Mibbitmaker

I thought that her character went dead from starting to eat the moldy sandwich, myself.

I like to think that, while real life is sad right now, that in-universe Chandler and Monica are alive and well, having a great marriage and family.

Someone in a reaction/review video figured out the source of Logan's scars. It (apparently) was the "evil uncle" of Logan's that the family was talking about earlier, albeit with no knowledge of physical abuse on their part. That makes the most sense to me (and I also thought after watching that the scratches were from Marcia).

The Steve Martin/Martin Short episode is new. The only other time they hosted SNL together was with Chevy Chase in the 1980s, promoting "Three Amigos. This one makes sense because of their two-man show and Only Murders in the Building.

I'm one who thinks of complete death as scary as hell, and adding "peaceful" to that feels like it would be confining, getting old faster than forever in the GP ever would. And having it all be a mystery just adds to the fear. But, having grappled with that for the last 2 GPs, I do feel better that Eleanor (and, presumably the rest) had a form of continued existence, even one eerily similar to MST3K's last Comedy Central episode with the characters as lights of "pure energy". Similarly, I liked Tahani's decision. Michael... it would've made more sense for him to be born on earth, though that would've torpedoed that last scene, I suppose.

I agree about Buck Henry. I imagined them working in the closing of the final original era with Buck saying goodbye and marching the cast out the door, only fading to the picture they did show in place of the ON/OFF AIR sign. My favorite sketches of the night were the cold open (about the darker humor, I'd like to think Mr. Mike would've been proud) and the ketchup one (I was wondering, not seriously, if either Will Forte or Conan came back to write that one).

Instead of, necessarily, it being a form of purgatory, the plan would be a specific variant of reincarnation similar to the movie Groundhog Day, only instead of one day, it's an entire lifetime. It's surprisingly very close to an idea I've had of another possibility of what comes after: each person being that person, only after they die they go back to their conception and start over again, and again, etc. Allowing for free will - everyone's - there would be differences each time. The Good Place version adds the Groundhog Day element of improvement each time with an eventual heaven destination (for most, anyway) I also thought of another movie, Justifying Your Life, while watching tonight as well.

I generally agree the show was weak for the cold open (and I like political sketches) and monologue, but great after. The commercial started with my least favorite comedy subject, but became really funny shortly thereafter. There were a large amount of cameos tonight, with the exception of the ones I was hoping would be there this week: with all the talk at the hearings of the group being called the Three Amigos, it would've been great for Chevy, Steve Martin and Martin Short to reprise those roles for a quick joke about that.

I thought of that, too, when I was watching. Thinking about it now, I believe it is intentional. Notice the similarity: Brett = Brent (speaking of names).

The gender bias story reminded me of all the trouble Gilda Radner went through with male doctors being clueless about her ovarian cancer, and how that hampered her fight against the disease. And that was in the 1980s! Seemed the lesson later on was to make male doctors more responsive to women's needs in that general area. Yet here we are almost in 2020 and that narrative was clearly false. In the last segment, as soon as Wanda Sykes was describing her friend, I knew it would be Larry David. Yeah, probably 98% of the audience guessed that, but it was fun to point at the screen going, "I KNEW IT!" Perfect.

Thanks. Very helpful. I'm kind of skittish about free trials unless I get them with what I plan to keep (Netflix was good that way). I'll consider it, though.

At one point, John Oliver pointed out why Johnson isn't quite Britain's Trump. Seems like maybe Trump is America's Boris Johnson.

While I did see the movie (I have it on DVD), I haven't seen any of the VM books. Though I don't have Hulu (I can only afford my HBO and Netflix), I do want to see the new ones when they come out on video later, but I'd really like to know if it's necessary to have read the books to watch the new ones without anything being spoiled. Without spoiling the new shows in the process, of course. Thanks in advance for any help with that.

This was a perfect example of giving us very depressing news (Trump advantages despite Mueller report) in the first half, only to cheer us up wildly in the second half (the Japanese icon thingy). The way it started, I had no idea I could finish watching the show feeling gleefully amused like I did! Definitely a perfect example of what Seth Meyers would call "News We Really Need Right Now".

This was SNL's O. Henry/E.C. Comics/Twilight Zone night with all those twist endings. Added a nice extra dimension to another good one.