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deangirl
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I'm actually ok with the end of Supernatural, I have been ok with it for 10 years now! But I appreciate the concern. I absolutely agree with Sarah about Jared's hair, just know that the current hairst

TheOtherLibrarian
TheOtherLibrarian

For the flatulent robot child, I would have gone with Small Winder.

Fukui San
Fukui San

Guys, it occurs to me that Game Time is now the world's foremost currently running sporting competition. Either that or the guy on YouTube who films marble races. Thank you for shouldering this a

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1 hour ago, DavidJSnyder said:

I'm surprised that this is the first ER in the canon and that noone has ever submitted Love's Labor Lost.

I was thinking the same thing. The next day, at work, conversations were:

"Did you see E"
"YES!"
Everyone fights back tears, swallows lump in throat.
"So, OK, the weather is nice today"

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SnideAsides

SnideAsides

When cloned blood cells are used in transfusions for the first time, the cloned DNA attacks like cancer and forces all the recipients to mutate into Nicholas Lea (Alex Krycek from The X-Files; also probably other roles), who then have to adjust to their new lives. Recipients include a frat brother who now gets mistaken for a predator, a drag queen who becomes less fishy and more fishmonger, a single parent whose kids don't recognise him any more, the world's oldest six-and-a-half year old, and both halves of a bickering but ultimately loving gay couple (because if anyone could get sexual tension out of the expression 'go fuck yourself'...).

Lisin

Lisin

14 minutes ago, Flamingo said:

Between watching Call the Midwife this morning and hearing today's cannon submission,  it's been all about the ugly cry here.

Yup. I mean I haven't watched Call the Midwife but just the cannon submission had me sobbing. Then I went down a youtube rabbit hole of "ER's 50 most powerful moments" while trying to find Benton running down the stairs and I've been crying forever. I dropped out of ER when Maura Tierney left and now I want to rewatch it all and it's all I can do not to buy all the seasons on Amazon Instant. 

That Game Time was so much fun! I listened to it in my car alone then came home and made my husband listen to it with me again. I couldn't stop giggling! Also I did pretty well! 

profreader

profreader

The unexpected death I was talking about at work was Gary on thirtysomething -- that's how long ago this was! And I think the other co-worker was definitely sincere... she patted my hand and everything. It was one of my first jobs in an office. Later, once the internet arrived, I found rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc, aka RATSA. I was a fan of All My Children and General Hospital and just stumbled onto the newsgroup. It was *very* structured -- you literally had to be introduced to the group by a sponsor. Everyone was very smart and funny. I am actually still friends with a core group of people from that newsgroup to this day, and have met about half IRL, in places all over the world. (And I know at least one is a fellow listener of EHG.)

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FormerMod-a1

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I just saw those Match Games ep recently.  Or at least a couple of them.  The ones I saw they kept panning to the wife in the audience asking how far apart the contractions were.  (They were 5 minutes apart at that point).    When asked if it was their first, he said it was her first.  She seemed might calm about it.

I also recently saw a Family Feud where one of the women on a family team was heavily pregnant and the next ep she wasn't.  She'd had the baby in between.  Richard Dawson did clarify they had a couple week break to film some specials so  she wasn't back just hours after giving birth, but it was still surprising to see.

purist

purist

For Australians (and anyone familiar with the oeuvre of Ms Szubanski), I propose a show featuring all the great characters Magda Szubanski has given us over the years, including Sharon Strzelecki, Lynne Postlethwaite, Chenille, Wee Mary McGregor, Pixie-Anne Wheatley, Esme Hoggett, Margaret O'Halloran (Dogwoman), Roadhouse Betty (Bran Nue Dae), Furlow (Farscape), Thalia (of Thalia and Evelyn, the fashion victims in Big Girl's Blouse), Katharine Hepburn, Ross (husband of Corallee Hollow), Michelle (of Michelle and Ferret) - there are so many, and they're all great! They could all star in a soap opera à la Home and Away, or they could populate a small village that had a high death rate, à la Midsomer Murders.

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John Potts

John Potts

The first occasion I remember a big "OMG! Did you see...." moment was Robin of Sherwood (the mid 80s one #Robin...Robin....The Hooded man# - that one), when Robin was killed by the Sheriff (and he didn't come back either). It was a pretty ballsy move to have somebody really die, particularly in a series that was aired on a Saturday afternoon. Dallas had shot JR (non-fatally) a few years before, but I was a little young to watch that.

swimmyfish

swimmyfish

On 5/25/2016 at 1:21 PM, profreader said:

The unexpected death I was talking about at work was Gary on thirtysomething -- that's how long ago this was! And I think the other co-worker was definitely sincere... she patted my hand and everything. It was one of my first jobs in an office.

My badminton partner in gym class was wrecked the day after Gary died. So much so that I felt like it was a pretty big bonding moment for us, as well as a seminal moment in my own development as a television watcher, and I never watched thirtysomething.

 

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Wow... it really has been a long time. WaPo article on Gary's death - 25 years ago!

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The morning after Gary died, I came to work and commiserated with the only other “thirtysomething” watcher in the newsroom. We didn’t know quite know how we felt — he wasn’t real after all; he wasn’t even our favorite character. But something was different after that episode — something changed about what I expected from a one-hour drama series.


To this day — dozens and maybe hundreds of TV deaths later — whenever we grieve the loss of a main character on a big show, I think of the night Gary drove his car instead of riding his bike.

 

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On ‎5‎/‎25‎/‎2016 at 1:21 PM, profreader said:

The unexpected death I was talking about at work was Gary on thirtysomething -- that's how long ago this was! And I think the other co-worker was definitely sincere... she patted my hand and everything. It was one of my first jobs in an office. Later, once the internet arrived, I found rec.arts.tv.soaps.abc, aka RATSA. I was a fan of All My Children and General Hospital and just stumbled onto the newsgroup. It was *very* structured -- you literally had to be introduced to the group by a sponsor. Everyone was very smart and funny. I am actually still friends with a core group of people from that newsgroup to this day, and have met about half IRL, in places all over the world. (And I know at least one is a fellow listener of EHG.)

@profreader Everyone in my dorm watched that episode in the common. Like 60 people all crammed in on all available surfaces. It was AMAZING. I honestly think that's where I got my TV itch from. I know the minute I found MightyBigTV I was so happy.

I was always a big book talker as well, you know that kid that would see you reading a book and be all "OMG I love that book! What part are you in?" When Harry Potter came out I was all HERE are my people. hee.

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