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Just rewatched "cool-hand Dave" and I swear in some shots it looks like he came straight from the set of Die Hard and didn't bother washing that makeup off.

And Morgan basically did a proto-Holdo Maneuver.

Interesting to see this episode tying into the sequel trilogy. Great casting with Brian Gleeson as Brendol Hux, who is the father of General Hux, though I wish they would have found a way to get Brendan Gleeson instead. Also using the music cue from the throne room sceen in Last Jedi when the Praetorian Guard showed up.

This post reminded me of the movie Strange Brew. Brewmeister Smith taunts Pam "Unfortunately, We find the mail system unreliable here, so we use private couriers!"

This is also the same universe that had characters named Yak Face and Hammerhead. Solo had a background lobster-looking character named Therm Scissorpunch. The Mandalorian gave us Frog Lady and had an ant looking character named Dr. Mandible. Quadpaw fits in nicely!

Not knowing the full story at first I thought it was some kind of MK/Ultra type of training he was receiving, but then I remembered some conversations I had with a friend from high school that also trained as a medic in the army, since drug abuse was so prevalent, they had to learn about everything and their affects, and how to counteract them, but also what sedatives would be needed for various types of situations.

The NK astronaut was CS Lee, AKA Masuka from Dexter!

I absolutely loved the details in this episode. During the scene where Kim drove to work, it looks like they actually filmed in Port Canaveral, Florida. The Exploration Tower can be seen to the left as she drives past. While I don't work in sprinklers, I do work in an adjacent industry and can say that they nailed every detail of what it would look like in one of those offices. My one complaint is that they called it "Palm Coast Sprinkler" when everything in Titusville would most likely be named "Space Coast".

I don't know if I'm misremembering it, but I could swear there was a shot of 'Gene' in the last episode going up the escalator, and there was a sign by the Cinnabon advertising a "Twist". If so, then I'm expecting something big in the next few episodes. Personally, I would like to see more of Gus' background. Breaking Bad never fully expanded on who he really was. Eladio said he knew who Gus "really is" and Hector called him "Generalissimo". Hank struck a chord with Gus questioning his background. There were a number of US, British, and West German companies that made a lot of money off of the Pinochet regime. Did Gus connect with Schuller and Madrigal through this?

I seem to remember on TWOP when someone posted hyper detailed episode "spoilers" for the last batch of Breaking Bad episodes, all of which were completely incorrect.

As "Papa's" Papa?

Given that the timeframe of the current episodes of Season 4 are mid/late-March 1986, they're only a few weeks away from Chernobyl happening. I have to wonder if that will somehow be incorporated during the Part 2 of the season.

I had a friend in jr high and high school that had the bowl cut until we graduated high school in 1994. He was somewhat mocked for it, because his hair seemed stuck in 1979, I always thought it was because they didn't have any money. That's kind of the Byers family vibe I get.

That was the crux of the Season 1 episode Hero, when Jimmy had the JMM billboard made up, and Howard sued because possible confusion between HHM and JMM and the trademark infringement of using "Hamlindigo" blue. So if Howard thought that there was enough resemblance, it would be reasonably possible that anyone on the street at that time, including Cliff, would think it was Howard.

Abby Elliot?

That line the Captain said in reference to Churchill's three traditions of the British Navy, "We've done two of them, now let's get some rum" was probably one of the filthiest (and well written) jokes I've heard on a sitcom.

I got Back to the Future 2 vibes from them, right down to the end of the chase with the majordomo.

Doing a Season 1 re-watch right now and I noticed a sign in a restaurant advertising a special on White Russians.

It looks like Will Kirby is the new Surgeon General of Beverly Hills.

I finally got around to watching this and I thought it was just...OK...good but not great. I loved most everything about this: the acting, the cinematography, the direction, the soundtrack, the set decoration, the writing, etc... But somehow, I feel the final picture doesn't equal the sum of its parts. It reminds me of the Mary Poppins problem - it's about 20 minutes too long - but what 20 minutes do you cut out? I get the feel that Rick Dalton is exactly the actor that Tarantino would hire to fill a supporting role in one of his movies (like Robert Forster, Lawrence Tierney, David Carradine, etc...) in the 1990's. Now, here's where I get into my head cannon:

Now that Season 5 is over, with only one more to go, I can think of a few cameos from BB that we haven't seen yet that could still move the story along: Tortuga - he's the missing link between Fring, Don Eladio, Bolsa, and the Salamanca's. Plus, it's always great to see Danny Trejo. Skinny Pete - we can see him with Tuco in the lockup DJ Qualls' ABQ undercover cop ASAC Merker - we knew that Hank's boss had a friendship with Gus

I thought that the gold moths in the canopy fabric was an Easter Egg hinting at Golden Moth Chemical - where Gus would get his chemicals for the superlab in BB.

This quote reminded me of Barry Corbin (Acker) and his character in No Country for Old Men and a similar discussion between him and Tommy Lee Jones's character. How he chided Tommy Lee Jones's Sheriff Bell for thinking that he was "overmatched" and the reason that that part of Texas was so violent, "That's vanity!" That just puts another exclamation point on the effect of pride in the BB/BCS Albuquerque-verse.