Last season's SMPs

Part of me steadfastly believes that someday, somehow, that secret message pen ("SMP") is going to come back into play. But most of the time that beautiful moment seems awfully remote. Sometimes a MacGuffin is just a MacGuffin.

Defining SMP broadly as any unresolved mystery or detail on the show, last season left us with a number of SMPs on our hands. Let's try to identify them. They can probably be categorized as either one-off "it is what it is" details, loose ends, red herrings (that reminds me of an anecdote I'll have to drop into my main blog) or plot points for season three. Let's speculate about which are which. I'll get the ball rolling:

• Sally - loose end


• Madison "on the Lam(b)" - plot point?


• the Mannings and all their weird crap - red herring or plot point


• why Liam removed the leprechaun / Notre Dame decal from his car - red herring


• Woody's creepy wife - red herring (actually, it just occurred to me that maybe she was normal and Woody was just making up stories about her to control his son and dissuade him from telling her about Woody abusing him. Ew.)

What other second-season SMPs are there and where do they fit in?