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[Sarah D. Bunting]

[thank you for helping me make "hilarrible" happen]

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Rebooting lily-white teen shows with more diverse casts.

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[Stowaway]

If I had to bet my life on a Voyager canon submission, I think I would pick "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy" and pray for the best.

[Tara Ariano]

LET THIS SERVE as my official apology to @John Ramos for my ENTIRELY INCORRECT correction of him about Dear White People. Of COURSE it's not set at a historically black college or else THERE WOULD BE NO SHOW. I must have momentarily jumbled it with A Different World and I am shamed. (I realized this mistake on Saturday night and have been waiting for this thread to be generated ever since.)

[David T. Cole]

Next time we play 12 Questions I'm going to change it a bit so that everyone play each round, asking questions in turn. The people who starts the questions changes each time. That'll probably mean a change to the number of questions involved.

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TV's most important and beloved Bills (and Williams).

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[Sarah D. Bunting]

I am informed via email that Bill Kurtis is on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, not PHC. Oops! Sorry, Bill!

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Kim Reed on the Netflix remake's second season, plus Call The Midwife and a Tara-led Game Time!

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[Stowaway]

It's hard to resist my nerdlinger impulse to "ehrm, ackchyually" whether The Flash counts as a remake, a revival, or a third thing having to do with franchises and spinoffs. So I'll concentrate instead on this thing where Grant Show and Grant Gustin roll around together in a grave. It sounds like a worthy project and I hope someone manages to make it happen.

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Casting RuPaul's next two gigs -- one in drag, one out.

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[YoSaffBridge]

Ok, I super want Sarah to recap her sobbings and feelings of Call the Midwife.  Tweet it, whatever.  There are definitely characters here who deserve to eat shit tons of bees.  (MEN)  Sarah, random suggestion:  The DVDs are better than the Netflix version.  Netflix is edited slightly.  It doesn't change the course of the episodes, but some sweet stuff is left out.  Chummy forever!

[David T. Cole]

Chummy forever Wiggum never!

[John Potts]

11 hours ago, Stowaway said:

It's hard to resist my nerdlinger impulse to "ehrm, ackchyually"

I'm not going to resist... Jack Lord (Steve Mcgarret) DID appear on the rebooted Hawaii Five-O, despite being dead for nearly two decades (it would still be a remake as he wasn't playing McGarret). Link

I'm also really pleased that I managed to get one (for 2 points, as well!) that the players (Sarah, in this case) can't get at all. (That happens about once a year - though it helps if it's set in SPAACE!)

[Sarah D. Bunting]

Quote

(Sarah, in this case)

Sadly, specifying which player bonked a gimme is not usually necessary. It's always this guy. (hee)

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NBC's the only network with a real mascot. We're out to change that.

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[Flamingo]

I loved Foyle's War and watched it so much my family literally cheered the day it went off Netflix.  Then I subjected them to Land Girls and Bomb Girls as revenge.

It's a few weeks old news now but Hulu is now streaming the entire ER series.  POP airs it but they do a weird cycle of a block of seasons over and over and then a new block.  I swear they skipped Season 7 the first time around.  I gave up on them.

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Choosing our color commentators for the XFL reboot.

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[Kim]

On 2/2/2018 at 10:23 AM, Flamingo said:

I loved Foyle's War and watched it so much my family literally cheered the day it went off Netflix.  Then I subjected them to Land Girls and Bomb Girls as revenge.

It's a few weeks old news now but Hulu is now streaming the entire ER series.  POP airs it but they do a weird cycle of a block of seasons over and over and then a new block.  I swear they skipped Season 7 the first time around.  I gave up on them.

They absolutely stopped when Carol left the show the first time around. I was so mad. But then I picked it back up when they came back around to that point and watched through the end, three episodes a day. And like the day before I watched the finale, it showed up on Hulu. Sigh.

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Monty Ashley returns to discuss NBC's new bad teacher-com!

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[jima]

OOOOPE

[TimeyWimey52]

 I was completely indifferent to AP Bio. Meh. Didn't laugh, didn't hate it. Probably won't watch...I tried the first 2 eps, unless someone wants to tell me it gets a lot better in the next 2? 

[Violet Penner]

Well I think this is the first time I ever cried during EHG!  RIP Mr. Hooper.

[Jesse]

4 hours ago, Violet Penner said:

Well I think this is the first time I ever cried during EHG!  RIP Mr. Hooper.

Yeah, same -- I teared up just hearing about it!

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Prepping our favourite under-appreciated shows to be Super Bowl lead-outs.

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[Wilkin]

I haven't seen much of Altered Carbon yet, but I thought Joel Kinnaman was the best part of The Killing, though that may be just because Linden was such a sad-sack drip in her one ugly gargantuan sweater. Dave's right about his movie career, though. Woof.

[David T. Cole]

22 hours ago, TimeyWimey52 said:

 I was completely indifferent to AP Bio. Meh. Didn't laugh, didn't hate it. Probably won't watch...I tried the first 2 eps, unless someone wants to tell me it gets a lot better in the next 2? 

Not markedly so.

[FauxReal]

Of course all of the panelists love Grover, I am constantly reminded of Grover almost every time Dave talks.

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As the case opens again, so does our Casting Lab.

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[gonewiththeschwinn]

I really wish that the Justified season one cliffhanger quote had just been Raylan making a gun noise, since that came after Boyd's line. But I guess that doesn't exactly count as dialogue

[Flamingo]

On 2/7/2018 at 8:41 PM, Jesse said:

Yeah, same -- I teared up just hearing about it!

 

On 2/7/2018 at 4:15 PM, Violet Penner said:

Well I think this is the first time I ever cried during EHG!  RIP Mr. Hooper.

 

Seriously, I'm at work trying to hide from my coworkers the fact I'm crying.  

[lefawn]

I was listening to this while taking a walk at lunch and had to sit down at a bus stop to compose myself.  

This episode aired when I was four so this was the first death I ever had to deal with.  It hit me hard and really had an impact on me.  So much so, when my grandfather died a year later, my mom used the conversations we had after Mr. Hooper's death to walk me through the emotions of dealing with Pawpaw's death.  

[Kerfuffler]

On 2/7/2018 at 1:15 PM, Violet Penner said:

Well I think this is the first time I ever cried during EHG!  RIP Mr. Hooper.

I've cried from laughing, but this was a whole other thing. I agree with Tara, I'm glad they didn't use any euphemisms, they just said "died." I was also glad they didn't try to say anything like "he's gone to a better place" or some other vaguely religious reference to an afterlife.

Dave's Squarespace voice sounds remarkably like his Gordon Lightfoot voice.

[David T. Cole]

3 hours ago, Kerfuffler said:

like his Gordon Lightfoot voice.

My what? That's silly, he does his own work.

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Answering the only questions that really matter.

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[Portia]

I recently did a full rewatch of Breaking Bad. Not only did Walter demonstrate occasional interest in sex, but on at least one occasion, it was hinted that his attitude toward spousal consent was . . . troubling.   ::shudder::   WW's a strong K for me.  

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Raiding sets from our TV sets to redecorate our living rooms.

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[RoadFullOfPromise]

Where can you find the full Sesame Street episodes? I lost my dad when my kid (now 2.5 years old) was about seven months old, and she’s starting to ask about her Papa. I think this show would help.

 

(and yep - tears were flowing while I walked to my office!)

[Monty]

There are a lot on YouTube! The Goodbye Mr. Hooper episode is right here.

 

(Not embedding it because I'm not a complete monster)

[RoadFullOfPromise]

Thank you so much, Monty!! 

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The panel plus Joe Reid try to stay zen about Alan Ball's latest HBO drama, plus Arrested Development for the Nonac and a very novel Game Time!

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[jima]

Just $3.49 on Amazon!

[Fukui San]

Suggestion for lead on Magnum PI reboot: John Cho as Magnum! Make it happen, people!

[Stowaway]

I was very much Team Bunting during that Nonac vote. I can watch entire episodes of sitcoms I actually like without laughing once (see: The Good Place), but just hearing clips from Arrested Development's worst episode made me laugh several times.

[Sarah D. Bunting]

I just thought of GOB's dance and laughed again.

 

Fukui: YEEEEEEEHHHHHHSSSSSS

[heckkitty]

Thank god someone finally pitched Death by Martin Short for the nonac. I’ve been amazed that it wasn’t in there. 

Edited February 17, 2018 by heckkitty

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Our '90s-est friend, Stephanie Green, returns to talk about Netflix's '90s-set coming-of-age story!

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[FormerMod-a1]

I love The New Adventures of Old Christine, too!  I've been thinking of submitting an ep for the Canon, but I hadn't considered this one, but it's a good one.  Way to go, @Tara Ariano.

[David T. Cole]

1 hour ago, aquarian1 said:

I love The New Adventures of Old Christine, too!  I've been thinking of submitting an ep for the Canon, but I hadn't considered this one, but it's a good one.  Way to go, @Tara Ariano.

Booooooo! :)

[John Potts]

Dave should present episodes while drunk/high more often. Surly Dave objecting to the "New Adventures of Old Christmas... Christian.. Christine!" was a particular highlight!