Browncoat

It was inconsistent at best -- New York/New Jersey came through more often than Texas.

One of my HS graduation presents in 1982 was an electric typewriter to take to college. I had used a manual until then, and was terribly excited to get the electric one. I didn't get a computer until '87 or '88 -- I was in grad school.

Y is for Yor, Dan's biker name. Yoooooorrrrrrr!

I think they would have accepted R. Crumb — it would distinguish him from his lesser known brother Kit Crumb.

Okay, Emily can go now. If she would open her mouth and speak up, she wouldn't bug me so much, but I can't understand half of what she says. I was rooting for the guy, at least partly because he's from West Virginia and guessed Mountain Dew for that one clue. Stupid guess, but it's kind of the state beverage. And nope, I'm not from West Virginia, but it's not too far away! I had a bad night tonight -- hardly got any TS. Just Champagne, and the Carpenters, I think. Too bad I didn't have any Champagne to drink for the Alex Trebek drinking game -- the Carpenters were before those contestants' time!

And then, of course, when you want to go with friends, but you each want your own reward points, you all have to get there together and stand in line together. Or, all go together a day ahead, only to find out that that specific theater doesn't have reserve seating and one of you could have saved seats.

Georgie's burp project was better, scientifically speaking, than the frizzy hair machine. He had a hypothesis, methods and conclusions. What was the purpose of the frizzy hair machine project? Rehearsing lines and blocking and whatnot is entirely different than improv. I totally believe that Sheldon could be good at acting and not at improv. Also, if they went from auditions to performance in three weeks, they didn't have time to do any acting exercises -- it was all straight up rehearsal.

I haven’t had the puff or air test in a long time — my ophthalmalogist uses a little device that looks like a pen, and touches it to my eyeball. Creepy as hell, but more accurate than the old-fashioned puff of air. Also, “good restraints” generally just mean someone’s holding the animal. You want good restraints just for taking a dog’s temperature!

It was kind of worth enduring Jason’s horrible accent to see him in the iconic red dress, singing “Tomorrow”.

Dear Jason Alexander, Stop trying with the Texas accent. It's not working for you. Or me. Or, y'know, at all.

It was excellent. I didn't even mind Kevin Costner. Definitely an instaget FJ for me. But what was middle woman thinking with that FJ bet? Other than that, I would have been okay with any of them winning. TS I got include seven, Spamalot, The Lone Ranger, squid, lynching, and Zane Grey. Once upon a time, I drove a Chevy Spectrum, and name it Roy, as in Roy G. Biv, so the colors in white light was an easy one for me. Also, whales are mammals, not cephalopods, and slugs (or snails or whatever he said) are gastropods, not cephalopods. Science can be your friend!

There is only one Princess Leia, and Meryl Streep, as fab as she is, is NOT Princess Leia.

I thought he looked like Gomez Addams. He was a buzzer-flailer, too, so it didn't hurt my feelings that he made an unwise bet on FJ and lost. FJ was an instaget for me, although I'm not sure I could have told you that there was a musical theater version of The Bodyguard. Lots of TS tonight -- I got chaparral, Pascal, terra cotta warriors, mother, Izaak Walton, and blasting cap. I thought of you, @M. Darcy, when the Izaak Walton clue came up! I kept yelling at her to speak up and enunciate, but I guess she didn't hear me. I kinda liked her cat story, too.

I did. There wasn't anything wrong with my old couch (until the arm broke), and I couldn't afford to replace furniture that wasn't broken.

Only if they play quickly enough to get to all the categories.

I still think it'll smooth out -- I'm in.

There was a brief throwaway line to Becky about her husband having died.

I thought about that, too, after I wrote down the Beatles, but couldn't come up with another Tennessee Ernie song.

Agreed. A couple of times, I had to catch myself -- I thought it was Sara for a split second.

Heh, "We could be the same person!"

Whole lotta exposition going on, which is fine, to catch us all up, but I suspect the second episode will be smoother. Nice that Darlene's holey jeans are back in style, too! LOL

I love that we still have the chicken shirt! And in the opening, too!

Johnny must have way overthought FJ tonight -- can't blame him there. The Beatles seemed way way too obvious, but I went with them anyway since I couldn't think of anyone else who fit the clue. Not that it matters, since I'm glad to see him gone. Also glad Katy didn't win. She just got a tad too cutesy there toward the end. Katy, dear, we are not eight years old. I had to laugh at the French names category, though Alex and his accent were denied when most of the clues were answered correctly. The only TS I wrote down were gneiss and show jumping. I think show jumping was another one of those that just seemed too easy.

@Bastet, I was going to say W is for the Wok they use instead of a bathroom.

I learned about that tree from The Little Prince.