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Yeah lame joke. I know. But it made me giggle.

Yeah that was my whole joke. She played Charles' stunt double.

I'm with ya. I've seen docs and read stuff about the exploitation and sexploitation of child stars as far back as Shirley Temple and Judy Garland all the way up through present day including the ones you mentioned and many more. Male and female. The more I find out the more I see the industry is far worse than I ever imagined. All for fame and money. And it's like you said, it's for the parents not the kids. Look at the pageant moms too. It's usually some fat woman trying to make her daughter something she never was. People wonder why child stars go off the rails. They've offered explanations like being unable to transition into adult roles or not being adored like when they were little and stuff like that. I think it's because they were sexually abused when they were kids. I think that's what happened to Amanda Bynes and Brittany Spears and so many others. It all fits. I listened to the Pod Meets World episode where they discussed the Quiet On Set doc and the guy who played Shawn didn't seem to think this was a widespread problem in Hollywood and was more worried about it harming the industry. There seem to be a lot of former child actors that disagree with him though. I watched Alyson Stoner's youtube series called Dear Hollywood and she touches on sexual assault. I got the feeling she wanted to say more but couldn't. I'm of the mind that maybe we should stop having people under the age of 18 in entertainment. A hundred years of Hollywood have shown us that the possibility of abuse outweighs any good that might come out of it.

Going back and watching something like The Office it's kind of amazing how many good episodes they had per season with that many episodes. Now days I feel a lot if the "prestige" television is just a formula. Filler up until the last 10 minutes and then a cliff hanger to make people come back for the next episode. They're not all like that but many are. Even with only 6 or 8 episodes.

If not it should be. Looking at Wikipedia an old show like Leave It To Beaver had something like 39 episodes per season. By the 1980s most series were around 24 per. That seems reasonable. It stayed pretty much the same until streaming hit big. Streaming flips the ratio kinda like how huge SUVs flip the ratio of mpg to gallons per mile. And the weird thing is that even with so few episodes per season it still feels like many episodes on streaming shows are filler.

Jane Lynch was stunt casting.

Right? How does this happen? How have they never had a visit from CPS or some other government agency? Usually these agencies are crawling up your sphincter at the drop of a hat but somehow the most egregious offenses go unchecked. I feel sorry for Piper on so many levels. No education, no childhood, no idea who her real friends are or who she can trust, no parental love or guidance. Piper probably questions if anyone in her life cares about her or if they just wanna get something from her. Tiffany is wacko though. I'm with the other poster who asked how she wasn't brought up on charges of sexual assault on all these minors. She's done it multiple times. That's a separate issue from the civil case that was brought by the former squad members. The authorities should follow up on that but they don't appear to be interested. I'm beginning to believe that this type behavior is so normalized in L.A. and the entertainment realm that they're blind to it. No one seems interested in Dan Schneider appearing to have a thing with underage actors or any of the other decades long problems with underage SA in the industry.

When it started the characters were preteens. Now they're in their 40s and on their third marriage with a kid in college. Longest 5 seasons ever.

KMK was in a show a few years ago called Reboot that i kinda liked. It only lasted 8 episodes tho. This is why it's hard for me to get invested in new shows. I wonder without the name recognition of Steve Martin and Martin Short if OMITB would've been given the time to find its audience.

Checking in So are 10 episodes all we're getting for season 15? Or are they gonna dump a buncha episodes in May or over the summer? What have they even been putting in Bob's timeslot during this period?

Not sure I can agree with you on Lou and Peter. Peter had always been a down to earth guy and reasonable. I felt Lou put unreal expectations on him. Then the writers had to make Peter a bad guy all of a sudden so that the audience would be OK with Lou being with another guy. I understand they had to do all that bc the actor who plays Peter had other engagements and wasn't as available but they could've handle it better. Then Lou did exactly what she got mad at Peter for when he had to be away for work. She left her girls for months at a time to go to NY. Although I never missed her and wished she would stay gone. And has Lou ever seen anything through to the end? She always off to the next shiny object while neglecting the responsibility of whatever her last big endeavor was. Lou goes through life half assing everything. I miss Ty. Amy is kind of a boring character without Ty. Then again, I miss several old characters like Ashley, Mallory and Georgie. They added a little spice to the show. Ik everyone didn't like Georgie when she arrived but I cared about what happened to her character from episode to episode. Heartland, at times, can get into the bad guy if the week rut. Where some new bad comes to town and hurts some animals. Georgie's teenage drama broke that up.

I also feel 4 years for Bob's may be pushing it too. As much as I like the show. They renew it for 4 more seasons but I never know when or if it's gonna be on. It feels like homework trying to find out if there's a new episode to watch. I may not make it to the end. Although if there's only a handful of new episodes per season, I could probably just binge them when the shows done.

They're not my fave. Some are ok.

Anyone know when Bob's comes back? We're not done for the season are we?

I'm not the only one that was bothered by Luke calling Taylor Teller, am I? Am I? Teller!