I just thought I'd drop a tasty extra I figured out recently, an odd fact that's related to the way Chuck's breakdown-tearing down of his house was inspired by Coppola's "The Conversation."

I'm sorry, but I think they missed the better joke:

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Just a couple of thoughts:

I liked the poetic parallel in the narrative wherein Ray's office computer goes down because the wiring was chewed-through by "vermin" (said twice) —which, of course, sounds quite a bit like "V.M," the rat-faced villain whose name-search crashes Irv Blumkin’s office system.

I haven't seen the kind of patient, workmanlike, time-consuming evocation of criminal activity that "The Americans" gave us during the long scene where we are given the details of digging up the metal coffin…since the all-night-long break-in scene in the classic film "Rififi."

Ape-ocalypse Now.

Alasdair Wilkins… —Rather than chiefly tying-in to any particular plot-line in "Love Actually," I think Gene's gobstruck attraction to the Lunch-lady is meant to echo a story in Fellini's "Amarcord," wherein the young boy is oddly stricken by the fat Italian lady Tobacconist: (IMAGE):

Coming soon: Star Toddle. "Boldly going where no space explorers have gone before. In their diapers."

Could this article's headline be any more limp-wristed?

Did anyone notice that in the first scene after the "INTERMISSION" (I saw it as a stand-alone episode a day late), that Esmail scored the proceedings using the main music from Alan Pakula's fantastic paranoid thriller "The Parallax View"?

Every time I hear or see the name Durotan, I keep thinking it's the brand name for Trump's orange skin bronzer.

Have you been watching him in "The Night Manager" on AMC?

I'm surprised you didn't write about the scenes lifted from "The Black Stallion" —along with the original music (composed by Francis Ford Coppola's dad, Carmine).

I don't think so. Isn't that the point of disguises? So that it looks like you're just having casual conversations with strangers? Meeting up with "friends" means…—"We've gotta clear that acquaintance; make sure they're not hinky."

Just a thought: Here's a possible future snag I can see being used in the narrative to twist up tension. I noticed that when Philip first met with William at the park, William looked at him and remarked: "That's your best look yet."

You've never heard of goose down or eiderdown pillows?

No, I think this is the likely answer about the meaning of the "Casper and Spooky were raped and murdered by Stevie" joke: (Sorry for repeating this answer, which I posted elsewhere in this thread):

Just like the cover-joke says: They're used for their "down," boy (—which means, their feathers are used to stuff pillows and jackets).

"I got'cher red nose right here, Bozo!"