Phebemarie
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Matthew Perry was shown.
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I wonder if the shorter final season changed the course of Mary and George’s marriage.
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On 2/29/2024 at 9:43 PM, DaphneCat said:
All I could think was KNOCK IT OFF WITH THE GASP TALKING! That was one of the WORST acting choices I've ever seen.
I know Paulina isn’t everyone’s favorite, but I have to say, what she’s doing with her voice is hard for me. It reminds me too much of the last week my mom was alive last summer.
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1 hour ago, Bastet said:
I remembered Hannah and Yungsheng, but not the priest. So of course he wins.
Did David wear his clerical collar when he competed before? I remembered him because I'm Episcopalian and was rooting for the home team.
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Susan Seaford-Hayes' reminiscing about favorite Doug and Julie scenes makes me remember a scene that happened 30 or 40 years ago. Julie and Doug were not married, but for some reason ended up in an inn together. After tons of sexual tension, Doug picked Julie up and carried her to the bed. Does anyone else remember it?
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I wondered if they were writing Isaac's character to mirror his UK counterpoint, who is a lot more by the book and take charge.
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I just noticed that the communications officer was the neighbor from Sass’s tree episode.
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Since Bobby doesn't have a twin, I guess we're looking at a multiple personality issue. Maybe he was "Bobby" when he started the Horton fire. (That's all speculation).
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I'll have to rewatch the first episode to see if Manny told Janine she would be in her classroom two days a week. If that's the case, she would have to prepare lesson plans for her students and would be justified in advising Jessca.
Suspending a 7th or 8th grader for a few days for a mistake like smoking in the restroom wouldn't appear on any permanent record that a university or college would see. With the support of teachers who cared, it would be a life lesson...not a sentence to juvy. If there was no school wide rule against smoking (hard to believe), the student couldn't be disciplined anyway. I really think show was trying to equate what happened to the student with what has happened to people caught with marijuana in the past (and in some states that still have laws against it). The teachers' room confessional seemed a bit heavy-handed to show 'everyone does it'.
In all my years of teaching, smoking in the restroom never tripped the smoke alarm.
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I thought Janine was going to be in the classroom with her students twice a week.
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The Allegra commercial with the cranky young woman wearing headphones and singing is incredibly annoying. Why is she so annoyed if she's taking Allegra and can breath in the spring? It seems to be on rotation with the Jacuzzi bathtub replacement commercial with the uptalking HGTV flipper host. 🤮
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I know many were relieved when Ava was deprogrammed at the end of the season opener. I think it would have been funny to see the overly officious Ava a bit longer. She could still be a foil to the staff and funny to the audience. I think they missed an opportunity.
This season seems like a year to show Janine's growth. I still remember the first season when she pulled out that ridiculously high ladder to repair a flickering light and then tried to fix her mistake by opening up the fuse box with Jacob in tow. She was an accident waiting to happen. The writers are doing a good job with the arc of her character development. This is not the same Janine who insisted on having her littles do the egg drop like the older students whose cranky science teacher couldn't stand her.
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It seems like Flower would have ascended (acquiescing to those who want to avoid Trevor's more juvenile terminology) after Sam read her the email from her brother. I suppose her acceptance of being in a couple with Thor might have also been a pivotal moment...but we'd need to see a flashback showing that moment for Flower.
I just don't think she's gone. I still think it's Basement Boy, who was conspicuously absent from the episode.
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I thought it was interesting that there was a clip of Stephanie and Cholera Boy kissing in the season two montage at the beginning of the episode. I still think Flower’s supposed ascension is a red herring.
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Wasn't part of the difficulty Janine was having getting the ASL interpreter because the district wasn't willing to hire a full time employee? Once the parents came in as advocates, the district did the right thing.
As a retired middle school teacher, I had to giggle when one of the boys said, "We can fart, though?" Typical middle school boys. 😄
I would guess the older kids at Abbott might have a bit more freedom during lunch than the littles. In real life, they would probably tell the assistant in charge of the cafeteria that they had the teacher's permission to hang out in his classroom.
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Not cool that the Horton house was destroyed.
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10 hours ago, DisneyBoy said:
As for Everett...I just had the awful thought that maybe they're going to *gulp* give Blake a double role, and have the startling reveal be that he's got a twin. For no ****ing reason whatsoever.
I don't know...if we're dealing with tropes, I think I'd rather he have an evil twin rather than have multiple personalities. Has Days ever done an evil/bad twin story?
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What was the motive to burn down the Horton house? Was Clyde trying to get back at Chad?
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40 minutes ago, Joimiaroxeu said:
SNL isn't live in all timezones though. Some areas west of the Mississippi only get the west coast feed which often has been altered from the original live production in NYC.
Is my little corner of Oregon the only West coast spot that gets the live broadcast at 8:30PM? I always find it funny that there's a warning before the Vintage SNL at 10:00 advising some material originally aired at a later time when we've just experienced everything live here without the "warning".
I thought the show was a little lackluster, and Dakota Johnson's reliance on the cue cards really affected the pace. I'm beginning to think SNL needs new writers (or old writers who can be persuaded to return to the show).
It did seem like Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon tried to take over...and maybe that friction caused problems with the host and cast. The taped skits were funny; the live stuff really wasn't at all.
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Well, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that they didn't get a single nomination this morning.
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It's 30 degrees in NYC and Today thought it was a good idea to have two Olympic figure skaters perform a routine at Rockefeller Center this morning? Hoda was bundled up and enthusiastically said, "take off your warm ups" while one of the young women was obviously already cold. After their very short performances, Today made both stand in a long pose for the cameras.
Here's an idea: talk with them inside the studio and ask them back another day when it's not so frigid.
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1 hour ago, LakeGal said:
I just don't enjoy JAJ doing Trump. He might do the voice well. But he looks nothing like Trump and doesn't have the mannerisms either. I groan every time he shows up as Trump.
It seems like it's SNL's go to cold open...certainly there are other ridiculous people out there they could make fun of this week.
I also remember how Tina Fey worried her impression was somehow making Sarah Pallin more likable...and I think the same is true for JAJ's impression. His Trump seems much more self-aware than the real deal. I skimmed through Reddit last night and noticed a lot of folks who claimed to be supporters were delighted by the cold open.
I guess the SNL cast is going through growing pains. Makes me wonder if the younger cast were excited to hang out with the cool kids this week and didn't notice the skits were all less than stellar.
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It's sad that some really excellent comedies like Abbott Elementary and Only Murders in the Building have no chance. Comedy is hard, too...but big, dramatic scenes win awards.
I think whoever is in charge needs to have some intellectual honesty when they submit their nominations. They should want their series and stars to compete against the best, not find a loop hole to win.
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The 96th Academy Awards
in The Academy Awards (aka The Oscars)
Dame Judi Dench won her Best Supporting Oscar for 5:52 minutes (four scenes) in Shakespeare in Love doing some fairly straightforward work as Queen Elizabeth. I imagine the only acting challenge for her was wearing the heavy costumes. I think Da’Vine’s screen time and work were more than award worthy.
I agree Dominic Sessa should have gotten a nomination, too, but the Academy probably thought he’d have other chances in the years ahead.