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But I guess I'm happy for the Runkles. So there's that.
Due to the changeover from TWOP and watching a week ahead via On Demand on U-verse, I haven't posted this season but one thing has really bothered me: Where the hell is little Stuart?
I am so confused but really don't care. They seemed to wrap up the stories of all the ancillary players: Charlie and Marcy, Levon, Heather Graham and Michael Imperioli but I have no idea what is happening with "The Moodys". Who is Becca marrying? I certainly hope not and doubt the guy she left with. Is Karen moving back to NYC? If so, I assume that Hank is moving back "with" her or at least to be close? The X-Files finale answered more questions and brought more closure.
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And we have WW III!
Cheng Zhi, back in the building! I could've told Adrian this wouldn't end well.
"Full immunity is not on the table....but your hand is!" When did Jack turn into a quippy action hero?
I'm not sure who got played for the bigger fool: Adrian or Navarro. And this is all bad precedent for Mark.
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Odd fact: All of Nadal's opponents so far have had a "K" in their name-Klizan, Lukas Rosol, Kukushkin and next up Kyrgios.
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I think my favorite character is the Master Chief, simply because he's played by a guy I've seen in a few commercials (I think it was Sprint or one of the phone ones), and it always fun when a commercial actor gets a sizable role on a show.
He was Derrick#2 from All My Children before the commercials.
ETA: I knew I forgot something: "That was June and they're the Cubs." HILARIOUS!!!
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A mention of an article in the current issue of The Atlantic re the genius that was Lennon/McCartney inspired Joe to tell us that he was a songwriter. He re-created a graphic that he sketched for his mother many moons ago, with Lawyer at one end and Artist at the other. He explained to his mother (and us) that the closer one gets to one label the further one drifts from the other.
So, Joe invented the infographic?
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Deleted, my mistake.
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Why is Mika so anti Clinton? She likes Elizabeth Warren.?
Contrarian is the new Black/Republican Chic.
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Mike Meyer's was terrific on the show this morning. The story of his parents enlisting by lying about their age and then serving in the British military in 1940 was so interesting. After Mika tells him how cool he is and how she just loves him (yup she probably has Wayne's World saved on her DVR) she starts lecturing him on drinking poison (a coke). WTF? "You know that's pure sugar?" She couldn't be gracious for one second.
I saw just a snippet of his segment. Really?!? I vow to you all, if I ever do anything that might allow me to go on their show, I will walk out with a Super Big Gulp (Pepsi, no Coke), a bag of chips, donuts and to top it all off, pull out a packet of sugar from my pocket and pour it directly on my tongue.
ETA: OMG!!! David Brooks wrote a NYT Op-Ed titled "President Obama Was Right" (about Bergdahl). PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE somebody put that in front of Joe on Monday!!!
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NBC!!! <as Shatner said KHAN!!!> I'm in CDT and they had SF#2 listed as coming on at 11PM after the Today Show Happy Hour with Hode and Kathy Lee. Watched the opening of Y&R, then turned over to NBC only to find the match already in the 2nd set. Guess they Went to the match live at 10AM. Gonna be a long hot summer of Find-the-Tennis-Coverage.
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Ghost of MJ Past: I was flipping channels either Wednesday or Thursday night and saw Crazy Uncle Pat on either Fox or Fox Business. I wonder if Joe would ever think he has enough juice to bring PB back on. So glad I missed CM this morning. What little I was able to tolerate this morning was such a joke: Joe and Mika all dressed up like grown-ups (What Mika, no pearls for the LBD? And ditch the giant Starbucks cup.)
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I guess that I haven't been watching that closely this year because I haven't noticed the level of spectator obnoxiousness. That said, the things listed (and I accept that all have occurred) are nowhere near the standard set by Italian fans at the Foro Italico in the mid-late 70's; they were known to actually throw coins and other objects onto the court and sometimes even at players, especially when Adrianno Pannatta (sp?) was playing. And there's also the time in Lagos when the Nigerian army marched onto the court with rifles and "requested" that Arthur Ashe and his opponent in the finals leave the court. IMMEDIATELY. I don't remember if they stopped to grab their gear or just left with the rackets in their hands but the match was competed a few weeks later...FAR AWAY, in another country, on another continent.
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Texas is a big ass state (geographically speaking), so I hope they are careful about stuff like that.
Don't hold your breath. If they only make half the mistakes that they made with Chase a few years ago, this will still qualify as a comedy.
I don't kn0w much about Texas, but I have heard that there are areas where there are few/no hospitals that I would think of as "local" (within about 25 miles) and some areas where the nearest hospital might be more than 100 miles away. If that is true, then it's possible that a patient would be from quite a distance away, but I don't know if that applies to San Antonio or wherever this hospital is supposed to be.There are such areas and San Antonio (pop. 1.3 million, 7th in the nation; 2nd in TX) does serve as the regional medical center for South Texas although I have trouble seeing THIS hospital being the place you'd drive 100 miles to go for more sophisticated/complex care. That said, Corpus is a city of 300,000+ and is 8th largest in the state. Along with Brownsville, they would be able to take care of most medical emergencies locally-certainly a baby needing dialysis. There are plenty of places that could have been picked but Corpus is not one of them that makes sense.
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Silly renard, the night shift is their family!
That wasn't me.
The names of the towns didn't mean anything to me, since I don't know Texas at all, so I just assumed it was local, otherwise it made no sense unless they are the only/closest hospital in the area. But I really thought this was another issue about insurance - they kept bringing it up. The administrator would have had no reason to want to transfer the baby elsewhere if the parents had insurance, since their costs would be covered. But he was desperate to get the baby out of there to the point of asking the other doctor to over-ride the medical opinion of the first doctor so they could dump the baby on another hospital. Granted, I wasn't exactly hanging on every word, but if the issue wasn't the insurance, then what exactly was the administrator's issue? Because that thing makes no sense otherwise.I agree that the administrator's concern is likely financial/insurance. My complaint/question had to do with where the mother/parents were. Even locally, I don't see a baby being taken to the hospital, or especially transferred from one hospital to another, without the parents riding along in the ambulance or following in their car. The baby was wheeled in by the 2 paramedics who related the mother's report of symptoms. IMO, it was as weak story fragment, thin on details, being used to make a point that was already being made in several other storylines. Unless the 2 actors playing the paramedics won a contest for an on-air appearance and a speaking part (which ironically inflates the budget of a show that I doubt will make dollar one, not to mention the expense and regulations involved in using an infant i a scene), I just didn't see the point. Maybe it was to have TC say "That's right; you're not a doctor." only to have us learn later that he had quit med school when his vision started failing. But again, this could have been worked into almost any of the other stories.
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Le Monf in in the quarters! Looks like he'll be meeting Murray. I would so love for him to beat Murray.
I certainly agree with the sentiment but regardless of the outcome, I mainly hope it doesn't take 37 hours to complete the match. Between Murray and Isner, I've never seen 2 guys with great skills (physical, virtually no mental) who cannot put a match away to save their lives. You might say it's the clay but they each take forever on grass also.
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Someone asked about the baby - the baby was from the area, but the parents had no insurance, so the administrator guy wanted the baby transferred to the other hospital so they weren't bearing the load for the unpaid bills.
The baby needed dialysis and was from Corpus, which I assume is Corpus Christi and 150 miles away-not local; there was no mention of insurance. I think you are confusing this storyline with the teenager/college student? who needed the MRI for the mass in her abdomen which turned out to be her absorbed twin; she and her parents didn't have insurance.
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This seemed like M*A*S*H Stateside, to me. Lead male doctor is Hawkeye, lady nightshift head (from Royal Pains) is Dr. Hotlips, Freddie Rodriguez is Frank Burns and the gay doctor and Asian doctor will playing revolving parts of BJ (yeah I know, dubious for the gay doctor), Trapper John and Spearchucker Jones. We have a hot, Latina Sidney Friedman. So far, no Father Mulcahy, Radar or Klinger.
I'm from Houston and usually take shows set in Texas to task for any irregularities but luckily for these guys, I haven't been to San Antonio for 12 years and that trip was about 8 hours only so they'll mostly get a pass from me if they screw something up. That said, I wasn't paying attention at the beginning and it wasn't until I came here that I knew they were in SA; I was thinking they were in the RGV or somewhere else "remote" So many confusing and contradictory details but like I said, I'll mostly let those go.
Baby storyline: So this baby is is such medical distress that it has to be transferred from Corpus Christi (NOT a minor backwater city but whatever) to San Antonio for treatment? Where is the mother/parent? And why THIS hospital? This is presented as a pretty low-rent, private, for-profit hospital, not a major trauma center or even the city/county/public hospital.
2 stolen M*A*S*H storylines
1) The girl with no insurance needs an MRI so let's set up a daisy-chain barter system to get it done. This was an episode where somebody wanted/needed a nose job, I think; in the end, Klinger went to Seoul for a date with some Colonel/General who had requested Hot Lips or some other hot nurse. There was also an episode where they needed an incubator. There are probably others.
2) The skull reattachment/fusion or whatever with not-a-doctor administrator remembering seeing a similar operation in Denver is so many field experiment operations: Charles walking them through a heart surgery because he was nearly passed out on a table after donating blood that he had seen in Boston and that they had read about in a medical journal-this might have been the aeortic graft from the dying soldier; the saline solution % which may or may not be the same as the suction pump experiment; the blood vessel clamp made by the guy who made the replica of Margaret's ring. You get the picture.
This is summer burn-off season. In the past few years, we've had Persons Unknown (which was infuriating and just had a marathon on CHILLER over the weekend), The Philanthropist and Windfall (about a group of friends/co-workers) who win a lottery-all on NBC. ABC had the best recently, imo, with Traveler with Matt Bomer among others. Almost certain to be a one-off but was in the can, paid for and more likely to get my eyes than America's Got Talent, Last Comic Standing, et.al. or 4 year-old reruns of SVU. I'm much more picky between September and April/May but will take what I can get in the summer, although I have a stockpile of things on the DVR including Agents of S*H*I*E*L*D, Cosmos, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland and Graceland (which I need to finish before S@ in a week or 2). Apologies for the ramble but happy to have anew home to vent and share as well as "fresh meat".
Somebody in the business thinks that socially inept, insufferable assholes make good television.IMO, the boat has long since sailed-House, Bones, L&O: Criminal Intent, Monk, The Big Bang Theory (although I love it), and to a lesser extent (not always assholes but definitely socially inept and often insufferable) The New Girl, The Mindy Project, The Office, Modern Family (again, LOVE the show but Phil and/or Claire at times have no clue or filter), Parenthood. Feel free to add your "favorites" to the list.
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So this may seem silly but am I the only one confused and okay, annoyed that Rafa's first round match is scheduled for Lenglen while both Djokovic and Stan get placed on Philllipe Chatrier and they had Federer there today. No, I'm really interested in the reasoning behind putting the #1 seed at the tournament and defending champion on the smaller stadium court. Look, I get it that everyone is talking about how vulnerable he is coming into this year's French Open and Novak's the heavy favorite but still, a little respect much?
Serena and Roger are scheduled to play on Lenglen tomorrow (Wednesday) and Andy Murray and Li Na (lost) were on Lenglen on Tuesday. There has been a concerted effort over the past few years at all the Majors (I'm not sure if it is a rule, ATP/WTA agreement, or what) that all major players play at least one match away from center court. It was mentioned after one discussion that Rafa had completed his "exhile" already and should be on CC the rest of the tournament. But it really isn't much of an exhile/insult/disrespect IMO; it is stil a show/stadium court that seats several thousand, not some back water court with broken lawn chairs, cracks with weeds growing and a wind fence with spectators trying to get a glimpse.
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S09.E10: Day 9: 8:00 PM-9:00 PM
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This situation makes no sense; he should have had an exit strategy and package ready from the moment he sold-out. Since he was in charge, he should have had little problem walking out the building at any time and disappearing into the dark.
I pretty much agree with everyone else about the return of the baddie's hit parade and had the same thoughts. I can't remember and wonder about the possible ultimate baddie, whoever Cheng Zhi is working for/with: do we know/are we sure that all remnants of Jack's father's organization were eliminated?