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I watched a rerun yesterday morning while refusing to get out of bed, in which a designer nixed the owner's desire for white kitchen cabinets (in a '30s home), saying they were too trendy. She went on to put into this kitchen (blue) Shaker cabinets, a farmhouse sink, quartz countertops, and dark-stained wood floors. Yeah. Painting those cabinets white is what would have been too trendy. Okay.

In the first film, someone with a connection to the show makes an uncredited appearance as one of the FBI agents at the Dallas bombing site. Who?

Clyde Bruckman, when he has the vision of Queequeg (or whatever his name is then) feasting on his dead owner's remains.

Wasn't Temple included in the previous year's In Memoriam segment (because, even though she died in '14, she died before the Oscars so they included her)? Sorry, too slow.

I didn't know God's Little Acre, but that's the only TS that stumped me, too. Videoconferencing, interdisciplinary, Little Men and Coral Sea being missed surprised me, but mammal blew me away. Wimbledon was a bad guess for FJ. I tend not to notice, let alone be bothered by, many of the mannerisms that get noted about contestants, but, holy cow, Gemma's bothered me.

That's a new one to me. It's kind of funny they named him after a fan, only to kill him off. I wonder if his real name (Kenneth ... Soona, or something?) was also a nod to someone. The ones I was thinking of were: - In DPO, we see the credits on a music video Darren is watching, and the title, album, director, etc. are all taken from fan names - Two or three characters in DHDV are named for online fans - The reporter in WoTC is named after a fan (she won a trivia contest in which having a character named after you was the prize) And, of course, the Gunmen planning to spend their evening on the 'net nitpicking the scientific inaccuracies of Earth 2 in One Breath was a nod to the online fandom in general. You're up, M.F. Luder.

They'd probably live stream footage of it on their little screen they're so excited about rather than putting the damn thing down for once and looking up at the sky.

Is the theatre part of a chain? If so, maybe all locations are handled from one central place. In which case, in this day and age, I'm amazed it's done from someplace in the US.

I haven't yet continued with my re-watch, but I just caught the last half of Darlene and David's wedding on TV. It took years for me to ponder this, but ever since I can't watch it without thinking of what it means for the Conners if Dan's fatal heart attack happened then: It happened at Darlene and David's wedding. (Or, actually, Darlene and Mark's wedding, I guess, but I just can't deal with the husband switch.) There are no good circumstances under which to lose your husband/father, but a wedding? For the rest of their marriage, their wedding anniversary is also the anniversary of her dad's death. Similarly, Roseanne can't remember the day she watched her daughter get married without remembering the day she watched her husband die. Darlene and Dan had been at odds over her decision to get married and have a baby, and had, right before they walked down the aisle, just had their first good talk since she announced her plans. A couple of hours later, that's it. She never got the chance to fully reconcile with him. DJ did CPR until paramedics arrived. So he tried to save his dad and couldn't. He's a kid; he probably wonders if he'd been able to successfully revive Dan if he'd been bigger and stronger. It just really gets me. On a lighter note, though, John Goodman does such a great job (in hindsight) of looking and acting like a man who is getting ready to have a heart attack.

Damn, I don't think I knew that Laura Branigan had died (in 2004 at just 47, from an aneurysm). I loved her voice. Speaking of her, though, I have to say I like Cher's cover of I Found Someone better.

Is that the one from the episode with the women who run a farm and were hosting a potluck for local farmers? That soup looked rather boring; I remember thinking I'd probably wish I could get away with merely using it as a dipping sauce for the sandwich wedges if it was served to me.

There have been several commercials with that theme over the past few years, and they used to make me angry. Now they make me sad, because looking around I get the sense these commercials, rather than presenting an outlandish scenario, are reflecting what has become a common reality. There's nothing wrong with electronic entertainment being part of the activities during a camping trip, but the attitude these commercials take is that the ability to spend just as much time glued to a screen out in nature as one does at home makes it okay to venture out into the "wilderness" because, oh thank heavens, now you don't have to sit around and take in the scenery, go exploring, sit around a campfire and all that awful stuff; you can just hole up in your tent and watch movies.

It was started prior to the creation of the Network Talk sub-forum, and just never got moved once that was created for whatever reason. You can always use the report function to bring it to the moderation team's attention as a possibility for the next round of site housekeeping.

I missed that episode the first time around, and just watched it during today's marathon. I'm a big proponent of such shelters, so I enjoyed seeing that included. I think Earl's testimony played a big role in approval of the funding. That tiny, cramped Syracuse shelter, with only two adoption applications in, broke my heart. But that's the reality in so many places, so it needs to be shown. I also like that, for the audience's education, they showed Tia saying of the extremely emaciated dog they picked up that while your first instinct with a dog who has been starved is to give them a big bowl of food, that can actually be the worst thing you can do; hold off on the food, and get them to a vet post haste. Harlan's sweet temperament despite his condition made me cry as hard as Tony did (I will never stop being moved by seeing the parolees connect with the dogs), and I was so sad when he wound up succumbing to parvo. Like Tia said, it doesn't seem like much, but at least he died surrounded by people who were trying to help him rather than alone out in the woods. Catching up on another recent episode I had missed: I have a bad habit of anthropomorphizing animals, but even though they don’t have the extent of feelings I sometimes attribute to them, it’s clear animals have emotions. So Josie’s story is really getting to me, wondering what she’s thinking upon being brought to VRC. Her owners obviously did not take good care of her, then she spent time in a shelter with total strangers, so does she recognize Tia and crew and feel secure that she’s among good people? But VRC is new to her, since she had lived at their CA facility the first time around, so is it instead more a sense of, “Here we go again, back in a kennel instead of a home?” That she spent her final six months there just breaks my heart. I mean, thank goodness she was with people who love her, but damn her former owners for neglecting and then dumping a senior dog. I respect them for showing Josie’s story – I’ve said before I really like the balanced approach they take in their adoption requirements/screening procedures (what I’ve seen on the show and what I’ve read on their website), but nothing is fool-proof. Here they straight-up showed, “This one got past us.” But Tia also said she isn’t going to let one bad adopter make her second-guess policies that have been incredibly successful overall. I’m glad I’ve already seen the episode that’s on now, because I need to take a break before coming back for the new ones. I’m going to go hug my old lady of a cat and shed a tear for Josie. Heads up: There's an all-new episode tonight, and before that there are two "Tia looks back on her favorites" episodes. She's doing a live Q&A online (Facebook, maybe?) during those.

According to the Eater article, Contessa - the pre-existing company through which Ina's line was produced (which, as I recall, came about as essentially a settlement to avoid litigation), and which Ina tried to buy - went out of business last year, then was bought by this OFI company that she's suing for putting out this new "Contessa Chef Inspired" line.

Wasn't settlement of potential litigation by Contessa the reason she came out with a frozen food line in the first place?

Okay, this is one that requires you to have been one of those obsessed fans posting on atxf or the AOL boards back in the day (or, I suppose, to have read this bit of trivia somewhere): In addition to Agent Leyla Harrison, there were several other in-show nods to prolific online fans, most often in seasons two and three when XF was one of the few shows to have rabid fans on the burgeoning internet. Name any one example from that time period. You don’t have to come up with the fan's name, a description will suffice (e.g. The X in Y episode was named after a fan).

So has moving those threads into the new sub-forum caused a reset on the site's tracking of our last unread post? I know normally if you go into a thread you haven't been to within a certain period of time, you get taken to the first post in the thread rather than your first unread post because the system only tracks where you left off for so long. But today I'm being taken to the first post in all threads within this new sub-forum, even if I was just there a couple of days ago (and that's not happening anywhere else on the site).

I hate when people host a party and then expect their guests to supply most of the food and drink. Unless you've specified that it's a potluck, I think you should have a reasonable array of food and drink available (of whatever form you're going for -- it can all be munchies, it can be a barbecue, whatever) so that whatever edible/potable items people bring as a host gift are a bonus. This isn't college, where you can just tell people to grab a six pack and come over at X time. If you're hosting a party, then host a party. As for splitting bills at restaurants, unless one of us is treating the other for some occasion, my friends and I usually split it - but 50/50, not each person putting in exactly what their food and drink cost. (We're using credit cards, because it's more convenient than cash, so it's easy (for us, anyway) to just stick two in there and say, "Split it in half.") If that night one person had a burger and a beer and the other had steak and two martinis, so be it -- over time, it all comes out pretty even. I'm open to that kind of split, or to "I've got it this time, you get the next one," but figuring out to the dollar what each person owes does grate on me.

I have them both on DVD; you bring the popcorn. Stealing Home is far more overtly sentimental a movie than I'd normally like, but it comes together into something I find utterly charming.

My hands-down favorite use of music in the series is Red Right Hand in Ascension. But the use of Wonderful, Wonderful in Home is pretty damn masterful, too. I'm also partial to Beyond the Sea in, well, Beyond the Sea. There may be a few songs in D.P.O., but the one I remember (because I love it) is Hey Man, Nice Shot. Same with Syzygy - I'm almost positive this is an episode that used a few songs, but I can only remember All Over You. One of the only things PMP has going for it is lots of Cher, including, most memorably, her version of Walking in Memphis. We also hear Half Breed and Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves. The Rain King also has more music than usual, thanks to the reunion. I can remember Rock the Boat and Rainy Days and Mondays. I'm Only Happy When it Rains is in Terms of Endearment (pretty much the only thing I remember about that episode). Frenzy is in Humbug. Chinga gives us The Hokey Pokey. (Man, this show is great at music to be murdered by.) I assume Bad Boys is in X-Cops. Partial answers: There's a Partridge Family song in Never Again, but I don't know the name of it (was never a fan). Unmarked Helicopters is used in something. Hands of Death appears at least once. The Moby song in all things Taryn brought up is, IIRC, The Sky is Broken.

Yeah, plopping an egg on top of various things is very common here, too, so as someone who hates egg yolk, I have to make sure I read descriptions carefully. As for burgers, I'm pretty simple: season with granulated garlic and Montreal steak seasoning, grill, melt some cheese (whatever kind I'm in the mood for, but often pepper Jack) on top, and then put together on a lightly-grilled bun with mayo, lettuce, onion, and pickle chips, plus tomato when in season. I also like a Juicy Lucy burger, though, with the cheese inside the patty - so wonderfully gooey to bite into. There's a bakery near me that makes the most delicious onion rolls, so sometimes I get those for buns. Tonight I'm going to movie night at the home of a friend who can't cook, so I'm assuming what's for dinner is pizza, Chinese, or Thai delivery. I'm not complaining!

No, the school wasn't named after the town. A hint: The in-joke is making fun of a mistake someone (a real-life someone associated with the show) made.

Same here. Even the most conscientious parent with a normally well-behaved child is going to experience moments of rebellion, meltdown, etc. If I see a kid acting obnoxious in public, I do not automatically shoot daggers at the parent(s) and assume they're negligently turning out a little snot. (I don't like kids, period, but I honestly do not do that.) However, if the parent ignores said behavior or just rattles off a series of disinterested, ineffectual admonitions, I let the judging commence. And if the kid is in my way or endangering someone (like the kid rolling around a drugstore aisle while a woman with a cane tried to maneuver around him, with Dad looking right at him and doing nothing more than motioning to him to get up because he was too busy on what was clearly a social call), they'll hear about it. I've been to a couple of Pampered Chef parties and one for some candle line, and both were fine because it was a nice evening of wine, snacks, and conversation and I don't feel any pressure to buy no matter what someone does. But I've heard so many horror stories of people whose friends or co-workers tried to recruit them into the cult, and that would annoy the hell out of me. I always think of the Designing Women episode when Charlene gets sucked in to becoming a Lady June Belle, selling cleaning products. ("You can't be in here, you're not Belles." "Oh yes we are. We're hell's belles and we're getting you out of here.") This is a goddamned epidemic, and it needs to stop. I do not remember the Valley Girl phase being this widespread and annoying -- and I lived quite close to the San Fernando Valley.

What annoys me most on that front is when people place an unwanted item in the magazine rack at the checkout line. You are right there! Just hand it to the cashier and explain you changed your mind. The couple of times I've handed perishable items to a cashier, saying, "Someone left this here," they have done some pretty good grumbling about how often people do that and how crazy it makes them. And I hate "free range children" (totally stealing that) in the grocery store, too. I remember my mom taking me, and I either rode in the seat of the cart when I was little enough or walked along with her once I wasn't. I knew to stay out of people's way, not pull anything off the shelves other than something she'd asked me to get, etc. I obviously wouldn't have been paying attention then the way I do as an adult, but it seems like that was the norm -- kids running all over the damn place, lying down in the middle of the aisle ... that shit didn't happen often back in my day, and when it did, the kid got yanked back into place real quick.