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"Impossible Child" sounded like "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished" from Wicked. I liked the song "Impossible Child" and I'm sorry it was cut, but I can also understand why it was cut. I still think it should have been in the movie.

My comment was more about Ferris's original plan for the day. At the start of the day, I don't think Ferris had anything more in mind than one final skip day, and his friend really needed to get out and do something fun/out of the ordinary on a school day and enjoy himself.

I wish they did this slightly differently. Instead of CBS picking 10 episodes, I wish every episode was a possibility, and then seeing which 10 episodes out of the 200 plus were the fan favorites, but I do not work for CBS. My absolute favorite episode was not listed. https://tvline.com/news/blue-bloods-release-date-september-return-fan-favorite-episodes-1235036380/

The timeline for this show is a bit messed up, but I think it's still too early for Disney World.

I think it's because they insisted on giving Dean something to do/a plot line. Dean's story didn't really add anything. I would have liked to have seen how the firing tested Bill's friendship. Show Bill struggling/being torn between his wife and his best friend. Possibly show him trying to sneak around to see his friend. It would have been more interesting than Dean and Cory building the soap box derby car.

My guess is the other dog owner involved is not a heartless monster who is going to take puppies away from the mother before six to eight weeks, when it is safe to separate puppies from the mother and have them go to new homes. Due to TV Land Logic/Plot Reasons the day the other dog owner decided to drop off the six to eight week old puppies was also the same day Bonnie went into labor. Labs usually live on average to be 10 to 12 years old, so Dickens is well within the normal life span for his breed. Dickens being alive and well is not because of plot reasons/TV Land logic.

My thought was, "It's like Leonard has been reading this message board." I'm so happy we got to see the puppies, and they are adorable. I am looking forward to seeing who gets the other puppies. I am still rooting for Leonard to get one. It can be a pet/mascot/therapy dog for the halfway house. Larry is finally starting to grow and become a better person, which was wonderful. I hope it continues. I liked the story with Will and the younger characters, and especially the policeman. There was a definite theme of found family/adoption. Geordy is very much Will's father and I liked the the police officer is going to be the same (in a more official capacity) for the orphans.

YES!! Lillian being that rude seemed completely out of character for her. Her lines/dialogue would have made much more sense and been more in character for Bill. When Karen showed up at thier house, Lillian should have at least asked the girl's name and then politely and firmly said something along the lines of, "Karen, do your parents know where you are and that you're alone? You can talk to Dean in school tomorrow. Goodbye." There's no way they would have given Dean the lead with only a few days/a week to go before opening night. I get it's a sitcom/TVLand, but I am not willing to roll with it. That's too far for me. I wish they had saved Bruce's plotline for another episode, and we got to spend more time on Dean and the theatre kids. Demonstrate that the theatre kids are unpopular misfits and that Dean fits in really well with them. Show Dean torn between enjoying his new friends and the popularity he risks giving up by being with them. (basically, I want "Square Dance" but with theatre kids instead of Kevin's dance partner who was into zoology/entomology). Also, Bruce's plotline has a major flaw. In 1969 Alabama, the odds are pretty low that the incbumbent would be a Republican. This is still the era of the solid Democratic South (granted, it's towards the end of it, but still very much within that era). I love the idea of the plotline, but it doesn't work historically. I actually wish that plotline had been the whole episode. Show Bruce supporting a candidate that Bill disagrees with and Kim protests against. Have the argument between Bruce and Kim about trying to work within the system and cause change from within as opposed to protesting from the outside. Show Dean torn between his older siblings and how awful it is for him to watch them fight. Still have all the father/son stuff with Bruce and Bill, just find a way to make it more historically accurate. It's a common problem with this series. They try to do multiple plotlines and end up shortchanging them.

Keep in mind, this is based on the ideology of the era: My guess is that she can get away with working while he's still working, because she can say she's helping out so the family can afford little extras. No one in her social circle needs to know how much she's making and how much satisfaction she gets from her career and having an identity beyond wife and mother. I'm not sure if she can use that excuse when he's retired. I'd imagine there would be more pressure on her to quit, to stay at home and take care of her husband, to travel and do things they couldn't do while he was still working. I suppose she could use the excuse you suggested of trying to bring in a little more money because his pension won't cover everything they want to do. What were the pills? Were they just generic "it's television and drugs=bad?" It's a shame. Daniel wants a real relationship (or at least as close to one as they could get given the time and place) and I'm not sure if Leonard really wants that or is ready for it.

Bill throught it was about race (the swinging didn't start until the Black couple left), but it wasn't about race, because there was another Black couple there. Dean's teacher correctly thought that Bill and Lillian would not be interested in that kind of party. My understanding is that Vietnam Veterans received less generous benefits than thier WWII or Korean War counterparts. They did not get nearly as much money/coverage for tution or other benefits. I'm not sure why, but that's what I've read.

I liked the idea of the episode, but not the execution. 1969 seems far too early for a key party, especially one in Montgomery Alabama. New York, San Fransisco, L.A, those cities would maybe be the absolute edge of plausible. Bill's unease socializing with white people didn't quite ring true based on the industry he's in. The entertainment industry was far more mixed and integrated than most, so it seems as though he would have spent more time around White people in a quasi-equal capacity than other Black people in that time and place. Also, unless he's teaching at HBCU, the faculty where he would be teaching would be a mix of White and Black professors. If they wanted make Bill uneasy and uncomfortable around White people socially, have him spend the entire dinner on edge, thinking almost everything is a potential slight, and then looking to Lillian who will nonverbally let him know that everything fine's and it isn't what he thought. I wished we had gotten to see Bruce, Kim, and Dean interacting together for an extended period of time. We really don't know what the silbing dynamic is like when it's the three of them together. Maybe the only theatre still showing Easy Rider is further away, as is the party Kim wants to go to. The three of them end up having a crazy adventure together, instead of Dean going off on his own and Bruce and Kim having a heart to heart talk.

I like that idea. I'm not sure I would call him evil. I would say he was entitled, self-absorbed, a total jerk, and someone so awful that multiple people would easily have a motive if he was murderded.

I was so excited when I read this! (This also confirms @giovannif7's link and provides a bit more information) https://deadline.com/2023/07/grease-rise-of-the-pink-ladies-vod-dvd-release-cancellation-paramount-plus-removal-1235447103/#:~:text=Grease%3A Rise of the Pink Ladies premiered on Paramount%2B on,bar people from discovering it. I know what I'll be asking for this holiday season. Maybe if enough people buy it, that will demonstrate interest and someone with power will bring back the show for a second season. A girl can dream.

I would totally watch a series that's Leonard and Daniel running the halfway house with the new housekeeper. Also, I want to know more about the new housekeeper and her background. She seems like a wonderful accepting person and I'd love to know what shaped her to become the person she seems to be. It's very strange to see late 1950s/early 1960s clothing, but late 1960s language and issus.

@AnimeMania Thanks for the information. “The Librarians: The Next Chapter” sounds great! I can't wait to see how far in the past the librarian is from. (Anyone want to make a random guess/prediction). The show may be delayed due to the WAG and SAG strike, but I will be excited to watch it whenever it starts.

Because this is the internet: rape and non-consensual sex are horrible inexcusbile things. With that disclaimer out of the way- I think the scene in the car at the end is ambiguous and open to intrepretation. My take on it was that she just assumed something that happened, because from her perspective why wouldn't it? She knows she's popular and attractive, and he's a teenage boy, so of course he did something. She's possibly used to that kind of thing happening to her or other people, which is really sad, wrong, and messed up on every level. I still think they passed out in the car and nothing happened, but there's strong evidence to support a variety of different interpretations.

Jake is a very much a creature of the 1980s (which is another way of saying problematic as hell for a modern audience). My point was that I think there's a strong possibility nothing happened with Caroline and Ted. If something happened it would have been date rape (which is horrible and wrong on every imaginable level), but I'm not convinced that they had sex in the car.

I thought that would also be covered under the general category of pc issues (because wow does this movie has a ton of them. I knew it was a different time, but still). That being said, I still love the ending when Jake picks regular Samantha over supermodel looking Caroline.

Quick disclaimer: Rape and sexual assault are horrible, despicable acts that should not be tolerated. With that out of the way, here is my slightly crazy theory: I'm not sure anything actually happened in the car with Farmer Ted and Caroline. I think there's a very good chance both of them passed out before anything happened. She says he was wild, but could refer to crazy car stunts/driving in the parking lot. Ted assumes something happened, but he doesn't remember any of it. She doesn't really remember what happened either and says the best part was waking up in his arms. Unlike some of the other John Hughes movies, the years have been especially harsh to this one.

I really hope we actually get to see the puppies. Maybe Leonard will take one in as sort of a mascot/pet for the halfway house.

I would watch that series! That to me is one of the biggest tragedies of the series. Leonard would be a fantastic vicar, but he isn't allowed to be one. He'll still try to help people who need it most in whatever way he can.

Didn't Mrs. C have a line something like "[the neighber said] the puppies will be our responsibility?" Either the neighbor was blustering/making an empty threat, or there are puppies already on the way. Either way, I would be on board with a new puppy.

I am not proud of this, but I will admit it and I try to console myself with the fact that I am only watching what the creative team put on screen and I am not seeking things out online. When it comes to the show, I spend more time in the shallow end of the pool than I probably should.

My biggest problem with the episode was that it had a chance to touch on something real and relevant to the era, and didn't for whatever reason. Quick Disclaimer: I understand that control freaks can be found among any race, ethnicity, religion, gender, what not. You had generations of smart driven Black women, but due to racism/segregation and economic status they had very options open to them. The church and church choirs became an outlet for that drive and ambition. I really wish the show would have gone into that. It wouldn't have taken much more than a line of dialogue from a character or a bit of voiceover from Dean.

This is me totally overthinking the situation, but also answering your question: My understanding is that the Ooompa-Loompas were fleeing a bad situation. When Wonka offered them employment and a safe place to live, they welcomed the opportunity to move to what they thought was a better place.