18-49), and being an ensemble cast and entering into a sixth season makes it expensive to produce. And it's already reached the requisite 88 episodes…

That storyline was especially maddening given the fact that their impending financial ruin was a plot line all the way back in season 1 or 2 or whatever. They should have at least made some kind of mention of how they had to borrow against the house and how that would have complicated the sale, etc. Or even just…

Zeek is too proud to pay someone to schlep all his shit. (He's probably also too proud to hire someone to fix a roof, paint a wall, cut the grass, etc.)

It's not like Victor didn't get anything out of the time he spent fixing it up. Besides, you don't give a car to a 12 year old, and living in SF it would be very hard to justify the hassle of dealing with an extra car that you're not using.

Nothing says sexytime like "hold on one sec while I pull out this foley catheter."

I liked the part where Joe was shot in the chest, and then when we come back from the commercial he just shrugs it off and is not actually wounded and it is never mentioned again.

Considering that she had been planning on selling the baby up until recently, I'm not terribly moved by her plight.

Those awkward scenes with the guitar didn't happen, I tell you. I fast forwarded through them, therefore they did not happen.

There's got to be dozens of competent, professional, working actors in NYC that they could have cast for the bad guy. Why do they always cast a famous person and spoil the hell out of any mystery that they were trying to build?

You're absolutely right — Phillip's hand on the cover and his dour expression as he hightailed it out of there conveyed in an instant all that needed to be said about the fate of the poor student. It was visual storytelling at its best.

It's even better than that. The first time, it's pizza sitting on a chair dialing a phone and ordering a person. The second time, it's a phone sitting on pizza dialing a person and ordering a chair. The third time, it's a chair sitting on a person dialing a pizza and ordering a phone.