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I think we're supposed to assume it happened off screen, possibly the same day Paige and her parents came to visit the Coopers. In that episode, we only saw Paige with Sheldon and Paige's older sister with Missy and Georgie... but that doesn't mean the two younger girls didn't eventually spend time together too. (Or some other time the families got together.) Maybe since Georgie and the older sister were busy making out when the came to visit, Missy went to play with Paige who probably had already had enough of Sheldon.

I never noticed this first time I watched, but after reading these posts I can't unsee it! Watching the episode a second time, I thought it must be a wig... except a wig wouldn't have those dark roots at the part line too, right? Did they bleach that poor girl's hair to look more like she belonged to the actress they hired to play her mother?

Pat gave the grungy bear to his mother to give to his little sister if they ever had one... and the way she looked at it and then threw it out... I think that may be an indication that Peggy had made her decision and was going to have the doctor do the procedure so she wouldn't have any more kids. That's what I took from it the second time I watched it.

I laughed at this exchange: Amy: "Fine with flags?" Sheldon: "Yes. Flags. Up there, flapping around on poles. If you think about it, they're just the strippers of the emblem world." Also, I loved the continuity of Sheldon face down on the sofa. (Loveseat is probably more accurate - dang that is a tiny sofa, which made it much funnier!) In Young Sheldon, when Sheldon became distraught after failing to receive any kind of reply from NASA regarding his solution for landing their rockets, he is similarly face down on the sofa, with his arms straight at his sides, despondent, all hope lost. It was a funny bit in both series, and it was nice to see that same idiosyncrasy in grown up Sheldon.

It looked like a mailbox/mail-chute, located in a mail room, which probably explains why nobody was there to greet them. They probably don't receive people through there.

Haha, that's great! I loved seeing grown-up Sheldon watching his dad on video and appreciating his wisdom, and I'm glad they are working on their theory again. It didn't make sense to me that they dropped it so easily because of an obscure 40 year old article/paper.

Yes! D'Arcy truly was amazing in this episode! Did anyone else have a Buffy flashback during the kiss? (Season 7 - Kennedy kissing Warren/Willow who turned back into Willow during the kiss?)

Yes, I wouldn't be surprised either. There is only so much information each episode can convey, especially with such a large family, and with Timmy being the narrator it made sense that we saw his job first. We also heard William mention his paper route one episode. Also, narrator Timmy also mentioned that Peggy wouldn't allow them to sit around and not be productive, so I wouldn't assume that just because we haven't seen each of them earning money that they aren't.

I've never seen 12 Dates of Christmas, but Titan TV says ABC FAM is going to be showing it 12 a.m. EST on Wednesday December 19th. (It's weird that it says FAM-E or ABCFAMHD instead of Freeform, isn't it?)

Sorry, I can't agree with the use of 'everbody' in your statement. I think they may have skipped the opening theme in this episode, but it shows all of the males lined up for haircuts outside. It looked like Peggy gives them all military style buzz cuts. (They are not paying for haircuts for eight boys.) Anyway... should probably carry on any further discussion about this on the My Generation thread. (I'm done with it though, because there's no point in arguing about whether or not everybody had hair covering their ears.)

No way! Not in my catholic family, and pretty much all of the boys in school had short hair. Lawrence growing his hair long after he became an adult and lived away makes sense. But for the other boys to have long hair... no, not going to happen. One of the previous episode even had Mike yelling at one of the boys to "get a haircut!" even though his hair was already quite short. Yep, especially in Catholic school and in conservative Catholic families in general.

They both had to go to confession right after that, though. I like that Mike's a realist about the possibility that his son(s) might have sex, even though it goes against his beliefs. Keep in mind that he already found one son in bed with a woman, so it's not too surprising to me that he is being pragmatic and doing what he can to prevent a pregnancy, in case it does happen.

Mike (about William): "That kid is weird." Peggy: "He just reads too much." Mike: "Tell him to knock it off!" Peggy to the kids: "We'll be back later. Try not to read while we're gone."

I hope I don't butcher this, but another bit that made me laugh... Peggy is telling Mike about all the new birth control options other women can use, with more than a hint of envy: "If it were up to me, we could try some of those new tricks everyone's been talking about. You know, it's not just rubbers any more, Mike. They've got cups and rings and pills and hoops. I mean, the Protestants have a whole magic show going on down there!" --- Peggy: "I get it. The pope wants more Catholics. But we've already given him almost a whole baseball team." ------------- And also, little Pat (who was supposed to be Pete, but... birthing drugs!) cracks me up! Pat: "I'm gonna suffocate!" Joey: "You're small. You don't need much air. Just keep your ears open." Pat: "I can breathe through my ears??!!" Timmy: "If you get caught, this was all your idea." Pat: "They know I don't have ideas!!"

Original Airdate: December 5, 2018

Another hilarious episode. I love this show so much! There were so many funny lines, I would need a notebook to remember them all. One little thing I'll mention, that made me laugh out loud, was when Joey was using his spy binoculars to scope out the car... cut to a wide angle shot and it's about 10 feet away. :D (Side note: my best friend and I turned seven years old in '72 and we had great fun spying on certain neighbors. We didn't have any fancy gear like Joey, but we took our spy-craft very seriously... and she grew up to have a career in espionage.) This show is so packed with humor, it just flies by. Even the disinterest of the parents cracks me up - like when the kids pretend to be fighting so their parents wouldn't know they were listening... because listening to their conversation would be a serious crime, but tying to choke each other? ...Eh, that barely elicits a comment. And hanging the one kid from the roof to gather intel? That is totally something my brothers would have done back then. (I wouldn't be at all surprised if that happened.) The whole "are you getting divorced?" conversation was gold. On a more serious note, I loved Peggy protesting the fact that all the males want to decide whether or not she has more kids, but none of them seemed to care what she thought or felt about it. And her husband realizing and admitting he was wrong.

I just set up my DVR to record it, finally, after reading good things about it.

Oh my gosh! I recorded A Christmas Arrangement but didn't make it past the first scene - it was so horrendously awful. That was bizarre... like. originally filmed in a foreign language and badly dubbed into English, bizarre. I couldn't figure out if it was because the acting was so atrocious or because the voices were poorly dubbed later on in post, (or both,) but holy cow that was bad! It was so cringeworthy I didn't even want to stick around past the first scene to find out if it ever got any better.

If I had to choose, I'd rather have Viv. I find her character funnier, more interesting and less predictable than Katie's mom. I only like Wendy Malik's character in very small doses.

Katie didn't bother me in this episode... especially next to new Trophy Mom - she was the Worst! I thought most of it was pretty funny.

Well, Timmy is the musical theater kid who is also the narrator, and he has red hair and freckles which makes him easy to pick out of the crowd. The other one closest to his age, William, has blonde/strawberry blonde hair and looks just like Ralph in A Christmas Story... it turns out he played Ralph in A Christmas Story Live. Well, his hair looks very red in this photo, but I think they may have made it more blonde so he is more easily distinguished from Timmy. In looking for photos of the actor who plays Timmy, I noticed that he was in the movie Billions with the actor who plays Joey (Christopher Paul Richards) - photo, photo, photo. In (William) Andy Walken's earlier photos on IMDB, he looks a lot like red-head Jack Gore who plays Timmy.

Oh man, I think this may be my favorite episode yet. I LOVE this show!! So many funny lines and bits throughout, and the Whoville thing was inspired and hilarious. And the mouthwash stuff, haha! Plus everything that happened in the treehouse, including Pat not understanding what was going on but being so happy because they're his "best friends!", and later when he was hanging from the tree limb while his parents had their conversation... Divine Providence - plop, kid falls right into dad's arms... while they never missed a beat in their discussion. All of the condom stuff was funny too, including the bit with the pharmacist calling. I finally found out the name of one of the two boys I didn't know. (Well, three if you include the baby.) William is the blonde kid. Eddie is the one with the girlfriend; Frank is the goody-goody one; Timmy is the red-haired kid who is the narrator; Pat is the little one with glasses; and Joey is the devious, conniving one. I think that's right. I don't know the name of the oldest son who returned from the seminary though. ABC should rerun this show and try to get more viewers to sample it. It's so enjoyable and funny. It's also exceptionally well-cast, and the only other show that has such great child actors, IMO, is Young Sheldon (which is interesting in that it is also set in the past - started in 1989 - with a voiceover.)

Airdate: November 28, 2018

Since you asked... Naughty or Nice (2012) Nine Lives of Christmas (2014) The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2008) Snow Bride (2013) Window Wonderland (2013) A Crown for Christmas (2015) A Very Merry Mix Up (2013) Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade (2012) A Bramble House Christmas (2017) A Gift to Remember (2017) Christmas in Homestead (2016) Christmas Dance/Come Dance with Me (2012) Okay, so that's actually twelve instead of ten. I couldn't decide which ones to cut. Plus, I have the following honorable mentions, several of which could have easily made my top tier if I didn't have so many favorites: A Gift-Wrapped Christmas (Lifetime) (2015) 12 Gifts of Christmas (2015) The Christmas Secret (2014) Snowed Inn Christmas (2017) Journey Back to Christmas (2016) Royal Christmas (2014) Coming Home for Christmas (2017) Kristin's Christmas Past (Lifetime) (2013) Christmas Getaway (2017) Just in Time for Christmas (2015) Trading Christmas (2011) Christmas with Holly (2012) A Christmas to Remember (2016)

I totally get what you mean about having a character with flaws that improves. I actually edited my post above last night (pasted below) because I did go back to watching it, (I haven't finished it yet) and the character made a very quick improvement right after the part where I had stopped and complained. I should not have posted so hastily! Of course if I didn't read reviews and feedback here, I probably would have just deleted it. I do appreciate that it is something a little different from the standard Christmas movie formula.