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Just in case you missed this: or did you just think that's not what we were supposed to glean from what was revealed?

I may have read them. I was having babies pre-internet.

Well, there's my theory from upthread.

Oh dear. Knowing Pete, he might come back with a story about how he had to spend the flights in the airplane toilet. That could be why he winds up not being off screen very much in the future. (Not wanting to fly again.) But he'd probably enjoy cruises.

Unfortunately, I don't think that would de-brainwash her. 😉

Seriously! The ghost whose power is to make people forget why they walked down that aisle was played by Adrian Martinez, who has been in everything. With Pete going out into the world, we will get to meet other ghosts with whom Pete will want to chat to about what their powers are. Perhaps a ghost will similarly make people permanently forget where they put something. (I just put a red-hued USB-to-USB-C cable adapter in my Amazon cart because I cannot find the black one I bought 5 months ago and hid out of sight of my 2-year-old grandson when he was here.) Pete might enjoy having a passenger's emotional support bunny sitting on his lap.

TV commercials. John Hartman (Nigel) has been a part time ghost/actor. If he's offered a bigger role on another show, maybe they will have him get sucked off after the wedding? Like you pointed out, @PaulE, Nigel had a pretty fulfilling life for his time. So getting married might be all he still desires (if fulfilling desires has anything to do with a ghost getting sucked off, but it seemed to for Attic Girl's Basement boyfriend). Or, maybe he'll get a somewhat expanded role as he and Brandon Scott Jones (Isaac) work out their differences.

Many science journal articles list as authors everyone who worked on the study, including students. So, yes, Sheldon should have been aware of this, but, he probably wasn't reading her emails (hence the letter, although it wasn't explicitly stated in the episode).

I'd forgotten that was MIT. So Mary probably prayed about it and now believes her prayers were answered. To be fair, I think a storm of that magnitude is referenced as an "act of God" in many homeowner insurance policies.

Cool! Do you know his name? I have an appointment on May 28. So, stay tuned.

Yeah, a colonoscopy with anesthesia would have been more realistic and still have had him physically able to be at the office soon after. I've had to have a bunch of them and apparently I do and say stuff like Lyle every time. But for a comedy, a pulled tooth is easy for the audience to not dwell on, whereas Lyle is a bit young to be having a colonoscopy unless there's something worrisome. Regardless, I thought Tristen J. Winger did the perfect amounts of dopey-ness and technical skills. Some of it was in the writing, but the acting (and maybe directing?) are what made it perfect.

Hah ha! I know! Right?

My middle daughter was a bit of a scholastically Sheldon-eque prodigy. We went to Boston to see one college and it was a dreary freezing rain. The next day we went to NYU and the sun was shining. Almost 30 years later, she still lives there. So when George and Sheldon stepped out into the howling nor'easter blizzard of Boston, I finally, literally, laughed out loud. Thank you, show. •.¸¸.•*´¨`* •.¸❊¸.•´¨`*•.¸¸.• The way I saw it was that whatever genuine concerns Sturgis, Linkletter, and President Hagemeyer had for Sheldon were tiny beside their ultimately selfish reasons for wanting him gone. I still loved them for what they did, but their mutual desires to have Sheldon elsewhere (albeit Dr. Sturgis not so much) seemed to be the punchline behind "a toast to our complete and utter lack of integrity!"

Yes. At least for the most part. And I'm guessing all the people who died during Black Friday Sales (just go with it) are still ghosts because they were obsessed with getting the reduced-priced, almost-out-of-stock, discontinued items, and they still are obsessed. So they don't want any more ghosts to compete with. They were just scaring Pete away with the ripping-you-apart trash talk. They probably got the idea from slasher movies they've seen in the TV area of the store.

I'm pretty sure streaming capabilities negatively impacted in the popularity of recaps. But, actually, some of us find reading (skimming?) a recap was faster than watching a show. An office-suite-mate/work-daughter and I were sharing our TV watching preferences during a free moment one day, and I mentioned my then-current obsession with Battlestar Galactica (the reboot). She said her husband had just discovered that show but didn't have time to catch up on the already aired episodes. I sent her a link to the TWoP recaps. A few days later she said her husband told her to thank me. They're still here: https://web.archive.org/web/20080617001628/http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/battlestar-galactica/recaps.php On the third hand, listening to podcasts is probably more convenient than reading recaps or rewatching. In 2000, I set up a Roswell fan site to preserve some of our online discussions on FanForum. I also included the recaps (not on TWoP yet, IIRC) because, at the time, Internet content seemed ephemeral, and I thought they were worth preserving. Apparently others saw their "worth" too, in terms of $$$. I can't find the emails, but before TWoP was sold to NBC, I received a very politely worded Cease and Desist notice to take down the recaps "or else." I did take them down. Thanks to the Internet Archive (which I try to support with a few dollars each year, along with Wikipedia) the Roswell recaps are still here: https://web.archive.org/web/20080620021034/http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/roswell/recaps.php My site is still here: thesmudge.com/shapeshifter/Roswell And, also thanks to the Internet Archive, my site is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20161022230851/https://thesmudge.com/shapeshifter/Roswell/ — until the sun explodes and swallows the earth unless we are on a spaceship far far away? (as I used to declare to scare/wake up students after lunch when teaching them about DOIs, suggesting they might want to consider becoming astronauts instead of PSYC majors). Regarding Mighty Big TV ( ) the Internet Archive has home page views, but all the links seem to redirect to TWoP, like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20011121181001/http://mightybigtv.com:80/ Maybe that will change? I'm noticing over the years that more of the TWoP internal links are working on the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine. I do not know how that's happening.

Great hijinx. I will miss it. Skylar Astin totally leaned into the Scottish accent, LOL. Tristen J. Winger (Lyle) did a believable yet hilarious post-op high.

Would this have also been the case back when Pete was a travel agent? Would he know? That Deal Mart seems like it has some very bad historical haunting mojo.👻👺😱

Actually it was cephalopelvic disproportion. She has a really big head. The OB NP thought it would be okay despite my being small, but apparently not. It was a rural area lacking in newer equipment. Like no fetal heart monitor.🫥 I almost always have to have follow-up mammos. If I've moved or am a new patient, it's at least 2 follow-ups, if not more.

I think a thoughtfully worded "suggestion" of reading the last 2 pages would be helpful. I don't mind when someone posts the same thing I just did. On FanForum (early aughts) my ego would make me respond with something about how if 2 or more of us came up with the same plot theory, it must be true. Now I mostly just mildly hrmph to myself. 😉 What bugs me is when someone posts about how they didn't like something a character did, and then I follow up with a reply about how that wasn't exactly what happened (quoting some throwaway lines that were easily missed), and then, about an hour later, someone else makes the same complaint again, about 2 posts down on the page, often on the only page of posts.😵‍💫

Am I the only one who instagot the TS of Abstract Expressionism? Cool. 😎 $2K (FWIW) And I guess I'm also the only one who f'loved the new champ because I related to her story of having had so many addresses. Maybe @Clanstarling too? Plus, she's cute as a bug's ear; she strongly resembles one of my work-daughters. I would hope she could stay on J! long enough to get the recognition one cannot achieve when nobody in the neighborhood knows you, but probably not? Wait. I just noticed Amy Hummel is an ER doc. 🙌 I only got as far as "Blimp" for FJ. *sigh*

I can relate. Sometimes it seems we're all living on borrowed time. In another era, I would have died in childbirth instead of having an emergency c-section 45 years ago. When I was being treated for what should have been a terminal cancer diagnosis 8 years ago, walking on the beach of Lake Michigan made surviving worthwhile. Now I can't walk very far or very long, but even brief stops by the shore of Lake Ontario lift my spirits. I keep checking realtor.com for a home with a view that I could afford. Tomorrow I'm schlepping off to a doctor for an injury from a fall a year ago that still hurts a little. It seems like a waste of time. But maybe it will be one of those doctors that has a healing vibe. If he's a jerk, I won't bother again.

Wonderful title for a blog! How else would I have kept my sanity? I don't suppose anyone here was on the FanForum thread: AWACS - At Work And Can't Stay off the boards ?

That happened to me a few times in the last 6 months or so on the tube of you. So now, if that's my only option,* I hit the pause button as soon as they even get to FJ. Then I open up the j-archive.com page for that game, set a timer for 30 seconds, read the clue, and hit the timer. _________ * I don't know why I don't just follow @Bastet's example when I have to miss a game:

Unlike me, you must not have been one of those kids who had to write on the board 300 times: "I will not talk in class. I will not talk in class. I will not talk in class.…" LOL — ellipsis at the end in part for @Jaded: 🧸 Nowadays, we even have an ellipsis emoji for just such a case: 💬

Thank you, @Anela! I've been vindicated! Now I wish I'd added onto "I've only read the last 5 pages of posts….": "…but I'm sure by the time I've submitted this post it will be 15 pages." If nothing else, it would've caused the TVWoP police person to pause for a moment — during which time another 2 pages to moderate on that thread would've appeared, LOL. No wonder those mods became certifiable.