Glendenning

On the General Hospital spinoff Port Charles. there were vampires, and the undead walked amongst or even were regular characters and it was common, if unusual, knowledge. On GH, no one ever mentioned anything supernatural.

It is possible that you will only occupy the same TV universe as the show from which you spun-off for a few short weeks. Even if you are in the same city, those on the original show won't be aware of big news like an apartment complex being blown up. I was watching 90210 over the weekend. It's the beginning of season 9 and they have Laura Leighton guest starring for a few eps. And it bugs me that 90210 and Melrose Place supposedly take place in the same universe, at least when the spin-off began, but now they can just cast someone who played Sydney -a major MP character- on 90210 and no one seems to mind. What, is L.A. lacking in young attractive actresses? Yes, I know- suspension of disbelief.

I've learned that if I am a youngster in a Disney TV channel movie, my best friend is almost always a) opposite sex, b) different race, or c) both! Bonus points if I'm say, a Caucasian boy who hangs out with an African American girl AND an Asian American girl. Because preteen boys never find the opposite sex "icky" and prefer to hang out with other boys at least in public.

Every young girl in tv land rides her own horse or pony. She will never have to clean out the stables or actually feed the animal. Not only that, but she rarely, if ever, even has to tack it up or cool it down after a long ride. Usually there is a "stable-hand" to do that kind of stuff. She also often needs help mounting from said stable-hand. Because you know, mounting on a horse is so difficult and all, without a boost up. People also very, very, rarely wear riding helmets. And muss up that perfect 'do? Never! Horses are never balky, only spook unless its a plot contrivence to land the sweet heroine in the hospital with a big cast, and never exhibit annoying tendencies like jerking into a trot from a walk. For lessons, TV kids are always attired in what would is usually just worn at horse shows - hunt jacket, tie, shiny long boots - instead of what real-life riders wear around the barn: sweatshirts, dirty paddock boots, t-shirts, etc. Jumping is really easy, even beginners can do it fairly soon. Young, inexperienced characters can ride stallions. In real life, most riders have/compete on geldings and mares - stallions are usually barred from junior exhibitor classes. Horses have telepathy and also know right off the bat who the bad guys are and usually dump them in the mud/manure.

Plus I think they should have used the character's real name of Dorothy rather than Dodie. Much more dignified.

My brother was a big fan of the 1990s American dub of Sailor Moon in our teens. Dubbing is for ordinary viewers. Subtitles are for intellectuals and geeks.

"Baby, It's Cold Outside" - here's the real story: ""Hey what’s in this drink” was a stock joke at the time, and the punchline was invariably that there’s actually pretty much nothing in the drink, not even a significant amount of alcohol. See, this woman is staying late, unchaperoned, at a dude’s house. In the 1940’s, that’s the kind of thing Good Girls aren’t supposed to do – and she wants people to think she’s a good girl. The woman in the song says outright, multiple times, that what other people will think of her staying is what she’s really concerned about: “the neighbors might think,” “my maiden aunt’s mind is vicious,” “there’s bound to be talk tomorrow.“ But she’s having a really good time, and she wants to stay, and so she is excusing her uncharacteristically bold behavior (either to the guy or to herself) by blaming it on the drink – unaware that the drink is actually really weak, maybe not even alcoholic at all. That’s the joke. That is the standard joke that’s going on when a woman in media from the early-to-mid 20th century says “hey, what’s in this drink?“ It is not a joke about how she’s drunk and about to be raped. It’s a joke about how she’s perfectly sober and about to have awesome consensual sex and use the drink for plausible deniability because she’s living in a society where women aren't supposed to have sexual agency. Basically, the song only makes sense in the context of a society in which women are expected to reject men’s advances whether they actually want to or not, and therefore it’s normal and expected for a lady’s gentleman companion to pressure her despite her protests, because he knows she would have to say that whether or not she meant it, and if she really wants to stay she won’t be able to justify doing so unless he offers her an excuse other than “I’m staying because I want to.” (That’s the main theme of the man’s lines in the song, suggesting excuses she can use when people ask later why she spent the night at his house: it was so cold out, there were no cabs available, he simply insisted because he was concerned about my safety in such awful weather, it was perfectly innocent and definitely not about sex at all!) In this particular case, he’s pretty clearly right, because unlike in Blurred Lines, the woman actually has a voice, and she’s using it to give all the culturally-understood signals that she actually does want to stay but can’t say so. She states explicitly that she’s resisting because she’s supposedto, not because she wants to: “I ought to say no no no…" She states explicitly that she’s just putting up a token resistance so she’ll be able to claim later that she did what’s expected of a decent woman in this situation: “at least I’m gonna say that I tried.” And at the end of the song they’re singing together, in harmony, because they’re both on the same page and they have been all along. So it’s not actually a song about rape - in fact it’s a song about a woman finding a way to exercise sexual agency in a patriarchal society designed to stop her from doing so. But it’s also, at the same time, one of the best illustrations of rape culture that pop culture has ever produced. It’s a song about a society where women aren’t allowed to say yes…which happens to mean it’s also a society where women don’t have a clear and unambiguous way to say no."

My Favorite Things from "The Sound of Music"? I hate Julie Andrews.

A guy once told my sister that silk and nylons are so much sexier than boxers. She just... stared at him.

it's probably cause humiliating a woman is seen as "funny" and it's being a bit "naughty" about undergarments.

Christmas is one of the few times you still hear oldies and American Popular Standards on the radio. Advertisers don't find older people attractive as it takes more impressions to make a sale and younger people are more impulsive and willing to jump on the latest trend. Many old people don't understand that and keep complaining in the media.

A radio station where I am flipped to Christmas music yesterday. Five days before Halloween. So Much Hate...

Be a bit hard to do an "in-character" reunion with Mrs. Garrett no longer available. At least, one that would work well.

Dated/out of time aspects of works set in recent times because of the age of the creators are a constant problem. There was a 2012 book that featured two ten year old girls named Misty and Sherry. There were very few baby girls born in 2002 with those names.

Is anyone else thinking of South Park and "I'm going to take some Eric Roberts home in a doggie bag!"?

@MarkHB, I think that indicates the age of the writers of The Brady Girls Get Married.

I served on my local council. We're now "councilors" rather than councilmen.

Dodie and her female "fat" friend (who was also Buffy's "fat" friend on Family Affair)

It's "out of sight, out of mind" plus retconning. Just as how from a point onwards in the series, Bub never existed, Ernie was always Steve's son, Dodie was always Steve's biological daughter and etc.

We have only limited storage space and we get these things in batches. Sorry, not you personally, but I'm sick of dim-bulb customers whingeing about Christmas items being brought out in October-November and abusing people like me behind the checkout or service desk.

Look at the publicity shot of the family taken for the Steve and Barbara wedding episode - Dawn's panties are poking out her dress is so short!

Dodie's age is vague in Season 10, although she's younger than Dawn Lyn (much to Dawn's chagrin and humiliation).

On the other hand, people who think the world would be better with women in charge, clearly don't remember the schools full of entitled sociopaths from their schooldays. LOL at the idea that marginalized groups can never be Jacks, Ralphs and Piggys (Lord of the Flies) just because they are marginalized.

Molly Morgan was played by Brittany Murphy who died in 2009.

Some Brady episodes are missing from streaming for "music rights being cost-prohibitive". Obviously the Davy Jones episode is one.