Dowel Jones

I remember reading of an interview with the Red Sox manager when Ted Williams was playing for them. He was asked if there was any friction between himself and Williams, who had a rep as being curt and stand-offish with the press. His reply: "Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter must be out of his mind." I suspect he may have heard that monologue once or twice in his career. The guy I really felt for was the one traded first off, only to be bounced around three different teams until he landed right back at San Diego. While it worked out for him, it's gotta sting a little with the realization that management really doesn't want you there, and you're a pawn in their chess game.

To be honest, though, "without really thinking" certainly serves the first guy proper. Here he is, guarding an immensely secret area with missiles that go up into the atmosphere, and a shiny object plops down in front of him in a cloud of dust, the hatch opens, and three highly-unlikely-to-be-German-soldiers look out at him. Yet, he just stares at them in slack jawed amazement and never shoulders his weapon. The other two, I'm sorry about, but dumbness deserves death, at least sometimes.

How would a person who has spent their adult life learning to hack unhackable systems develop mad martial arts skills? I was hoping Kirk would jump, and land on a balcony with an open door just five feet below. Because, you know, the FBI never seems to be able to secure a scene before a confrontation. I don't really understand Liz's obsession with her past, to the exclusion of everything else. So she finds out her mother was a terrorist that killed people indiscriminately, but was tied in with various governments, etc. (Oops, getting off track there; wrong show), and her putative father is an international bad guy too. This is what you wanted to know? How about starting your life from now and concentrating on Agnes?

Evans did have a memoir movie called The Kid Stays in the Picture. I saw it once but can't remember if it matches up to this.

It would have been a lot more fun if they would have called him The Cajun, which is an English shortening of the word Acadian. Someone, at least, woud have had some good one-liners.

Happens all the time in Scandal. And I say the same thing. Sure.... In addition, are there any facilities in DC capable of seating 100 Senators, 435 Congresspeople, plus staff as appropriate? I would think the entire business of government would move to another city for the time being. I'm aware of the secret Cold War Congress hall under that hotel in Pennsylvania, but all that would do would be to increase the level of paranoia in the country.

They all went to the Good Buffett Place. I'll bet that Trevor is playing the fast game and brought out a ringer from the Bad Place, just to say she was Eleanor and fool semi-good Eleanor into hopping on board the train. What are they going to do to him, send him to the Bad Place?

I can't believe that the lawyer would not have seen that knife in plain view in the storage unit, as shown after the police raided the place. I hope that all hell rains down on Louise and anyone else involved in that episode of LHL that gave away the secret of the girl's porn site, which appears to have led directly to her death.

It looks like the Federal Government could have used Bull's help up in Portland, Oregon.

So, Ben, the First Gentleman of Indiana thing just didn't work out, eh? I did like that Michael and Trevor have an intercom connection. What would happen if Michael asked Janet for a cactus?

Exactly. After 5 years in the minors, she should have seen players come and go. I liked the way the show portrayed the behind the scenes world of baseball. What the fans see as a team pulling together and all that, is, in reality, a cold, hard business with cold, hard decisions made all the time. Even though the players make a boatload of money. Sometimes it works, sometimes it bites management in the ass. I wonder how much it cost the production company to actually fix those mirrors. Mike doesn't live in a secured apartment complex? He should. I loved Amelia's assistant's fumbled excuse for why he doesn't have Ginny on his fantasy baseball team. And her reaction. I actually remember tuning into In Living Color one night to see Jennifer Lopez's first gig there as a dancer (fly girl). I hope interest in the series doesn't die off after the Series ends and baseball becomes an off-season interest for many people.

Angels Memorial should have its ED closed for a complete remodeling. Yes, there are other hospitals in the LA area, believe it or not. The scene where the movie star/intern is on the gurney in the ED and private citizens are crowded around filming and getting in the way was just too eyerolling to believe. A little personal history to illustrate: I recently had to go through an ED visit for an injury. First, I went through the admission process at the front desk. Admitted to the ED, I was scanned for weapons first. As far as I could see, no one except patients were admitted past that point until the patient was stabilized. So Rob Lowe and Dr. Nolan bring a patient into OSHIT (my acronym for Only Surgical Hospital In Town), and there's no MD available in the OR. Why? Because he's too busy being a boss down in the ER, where there's plenty of doctors. No problem, right? Does anyone see a titanic collision between Dr. OR, Dr. Lowe, and Dr. Harden (sorry, lack of names there) coming up? That was a piss poor security guard, there. They need to train their personnel on how to put a suspect on the ground safely without risking the loss of your weapon.

Which, of course (in Hollywoodspeak), means that somebody is gonna die.

If you build a bomb shelter into the Capitol building, and then the entire building is destroyed by a bomb, wouldn't it raise suspicions down the road when cleanup works it way through the building and they find an existing room with reinforcing rods, etc.? By the way, note to self: no more government contracting jobs. So now they have the terrorist. Who, during interrogation, will eventually reveal that either his group was not really part of the plot, or that he had help from within the US Government. Uh oh. Or, he will be killed by nefarious elements before he can ever be interrogated. McLeish definitely had an upset look on his face when Kirkman hugged him in the war room. Was he expecting a different outcome? I find it interesting that not one other country has been shown to interact with the President. No ambassadors, no skyping, no nothing.

I was just waiting for Rich Dotcom, during his plea to Weller to avoid jail, to make mention of catching the world's worst criminals. A blacklist of bad guys, as it were. Attention FBI agents: When you're hunting an extremely adept assassin, it's probably best if you leave the personal issues behind and focus on the job.

Losing out to your own star for an Oscar named after you. That's tough.

He is listed as an executive producer....

Or, I'll even posit the complete opposite. They muck history up so much that they come back to find that time travel is not only possible, but everyday, and commercialized. Oy vey. Tesla has one. Virgin Galactic has one (forget about space, let's make some real money), Disney has one at each end of the US. Microsoft had one but Windows 12 crashed and God knows where they are now. And of course there's a government agency to regulate all of these cue balls rocketing around space and time.

Note to Stella: Removing private property from an incident scene, no matter how stellar (sorry) your motives are, is theft (except for PD). Kid Hepatitis could have had a field day with CFD, particularly when her superiors played along with her malfeasance. It's probably a good thing, because then Gabby would get her Mama Grizzly on, and stir the pot to boiling, requiring plot contrivances with Chief Boden and various mucky mucks across the board getting involved. Could take a couple of episodes to resolve. Molly's is a dive? Take that, Hermann! In all honesty, I would watch an episode of Bar Rescue if they actually featured Molly's as a bit of stuntcasting. You know what would really make my day? DCFS removes Louie to a temporary family until the dispute is settled, and when they show up, preferably at the fire station, Louie breaks into a huge grin and starts jumping up and down in sheer joy.

Sooner or later, if they keep screwing it up, they're likely to come back to a future where their entire team never existed and the time traveling eye was never built.

I still have this faint image in my mind of my boyhood catechism illustration of Purgatory as a train leaving earth and making stops along the way to heaven. What curious means to get your point across.

You beat me to it, Driad. I liked the way they even tipped their hat to Lehrer with von Braun's dialogue. I appreciated even more the emphasis on his famously flexible loyalties, which have been pretty much glossed over in histories of the US space program. He was not a hero. On the episode arcs, I really hope they step it up a notch or two, because the lighthearted look at their weekly entry into time travel and the continual "fish out of water" sight gags are wearing thin already.

However, Kevin was making $2 million a year off of "The Manny", so I think he would be able to afford temporary lodgings, even at New York prices. Unless he had blown all his earnings back in LA.

A doe walks out of the woods and says "That's the last time I do that for two bucks." Is it wrong to say that was the highlight of the episode for me?

By the same token, if you're going to use historical figures, use them in at least possibly logical roles. I hardly think that Judith Campbell, whose main function in life was to be a mistress to a President and a gangster, to be the central character in a plot to waltz right into a nuclear base, steal a plutonium core, and never once mention it in her memoirs. It would seem more logical to transport back to Hanford, WA, circa April 1945, and use someone there to steal the last batch of plutonium manufactured before the end of WWII, and accomplish the same thing.