Talk:Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man

name of the book
What's the name of the book CSM is reading in his bunk bed, right before he gets sent on the JFK assassination? -Meisterdieb (talk) 21:04, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Fictional history of CSM?
Did Frohike find a copy of Roman a Clef with "Take a Chance: A Jack Colquitt Adventure, by Raul Bloodworth"? Was "Take a Chance" fiction or autobiography? Naaman Brown (talk) 01:15, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
 * It's never made explicitly clear, but there's a few things that are off about the episode that might lead you to assume it's not 'canon'. Off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure CSM's age/date of birth is inconsistent, plus Frohike mentions that his source is a magazine, though he doesn't name it as being the same one that serialised "Take a Chance". From what I gather, Spotnitz doesn't consider it the 'truth', but it's something that would need sources to verify either way if it were to be discussed in the article itself. GRAPPLE   X  01:26, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Cigarette-Smoking or Cigarette Smoking?
The 4th season DVD lists the title of this episode as Cigarette-Smoking, an adjective describing man, whereas Cigarette Smoking refers to an activity. My guess is that the version with the hyphen is correct. --- The Old Jacobite The '45  03:14, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Grammatically speaking, yes a hyphen would be correct; however I'm holding the season four DVD set in my hands and both the booklet and the face of the relevant disc list the title without a hyphen. GRAPPLE   X  03:40, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * The episode list on the disc has it with a hyphen... hmmm... inconsistencies. I guess we go with whatever is most common, which would be no hyphen.  I would like to see the title page of the script and see what it says. --- The Old Jacobite The '45  12:26, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Could be differences in the DVD regions (I'm in region 2), but mine definitely has no hyphen on the disc. However, the Andy Meisler "official guide" for the series uses a hyphen, so there's two official sources with different takes on it. Odd. GRAPPLE   X  14:30, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I wasn't clear. I mean the episode menu on-screen, not printed on the DVD.  Does Meisler have a source, like the original script, for his version of the title?  All things considered, this is a minor point, but it is, as you say, odd. --- The Old Jacobite The '45  15:24, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I couldn't be sure either way but given the secrecy that the series afforded its scripts (printed on red paper sometimes so they couldn't be photocopied), I doubt they'd give them out to third parties like that. GRAPPLE   X  15:27, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, that was then and this is now, as they say. Surely, it is easier to gain access to the scripts now. --- The Old Jacobite The '45  15:39, 11 September 2012 (UTC)