S09.E10: Michael's Story LIVE CHAT

[Eldemarge]

1 minute ago, umgoblue said:

Dr. Now just had to school her:

Ish...you have been in control of his eating all this time with your 15yo surgery and have changed nothing.  So go kick rocks with your shit.  And don't try to give an Oscar winning performance for the camera.

Fin.

And.... YEAH!!!

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Floatingbison said:

I like his bowler, but then, I'm A Clockwork Orange fan.

I love A Clockwork Orange! But that hat belongs on a droog -- not Michael's head. 

[sagittarius sue]

1 minute ago, Floatingbison said:

I like his bowler, but then, I'm A Clockwork Orange fan.

Just as long as you don't go around wearing a false eyelash on one eye only.

[mk828]

Geez already 45 minutes in and only at the 1st appointment. This has another wasted week written all over it 😞

[Hellga]

6 minutes ago, Suzywriter said:

Wire his jaw. 

Absolutely!  Two-in-one benefit:  no overeating AND no whining!

7 minutes ago, babyhouseman said:

I know a family with sisters named Laverne and Shirley, 

I had next door neighbors named Will and Grace.  They married about 40 years before the show came out. 🙂

[ams1001]

17 minutes ago, ams1001 said:

DAMMIT PRIMETIMER YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CRAP OUT ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry for any double posts. The site is being weird.

 

[PrincessPurrsALot]

1 minute ago, sagittarius sue said:

I had begun to wonder if you had stopped doing them.  I sure missed them the past couple weeks.

I watch online to see the east coast showing.  My regular job goes to 6:00 PM; then I have a meeting for the technical bootcamp that I have been teaching, so Wednesday's are tricky.  I miss the Pounders when I'm not here.  Only one more week of bootcamp so my time will align better. 

[MsVixen]

2 minutes ago, Floatingbison said:

I like his bowler, but then, I'm A Clockwork Orange fan.

Yeah!  Malcolm MacDowell could rock that hat as well as the eyeliner!

 

[Floatingbison]

2 minutes ago, Pepper Mostly said:

Wifey's going to do it. Michael, not so much. Check out the difference in their body language. She's leaning in, making eye contact, responding positively. He's leaning back, looking a the ceiling, grunting. 

Done and dun.

[steff13]

1 minute ago, Donut Bear said:

Wifey is annoying

She seems nice, but there's something.  It makes me think of performance parenting, but she's performance spousing.  

[Burning Rubber]

I'm not 100% sure he got fat fat to avoid the pedo counselor. 

It's nice to have a lively narrator for a change.

[CrazyInAlabama]

5 minutes ago, Giant Misfit said:

LOL at Dr Now inspecting Michael's arm. The man probably hasn't done a blood draw in 40 years.

I found out a long time ago, never get in the flu shot line with the doctor (I worked for the Army as a civilian for years, so they were often Colonels), because they only did shots for the flu shot clinic, and getting in the Colonel's shot line could be a painful mistake.   There was a reason that the Col./Dr.'s line was so short.   

Give me a nurse who does blood draws and shots a lot, and I'm a happier patient.  

You were right!  Two tickets to Paradise. 

Edited February 25, 2021 by CrazyInAlabama

[DropTheSoap]

2 minutes ago, Kid said:

Want to bet he gets nasty when he does not get the food he wants?

100%

I’m going to guess that’s his MO at this point.

[Pepper Mostly]

Just now, Hellga said:

Absolutely!  Two-in-one benefit:  no overeating AND no whining!

I had next door neighbors named Will and Grace.  They married about 40 years before the show came out. 🙂

Years ago when I worked at Harvard, we had one class that contained both Jenny Craig and Sara Lee. 

[Suzywriter]

7 minutes ago, Burning Rubber said:

I am late to the party. I made cardamom cake today.

1/4 cup butter

3/4 cup sugar

1 egg

1 1/2 cup cake flour

1/2 cup yellow corn flour

3/4 cup condensed milk

1/2 cup pumpkin puree

2 1/2 tablespoons cardamom

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon vanilla

You know the rest of the drill.

Yummmmmmmy!!!

[aliya]

1 minute ago, Suzywriter said:

I wondered about that also. Is his hat his beacon to let people know that he's on the spectrum? 

It's only a beacon if you know about it. I'm sure I'm not alone in having never heard about this and I've worked most of my life on campuses where every little issue has some kind of color, badge, or trigger warning. Obviously, I'm not the most sympathetic person on the quad, so maybe I missed it. 

[Suzywriter]

6 minutes ago, Pepper Mostly said:

Years ago when I worked at Harvard, we had one class that contained both Jenny Craig and Sara Lee. 

Everybody doesn't like something...but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee!

Arlo Guthrie's daughter is named Sara Lee for that reason. 

I see the extreme humor in those juxtaposed names.

Edited February 25, 2021 by Suzywriter

[Hellga]

7 minutes ago, Scarlett45 said:

Obviously you don’t hate people. If you hate something you don’t surround yourself with it!

He only hates people he can't control.  

[hookedontv]

9 minutes ago, Concerned said:

Dr Now cuts through his blubbering..

Hopefully! 

[Sile]

6 minutes ago, Floatingbison said:

I like his bowler, but then, I'm A Clockwork Orange fan.

Unless he starts tap dancing and gives a rousing chorus of Singing in the Rain, he does not deserve the bowler.

[mmecorday]

I am currently binge watching "Schitt's Creek" because all the channels I usually watch have incessant ads for Discovery+. It's so obnoxious.

[Suzywriter]

6 minutes ago, aliya said:

It's only a beacon if you know about it. I'm sure I'm not alone in having never heard about this and I've worked most of my life on campuses where every little issue has some kind of color, badge, or trigger warning. Obviously, I'm not the most sympathetic person on the quad, so maybe I missed it. 

All true...but he seems the sort to expect everyone to know and for everyone to excuse his rudeness as a symptom (which I suspect it isn't).

[TazDevil]

Michael is like 5 Dr. Paradises all in a pile!

[umgoblue]

Why is she in the session with him?!

[PrincessPurrsALot]

3 minutes ago, Giant Misfit said:

I love A Clockwork Orange! But that hat belongs on a droog -- not Michael's head. 

Dress him in white and let's see how he looks.  Okay, he'll look more like the Staypuft Marshmallow Man than a droog. 

2 minutes ago, CrazyInAlabama said:

I found out a long time ago, never get in the flu shot line with the doctor (I worked for the Army as a civilian for years, so they were often Colonels), because they only did shots for the flu shot clinic, it could be a painful mistake.   There was a reason that the Col./Dr.'s line was so short.   

Give me a nurse who does blood draws and shots a lot, and I'm a happier patient.  

Reminds of a time a friend went to confession at a large church.  They had someone visiting who opted for the short line against her advice.  When her friend was in the confessional, a loud cry rang out through the church from the priest inside, "You did what with whom?!?!?!?!!?  And you're not even married!!!!"  Her friend slinked out of the church when he left the confessional.  Never stopped to do his penance. 

[steff13]

I have a little crush on Dr. Paradise. 

 

[Armchair Critic]

He makes Dr. Paradise looks like a pipsqueak

[Floatingbison]

Bullshit, he said that he hadn't driven for two years.

[Pepper Mostly]

This guy bores me to tears. I keep dipping out to check my Facebook. 

[Suzywriter]

5 minutes ago, umgoblue said:

Why is she in the session with him?!

She's afraid that Michael will eat Dr. Paradise.

[Twopper]

1 minute ago, Floatingbison said:

Done and dun.

well, if that were the case he wouldn't need Dr Now, now would he?

His wife had WLS 15 years ago! she seems to have kept her weight down so why hasn't she been able to help him? 

What's with wearing hats indoors.  We have recently become friends with a couple.  The husband is never without a bowler, but he never wears it inside.

I want to like them, but there is something about them that is very annoying. 

I can't believe it is nearly 9 already.  

Hark!! I hear the last TASTYKAKE calling.....

[Floatingbison]

Get some spiritual supplies, or get some spirits?!!

[DropTheSoap]

1 minute ago, umgoblue said:

Why is she in the session with him?!

So he can deflect and blame her. She can apologize for him. 

[ams1001]

"Spiritual supplies"?

Her breathy little girl voice is irritating, but it seems to fit someone who's into "spiritual supplies."

[Hellga]

3 minutes ago, Pepper Mostly said:

Years ago when I worked at Harvard, we had one class that contained both Jenny Craig and Sara Lee. 

One of my best friends in college was Sarah Lee.  But she was Sarah with an h. 🙂   

Non-famous but funny, one of my math classes had a Kelly Casey and a Casey Kelly.  One was a girl, and one was a guy, but I am no longer sure which one was which.  🙂

[Eldemarge]

This is kind of bizarre.  I don't go to a store because I "like people."  It's a store and I need stuff and other people will be there.  

Gimmie a break.

[Guest]

OH MY GOD!!! He wants to go to a store to buy crystals! 

Amending my prediction: last scene is shopping in a crystal store.

[hookedontv]

I wish he’d stop saying that he hates people. He hates that people stare at him because he’s huge. 

[Suzywriter]

5 minutes ago, steff13 said:

I have a little crush on Dr. Paradise. 

 

A little crush...I see what you did!

[Concerned]

Just now, PrincessPurrsALot said:

Dress him in white and let's see how he looks.  Okay, he'll look more like the Staypuft Marshmallow Man than a droog. 

Reminds of a time a friend went to confession at a large church.  They had someone visiting who opted for the short line against her advice.  When her friend was in the confessional, a loud cry rang out through the church from the priest inside, "You did what with whom?!?!?!?!!?  And you're not even married!!!!"  Her friend slinked out of the church when he left the confessional.  Never stopped to do his penance. 

His wife’s hair has a bit of the ultraviolet 

[Burning Rubber]

He is cooking quantities fit for a cafeteria. So much bread and spaghetti... and a whole plate of what looks like sliced hot dogs... a veritable orgy of carbs and fat. Their teen looks miserable.

[WonTon]

Just now, Floatingbison said:

Get some spiritual supplies, or get some spirits?!!

Well, can't they be the same thing sometimes? Amirite or amirite?

[ShortyMac]

Write a letter, yawn.

[mk828]

Just now, Floatingbison said:

Get some spiritual supplies, or get some spirits?!!

Maybe he's the 5th Ghostbuster?! 

[Armchair Critic]

I would make him buy his own food, that will get him out of the house

[mmecorday]

He bumped the ceiling in Dr. Paradise's office!

[Guest]

Just now, Giant Misfit said:

OH MY GOD!!! He wants to go to a store to buy crystals! 

Amending my prediction: last scene is shopping in a crystal store.

Update: he goes to a crystal store and karate kicks the inventory.

[Eldemarge]

1 minute ago, hookedontv said:

I wish he’d stop saying that he hates people. He hates that people stare at him because he’s huge. 

Also:  Stupid hats.

[PrincessPurrsALot]

Just now, ShortyMac said:

Write a letter, yawn.

Without Lola's guidance?!?!?!?!

[umgoblue]

What is it about his sunny disposition that she is attracted to? I don't get it.

He is horrible and he hates people: her?

 

Before I could even finish this post, I am now forced to comment on the letter writing campaign again. 

Can we up our game and asked people to text the dead, departed, abandoners?!?!?  It's 2021 people!