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Melissa was spot on about teaching all history -- the good, the bad, and the ugly. I get a kick out of the principal, but her sexual harassment of Gregory is not funny. If it's wrong when a man does it, it's wrong when a woman does it.

The janitor writing on the chalkboard and telling a bunch of elementary school students that the Illuminati run the world made me laugh out loud.

Hulu dropped the season 3 trailer today. Looks a-mah-zing.

Although I think the cast is too large and bloated already, I wish Elias had stuck around for a few episodes. It was nice to see a ghost who wasn't "good" and who would cause mischief. The current ghosts are just too nice, even Trevor, who was supposed to be the sleazy one of the bunch. They don't "haunt."

I really do like the show, but the "Abishola wants to be a doctor" storyline is just too far-fetched. She's too old to go through all those years of schooling, then internship and residency (or vice versa). She's also doing it for the wrong reasons. Pleasing her mother is not a valid reason to incur all that debt and additional years of schooling. If she really wanted to be a doctor, then why didn't she do it instead of becoming a nurse? I love when the ladies have lunch at the hospital, especially Kemi's response to Gloria talking about holding life or death in your hands: "You sound like a serial killer." If Abishola's mother is so traditional, wouldn't she be telling her daughter to put her husband first and forget all that doctor nonsense? I liked the two mothers bonding evilly in the hot tub.

Is this one one of those "prequels" where everyone somehow looks 20 years older? Aren't most of those characters dead? (Although to be fair, every original character had been long dead by the final scene of the series finale.)

Yes. Frankly, Oscar and Max had more chemistry with each other than Kat has with either of them. I thought they were going to go with the bromance route with Kat feeling left out. I was annoyed with Phil putting on the CFPs Kat bought. Not every gay man likes to dress in women's clothes. I'm sorry they went there. I usually find Randi abrasive, and she was here too, but she did show some tenderness here, which was nice. Did Carter always have the Kid 'n Play hair? I'm guessing we will never see his child again.

I found it a little uncomfortable watching these actors who played lovers playing brother and sister. It wasn't as bad as if, say, someone cast Courtney Cox and David Schwimmer as a married couple...but it was the same kind of principle. Eh, they're just actors playing roles.

Progressive has vastly overestimated the appeal of the actress who plays Flo portraying all the members of her annoying family, and I especially don't like the character of the sister, but the most recent one has made me smile at its self-awareness. Bitchy Sister, who apparently is now wealthy and has had a baby, answers the door with the baby in a carrier on her chest. She has asked Flo to come to over to talk about insurance. She clarifies: to have Flo talk about insurance. After a few moments, Bitchy Sister shushes Flo and goes back inside, saying, "Baby sleeping." https://www.ispot.tv/ad/qezs/progressive-sleeping-baby

Maybe because the professor is played by the same actor who played Kripke on TBBT to such perfect douche-baggeriness, but I don't like the professor. I find him creepy, and I think less of Lizzie for liking such a creep. I don't even like his little SJW snarky asides, because it implies he's gotten in trouble before for making inappropriate comments around students or engaged in inappropriate behavior around them.

For that matter, why do they care if the room has mold in it? They're already dead; it's not like they can get sick again. I don't even think the actress is funny. I hate characters like that -- loud and obnoxious and taking advantage of people too nice to say no to them. I thought the same thing! I knew he was the "handsome one," but for some reason, seeing his headshot really made it hit home.

I used to enjoy the show "Voyagers." Plus it had the beautiful Jon-Erik Hexum, who died tragically. I'm a sucker for time travel and history. Having said that, I pretty much despise most historical dramas because they play so fast and loose with the truth. (Although, if it's played for laughs, then I'm mostly OK with it, like "Upstart Crow," a comic retelling of Shakespeare's life.)

Let's just say you should hold off on sending them a wedding present. 😉

The trailer didn't wow me. I think it's going to be a disappointment like The Simpsons movie. I think most TV shows don't make good transitions to movies; they're just overlong episodes. Star Trek did (more or less), but the X-Files movies didn't.

Yet another plot where Louise is a sociopath but then learns the true meaning of Christmas and becomes a good person (at least until the next time). How many times are they going to write the same story? It's like Jessica from "Fresh Off the Boat," who would treat people awfully, learn her lesson, and then go straight back to the same behavior in the next episode. And yet another episode where Teddy is emotionally abusive to Bob and Linda. His behavior was never funny, but now it's just excruciating to watch. Did Mort have a different voice this time? It sounded different, and I usually don't notice these things.

I watched "Father Daze" recently, which had an episode of the Golden Turd (which is one of my favorite subplots of the entire series; kudos to them for being that committed to that gag for years). During the clean up after the last murders, the maid finds the turd under the couch, wraps it up, and takes it to the Vatican. She is apparently unaffected by it. However, in the episode "300," the little delivery girl is chosen to bring it back to Roger because she's pure of heart, but the maid already showed she was. I know I'm looking for continuity in a cartoon about an alien who poops gold and that probably had no long-range plan behind the whole miniseries, but it still bugs. 🤣 (Also, the cop's son has different last names in his segments.) Here's the complete saga.

Hulu's explanation about why all the episodes of "I Love Lucy" aren't on the streaming service sound like a cop-out to me, other than "we don't want to pay for them." You can respect someone you don't like. For instance, I have a coworker who is very good at their job, and I respect that, but I don't like them. Other than interacting for work, I wouldn't hang out with them at all.

Well, there is the "butterfly effect" theory, that making one small change in the past has consequences for the future. Ray Bradbury's1952 short story "A Sound of Thunder" introduced the concept.

I liked the show when it was about two fat people meeting and falling in love. Then they started focusing on Molly's family too much, and went completely off the rails when Molly quit her job. I had stopped watching by then. As mentioned above, suddenly Melissa McCarthy was this movie star (albeit in stereotypical "fat girl" roles, which meant she was the comic relief), and the producers didn't want her to be the "straight man" anymore to her crazy family; they wanted to capitalize on her comic slapstick shtick.

In The Expanse novel series, any scene that included Clarissa Mao. I have never hated a fictional character as much as I hate her.

I'm currently reading "The Wandering Earth" by Liu Cixin, which is a collection of his short stories & novellas, upon which the movie "The Wandering Earth" is based. (He also wrote "The Three-Body Problem.") I'm also trying to read an enormous biography of Rasputin.

Although I have quite a number of full bookcases, these days, I prefer to go to the library to borrow books. And during lockdowns, I made extensive use of my library's e-library. However, I do buy Kindle books, mostly of the self-published variety, because I have a fondness for stories not likely to be published by a traditional publisher (also, I don't want to spend more than $2.99 for an e-book).

Know your audience... ;-) This might be the UO, but I finally read "Little Women" a few years ago, and I hated it. I thought Mrs. March was passive aggressive and controlling, not loving and caring the way her daughters thought she was. I love time travel stories and alternate history timelines. I love the whole mindfuckedness of it all, :-)

When I was growing up, one of my local stations used to run "Dobie Gillis" every weekday afternoon. I would get home from school and do my homework while I watched it. I used to love those 1950s sitcoms. It's available on Tubi; I watched a bunch of episodes last year during lockdowns.

Kemi has settled down, and I find her funnier now. A little of her goes a long way, and in the beginning, they used her a lot. She's better as a supporting character, not the main focus. Maybe he likes dominant, bitchy women. Look at Dottie. I laughed out loud several times throughout the episode. I love Bob and Tunde's friendship, and Bob's relationship with Dele. Tunde's under-the-breath comments about Abishola's mother were hilarious.