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G is for gerkonkernaken (yeah, I don't know), which, literally translated, is the precise moment dog doo turns white, but generally stands for someone you wouldn't share your hadenkoggles (again, I don't know) with. It's what Rose thinks of Blanche.

If you're in a season thread for seasons one, two or three or in an episode thread for an episode prior to Herrenvolk.

I make (or order) that a fair bit, too, only with mushrooms as well. Or sometimes broccoli instead of - or in place of - the spinach. And sometimes with sun-dried tomatoes. Basically, I love pizza with alfredo sauce and chicken.

Unless I'm missing something, commencing a re-watch isn't going to add any spoiler requirement that doesn't already exist -- unless you're in an "All Episodes Talk" or otherwise all-encompassing thread, there need to be spoiler tags used when discussing something beyond the episode or season at hand. So if you're in a season one thread and want to draw a comparison to something in season two, you have to spoiler tag that portion of your post, and if you're in an episode topic and want to draw a comparison to something in a later episode, you have to spoiler tag that. So it's the same principle either way, but at least in a season thread you can talk about anything within that season without needing to spoiler tag (as compared to an episode thread where you have to spoiler tag other episodes from the same season).

Thank you for moving this into its own topic! I'm not an organized re-watch person -- it's sort of like for Honors or AP English, where you had to read certain books over the summer; I'd spend much of my summer reading, anyway, but once you told me I had to read Book A by X date, I wanted no part of that book -- so I'll just be joining in the discussion from memory when something being discussed strikes my fancy. With that said, I find a string of episode topics with half a dozen posts in them more annoying than season topics, even when the latter meander. So while I'm certainly fine with either, I do prefer keeping discussion in the season threads rather than creating episode topics -- especially if only certain episodes are going to have topics. And while I take the point regarding long topics being cumbersome to later readers, given the relatively low level of participation in this forum, I wouldn't bet on that being an issue. (And, not that PTV is TWoP, but there's significant overlap in posters and the TWoP re-watch went nowhere.) I do think a general Mytharc thread is a good idea, though, if we don't already have one. Just on general principle, and as a good place for the kind of "do you think this is foreshadowing X, or does X just coincidentally not contradict this?" talk that would involve a bunch of spoiler tags elsewhere.

My 1938 house is obviously lighter on outlets than modern homes, but I've only needed to add three over the years (and will add two more when I renovate the kitchen). When I built my game room out from the studs (it was a shell of a room built on to the detached garage), I put in a fair number of outlets since it's so easy when starting from scratch, but I only use half of them. I never thought to be bothered by the "clutter" of those excess, unused outlets and, quite frankly, I'm going to have a laugh at the HHs' expense when I go in there tonight. They come up with the craziest storylines on this show. I always wonder if the HHs who hate ceiling fans watched too much Trading Spaces. Now, a cheap, ugly, wobbly, noisy fan - I hate. But it's easily replaced with a quality fan. And those who just don't like the look of fans, period, can substitute a light fixture. It's just nice to already have the overhead wiring in place, whatever one wants to do with it (even if the answer is nothing). Such a silly complaint. Immutable characteristics discussed as deal-breakers is one thing, but when HHs go on about things that should merely be noted as considerations - if we buy House A, we'll want to strip all that wallpaper, whereas with House B we'll just be painting the walls but we'll have to scrape off the popcorn ceilings, etc. - as if they are these huge stumbling blocks to purchase is aggravating.

There is. There is a thread for talk of HGTV as a whole in Misc. TV Talk, or for show-specific talk you can request a forum for any show that doesn't already have one.

I'm bummed about the impending doom of Lazarus. Shadows would have received my vote earlier than last round if not for the perfectly-delivered "Howard Graves is very dead." Fire EBE

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S is for Star Search. Blanche heard those patronising a sperm bank can procure samples from Nobel Prize winners .... or is that Star Search winners?

Since we're supposed to be doing pop culture references made on the show, and one of my favorites fits P, I'm going to repeat those last two letters rather than moving on: O is for Oprah Winfrey, butt of one of the show's jokes I do not like. (After Rose protests her alleged UFO sighting was not that of a plane by saying, “Planes aren’t that thin or that bright,” Dorothy snarks, “Neither is Oprah Winfrey, but that doesn’t make her a flying saucer.”) And from one of my favorite scenes ever: P is for the PLO, the only organization possibly more fanatical than the Elvis fan club. (It is also for Pinkerton guards, from one of my other favorite scenes -- Dorothy's delightful response to Rose's confused "What kind of protection?" in the "Condoms, Rose! Condoms, condoms, condoms!" episode is, "Two armed Pinkerton guards.")

I'm in Los Angeles, so as kids of the '70s we grew up inundated with those commercials. My best defense for "pussy cow" is that in all those "This is Cal Worthington and his dog Spot" commercials Spot was some other kind of animal, usually rather exotic (at least to a kid). So we really thought there was an animal called a pussy cow, and we wanted to see it.

My best friend and I thought it was "pussy cow." As big fans of all the animals in his commercials, we really wanted to see the pussy cow.

I love that too. This is the closest I could find, but it's not the shot I like best:

He's always been a bit of a "What if ..." story to me. What if MGM hadn't temporarily lost some of its leading men to the war effort -- would Hodiak's career have got off the ground in the first place? Since he was unceremoniously relegated to smaller roles upon their return, perhaps not. What if he hadn't died so young -- would he have made a comeback as he seemed poised to do after a rough few years? And he's one of a number of MGM actors other studios seemed to use much better on loan-out than did MGM.

Yeah, I'm not sure he even knew about the trip. They'd really been pulled apart, and had to decide whether the agency was the only thing keeping them together. She has the opportunity to explore a potential relationship with a nice, honest man, but decides it wouldn't be fair to any of them -- Steele, Westfield or herself -- and stays home to talk things out with Mr. Steele. He takes off without a word, and leaves behind an empty apartment. In his mind, he's going to find his identity and present it to her as proof of his resolution to be more open with her, but in her mind he has answered the question of "is the agency the only thing keeping us together" with a resounding, "Yep, and so now that it's gone so am I." And whatever head space he was in, he had to know that. It wasn't deliberately cruel, but it was thoughtless, and Stephanie sold the hell out of Laura sitting in that empty room.

There's no right, or universal, way to react to a miscarriage and I have two friends who said they were afraid to discuss it with anyone because they weren't as upset as people deemed they should be -- it was a loss of potential, not of an actuality, and it made them sad but they knew these things happen and they could try again. I liked Jane's low-key reaction to being pregnant, and I liked that her reaction to the miscarriage was in the same vein. She's still processing, and I'm sure there will be ups and downs, but for that moment, surrounded by the people she most cares about, engaged in one of her favorite pastimes, life was good.

I don't think it could have ever worked; you come after someone he cares about, and it's Thunderdome rules, but this is a man who will go out of his way to help total strangers. It's one of his greatest qualities. If this had happened on their first case, he'd have jumped in to help (as he did in the second episode when he came upon her being strangled in that office). There was just never a time his actions - or lack thereof - would have made sense with anyone, let alone Laura.

Possibly Sara Gilbert's greatest acting moment ever. The way she says, "My mom made me write this" is so perfectly Darlene, and up through solitary confinement it all seems typical sarcasm. Then the tone shift with guys not watching tomboys - she just handles that brilliantly. Roseanne does a terrific job with the reaction shots, too.

Completely. Mr. Steele is a gentleman; he wouldn't sit there and let anyone get pummeled. To nonchalantly watch as Laura takes one for the team is ludicrous.

Miracle Man Hmm, now I have to pick the two I like least, as that's the last of the ones I dislike. Ghost in the Machine Gender Bender

Well, someone did, because it isn't a word.

Or "swap-ortunity." Or "hangry" and whatever else Tina Fey has to say in her AmEx commercial. This trend can fizzle out any time now. Language is dynamic, yes, but it should evolve, not devolve.

Oh, thank heavens I'm not the only one bothered by that.

Or Blanche and cats -- in that "how they met" flashback at the market, Blanche offers to rent the room to Rose, with the cat, because "I like you, and I like cats," but in another episode, she doesn't like them. I think pretty much every time Rose brought an animal home, Blanche was initially resistant, so her not liking cats - or at least not wanting to live with one - is probably the accurate characterization. And now, of course, I have Sophia in my head: "Frankly, I'd rather live with a lesbian than a cat. Unless the lesbian sheds, then I don't know."