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They bug me on general principle because the "Li" of Liberty and "Mu" of Mutual put together would not be pronounced as rhyming with "emu".

Because they don't bother. Look at how long L.A. has been the center of film and television production, and there are still a woeful number of hair stylists and make-up artists who know what they're doing with black hair and skin.

I, too, just recently saw that Tampax commercial and it doesn't bother me, either. I think there are plenty of women who use regular their entire period because that's the appropriate size for their entire period, and I think there are plenty of women who use regular the whole time because that's what someone first handed them, and, after all, "regular" is right there in the name, when they might be better off using a larger size for at least the first couple of days. So I certainly don't take issue with talking about such things. And, yes, if someone asked me for a tampon and I had more than one size with me (it would depend on which day in the cycle it was) I would ask which she preferred.

I absolutely fell out at this:

I agree. I watched that movie over and over as a kid, and it came up in conversation with a friend several years ago. We watched it during our next movie night, and we both still loved it. (I actually associate "Stayin' Alive" with Foul Play rather than Saturday Night Fever, because I love that Dudley Moore scene so much. I love her whole reaction, especially the way she says, Stanley, really!") (We also re-watched Oh Heavenly Dog, which didn't hold up as well, but still had some amusing moments). I should re-watch Funny Farm, too, because I remember it being disappointing on the whole, but with some true LOL moments.

I have Dish (satellite) as my TV provider, and it wasn't until quarantine started that I finally dug out the old Fire stick my parents had handed down to me and added streaming - but I'm not paying for any of that streaming. I use my parents' Netflix account and my friend's Prime account, and Tubi is free. I do watch things on Netflix and Prime, especially Netflix, but I wouldn't pay for either of them on top of Dish (nor would I replace Dish with some combination of them). I used to just watch Netflix while cat-sitting at my parents' house. I'd like to see the Hamilton broadcast, since I saw it performed by the touring company not the original Broadway cast (I think we had two OBC actors), but that's the only thing on Disney that interests me, so I don't even want to mess with a free trial; I figure it will be released on DVD at some point. I might do a free trial of Hulu in order to watch Taste the Nation and maybe Palm Springs, but I've yet to muster up the motivation to sign up.

With the film being available on Prime, I finally got around to watching it, and this is what I loved about it. I was "yeah, that was solid, what's next?" about it overall, but this aspect of it, I kept cheering. The secret changed will didn't seem to have been witnessed, in which case it would be invalid, and they wouldn't even need to invoke the slayer rule, but I'll just pretend it was and that simply wasn't noted (I couldn't get a good enough look at the paper itself). That leaves me with having to swallow that Marta didn't realize Harlan was having absolutely no reaction to a huge-ass dose of morphine; it doesn't even take five minutes with a normal dose! When she told him what she'd done, and he was sitting there perfectly normal, I knew he actually hadn't been overdosed. And if I knew that, she should have known that. I know she was highly emotional, but recognizing and correcting mistakes is part of her training. When he was not at all acting like a man who'd just been overdosed, she'd have been puzzled, asked him questions about how he was feeling, and probably looked at the vials again, at which point the same familiarity that caused her to give the correct medication, despite the labels, in the first place would tell her it wasn't morphine in that vial. Oh, well. I thought the extended donut metaphor went on a good three times longer than it should; I actually growled at my TV for him to shut up about the damn donut. But I join everyone else in falling out at "the little Nazi child masturbating in the bathroom". And, of course, the final scene, with her drinking from the "my house" mug as she stands on the balcony of the home from which the family has been evicted. Glorious. If I'd have been persuaded by the hype to see this in the theatre, I'd have been disappointed. But I'm glad I watched it for free at home -- not a great mystery, but terrific cast and social commentary, with some delicious humor sprinkled throughout.

I've never seen one in the front, always in the back.

I was going to say, "Remember that 'Come and Get Your Love' song? The band was called Redbone," before I thought about just how old it is and realized, no, you wouldn't.

There were a couple of times where it seemed to me like the wrong sound effect was used, and I was confused as to what was going on, so I can just imagine what it was like for the contestants at the time.

I don't know when this is normally on (probably mornings, as I've never come across it before), but there's a block of episodes on Lifetime right now, and I'm reminded just how unbearable Ma Rizzoli is. The show presents Angela's behavior as both funny and valid, and never acknowledges how wildly inappropriate she frequently is.

Me. Which is why I was among those constantly grumbling, "It's not the fucking millennium!" about everyone's Y2K parties. Yeah, Paul was pretty awkwardly nervous, and he always had such a befuddled expression on his face when he was ruled incorrect.

No, it wasn't. It got celebrated that way, but all those people were a year early; the new millennium actually started the same day as the new century: January 1, 2001.

I watched game two of the Alex years and, oh, look, Alex has been a sexist twit since then, thinking the occupations had been reversed on the info cards, because the man was a nurse and the woman was a carpenter. (The sad thing is, if the same line-up happened today, he wouldn't legit think there was an error, but he'd make some sort of surprised commentary, especially about the woman. The really sad thing is, so would a lot of people.) At least they wrote '40s instead of '50's. But it distracted me how for most of the clue reveals they cut away from the original shot and switched to a full screen with yellow type, but for a few they stuck with the zoom-in on the actual screen. The V8 TS was quite surprising. Same with the Olympics. And then came FJ. Wow. It was funny to have a Tombstone clue and an OK Corral clue - they weren't very imaginative in that wild west category.

I heard two of these within an hour of each other today, so tried to think of any others; I could only come up with one more - sort of: "100 Years" -Blues Traveler -Five for Fighting -The Cure (this is the sort of, because it's "One Hundred Years")

Nope; I watched the trailer, and it looked so horribly generic I could not muster up any interest despite the presence of Jane Curtin.

He and Beverly d'Angelo are good friends, but, yeah, it seems like most people who work with him don't care for him. Which is unsurprising, since he's a jerk in interviews; imagine how much worse he is in private if that's how he behaves in public.

He's a first degree mansplainer and #notallmen reactionary, especially about sexual harassment and assault in Hollywood - and with bonus points for being at his worst when it's a black woman speaking truth - marinating in his privilege while holding himself out as a progressive ally. I've long since stopped caring what he might have to say that isn't offensive, since there are others making the same points without being such jackasses on other fronts.

I forgot that Alex Trebek's first episode would air tonight until halfway through, but it was still fun to revisit (I have no idea if I saw it at the time). The lighting was so bad, when one of the DJ categories was revealed, it was barely visible. The sound indicating a clue had been revealed was frequently delayed. And so much extraneous reaction from the audience; I'm glad they need to shut it these days. '50's Television instead of '50s Television bugged me. I wouldn't have accepted any of the FJ answers, as it's Martin Luther King JUNIOR, not Martin Luther King, Day, but there's so much "MLK Day" ignoring of that it's common now. But interesting to see that happen across the board back when the holiday was first introduced. Most if not all of them had additional issues, though, so that was a messy FJ. And the fact it was a lock game (in the absence of a really stupid wager) was ignored - to maintain suspense for the audience members who can't do basic math? Regardless, that was a fun look back in time.

Also The Cranberries, Avril Lavigne, and Information Society.

Well, he's "Grey Poupon" rich (Marcella was worth something like $80 million, so the neighbor was probably also in the tens of millions bracket) and had enough available money to offer to buy Marcella's house directly from her "niece". If he buys it as is and ditches all her crap, he can sell it at a large profit AND his own property value goes back up. They've made reference to mortgage troubles when they've been relevant to the motive (e.g. in The Closer's "Dead Man's Hand") and here they only included his offer to buy, so I take it at face value. Any of it is a horrible reason for killing someone (and a dog), because all he did was accelerate what would have happened naturally, but he's the "I'm rich" type of selfish, so if I do dig deeper I can easily imagine him regarding a dying bitter old woman and her annoying dog as disposable and feeling confident he'd get away with it - because he gets away with everything, being that rich, and because he was going to use arsenic, which wouldn't raise suspicion because of her treatment (and, indeed, he would have gotten away with all of this if not for Baird being obsessed with police work and thus using his connection to get the LAPD involved - or even if he'd been smart enough to sneak back in and remove the evidence).

Right. Despite a large overall uptick in the housing market, her outlandish decor had driven property values in the immediate area down significantly (to an unrealistic extent in that area of L.A., but we'll go with it). So if she died, he could buy it from the heirs, fix it up quite cheaply by simply getting rid of her crap, and sell it for a big profit, so he hastened her death by poisoning the crab cakes (which he knew about, and he had the security gate code as he used to take care of Falcon when she was gone) with arsenic (knowing about the arsenic element of her cancer treatment from her talking about it with anyone and everyone). This, of course, assumes the heirs would sell at the lower value, just wanting their hands on money, rather than fix it up themselves. But then it turned out the dog, not a family member, was the heir, and with Baird and Falcon continuing to live there, the decor wouldn't change and it wouldn't be up for sale. Knowing snagging the venison Falcon usually ate would cause Baird to feed him a crab cake instead (because of course he doesn't eat dog food), he stole the venison. This is a bit of a suspension of disbelief thing (after going along with her decorating reducing surrounding property values by 30% in a wealthy Los Angeles neighborhood, and the neighbor assuming her heirs would sell as-is) -- the trust was already being challenged, as any will or trust will be (and that challenge will be upheld) when someone leaves money to a pet; pets are property under the law, and you can't leave one piece of property to another. So he could have just waited for probate court to grant the house and the dollar sum left for Falcon to the grand-niece and -nephew (via intestate succession); killing Falcon just sped up that process. It is generally a lengthy one, though, so it's not out of bounds that after murdering a person Kleiner would have no issue also murdering a dog to avoid the delay (especially as he'd have had no reason to believe Baird would manage to get the police interested in the death of a dog).

My additions to the "Real Love" list: Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton, Smashing Pumpkins, and The Doobie Brothers.

I like “Frozen Assets” a good deal more than the Dick Tracy episode of The Closer; there’s a bit less of him (or, quite probably, it just seems that way because there’s less of him being so damn loud, and his one yelling scene at the Murder Board dismantling their theory against him is hilarious) and this one does a far better job of handling his mental illness. I also like that it’s another situation (like “Curve Ball”) in which Major Crimes winds up having a case because Andy refused to ignore a potential problem Provenza wanted to dismiss/hand off; Andy has many flaws, as a person and a cop, but he’s moved past a lot of them, and he can’t walk away without making sure no one needs help. It also introduces a new aspect, that continues throughout the series, to Rusty’s relationship with him, with Rusty seeking Andy’s insight on addiction and recovery. I think it’s helpful for Rusty to hear Sharon’s advice on how to support an addict in recovery without enabling them echoed by an addict who’s been in recovery for a long time. Otherwise, this episode is all about the humor, and I can’t even begin to pick a funniest moment. I have a particular fondness for the Eternal Meadows commercial; it's an utterly perfect parody with the scenery and all the disclaimers (especially culminating in “See our ad in Golf Lover’s magazine”). I also love the Eternal Meadows sales rep saying “Our electricity bill is through the roof”. Sharon’s horrified response to Marcella Brewster’s wig is just as hilarious, as is her reaction to learning Baird wrote the police report in “Dick Tracy’s” original case. And when she realizes Eternal Meadows freezes heads, and later stands indignantly firm in the face of Taylor’s objection to this bizarre situation. (The best part of that scene in the morgue is Provenza responding to Taylor’s worry that Ms. Brewster can never be refrozen now that she’s been thawed out: “It’s the same with chicken or fish”.) The potential heirs are so fantastically outlandish (I have to say I oddly like “Mr. Cowabunga”, as dumb as he is, because he actually did help Marcella and, while he'd have happily spent her money, he'd have done so while taking proper care of her beloved dog), Sharon posing as an outrageously out-of-touch niece is perfect. All the characters are entertaining in this one, such as everyone’s reactions to Marcella’s changing video wills; Amy’s face when the “aimless chicken shit” great-nephew gets replaced by the “idiot” great-niece because the former voted for a black president is gold. All the Maltese Falcon, Brewster’s Millions, Arsenic/Old Lace references are funny even though they're obvious. Same with Provenza’s reaction to Andy saying "the Catholic church is a religion, not a company, and the Pope doesn’t play dress-up” and the two of them bickering at Eternal Meadows as they go looking for the head (starting with Provenza grumbling about "two grown men going to apprehend a frozen head"). And Julio’s reaction to a chain of vegan taco restaurants is even better than his face when Baird randomly emphasizes his ethnicity in refuting the squad's accusations. I also like Andy's guesses for Provenza's first job - cabin boy on the Mayflower, or dish washer at the Last Supper. As I’ve said before, the only thing that bugs me about this episode is a continuity error that could have been so easily avoided if the writers remembered their own show. In an episode of The Closer, the squad was confronted with cremated remains they wanted to test for arsenic, and Mike (of course) researched the way to successfully do that. Yet in this episode, Mike is the one who says it can’t be done! They didn't need to contradict themselves in order to facilitate the we need the frozen head plot around which the script revolves – just say that because Marcella's cancer treatment contained arsenic, merely establishing the presence of it (which testing the cremains would do) would not prove poisoning, to do that they'll need to establish a specific level of arsenic, and only a tissue sample will provide that. Random bit of trivia: This is another episode in which Sharon gets away with sitting on Provenza’s desk (he's not seated at it, but is right there to see it).

Ha - her description of Ilan's liver ganache is fantastic.