Blergh

IMO, TWoP had started out a fun way to banter about TV trivia, plots,etc. but it got bogged down in its own draconian rules that were made for no reason but to have the mods dump on posters. I'll never forget once I was speculating about a show that had just aired in my time zone so I put a spoiler bar to give the West coast posters/ viewers the option to not have the plot twists. ..spoiled. Well, soon a couple of posters whined about the spoiler bar's existence [like they couldn't just click it away to read it for themselves if they'd wanted to] then before I knew it the mods chimed in about how it somehow was against the rules to have them for folks in other time zones because. .. it was so BOGUS! I'd long since quit participating but the last few months would pop in to see if there might be still some interesting TV talk but I was frankly relieved when the whole thing just self-imploded!

Anyone recall the abused kid named Graham who virtually all the adults in the town and even Mrs. Oleson wanted to have his male DNA Donor horsewhipped? It seems they were ready to read him the Riot Act when Caroline piped up that if the punished the abuser, they'd hurt the victim- so ALL they did was have Charles sober the abuser up. It seems the abuser drank and hurt his kid ALL because his late wife died in childbirth bearing him but that didn't stop him from having this tiny boy do virtually ALL the work in their house and farm ! Yeah, they were one-shot but does anyone truly think that getting an abuser off the sauce one time but otherwise attempting to mete zero consequences for abuse would guarantee the abuser to forever quit abusing their victim?!

While I don't consider the mother in that commercial to be as inattentive to her offspring as a sea turtle, I just wish the kid would pipe up, 'Fine, Mom. Enjoy the cat as long as you like but remember the cat won't be picking your nursing home!'

How I wish she'd said, "Why?! Because I'm getting rid of that shirt since I've grown up and have expanded my musical tastes beyond my tween years (and you were never any good in the first place) and I wouldn't use that shirt to wipe my . .. car! Oh, and I'm getting that hole in the wall plastered tomorrow so your poster's going straight into the paper shredder! " Yeah, but then there'd be no commercial. Oh well. . .

Although, especially in the early years, Mr. Linville did a good job playing the show's main foil, with everyone else having evolved (especially Margaret), I was frankly relieved [no pun intended] when Maj. Burns was shipped out. I definitely think Maj. Winchester should have come in earlier- if for no other reason than to have SOMEONE to be an actual challenge for for Hawkeye to who actually was a good surgeon and wasn't entirely a negative character (while Frank was such an annoying and incompetent dolt that even when he attempted to courtmarshall Hawkeye, the latter seemed as threatened as an elephant about to step on an ant)! I thought it was funny how, in the beginning, there was an awkward attempt at having the now-married Margaret flirt with the still-single Winchester but their clashing tempers quickly (and permanently) derailed it. IIRC, she got sick from eating a canned pheasant he'd had shipped over and he got furious over her openly berating him for 'that rotten bird'! Thereafter, they seemed to struggle just to be civil to each other . I also thought it interesting how Winchester was the one person who refused to adore Radar yet DID [somewhat] befriend Klinger despite pulling no punches in calling out the latter's incompetence as a clerk! While I'm doing M*A*S*H UO's I wasn't sorry to see Trapper John go. Not only due to the origins of his nickname [think about it] but who was HE to call out Frank's adulterous hypocrisy?! Unlike B.J. or even Henry Blake, he NEVER expressed the slightest remorse for blatantly fooling around on his faithful Stateside wife (and co-parent of their minor offspring). .and seemed to have been an open adulterer long before he got posted overseas - his ENTIRE marriage! Hawkeye also was a playa but at least he stayed single!

Mr. Standish," I'll close the saloon to suit your sleep schedule the day I give credit to a complete stranger offering zero assets or collateral!"

Thankfully, that term seems as current as Moon Unit Zappa (at least in my neck of the woods) so it's been awhile since I've been saturated with it. However, as long as we're talking annoying slang, I'm tired of ' best/worst [whatever] EVER' and 'G.O.A.T'. In the former case, the speaker seems to have no concept of 'ever' and using it as a superlative instead of just saying 'best/worst I've experienced so far' somewhat dilutes the whole meaning of 'ever' as an infinite measure of time. Speaking of time, I know that 'G.O.A.T' means 'greatest of all time' but, again, it's rather pointless to make that assertion unless one has complete knowledge all all prior AND future feats in said venue. Besides, that only the first of the four word term 'greatest' has more than one syllable so saying 'G.O.A.T' barely shortens the slang from the original term. ..and just pronouncing the acronym as 'goat' would be a rather cheesy deal instead of a successful ramming of a superlative.

I never thought of that back then! That's refreshing to consider. However, one thing about that movie I did (and do) like is that they had actual nascent broadcast and cable news programs and networks 'cover' many of the events in Sunny's story sometimes complete with the theme music. I know it's an odd thing to like but the historian in me actually is somewhat grateful to that movie for having captured what we viewers were having to deal with re news programs,networks,etc. in the mid-1980's! Of course, the irony is that the 'coverage' wasn't that much of an exaggeration to how they covered actual news stories back in the day .

Sorry if it's been brought up before but I LOATHE that Arm and Hammer cat litter commercial that has alleged scientists THROWING hard clumps of the used product! UGH!! I don't care if it's hard enough to cut diamonds, I still don't want to think of used cat litter being thrown instead of just quietly bagged then disposed in the proper garbage receptacles! BLEAHH!! UGH!! BOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know that it's rather trivial compared to everything else but where did the late Mr. Simpson's legal eagle get his degree from- Stereotypical Biker Bar U? I mean (not that it would even remotely have gotten me to feel an iota of sympathy for their side) but couldn't he have bothered to tried to use professional language when explaining his stance for a public statement instead of just crassly venting like he was at a dive revving up for a pity party?! All the above said, even had he used professional language, it STILL wouldn't have gotten me on their side but that's what legal eagles are supposed to try to speak if they're getting paid, right?

OK, hearing about the US Post Office raising stamp prices, I thought I'd try to save a little dinero by buying a few extra books of stamps ahead of time so I went to two local post offices. Only to find out that not just the one but BOTH of them now refused to accept cash but insisted I had to use plastic. OK, I went ahead and bought two sheets of stamps at the first place and then I thought I'd get another sheets of stamps at the 2nd place which I did- only to find out after I got home that I got charged for TWO sheets of stamps instead of just the one I received (and the office had already CLOSED by the time I discovered the overcharge). Yep, so I got three sheets for the price of FOUR! I'm so mad at myself for not catching it at that post office! BOOO!!!!

He definitely seemed as though he'd have been a good friend had one had reason to have known him! I liked how he praised both Miss Parady and Miss MacGregor as colleagues and performers saying he enjoyed working with them- despite the fact that neither Alice nor Harriet seemed to enjoy being around Jonathan that much! I also thought it was interesting how he used his experience of football blocking to build upon when doing performing blocking before the camera. I don't know when this interview was taped but it doesn't seem that long before his sad death - yet he appeared surprisingly vigorous here and, on a shallow note, almost younger in appearance as the elder Mr. Labyorteax who'd played his son Andrew! Thanks for this!

Those both could be valid points (and it's too bad that neither Mr. Olsen nor ML detailed why the 'quirk' got dropped). Alas, the show somewhat dropped the ball by having him be little more than Charles's towering galoot sidekick and somewhat self-effacing spouse to Alice. Although, I will say that Jonathan Garvey [usually] was a conscientious father to Andrew.

Least of all charm or the truth of the adage of catching more bees with honey than vinegar. .. Did she truly believe that the evidence could have been interpreted to give her a 'get outta jail free' card?

Not a bad point. Oddly enough, Jonathan's intro episode had a 'humorous' subplot of him having a bit too much of a liking for booze and him doing his best to hide it from Alice and (of all folks) Mary- the resulting disposal of said booze caused Nels to get sloshed from it. It must have been near 200 proof for a mere jugful of it getting diluted in a rain barrel to have STILL been enough to have caused tipsiness. THAT would be the ONLY hint of Jonathan not being a teetotaller in the series ( apart from his numbing himself to mourn Alice) but I'm wondering if perhaps that late Merlin Olsen having been a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints [who are rather strict about their members drinking alcohol] might have been flatly refused to have played a boozing character more than one or two episodes- even though it might have made for some potential plotlines. Come to think of it,though, neither Isaiah nor his then-wife Grace ever had any family members visiting them- although we did learn of the tragic deaths of his first wife and their young daughter when there was an outbreak of some kind of plague! Of course, Mr. Edwards DID have both humorous and serious booze storylines.