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sinnerforhire

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  1. Well, horses were definitely a status symbol in that era (and probably still are, but I don't know anyone who had horses in the '90s and wasn't forced to sell them). Plus, didn't The Horse Whisperer come out around the time this aired? That movie was pretty popular, from what I remember.

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  2. I was listening to this in the car, and "It might be an oral" prompted not one, but two Deadpan Buntsy Wows behind the wheel. 

    And yeah, of course this show would have a guy being the harassee, because I'm pretty sure this writers' room was populated by Whedonesques who wouldn't dare to point a finger at one another. 

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  3. The only way Steve could have legitimately escaped punishment is if Randall didn't actually have a copy of the paper in question and the whole proceeding was based on his word that the papers were the same. If that's the case, then the evidence of Randall lying by falsifying the grade record would have cast enough doubt on the initial accusation to effectively nullify it.

    Of course, this raises the question of whether Brandon could been compelled to provide his copy of the paper during the proceedings, but I'm sure the writers didn't put any thought into that, so I won't waste my time.

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  4. I can't believe no one got rid of Brandon! I think Michael Mancini would be a great replacement for Brandon, because he actually has the charisma and sexual prowess that Brandon only believes he has.

    Also, I say we swap in Jane for Donna just to get rid of the boob cavern.

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  5. The only way that Brandon is a "legendary prose swordsman" is if Randall has only ever taught brain-damaged athletes who shouldn't have been passed out of the 8th grade. As someone whose undergrad papers won actual awards, I'm kind of offended by the insinuation that Brandon's demonstrably crappy writing is even passable, let alone laudable.

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  6. 7 minutes ago, Racj82 said:

    I would assume David didn't want to go on meds for his condition because he's a recovering drug addict.

    None of the drugs used as mood stabilizers cause addiction. The only psych meds that are addictive are given for conditions David doesn't have.  

  7. (TW/CW: references to mental illness/suicide)

    I was diagnosed with Bipolar II disorder a few years after this aired, and the med I was given (Depakote) had all the side effects Sarah mentioned and more. It even caused a permanent hormone disorder that I have to treat with even more medication. Bipolar II is tough because you do not, under any circumstances, want to take antidepressants for it--they cause full-blown psychotic mania. The only drugs they would give you in those days were anticonvulsants (epilepsy drugs) or lithium, and lithium wrecks your liver but it'll keep you from offing yourself deliberately, or unintentionally (by driving 110 mph into a tree, for example). 

    Unfortunately, there are still plenty of mental health sufferers today that refuse medication because they think that medication makes you "inauthentic" or "artificially happy", because they're looking at the situation backwards: they think that their depressed self is their true self and their content/comfortable self is the unnatural one, when in reality it's the opposite. Depression lies.

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  8. 8 hours ago, bethster2000 said:

    The "top button only on your cardigan" look is about as 1996-97 as it gets, ladies.

    Yeah, I had at least two cardigans that only had one top button when I was in high school in the late '90s. One was part of a velour twinset. 

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  9. 1 hour ago, itainttippithebird said:

    I'm re-watching it right now and I truly think Donna deserved to die for being such an EPIC idiot.

    Yeah, Donna should have had to pay back the city for that the way Steve did for the fire. What a dumbass.

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  10. Loved the Shattered Glass reference! One of my fave movies, and I'm convinced that Hayden Christensen's character and Terruh Streetchild both have borderline personality disorder. (Although, most of HC's characters come off that way, including Anakin!)

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  11. 9 hours ago, slitz said:

    Travis!  Somehow I always forget that he was on this show.  Went to high school with him and thankfully he was not at all similar to his character here.

    I have a huge soft spot for Travis as well, from seeing him at Supernatural conventions. He's quite charming and funny IRL. And he's not a foot and a half taller than me, which makes photo ops so much more enjoyable. (I'm 4'10", or as I like to say, 5' -2".)

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  12. 51 minutes ago, Uncle JUICE said:

    I totally forgot it was an EXPERIMENTAL surgery to boot!

    Which brings up the question of how Joe is paying for this surgery, since Dr. Martin said insurance doesn't cover experimental procedures. Is Donna paying? Is that why she gets a say? Is the Athletic Department paying? Does Joe have a Nike endorsement deal he's never mentioned?

  13. Also, if I recall my Baby-Sitters Club books correctly, the 11-year-olds were allowed to babysit their own siblings provided the parents were in town and reachable. So I don't see what's so bad about Isaiah, who is clearly more responsible than Donna (Rocky 2, anyone?), being left home alone with his siblings during daylight hours. I think Mrs. Holcomb had every right to flip out on Donna, and I wish she would have thrown her ass right out of the house.

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  14. It might be more that JG was the writers'/creators' pet. When Kristin Kreuk was on Smallville, all the characters were constantly telling us how pretty and special her character was, and it was disgustingly obvious how badly Millar & Gough wanted to bone her. The Bev Niner writers were mostly middle-aged white men, so I'm thinking they just all had hard-ons for JG.

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  15. 3 hours ago, Lisin said:

    This is completely unrelated but I've just started watching Supernatural Season 7 and Joe is in it and is now a silver fox and it's making me feel so old! 

    Wait, who was he in Supernatural? I think I watched season 7 in about a day and a half shortly after it aired, so I don't remember individual episodes that well.

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