It's a hybrid. Automat for the modern, waitress staff for the reactionary.
Mal: Okay. She won't be winning any beauty contests anytime soon. But she is solid. Ship like this, be with ya 'til the day you die. Zoe: 'Cause it's a deathtrap.
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Connie Neil - Jan 15, 2015 5:05:24 pm PST #4864 of 5827
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Vortex - Jan 15, 2015 8:25:18 pm PST #4865 of 5827
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Anybody else think that the killer at the end was a woman? Something about the size of the figure and the way it moved.
Steph L. - Jan 16, 2015 3:34:25 am PST #4866 of 5827
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Well, as soon as Dottie (the new resident at the Lady Apartment) was introduced, I assumed she was a baddie. Or we're supposed to think that. Why else take the time to introduce a new character in an 8-episode arc?
OTOH, I'm paranoid enough that I worry that Angie is a secret villain, too.
Tom Scola - Jan 16, 2015 5:08:39 am PST #4867 of 5827
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
- Milk
- Biscuits
- PG Tips
- Oranges
- Digestives
- Horseradish
- HP Sauce
- Detergent
SailAweigh - Jan 16, 2015 5:24:29 am PST #4868 of 5827
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I have to agree about Peggy coming across as quite naive. It makes me wonder how much of the writing may be geared towards people who don't have a Captain America background and the only thing they really know of Peggy's history is the flashbacks in the first episode. For them, this might be character development, whereas we know what a BAMF she is from prior experience.
DXMachina - Jan 16, 2015 6:24:03 am PST #4869 of 5827
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I am still really bothered by a waitress at the nom-automated Automat. I am confused
The couple of times I went to an automat, in NY in the 70's, there was also a cafeteria line for things that didn't really work in automat format (hot food). Still no waitresses, but maybe they were used in place of the cafeteria line in some restaurants.
Jessica - Jan 16, 2015 6:59:35 am PST #4870 of 5827
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
One of the commenters on this Smithsonian article remembers being an automat waitress, but doesn't go into detail (i.e. whether she was serving customers or just refilling the cases from behind the glass). Maybe some locations also had cooked-to-order food?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 17, 2015 3:20:07 pm PST #4871 of 5827
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Argggh, just got into it with a poster on another board who doesn't understand why product placement ads wouldn't work on Agent Carter. I mean, I'm sure Ovaltine would be thrilled to have increased brand recognition in today's market, but they're not going to be financing an hour of primetime on ABC every week.
quester - Jan 17, 2015 7:30:56 pm PST #4872 of 5827
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I like Carter and Jarvis but not anyone else. I'm finding it hard to watch.
-t - Jan 18, 2015 6:39:42 pm PST #4873 of 5827
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Man, I can remember somebody telling me about waitresses at automats but now I can't find supporting documentation. My unreliable memory asserts that they were a thing, though. Audrey Meadow's played an Automat waitress in That Touch of Mink, so that's something, I suppose.