It's all fun and games until somebody loses a foot!

Best ep yet this season, even if I am still having sympathetic foot pain. shudder

Plus, Grampa Gene back from the grave, to threaten Sally!

Also? When my brothers were born, which was the same era, I was given "gifts" from my new siblings. And my reaction was much the same as Sally's: "Babies can't write! Babies can't go to stores!"

(Now in the age of the intertubes, even my cats can order presents.)

You mean the one that Kenny shouted, or was there something else?

Yes, cracked me the hell up. I kept thinking about how the garbage disposal people got all up in arms over Heroes first season.

I also kind of predicted some things that were going to happen

Wasn't it Chekov who said if you introduce a John Deere mower in the first act it needs to run over someone's foot by the end?

(when I saw them running around on the lawn mower, I ducked my eyes behind my hands and I prayed for Joan and Peggy's safety).

Yeah, those are the two I was holding my breath for, but the way it played made so much sense, story-wise.

Yep -- held my breath, too.

ObAmericanbranchofaBritishcompany:

American: We should send a memo
Brit: Oh no, we're not that sort of company!

Because, you know, sending a memo would ensure that everyone in the company would know about the major changes to the upper management staff. And we wouldn't want THAT! ARGH!

I will state, however, that nobody at my office has ever had their foot cut off by a lawnmower at work. That I know of.

In all fairness, I took that to mean that the initial announcement would not be via memo. That NY office is pretty small. Unless someone was out that day (a real possibility, I know), they heard the news.

The only time I ever hear about a staff change outside my department in NY is via office gossip, or (if it's at a high enough level) by reading a British newspaper clipping in the daily press report. There is never a memo.

I am probably following this plot thread much more closely than it deserves, but it is so dead on in every way.

I also appreciated that Betty doesn't quite have her pre-baby figure back yet. There's a nicely visible post-partum jelly-belly.

I am probably following this plot thread much more closely than it deserves, but it is so dead on in every way.

But it's interesting to see that Weiner's attention to detail includes that stuff. It's one of the things I love about the show.

I also appreciated that Betty doesn't quite have her pre-baby figure back yet. There's a nicely visible post-partum jelly-belly.

Yes! We noticed that too.