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"No wonder the O'Neals only date each other." So, we get a theremin, Abba, Not-Gay Stuart's coming out, Kenny's acknowledgement that he sometimes hallucinates, and the entire family doing the Tootsee Roll. Although it was somewhat depressing to learn that Pat and Eileen and I are all about the same age. Some of my friends actually have kids who are teenagers, which is something I try not to think too hard about.

That episode was forever made for me that when Brenda intimidates the tattoo artist and Sharon reacts with disgust back in the electronics room, Taylor turns to her and says "The man works with Nazis. Do you want some Kleenex to wipe up your tears?"

He probably invested in it. I don't know, I just assume that incredibly wealthy people would just call Lin-Manuel Miranda directly.

A billionaire who uses StubHub? Seriously?

Hooray for drones! /s

Well, that's kind of repulsive. I assume the family have fewer friends should legitimate needs arrive in the future. While I think Honeyfund is kind of tacky, because I think straight-up asking for cash gifts is tacky, at least a wedding is an event where gift-giving is expected. I mentioned this in another thread, but I saw something a few months ago where a young couple was trying to fund a trip to fornicate (that was how they phrased it) in all 50 states. I can't imagine asking for something like that. I have less of a problem with Kickstarter, because at least there's a tangible product on the other side. Unfortunately, Kickstarter also has more than a few bad actors.

Pipcorn was featured on a recent Beyond the Tank.

Oh, they managed.

You may want to stay off of social media then.

My husband and I never really took a honeymoon, nor did we have any kind of registry, and we're taking one six years late and because we've got some other events next year. Every bit of breeding in me is telling me not to get within 500 feet of a crowdfunding platform, but I would be lying if I said I haven't thought about it. I have a very complicated opinion of Arianna Huffington, but watching her with Honeyfund, I think she'd be interesting as a Guest Shark. Certainly, she couldn't be worse than Chris Sacca or Nick Woodman. I wanted to punch those barbecue guys in their piggy faces way back in Season 1, and I'm happy to report my feeling hasn't abated. While Daymond is my favorite Shark, Barbara is a reasonably close second, and while I'd hate for her to lose...

Crowd-fund that RFN.

So, a bunch of pages of Rebirth leaked. And it turns out that Flashpoint happened because of THIS IS A MASSIVE SPOILER The spoiler-free reviews say that it's very, very good and almost seems like an apology for the grimdark. But that spoiler man.

Wait, wait, wait, the manbunned Felt Guy's name was "Tomer?" I heard "Homer," which is unfortunately enough, but "Tomer!?!?!"

For the same reason that PMS Bites would have been a scam if they said that the herbs they used treated PMS. There are data that says certain supplements are biologically active (St John's Wort is probably the biggest one, assuming that what's on the label is what's in the cookie), but there's nothing that says taking it actually does anything to help with PMS. Aversion therapy is a thing, but he's making medical claims for his specific device using nothing but anecdotes, which is illegal. Mark was being an ass, but he wasn't totally wrong. What a mouth Kevin has on him. I curse like a sailor, but I'm not sure going on a rant like that really won anything for Kevin. The guy was totally rude, and I wonder if there was something else that was cut out, but I don't know what caused Kevin to explode like that. It's only a shame Sacca wasn't there for the YouTube guy (who I don't remember at all), because I would have loved to here how online influencers relate to Instagram and Uber. Because, you know, influencers are a totally new concept and will clearly be a sustainable forever. Disruption! I'm honestly surprised Felt didn't come in targeting Kevin. I mean, he wants weddings, Kevin pushes wedding, step three, PROFIT! Also, perhaps this is my Emily Post speaking, but as much as I frigging hate Thank You cards, and don't expect them when I give gifts, I would rather see no effort than a gift-recipient just doing it online. If you can't go to Hallmark and stamp the damn thing yourself, why bother? Christmas cards, fine. But I guess we needed to disrupt Big Card. As a man, I don't know if I'm competent to comment on PMS Bites beyond my general disdain for the woo of herbs. And I do think the name is terrible.

I had a sighting of Mango Mango in the wild this evening. So I guess they've been able to ramp up production and find a distributor, which is great. Unfortunately for them, it's too much sugar for me, so I can't spread it, mix it, shake it, or stir it.

The idea that Fin would insist that his new grandson call him Fin is the most adorable and Fin-like thing ever.

Ulysses, the Inhuman maguffin at the center of Civil War II Beyond Thunderdome has a manbun because of course he does.

They'll contrive some reason for her to stick around. But no, she's a full doctor now, she just can't practice on her own without finishing her residency. They borrowed the "Didn't go to her graduation ceremony because she was so into watching over a patient" thing from ER too. Choi and Manning yes. Rhodes, as a surgeon, no.

I love Veep, but I'm hoping it ends this season. The overall arc has been Selina bumbling her way toward being elected President, and it would be kind of regressive to not have that as an end-point. And Dunn's character Ben is basically Taylor if Taylor were the White House Chief of Staff. She is? Why? We've seen her deal with a dying girlfriend (which was rather passionless, even though Melanie Chandra and Shiri Appleby certainly tried their hardest), and even the stalker story was ultimately as much about Angus as it was about her. I guess my bigger issue with Guthrie is that without his son, he's basically there to be the Wise Older Black Man. And that's fine, it's just a complete stereotype, just like the Sassy Black Nurse (see: Chicago Med). And there's also Jesse, who's a mashup of both of those types. I guess I just hope it's more hospital-driven stories (patients, career struggles, hospital drama) instead of who's sleeping with you. Looking at you, Heather.

I've gotten more laughs out of boxed Wisconsin Rose than I should have. And Pat's "mouse-sized" drink. I wouldn't have expected this show to have so many effective site gags. If you told me Jay R Ferguson and Matthew Shively were actually father and son, I would totally believe it. I kind of saw it before, but the minute Jimmy parted his hair and put on Pat's sunglasses, it became uncanny. I haven't liked a traditional sitcom this much in a long time. I'm so glad we're getting more.

Well, if MGH is staying, I can at least dip my toe back in the pool. The problem was that by making her the boss, they were reducing her footprint. And Kevin Dunn was on Veep when he was cast, so I would blame him being an Old instead of him having another job, particularly since Veep only does 10 episodes per season. I think Malaya is probably the most likely to be on the chopping block. On its face, I don't really care about that because I feel no great affection for the character, but given how poor LGBT representation on CBS is, it annoys me. I like Guthrie, but there's only so many times I can hear him call Angus "young squire" without wanted to throw things.

I'm pretty certain Rhodes said something about hurrying the process. It seemed like he'd slipped him too much morphine, but I freely admit that I may have misunderstood. It was also because of Downey coding as soon as Rhodes left his room.

Why do they do this to me? Let's gender everything!

I got the biggest, goofiest grin when Reese confessed to Charles about her decision to withdraw from the Pathology residency, followed by his telling her he'd known she'd do the right thing in the end. I'm curious to see what they'll do to keep her around. But I'm excited to see where it goes. I did have feels when she opened the box and put on her grown-up doctoring coat. I'm not very familiar with the rest of the Chicago Public Servants universe, so was Natalie's friend an established character from one of the other shows? Good lookin' fellow. And speaking as another non-traditional student, represent. Although I am the third oldest in my class, and no one has ever called me Pops, at least to my face. I know I was supposed to be moved by Rhodes mercy-killing Dr. Bahama, but I wasn't. I don't know, they made Downey into such a character with a capital "C," it was really hard to root for him, green bandages or no. TB is treatable, but it's not particularly curable. There's a lot of drug resistance, which is why the treatment protocol is so intense, and even then there's only a 50/50 cure rate. Primary TB isn't that bad (relatively), but if it gets loose and goes somewhere else in the body, it's devastating. I don't know why this was just being caught now. Healthcare workers are generally tested for TB annually. And I always get a little nervous about it myself. When you deal with a potential TB patient, there are special facemasks you have to wear, and I have this voice in back of my mind... I'm not sure if I'm glad they decided to leave things with April's awful brother up in the air or not. I mean, he should have been graduating with Reese, which hopefully means he'll go far, far away, but the fact that we got nothing definitive means there's always the chance of a return.

Well, it's better than the most recent one. That's not exactly high praise, but it's definitely better.