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Isn't Dr. Weitzman the one who drugged the Smiths so Roger could put them in the computer (where they subsequently played Oregon Trail)? Roger's story line was stupid, but I kind of loved his comment: "Sounds like everyone has a gun. This will deescalate quickly."

Everything I read is no, the guest host gig was not an audition. Unfortunately, some of the guest hosts (and the Twitterverse) started treating it like it was, hence the outrage that LeVar Burton wasn't hired, even though he was far from the best. And we know once the Twitter mob starts demanding things, it better happen or else.

When I started hearing about how fast Afghanistan was falling to the Taliban, I thought of this show. While I want to believe the writers have contingency plans that take into account how the situation in Afghanistan would change (the agreement to pull out US forces was signed last year), they couldn't have thought the Afghan government would collapse so quickly. Al freaked out when a blackout meant he couldn't contact his family for 24 hours; I can't imagine how they will approach this situation. But as we've seen, the show hasn't been afraid to tackle the aftermath of deployments on Riley and how Al allying himself with the US forces meant his family would be in danger. I'm thinking that maybe there will be an episode or two while Al worries that his family will get out and then it happens. If it does, does that mean they all move in with Riley's family? Or do they get their own place, which means Al moves in with them, because I don't think they'd stay separated. I must confess that I have not watched the season finale yet; it's still sitting on my DVR. Almost every episode of this show made me cry, and from the trailers, it looks like they were going to tackle some pretty serious issues for Riley and the rest of the family. I haven't been in the right frame of mind to watch it.

I remember watching her show and liking it a lot, but then I read about her drug and alcohol problems. Originally I felt sorry for her, but when I read that she had exposed herself to her young (i.e. minor) co-star, I lost all sympathy. A man would have been "cancelled" for such behavior, but she suffered no ramifications. (Although I guess you could call her spiral into addiction, depression, and bankruptcy ramifications.)

To be fair, "Evita" is one long music video on stage too since it's a rock "opera." I don't like Andrew Lloyd Webber on the whole, but "Evita" I love. I wish they'd remake the movie with a good singer (at least Madonna had the right look for the part)

I don't either. I stopped watching "Jeopardy!" long ago because I got tired of the condescending way Alex would sometimes talk to the contestants (although everything I read about him indicates he was a wonderful man). I was surprised, however, that it wasn't a woman or person of color chosen to be the next host. I didn't even realize Mayim Bialik was in the running. I wonder if this will affect her sitcom "Call Me Kat." To be honest, I'm kind of off her when I found out she used to be an anti-vaxxer.

This was the extent of Winger's comments about "Me Too": Otherwise, I found it an interesting article. She sounds smart and articulate. I liked her thoughts about "A League of Their Own." It's a shame she was saddled with the "difficult" label. I don't get Apple TV, otherwise I'd watch "Mr. Corman."

I've never seen those. They're hilarious. 🤣

I don't know if I had guessed, but it wasn't a surprise exactly. I liked that when the old man said he was going to talk to Morbo and called his wife Constance, he wasn't senile, as we were led to believe, but telling the truth. Jeff-as-Francine was hilarious. I don't know why not. They had a whole episode of Jeff and Stan visiting the weed factory and lighting up and getting high on screen.

I agree. Without Desi Arnaz and William Frawley, the same magic wasn't there. Plus, Lucille and Vivian were older, so their pratfalls and harebrained schemes and shenanigans weren't that funny anymore. Unfortunately, I think Lucille was trapped. Even if she wanted to play a different type of character, she couldn't. The audience expected "Lucy" no matter what she did.

Can we get a season 3 before we start teasing a possible season 4? At this point, who remembers what the heck happened in the first two seasons?

I'm not sure if this is a local commercial or not, but it's from the guy who owns Cambridge Pavers. He runs a lot of commercials on my local News 12 in the morning. They're pretty cheesy, but the one I like is the one where he's going through all the different ways to set up an outdoor area and talks about a homeowner's desires/wishes for the outdoor space. What impresses me is when he says, "You don't have to do it all at once," and I think: how refreshing not to give into the immediate gratification that is so prevalent in society today. (I can't find a link to it.)

To me, the thing about "Patterns of Force" (and I just watched that one the other night), is that it shows that Nazism is evil, no matter how benign the intentions. Of course, Gill should have been smarter and not broken the Prime Directive in the first place, but even if he was hellbent on doing so, he could have avoided using Nazi imagery. A historian should have known better than that. I watch the dodecahedrons and keep track too. Every single time. And because I looked up the character's name, I looked up the actress too, saw who she was the daughter of Lee J. Cobb and both her husbands. I like both those actors, so I wonder what the story was between her and Victor French. In Wikipedia, she's listed only in the info box for him as a spouse.

To be fair, Riley was infected by the sweating disease Crewman Joe brought up from the planet, so his delusions of grandeur weren't entirely his fault. And if it was spread by contact, why didn't Uhura get it when she pushed against Sulu's sweaty torso? I'm guessing not enough time to show her breakdown. (Speaking of Uhura, I love the TAS episode where she takes command when all the men are incapacitated. I wish that had been a live action episode.) Re: Yeoman Thompson's death, I remember the first time I saw it and keeping track of the cubes to see which crewmember would be killed. Wow. Decades later and it still bothers me. 😒 I agree that her death was painless. I would imagine that once someone was reduced to the cube, they no longer had any consciousness. Although we never see the Kelvins again, didn't they make modifications to the Enterprise to make it run with just a handful of people? Why didn't Starfleet reverse engineer that technology and apply it to all ships in the fleet?

I remember that I was really bothered by Yeoman Thompson's death (never forget!). Maybe because it was a female crewmember who was killed. Is that one of the few times we saw a woman killed on "Star Trek"? I've been watching a bunch of old TOS lately on Hulu. Maybe it's the optimism that was inherent in those episodes that's appealing to me now (especially nowadays!). I pick and choose at random. In "Breads and Circuses," I like that it's Uhura who has to explain to the trio of Kirk, Spock & McCoy that the slaves aren't worshipping the sun, but the Son of God. I've also been watching some episodes for minor characters whom we never see after a few episodes. DaSalle in "Catspaw" (which isn't as bad as I remember, although Korbo and Sylvia in their true forms is) and "This Side of Paradise." He's also in "Squire of Gothos." It's a shame the character didn't appear in more episodes. I liked his no-nonsense attitude, although he was probably more of a hard-ass military type than Kirk. I also watched "Conscience of the King," which features Kevin Riley. Again, another character who appeared only in a few episodes. If they were going for a younger demographic, why not keep him instead of getting Chekov (although I get having a Russian crewmember for diversity). And for the second "pilot," "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is a good one. Too bad Lee Kelso was killed by Gary.

Or Felix Unger's. He had some really ugly clothes (ties especially) because he was "fashionable." It's Oscar the slob's sartorial choices that hold up precisely because they're so nondescript.

Sorry, the race card is not applicable here. A diva is "a vain or undisciplined person who finds it difficult to work under direction or as part of a team." It applies to anyone who exhibits this behavior.

I hate the Jimmy Johns commercial with Brad Garrett. I don't like the actor at the best of times, but I absolutely despise him in these. Plus, the whole campaign is dumb. Watching some dickhead shout at people in unchecked rage is not an inducement to buy your product.

American Dad! aired on Fox from 2005-2014 and on TBS since then, so it's close.

Well, at least this one wasn't quite as disgusting as last week's. I like the callback to Stan's baldness, but otherwise, most of the storyline was just dumb. I still keep a bunch of episodes from past seasons on the DVR and I'll watch on Hulu. The first several seasons still hold up, and the Santa ones are great no matter what season. I don't know why, but it bugs me when TBS says, "An original series from TBS..." No, "American Dad" aired on Fox for ages; it's not your original series.

And Disney responds: Disney issues scathing response to Scarlett Johansson's Color me hard-pressed to care about a millionaire suing a billion-dollar company because she didn't get paid enough.

I turned this off the moment Rogu came out of the toilet. It made me want to vomit. I hope the writers' vomit fetish doesn't turn into a scat fetish too. 🤮

I think my objection to "Pushing Daisies" ending after two seasons was that, if I recall, they'd introduced a couple of open-ended storylines to be resolved in season 3. Seeing the mention of Don Knotts brings to mind my UO: I never thought he was funny in anything. Whether he was Barney Fife or Mr. Furley, I found him to be creepy and decidedly unfunny. Another UO: while I enjoyed "Schitt's Creek" when it was on, I have no desire to watch any of it again. Once was enough.

This is from the free streaming service Tubi, but I've watched a few episodes of "My Little Margie," from the early 1950s, and I'm kind of surprised that they've made me laugh out loud. Margie, a young woman in her early 20s, wants her "old" father (who's almost 50!) to be an settled, fuddy-duddy father, not the handsome widower he is who still dates and stays out all hours. She's got a boyfriend the father can't stand, and Margie likes her father's semi-steady girlfriend (but only as an older friend of hers, not as her father's wife). The plots are silly, and usually involve some escapade of Margie trying to get one over on her father, him finding out, then her finding out that he found out, and then things resolve in the end. One thing that shows how society changes is that almost all of the characters smoke, even 21-year-old Margie. (Today, she couldn't even buy her own cigarettes.)

I think a good show takes time to develop the secondary characters/townspeople in an animated series, so that could be why "The Great North" seems to be "all Tobins all the time." On the "Bless the Harts" thread, I noted that that show tried too hard to establish an entire town from the get-go and it was just too many characters at once. (Having said that, I really started to like the show, and I was sorry it got canceled after two seasons.)