History Fridge / FargoSeasonTwo

* In the final episode it's revealed that Ohanzee Dent will become Mr. Tripoli, the crime boss who appeared in Season 1. The fixer who arranges Ohanzee's new identity looks and sounds similar to how Mr. Tripoli will appear - white, balding, bearded, overweight and with a gravelly voice. In this sense, coupled with his futile warning that all empires must eventually crumble, he could be taken to symbolically represent Ohanzee's future self.

* While failing to intimidate Judge Munt, Rye splutters "''This isn't one of those optional check "A" or "B" scenarios!''". Later, when Hank questions Peggy on why she ran Rye over and didn't go to emergency services, she replies "''You say it like these things happen in a vacuum -- like it's a test. Check "A" or "B"''...". Using the same justification, Rye tried to force the judge to his way of thinking by claiming it's more simple than it looked, while Peggy later attempted to show that things were more complicated - and in both cases, they were clearly kidding themselves.

* While failing to intimidate Judge Munt, Rye splutters "''This isn't one of those optional check "A" or "B" scenarios!''". Later, when Hank questions Peggy on why she ran Rye over and didn't go to emergency services, she replies "''You say it like these things happen in a vacuum -- like it's a test. Check "A" or "B"''!" Rye tried to justify the senselessness of his acts by claiming it was more complicated than it looked - only for the person who killed him to make the same claim.

* We never get closure on what happened to Rye Gerhardt's remains aftrr Ed ground them into mincemeat - though with his boss' line that "''[wasting] meat's a crime - or it should be''", there's a fair chance it was packaged up and sold the next day...

* While failing to intimidate Judge Munt, Rye splutters "''This isn't one of those optional check "A" or "B" scenarios!''". Later, when Hank questions Peggy on why she ran Rye over and didn't go to emergency services, she replies "''You say it like these things happen in a vacuum -- like it's a test. Check "A" or "B"''". Rye tried to justify the senselessness of his acts by claiming it was more complicated than it looked - only for the person who killed him to make the same claim.

* Mike Milligan's journey as a character is in the opposite direction of that of Jerry Lundegaard or Lester Nygaard: he goes from an exciting life of risk and crime to being trapped in corporate hell, filing papers behind the safety of a desk.

* The opening of "Waiting For Dutch" has two men standing in front of a massacre (staged for a movie) when one of the corpses/extras in the background belligerently asks for a blanket. Towards the end of the film, two men - Lou and Hank - stand in front of the very real Waffle Hut massacre, and in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, one of the cops can be seen using a blanket to cover the waitress's body.

* As Floyd tells Otto about the family losing money he mutters "My no good sons?" in German, in front of two of them. The power jostling that happens later is more than likely caused by Otto abusively playing his sons against one another and treating them all as unworthy of his approval.

* In episode 7, Mike Milligan muses about how the word "revolution" [[FunWithHomophones has two meanings]]: either as an overthrow of authority, or a planet making a complete orbit around another celestial object. At first, it just seems like one of the usual nonsensical tangents Mike usually goes off on. However, come the final episode, the conversation is all-important to understanding Mike's final predicament. This whole time, Mike has been thinking his revolution against the Gerhardts is the "overthrow" kind, when in reality it's the "full-circle" kind. [[FullCircleRevolution His success against them just leaves him back where he started: as an underappreciated employee for the Kansas City Mafia that's stuck doing a job he hates]].

* As Floyd tells Otto about the family losing money he mutters "My no good sons?" in German, in front of two of them.
To power jostling that happens later is more than likely caused by Otto abusively playing his sons against one another and treating them all as unworthy of his approval.

* The opening of "Waiting For Dutch" has two men standing in front of a massacre (staged for a movie) when one of the corpses/extras in the background belligerently asks for a blanket. Towards the end of the film, two men - Lou and Hank - stand in front of the very real Waffle House massacre, and in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, a policeman in the background drapes a blanket over one of the corpses
* Early on, Rye attempts to intimidate a disgruntled labourer into leaving Skip's typewriter shop by whistling at him. Later in the show, we learn that this is the preferred intimidation technique of his brother Dodd - and as Rye is one of his most frequent victims, he's obviously picked it up from him.

* Dodd derides Rye as "the comic in a stick of bubblegum!", in terms of his worth to the family and as a man. When Rye commits mass murder in the waffle house, later, it's partly shot directly outside - where the diner's square windows eerily resemble the panels of a comic strip.

* In an early episode, Skip tells an unimpressed Mike that electric typewriters are the technology of the future. In the end, Mike is told by his boss that the future in "the money-making business" is all about paperwork and crunching numbers. He gives Mike a lousy little office and a desk dominated by... an electric typewriter.

* In an early episode, Skip tells Mike that electric typewriters are the technology of the future. In the end, Mike is told by his boss that the future in "the money making business" is all about paperwork and crunching numbers. He gives Mike a lousy little office and a desk dominated by... an electric typewriter.

* In episode 7, Mike Milligan muses about how the word "revolution" [[FunWithHomophones has two meanings]]: either as an overthrow of authority, or a planet making a complete orbit around another celestial object. At first, it just seems like one of the usual nonsensical tangents Mike usually goes off on. However, come the final episode, the conversation is all-important to understanding Mike's final predicament. This whole time, Mike has been thinking his revolution against the Gerhardts is the "overthrow" kind, when in reality it's the "full-circle" kind. [[FullCircleRevolution His success against them just leaves him back where he started: as an underappreciated employee for the Kansas City Mafia that's stuck doing a job he hates]].

* In episode 7, Mike Milligan muses about how the word "revolution" [[FunWithHomophones has two meanings]]: either as an overthrow of authority, or a planet making a complete orbit around another celestial object. At first, it just seems like one of the usual nonsensical tangents Mike usually goes off on. However, come the final episode, the conversation is all-important to understanding Mike's final predicament. This whole time, Mike has been thinking his revolution against the Gerhardts is the "overthrow" kind, when in reality it's the "full-circle" kind. [[FullCircleRevolution His success against them just leaves him back where he started: as an underappreciated employee for the Kansas City Mafia that's stuck doing a job he hates]].

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* We learn that Floyd Gerhardt is 61 in 1979, so that would make her birtdate 1918. We also learn that her firstborn, Elron died during the Korean War, so somewhere between 1950 and 1953. Judging by the attention with which Otto is listening to the radio coverage of the conflict in the 1951 flashback(and the fact that said radio program is brought to our attention) it may indicate that as far as Otto knows, Elron is still alive. Let's assume that Elron dies during the events of the flashback. The fact that he fought in the war would make him at least 18, propably older judging by his photos. So that would make his birthdate at least 1933 or earlier. That means his mother was 15 or even younger when she gave him birth! Otto is obviously much older than Floyd, propably in his seventies or eighties. So it would make him at least 25 when he fathered Elron, propably even a decade older. The bottom line is that the Gerhardts are much, much more FUBAR, than one would judge at a first glance. And what we see are only faint echoes.

* In episode 7, Mike Milligan muses about how the word "revolution" [[FunWithHomophones has two meanings]]: either as an overthrow of authority, or a planet making a complete orbit around another celestial object. At first, it just seems like one of the usual nonsensical tangents Mike usually goes off on. However, come the final episode, the conversation is all-important to understanding Mike's final predicament. [[spoiler:This whole time, Mike has been thinking his revolution against the Gerhardts is the "overthrow" kind, when in reality it's the "full-circle" kind. [[FullCircleRevolution His success against them just leaves him back where he started: as an underappreciated employee for the Kansas City Mafia that's stuck doing a job he hates]].]]

* We learn that Floyd Gerhardt is 61 in 1979, so that would make her birtdate 1918. We also learn that her firstborn, Elron died during the Korean War, so somewhere between 1950 and 1953. Judging by the attention with which Otto is listening to the radio coverage of the conflict in the 1951 flashback(and the fact that said radio program is brought to our attention) it may indicate that as far as Otto knows, Elron is still alive. Let's assume that Elron dies during the events of the flashback. The fact that he fought in the war would make him at least 18, propably older judging by his photos. So that would make his birthdate at least 1933 or earlier. That means his mother was 15 or even younger when she bore him! Otto is obviously much older than Floyd, propably in his seventies or eighties. So it would make him at least 25 when he fathered Elron, propably even a decade older. The bottom line is that the Gerhardts are much, much more FUBAR, than one would judge at a first glance. And what we see are only faint echoes.

* In episode 7, Mike Milligan muses about how the word "revolution" [[FunWithHomophones has two meanings]]: either as an overthrow of authority, or a planet making a complete orbit around another celestial object. At first, it just seems like one of the usual nonsensical tangents Mike usually goes off on. However, come the final episode, the conversation is all-important to understanding Mike's final predicament. [[spoiler:This whole time, Mike has been thinking his revolution against the Gerhardts is the "overthrow" kind, when in reality it's the "full-circle" kind. [[FullCircleRevolution His success against them just leaves him back where he started: as an underappreciated employee for the Kansas City Mafia that's stuck doing a job he hates]].]]

* In episode 7, Mike Milligan reminisces about how the word "revolution" [[FunWithHomophones has two meanings]]: either as an overthrow of another power, or a planet making a complete orbit around another celestial object. At first, it just seems like one of the usual nonsensical tangents Mike usually goes off on. However, come the final episode, the conversation is all-important to understanding Mike's final predicament. [[spoiler:Mike thinks his revolution against the Gerhardts is the "overthrow" kind, when in reality it's the "full-circle" kind. [[FullCircleRevolution His success against them just leaves him back where he started: As an underappreciated employee for the Kansas City Mafia that's stuck doing a job he hates]].]]

* In episode 7, Mike Milligan reminisces about how the word "revolution" [[FunWithHomophones has two meanings]]: either as an overthrow of another power, or a planet making a complete orbit around another celestial object. At first, it just seems like one of the usual nonsensical tangents Mike usually goes off on. However, come the final episode, the conversation is all-important to understanding Mike's final predicament. [[spoiler:Mike thinks his revolution against the Gerhardts is the "overthrow" kind, when in reality it's the "full-circle" kind. [[FullCircleRevolution His success against them just leave him back where he started: As an underappreciated employee for the Kansas City Mafia that's stuck doing a job he hates]].]]

* Lou reads Molly a story that seems overly gruesome for a children's book. Lou begins to question its appropriateness, but Molly seems unperturbed. Molly will eventually go on to become a canny policewoman.

* In episode 7, Mike Milligan reminisces about how the word "revolution" [[FunWithHomophones has two meanings]]: either as an overthrow of another power, or a planet making a complete orbit around another celestial object. At first, it just seems like one of the usual nonsensical tangents Mike usually goes off on. However, come the final episode, the conversation is all-important to understanding Mike's final predicament. [[spoiler: The revolution he was doing against the Gerhardts was not the "overthrow" kind, but the "full-circle" kind. [[FullCircleRevolution His success against them just leave him back where he started: As an underappreciated employee for the Kansas City Mafia that's stuck doing a job he hates]].]]