DaBigDave
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I'm one of those people who sometimes listens despite not watching the show. I work in an almost empty office and sometimes just want to hear you guys make fun of celebrities in the background so I don't fall asleep at my desk.
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When I was a teen, Maryland had a three step process... Learner's Permit, Provisional License, License. Under the provisional, you could drive legally but you couldn't drive alone after dark basically... It's been 20 years, I don't remember exactly...
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Re:Basketball, Steve liking the Celtics and racism:
The show doing this is amazingly on the nose, and terrible...
It's a shorthand for Steve's racism, not just for the team names - but also because the Lakers' biggest stars of the time were black (Kareem, Magic Johnson, James Worth) and the Celtics big stars (Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Danny Ainge) are white. The 1980s "showtime" Lakers teams were also among the most fun teams in NBA history.
Now, the idea that Steve is a big fan of the Lakers, except for when they play the Celtics ludicrous. At the time this aired, the teams had met in the finals 10 times (one, the other, or both were in every NBA final between 1980 and 1989) and it was something of a blood feud...
To a basketball fan... an LA guy like Steve saying he likes the Celtics over the Lakers is almost the equivalent of wearing a Klan hood...
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Crocodile Cal's Outback Shack!
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One cannot underestimate how DC area kids of my generation loved that commercial. That and former Redskin Joe Jacoby awkwardy reading ad copy for TheaterVision. Which, sadly, isn't on YouTube.
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Unmentioned in Dave's introduction of the Joon Rhee ad, is that the jingle was written and performed by longtime E. Street Band guitarist, Nils Lofgren.
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Nostradamus is kind of pointless on this show. Aside from not being able to keep his prophesies straight, the show failed to use the one "prophesy" he's most famous for - supposedly predicting the Death of King Henry. Ah well. The rest of it is mostly anachronistic soapy CW fun.
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Having long known about Catherine's (and later, Henry III's) Flying Squadron, I was amused they threw a nod to them. With all of Mary's relatives at Court, I'm glad they at least brought in Francis Duke of Guise. Though this one is missing the famous scar from taking a lance through his own helmet...
On the other hand, they missed having Nostradamus predict King Henry's death (or specifically not predicting it) which is terrible since it's the "prophesy" that he's most famous for. (though it didn't appear in print until long after their deaths.) He's kind of pointless on this show.
S02.E16: Chapter Thirty-Eight
in Jane The Virgin [V]
If I know anything about Telenovelas, and I mostly don't... it's that if Michael were to die, he would probably be killed by his secret, evil mystery twin, who has a horrible mustache.