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Judi Sunshine

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  1. On 1/16/2019 at 10:16 AM, jmcd44 said:

    This is probably not what you were thinking but Murr on "Impractical Jokers" got made fun of by the other jokers for wearing a wooden bow tie.  And please no judgement on the fact that I watch IJ-my comedic tastes still have a lot in common with 16 year old boys I guess.

     

    I LOVE "Impractical Jokers!" I'm right now proudly wearing my "Scoopski Potatoes" shirt! It's a hilarious show and they seem like legit nice guys. Joe's Twitter is constantly about uplifting others and I love him. Yay to IJ!!! 

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  2. On 12/13/2018 at 1:33 AM, possibilities said:

    Didn't they always go to meetings, though? It's been so long, I guess I can't rely on  my memory.

    Not sure about Wendy, but Jill's first meeting is in the first ep we meet her.

     

    On 12/14/2018 at 12:02 AM, BrianGriffin17 said:

    I liked seeing Violet again too. I get ppl dislike her heavily. But she is one of those good principle characters you see in Sitcoms. Adds more dimensions to Christie’s Character.

    That's one reason I maintain my unpopular opinion of wanting the kids around, at least a bit. I love the overall shift to the AA ladies, but Christy's a much more sympathetic character as a mom, and part of the whole dynamic has always been that yeah Bonnie failed her, but she failed her kids too. That's a HUGE part of so many people's stories in AA and I think the show is missing out on a lot of material by abandoning their parent/child relationship nearly completely. I'd hoped to see them all grow together.

  3. On 12/28/2018 at 10:28 PM, OldButHappy said:

    Agree 100%.  And congrats on the sobriety!  After I put the plug in the jug and started working the steps, a life opened up for me that was better than anything I could have imagined.

    I feel for James.  He's clearly not in control of his drinking, but the pain he feels is just so visible and raw, I'm willing to suspend judgement and see how he acts after a few years of sobriety and lots of therapy.  He could soar or crash.  Fingers crossed.

    But Lisa doesn't get a pass rom my judgmental ways - I'm giving her the serious side-eye (sorry Lisa!) for giving James a job anywhere near alcohol after calling him out for being an alcoholic on national tv.  Sometimes, I find her brand of covert enabler more maddening than the extreme "drive-my-child-into-the-city-at 4am-to-score-heroin-with money-I-give-him" enablers we often see on Intervention.  Casually ignoring a relapse (of someone that you've professed to care for) while making money from the activities that were central to the relapse is darker, to me, than the Baltimore mom scoring those dime bags in the middle of the night.

    Thanks, and back at you! And yeah, I totally agree with everything you said <3

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  4. I found this ep interesting in that for such an alcohol-centric show, it was like an ad for AA, if AA relied on promotion rather than attraction! James is getting fired for behaving like a troublemaking alcoholic; Lala is abstaining because she knows she has it in her too; James's mom is nine months and eight days sober...I had no idea she'd quit drinking and was so stoked for her that I went and found her on Twitter to say that's awesome, and she was really sweet in response. I'm nine months tomorrow, so to hear her out of nowhere say that made me burst into tears. I really hope James can follow her lead, because he's young and really does have so much potential. Alcohol really is "cunning, baffling, and powerful," and his inability to make the choice to abstain when he has SO much to lose if he drinks is a huge red flag. He and Lala kind of danced around the "will they or won't they" with sobriety in S5 and I hope she sticks with it and he gets there. It would be really cool if Lisa paid for him to go to rehab, a good one where he could work on his music and see how full his life already is without this destructive-to-him substance. 
     

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  5. 16 hours ago, WhosThatGirl said:

    Except for Brittany. She’s the only one who hasn’t said a mean thing about anyone(except for Jax and she may have called faith a name or time during that time period). 

    She did call Lala a slut back in S4 but even then, it felt out of character for her.

  6. 20 hours ago, topanga said:

    I like Amy only because it’s America Ferrera. 

    Same here. And the baby stuff is only making me less interested in Amy. I really do love America Ferrera and the show though, so I'm hoping they get it together with her character.

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  7. On 8/30/2018 at 11:54 AM, Sarah 103 said:

    The occasional voicemail or text message from Roscoe wouldn't take up too much time as in Christiy is checking her phone and it's a message from Roscoe.  

    Maybe he could send telegrams like they did on 90210!

  8. Oh man. I'm so sad it's over. Not much to add except that I love the couples that ended up staying together. When Leon and Leah were standing there looking at their place, I actually cried out loud, "Don't do it!" in this super whiny, embarrassing voice. I'm so glad they stayed together and got Alex the Dog. I'd be 100% down for a spinoff of them. 

    And I love Laura with Tathiana. I always thought her best chemistry was with Aubrey in past seasons and was really happy she ended up dating strictly women this last one, with Tathiana being who she ends up with. Lorenza Izzo rocks. 

    I thought it was kind of cool that the two adults the show mainly focused on in the beginning didn't "end up" with anyone right now. I was so, SO happy Rae ended up staying with Jeff. Just because you have a kid with someone doesn't make you right for each other. I thought all that was handled super realistically and Tommy Dewey did such a perfect job with all of it. The scenes where he and Rae had these like, intra-relationship breakup cries -- it was so artfully done and I felt so hard for both of them. Taking them to Austin with Jeff was a good decisionr IMO. 

    Michaela Watkins's reaction to the Tom Petty song was perfection. That mini-sob from your gut when you're kind of done crying but something hits you unexpectedly -- she made me do it too. I'm glad they ended with her single but fine with that, and having shown so much growth. One of the pics I'd seen from S4 led me to believe she gets back together with the exhusband, and I'm so glad that didn't happen.

    I'm going to miss you, "Casual." Thank you for the unexpected television love affair when I really needed it. <3

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  9. 1 hour ago, bichonblitz said:

    Does mean another season of "The Brittney and Jax show" because that's exactly what it was last season. And if we are going to be subjected to Brittney planning a wedding, her friends fawning all over her and Jax in his TH's talking about what a changed man he is then this show will have officially jumped the shark. 

    Agreed. It wasn't popular, but I actually really enjoyed "Jax and Brittany Take Kentucky," but hated the J/B drama of this last season. So I'd MUCH prefer a spinoff dedicated to it and an S7 focus on the other folks. 

  10. 19 hours ago, HouseofBeck said:
    On 4/30/2018 at 7:13 PM, ivygirl said:

    I was watching in awe. My makeup routine is eyeliner and chapstick, and here they were putting all sorts of stuff on in all sorts of places. It was pretty cool to observe (as through a glass, heh).

    I've been into makeup since the '80s and still would have no idea where to begin with all that stuff they were using! 

     

    4 hours ago, TattleTeeny said:

    And why the hell does Patrick care that Stassi puts a lot of Cholula on the mac & cheese?! What kind of crap thing is that for a BF to judge his GF on? It just didn't sound like "fun mocking"; it sounded like he viewed it as a character/maturity flaw.

    Oh that made me so mad! Hot sauce rules all! 

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  11. I don't think Bonnie and Adam needed to have any plans, even for sex, to be thrown off by Christy's presence. It's easy as a couple to get used to it just being you two and having your space and routine, when someone else's presence just puts a wrench in things, even if you'd be doing the exact same things.

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  12. On 5/1/2018 at 8:12 AM, ghoulina said:

    I'm one who thinks Patrick is worse than Jax. Even if Jax is faking, he can sometimes be nice to people. He has made me laugh before. Patrick has never been decent to one single person, never made me laugh. He brings absolutely nothing to the table. So I find it ironic to see Stassi questioning Brittany's refusal to leave Jax, when Stassi seems to have done the impossible and downgraded. 

    Jax also at least acted like he was in love with Stassi. Granted he had a shitty way of doing it and he's the one who sabotaged them with the cheating in the first place, but he did seem legit crazy about her (and still kind of does). Patrick treats Stassi like gum on his shoe. In general, I found this season super uncomfortable because of three women in the main cast slobbering over men who treat them like crap. 
     

    On 5/1/2018 at 11:07 AM, WhosThatGirl said:

    I kind of actually feel pain for Stassi. Whatever her relationship is with Patrick isn’t anything good or healthy. Also he is not at all what he was presented to us in the past. Also.. remember how Stassis family, especially her little brother loved Patrick? Why? Stassis little brother likes his  sister being talked to this way? Ugh.


    Patrick reminds me very much of both Stassi's dad and Nikolai to a lesser extent.

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  13. 20 hours ago, TGinKY said:

    Who looks are their newborn and decides to name him Roscoe?  I've only known one Roscoe and it was a Basset Hound.

    I think it's a cool name, but was JUST thinking about how interesting Christy's name choices were -- like even though she was a big ol' mess when she had them, their names showed sign of her romantic soul :)  I also always wondered about how/if she was sober when she was pregnant. Maybe they've addressed it? I know several alcoholics/addicts who quit cold turkey for nine months of pregnancy, but then started right back up again after they gave birth or were finished breastfeeding. I always wondered how anyone could have the strength to be sober for that long and then go right back to old ways, but it truly is a cunning and baffling disease. 

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  14. On 4/20/2018 at 11:18 AM, hnygrl said:

    That's exactly how I wanted them to handle her situation. I hope she either gets to adopt a baby or she finally meets a man who appreciates the 'beautiful mess' she is. She's quickly becoming my favorite.

    I adore Jill and Jaime Pressly's portrayal of her, and hope the same. Of all the characters on the show, I think she's gone through the most in front of us and even though she's fictional, I feel very protective of her! Also I feel a kinship because for one week, she and I both were on the same chip <3 My husband's been watching the show with me since I started going to meetings, and I'll be like "It's another Jill's sad in bed ep, those are always good." Because as hilarious as she is, JP can do some really heavy emotional lifting, acting-wise. But after all the hard times she's been through, I'd LOVE to see her emotional life flourish, whether with a man, a child, or both! Not because every woman wants or needs those things, but because she does. Still, I think she needs a few more chips before having a new person enter her life in a major way.

     

    On 4/20/2018 at 8:43 AM, funky-rat said:

    I tend to get wishy-washy like Christy does - asking for advice, then not taking it at times, but my bigger issue is that I shut down.  I'm an only child, and in the time I was raised, I was encouraged to try to find solutions myself (because the school of wisdom then was that I had no siblings to rely on, so I should learn early on to fend for myself), so it's weird to me to reach out to help from someone else, and I've been neglecting my step work and my weekly check-ins because I've been trying to find solutions to my problems (which have multiplied this year), plus I'm also kind-of sick of talking about it, and would just rather shut down (which I know is dangerous).  I've resolved that I'm resuming my step work this weekend, and will let her know via e-mail that I'll be checking in on my usual day and time this week because not working the program is not working for me.  We had someone in our group this week mention that she had started to slack off, and found that things were getting chaotic again, and that was a nudge.  The 2nd nudge came from the show this week, when the new sponsor asked Christy "How's that working out for you?" (at least I think it was the new sponsor).  That's something that my sponsor says to me so much that I made an embroidery sampler for her for Christmas with that on it.

    I also think Christy will benefit from having a sponsor closer to her own age.

     

    You're not alone, and whether you meant to or not, you did AA work just by sharing that, because you helped a fellow struggling alcoholic! I hope that you get back in the flow and while being firm with yourself, don't beat yourself up either. And I agree about Christy's having a sponsor closer to her own age, and also think it's good that she has one established strong boundaries and made it clear that her role was as Christy's sponsor, not friend. Marjorie showed that she can set boundaries, like that time when she tried to help Christy learn to turn off her phone. But their relationship is also very personal and we saw that Marjorie is very attached to her, sometimes selfishly, like when she pretended to be the murderous man in the raincoat. I think it will be healthy for both of them to continue with the evolution of their friendship as equals in the program, rather than have a sponsor/sponsee relationship. 

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  15. 39 minutes ago, bichonblitz said:

    I recently watched an old episode where Bonnie and Chef Rudi get together. Freakin' hilarious! I loved Chef Rudi. His comedic timing was perfection. I can't remember the actor's name. 

    French Stewart! I miss him on the show. And I just rewatched that ep too! Love that one. Allison Janney brought a lot of humor to it, but one thing I love so much about her is her vulnerable face acting. Her switch from excited and happy while painting her toenails to "Well of course, that was dumb to let myself be happy" disappointment comes through with just a shift of her face and tone of voice. I felt so bad for her. But in a way it was kind of good to have the realism -- sometimes people are just cads, and having a blue-collar back story and a ton of charm doesn't mean their waters run deep, or that the attention they lavish on potential "conquests" will translate to kindness once the sex is over. 

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  16. 20 hours ago, whydoievencare said:

    Jax really has no redeeming qualities.  Is he great in the sack?  Is that what keeps Brittany around?

    Stassi said he was, in I think S2 when they were having some sex with the ex. 

    Other thoughts:

    The music in the hotel room scene with Kristen/Katie/Stassi sounded like the "Game of Thrones" theme and I wondered if it was intentional, and a shoutout to Stassi's limited playlist she mentioned a couple of weeks ago.

    Brittany, I like you but you're the one staying with a cheater. Stop putting it on all the other women. Like in S4 when Lala was "a little bitch" and now the imaginary "some ho" Jax could be Facetiming with. 

    No, Kelsey. PLZ FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NEVER COMPARE JAX TO NELSON MANDELA EVER AGAIN.

    Kristen eats Caesar salad? That's not usually vegetarian. Maybe it is at that place? 

    Schwartz busting out a Joey Lawrence reference = awesome.

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