A couple of thoughts:

1. Can anyone identify for me (I honestly don\'t know the name of it) the song that\'s playing on the phonograph at the 4:50 mark on this show? (It goes: \"dahh...dahh...dahhhh....dada-da-da-da-da-da-dadada-da-da-DAAAA-dada-da-da-da-da-da?\" (I\'ve heard the Texas A &amp; M band play this song when they\'re playing (and usually LOSING) a football game vs. the Texas Longhorns.

2. Chris, I agree with most of your comments, but did you notice that Bob Kaliban\'s (the \"good\" professor) character kept asking: \"What happened to Agnes...what happened to AGNES\" at the end?

Those of us who\'ve been through, nearly been through or had family members go through divorce know how deeply it hurts, especially when you still love the person. In the professor\'s case, he clearly, deeply loved his wife and couldn\'t bear the thought of life without her (or of hurting her) no matter what other material possessions he\'d give up.

I\'d cited the alternate chorus to \"Another cup \'o coffee\" (\"The only things that matter, are the things that gold can\'t buy\") above...at one point during the professor\'s \"I\'m a rich man now\" dream sequence he said that everything he\'d chosen had turned to gold, but notice how little it meant to him at the end? I think that was Sam Dann\'s main message on this.

3. BTW, speaking of how things could have been, did you hear E.G.\'s final outro about the fate of the \"other\" professor? One could almost miss it if you tune out after the third act outro as I often do.

4. Here\'s a little more interesting background on \"Face the music\", the musical from which the \"Another cup o\' coffee\" song came from. I also like reading about its composer, Irving Berlin, who really seemed to have written \"cup o\' coffee\" from the bottom of his heart.

5. This summer, we lost another RMT regular who made one of his first appearances in the RMT with this episode. Bernard Grant, who played both the \"other\" professor and the doctor in this episode, did a lot of plays for the RMT in its final two years. He passed away from lymphoma and pneumonia a couple of months ago.

6. I couldn\'t tell if Teri Keane\'s character\'s comments about how she grew up learning how to please a man (and how someday women would be more free to be financially independent) were meant as a backhand to stay-at-home wives or as a backhanded compliment to them. In the end, I get the feeling it was the latter.

(It\'s really funny...the daughter I\'ve talked about above has gone from wanting to be the first lady president of the U.S.A. to (and she reiterated it on the way to school today) wanting to be a novelist and stay-at-home wife/mom of 8 kids. I just want and pray what\'s best for her, whatever that is...I\'m not wise and/or precognizant enough to know.)