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I disagree with your others, but I share this one. Neela is less of a favorite because I wasn't paying as much attention to the show by the time she came around, but I enjoyed her, and I loved watching Corday and Weaver; they are my favorites of the show's female characters by a country mile. I liked Susan, Abby, and Sam a good bit, too, but nothing like those two. I strongly disagree. It should be collaborative, and the best producers acknowledge that, after a couple of years, the actors know their characters better than anyone else and consider their input accordingly. And, in the two instances being discussed, I think the actors were spot on in their reasoning behind requesting a change - LaSalle in wanting not to be a vessel for the dangerous message being sent by how Benton's relationship with a white woman was being presented so much more positively than his relationships with black women, and Wyle in putting the kibosh on a completely inappropriate relationship. These weren't ego/vanity requests, and thus they should not have been patted on the head and told to just go act whatever is on the page.

It's different with a parent who raised you, where the relationship has a whole bunch of facets, and there's good to make you willing to give some time to see if the bad can be changed. This was just Kerry's biological mom; she'd satisfied her life-long curiosity by finally getting the chance to learn who she is and have a conversation with her, and there's no reason for her to put herself through rejection over and over again for however long it would take for Helen to pull her head out of her ass (on the off chance she would; I don't think she'd ever get out of her "hate the sin, love the sinner" mindset). Kerry got what she came for -- to know who her biological mom is. Now she knows she's not someone she wants in her life going forward. Someone she's glad to have met, but not someone to have as family.

No, they can. Obviously not in your situation, but not everyone who needs it has to be hospitalized; some can be given a prescription for a starting dose, have their INR tested after a couple of days, and lather, rinse, repeat with incremental adjustments and testing until the correct dose is fine-tuned (and then there's monitoring - at longer and longer intervals, if all goes well - to make sure that remains the right dose). Some people have a very hard time keeping regulated without - or even with! - being hyper-vigilant about keeping their vitamin K and alcohol intake virtually the same from day to day, and for those people the alternative medications are a better option despite the downsides; better something that actually works on a daily basis even though it causes a problem in the event of an emergency that may never happen. Whereas with those for whom either will work daily, better to go with the one that's easier to blunt in an emergency. Again, based on my understanding from research several years ago (when my dad was diagnosed with a-fib), but from idle chatter with doctors, it seems to still be the rule of thumb; Warfarin if possible, one of the alternatives if that's not realistically going to work given the patient's total set of circumstances.

Wow, a lot of TS in DJ. Along with the obvious Stonewall Jackson, sailing around the world was my other “seriously?!” TS for the game. I know nothing about the person, or the sport, but the wording of the clue made it an instaget and I can't believe none of the three reasoned their way to it. Juxtaposition was surprising, too, but a couple of levels down from those two. I hope I live long enough to see these “Women Authors/Leaders/Whatevers Where We Assume Male is the Default” categories die in a fire, but I have my doubts because it's 20fucking18 and this sexist shit persists. I was hit and miss on Nora Ephron's scripts, but the ones I liked, I loved, and she seemed quite cool as a person, so she came to me quickly based on the description and year of death.

That's similar to my set, the Progressive magnetic set; I hate measuring spoons that are on a ring or otherwise "permanently" connected, but I also hate sets that wind up scattered in the drawer if I open/shut it too hard. So these are perfect for me - together when stored, but easy to separate for use (and I love the flat bottoms, and that one end is round and one is oval). Ha - that noise bugs me, too!

Oh, yeah -- "Time to pluck your beard."

Some guy named Garvin Eddy. What's the in-joke there?

Isn't Warfarin the one that, should you get in an accident or need emergency surgery, can have its blood thinning effects halted via vitamin K, while Eliquis is among those that some find does a better job of keeping their INR regulated (e.g. without having to keep, to the microgram, one's intake of vitamin K, alcohol, etc. equal each day) but cannot quickly be reversed in the event of an emergency? It has been a while since I needed to look into it, but when I did, no doctor would prescribe a Warfarin alternative unless the patient truly couldn't take the Warfarin and thus wasn't getting the proper anticoagulant benefit out of it anyway, because the consequences could be so dire in the event of an emergency.

Chex Mix. In that same episode, we learn Bev's middle name. What is it?

One of the things Roseanne did best was show the truth that, "American Dream" myth aside, most people born poor die poor. So it stands to reason that they'd still be struggling, and the next generation would be struggling - and in some ways more so, just as we saw Dan and Roseanne struggle more than their parents had at the same age, because of the ever-widening economic gulf between the haves and the have-nots. But Becky and Jackie both have their own apartments, Darlene did well for herself for a while and wouldn't have needed to move home following job loss if she hadn't had to be a single parent for many years, Roseanne and Dan have held onto the house, even if by the skin of their teeth a few times, etc. -- I don't think it's all doom and gloom, and definitely not unrealistic in its gloom.

Louisiana as a TS, seriously? Even if they haven’t been to The Cabildo, or to New Orleans, period, how does not one of three teachers good enough to be on J! make the Napoleon-Louisiana connection in that category?! Which (that vs. which in the pronouns category) also surprised me, as did Ronan Farrow (given how his reporting recently loomed large in the news - probably rather recently when this was filmed), but Louisiana had me muttering and grumbling through the commercial break. Harry Hamlin surprised me a bit, too, just in the sense that if I know a celebrity marriage exists, I figure most of the population does, too. Usually, there’s an “I can’t believe they broke up!” or “Well, who didn’t see that coming?” post in the Celebrity News topic and I think, “They were married?” (or, sometimes, “Who is that?”). Grassroots was ridiculously over-valued as a DD in DJ. I was dreading FJ based on the category, but apparently some part of my brain knows the only part of the overture I know is called the galop (and that is the only galop in my mind), so I correctly guessed it.

Studies have shown that people who get their news primarily or exclusively from FOX News not only know less about current events than people who get their news primarily/exclusively from other sources, but from people who do not read/watch the news at all. When asked about a variety of topics in the news at the time of the studies, they were more likely than any other group to either not know or think they know, but get it incorrect. So I'm glad they gave Jackie that line, because it did a better job than the entire first episode in attempting to explain many of the changes in Roseanne from the original series to the revival.

It's heavy; maybe the shipping to send it back (since it was his mistake, not Amazon's) makes it cost-prohibitive, and he'd rather keep it on hand for future use. As for why they're buying it in the first place, they're relatively new to the house, and maybe the previous residents neglected the yard and they're trying to spruce up the grass - for their own benefit, and to not give their prejudiced neighbors one more thing to complain about. All I know is, I'm glad he's a dunce with Amazon, because the way Fatima explained what all the fertilizer was about was funny; those two actors worked well together in the short time we saw them. And I think ribbing her husband like that was the first time Roseanne realized, hey, she's just a regular person like I am.

"Shari's Berries, holy shit!" and then "So damn good."

I don't need to hear her say it; Roseanne has worked her ass off her entire life, including at crappy, demeaning jobs, doing what needs to be done. If she's now an Uber driver, I take it as a given that's because it's the best she can do right now between her health, age, and stagnant employment opportunities (and the fact that up until a few months ago, she thought they just had the two of them to keep in food and shelter these days, not that an unemployed adult child and two minor grandchildren would be moving in).

Kudos to the show for acknowledging the resurgence of outright expressions of bigotry going on in the country/world. Especially Jackie pointing out how Roseanne’s news source has harmed her grasp on reality. Maybe that works as an explanation for the changes in the character. This series has always been one of the few where working class characters actually discuss the importance of unions, so I like that it was continued in this episode, and I was at first ticked off about the reference to undocumented workers, but a) it makes sense for Dan and Chuck to go there, and b) they didn’t scapegoat the workers, instead focusing on the contractor taking advantage of them and the guy awarding his contract to that contractor. Those were just a couple of the reasons this felt a lot like an old-school episode. There were quite a few funny lines tonight. I liked: “After my nighttime meds kick in, I’m legally dead until 7 a.m.” “Waking Mom at 2 a.m. to explain technology is what I live for.” And, of course: “Well, I saw something, and I’m going to say something to your manager.” Then joking Fatima can blow the place up, and concluding with asking about a coupon. Yep, that’s Roseanne. One of the few good scenes D.J. had once Fishman grew up was with Dan (when Dan was leaving for California), and this was another one. Dan asking him if he wanted to talk, him saying no, and Dan being thankful – that was old school, too. Chuck and Anne Marie were the two confirmed-to-return secondary characters I’ve been most eager to see, so I’m glad it finally happened. The Conners’ rotating cast of neighbors has long been a highlight of the show, and I’d love to see these stick around next season. I love Samir paying Roseanne back at 2:00 a.m.!

Yeah, I was disappointed in all of them, but there was a special sadness that she didn't do better with those clues. I've been to London several times, so I'd have bet big on FJ based on the category (and won), but I feel like I'd have known it even without visiting. I'd certainly have known it wasn't the Tower Bridge. A thatched roof on the Tower Bridge? What an embarrassingly stupid guess; just write down nothing.

(From tonight's episode thread) They may have made too much to qualify, as sad as that is to contemplate; that's one of the problems with the program. Based on what they made the year Becky went to apply for college, which was a bad year for them, they probably just missed the cut-off, even with that many people in the house (I'm too lazy to go look up the year/state-specific requirements, but knowing what they are in general now and adjusting for inflation/cost of living, it's entirely possible). And if they didn't qualify that year, they wouldn't qualify most other, earlier years, either, since usually both were working more steadily than they are now.

Whenever I visit areas where backyards don't have walls or at least covered fences, I am a little taken aback by it, even after all these years. (Here, it's "good fences make good neighbors" all the way.) Chatting with neighbors in the front yard when we happen to be out picking flowers, bringing in the rubbish bins, etc. at the same time? Yes, please. Being out in the backyard at the same time and we can see over each other's fences/walls from certain places in the respective yards, so that we share a wave if we happen to catch a glimpse? No problem. But being wide open in my backyard, my friends at my table and theirs at their table, like we're at a park rather than at home? Hell to the no. So I understand privacy considerations, but they're so frequently overblown on the show; the HHs who complain about "the neighbors can see us" when that means the neighbors can see them if they deliberately stand at their window and look at an angle to stare into theirs, hang over the fence to look into the yard, etc. bug me. That's only going to happen if you live next to a creeper. Otherwise, they're doing their thing and you're doing yours. It's just part of urban/suburban living that neighbors can see and hear you in some circumstances. If any such overlap is untenable, these folks need to go rural.

No, that was a deliberate play on words, not something she was confused about. We know from her conversation with Paige she was aware the wife wanted a Prince room (specifically, a purple Prince room), but her husband didn't.

I'm not a teacher, but I, too, was pleased to see that - so far - they didn't dumb down the clues this time; it felt like a regular game. In fact, I struggled quite a bit in DJ after doing great in the first round. I got FJ, but I went through quite a few cities as movie titles before getting to that one and thinking, "Wells Fargo must be named for someone, so - sure, let's go with that."

Not to mention being a charlatan preying on emotionally-vulnerable people's credulity.

When she really connects to the material, Roseanne Barr's lack of acting training doesn't matter one bit. That's a great example of an emotional scene she nails. Reading the letter, with all the anger and pain, and then saying, "Thank you for your humor. I love you, good-bye," and running her hand along the coffin before walking out.

Cock-a-doodle-doo isn't in that episode, I don't think. Let me paint the picture. Twenty years ago today, I picked you up in my dad's El Camino, a little Zeppelin on the eight-track, a little Boone's Farm apple warming up in the glove compartment. Our first date. No, our first date was a motorcycle in the A&W drive-in. This is the anniversary of our first time. Our second date! No, as I recall, I was able to fend you off just a little bit longer. I remember driving to that quaint little restaurant. The Blue Swan cafe. Yep. Nestled in the heart of the Blue Swan motel out there on highway 72.

Other way around - Dan had the steak ("Forty-five minutes for a rare steak. I'd ask for steak sauce, but I got to be at work Monday morning"), and Roseanne had the chicken.