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  1. I just started watching Friends re-runs on a daily basis several months ago - I was a Friends virgin before then, and HOW COULD I HAVE MISSED THIS INSANELY FUNNY SHOW??? I have dozens of favorite moments, most of which have already been mentioned here, but recently saw one very tiny moment that had me almost falling off the recliner. Rachel is explaining to one of the other girls - Monica, I think - why she's planning to move out of Joey's apartment now that she's going to have a baby. She has several very practical reasons - there's not enough room, the baby will fuss and cry and disturb Joey (especially when he has a date over), etc, etc. And then she pauses, and says that if she stays, she's also afraid that the first thing the baby will learn to say is "how you DOIN'?" The way JA delivers that line, with a high-pitched baby voice and an absolutely straight face, is a moment of sheer comedy genius.
  2. Oops. Just looked up Trainor's song online. It's "All About THAT Bass", and it's Meghan, not Missy. Watched the vid of her performance at the New Year's Rocking Eve in January. So cool!
  3. I rarely watch tv shows live because I have absolutely zero tolerance for most commercials - even with the mute on I have to look at the images, which can be just as annoying/disturbing as the audio content. So I pre-record every show and watch it later, gleefully ffing through the ads. However, I do enjoy just about any commercial with dogs or cats (as long as they're not made look like they're talking - that shit creeps me out), and babies. I LOVE the diaper commercial that's currently running with the kids dancing, playing and posing to "All About the Bass" by Missy Trainor. LOVE, LOVE the song and the kids. Yeah, some of them look a little too old to be in diapers but it's still so much fun to watch them having fun. I play it in full every time I come across it, and sometimes even go backwards and watch it again. Don't think I've ever done that with a commercial before.
  4. Still a little after nine pm here in So Cal, off from work tomorrow so I can stay up and be happy for Eddie, Julianne, "Glory" and all the others who won, for Lady Gaga and Julie Andrews for knocking the snark right out of me with their incredible time on stage, and also for the RAIN, thank the Lord - nothing to do with the Oscars, of course, but yay anyway.
  5. This continues to be the most disjointed, non-sensical show I've ever watched on television. It's a fricking druggie's dreamscape. People float in and out of contact with one another, timelines make no sense, basic biological facts are ignored (blood-typing), the realities of human psychology and development are stomped on, characters and situations show up and then disappear (Juliette's Patsy Cline movie, and her friendship with Noah, Scarlett's homeless singing friend - poof, they're gone). People are nasty, then all nice and loving. A man who has perpetrated a truly dangerous, criminal act (Jeff's drug pushing on Layla) can blackmail the one man who kept him out of trouble, just because that one man slept with a prostitute? He told Teddy "I owe you one." This is his return-the-favor behavior??? And really, now that we've seen the upcoming scenes on next week's show of Rayna's hissy over Maddie being signed to Edgehill - TEDDY CAVED? I know he loves his daughter and wants her to be happy, but seriously? And then there's the music. Scarlett, Beverly and Deacon harmonizing gloriously in the kitchen, and we only hear a part of it, then the stupid phone rings. Rayna signing the song she and Maddie wrote together, but...we only get to hear a part of that, too. CAN'T THEY LET THEM FINISH A DAMN SONG??? There's way more but hell, what's the point. The writers, producers, directors don't care, as long as we tune in to Bizarro Nashville Universe every week. And at least there's Juliette and Avery. I'm adding my voice to the previous poster's who stated that if the writers do anything ugly with their baby/parenthood experience it will be all over. Same here. Touch these two and/or their little girl and you lose me for fucking ever - I mean it. I will have a reason to hate you.
  6. Can anyone here give me the title of the episode where they find a body under a freeway underpass? There's also some scenes that take place in a room full of children's toys - something like a day care center play room. I don't know anything else about the episode. I've only watched Bones a few times over the years - I can't stay with it because I absolutely cannot stand to listen to Emily Deschanel talk - her flat, nasal voice is like nails on chalkboard to my ears. The episode I'm looking for IS one I want to see, however, because it was filmed at the college where I work, back in the summer of 2011. The children's play room set-up was filmed in our main conference room, about 50 feet away from my office. Thanks!
  7. Here's what went through my head last night before I dropped off to sleep. Please bear in mind that I'm a newcomer to the show, and know little about S1 and S2. Maybe all the unreality in the current storylines is because....Rayna is dreaming all this while still in her coma. I know, crazy-thinking, right? That's what this show has done to me in the last eight weeks. But I'm having fun with the idea, anyway. It sure would explain the illogical timelines, inconsistent character arcs, microwave-fast scene changes, and the alien, pod-people like Micah, Kiley, Zoey (current verison - don't know what she was like in seasons past), and others. I've had these kinds of dreamscapes when I've been sick, or just plain exhausted. So writers/producers/directors etc, if you want a way to pull yourselves out of the hot mess this show has become, why not do a "Dallas" on season 3? It was all a bad dream Rayna had while unconscious in the hospital - but having it taught her so much about her heart, her career direction, her life purpose, her kids, yadda, yadda. She awakes, recovers, and it's a new day and a new way to tell her story! Aha, you say - can't do that, it's been done? Who cares? You've pulled out so many soap-opera cliches already, one more won't hurt, for God's sake. If it gets this show back to what I've heard it was in season 1, you'll be forgiven, I promise. Oh, and one, personal, admittedly picayune request from me? PLEASE get Claire Bowen to stop MUMBLING and TALKING SO FAST. Thanks for listening.
  8. Oh, Betha, you're trying to make SENSE of the storylines. It doesn't work, my dear. Consistency, integrity, logic? Not happening much with this show. The crazy that is Nashville sure does make for a lot of snarky fun, however. But thank you, Rose, for some info from the earlier seasons, for those of us who are relatively new viewers.
  9. Random thoughts... The whole relationship between Gunnar and Micah makes no sense whatsoever. We're seeing these two bonded as tight as any dad and son can be, and how CAN that be??? They've barely been together for a few months (at least I think it's been only a couple of months - the timelines in this show are well-nigh incomprehensible). Micah's personality is one big head-scratcher for me. He shows zero signs of missing his mom, he's thoroughly attached to Gunnar, and he is 9 years old but gets lost on the way back from the bathroom? Who the hell IS this kid? Teddy is mayor of a big city, and he behaves like a little lost boy looking for someone, anyone, to pay attention to him, even if it's a hooker who is just...a hooker, albeit an intelligent, higher-class one. I just cannot wrap my head around the idea that he has nothing better to do and no one better to be with. And why wasn't he at the CMAs with Maddie and Daphne? They love him and it was their mom up there getting all the awards - wouldn't he want them to share in the excitement, and her accomplishments? Chaley Rose's Zoey was allowed to show a little more expression and emotion this time, but she still comes across as mostly blank and wooden. Even at the end, when she leaves Gunnar and winds up with Scarlett, sobbing in her arms, her eyes looked the same as they always do - wide-open to a lot of nothing. She needs to watch Hayden and Jonathan at work, and take some serious notes. They both can say more with a look than all the other actors on this show put together. Luke is an egotistical asshat, but then, a lot of performers can be. It's not so unrealistic, especially in the world of country music. I felt his apology to Rayna later was genuine, but he's not going to change much. He's mostly giving lip service to the "we're in this together" bit. He and Sadie are going to pop corn together very soon, as most commenters here have already speculated, and then maybe Rayna will come out of her stupor and kick his macho, controlling butt to the curb forever. I think she's already moving in that direction. During the whole bedroom scene, she was displaying a rather side-eyed, cool attitude towards Luke, in spite of her reconciling words. I don't buy that she was THAT put off by him smelling like booze. Her statement that he needed to take a shower before getting into bed with her was a way to get rid of him, and then that "humorous" dig she made as he headed for the bathroom, about how she might be asleep when he got back because she was so tired of lugging 6 CMA awards around - pretty hostile, when you take the chuckles away. She is pissed, and it ain't gonna go away. ITA with everyone that Layla may well be on her way to a serious breakdown. I do love how Will is trying to support her and show her that he cares about her as a person, and a friend, even if he can't be the husband she needs him to be. Love Avery's mom telling his judgemental dad to stuff it. Loved Avery's realization that he'd been just as much of an unforgiving, insufferable jerk to Juliette as his dad had been to him, and the eloquent look Juliette gave him that catalyzed the "aha" moment. This is gold - more please! Deacon and Scarlett on the couch together watching the awards show was really sweet, and Scarlett's excitement about Rayna's wins was the most life I've seen in that girl since I started watching. But my god, I'm tired of trying to figure out what she's saying. She talks too fast, mumbles the ends of her lines with her mouth clenched like she's suddenly had an attack of lockjaw, and way overdoes the southern accent. I need subtitles. Sadie's song was kind of lame. Can't see her (or Rayna, for that matter) as being worthy of winning any music awards in the real world. And Laura Benanti has a very odd way of moving and smiling while she's singing - her body, especially her shoulders, bounce in a rhythm that doesn't go with the music, and her smile and eyes get overly wide and kind of crazed looking. Weird.
  10. Cereality, perhaps Jessa posted the picture TO SHOW that her parents are "gross, smug and self-absorbed". Because, like us, she knows that they are and wants the world to know that she knows, without actually coming out and saying it. Jessa is a Scorpio. Scorps often demonstrate very subtle, yet devastating ways of stinging/zinging people, when they're so inclined.
  11. Lilybee, your wondering why Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks didn't get a smash name - I assume you're referring to their version of "Ruke"? You got my wordplay-loving brain going with that. I think I know why they didn't bother because all I could come up with was - Garish, Garisha, Grisha, Garsha - UGH Trith - sounds like someone with a lisp saying Trish (quite silly) Trarth - very difficult to say Trigar, Trishgar - sound like East Indian words. Not bad, but really, why bother?? After reading all the comments for this week's show, all I can say is I am very glad I never watched season 1 & 2. I would be sick with disappointment over the tailspin Nashville has apparently gone into. As it is, with only 5 episodes under my viewing belt, I'm beginning to wonder if my time might be better spent cleaning out my sock drawer, or doing the LA Times crossword puzzle. What will probably keep me coming back, at least for a while, is the acting. Given the dog's breakfast of storylines, dialog, and set-ups the writers are giving the actors on this show, I have to say that Connie Britton and company, with only a few exceptions (the woman playing Zoey leaves me cold) are doing an incredible job. And Hayden's work is just superb, better than all the rest. I guess I'll stick it out a little longer, just for them.
  12. Thanks, ElectricBoogaloo! I guess it's just my impatience with the disconnected, jumpy nature of the show that makes the content seem so thin and unsatisfying.
  13. Observations after watching only four episodes: Rayna may be a little too self-absorbed and career-obsessed (what performer isn't) but she's a warm, deeply caring woman. Her scenes with her daughters are very moving. Wish my mom had been more like her while I was growing up (without all the different "daddies", of course, and the paparazzi). Having said that, the reconciliation scene with Daphne played out as too pat, too easy. When do I get to see the Avery character acting like a relatively normal person, and not like a schizophrenic who's off his meds? I look forward to Hayden/Juliette having her baby, so the camera people and the director can stop with all the not-very-well-done attempts to Hide The Belly, and poor Juliette can go 10 minutes without a physical/emotional meltdown. I find myself wondering how the intense emotion that Hayden portrays in this role may be affecting her real-life pregnancy - she's so convincing in her various meltdown scenes - and the fetus has no way of knowing that mommy is just acting, so everything's really okay little one. I've never in my life had any problem with the gay, so I am a bit shocked and ashamed to say that when Will kisses a guy, I get a little squicked out. I must say I love the character of The Cell Phone, who has such a prominent role in this show. Her timing and characterization are spot on. I think the role is being played by Samsung Galaxy, but I'm not sure, as I've only seen her in commercials and I don't have a smart phone myself. The title of this show should be Nashville ADHD. The scenes play more like trailers, or movie clips, than an actual, integrated, continuous story. I liked the stuff with Scarlett, and the homeless guy. I especially liked seeing her happy grin at the end, when he sang her song back to her so perfectly, and finished the lines she was having trouble with. If this is someone who can create with her, make her feel good about herself and her music, and keep her smiling that beautiful smile, I'm all for adding THIS character to the cast of eleventy others (of which we could lose 3 or 4 and never, ever miss them). I do wish Clare Bowen would stop talking like her jaw is wired. Maybe that's the only way she can do a country accent instead of her native Australian, but I can barely understand her. HighQueenEB, I think you may be right about the whole Gunnar/Kiley/Micah paternity issue - which brings a whole lot more drama to Kiley's presence, which may mean that Gunnar will need to be with her instead of Zoey, which may mean the Zoey character can fade away into the background, or even go away, which Juliette will most likely be very happy to help make happen. Which I would like, A LOT. Can't get a handle on Pam at all. But Deacon seems to be truly relaxing with her, so that's cool. Loved Deacon's concerns for Will. I record the show on Wednesday and watch Thursday, so I can FF the ads. Even doing so, I think we're being cheated on content, folks. My sense is that there's way more commercial time than actual show. The average on a one-hour program is about 40 minutes of show and 20 minutes of ads, but I would swear Nashville has reversed the equation. Next time, I'm just going to mute the adds and calculate. I do hope I'm totally wrong about this. Maybe is just that the show itself is so jumpy, the individual scenes so short, that I feel cheated at fade-out.
  14. I guess I haven't been watching the show long enough to understand who Deacon really is/was. I've only been at it for a few weeks, although my family members who've watched faithfully from the beginning filled me in as best as they could. I can only say that based on what I've seen, and understood about the series, that Deacon, for all his sins of the past, is trying to move forward in a more positive direction. He's going to stumble along the way, no doubt. And for all that the Pam character is doing FOR him to help him lighten up, get over Rayna, and have some fun with life, she strikes me as the kind of so-called "friend" who's going to cause him, eventually, to move past fun into risky, irresponsible behavior again. And when the inevitable crash and burn happens, she'll laugh, dust herself off, and go look for another victim. But then, why not? This is soap opera, after all. If all the characters acted only in the kindest, most thoughtful, most mature way possible, what would be the point in watching? So I say, bring on the wreckers - the Pams, the Lukes, the Sadies (yeah, I don't trust her, either), the Jeffs, to tear up the place and keep us guessing as to what crisis they'll bring on next.
  15. First of all, you're welcome to the phrase, rubyred! And you couldn't steal it if you tried, it didn't originate with me and I have no idea of its provenance. I first encountered "popping corn" as a euphemism for (ahem) fornication in the novels of Patrick Dennis, one of my all-time favorite authors (Dennis was the creator of Auntie Mame). It was apparently in common usage during the mid-twentieth century, when his books were big sellers. It just seemed to fit Pam and her whole "let's get naked and have some good dirty fun" philosophy/approach to Deacon. Except, I don't think, in truth, that her agenda, if you will, is really all that innocent and playful. She gives off some really underhanded, stalkerish vibes. Yes, she's The Cool Girl, who gets under the man and then turns into another Gone Girl - and Deacon doesn't deserve this shit in his life. Now I would LOVE to see Pam turn her seedy charms on Luke, or Jeff. THAT would be must-see.
  16. I can see how one can get all the characters confused at times. This is a way overpopulated show - it desperately needs some pruning, and ITA with those who are getting REALLY tired of Avery's incredibly self-indulgent, whining, drunken pity party. I can't stand to listen or look at him, and I've only been watching the show for three weeks! Have someone throw a bucket of ice water over him, then cart him off to a Betty Ford clinic for several months, so Juliette can have her baby or lose her baby or whatever, then let her fall in love with someone else - someone who'll allow her to laugh and be happy for 5 or 10 minutes. But please, please do not let that person be Derek Hough. He exudes all the warmth and charisma of a pickle.
  17. I meant to say but posted before I finished... I love Nashville cause it's full of "fu" - tear-fu, self-pity-fu, sexytimes-fu - just what I need to chill out at the end of the day.
  18. Sutton - Pam is the haggard, stringy-haired blonde who's popping corn with Deacon. Sadie is the brunette who took Rayna on the wild ride in her convertible. I'm new to the show and new to posting here (I've lurked for months since TWOP shut down). Thanks to all of the great posts here, I pretty much can figure out what's what and who is who. There used to be a great column in the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday edition, written by Joe Bob Briggs. He reviewed the kind of movies that, at the time, could be found in classic old drive-in movie theaters (venues he loved and celebrated). We're talking about grade B through Z slasher, martial arts, soft-core porn films - cheesy but fun, and perfectly suited to the drive-in. He had a favorite descriptive shorthand for elements in these movies that were joyfully/painfully/ridiculously excessive. If a movie had lots of gory scenes, he described it as having "blood-fu"
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