The breakdown:

New Girl: 0:00 -11:16

Community: 11:16 - 20:51

Mad Men: 20:51 - 36:49

Game of Thrones: 36:49- End

Music: “Toxic,” Britney Spears

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Mad Men: 0:00 -27:25

Game of Thrones: 27:25 - 56:30

The Avengers/Whedon’s TV Future: 56:30 - EndMusic: “Tomorrow Never Knows,” The Beatles

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So after I tweeted tonight that I’d seen one of the five funniest things on television this year tonight, “Cougar Town” creator Bill Lawrence demanded to see the full list. And far be it for me to not grant it. For our purposes here, I define “this year” as the television season which started in the Fall of 2011 and will end in a few short weeks. This isn’t a 12-month year. I’m not merely describing this calendar year to do. So if you’re going to get mad, at least get mad about the correct time frame. We good? Good.

Without further ado…

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Sherlock 0:00 - 11:40

Parks and Recreation 11:40 - 25:50

Game of Thrones 25:50 -45:31

Mad Men  45:31 - End

Music: “Building A Mystery,” Sarah McLachlan

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It’s true that the office itself has been almost an afterthought for the season thus far, with Matthew Weiner primarily focused on the lifes of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce employees outside the office. But tonight’s episode revealed just how much the core bit of Season Five business–the woo’ing of Heinz–has been instrumental in reflecting just how much business overlaps with the ever-changing cultural climate depicting in the show. The client has been looking for a way to tie the past with the present in the hopes of maintaining a tether to reality itself. Megan’s idea takes that notion and takes it to its logical conclusion: the future. The job-saving pitch sells the idea of a continuation between the past, present, and future that suggests everything is always the same, only with different costumes. You can keep the same mother and son, since those central elements will always be in place. Simply stick on a new outfit and you still ensure the same outcome.

Well, just look at the three generations on display in the final shot of the titular ball: Absolutely no one is on the same page, and there’s almost no chance of anything akin to common ground between them. Even if the Heinz pitch might have been semi-true even a decade earlier, too much has changed in the 1960’s to make that commercial anything but a pipe dream. By the time it airs, it will already represent an antiquated ideal. While Don might love Megan for her ability to crack the problem of the pitch, it’s still the answer to a question that is no longer relevant. People are growing up faster than ever (see Sally, whose experience watching “The Man From U.N.C.L.E” now has a real life, “dirty” counterpart) or growing up differently (Peggy, who is moving in with Abe in a way that feels progressive until her mother points out the true nature of the arrangement). There’s no continuation to the cycle. Things aren’t passed on from one generation to the next. Now, we’re seeing either the cessation or rejection of those traditions, and we’re left with little besides a muddles mess and a sea of confused faces.

“Actor. Icon. Winner.” –From the new FX promo for “Anger Management”

I know, I know: for the last week or so, you’ve been searching in vain for something, ANYTHING, about Lena Dunham, creator of the new HBO series “Girls.” And yet, it’s impossible. Try finding the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, or Atlantis and you’ll have better luck than finding out thoughts about Dunham or her show in the last seven days on the interwebs. Oh wait: all of the words on the internet over the last quarter of the month have been dedicated to her, it seems. If I forgot, it’s only because I’ve struck my head enough times on the wall to forget about them.
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Game of Thrones: 0:00 - 29:46

Mad Men: 29:46 - 48:21

Girls: 48:21 - End

Music: “Punk Rock Girl,” The Dead Milkmen

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The first covers this week’s “Mad Men” and “Game of Thrones.” With us to break things down? The one and only Tom Fitzgerald, co-author of the amazing Tom&Lorenzo.com. If you’re not reading them already…just don’t tell us. No need to embarrass yourself.

The second covers ABC’s “Scandal” and “Don’t Trust The B– In Apt. 23,” as well as HBO’s “Girls.” It’s just Mo and I. Also, a female dinosaur. You’ll have to listen to find out how that happened.

Music: “Magical Mystery Tour,” The Beatles/”Goodbye To You,” Scandal

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The first covers the premiere of “Game of Thrones.” With us to discuss “The North Remembers” is Phil Bicking of the great “Thrones”-centric site Winter is Coming.

The second covers the first three hours of the fifth season of “Mad Men.” Mo and I get a little loopy at the end. We may have created some “Thrones”/”Men” crossover fanfic. Maybe.

Music: “The Game,” Disturbed/”Ice Cream,” Sarah McLachlan

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