Cole has his eye on a sequence from season 3’s “Debate,” in which Selina gets a tragic new haircut before a debate. To make matters worse, she forgets the third “R” of her platform and develops an eye twitch (though it does prove to be distracting to one of her opponents).

“Part of the script was the fact that she began to get an eye twitch,” recalls Cole. “Then, later on in the episode, she addresses a ballroom on some weighty subject — jobs for all and blah, blah, blah — and we were all watching her. They had shown our reactions and now we were seeing actually what she was going to do, because the camera's on her. And it was difficult for me to keep quiet from not laughing because of the combination of what she was doing physically and what she was talking about. It was one of those unspoken things where she reached a level of absurdity that she often did, but this one worked particularly well. When you look at it, you go, ‘Yeah, that should be a funny idea,’ but she just turned it into something much, much funnier than what you would imagine.”