I don't really feel like passionately supporting my point of view on this because I'm not all that invested in this as an ISSUE, but when I saw the character, with the hair, the outfit, and snippets of her conversation, I thought there was a reference going on that to me seemed unmistakable.

As the episode went on, it of course isn't the case, but I thought that was just an in-joke of those on the crew: introduce a visual Palin reference and knock it down by having the character be relatively competent.

A question was raised about why people thought this might be a Palin reference, I responded as one perspective and why I thought a quick reference was made. I get that this wasn't intended.

I am not trolling for my point of view here.

I don't deny that people could take it as such. I just don't get why people (and I'm not saying you) insist it is despite denial. And one of the women on his blog is insisting it's a bad Palin impersonation too. Dude, Occam's razor much?

I saw her "poufy hair" and thought, "oh, that looks like Palin." And there the resemblance ended. John said it wasn't meant to be Palin, and listed all the ways in which she was not like Palin. But... what are you gonna do? the folks who want to be offended will continue to be offended, and will insist that John simply won't admit the truth. It's a silly thing for people to focus on, especially given all the other chewy bits in the episode that were much more interesting than the provenance of the AG. Like, how Parker doesn't recognize what sex sounds like!

Did they say the password was Sunnydale?

Dangit, I was distracted, only listening, and I missed shirtless Neal!

I think you should rewatch, Dana.

Or I could do it for you.

That thing with the lie detector was just dumb--they could have just looked at the tracking anklet.

I heard Sunnydale too, Jesse.

That thing with the lie detector was just dumb--they could have just looked at the tracking anklet.

True. But then we wouldn't have learned that jabbing oneself with a thumbtack can somehow produce a false True reading, and who knows when we'll need to know that?

Password was definitely Sunnydale! Cool. Jeff Eastin says on Twitter, "Sunnydale password is a nod to Buffy."

I heart Diana more and more. Glad she's back. I also heart shirtless Neal, in an entirely different way. Matt Bomer is just too damned pretty to be real.

But then we wouldn't have learned that jabbing oneself with a thumbtack can somehow produce a false True reading, and who knows when we'll need to know that?

I'm pretty sure the Mythbusters have disproved that, which was the first thing I thought of when I saw Neal grab the thumbtack.

I was wondering how he was going to get it into his shoe, which was where I thought most people put it. His chosen method wasn't exactly subtle, and I'm surprised that Peter didn't cotton onto the precise method.

I mean, if I've heard of it.