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OK, this isn't a baseball park - but Cleveland now has the worst name ever for an NBA arena. Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse, anyone? *GAG*

I will never, never not love Hammy. His banter with Rosie (Jim Rosenhaus) and observations have always been a high point of my summers, maybe even more so this season because the Indians have been so disappointing. Personally, I think he should have his own statue in the ballpark along with Feller, Thome, Doby, etc. Hammy is a treasure.

Poor lady - that's probably what I would do given the chance to throw out a ceremonial first pitch. Yikes!

Triumph was released in September 1980. Thriller was released in November 1982.

Yup, I had the song stuck in my head for days!! Someone even wrote a blog post about the two ads using the same song: https://www.stealingshare.com/tv-ads-using-the-same-exact-song/

Have any of you read this book? It's definitely worth a read if you are a TV commercial fan.

Guilty!!!

THANK YOU!!!! The points you just mentioned have always bothered me. Plus, wouldn't she have recognized his voice just by those prank calls he made to her when he first learned she had put out an ad for a housekeeper? I guess most of the happenings in that movie just flew over my head when I first saw it as a middle-schooler. I will give them credit for not having the parents get back together at the end. Thank goodness.

Oh my gosh, that's it. I must have seen it at some point as a kid growing up in the 1980s and it stuck in my brain. Thanks for posting it.

I went to see Captain Marvel with absolutely no expectations going in. My nephews were on their spring break and out of school, plus they love anything Marvel. I'm not a huge fan of the superhero genre, so I was surprised at how much I liked this one.

Yes, I definitely remember that one. Along the same lines, I seem to remember four friends in a car, all drinking beer, driving down the street and they all turn into skeletons. Did that one really exist or did I just imagine that one when I was a kid? More recently:

I've seen Steven Curtis Chapman twice - once in 1999 at the Akron Civic Theatre and once in 2005 at Cleveland State University's Convocation Center (now the Wolstein Center). The first time he toured with Geoff Moore. The second time two acts were on his bill that were relatively unknown at the time - Chris Tomlin and Casting Crowns. I saw Hall & Oates with Todd Rundgren at the Tower City Amphitheatre in 2002. At what was then called Gund Arena (recently renamed as Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse - the STUPIDEST name I've ever heard, but that's another rant for another day), I saw Sarah Brightman on her La Luna Tour in 2000, Billy Joel and Elton John on their Face to Face Tour in 2003 and Relient K in 2011. I had a lot of fun at each show - no complaints - but as much as I love music, I am not a big concert-going person. If I'm going to an event, I'd rather go to baseball games.

Wow, four pages in and no mention yet of the Girl Talk books? Each book had a hot pink cover and a different cover picture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Talk_(books) I always enjoyed the SVH spinoff series than the original series - Sweet Valley Kids, which featured the Wakefield twins and friends in elementary school, and Sweet Valley Twins, which saw them in junior high. Someone upthread also mentioned Sleepover Friends!! I loved that series and no one I know of seems to remember it. Going old school, my mom (who was a student nurse - now a retired RN) bought several books in the Cherry Ames, Student Nurse series. Though dated, I found them to be enjoyable.

As a kid growing up in the 80s, this is the one I remember the most next to "This is Your Brain on Drugs":

Ben Stone is dead, but as of now, Michael Moriarty is still with us. He is retired from acting and living in British Columbia. He had a pretty bad falling out with Dick Wolf back in 1994, so that's why he never returned to make an appearance on any L&O shows.

Is this creepy doctor what we have to look forward to next season? Noah being kidnapped for the 80 millionth time? Another scandal at Hudson U? Would it hurt them to hire new writers to get even a scintilla of a fresh idea? *crickets*

Agreed!!

Better yet, why not do what Maytag did and get a new Mr. Whipple? Of course, no one could truly fill the shoes of the late (great) Dick Wilson, who in addition to playing Mr. Whipple for many years played The Drunk on Bewitched (and stole every scene he was in). He was also the father of Melanie Wilson (Jennifer Lyons Appleton, Perfect Strangers). Maytag had several actors throughout the years playing the iconic repairman - Jesse White and Gordon Jump, for example. Why couldn't Charmin do the same thing and get rid of those annoying cartoon bears for good???

Do we have a sports forum here? If not, here is a recent sports blooper that this poor woman will never, ever live down:

I don't think so. Here it is:

I'm surprised no one has mentioned probably the most famous commercial Folgers Coffee ever did - "Peter Comes Home For Christmas". Yes, they were all actors and "Peter" probably is a grandfather by now - but it gets me every single time!!!

Yup, and Maureen McGovern also played the singing nun in Airplane which starred Robert Hays, of course.

That reminds me of the time some channel (I think it was either A&E or the History Channel) was airing a show about Hitler's rise to dictatorship. The first commercial during one of the breaks was for VW and the voiceover said something about Germans and their ingenuity. It was one of those moments where you had to laugh and groan at the same time. Yikes!

I am so glad I didn't watch this with my folks. It would have been way too uncomfortable to hear those terms spoken aloud while being in the same room as my dad. Thank goodness for DVRs. 😂 When the scandal first erupted, I was a senior in high school. I think I was well into my first year of college before things started to settle down. Unfortunately, I share the same first name as the former intern, so I heard my fair share of jokes. "So, where's Bill?" is about the tamest one I heard. Actually, to this day, when I meet a new Monica/Monika, the first thing I ask her is if she was teased during the whole Clinton/Lewinsky scandal. The answer is always YES. Then we commiserate. It opens up a dialogue. Another funny memory is around Christmas of 1998, I went shopping with my mother at BJ's Wholesale (write your own joke). I was looking in the book section and they had a paperback copy of the Ken Starr report. Attached to it was a tag that said, "Makes a great Christmas gift!" I couldn't stop laughing.

That reminds me - another couple I totally loved who remained stable for the entire nine seasons was Frankie and Mike Heck (Patricia Heaton and Neil Flynn) on The Middle. The Hecks were not unlike my own family in many ways. Money was tight but their love for each other, and their kids, was never in doubt. P.S. I can never hear Boston's "More Than a Feeling" now without picturing Mike singing it in his car!!! LOL!!!