#transposed numbers

[jhsharman]

Out on a Limb

I think it is a sign of an old geezerdom that writer Frank Doyle suggests a vaguely sexual component to just writing a phone number on Veronica's leg. I think he might have been leafing over old work, in this case Melody writing numbers on her stomach played as tribute to Goldie Hawn on Laugh In, for plot points. It is here a contrived plot point as Archie should have just jotted the number on his hand, but I guess there flirtatious behavior and she is just setting up an excuse to come by.

We see the number gets differentiated from an unclear scrawl in the original printing. I go with 191120, maybe. Maybe the 9 is a 4. At any rate, keep the number in mind.

Strunk and White correcting the punctuation.

It would have made more sense if the number on Veronica's leg had been played as getting smeared over a day -- at least we have some kind of plot development, a complications ensue. The numbers are completely off from what we not entirely cleanly saw earlier in the reprint.

[heisenbergchronicles]

Q: When Chuck is telling his story in the opening flashback about why there’s no electricity, he mentions that it’s because the electric company applied his payments to someone else’s bill, that they transposed the address numbers. Is that deliberately a little nod to Jimmy’s Mesa Verde scheme? A - Gordon Smith: “Yes, absolutely. We kind of thought that was a fun little callback. It’s Jimmy’s Mesa Verde scheme, but in this case, it’s coming out of Chuck. There’s a certain way that Jimmy, as he’s becoming Saul, seems to absorb ideas from people, and then puts his own spin on them and then uses them in his own way, and we thought that would be a fun one to bring back, especially for this episode.” – from ‘Better Call Saul’ Postmortem: The Truth of Chuck’s Illness and Jimmy’s Big Play (YahooTV)