Wow. I thought that this was a fairly good episode. . . that KK did much better than normal and you could tell that TW was trying.

Honestly, I thought TW was trying to pass a difficult bowel movement. His tortured looks kept pulling me out of the damn thing. He did much better last week.

I actually thought that if KK had scenes with a good actor with more regularity she might improve more quickly . . . you know in a different series or something.

I've thought that since S1. I think if she was on a show with a: good writing for female characters (always the Smallville weak point) and b: more scenes with the more experienced members of the crew, she'd be decent.

She's young, and while inexperienced, she's not completely without talent. I think on say, a JW show, we'd all be marvelling at how much she's improved. I think she was good in Perry, and good in that one the week before Perry, because I'm not keeping track of episode titles other than Perry, it seems.

And she was very pretty all dolled up like that last night.

The smoking man,

Em, yes, it would have been the cigarette smoking man who was mayor of Smallville. It was funky.

Honestly, I thought TW was trying to pass a difficult bowel movement.

Me too. I also felt (I think because of his facial expressions) that he looked a lot like a black-haired Carey Elwes in the 1961 scenes. This also may have been affected by the fact that I'd just watched The Pentagon Wars (a fantastic Made for HBO movie about the development of the Bradley fighting vehicle, starring Elwes, Kelsey Grammer, and Richard Schiff (Toby from West Wing)).

Em, yes, it would have been the cigarette smoking man who was mayor of Smallville. It was funky.

I was thrown for a loop because I'm SO used to seeing William B. Davis's younger self played by Chris Owens.

The Pentagon Wars

Possibly the best thing Elwes has been involved with since TPB.

I agree, Ken. It's a damn fine movie. I've seen it several times, and always enjoy it.

I took it as a shout out.

Oh, I thought it was just a country boy thing. (psst - I have a Luke Duke doll, MIB, 1 of 12,000) (It was a gift)

Maybe it is just a country boy thing.

But I do remember the buckles being available at the Mall during the Duke Boys heyday.

Mmm... Luke doll. I always loved Bo though.

I'm from Oklahoma and I can assure you that the belt buckles were the real deal and if you watch closely can still see members of the species gigantus bucklus foraging in their natural habitat (i.e. WalMart).

Mmm... Luke doll. I always loved Bo though.

My college roommate has the Luke doll. Our third roommate got them for us for Christmas. We were late to rugby practice on a regular basis b/c of the Dukes of Hazzard reruns. This was a bad thing, since I was president at the time.

I will not tell you all how long it took me to figure out how a man fastens a belt to a dinner plate. Let us just say I'd been wondering about that since I was little, and finally figured it out when we went on a family trip to New Mexico and got to handle a few at tourist traps.