Actually, Jon, upon re-watching Sunday’s episode, I found this week’s gem of profanity. It comes from that garrulous goateed senator with the anti-immigration trigger finger. “If you can deliver that,” he bellows, “I will appear to love filibuster reform as much as I love my idiot son. And for my wife’s sake, I appear to love that wretched shit-net a lot.”

“Wretched shit-net.” It’s not the best Veep has done, but it’s above-par in a week full of mostly ordinary cursing. Hopefully we’ll soon return to Senator Doyle’s anatomical masterpieces.

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But, yeah, I think I’m also down with the Selina-as-Democrat idea, especially considering that brief mention of her primary campaign’s platform of amnesty for illegal immigrants as well as her pie-in-the-sky idea that she can unclog the eternally gunged up washbasin that is the United States Senate. In true Democratic Party fashion, two of Selina’s top aides make an aggressive reversal on a touchy issue with actual socioeconomic ramifications in exchange for Sen. Yosemite Sam’s (R-Whisky Barrel) cooperation on some mind-numbing procedural device. I fully expect this deal to also blow up in the vice president’s face, preferably in a manner that involves Gary, Jonah and the senator’s wretched shit-net son in a small car.

Aside from his “OMG my boss is getting laid” reaction, Gary had a pretty light week. His only other moments came when attempting to kill the hot-mic moment after Meet the Press—a less-successful flashback to his attempt to steal a document off Jonah’s desk in the premiere—and in the limo while buckling in Selina. The latter was clever, but Tony Hale felt underused this week. If anything, as we said a week or two back, Hale’s gifts for quiet physical comedy and prattling conversation (Garyoke!) are going to be two of Veep‘s secret weapons. But on Sunday, Hale stayed mostly holstered.

I’d be surprised if we saw Governor Chung back for another episode. Not because he was an ineffective MacGuffin—quite the opposite, in fact. He just seemed too nice to inhabit the Veep universe. (Unless, in fact, he intentionally misspelled Selina’s name.)

Getting back to Selina’s newly uncovered love life, though, I’m very intrigued to see where this goes. Why, indeed, is this affair being conducted with such subterfuge? I don’t think it’s the Korean neighbors. As you surmise, Andy Buckley is probably playing a Washington “someone”: An old Senate colleague? Big-shot lobbyist? WaPo columnist? Whoever it is, I think you’re right: It’s probably not someone with whom the staff wouldn’t mind their boss being seen. We know two things about him: His name is Ted and, well, then there’s the anatomical detail.

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