Blergh

Mr. Lee was a bit of a nut but he had an amazing imagination- and more importantly, he encouraged others to imagine! RIP!

He actually made it eight years PAST 2010 when HAL got ! He had the most memorable voice (and I liked the twist of the latter movie in which HAL proved heroic). RIP, Mr. Rain.

Not to mention that they don't exactly enhance their apparent mother's credentials as an 'expert pharmacist' via the fact that she's evidently not educated them about basic nutrition yet the audience is supposed to rely on HER stamp of approval re pitched vitamins.

The one thing that did NOT get addressed re Terry's elder three sons was this: if they did indeed know about the existence of their youngest brother and the fact that their mother had given him away, did any of them ever wonder as children or teens if they'd be given away if their living circumstances got worse? I hope she at least told them that they would NOT. Nothing mentioned about the elder three wanting to meet him or having much to do with Terry herself nowadays. Also, considering all the chaos and misery that Genghis Khan and his heirs wrought over so much of Asia and Eastern Europe, I wouldn't brag about being his descendant. I'd prefer letting others conclude I came from obscure origins or was descended from a sib of Sir Isaac Newton (who was childless) than spell out who that somewhat notorious ancestor was.

Yeah, and despite the fact that on TV, both sets Batman and Robin's parents were dead and they had Robin's widowed Aunt Harriet living with them in Wayne Manor, none of them ever dwelled upon their dead relatives but just made the most of the loopy family they'd made for themselves (even though they kept Aunt Harriet in the dark re their secret ID's). I guess though it's an UO to prefer watching folks make the most of the lives they have now as opposed to folks forever angsting over their losses.

This somewhat reminds me of the Watergate days in which the proceedings were broadcast for hours. I was a kid and it had been announced that that day's session would start at 8:30 AM local time but I turned on the set at 8:00 AM to watch Captain Kangaroo and it was on so I felt relieved and starting watching. Anyway, during one of the 'live' comedy bits between the Captain and Mr. Green Jeans at precisely 8:30 AM- came the 'We Interrupt This Program to Bring You. ..' then, natch the hearings started again. Man, was I MAD. They didn't even let the Captain finish his sentence so Mr. Green Jeans could tell him the punch line. To keep this relevant to the thread, back then I thought that the Captain and Mr. Green Jeans were waiting to come back on to finish the skit and watched for about an hour hoping they'd get out of 'suspended TV animation' but that didn't happen. It wasn't until years later that I learned they'd taped those shows well in advance but I can't imagine that the late Mr. Bob Keeshan wasn't upset that they only broadcast HALF of his program but I guess it was better than The Price Is Right not being broadcast at all.

Thanks for bringing up Batman, Wiendish! Is it an UO to not only miss the classic (and yes campy) 60's show of that name but miss the days when superheroes actually had senses of humor about themselves and the shows depicting them were FUN?

walnutqueen, I haven't done the Inside Passage but I have visited both Vancouver and the smaller capital city of Victoria, BC and both are quite amazing to see with plenty of historic sites, comforts and amenities of city life AND both in very close range of some truly spectacular nature venues! So if one likes the 'great outdoors' but likes good food and comfortable lodging, those are well worth it!

That's where 'to each one's own' comes in very handy! Oh, and that's one reason I've never bothered with any kind of Star Wars cartoons.

Here's a timely Pet Peeve: Sore fingers from trying to push in those tiny buttons on the sides of my wristwatch to change the time! ARRGH I hate Daylight Saving Time for that very reason- both coming and going!

Remember- when one has folks who do NOT respect one's rules or boundaries babysit one's kids, one ALWAYS winds up paying a price- regardless of whether the rate is technically 'free'.

I agree that that sounds rather warped - on Mr. Lucas's part. However; there was nothing in the final script that indicated that Marion wasn't actually of age when she and Indy embarked on their initial fling. Hence; IMO this should be considered a 'Creator NEAR Fail' rather than a Hero Fail on the depicted Indy's part (not unlike how Harper Lee's initial depiction of Atticus Finch was far more flawed and bigoted than the version generations drew strength from in the polished final form of To Kill a Mockingbird).

Yeah, I think Bio Chuck was still a bit sore over having given up Ben after Brook said she was not ready to be a parent but I believe he'd gotten over the bulk of said anger - even though it doesn't appear he ever married or had other offspring. Still, I'm not condemning him because there have been plenty of cases where bio mothers wanted to keep babies despite rather sketchy living circumstances but the bio fathers had said THEY weren't ready to be parents- and I wouldn't condemn a bio mother for still being sore over having been talked into putting a child up for adoption against their wishes. As long as the sore bio parents didn't let said soreness spoil the bonds between themselves, their offspring and other parents, I really have no problems with a little lingering resentment. Rather poignant that both Bio Chuck and Ben independently said they each looked in vehicles for the other. Well, let's hope that both sets of Ben's parents, his girlfriend and himself continue to get along. I have to admit that I was more moved by Tara's story of having found out only upon her legal mother's deathbed that the older was NOT her actual bio mother (and the woman's 2nd [ex?] husband admitted that not only was he not Tara's bio father but also that he'd only known her from the time she was two. Oddly enough, this isn't unique in that Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz first wife Joyce was divorced with a tot daughter who he not only adopted but also even went to the trouble of faking his marriage to her mother being two years longer than it was so everyone would believe that the daughter Meredith would was from their union (including the girl herself). It would only be in adulthood that she learned of her mother's first marriage and her actual father's identity. What was especially sad that, for whatever reasons, Tara's adoptive mother seemed to reject the child she had gone to such trouble to pass off as her own. And what was especially poignant was that her birth mother Priscilla had had a very similar frosty relationship with her own parents but had LOVED her daughter from birth but due to her young age and dependence on her own parents, had her hand forced by her parents to put her up for adoption but DID wish for the infant Tara to have a loving home which she herself did NOT. As sad as having that commonality of being disdained by those they had pinned on loving them, at least they now will know that their mother-daughter bond is NOT something to be taken for granted or as a matter of course but something very special! Also, what amazed me is that despite Priscilla desperately wanting to nurture a child but never having another after Tara, Priscilla seemed like a very warm empathetic person who would be someone that most (who would have reason to know her) would feel lucky to have her in their lives (and I can't say that about every single participant, findee in this series).

Considering the fact that most communities' drinking water has at least trace amounts of pharmaceuticals detected within, there must SOME folks who flush those things down the drain or toilet since I don't think anyone's deliberately putting those chemicals into the waters (though this does raise the question of how clean and filtered IS the drinking water).

I couldn't care less what mutually consenting adults he may be sleep with, but IMO Mr. Bromstad has all the charm and appeal of a gnat in an ear canal.

Perhaps the biggest one that went under the radar to most viewers was the fact that Frances Bavier spoke with a New York Old Society accent rather than make the slightest attempt at a Southern (much less North Carolinian) one but I suppose everyone just considered it an 'Aunt Bee' accent that somehow fit the character who'd never left the North Carolina area until very late middle age.

Would it be too UO to say that since it seemed to revel in incestuous rapes and child abuse rather than actually condemn these actions despite a few hollow attempts at pretending to do so, I was unable to finish Flowers in the Attic much less bother with any of the sequels or anything else the writer/s of that enterprise put out?

I know it's trivial and truly had nothing to do with the actual plot. However; I found it MOST refreshing that both Jackson and Ally wrote out their song ideas and lyric in longhand via PEN AND PAPER instead of via texting or Smartphone. I guess going about it the traditional way made it seem IMO as though they actually had had to put some thought into what they were writing before they committed it to actual words instead of mindlessly rambling on their toys without giving it any true thought.

One thing I've never seen addressed but am hoping someone here might have some insight is this: how did Ozzie not go to war in World War II when he was within the age range for a US man to have done so. I mean, Frank Sinatra had a perforated ear drum via the usage of forceps at birth that kept HIM out but I've never heard of Ozzie having any kind of physical impediment that would have prevented him from serving (and he was surprisingly athletic well into late middle age despite his slighter height and physique compared to his sons). And, his widowed mother had two other sons, so I doubt that that could have been a reason to have kept him out. Lastly, Harriet had been self-supporting and supportive of her own mother from her teen years so, had he been drafted, she more likely could have found the means to provide for their family more readily than many other wives and mothers who had never worked outside the home before their husbands' service. I'm not condemning him but it just seems atypical that he was able to work in radio, movies,etc. and conduct an orchestra without having any interruption due to service from 1941 to 1946.

I'm not a Liberty Mutual customer nor a fan of their commercials but I can imagine they thought that showing Lady Liberty was more impressive than showing the cracked Liberty Bell. However; I have to wonder if they actually had to get permission from the National Park Service to make hay of her so much!

Is it too late or unoriginal to chime in my own intense dislike for Megyn Kelly? Let's put it this way, there's so much to loathe about her, it's tough to know where to start but the recent news is by no means a surprise.

Speaking of clowns, guess who was the first Ronald McDonald? Willard Scott the future NBC weatherman! Psychotic is one apt word to describe his demeanor, etc.!

Would it be too much an UO (and show my squareness) if I said that that show sounded as though it spent WAY too much time in the flake field for me to have had any interest in it? To each one's own, regardless!

Since I already mentioned his onetime wife (and sons' mother) June Blair's birthday, it seems even more apt that I mention that today would have been David Ozzie Nelson's 82nd Birthday had he not been fated to die from complications of colon cancer in January,2011 at age 74. Others may have laughed with his parents or been charmed by his younger bro but I can't imagine the show could have really survived without his quiet yet strong input- to say nothing of the Real Life Nelsons.

On TV, anytime one goes to a restaurant, a bar or even a nightclub with a house band playing onstage, somehow those bands ALWAYS play just loud enough to be heard but quiet enough for the protagonists to be able to converse with each other without having to raise their voices - even on shows where their background soundtracks WAIL out the dialogue! If only house bands existed in Real Life that one could converse over without having to SHOUT!