Oh, and the fact that Betty discovered Don's secret drawer of evidence and he had to come clean about the whole stealing a dead man's identity thing. Also, Joan hit Dr. Asshat in the head with a vase, so he joined the army. Would it be too crass of me to say I hope he goes to Vietnam and dies? In light of last night's long awaited episode focusing on the JFK Assassination, yes, it probably is.

So, like, I'm definitely not the only one who looks forward to seeing what Matt Lauer and the rest of the Today Show cast is going to dress as for Halloween, right? Yeah, I didn't think so. This year? Star Wars characters! You really have to watch the whole clip. It's long, but it just gets better and better, or at least more and more awkward, as it goes on, culminating with Meredith Vieira telling an Ewok not to grab her ass. Other highlights include Hoda doing a Yoda voice, Kathie Lee doing a C-3PO voice, and Al Roker not being dressed as Lando Calrissian.

The best part of last night's episode of The Office (which was refreshingly free of the honeymooning Jim and Pam, by the way) involved Kevin trying to explain to Oscsar, who's gay, why they would have very different experiences were they to be put in jail. Someone should tell young hollywood types that this is how you write jokes about homosexuality—where the stupid person winds up looking stupid, and not like someone to be envied by a bunch of hateful frat boys.

But first, the plot: Conrad Hilton has taken to calling Don in the middle of the night, waking the entire Draper clan and sending Don to the office at 5am. I can't wait to be an eccentric millionaire. As Don heads to work he spots Miss Farrel jogging (I didn't mention it in that week's recap, but it did come up in that episode how she's an early morning jogger) and is all about giving her a ride, in more ways than one. Miss Farrel acts all coy, so he just drives up to the house where she's renting an apartment. This will be important later.

Anyway! Entertainment Weekly's Michael Aussiello is reporting that on the November 9th episode of Gossip Girl, there will be a threesome involving "three major characters." He's been sworn to secrecy about the participants, but he's listed nine possible combinations, one of which is the real deal. My guess is Serena, Carter and Georgina (Serena's drunk, it's dark, and she doesn't realize it was Georgina until the next morning), but it will probably be something much dumber, as these things always are.

It's late August, it's hot, and everyone is on vacation. That is, except for Pete who is stuck at home, and Betty, who is campaigning for her reservoir project while Don travels the country visiting Hilton hotels at Connie's behest. His people call Don at home to tell him his latest destination is Rome, and Betty—still reeling from her reservoir victory and celebratory kiss with Creepy Belly Feeler—decides she wants to come along. Betty really takes the old "When in Rome..." adage to heart, showing off her fluency in Italian and getting herself all dolled up in the latest Italian fashions. She and Don do a little stranger role-play, have a bunch of sex, and seem like they actually like each other for at least a little bit. Then Betty comes home and hates everything again.

Sunday night's episode was definitely my favorite of the season, if not ever. It had everything you need to make a classic season three ep: some subtle plot unraveling, Don bonding with a complete stranger two, actually!), a little bit of blood, and a hallucination featuring a disapproving parent, plus some chatter about Vietnam, an appearance by Miss Farrell AND some delightful Roger Sterling quip Also, the narrative structure of the episode was great. I realize not two sentences ago I hailed the subtlety of the episode, but there was also some loud plot movement here, so the starting-with-the-end framing device wasn't really even necessary, as the momentum of the events themselves would been satisfying enough.

The show will be a drama "chronicling Alphabet City's gritty and tumultuous past before it became the gentrified East Village", according to the Hollywood Reporter's write-up, which is too talkbot-tastic to change a word of. "Along with its growing bohemian and celebrity population that also included graffiti artists, break-dancers, rappers and DJs, the neighborhood was plagued by illegal drug activity and violent crime."

The show seems unlikely to match the nostalgic appeal of, say, actual Jim Jarmusch movies from the early 80s—or Blank Generation, Another Girl, Another Planet, or Downtown 81; or the New Museum's "East Village USA" show, Sonic Youth albums, or Up Is Up But So Is Down—but we will all watch it anyway. Well, I will. On my laptop, at Mars Bar.

Will De Niro's friend and Spike's fellow NYU alum Martin Scorsese shoot any episodes? He did direct After Hours the Life Lessons section of New York Stories, the second and third leg of the famed Roseanna Arquette Trilogy documenting the 80s downtown scene (the first leg was Desperately Seeking Susan).