Episode 65 - Join Dave and Steve in the Dark Shadows

 

Again, not a strong title on my part.

One of the things I like about this show is how its characters can be doing the right thing one scene, and then not the right thing in the next scene they are in.

Poor Betty is counting calories.

Poor Sally is being used as a pawn.

Sally is also, despite her attempted grown uppedness, still a kid.  As an aside, I absolutely hate when kids act like they think adults act.

Ginzo is great in this one.

Don, I'm pretty sure you think about Michael almost daily.

Roger really ought to stop carrying so much cash around.

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Episode 64 - Dave and Steve Wish Lazarus Was a Lady

Don listening to Tomorrow Never Knows

As I sometimes point out, the clever title thing (which isn't going away even if you don't think it's clever, who the hell are you and what did you pay for the podcast?) can be difficult.  This was one of those.

Damn I love season 5.

This one could have been entitled 'Don doesn't get it at all'.  It could also have been entitled 'PIZZA HAUS!!!'

Megan wants to be an actress.

Ginzo swears in a meeting.

Roger is funny, yet he has grown.

Don seems vaguely grown up.

Pete has a fling.

Howard is horrible.

Beth is depressed.

I hate Howard.

Revolver is truly one of the best albums ever recorded.  That said, Don really REALLY doesn't get it.  Has he really grown?

Also, remember, I hate Howard.

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Episode 63 - Steve and Dave Attend the Codfish Ball

 I've been saying this a lot this season, but this is one of my favourite episodes.

I really don't like Raymond from Heinz.

Megan and Don pitching to Raymond is great.

Peggy's mother is pretty awful.

Megan's parents represent Quebec nicely.

That said, her mother can't speak French really....

How was the city?  Dirty.

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Episode 62 - Dave and Steve Go to Some Far Away Places

Happy New Year!

Damn this is a great bit of TV.

It's non linear storytelling in the style of Max Ophuls.

It's Roger and Jane dropping acid.

It's Don and Megan going to Howard Johnson's.

It's some super moving backstory about Ginzo.

It's Peggy finding out that she can't be Don.

It's Bert telling Don to shape up.

It's just generally amazing.

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Episode 61 - Steve Sends Dave Signal 30

OK, coming up with a 'clever' title was not an easy task here.

It's made up for by the fine song Steve picked.

Oh and that Romney thing from 'Tea Leaves', we're informed by a reliable source that it is not about Mittens.

CYNTHIA!

Oh, having a baby, that gets you going?

I know cooler heads should prevail but...

This is medieval.

HE HAD CHEWING GUM ON HIS PUBIS!

Also, this is a great episode.

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Episode 60 - Steve and Dave Go On a Mystery Date

Wow, we've done 60 of these things!

This one is Hitchcockian at times, I like that.

Shelly from Twin Peaks is here!  Oh and Don 'kills' her.

Joan ditches Captain Dr. McRapeyson.

'He Hit Me, and It Felt Like a Kiss' is a horrible song.  

Steve and I both got to bring a bit of our professional lives into this one.

Lots of good 1960s boxes to check this week, Vietnam, civil right protests, riots, women taking a modicum of control of their lives and probably other things I can't think of right now.

Oh and we've got Richard Speck, sexual violence and just overall weirdness.

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Episode 59 - Steve and Dave Read Some Tea Leaves

OK, let's get this out of the way, here is the link to the 'Fat Betty' song.

It's really disheartening to see how much Betty's self worth is wrapped up in her looks. 

Henry's Mom is a garbage person.

'Everything is going to be OK'.

Hey, TWO new characters, Dawn and Ginzo!

We talked more about April Wine than you'd expect.

We didn't like the Romney line.

I love Ginzo's father.

The Stones, playing Time is on My Side, to the bean ballet, blame Steve.

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