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Hee, Once Sane, I was trying to think of a joke using the linen closet!

Lulu has thoughts other than, "BABY, BABY, MUST HAVE BABY"? She's looking at him and thinking, "Mama wants those genes for my baby!" Tracy has every right to be at ELQ. She's more qualified than Michael is to be CEO, that's for sure. The problem is that FakeLuke will then be able to use her to launder his drug money through the company. Edward should have had a special codicil in his will that barred Luke Spencer from having anything to do with ELQ.

Unless he just dismisses everything unilaterally because it's from Franco, which is what I'm afraid of. Though if Lauren is there, she'll probably insist Franco doesn't lie anymore, and Michael will then believe it. Because Lauren apparently knows all these days. They put it on a flash drive, and I think Carly gave it to Sonny. I don't know what he would have done with it.

Given that it's the holiday weekend, makes sense to me.

At least she's the right age to be a bratty teenager. I don't find Molly's behavior obnoxious at all. Whether she knows she's right or not, she's entitled to her opinion, and she's right that Alexis is totally biased against Ric because she's sleeping with Julian. To not even wonder if Julian is lying is totally stupid of Alexis. He has the gangster history, not Ric. That was seven years ago. I'm all for healthy skepticism, but Molly had nothing to do with any of that stuff, and there's no evidence he continued that terrible behavior in L.A. Molly knows that Alexis has good reason to distrust Ric, but there's been more proof of current misdeeds for Julian than Ric. Sorry to be That Poster, but "stanvil" is correctly used when a heretofore minor character suddenly becomes front and center in a story, only to be killed off. It was coined from Pip's son, Stan, who acted as Jason and Sonny's computer guy before Spin made the team. We saw Stan once a month, if that, until about two weeks before he was killed off—at that point, he was suddenly onscreen every day, talking with Pip and Jason. Then he got killed, and Jason promised to find out whodunnit. I forget if he did, but if so, the point was immediately dropped anyway. Stan was black, after all; who cares?

That's completely in character for Franco, IMO. I don't really mind if Franco is the one to spill the beans, but I want Michael to believe him. That's the downside to Franco telling anyone anything.

I loved Maggie using the formal tense in Spanish with the biker: "Would you rather I treat you like a common street thug?" Hee. And the way the baby made everyone in the bar melt. And then we see the biker at the christening! Perfect.

When Emma told Maggie to think about her mom being there, I got a little teary. And yeah, Emma's excitement and joy at Charlotte's birth was fantastically does.

True, but drug dealing < murder (attempted, given how terrible a shot Shawn is, but still).

I'll give them this: They didn't stage the courtroom scenes with Levi smirking in the gallery while Nathan squirmed on the witness stand. That doesn't mean Maxie and Nathan aren't idiots for not figuring out who told the judge Nathan lied. Could Nina be any bigger a martyr? Sheesh. You just know Sam is going to twig on Nina being nutters first and being unable to convince Silas of it because he's too much of an idiot to believe it: "She's just trying to adjust!" So Shawn can work for Sonny—as his HIT MAN—with no trouble, but Jordan working for Julian is OMG the evul? Shut up, TJ.

He worked as a lawyer for only a year, IIRC. I doubt he keeps current with any bar associations. However, there's no excuse for the WGA keeping him as a member in good standing.

That's another thing I thought the show had gotten past. I don't mind Louis being personally insecure at times, but he should be rock-solid strong in his professional capabilities. I get the two are related, but if Louis weren't such a smart lawyer, he wouldn't be at Pearson Specter in the first place.

Oh, right! I forgot all about that. Well, on that point and that point alone, I'm on Lauren's side. But only because Tracy has to be drugged not to realize she's married to an imposter.

What did Tracy do to Lauren that needs forgiveness? Be mean to her? That's pretty much Tracy's m.o.

Jon is rarely hostile to any guest. He has better manners than that. He's given guests a hard time—Jim Cramer, Betsy McCaughey, and the Spice Girls come to mind—but he also treated Lynne Cheney with kid gloves.

Working at IBM is working for The Man, though, and Cameron's no sellout!

I think part of that is for production purposes—we often don't follow Branch and Ferg when Walt gives them a task—but it is weird that Vic and Walt are the characters most often paired up. It's also kind of insulting to Vic that she can't do anything on her own.

Hee, Tara. You don't mention that the skirts and dresses are tailored so tightly it's a miracle the women can sit down without busting a seam. That's probably why we see them standing more often than not.

My dentist once snapped his Achilles tendon, and he said it sounded like a gunshot. So it can be very loud.

There's an ad for a car with one of those side/front/back sensors, and they are, uh, sensing things—straying into another lane, blind spots, etc.—while the driver is completely oblivious. Then the driver in voiceover says something like, "Now I can concentrate on driving." Dude, you need to pay attention all the time. On the other hand, I like the ad for a similar system where the teenage kid is driving with his dad and gets distracted by a pretty girl. The car slams on its brakes because the car in front stopped, and the dad just looks at the kid like, "Yeah, you got lucky this time." (Though the dad was bad to let the kid get so distracted.)

I would be very surprised if that did not happen. Is that really Mike's decision? He may be in charge of the team, but who made him head of household?

You must have not seen the preview, where Tracy begs Michael for a job at ELQ. Ugh. Lauren defending Franco to Michael was something else. "But he's been nice to me even though he's not my father!" Little girl, he's still a serial killer who facilitated your boyfriend's rape. Maybe keep your Franco opinions to yourself, mmkay?

TGW did dueling offices much better than this show is. Mike's assistant is no Donna. Why are they trying to make her one? They're both so annoying I can't choose. They've regressed to their first season dynamic where each is trying to outdo the other. We saw that already, Show. We've seen Mike and Rachel struggle to keep their personal and professional relationships separate. We've seen the firm be in danger. Come up with some new ideas.

She looked quite taken aback when Wolf went in for the smackeroo. I can't blame her a bit. Yeesh.

Ugh, the dick-swinging in this episode. I had hoped that was in the past. I liked that Louis doubled down on "eating dick for breakfast, lunch, and dinner." I didn't like Malone saying he'd tell the entire office Louis said that. Way to gay panic, show.