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38 minutes ago, iMonrey said:
"Dear Kevin, here is a photograph of my penis. Please see attached."
It's the "... [signed] Raymond J. Holt" that always kills me -- still.
But I don't want even to imagine a world in which the smell of mayo is enough to turn Scully on. It just ... NOPE.
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On 8/19/2021 at 9:01 PM, Galileo908 said:
Don't know what was the better Scully bit: his colorblindness awareness ribbon
That was brilliant!
What does it say about me that I think a Tiny Terry spinoff would be vastly more entertaining than either Young Sheldon, or Young Rock, for that matter?
Loved the moment that Mac stood up in his playpen. From the casting of the kid to Samberg's wonder-filled response -- just about perfect all around. Amy and Jake's maple-scented flailing was endearing, and the end of the episode was just sweet enough.
ETA: Between Holt's signing his digital phallus portrait to Kevin with his usual hauteur, and his genuinely surprising (to me), sailor-like "Not too thinky" cussing out of O'Sullivan, André Braugher was more than usually brilliant.
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Doing a rewatch on Disney +, and I just want to say how much I still love Peggy's platonic-but-blinding chemistry with Mr. Jarvis. James D'Arcy is just endlessly entertaining in the role, and a brilliant match for Hayley Atwell. Howard might be the role of a lifetime for Dominic Cooper; or maybe it's just that it's the most I've ever liked him.
I enjoyed the "Captain Carter" episode of What If... but it feels a little superfluous somehow; that is, I agree with the comment upthread that giving Peggy superpowers seems almost beside the point.
Edited to add: Not that I didn't enjoy watching Captain Carter hand out lollipops and whupass...
Also, the moment Peggy picked up that sword to slash at the Hydra tentacle, I admit I thought of Captain Britain. (Excalibur, here we come?)-
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On 8/12/2021 at 9:15 PM, Spartan Girl said:
Amy: Yeah, a natural motherfucker!!!!
I just about died at bleeped-out, blurred-out Amy.
Oh, my goodness, I missed this family so much!
It so happens I've been doing a Scrubs rewatch lately, and the cameo from Johnny C. was a lovely coincidence.
Full disclosure: I also laughed my head off at "Amy was right: Drugs are bad." But then, Stephanie Beatriz's comic timing and delivery usually make me laugh out loud.
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On 7/7/2021 at 10:08 AM, Bruinsfan said:
There are a good number of really cool moments (hence one of the most awesome teaser-trailers of all time), but the whole is a mess.
Well, the "He's a friend from work!" set piece is delightful (I'm not made of flint, people) -- but I think that's largely due to Hemsworth's charm. I also laughed at Sir Anthony playing Loki playing Odin. But so many of the characters had to act so completely out of character that a lot of the jokes -- that the script was so clearly striving mightily for -- fell flat for me.
And don't even get me started on Jeff Goldblum's ... whatever it was he was doing.
ETA: Sorry for straying off the topic of Loki's glorious ... befuddlement.
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On 7/12/2021 at 1:54 AM, bannana said:
Nicole did run Abe's campaign for Mayor. That might have been against E.J.
Am I remembering it wrong? Didn't Nicole also work against Abe's interest while she and Elvis were ... married, I want to say? Maybe Elvis just gives me rage blackouts and I'm confused.
I did not know about the Abe-Brandon connection, so thanks to those who flagged that for me.
The list of what this show does not know or does not fully understand is frighteningly long and varied: civic structure, public service, criminal and civil law, medicine, biology, structural engineering, basic chemistry & physics, temporal mechanics ...
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On 7/9/2021 at 6:13 PM, bunnyblue said:
Why are Nicole and Theo so chummy? Is it just because of Abe or is there another connection I'm missing?
How are Nicole and Abe so chummy? That's what I want to know.
Elvis and "Nicki" were trying to get Abe sent to prison not so very long ago, I seem to remember. Their friendship now seems at the very least unlikely.
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2 hours ago, boes said:
Besides, just imagine Julie's head explosion when they ask for a table for three at her hookah bar of a restaurant.
Please, please, please, someone make this happen.
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On 6/9/2021 at 8:38 AM, Featherhat said:
The MCU continues to use Thor:TDW better in flashbacks and reimaginings than they did the actual film (and I'm one of the crazy ones that doesn't hate it).
You can come sit by me if you want; not hating Thor: The Dark World doesn't seem crazy to me. (Full disclosure: I think Thor: Ragnarok is by far the worst thing in the MCU: an irretrievable tonal mess that treats its main character with scorn, and I think I'm considered crazy for that -- so you may not want to sit near me!)
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On 6/30/2021 at 5:23 AM, Featherhat said:
I hope that Sylvie's plan and the rest of the Lokis are actually more twisty than the standard sci-fi "destroy the Time-keepers/Lords/Masters and give everyone back free will".
You know, I think I'd be okay with the universal (omniversal?) restoration of free will as the endpoint of this series. (I do wonder what the Time Keepers' being artificial constructs will mean. I was beginning to speculate that the Time Keepers would turn out to be Will Ferrell, still trying to super-glue all the Legos.)
Sylvie's speech about how "the universe wants to break free, so it manifests chaos" is a straight-up mission statement for a trickster god. You could make a pretty sturdy argument that the function of a trickster god in any mythology is to preserve randomness and thereby the possibility of choice.
ETA: Did I see Richard E. Grant as Old-School Loki? This might be fun.
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On 6/23/2021 at 12:40 PM, calliope1975 said:
I knew something was shady with the Timekeepers and the workers. I wonder if the taser thing doesn't kill people but resets them as workers. I wouldn't be surprised to see that first guy from the ticket line show up later as a worker bee.
The whole premise of the Sacred Timeline bothered me from the first episode (like ... so much for free will!) But I hadn't thought of the torch/taser things as possible reset button technology; nice catch.
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13 hours ago, Rafael said:
... Ava has now become totally pointless on the canvas.
And this is different from Ava's usual sort of pointlessness how, again?
I keep thinking there's a pun to be made about the Original Shin of this show, but I can't get the bat off my shoulder.
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41 minutes ago, peachmangosteen said:
I heard Joey's too but since that makes no sense and they actually went to Julie's, he was at least supposed to say Julie's. Whether he flubbed it and said Joey's or we just heard it wrong, I don't know.
Or maybe he just couldn't bring himself to? I feel you, Steve; I do. Without even watching the episode, I feel you, man.
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On 2/16/2019 at 7:00 PM, andromeda331 said:
Maybe their the ones who love Meet the Parents which I can't stand either. I just don't get it.
I usually feel like a minority of one when it comes to Meet the Parents, because I think it's truly vile. Just unrelievedly nasty, through and through. (Cringe comedy has never been my thing.) I just don't get it, either, but now I don't feel so alone. So, thank you, @andromeda331
And thanks to @Ms Blue Jay for the chance to sort out my attribution.
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I think Justine was introduced before Rachel married Carl (and I think I stopped watching before their "love story" (ick) anyway), but that marriage seemed so incontrovertibly wrong to me that it the show had plainly lost its way. I could never bring myself to watch after that. Another World was the soap I loved first and best, and the idea of Rachel falling in love with Carl Hutchins ruined it.
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22 minutes ago, Suzn said:
... he had covered his tracks well with the response to the picture she sent to him.
I think Maggie actually said this, or something very close to it, when Sophie first talked about what happened.
Having said that, I can't imagine why Maggie wouldn't have gone over with Sophie what exactly she was going to say in telling her story, nor can I imagine that the issue of naming Peter didn't come up until the moment Sophie uttered his name in the podcast. I think Maggie had a slightly "Eeep" kind of facial expression, but that's it? Yeah, I don't think so.
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45 minutes ago, tennisgurl said:
... its obsession with dealing with every single issue it can possibly think of makes it seem like these people must have pissed off the wrong sorcerer
And Nash's world just got at least 15% more interesting.
I'm not saying I'm gonna line up for tickets to A Million Little Things in the Multiverse of Badness, but if Baron Mordo is part of the cast next season, I'll at least watch the premiere.
For whatever it's worth, it was my impression that Delilah came up with the idea of moving to France permanently after Sophie spent time there, not before. I don't think selling Sophie on the move was part of any agenda on Delilah's part. Otherwise, why not discuss it while Sophie was there? I also seem to remember that going to France to visit Delilah was Sophie's idea, not her mother's -- but I could be mistaken.
SunnyBeBe, don't forget Katherine's varied and expensive forms of passive aggression as examples for Theo of how (not) to handle anger.
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Didn't Maggie give up her apartment? Did she sublet? Was it empty the whole ... year? (I don't actually know how long ago it was in Million Little Things time since Maggie left for Oxford.) I found it jarring that she's just back there, podcasting away, seemingly without transition. And yes, Maggie's apartment is what I'm choosing to focus on right now...
ETA: Except to add that, while I'm glad Javier Sr. is so unswervingly loyal to his son that he's prepared to alibi him out, the fact that Junior is going to let him is incredibly disturbing and feels out of character for Gary -- but this whole Vigilante Gary thing feels deeply wrong to me. (See "grimdark and stupiddumb," above.)
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10 hours ago, ams1001 said:
C'mon, Gary. You made me cheer. You're one of the few characters I didn't hate tonight. Don't do something stupid.
Everyone seems to be moving forward except Gary. I admit, the show suckered me into thinking Gary thought better of it by the time Peter got to the door. Looks like Gary's storyline next season is going to be both grimdark and stupiddumb.*
Can't Regina have a heart-to-heart with Delilah? I think Gina might be the brightest one of the bunch. I haven't been the most impatient with Delilah, but even I'm getting tired of her whining. Just -- geez, lady, talk to your kids!
This is more of Nash's "flipping" the characters, isn't it? I'd roll my eyes, but I'm afraid of doing myself serious injury.
(*Okay, I made that word up, but can you blame me?)
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On 6/6/2021 at 10:48 PM, Raja said:
Suicide by cop was my take. He asked Sergeant Bell to do him right and then forced the act by turning his weapon on her.
Between that ending and the shot of Angela pleading weakly "... help me," as she (presumably) dies, I found this an uncharacteristically grim episode. Grim enough that I'm not sure I want to watch season 2.
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5 hours ago, melon said:
I can't tell if Wheatley is mob connected or a made man. Because, in the mob, there's the rule of omerta, which has been rarely seen here. Bekhar flips. Angela flips. Now, Richard tries to flip. Only a matter of time before crybaby Richie flips. Usually, when you become a rat, you have to tell everything. Does that mean Richard will have to throw his kids under the bus?
I can sort of buy Angela's turning on Wheatley, since she's his ex-wife and maybe no longer family (although for most of the season she seemed pretty down with whatever he was doing) and she does learn that it was he and not Stabler who killed Rafiq. I wondered at first if Wheatley was supposed to be unhinged or somehow unbound from the usual (tv-) mobster codes, since he killed his father; that seems like a non-starter. In a way I still think Wheatley is bloodthirsty to an impractical degree (if mobsters are supposed to be businessmen). On the other hand, I think it makes a kind of sense for someone of Richard's demonstrated vast ego to relish being the guy who knows all, and being in a position to grass on absolutely everyone.
I think Richie would probably tell everything he knows if Stabler looked at him using his Mean Face. He might even make up some crap just to make him stop. (Also he might wet himself.)
I would laugh and laugh (thus: HAHAAAA) if Pilar turned out to know pretty much everything and turned on Richard because she got fed up with being treated like a trophy wife / blow-up doll.
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On 6/3/2021 at 11:38 PM, Aileen said:
As far as I recall there was a discussion about a mole early on in the pilot and then...never again.
That's what I was thinking, too.
But was I alone in thinking that Stabler's big "Annnd... scene!" wail was even more on the nose than this show usually is? I mean, he might have shouted (earlier) "We need help, here!" But no -- Elliot stands at the centre of the screen, in a long, white hallway, gleaming with emptiness, and howls "I NEED HELP!" Little late, dude. On so many levels.
I will say I wasn't expecting Richie to arrange so close to successfully to have his Dad whacked. He always seems so completely out of his depth, and not even really aware of it. But as soon as the charges were read at the arraignment, I knew Richie was going to take matters into his own little hands.
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On 5/27/2021 at 11:01 PM, mtlchick said:
Shirtless Stabler doing knuckle push ups? Wheatley gets an, um, early riser?
I did NOT need to see Crazy Wheatley's pre-breakfast O-face. That is all.
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1 hour ago, RunningMarket said:
Remind me again, isn't it Jack and Jennifer's house? So why does Julie take such ownership of it? "It's MY couch! You ate MY donuts!"
I think she might actually be doing this all over town, and we're only seeing the entitled tip of the harpy iceberg.
"Excuse me, why are you sitting on MY bench in MY Murder Park?"
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S08.E03: Blue Flu / S08.E04: Balancing
in Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Not only is his colouring similar enough to Fumero's to make a resemblance plausible, but it's easy to imagine Jake as a sweet-faced, serious-eyed baby with a mop of dark hair, too.