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You're welcome. Yeah a direct rip is also pretty accurate, right down to the costumes. It's a pretty obscure clip, from the Judy Garland show. The especially enthusiastic chorus boy in Nitty Gritty was Bobby Banas, who TMMM also imitated. He was in West Side Story. A truly great dancer, and still with us at the age of 85.

The opening dance number (at around 23:30) is clearly an homage to Bobby Banas dancing to Shirley Ellis' Nitty Gritty in 1963. That choreography is 55 years old ;).

I think that's exactly what they are aiming for. It's pure escapism. I can see that it isn't for everyone. I'm pretty sure the timeline doesn't fit (it was too early for Ono to have been on the art scene, I think), but it was a fun little throwaway sight gag, for those who got it, and didn't affect the show in any way. I loved it. I also loved Susie's family's house, which has to be the most filmed house in Broad Channel. It was in Boardwalk Empire, a couple of Law & Orders, and a few other things. It belongs to a friend of a friend, and I've actually attended a few parties there. A neat little traditional bungalow, built on stilts over Jamaica Bay. It's so much fun to see an obscure little place you know on a show you like.

I'm with you. No, I don't think anyone is a "bad" fan for not liking this doctor. I find her charming and her enthusiasm is infectious. I thought Tennant a bit too angsty, but he eventually won me over. LOVED the awkwardness of Eleven. Wasn't a huge fan of Capaldi, but I'll give him another go. The Doctor Whos of my childhood, I'll always adore. ...and I'll say it again - I loved the frog. Yup - or eaten by moths.

Me too. I thought the frog was wonderfully whimsical. It made perfect sense to me that the entity would be pleased by that form, with Grace's voice, given Graham's obvious love for her.

Yeah, not so much a good comparison. Dad in this story was a selfish prick, who deliberately terrorized his blind child (really a young woman) so he could get his rocks off with his "not-wife". He left her alone, afraid and unprotected. I was in NYC when that couple left ther child "outside". Most New Yorkers not only understood, but appreciated that the parents left their child in her large carriage "outside" (on a lovely day, as it happened). They weren't having drinks at a bar, they had brunch. Their sleeping child was in their direct eyesight the entire time. They could literally reach out and touch the kid. The child and her carriage were close to the parents at all times. There was no need for that enormous carriage to be inside, clogging up the aisles. Don't believe everything you read. Those parents were quite responsible. Eric? Yeah, he was a dick.

My "subtle as a flying mallet" referred to Cumming's performance. I have a love/hate relatonship with him as an actor (and I have worked with him a fair amount). He is absolutely a fine actor, but so very often goes for the cheap laugh. I kept waiting for him to twirl that moustache, I have never understood his popularity. That said, he was perfect in this role, as the villain you love to hate.. I've no doubt that is likely true, but Cumming tends to inject pansexualism in everthing he does, and then tends to go over the top with it - am I am a British bisexual man myself. A little of him goes a very long way with me. I think they let him off the leash with this one, and possibly even wrote the role with him in mind. jmo, ymmv.

That was all a bit odd. I got the impression that King James' actions didn't re-imprison the soldiers, but rather killed them, The Doctor did not seem happy with him, saying something like "Well, you got what you wanted" Subtle as a flying mallet, Alan Cumming is, and being who he is, had to throw in a touch of bisexualty. Doesn't he speak admiringly of her "form?

. Oh, hell yes. Eleven casually trying on and discarding clothes as he spoke to the aliens, and then, when he got the look he wanted, delivering that line? Sold.

I was pretty sure that when the waitress said "We don't serve Negroes here", that that was going to be Ryan's answer, because it is a Muhammad Ali quote .

There isn't a thread for S2 Ep 8, Blood is Thicker, so I guess this belongs here. In that episode, Sherlock trades rare moose cheese for...I forget what. I think some kind of pass into some place. Unsurprisingly, it's a real thing. Here is part of the exchange: Watson: This is one of those "so many questions" moments. Why only three times a year? Holmes: Well, I'm not sure. Having never milked a moose, I imagine one must catch it in the right mood.

Huh. I didn't know that was a thing. It didn't even cross my mind (and in any case, she would have been a bisexual murderer). Still, I stand by what I've said. Hannah's entrance into their apartment to find her BFF dead could not have been more "Hey, honey, I'm home" if it tried. and it was absurd to have Gregson say "She was more than just Hannah's roommate..." and not follow it up with "she was her wife [lover, girlfriend, etc]".

The "long-standing negative stereotype of lesbians" being murdered by serial killers? ;) Seriously, though, I do get what you're saying. As you say, the show has done so well in representing non-hetero characters matter of factly, but lesbians and gay men get murdered too (wasn't Crabtree a murder victim?} It just seemed so silly to have Gregson say "She was more than just Hannah's roommate, she was...' dun dun DUN! ...her best friend"??? So anti-climactic.

Yeah, Gregson's line, while obviously a set up for Holmes to fling back at him during their final exchange: Gregson: "She's my daughter!" Holmes: "She's my best friend." didn't play the way they wanted it to. This show, with a transwoman (Miss Hudson), and at least a few gay characterse, including Alastair and Crabtree, clearly isn't afraid of going there. I think Gay was my favorite. Holmes finds a woman he does not know in the brownstone: Holmes : "I was expecting to find my... housemate. "Gay : "No problem. I'm Gay." Holmes : " ...I'm not. "Gay : "It's my name." Holmes ".Yes, of course. I'm Sherlock." Gay : "Hello" [pause] Gay : "Ialso am. Gay. So, you know, it saves time" Holmes :"How efficient."

It's one thing to ignore dust bunnies in your house - quite another to leave pools of blood around.

That....would be Lucy Lui.

Oy, this episode. The beating of Joan took on a nearly porn-like aspect. The absurdity of her escape from Michael. Sure, I'll follow you up the stairs through floors that don't fit the structure of your brownstone as we know it in slow motion so that you have time to get to your bed room and lock the door. Then in under a minute, I'll crash through a door that was made out of wood so heavy that you couldn't get through it without an axe. Next, you can stab me with an inexplicably sharp and absurdly short helicopter blade that for no reason was hauled up 4 floors to study (what, the much larger parlour floor was overrun by tvs?) ...and Joan, who is hospitalized, is a suspect in his murder? WTAF? I'd go with Sherlock, or yeah, more likely Moriarity first.

I hesitate to admit this, because anyone with good google fu can identify me by this, but a plane was built in the basement of my brownstone, and it's much smaller than Sherlock's. Granted, it came out piece by piece, wings, body and tail (through my coal hatch) - but it was entirely built in my basement and assembled outside of it - and I understand it flew.

I understand, Ailianna. We grew up in similar ways. I, too, grew up in a house with a woodstove. My own brownstone in Brooklyn was heated by coal until the 90s, when I had it converted to gas. I had/have a coal chute in my courtyard, and I got regular deliveries of coal through it. The fireplace I have now is a modified coal fireplace (one of 8 that existed in my house, the rest I had sealed up), so it is very small. Sure, when people had to rely on a literal fire, one had no choice but to keep the fire burning, and even when people were careful, places burned down all the time, despite their caution. I stand by my original statememt - no one in their right mind leaves a blazing fire going. No one who can afford a place as palatial as Athena's is relying on a fireplace for heat. Given their relationship, surely Athena and Sherlock could have banked the fire and make love in its light prior to going out to dine. This is New York. There's always a restaurant open somewhere. Safety first. That said, I'm ok with it being literary license.

It couldn't have hurt. That Holmes became a beekeeper is canon, though he didn't do so til after he retired. It's true that beekeeping in NYC is becoming more popular. I have a hive on my roof.

Actually, Elementary has referenced The Greek Interpreter as well. Unless I am remembering incorrectly, Sherlock told Joan that Miss Hudson was a Greek interpreter. I'm not surprised that Elementary "would go there", since BBC's Sherlock already had (they are using the same source material, after all). I was a little suprised (although delighted) that Elementary used it twice. I did, right away. He really hasn't changed much. On Another World, he (Cass Winthrop), Linda Dano (Felicia Gallant), and Brent Collins (Wallingford) had madcap adventures. When Brent Collins, a dwarf, died suddenly from complicatons of Marfan's syndrome, the show had a memorial for his character, which Cass officiated. At the end of the episode (shown at the 6:00 mark here) Schnetzer and Dano stepped out of character to speak of their personal loss of their beloved colleague. Wallingford/Collins Memorial.

Leaving with any appliance running, much less a fire in the fireplace is careless and foolish, regardless of whether you own or are renting, even if you can afford luxury. It's downright reckless. I have a fireplace in my brownstone - and yes, I will occasionally light a small fire on a cool summer eve, as I do right now - but I would never under any circumstances leave or even go to sleep until I knew it was out, or at least embers with the damper mostly shut and the glass doors closed. Me either. I don't expect a show's seasons to echo mine. That said: I missed the August reference. That seems silly. My tolerance for crazy is super high. I have shared my living space with people who woke me in unusual ways: a speaker lowered off a higher floor outside my bedroom window blasting rock music, a ferret thrown onto my bed - or worse, under the covers. A bottle rocket fired into my room. All that, I'm okay with - but someone I don't know with the electronic face of someonce I do know is likely taking an exit by way of my 4th floor window before I'm fully awake.

The taxes on my brownstone in Brooklyn are about $2,000 a year. Exactly. When was the last time you heard anyone call 6th ave "The Avenue of the Americas"?

I do not know of how to list, but I'll ask around. I do know that they like to film places that are not crowded (Rockaway and Far Rockaway, Queens are common on Elementary, even if it says it's elsewhere). They can be picky, though. Unless your house is huge indoors, or you have an unique exterior/garden, TV/film crews may not want it. If they do, though, it can be quite lucrative. Good luck.

Brownstones are houses. Each brownstone has its own separate feed from the street. That said, brownstones were built primarily around the beginning (and earlier) of the previous century, so many have outdated wiring. I'm guessing that Sherlock, with his dozen or so TVs and other electrical gadgets, has upgraded his wiring seriously.