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So what happened to Miss Minutes? I got a bad feeling about this. 😟 And FYI: Real key lime pie is not that color! (It's more of a pale, slightly greenish yellow.)

"Eggs are chicken periods, aren't they?" Oh Ames, don't ever change! 😄

So how did Adam's mom (forget her name) know that "Martin" on the radio was her ex? That's stretching credibility a bit. I'm glad Isaac hasn't been the dick that he was last season. (That said, it was courageous for the show to depict a disabled person that way.) But I hope he and Aimee stay platonic, or have a mentor relationship at the most. Are we to assume that it's an "angel" who keeps pooping on Eric -- first when he finds a Bible in the road, and then leading him to work at the soup kitchen? 😆

Update: On today's podcast, Keith Olbermann noted Bill's change of heart (or whatever) and demoted him from "scumbag scab" to just a "scumbag." 😄

Okay, looks like the show is on hold again, for now. https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/bill-maher-real-time-delay-writers-strike-1235726462/?fbclid=IwAR3kyg2xi-s5Ky8yMxtrRsGXdwofm1PMNd5fT4b8imQNdGZu1VgVL3ptG-w

Update on Drew Barrymore's show: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/drew-barrymore-pause-daytime-talk-show-strike-ends-1234826742/?fbclid=IwAR3YW7rHMg7GGyySKLmE_mpbzHK8KdXnjlbzscOte_ySEk461nIG6F65_xs Think Bill will follow suit? I doubt it.

I assume Harley found somewhere to pee at some point? "I'm not a hero, I'm Harley fucking Quinn!" Another Hell Yeah! 😁

I'd already heard Olbermann's "Me and Bill Maher in college" story a couple of times, so I shut it off rather than hear it again. But I do remember the part where Bill called Keith a "corporate sellout" for working at the college radio station. Indeed, the irony has never been more timely. I do not intend to watch Real Scab, and may never watch it again, no matter what happens with the strike. IIRC, Bill's contract with HBO runs out at the end of next year anyway.

I didn't see the point of this episode. Bane learns to make pasta -- meh. It did nothing to move the narrative along.

So the episode ends with Harley deciding to move in with the Bats. Yeah, that's gonna work out well. 🙄 I can already predict how this season will end: Harley and Ivy will choose each other over their respective careers, and will abandon both the Bats and the Legion of Doom.

I think The Bear is categorized as "comedy" because most of the eps are roughly a half-hour long -- and everybody knows TV dramas are at least an hour. 🙄 I too am glad to see all the nominations. But I wonder, can the Emmys run clips of this show without "bleeping" them into oblivion? Overall, I'm happy with this show. If it continues, it may just define this decade for me the way, say, Game of Thrones defined the last one. I'm just a little sad that Anthony Bourdain isn't around to see it. I read Kitchen Confidential years ago, and The Bear looks a lot like what he wrote about. (Speaking of Bourdain, I noticed that his picture was taken down in the Season 2 opener, as the restaurant was being renovated. I was peeved at first, and then I realized that it had to be. This was a whole different establishment going up.)

So is this the end of the series? Because it ought to be. (Peacock has entered the show to the Emmys as a "limited series," and it's just as well.) I have yet to eat anything from Buffalo Wild Wings, and I don't think I will anytime soon. No Holy Grail for me there.🙄

I admit I'm a little skeptical about the frat boys. How long is their house going to stay that nice?

When the algorithm asked Simone what she desired, I answered right away. And when Simone asked the algorithm what it wanted her to find, I also answered right away. Normally that's not a promising sign, but I'll watch at least one more episode. A show centered around an AI is new territory for me. (I'm pretending She-Hulk: Attorney at Law didn't happen.)

I thought Gov. Sununu was one of the "good" Republicans. I had no idea he was such a jerk. Last night was a learning experience. Bill's final pro-atheist New Rule was re-heated leftover rant; I know I've heard it before. Bill sounded tired -- atheism notwithstanding, maybe he needs the Easter/Passover break more than his staff does.

I liked when Abby said to Dan, "Isn't your real name Reinhold?" Nice shout-out to TOS, and its creator. 😉

Maybe Bill was hoping that Ari would start quoting rap lyrics. 😉 Now that I think of it, I did eat at a Waffle House once, in Florida (a place I would never visit nowadays.) I ordered chicken breast with eggs, a variation of steak/eggs. Whatever they did with the chicken was incredible; I could cut it with a fork -- no knife needed! Now that's what I call "culinary savantism."

Call me crazy, old-fashioned, whatever -- but rather than wait for "natural immunity" to set in, I'll just get vaxxed and avoid infection in the first place. (Yeah, I know there's still a chance for it, but vaccination lowers the risk quite a bit.) I've eaten at Cracker Barrel. FWIW, some of the dishes are fine, but the biscuits/gravy are terrible! Stay away! Anyone else notice that the longer in the tooth Bill gets, the more concerned he is about ageism? I don't recall him talking like that on Politically Incorrect.

The moment Ivy started that flashback in Arkham Asylum, I knew where it was going. But this ep was a fun little romp nonetheless. Clayface and Bane once again show us how animation goes where live action just can't.

Hated that final New Rule. Sure, "wokeness" sometimes gets out of hand. But comparing American college professors to the victims of China's "Cultural Revolution" is ludicrous! (For a lot of those poor Chinese, it was either debase yourself or die.) And this from a guy who complains about false equivalency. 😒

Me neither. Still, it would be nice if the show makes some reference to Dan's womanizing past -- just for continuity's sake.

I too had high hopes for this show. I'll give it a few more shots before relegating it to the "nice try" bin, but I pray the writing gets better. John Larroquette is a national treasure, but he and Melissa can't carry the show without good material. Slightly OT: I thought of Larroquette the other day when I learned that David Crosby had passed. Crosby had a recurring role on The John Larroquette Show back in the 90s. (Sigh -- get used to it, the boomers are disappearing one by one.)

Like many of us, I couldn't stop thinking: Those seeds better sprout before the episode ends. Chekhov's gun strikes again! 🙄

We'd better see that elf blow-up doll in the next Guardians movie. It may be lying in some corner of the ship, deflated, but let's see it anyway! All in all, a nice little diversion -- and at 45 minutes, no longer than it needed to be. Kudos for opening and closing with "Fairytale of New York." Groot only further proves the rule that all babies are cute, but then they grow up. 😒

So far I'm on Team Rhaenyra. Which means she or Daemon will probably do something reprehensible before the season ends, 🙄