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I laughed out loud at the "Stick it!" GoDaddy spot.

My horrible PBS station (fuck you, CPTV) has decided to show episodes 9 & 10 only on their back-up channels which aren't available to viewers without an antenna. They aren't on PBS video yet, either. I cannot express how much I loathe CPTV and their routine bumping of shows all over the place and their cryptic "Members Choice" blocks where they don't tell you what's going to be shown. They are by far the worst PBS station I've ever encountered and it pisses me off that I can't watch NYC or Boston's stations instead.

Only on TV is the first sign of murder an unlocked door. TV killers never close the door on their way out unless they're setting up a locked room mystery.

I think the 70s might've been the high water mark of HITG character actors. Before the VCR, the huge syndication outlet of cable, and increase in serialized storytelling outside of soap operas, the same actor could appear several times on the same show as different characters and only people like us would notice.

Frain's appearances are almost reaching Mark Sheppard numbers!

I, too, am sick of "hack". I'd also like to know when "creep" became "creeper" and "snow blower" became "snow thrower". And why.

It really isn't. The Gates Foundation, and many not-really-not-for-profit groups, have been driving the "reforms" in education from K-12 to universities for years.

Same here. Maybe if they'd said "2 word name, and one of the words is NOT San" I might eventually have come up with Palo Alto.

Merde. Gigi is one of my favorite movies and I was just thinking of it the other day. "She is Not Thinking of Me" is one of the best examples of why letterboxing is better than pan and scan--you miss the crowning moment when Gaston pours the champagne down Liane's top.

I love the dog and deer chasing each other and the cat with the chicks best. But they're all adorable, even the orangutan (I'm not a fan of monkeys, chimps, apes).

Damn. Another good story ruined by an eye witness.

I had to look up paneer. I would've had to look up khoui...whatever but they explained it. They look like they should have a tasty filling so I was disappointed it's just pastry all the way through. IIRC, they were also a challenge on the U.S. version of the show but they didn't interest me enough to remember what they're called. And now that I know, I'll promptly forget because the spelling takes too much effort. (Sorry, French ancestors!)

The first time I heard the British pronunciation was in the radio (original) version of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, which imo is one of the high points of English literature. The passage concerns the Babel fish: “Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.' `But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.' `Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic. `Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”

I used to seek out and read spoilers for shows I really liked. Then one week I missed the spoilers and was surprised by a twist I didn't know was coming. At that point, I realized that 1. When I knew what was coming, that became the focus of my watching, overwhelming everything else in an episode. 2. I prefer being surprised. So now I avoid spoilers almost as actively as I used to search for them.

I've been fastforwarding through it to get to @midnight (I have the DVR set to record from TDS-1 a.m. because CC has had problems with time keeping in the past).

You bet your bippie I remember him.

OK, don't judge me too harshly, but I've watched Allegiance. Hersch lives! I'm not sure if he'll be back, but Peter Yaggeroth (sp?) has a significant recurring role.

Beginning Presidents' Day weekend early. It looks like reruns all next week.

Roget for me, too, but knew it wasn't right. I couldn't think of Bartlett's name.

Since I don't watch The Walking (or Talking) Dead, I have no idea what Kirkman's joke was. I did however giggle hysterically over Gato Malo and have renamed my cat.

Reese seems more Cartwright than Winchester to me, but his body count is much lower. As far as we know. The best things I can say for the therapy storyline are: for once, seeking help is not dismissed as something for wimps and it gives Reese more scenes than he's had in 2 seasons. I loved the return of original pair and the bookend scenes! That sort of structure and the scenes between Reese and Harold were two of the things I loved most in the first 2 seasons. I don't hate any of the other characters and I think the show needs more than just the two main characters, but this episode made me realize how much I missed those moments between Harold & John.

What a fucking horrible way to start the day--seeing the news about Jon on a local news crawler and then getting confirmation by watching last night's show. We just lost Stephen. This is so unfair.

Hollywood Reporter missed the point of Jon's bit on Brian Williams. Thier headline says Jon slammed BW for his celebu-whatever that was, instead of focusing on the actual point which was the hypocrisy and media news failure to question the reasons for the war.

Kanye finally understanding the riddle of the Sphinx was genius.

There's probably a list somewhere of default Jeopardy answers: Scottish Poetry--Robert Burns; American folk art--Grandma Moses... It reminds of years ago when my friends and I used to play Trivial Pursuit and realized that if you knew the James Bond movies you could win Silver Screen edition without knowing much else.