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No, you wouldn't. Someone just seeing the commercials on tv would not necessarily realize this was a musical because the commercial I've seen does not make it obvious. Not everyone is into Broadway or nor would they automatically google the movie. I have relatives who've seen the commercial and assumed it was related to the WOO but did NOT know it was a musical.

I think the first film implied that it might be possible, but nothing was ever said for certain.

People who have little to no interest in Broadway musicals probably don't know it's a musical. They might have only read the book or just see the obvious relation to The Wizard of Oz.

I was deeply saddened by that being a TS. FJ was an instaget. Mythology is usually a good subject for me. That's the correct answer to pretty much every clue about a person. Mikey is a her, not a him. Murder Hornet! Murder Hornet! (That is all.)

I don't give a shit. I like how they handled Mary's character on Young Sheldon and I wouldn't have wanted to watch a show with Sheldon's flawed memories being accurate representations of his parents. That would not have interested me in the least and is partly why I didn't start watching YS until I saw some of the second season's reruns in syndication. I think Mary's behavior in this episode was realistic and not part of some scheme to build Georgie up at all. Ymmv, of course.

And I don't really care why Thor wasn't there. Maybe he doesn't like musicals. Maybe he was yelling with his son. Doesn't affect the story one bit for me. We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. I wasn't sure if she was pregnant at the time the episodes were filmed or was on maternity leave by then. But I would call being pregnant/on maternity leave a personal issue because I don't view that phrase as necessarily a negative thing. ymmv

Had to look at the archives because fucking FOX45 ran Family Feud at 7 for some idiotic reason. I would've gotten FJ right away. Would've done okay, but not great, with the rest of the game, too. I did get Mercury dime, escudo, Olduvai Gorge, fusillade and Brighton. I vacillated between Jordan and Morocco for that clue and chose the wrong one. (I thought Morocco had a King Hussein at one point but turns out is was Hassan.) Well, Carrie Nation had a hatchet, quite famously, so you were halfway there. 🙂

Flower wasn't in the first few episodes of last season. I know that was due to the actress' personal issues but it worked for storyline purposes as well. I just see this as actually more logical than having every main ghost in every episode, personally. It doesn't really bother me. I just figure sometimes they're off doing their own thing in another part of the mansion/grounds. Obviously it does bother other people, though.

I don't remember seeing it after maybe the late 1990s/early 2000s. Not saying they haven't shown it in my market, just that I haven't seen it. Ugh, AI.

Well, I did briefly think of the Spruce Goose for Friday's FJ but discounted it for some reason. (The fishermen and ghost hunters part of the clue, probably.) Don't remember what I ended up saying, but obviously it was wrong as hell. I did pretty well otherwise. Ran 3 categories (Tooling Up, Friends and Last Lines) and got all but one clue in 6 others (American Wife, Highways, Animals, Sculptors, "M"iscellany and Songs). And I got a whopping 10 stumpers: Abby Wampach, awl, The Comeback, fiat & fat, diefy & defy (although I did put them in the past tense since the clue said "made", not "make"), The House at Pooh Corner, Donatello (my favorite Renaissance sculptor), Maya Lin, Miss Moneypenny and scandal. When Paul answered Michelangelo instead of Donatello, I told him it was a different ninja turtle.

Thanks for the info. It's an area in which I don't have much knowledge so the insight is appreciated. Although I do think there probably is some element of having so many characters making it hard to fit all of them into every episode in a logical way as well.

I had begun to think, by the end of the 3rd episode, that this would turn out to be a "Strangers on a Train" sort of situation, only with all three participants actually participating, so the resolution did not surprise me at all. (Especially since there was a season of Unforgotten which used this very conceit to connect three seemingly unconnected murders.) Still, I enjoyed the conclusion a lot. I thought the series started off pretty slow, but I'm so glad I stuck with it.

I haven't seen it in decades.

The whole point of a consolidation loan is to try and take the balances from high interest credit cards/loans and roll them into one loan with a (hopefully) lower interest rate. It doesn't suddenly give you a whole lot of money to have fun with. It can, if done sensibly and responsibly, help make one's payments more manageable but it doesn't make the debts go away. So yeah, those commercials are ridiculous.

Do you know that for sure? As in, have any of the actors for this show stating that is how their contracts work? Because it does vary from show to show. Do we know that this is actually happening or is it just speculation from various commenters?