"Who wants to pick a card?"
"Get the **** away from us."

who did those guys intimidating the manager work for? That agent played by david paymer last season?

Sophie hiring Susie.

Unless this is Sophie plotting to divide+conquer Midge and Susie, this is just too implausible (yes, I know that no part of this show is plausible...I only ask that they be reasonably implausible).

She doesn't love Ben. She was going to marry the rich handsome doctor because that's what everyone else wants her to do, and they had her convinced (since childhood!) that she should want it, too.

But she'd rather have the crazy kid who stopped traffic to propose to her. The father of her children, her first (and only) true love. He scored a ton of points with her, throwing hands at that club manager, too.

--That wacky Declan dude talking about how he gave up any hope of normal family life to pursue his art...pretty cool way to tell Midge what choices she'll need to face.

--What does Papa have up his sleeve? I was thinking divorce might be part of his midlife crisis (telling his wife to sit down, hiring a lawyer...and worst of all, cutting to him FIRST in the montage during Lenny Bruce's "All Alone" number), but so soon after flying to Paris to tell his wife he can't live without her?

--Sophie mailing it in during that interview with sick people, reading Q's off the cards. Cracked me up.

--"You can call collect, you know."
"That was a great idea, $3 ago!"

Dammit, that's one of MY jokes!

OK, I ripped it off from an old radio show ("that was a great idea, five minutes ago!")...but still!