Blergh

OK, here's another classic sitcom nom: Maxwell Smart of Get Smart (1965-1970) who worked with alluring 99 for years, married her and even sired twins with her- yet somehow NEVER learned her actual name- not even when her clueless mother came to visit (and somehow never uttered her own daughter's name).

Yeah, it got bogus how, the instant Laura lost those pigtails, she suddenly became a Gibson Girl fashion plate despite having no means to have purchased that wardrobe much less taken any time in sewing it. I can't think of a single time Laura was shown so much as holding a skein of yarn for her Ma- much less actually sewing anything even in the earliest episodes. Yet, she's supposed to go through the plights of being a struggling teaching student, a storm-ravaged farm wife, etc. but never looks less than runway-ready!

Possibly but they could have at least tried to fight it. Moreover, during the course of the show, most if not all the legal eagles were depicted doing some borderline if not outrightly illegal stunts. Hence, that they turned tail instead of making the slightest attempt to defend themselves against an evil sociopath - to say nothing of trying to save an innocent person from being framed and railroaded for a murder she didn't commit was maddening- and stupid!

Update- the clothes dryer got fixed so I don't have to lug any more bags of laundry! Hooray! Yeah, it cost $300 but it beat having to pay over $1000 for a new dryer!

At least the bathroom HAS TP rolls. What's worse is going to a restaurant or other establishment and they have NONE! Yep, I learned the hard way to carry Kleenex around- just in case.

While, of course, it's sad that the elder Mr. Field passed away (and my condolences to his loved ones), I can't help but imagine that his son Storm, at best, would have had to have worked to have made peace with being tagged that (if not at some point outrightly having resented his parents for tagging him that as a weatherman's son). Still, since the younger Mr. Storm himself wound up becoming a weatherman, I suppose he made his peace and/or decided resistance was futile.

OK, to bring some humor back to this subforum, I'd like to nominate Mr. Theodore J. Mooney (Gale Gordon) of The Lucy Show (1962-1968)for a classic nomination in this category. Almost as soon as he'd met Lucy Carmichael (Lucille Ball) (whose monthly allowance from her late husband for herself and their kids, the banker Mr. Mooney was responsible for managing) and he'd sniffed at her latest attempt at an advance, she 'accidentally' locked him in a bank vault for two days (after having gotten herself out after one day). This was but the first of many mishaps and abuses he'd endure at her hands in their hometown of Danfield, New York before the show's format drastically changed in 1965. Long-short is that Lucy's longtime co-star Vivian Vance had gotten remarried and living in Connecticut with her last husband which meant that she had to commute to LA to film the show. Miss Vance got tired of doing this while still being the show's 2nd banana and rather unpleasantly parted ways as a permanent cast member of the show. Someone at the network told Lucille (the star AND the Desilu Executive Producer) that the network would pay her MORE money for an existing but drastically revamped show. Hence, she got her writers to concoct the following changes for her character: Over the course of the summer of 1965, Viv had met and married a 2nd time and moved out of the Danfield house AND Lucy's teen daughter was in college in LA while her preteen son had gotten admitted to military school in LA. This got Lucy to sell her Danfield house and move to LA into a studio efficiency one-bedroom apartment . .and she soon ran out of money. In no time flat, she wound up having to seek a job so who wound up hiring her as his secretary despite his own loud misgivings? Who else but Mr. Mooney himself who'd taken a bank exec job saying he'd been given the choice between 'the state of California or the state of unemployment'! Yes, and in addition to remaining a trouble-prone character, Lucy quickly proved to be a very incompetent, tardy, and unprofessional employee! Yet, Mr. Mooney not only hired her but, despite frequently bellowing 'Mrs. CARR-michael, you're FI-I-ERD!!', he inevitably would RE-hire her for the rest of the show's run! Yes, I get that Mr. Gordon was a major asset to the show and Lucy wanted to keep him (and, in fact, those two got along great offcamera) but it still staggered the mind they couldn't come up with a better way to keep him as a regular! I have to admit that when I was a kid, it was fun seeing Lucy get the curmudgeonly Mr. Mooney's goat. However, having been in the workforce for many decades with a slew of unprofessional, tardy and incompetent fellow employees, I have to admit being a LOT more sympathetic to Mr. Mooney's plight but now I think that, via him knowing what she was (in)capable of yet still hiring AND rehiring her, he was definitely a contender for the Sitcom Dumbbell Award!

Yeah, it was sad how jaded Chopper already had become via playing all these parental figures to his advantage. One of the few sad, but humorous moments of the episode came when he described the 2nd ex-wife of his father (who'd been married three times) as being given the family nickname of 'Mrs. In-Between' . Evidently 'Mrs. In-Between' had borne some younger half-sibs for Chopper, otherwise I truly don't see why she didn't put the whole mess behind her after she split with Chopper's dad.

EXCELLENT! Even giving someone the benefit of the doubt that they are simply 'kook magnets' for no reason whatsoever, what possible benefit could there be for a newbie re sticking with them?! Yeah, I'll bet that a good number of the exes in these toxic deals being retroed as 'crazy' or 'violent and unstable' had ALSO heard that re the previous exes!

Mr. Gilbert definitely had better acting chops by the end than he was given credit for. I suppose either he himself decided and/or was told that there could only be ONE Gilbert sib in 'the biz' and bowed out of acting as soon as the LHOTP run was done shortly before he parted ways with/ was thrown out of the Gilbert family. Regardless, I agree with you that none of his adult or fellow minor performers seemed to attempt to keep in contact with him after . .the parting of ways- to say nothing of ML himself. Does anyone know if Mr. Gilbert attended ML's funeral a few years later ? None of the accounts of it within the bios mention his presence. ..or absence! I don't pretend to offer any proof but I think it's possible that since he was adopted that he may have found out his original birth name. .and possibly have been using THAT as his legal name to maintain his low profile all these decades.

Among other still unsolved mysteries from before the start of written records in Australia is that no one is sure who might have brought them or for what purposes but sometime before 1400 BC dingoes were brought to the continent of Australia. If they had ever been intended for hunting dogs or pets by the Indigenous Australians (who themselves had arrived on the continent no later than 50,000 BC), they quickly proved too independent to remain/become domesticated and almost immediately proved to be fierce competitors for game. Currently, there are strict laws in Australia prohibiting dingoes as pets AND to allow them be bred with domesticated canines whose own ancestors didn't arrive any earlier than 1788 AD when the first British colony was established!

Right after I had put my load of work uniforms into the washing machine, I noticed my clothes dryer wasn't working . ..at all. Long-short is that hopefully someone will come to fix it on Monday. However, in the meantime, I needed a clean uniform for Monday and did the New Millennial bit of Googling nearby bundle laundry services. Luckily for me, there was one not too far from the residence and when I asked them if they could have them ready by either the end of the day or tomorrow. .. the proprietor told me that they usually DON'T do bundle service over weekends but since it was slow, they WOULD do mine! Believe me, I wasn't going to look the gift horse too much in the mouth and was VERY grateful. Well, they managed to get it done (and even cleaned some 'set in' stains I thought had been hopeless) by noon and I was so relieved that I tipped them about 20 percent extra! Point being, after dealing with so many folks who give litanies of excuses for why they can't/won't do the services they advertise, it was FANTASTIC to find someone who DID do this very necessary cleaning for me- and on the weekend before the 4th to boot!

On June 30,1951 24-year-old William Daniels of Brooklyn, NY married 22-year-old Bonnie Bartlett in her hometown of Moline, Illinois. Happy 72nd Anniversary to William Daniels and Bonnie Bartlett!

On a humorous (and somewhat shallow note), I recall that when Dr. Johanson make appearances as herself on Degrassi- the teen boys would eagerly anticipate her arrival then frequently become hot and bothered by her presence-because they anticipated her getting rather explicit in detailing the workings of sex. I mean, she did good work and pulled no punches but, on the admittedly shallow side, she was not the most conventionally outwardly appealing individual so it was funny to me that her explicit talk alone got them hot and bothered! In any case, RIP Dr. Johanson.

I've never met anyone who's admitted to liking him so maybe the Hidden Tribe of Kardashian and Progressive Flo Fans have taken him under their aegis!

I think Olivia Jade Giannulli and Steven Seagal might have edged out Seacrest in the 'worst possible choice' department but I guess they either weren't asked or unavailable.

As per Yahoo, CNN,etc. On Saturday, June 24, 64-year-old Madonna was found unresponsive (by who?) and rushed to the ICU for several days after developing a severe infection requiring hospitalization. Somehow this was kept out of the rags until she was released to recuperate at home but her manager has said that due to this health scare, she is postponing her latest tour.

As per MSN ,guess who TBPB chose to replace the retiring Pat Sajak at the end of the season to host Wheel of Fortune? Ryan Seacrest! Yep, instead of seeking out a good host from X times thousands of possibly likable hopeful performers, IMO they chose another smarmy, obnoxious smug bore to replace Sajak! Why?! Wasn't him souring the Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's and even managing to somehow make the annoying Live with Kelly even less watchable punishment enough for the viewers?! Poor Vanna White having to steel herself to have to endure another pain! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know that there's no zinger that will work for all folks or all situations but, as long as we're mentioning them one that might at least get some jerky guys to back off would be 'Is that how your mother would like you to talk to women/girls?'

That kind of reminds me of one of the most infuriating L.A.Law (1986-1994) episodes in which an old millionaire gets murdered and his estranged daughter appears to have done the deed- and the firm get hired by his much-younger widow to gather evidence during the stepddaughter's murder trial . But what they find is that it was the widow herself who murdered the old millionaire AND was framing the estranged daughter. .but rather than immediately go to the authorities with the evidence, they approach their client who immediately threatens to SUE them for $26 million in damages (the late husband's estate) if they don't play along and help her to railroad her innocent stepddaughter- and instead of telling her that they're willing to take the chance to call her bluff (and point out that few if any judges would have sided with her) they actually participate in a televised press conference in which she gloats about having the stepddaughter imprisoned . Yep, rather than actually show ANY guts (much less brains) and try to investigate legalities to cover themselves while preventing an evil person (albeit a client) from profiteering from a murder AND framing & railroading an innocent person, the minute she threatens to sue them, they turn tail and chicken out! ARRGGHHH!!!!!!!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It doesn't appear that Mr. Sands has been the only individual over the decades who has gone missing in that vicinity. However, no matter what, after the remains become officially identified there will be one less set of loved ones unsure of what became of their departed ones. Regardless of whether the remains are proven to be those of Mr. Sands or some other individual, it's sad that at least one person lost their life in a wilderness less than fifty miles from downtown L.A.

If one wants to go back to vintage, then I think that the two who own this thread would have to be Theodor ' Beaver' Cleaver (of Leave It to Beaver (1957-1963) and Laura Ingalls ( of Little House on the Prairie 1974-1983). They constantly fall the lies and tricks of their respective nemeses Eddie Haskell and Nellie Oleson . However, I think Laura winds up being the dumber of the two because Beaver is somewhat pressured to try to be civil to Eddie due to Beaver's older brother Wally inexplicably considering Eddie to be his best friend while Laura has no such pressure but just stays gullible to Nellie's stunts right through the mud wrestling episode! Oh, and they both openly dislike their respective tricksters so it makes it all the more frustrating that they each continue to let their guards down and get scorched again and again!

That's must be utterly heartbreaking for Mrs. Hanna! I hope she herself has a support system in her locale to help her cope with dealing with Mr. Hanna's Alzheimer's because the caregivers so often wind up being overshadowed and very overwhelmed by the many pragmatic demands of those dying from the inside out- to say nothing of becoming emotionally devastated before and after their loved ones' demises. Ages ago, I knew two neighbors who were sisters who cared for one of the sisters' husband who himself had a very lengthy and devastating decline over X number of years. It wound up that these two were so wiped out by the physical and emotional toll that, within a very short time of the husband's death, the two sisters sold their house and moved straight into a nursing home until their own respective deaths.

One of the more annoying things about it was that even when Cindy was supposed to be going to sleep, swimming,etc. (in the first few years) she was expected to always have her hair curled that way with plastic 'dingle balls' on each side of her head holding everything together instead of being shown with loose hair or her hair in curlers. At least by the latter part of the show, they let the character wear her hair loose but curled and sometimes in braids (but with the ends curled). And it must be kept in mind that in the late 1960's and early 70's the fashion was for conventional girls and women to have their hair straightened not curled but her and the late Miss Jones's styles hearkened back to Shirley Temple's childhood locks of the 1930's (when the young Miss Temple's wavy hair was curled to exactly 57 precise curls- not sure why they picked that number but they publicized it in promos about her).

@Dani covered many basic reasons why many of us heartily have disliked Piers Morgan down the years. It's not just his relentless uncalled for meanspiritedness towards his targets but how utterly unethical and unprincipled he appears to have been down the years as per legal findings! Anyway, I hope this answers your query!