Tom Holmberg

If the schedule isn't lying Z Living has dropped MST3000 (late Saturday they already reran episodes they showed earlier in Jan. And also dropped "Route 66". Typical Z Living move.

It was remade in 1974 with Lucille Ball and Bea Arthur.

Our local public TV channel ran the documentary "Happy Birthday, Mr Bean." Nice to see all them today.

Or Weltschmerz.

We're not German but we used it in our family as a satiric insult.

Of course almost everyone has heard the word "dummkopf." Apparently the first recorded use of the word was in 1809 by Washington Irving, so its actually an Americanism.

That wasn't the girl's character's name (it was Mei-Tung), but it would have been a great joke if she was Joyce Kim.

Possibly because it's (I believe) a special international program and English is a universal language. I assume the class is made up of students from many countries. I liked that finally someone turned the tables on Sheldon and put him down for East Texas Tech, like he has done for Princeton and MIT. It's about time.

I can wish, but somehow I doubt it.

"In 2021, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell offered $5 million to anyone who could disprove his claim that he had data showing voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Now, he must pay a 64-year-old from Nevada that award, a federal judge ruled Wednesday." https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02/22/mike-lindell-election-dispute-decision/ Bet he never pays it.

The add for Harry's razors with the guy complains that because he shaves everyday blades cost him too much, yet he's shaving like an inch of beard off. Every day?

Lucy Show is on Z Living. "Police Squad" is actually funnier than the movies. "Brady Bunch" doesn't really need to be binged, nor does "Mama's Family."

Pastor Jeff & Robin, married in real-life https://screenrant.com/young-sheldon-season-7-pastor-jeff-robin-married-real-life/

On 2/28 H&I will be showing the "Maverick" episode, "Hadley's Hunters" where Bart Maverick meets all the Warner Bros Westerns stars: Will Hutchins from "Sugarfoot", Clint Walker from "Cheyenne", John Russell and Peter Brown from "Lawman", Ty Hardin from "Bronco", and even non-Western, Edd "Kookie" Byrnes from "77 Sunset Strip" (at a livery stable named 77 Cherokee Strip). A typically unusual "Maverick" episode, which did a lot of this sort of thing.

"Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV" Emily Nussbaum ISBN: 9780525508991 The rollicking saga of reality television—an ambitious cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning New Yorker writer Who invented reality television, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre? And why can’t we look away? In this revelatory, deeply reported account of the rise of “dirty documentary”—from its contentious roots in radio to the ascent of Donald Trump—Emily Nussbaum unearths the origin story of the genre that ate the world, as told through the lively voices of the people who built it. At once gimlet-eyed and empathetic, Cue the Sun! explores the morally charged, funny, and sometimes tragic consequences of the hunt for something real inside something fake. In sharp, absorbing prose, Nussbaum traces the jagged fuses of experimentation that exploded with Survivor at the turn of the millennium. She introduces the genre’s trickster pioneers, from the icy Allen Funt to the shambolic Chuck Barris; Cops auteur John Langley; cynical Bachelor ringmaster Mike Fleiss; and Jon Murray and Mary-Ellis Bunim, the visionaries behind The Real World—along with dozens of stars from An American Family, The Real World, Big Brother, Survivor, and The Bachelor. We learn about the tools of the trade—like the Frankenbite, a deceptive editor’s best friend—and ugly tales of exploitation. But Cue the Sun! also celebrates reality’s peculiar power: a jolt of emotion that could never have come from a script. What happened to the first reality stars, the Louds—and why won’t they speak to the couple who filmed them? Which serial killer won on The Dating Game? Nussbaum explores reality TV as a strike-breaker, the queer roots of Bravo, the dark truth behind The Apprentice, and more. A shrewd observer who adores television, Nussbaum is the ideal voice for the first substantive history of the genre that, for better or worse, made America what it is today.

I vote, leave Sheldon in Germany permanently.

I liked the series but I thought it wasn't very accessible. I wish the writers had given it another pass.

I would guess anything involving the bowels might not smell so good.

Yep, just proves my theory that legal firms are funding big pharma, so the produce drugs that they can latter sue over.

Yes, some people are falling asleep while others are scared silly.

I think the government should investigate the Barkley's, so much evil occurs in their house! More than a little bit racist in the current way of looking at things.

They could show, for instance, "The Defenders" and cut back on "Perry Mason", which I like, but they show too many in a day.

Was the father Jerry Seinfeld?

The problem isn't just the weight but there's no convenient way for a single person to carry it. No handles or handholds.

Maybe he had a later date with the older woman?