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The Apology - Something I Never Noticed


After Dan's apology, in the nice exchange between Dan and Casey about who is and isn't cool, J.D. Salinger is mentioned (and appropriately deemed "cool" by Dan, IMHO). Salinger's most famous book, The Catcher in the Rye, is about a troubled and conflicted young man who struggles to discuss the passing of his own younger brother Allie. The brother's (Sam and Allie) even share some similarities (smart, funny, source of pride to the parents) and their deaths result in the respective sons (Dan and Holden) feeling disconnected from their parents. Not a huge Easter Egg or anything, but I'd never made the connection before.

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FXX is showing Sports Night out of sequence. Why? The bit with Caseys shirt for instance lost much of it's meaning because of the switched episodes. This has happened to many shows in rerun but I expected much better from this network and especially for this quality of show. INEXCUSABLE LAZINESS!

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I can't say with absolute certainty, but I know that sitcoms are often shot out of order (they'll shoot episode 7 before episode 5). When the series is rerun, they air them in production order, not the order they orginally aired on TV. That being said, I totally agree with you that it's really annoying when TV channels do this.

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I've never read Catcher, so I wouldn't have caught the significance. Thank you.

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