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Anna, can you remember any other details about the episode? I've seen them all more than once but don't recall that line.
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When KOTH premiered back in ‘97 I was devoted to The Simpsons and didn’t want King to be successful. A few years later The Simpsons started their decline and I just quit watching them. In came King of the Hill and I realized just how great it was. Too bad it’s just on Hulu. I don’t need yet another streaming service.
Samurai Jack was voiced by a black actor so we have an Asian character being voiced by a non-Asian person. To think there are legions of people out there who are triggered by that fact.
Phil LaMarr is such a brilliant voice actor I would see as an honor.
I was ten years old when I saw Jaws in the theater and I can tell you that any swimming in the ocean or even a swimming pool (thank you, Thunderball) was subject to shark attack!
This poster and the poster from the original Star Wars never fail to take me back to that era. I saw both films in the theater during their original releases and was a huge fan of them both. Back then I bought the soundtrack for Jaws on vinyl and the front cover was just this image so I spent hours listening to that eerie music and studying the cover which is why I believe the emotional response is still so strong even today. What the poster conveys to me is we have become too comfortable in our surroundings to the point we take it for granted when just below the surface lies...well, just look at the poster. ;)
It started with mask wearing and has ramped up considerably with the vax. What you almost never hear of is talk about the people that have recovered from COVID and have the same, if not better, levels of immunity as the folks that are vaccinated but without all those pesky side effects. I imagine those are the majority of the ones that decided not to get the vaccine...myself included. Instead, it's being presented as an either/or option which is disingenuous at best.
You're spot on, though.
True. A documentary it is not.
I always thought that out of the entire run of the show, Foreman was the only Dr. that House had any respect for outside of Wilson. House planned to fake his death in the building and left a very subtle hint beforehand to Foreman knowing he would keep it to himself. Like you said, it wasn't proof of life but House counted on Foreman to figure out it's meaning.
"... I find House unlikeable and find the far fetched way he knows things a bit much. Like he knew a guy's wife was cheating because he was orange and she didnt notice. Or the woman that was clearly being fired cuz she came in randomly for a check up? That annoys me some."
I certainly understand your feelings on this but to me House was never supposed to be a likeable person...ever. Part of the show's dynamic was the tradeoff of him being a jerk with being able to solve the most complex medical issues and save lives. His colleagues didn't like him but they knew they could learn from him.
The character House was modeled after Sherlock Holmes which is why he has the same uncanny deductive reasoning you see in the show. For example, Holmes was able to predict who was about to knock on his door based just on how the person walked down the hallway along with several other clues no one else could detect. For me it's just part of the fun of watching the show.
'Olivia Wilde comes in season 4. It gets looney season 6 and doesn't fixes itself after that."
That pretty much sums it up. Olivia was the best thing about S4 although they did have some great episodes that season. She just lights up the room for me. S5 and beyond is where it got way too silly for me to continue watching, even to this day. I think my official "last episode" when I gave up on the show during its original run was when House slammed his car into Cuddy's house. The show was already going off the rails before then but that was the final straw.
I agree.
Yeah, Dysart was the main scientist but I was thinking about G.W. Bailey from the Police Academy franchise.
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Truth is I had never heard of this movie until finding it by chance yesterday and I never pass on an opportunity to enjoy a little slice mid '80s fare.
The show-runners talked about the whole Teddy/John Dorie Sr. story on The Talking Dead after the show last Sunday. If I remember correctly, at the time they were sitting around talking about future story-lines and remembered John telling June about his dad pursuing a serial killer and wound up compromising his oath as a law enforcement officer to get a conviction and that's how the whole thing came to be. On paper the story was thin and rather ridiculous but both Keith Carradine and John Glover each brought such great performances to the table that the story was worth watching.
The thing about this show for me is it started with what should have been a tight-knit story of how a family deals with the emerging apocalypse in L.A. then after just six seasons and several ludicrous villains later winds up as a rudderless free-for-all and a large portion of Texas being nuked via a beached nuclear submarine. Why did it have to be a beached submarine? What pushes a ship that size that far inland? A tsunami...in the Gulf!? Given the absurd "reality" of this show, I guess the zombie crew just drove the damn thing ashore.
"This might be a secret nod to the fact that no one REALLY likes Jim, but because it's 'expected', they all pretend to."
This is what I believe is the case. After several viewings of the show through S7 I came to the conclusion Jim was meant to be the office prankster that annoyed everyone but was soon developed into the "everyman" style character. Dwight was an irritant to Jim and to the others but Jim's response to Dwight always seemed over-the-top to me at times which is why I love this episode so much. Dwight OWNS Jim this time and even manages to emasculate him in front of Pam. Other examples are when Jim is made a fool in front of Charles Minor repeatedly. Whenever Jim performed one of his patented douchey pranks against Dwight they always backfired in front of Charles. In this context, Charles represents the adult in the room to Jim's little boy pulling on pigtails. Just my thoughts though.
It kinda felt like the writers were mining “Lost” for new material with some sorta flash-forward nonsense. On that crazy island that would make sense, but during the zombie apocalypse it does not.
I've wanted to show that picture to folks as sort of a Rorschach test and ask them to tell me what they think is going on in the picture. I know the story that plays out in my head when I see it is NSFW! :) :)
Supernatural has had many, many hot women on throughout its run (that chick in "Heart", Sheriff Mills, Joanne Kelly, etc.) with the vast majority of them being brunettes but you're correct. When you have a show full of 10s, Lauren just turns it up to 11.
No such thing anymore; only approved speech and behavior. Context, nuance, and critical thinking have all been tossed onto the pyres of liberal fascism. Remember, once the creature destroys the village, he then comes after the creator.
“They were trying to find mystery and intrigue where rationality would explain all of their theories.”
True, and after watching their behavior at the Cecil while “investigating” it seemed clear to me they were pumping up the supernatural/creepy aspect to promote their channels. Basically making a buck off her story.
As for Morbid, I guess he’s one of the earlier victims of cancel culture. It’s sad that the producers waited until the final episode to humanize him but that’s how these crappy docs are made these days...manipulative until the bitter end. By no means do I appreciate his art but that’s the thing with all art, right? If it all was just some homogenized pap that appeals to the lowest common denominator then it wouldn’t be art...it would be CNN.