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Oops -- didn't mean to overstep the mark. Sort of got carried away, sorry. Will definitely stay on topic from now on!

Oh my gosh, thanks so much, @bankerchick! Hallmark's "happily ever after" -- shocker! Dear Lord, how can they continually insult our intelligence in this way? Did they ever tell us what kingdom Prince Ronan came from? The Dutchy of Dumbness? And as @Cetacean pointed out, where did he learn sewing skills? I've got popcorn at the ready for our real-life prince and commoner story this evening.

Fit For a Prince. God. I should have added "Isle of Incredulity" to his geographical background. However, I never found out where "Ronan" came from, because after the mean royal girl tried to sabotage our heroine by telling her the party was "casual" and the naive seamstress showed up in tee-shirt and leggings -- followed by the Prince in solidarity changing from his suit into an all-black rock-and-roll tee-shirt and jeans, I had had ENOUGH and yelled at the screen: "Hallmark, you have insulted me and the rest of your viewership for the last time!!!!" So I switched to another channel in a huff and never literally looked back. How did this pathetic excuse for a script end?

Well, I went back to it out of (my own) perverse curiosity. When will Hallmark realize that their protagonists are not Tracy/Hepburn in the love/competition department, lol?

I've got A New Year's Resolution on in the background. Male lead: "Seems we have a good balance of romance and competitiveness" CLICK

Thanks! Didn't know there was one. But I will have to work my way to actually wanting to watch them, lol. Like all the Hallmark stuff I've seen, there is just no 'there' there.

I'm going to watch Fit for a Prince this weekend because I want to know what they're going to name the country/principality this latest royal comes from. Stupidinia? The Isle of Dullsville?

Watched one of those When Calls The Heart things. Ugh, I'm sorry. Just can't say anything good. Believe me or not, I really wish I could. I guess all the mermaid hair makes it easy to go "period"-style for 1910 -- just more Edwardian-type curls. However, some of the dialogue didn't fit that era; I heard a guy say something like "I totally understand". Sloppy, really sloppy....

Thanks for this info, CTLady. Re: the bad movies -- I unfortunately watched IT WAS ALWAYS YOU. Apparently the script had Erin Krakow channeling Meg Ryan in WHEN HARRY MET SALLY during that bakery scene. "I want this cupcake with frosting on the side, I want that one with filling on top, I want.......etc." I was literally cringing.

Thanks so much for that personal list, @Cetacean. Sounds like old-school quality! Hope I can have the privilege of finding many of these to watch and enjoy.

Thanks for your response, @Cetacean. I would truly like to view those classic Hallmark movies of times past -- just because I gripe on and on now doesn't mean I don't want to experience the warm and fuzzy feelings that apparently used to emanate from this channel to its audience.

A serious and, I hope, respectful question -- how is it possible to distinguish one of these movies from another? We see the same Type A characters who never change their workaholic ways even when finally embracing a less materialistic view of life, at least according to Hallmark standards. No matter if the female and male leads wind up teaching yoga in a commune, they will still find time to champion the spirit of competition in some fashion, most notably during "play time" -- "I beat you in the snowball fight!" There is never a truly 360 turnaround. I find the channel's corporate culture very stulfiying. We all know their favorite word is "pitch", lol. For me there is nothing remotely romantic or charming about Hallmark. I can barely watch even for snark purposes. I understand they used to have true emotional resonance years and years ago. I mean, on an actual human level!

A gated community home in Florida that one guy "picked" had a pool table. During the tour he told David "Gee, this is great, since I've been playing pool all my life". What a coincidence, lol.

And the wife looked like Kathy Bates.

To me they're all the same movie. Every. Single. One.

Whatever happened to that science fiction series Hallmark was supposed to be involved in? You know how I continually natter on about the unsettling references to outer space and aliens in their movies, Christmas and otherwise. This is why I always say it's the channel untouched by human hands. A fascinating concept to be sure but quite frightening as well.

Honestly I couldn't confirm if that's the title. They all run together in my mind. That includes the plots too of course lol.

Only on Hallmark could a guy be considered an individualist by choosing a life in advertising (with the endless "pitches" and assorted corporate bullshit) instead of becoming a lawyer like his father expected. Don't ask me to remember the name of this one; of course it had Christmas in the title. Oh yeah, and also -- only on Hallmark is it considered "romantic" when the leads think of themselves as "a great team". I'm thinking of Benjamin's (Dustin Hoffman) reply to Elaine in The Graduate after she tells him that her pipe-smoking boyfriend said they'd make a great team: "Oh, no, he said THAT?"

Channel surfing and came upon this Holly & Ivy exchange: Sick mother: "I want you to take care of my children after I'm gone" Female lead: "But you don't know me that well" CLICK

Back at you, @Ashforth. Thanks so much.

Happy Holidays to all the wonderful and witty people on this thread. Wishing you safe, magical and joyous adventures going forward into the New Year.

Turner Classic Movies is running THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT this afternoon! Bittersweet, charming, just wonderful. I'm sure it's a favorite of many Baby Boomers, including myself, here on this board. If anyone hasn't seen this lovely film, please do. You will experience genuine human emotion -- laughter and tears. (and won't that be a change of pace from Hallmark, lol?)

Sam Page looks like a young Ronald Reagan. With the same amount of talent.

Cross Country Christmas -- farmer with a couple of small children finds two strangers (the romantic leads) asleep in his truck so what does he do? Invite them in for a pancake breakfast, of course. Poured onto the griddle, however, the pancakes looked like styrofoam.

Cross Country Christmas -- WHERE DID MAX GET THE TRACTOR?? Did you catch when he told her that his father couldn't express emotion to the family because "he was from another generation"? But it seemed Max was in his 30's, which would make Dad a relatively free and easy Baby Boomer, not some stern, taciturn, Great Depression baby.