# Fargo S2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 28, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840 "2015-09-28T15:08:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/241 "2015-11-19T16:02:27Z")
The movie was set in 1987, so eight years after this season is set. I think we might see Jerry Lundegaard (William H Macy’s character from the movie) or his father-in-law Wade Gustafson or maybe just the car dealership. (And I think in the first season Oliver Platt’s character had the ice scraper from the movie hanging on the wall.) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/242 "2015-11-19T16:15:09Z")
> [@GaryM](#): > > The guy calling bingo at approx 34 minutes in sure looks like Bill Bob to me. The scene where Karl is talking about beating cancer. Huh, I’ll have to go back and watch for him. It’s surprising that no one else caught that, usually people online catch all sorts of hidden info, like references to the movies and what the titles mean. > [@Enright3](#): > > It’d be cool to see Ted Danson’s character also live to the end, and somehow get tied into a story about how he was a young cop when Otto began his family empire. Or you could take it back into the future again. Who knows? I don’t but I’m definitely along for the journey! It could be some tangential character survives and we see them in the early 80s. Or someone or something is just mentioned in a passing reference and we see them next season. The creator has described it as a Midwest crime show, and there are plenty of other places in the Midwest it could go. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/243 "2015-11-19T16:19:35Z")
> [@GaryM](#): > > In S2, E1 there was a short scene, I guess a cameo, where he was in a bingo hall calling the game. I’ll fire up the DVR and come back with the approx time. He is listed in the cast too. > [@GaryM](#): > > The guy calling bingo at approx 34 minutes in sure looks like Bill Bob to me. The scene where Karl is talking about beating cancer. Hmm. I didn’t think the bingo caller looked like Billy Bob, and didn’t notice him in the credits, either. FWIW, neither [IMDb.com](http://IMDb.com) nor BBT’s filmography on Wiki includes this season of _Fargo_: > **[Billy Bob Thornton | Actor, Writer, Director](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000671/?ref_=nv_sr_2)** > > Known for: Sling Blade, A Simple Plan, The Man Who Wasn't There > **[Billy Bob Thornton filmography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bob_Thornton_filmography)** > > The following is the filmography of American actor, filmmaker, singer and songwriter Billy Bob Thornton. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/244 "2015-11-19T16:22:02Z")
I looked at the imdb too and didn’t see him listed as cast, but isn’t he listed in the opening credits? One of my friends thought the bingo guy was BBT also. Maybe it’s misdirection? ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/245 "2015-11-19T16:42:00Z")
I looked at a few more discussion boards about season 2 and I’m apparently way off base regarding BBT. Sorry for any confusion. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/246 "2015-11-19T16:48:28Z")
Just rewatched the first episode. The bingo caller is _NOT_ BBT. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/247 "2015-11-19T18:28:57Z")
Maybe the undertaker isn’t the bingo guy. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/248 "2015-11-19T18:54:38Z")
On a slightly different note, [Noah Hawley, the creator of the show, is making a show out of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle](http://www.vulture.com/2015/11/noah-hawley-cats-cradle-tv.html). Kurt Vonnegut is my favorite author, and I’d be a bit worried about someone making a show from Cat’s Cradle, but Hawley is doing such a great job with Fargo that I’m cautiously optimistic. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/249 "2015-11-20T02:11:55Z")
> [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > I know more tabloid news than I should, and I can’t think of a single thing about her from the tabloids. Did she have some bad stories about her? Or is she known for any specific bad traits? Mostly blind items about hard drinking, maybe drugs, cheating, revolving door of boyfriends. As with BIs, you can’t always rely on them and sometimes it’s a person with an axe to grind. Sometimes, however, they do turn out to be true, like a ton of pre-divorce-announcement Affleck, Sheen’s HIV. ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/250 "2015-11-20T14:13:37Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Poor choice of words, maybe. As far as his wife is concerned, he’s going nowhere, despite his aspirations to own the butcher shop. He wants kids, and she definitely doesn’t (at least not with him or not yet). She sees her life at a boring impasse (other than momentary escape through her magazines) unless she escapes a claustrophobic Midwestern town. Maybe the excitement of all that’s transpiring will reinvigorate the marriage. I hadn’t considered him from the wife’s character perspective. I agree she sees his goals and asperations as ‘dead-end’. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/251 "2015-11-20T21:02:06Z")
> [@Fleetwood](#): > > I hadn’t considered him from the wife’s character perspective. I agree she sees his goals and asperations as ‘dead-end’. Yeah, I thought her speech to the sheriff really drove home how trapped she feels. I’m guessing they got married right after high school before either of them knew what they wanted out of life. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/252 "2015-11-20T21:56:50Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Yeah, I thought her speech to the sheriff really drove home how trapped she feels. I’m guessing they got married right after high school before either of them knew what they wanted out of life. Yeah, I see them as football star and head cheerleader and she thought that combination would translate into being a star in adult life. Also, I’m sure the choices for a spouse were limited in that little town, so he looked like a winner, doncha know. But Ed began running to fat, and the only job out there that would support a wife (even though he likely inherited the house) was as the assistant butcher. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/253 "2015-11-21T01:24:57Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > Thanks for the click post. It would have saved you and everyone reading this more time if you had actually just typed out: “Hanzee Dent.” It might save a lot of time in the future, now that people know that you can look stuff up on the internet. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/254 "2015-11-21T03:55:52Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > Thanks for the click post. It would have saved you and everyone reading this more time if you had actually just typed out: “Hanzee Dent.” > [@TonySinclair](#): > > It might save a lot of time in the future, now that people know that you can look stuff up on the internet. I’ve heard, but don’t quote me on this - where you can make words clickable on this here internet - you could, - conceivably - type “[Hanzee Dent](http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0395648/?ref_=tt_cl_t10)” and actually make that clickable to the source you want to direct people too - Not that I have a cite for that - but I have heard tell that its possible. ---
**Author:** ![justmeetee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/255 "2015-11-24T00:59:46Z")
So I rewatched the season so far over the weekend and find myself wondering, what did Ed do with the ground Rye? ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/256 "2015-11-24T01:34:59Z")
That’s the question I’ve been expecting the show to reveal at some point. The obvious answer is unsettling. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/257 "2015-11-24T01:42:03Z")
Picked up for a third season. > **[FX Renews ‘Fargo’ for a Third Installment](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/fx-renews-fargo-a-third-843201/)** > > Creator Noah Hawley will again tackle the crime anthology, one in a growing number of projects at the cable network. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/258 "2015-11-24T03:24:51Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > That’s the question I’ve been expecting the show to reveal at some point. The obvious answer is unsettling. I’m certain I recall Peggy saying something to Ed about “Hamburger Helper”. Didn’t she? She is a little touched. I just wonder … Tonight is Episode 7. So great it was picked up for a 3rd year. But it’s almost over now. There are only 3 more epis after tonight? I don’t do well with withdrawl. The Man in the High Tower can only take me so far. What to do? What to do? Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/259 "2015-11-24T03:43:18Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > I’m certain I recall Peggy saying something to Ed about “Hamburger Helper”. Didn’t she? That was before Ed did the butchering - this was @ the dinner table whilest Rye was still alive (ep1). ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2015, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fargo-s2/732840/260 "2015-11-24T05:48:18Z")
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