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This was an archive game for me, but thankfully not being able to see the pictures wasn't a factor; I either knew it from the text or wouldn't have known it even with the picture. The grey TS surprised me bit, as did Lake Nicaragua. I missed the Longfellow and Accent TS, Tom Ford, and three Disney songs, so had just a so-so first round. Same with DJ; I only ran "age" and theatre, missing three each in writers and mysteries and two each in the others. To top it off, I didn't know FJ. I've done far worse, but this was just not my game.

You can still have a flip phone, it just can't be 3G. AT&T automatically sent me a free replacement (4G) flip phone a couple of months ago, and nothing changed with my plan, so you should call them.

Which is why I don't get all the "I missed it" blubbering when a parent isn't present the first time a baby does something; the first time each parent sees it happen is still the first time they experience it, so who cares if someone else had that experience first? Unless they look 40, I don't care about casting adults as teenagers; acting, like any skill, improves with experience, so I'd rather have someone older and better than someone who isn't as good but happens to be the right age.

I generally agree. I think some shows lend themselves to a climactic or even shocking ending, but I think a lot would be best served by leaving the audience with the sense these characters will keep doing the same things we've long loved them for, we just won't be peeking in on them anymore. In those cases, pairing multiple characters up with a romantic partner out of the blue, shipping one or more characters off to a new job in a new city, and/or killing a main character is usually just a tired over-reach that fails to satisfy.

Yes, that is clearly the production answer, and it's just part of TV that limited set space dictates location. And I don't even think it was a big deal - again, TV - but it would have been a bonus to toss in a line explaining why they (as the real people in a real situation we're supposed to pretend exist) didn't want to just follow everyone downstairs and continue the ceremony there like any two people with functioning brain cells. Without an explicit statement, I can fanwank Dan and Louise were so pleased Jackie offered to marry them - despite the conflicting feelings she'd have in any natural universe but apparently don't exist in this increasingly ridiculous one - and the tornado, dress problems, etc. brought home how all this pomp and circumstance was meaningless to begin with, so they said Yep, you do it here and now, got the official part done, and then gathered with their loved ones. As for why Louise changed, I'm not sure why anyone who did the whole traditional wedding dress thing wouldn't want to get comfortable after it's done. All the women in the wedding party had changed upon returning home, freeing themselves of their get-ups. (The men in the wedding party had just loosened their costumes - except Mark, who stayed done-up as is perfectly in character - because fashion is sexist like that.) She put her veil back on to dance in the kitchen, which is cute, and I thought she was in a black top and pants, but even if it's a black dress, she's in what is now going to be her home. Does she really need to put on a flowery frock because it happens to be wedding day? She probably just grabbed whatever comfy clothes she had there, and black being basic probably constituted most of what she had there other than jeans, lounge pants, pajamas, and t-shirts.

That's my rule with shoes, too; it's how I keep myself in check, because great shoes abound, but not only do I only have two feet, I spend 95% of my time barefoot (I work from home). My shoe racks hold about 40 pairs, so that's my permanent limit. Books popped up in a lot of answers, and I have a lot of those, too, but I didn't put them on my list because books are of practically infinite variety; I don't feel like getting another one is repetitive (especially since almost everything I read is non-fiction, so it's not like I'm reading the same basic mystery over and over or something). But I have one body, and there are only so many styles and colors of shoes and pajamas in existence to put on that body, and I only like socializing with certain people, so would never use all my serving dishes at once (and, again, there are only so many options out there to begin with). So those are the things I consider an impulse that must be checked in terms of my urge to accumulate whenever I think Cute!

Thankfully, because recipes are largely not subject to copyright (and a list of ingredients and utilitarian instructions is never able to be copyrighted), I've always been able to find an ATK/CC recipe online with a simple search - which is generally easier than the hoops one has to go through to get it directly from the source.

I've seen II and III quite a few times (IV only twice), and I agree Perkins's performance in II is fantastic; there's a sweetness and optimism when Norman first returns that's impressive to pull off given how everyone last saw the character, and then his portrayal of Norman's confusion and fear as the gaslighting gets under way is heartbreaking at points.

Gods, yes; I said more than once to my friend, "These people all deserve to die." Yes, in addition to Laurie being sidelined and the residents of Haddonfield being stupid, that's what had us most yelling at the TV. Before it started, my friend wondered how the hell he's going to make it out of that house*, and I said, "Dude, we saw his chopped-off head roll down a hill in H20; obviously, nothing kills him," waving it away like all the other impossible survivals one must endure with slasher franchises, before remembering, no, 2018 wiped all that out. He can be caught, and he can be killed. *I thought he was going to steal the firefighter's clothes and walk out unnoticed, and was so pissed off when instead he just waltzed out of there as himself and took out an entire unit in 30 seconds. I also didn't buy the kids who knew nothing about Michael Myers. Based "just" on killing his sister, the Meyers house was someplace the kids in the original dared each other to walk up to. Even after 40 years, the Halloween spree killing of 1978 would be similarly used to scare each other each year; it's Haddonfield, not much else happens there worth talking about.

I learned that from Beaches:

Yes, that is the one massive problem with retconning the original and pretending all the sequels never happened, that Michael was captured in 1978 and remained locked away until he escaped 40 years later -- Laurie is, as Karen suffered through and tried to make her daughter understand, a nutjob, convinced for absolutely no reason that Michael is someday going to break out and come after her, when really she was just one of several random babysitters that night.

"'The Conners' star Katey Sagal recovering after being struck by a car" is the headline. The Conners is the show she's currently on (and she joined the cast in a recurring role back in season one [it's now season four]), and Wednesday's episode was about her character marrying into the family. Seems logical to me. If Rebel hadn't been canceled, I'd have picked that one, since she played the lead, but it was short-lived; The Conners is what she's currently associated with.

Yes. If someone says they never came across it, I believe them, but this idea that awareness and the resulting criticism of the lyrics didn't exist in any significant form until now is ridiculous, given how often the song popped up in "Songs With Offensive Lyrics" articles in mainstream publications, never mind forum discussions.

I thought this one kind of sucked. My friend signed up for the Premium Plus Peacock plan and will cancel it within seven days, so we'll have watched it for free, so that's fine, and I probably wouldn't even be mad if it had been safe to pay cinema prices and yell at the screen along with the rest of the audience, but it was not good. I hope it's just a lull in the middle of the trilogy* and the next one kicks ass (especially with Laurie extra motivated by what happened at the end), because otherwise I will be hella pissed the kick-ass 2018 ending wasn't the actual ending. *For any X-Files fans, I likened it to the "Blessing Way" entry of the Anasazi/Blessing Way/Paper Clip trilogy, and my friend said that perfectly described it - it's fine, it sets some stuff up, but you always skip over it during a re-watch. There were a couple of good scares, I liked bringing back original Lindsey and the nurse and that they nicely wove Dr. Loomis into the retcon of the original, and I appreciated the commentary on vigilantism, but it was a tremendous letdown - we go from three generations of Strode women using teammwork and more brain than brawn to this penis posse of random dudes and their random weapons. The next one will presumably get Laurie out of the damn hospital and doing something. She was barely in this one, and she was incapacitated the whole time. The hell? That is not why I watch. Again, I'm going to go with optimism for the third film, since the three-film arc was planned from the beginning for this revival. But this one on its own? A big ball of meh. Kudos to Jamie Lee Curtis doing the whole film looking like someone who'd just been through all this shit would look. We need more of that, so that it's not cause for kudos, it just is.

Eh, it happens sometimes. A role is iconic, or it's in a movie I watch dozens of times/TV show I watch for many years, I haven't seen the actor in very many other things, etc. -- sometimes circumstances combine so that actor and role meld in the mind such that the connection always exists, no matter how many other roles I see the actor in. It's exceedingly rare for me to become distracted by it - I generally see them turn up in something else, think, "Hey, it's [character]," and then get caught up in who they're playing now - but Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates is definitely in that tiny percentage for me. Of course I understand he's playing a completely different character in a completely different film, but there's that little part of my subconscious that's waiting for the reveal he's actually a psycho.

Another archive game for me, as I'll be heading to a friend's house when the episode starts. I have no idea how I'd have done in the Movie Titles Through Pictures category, but I'm giving myself credit for three. The only other one I'm assuming on is "stack of Bibles" - depending on the picture, I think the BMS prompt would have led me to it (my first answer was just "the Bible"), so I'm counting it as a get. Other than that, I either know the picture wouldn't have helped (e.g. dugong) or I didn't need it (e.g. Trinity, Big Sur). The God TS surprised me (even I guessed that one correctly). This was a decidedly meh game for me. I ran the "Eye" and quotations categories, but that was it in the first round. I missed two each in books and swear, and one each in the other two. In DJ, I only ran impassable. I missed three in words, two in potpourri, figure I'd have missed another two in movies, and one each in high/low and libraries. I had no idea for FJ, though; I've never heard of those books, and none of the collections I came up made sense with being told the same way each time, so I didn't even have a guess.

I have three answers to that: shoes, pajamas, and serving dishes. If I have an "Ooh, cute!" reaction to any of those, I have to talk myself down.

The flip side annoys me, too, fans thinking they're entitled to the family's expressions of grief. I remember when Luke Perry's daughter was getting "Why haven't you said anything?" type messages on social media after his stroke. Seriously, people? She had to rush home from Malawi to be with her family when he died, but even if she was right here the whole time, she was a teenager whose dad was dying. When she posted the day after his death, she expressed gratitude for the beautiful messages, and said, "I’m not really sure what to say or do in this situation, it’s something you aren’t ever given a lesson on how to handle, especially when it’s all happening in the public eye. So bear with me and know that I am grateful for all the love. Just, being grateful quietly."

That's exactly it, as Bruce Helford and Dave Caplan said in an interview posted in the Media thread (and that first part is just how Helford responded when a writer pointed out there had been a tornado episode in an early season of Roseanne):

I'll be watching football tonight, so this was one of my two weekly archive games. Thankfully there weren't many clues with visual aids I couldn't see, and I either didn't need them to get it right (e.g. a picture of Montezuma or Tornado Alley) or wouldn't have known even with that extra help (e.g. a picture of Selena Gomez). The feet TS surprised me, and thinking people would crush bugs with their teeth even more. And I never would have predicted Raleigh would go unanswered. The footlocker TS surprised me a bit, too, as did couch, but not like those two. The Maude TS just bummed me out; I loved that show. I only ran NPR and containers in the first round, but I wasn't bad, missing two in TV and one each in the rest (and I'm okay with not knowing "ballot selfie", although my guess was just as obnoxious; I missed the "a" and read "known as 'ballot this'" and guessed "ballot boasting"). I did well in DJ; I ran twister, verbs, and N-P-R, and missed two each in songs and murder (but, hey, now I know what The Alienist - which I've only heard of, never read or seen - refers to), and one in geography (I picked the wrong South African capital). FJ was close to an instaget, so another good game for me.

Also, David's mom is tall, and Mark (the elder) was a good five inches taller than David. The complexity of recessive genes are usually enough to explain away casting weirdness, and I'll indeed go with it here - although, yes, it is quite noticeable now when Mark (the younger) towers over his mom and would over his dad as well. But, it happens. Mark doesn't look like a Conner-Healy at all, but again - it's TV, and it does happen in real life (I have a friend who is the blonde child of a brunette and a redhead, as is her brother; with both, one has to squint to find resemblances).

I understand all the reasons they don't want a toddler on set, and I certainly don't miss her, but they should toss in occasional references to her. The wedding would have been an ideal opportunity for that; Dan and Louise could ask Becky if she's sure she doesn't want Mary to carry her down the aisle with her, and Becky say thanks, but she'd probably get fussy at a wedding, so she'll just stay with Emilio and his aunts.

I went with compassion. Starts with a C, anyway.

I think that's what is going to be the storyline, now that she's moving in (she didn't move in during COVID, she just stayed there for a while).

Baby's breath? Is this a 2021 wedding arrangement or a 1984 prom corsage? I instinctively rolled my eyes at "Mrs. Conner", as I don't know one person who'd change their name after 60+ years just because they got married, but then checked myself that I don't know enough about Louise to say she wouldn't be into that, so I'm going with it. And I don't know why Dan would want to get married in a church given his consistent rejection of organized religion, but, again, whatever - these people are rather unimaginative, and just do things the way they were traditionally done (again - baby's. breath.). At least this wedding stuff is done, and we can - hopefully - get to finally acknowledging some nuanced feelings among the kids when Louise moves in and starts making it her house, too. I'm also glad to get to this next phase of Darlene and Ben's relationship, where they have to figure out how to deal with each other now that he's not her boyfriend but is still involved with the family. It's what they should have done with David after she moved to Chicago, instead of dragging that relationship out long past its expiration date. And I'm glad Mikey seems to still indeed be a good guy who won't push Becky for anything. "I'm a 13-gallon for future reference" about the trash bag made me laugh out loud, as did Darlene's entire recap of the scooter plan. And LOL at Ben's mom staying away from the wedding because it's probably going to be a super-spreader event -- which wouldn't even be the worst part. Mary's flower girl song also made me laugh. As others have said: In what universe does some rando walk down the aisle with the bridesmaid he's dating? (And Darlene better take some time out from this Ben drama to talk with her daughter; Harris has had two typical relationships and then some weird-ass online thing with a married man and now she's dating someone 20 years older than her with two kids.) Who starts a wedding knowing the bride isn't there? How the hell did Darlene stay dry during that car-to-car conversation? Why not just continue the ceremony in the shelter? (But the 10-second vows did crack me up.)