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"Toe-pick." I think I could probably watch The Thin Man once week for life and not get sick of it. As it is, I almost do. I've been under a lot of stress lately, and having a hard time shutting my mind off to go to sleep. But if I pop in any of the Thin Man films (even the later ones, though I prefer the first three) or Bringing Up Baby, I am pretty much guaranteed to get swept away. I've loved those movies since childhood, so they're very comforting in addition to being funny.

As much as I love the episode, it has been quite a while since I last watched it, so I'm a bit hazy on specifics, but that has always been my general understanding of it as well.

It's always the mother's fault, don't you know? I had quit watching by then, and the starlight thing sounded (and still does) really stupid to me, but I was just glad they'd finally closed the door on the Samantha storyline after all those years. I know she was the impetus for the whole quest, but so many other things had happened since we the audience started looking in on the X-Files, many of which interested me far more, and eventually I just got sick of the various "is this Samantha?" storylines (especially since I assumed all along that she was dead).

My best friend - who joins me in the ability to quote along with Clue in its entirety while watching it - recently showed her niece (who I'm pretty sure is nine or ten) the movie, and the girl has already rewatched it so many times she's on her way to carrying on the family tradition. I don't like kids, so at least now when I'm cornered by her niece at family functions, I have something appealing to steer the conversation to before I make my escape. "He didn't actually seem to like me very much. He had even threatened to kill me in public." "Why would he want to kill you in public?" "I think she meant he threatened, in public, to kill her." "Your first husband also disappeared." "Well, that was his job; he was an illusionist." "But he never reappeared." "He wasn't a very good illusionist."

I agree. If I'd been taking that call, once I had ascertained that by "cat" they did not mean a tiger they had smuggled out of a circus or something, I'd have told them to hang up the phone and hope they didn't receive a citation and fine for wasting emergency resources. I missed the first 15 minutes of the episode, so I didn't hear his retelling, but that sounds familiar to me from initial reports. Even if he did kick Lux to get him away from the baby, that is a hideous over-reaction in my opinion (big difference between pushing away and kicking, especially we're talking about a scratching cat), but I seem to recall that Lux had already finished teaching the kid not to pull his tail when the kicking occured. And the kid was certainly out of danger when the idiot followed Lux and cornered him in the kitchen. That was bad, but the worst for me was imposing red "devil eyes" on Lux. Same here. It was at that point I decided she was batshit crazy, and probably the largest part of Lux's problem. Taking the time to bottle feed a kitten is no small matter, so I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt, but she did nothing to redeem herself to me. Yeah, I subscribe to the " these people are full of shit" theory, too. The show did fill in some blanks - but glossed over plenty, too - but I have the same bottom-line opinion now as when I heard it was going to air: Fuck those people; Lux deserves better. I'm glad he got it.

Exactly. In a short span of time, the cat was kicked and stalked by the husband, dragged off the top of the refrigerator by cops with a noose, picked up by Animal Control, put in a shelter for however many days, taken back home and locked in a cluttered room with a litter box that clearly did not get scooped regularly, lived daily with someone who freaked out at every move he made and told him to get away when he tried to rub her foot, had a production crew and all their equipment come into the house twice, had cameras on him even once the crew was gone, went for a vet visit, was only home a few days before being put in the carrier again and taken to the Humane Society, taken to a new home by strangers, taken to the vet again ... is the fact he hasn't had another episode since starting the meds just because of those meds? I think starting to feel secure with people who aren't putting such strong negative energy into the air has to be playing quite a role. The new owners have essentially agreed to give up fostering by taking him in, since it wouldn't be fair to introduce a new cat into Lux's environment.

I don't find them difficult to keep clean at all; a 30-second job with a squeegee after use keeps them looking nice, and then regular cleaning is no different than anything else. They don't cause privacy issues for me, either, because anyone in the bathroom while I'm using the shower is someone allowed to see me naked. But for awhile those doors seemed like a recurring storyline, and I don't understand HHs getting excited over them, either, or just in general making curtain vs. door, what type of door, etc. more than a minor consideration given how easy and inexpensive in the grand scheme of home buying it is to change.

Plus, I find kicking a cat to be a pretty disproportionate response to a scratch, so I'm not particularly moved by this "he was defending his child" stuff; it's not like Lux is a 100-pound dog who had the baby's limb locked in his jaw. And it's hard to imagine how he was defending his child by chasing after Lux.

I hope Jackson does provide a more complete story than has been reported thus far, but the above from one of the linked articles is what doesn't sit well with me. They didn't confine Lux to a room in the home, open up their local phone book - and their wallet - to find a behaviorist available to immediately and as regularly as necessary help them and the cat, they made him sit in a shelter cage while they waited to hear if they could get free help and air time, as shooting schedules allow, in which case they'd take him back.

I can relate to that; I make a spinach, artichoke and cheese dip that is a slight variation on a Rachael Ray recipe, and I always cringe a little when asked for the recipe. Because usually what happens is someone in the group starts raving about how much they love her show and trying to talk to me about episodes, but I don't watch it - I just got that recipe off the internet. (I suppose I could just give people the recipe without attributing it to her, but I like to give credit where credit is due.)

I find "female" used as a noun rather than an adjective offensive, because the characters/personalities I've heard referring to a woman that way have done so in a context clearly indicating they regard women as little more than a collection of body parts.

Same here. I think that's the only one of Tarantino's films I've ever really liked. As for Pulp Fiction, I like the soundtrack and certain snippets of dialogue, but the movie as a whole does nothing for me, either (including that dance scene).

I don't remember how much I laughed, but I love that episode for Dorothy saying, "If she dies, I'll be an orphan." And then laughing at herself for such a thought at her age, but noting that when one's parent dies one might as well be six years old. "And stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid!" I like that one. The show was often problematic in how it dealt with Phil's cross dressing, but I think they got it mostly right this time. Estelle Getty could have done better with Sophia's speech, but it works for me.

Like that commercial a few years back where the kid was mortified by the lack of special features in his parents' car/minivan (I don't remember) and thus harangued them into buying something new and "cooler." Child, please. I got hauled around in a powder blue boat of a Chevy. It beat walking.

I can somewhat binge watch an old show I'm re-watching, but even then I'm not likely to watch more than two or three (depending on whether hour-long or half hour) in quick succession. And often I need at least a week to get around to watching one episode, which is why I don't usually participate in rewatches, even of shows I just love -- schedule two per week, and I know it's not happening with any regularity if at all, so I don't even start. This is undoubtedly affected by the fact if I'm watching a recording of something rather than a live program, I'm most often watching it in bed. So I can't stay awake for binges!

Yeah, I think that's my UO: I always hated Full House. I don't look back on it now and wonder what I was thinking (which I will admit is the case with Growing Pains; I watched the hell out of that show for many seasons, and wouldn't sit through half an episode now), I refused to watch it at the time unless I was forced to by virtue of being at someone else's house. I could not stand a single character and found the storylines painfully lame even by family sitcom standards. It's somewhat the same with Family Matters. There I kind of liked a few of the adults, but Urkel the Stalker presented as a sympathetic character ruined the show for me very early on and there certainly wasn't anything particularly new or even funny worth sticking around for.

I love it for the aforementioned "I'm a little black woman in a big silver box," plus the first thing I think of upon hearing someone reference the movie: "Dogs barking, can't fly without umbrella." Speaking of stupid Whoopi Goldberg movies I'll watch anytime I come across them: Made in America.

I'm not sure I can watch. First, they failed to properly train and supervise their kid and the cat was mishandled as a result. Then, the husband kicked the cat, chased him when he tried to get away and kept after him as he tried to hide - and that's just the stuff to which he has admitted. Then they wasted public resources by calling 911. Then they didn't even dump the poor cat at the shelter themselves, they had Animal Control come get him ... but didn't surrender him, instead asking if he could stay there while they decided what to do (because an animal shelter is such a soothing place for a cat). And only when they were offered air time on this show did they decide they wanted him back. Fuck them; Lux deserves better.

That movie is weird (and cut so short - how many of the women do we actually see, ten?). One would think MGM would have been through sticking Myrna Loy in those "exotic" roles by then, but it still took them a bit longer to catch on. Thank the universe for Woody Van Dyke.

I believe one factor is the number of posters coming here from TWoP, where discussion of fan reaction to things seen on television - rather than strictly things seen on television - was verboten. One of my biggest irritants is use of the word "bitch" as if its definition is "any woman who does something one does not like." Casual use of that particular gender slur on television doesn't sit well with me, either, but sometimes it seems ubiquitous.

Season one is not my favorite -- I think the show at that stage was a very funny, somewhat unique twist on a generic family sitcom, but hadn't yet become something truly special -- but I do love it, a lot more than many fans I know, so I can largely relate to that one.

The Nation ran an article earlier this year on Al Jazeera America's strengths and limitations. My satellite provider (Dish) announced it as a new addition to my programming package not long after the network premiered, but it was months before it actually showed up. I'm so glad it did, because America Tonight quickly became a nightly tradition. I usually wind up watching the repeat broadcast, as it unfortunately airs at the same time as my old standby, PBS Newshour. I hope it sticks around.

I find that character absolutely slimy, so I hope she leaves him in the Tamaro era. Of course, I also hope she shitcans the pregnancy storyline, but she seems to be running with it.

Last night I watched Undercover Blues for the umpeenth time, a comedy with Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid as spies whose maternity leave is cut short by the return of old nemesis Fiona Shaw. It's absurd at every turn, but delights in it, so it's a fun romp. And I love Jeff and Jane's relationship. Plus, Stanley Tucci. ("My name is Muerte.")

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