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    Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I’m so glad that the 911’s are back.

    In this episode of 911: Lonestar

    Rob Lowe and crew stand down a tank

    Now Rob Lowe and Gina Torres are up on a massive telephone tower trying to rescue a guy who got shot by a crossbow and is bleeding out. The shooter is still shooting crossbow bolts at them.

    The only motive given for the shooter was they were trying to stop Covid from spreading.

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    DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    god dangit why they gotta go and do this to Ankh-Morpork's finest.

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    I ZimbraI Zimbra Worst song, played on ugliest guitar Registered User regular
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1JwG160WR4

    Today I learned about Human Wrecking Balls and I feel like I am having a stroke.

    Just two beefy brothers knocking down a house with their bare hands, not a piece of safety equipment in sight.

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    ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    edited January 2021
    Tonight the Lost watch-party crew got through some more episodes, ending on my favorite episode of the series The Shape of Things to Come (S4-E9).

    Tonight some stuff went down on Lost.
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    Just a reminder, folks in this thread are still newbies to the series so please don't spoil the series for them.

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    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    I Zimbra wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1JwG160WR4

    Today I learned about Human Wrecking Balls and I feel like I am having a stroke.

    Just two beefy brothers knocking down a house with their bare hands, not a piece of safety equipment in sight.

    When my wife and I were first dating, we watched a lot of that show as it aired

    Which says a lot about us, and about our relationship

    Anyway you seen the one where they methodically obliterate a car with their bare hands?

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I Zimbra wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1JwG160WR4

    Today I learned about Human Wrecking Balls and I feel like I am having a stroke.

    Just two beefy brothers knocking down a house with their bare hands, not a piece of safety equipment in sight.

    When my wife and I were first dating, we watched a lot of that show as it aired

    Which says a lot about us, and about our relationship

    Anyway you seen the one where they methodically obliterate a car with their bare hands?

    Yeah I’ve played street fighter 2.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Aistan wrote: »
    Watching the first episode of The Watch.

    Does this get better? So far it's just weird and I can't tell if it's trying to be funny.

    By all accounts it does not get better

    I watched the first three episodes?

    I actually liked the heist episode.

    It’s weird, that’s for sure, and I at least appreciate for doing something different. But, I can’t really help but feel they aren’t really Terry Pratchet characters.

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    RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    Ringo wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    My boyfriend is a pretty big Sorkin fan, and for some reason is willing to put up with me yelling non-stop at the TV, so we've started working our way through Studio 60.

    Obvious (very, very obvious, and oh so many) problems aside, I am finding it kind of fascinating, because it's much more clearly a biopic than any of his previous ventures. It's basically an on-screen rendering of the Sorkin/Schlamme relationship, with a hefty helping of thinly-disguised West Wing/network conflict-post-mortem. I dunno if I like it as a show, but I'm deeply invested in it as a televised psychotherapy session. (Also I love Timothy Busfield so I'm always happy to see him working).

    It also feels incredibly claustrophobic in a way that his earlier shows don't, and I'm really not sure if it's intentional or if it's just the natural result of such intense navel-gazing about something that's fundamentally very trivial.

    There is a Very Special Episode of Studio 60 that has to be seen to be believed

    I haven't seen this show since its original run, nor thought about it in the past five years, and it still upsets me

    Wait. Which one?

    Just checked - Episode 15 "The Friday Night Slaughter". And looking at the episode summaries after that apparently that's when I completely stopped watching as nothing after that rings a bell.

    In the episode
    Matt starts doing drugs and immediately starts having an episode of dissociative amnesia where he cannot remember the name of a former colleague from 1999, but the 'colleague' was really just Matt the whole time
    . As someone who has lived with people going through similar situations (both the 'inciting incident' and the resulting aftermath) I felt both insulted and angry at such a stupid fucking portrayal of events.

    It was Tom Cruise Talking About Mental Health levels of infuriating to me

    Sterica wrote: »
    I know my last visit to my grandpa on his deathbed was to find out how the whole Nazi werewolf thing turned out.
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    MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    DJ Eebs wrote: »


    Saved By The Bell gets a second season renewal, which is good!

    But it's on Peacock

    That's bad!

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    ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    I'm happy to wait two more years for it to become Netflix's Peacock's Saved By the Bell

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    Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    Zonugal wrote: »
    I'm happy to wait two more years for it to become Netflix's Peacock's Saved By the Bell

    you're right

    i should be calling it netflix's youtube red original: cobra kai

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    MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    I want to clarify that was mostly just me taking an excuse to make a Simpsons joke, and I'm all for content branching out and preventing any one media company from monopolizing everything so I have no real problems with Peacock

    But also look let's be honest I'm not gonna watch stuff on Peacock

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    Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Disney will own NBC in a couple of years so it’ll probably be on that.

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    PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    Peacock is technically the first network in American TV history to make a show with an indigenous creator, which also has half of its writers room given over to indigenous writers, and I thus have the solemn and unwelcome duty to Care About Peacock

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    Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    Peacock is technically the first network in American TV history to make a show with an indigenous creator, which also has half of its writers room given over to indigenous writers, and I thus have the solemn and unwelcome duty to Care About Peacock

    it's got all of murder she wrote so it's not all bad

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    MagellMagell Detroit Machine Guns Fort MyersRegistered User regular
    Plus if Peacock folds that stuff will probably go to Hulu.

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    MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited January 2021
    I've already got all of Murder She Wrote on DVD, so sadly that doesn't move the needle for me

    EDIT: For anyone less weird than me, go watch Murder She Wrote on Peacock I guess

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    Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Peacock is technically the first network in American TV history to make a show with an indigenous creator, which also has half of its writers room given over to indigenous writers, and I thus have the solemn and unwelcome duty to Care About Peacock

    it's got all of murder she wrote so it's not all bad

    Also Columbo

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    MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Peacock is technically the first network in American TV history to make a show with an indigenous creator, which also has half of its writers room given over to indigenous writers, and I thus have the solemn and unwelcome duty to Care About Peacock

    it's got all of murder she wrote so it's not all bad

    Also Columbo

    Strike two!

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    Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    edited January 2021
    Yeah but you have to actually get up and change discs like some kind of cave man. I can just keep laying in bed watching the soothing acting of Peter Falk nail arrogant rich white people to a wall.

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    TefTef Registered User regular
    edited January 2021
    You don’t have a 20-disc disco stacker?

    I mean, it cost me $12,000 from RadioShack but I think it was a worthwhile investment

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    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

    Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

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    Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    Tef wrote: »
    You don’t have a 20-disc disco stacker?

    I mean, it cost me $12,000 from RadioShack but I think it was a worthwhile investment
    First off RadioShack doesn’t exist in the US anymore and also that costs more than my car so no.

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    RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    Tef was single-handedly keeping Radio Shack afloat for years

    Sterica wrote: »
    I know my last visit to my grandpa on his deathbed was to find out how the whole Nazi werewolf thing turned out.
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    TefTef Registered User regular
    edited January 2021
    Tef wrote: »
    You don’t have a 20-disc disco stacker?

    I mean, it cost me $12,000 from RadioShack but I think it was a worthwhile investment
    First off RadioShack doesn’t exist in the US anymore and also that costs more than my car so no.

    What the heck are you talking about?!

    Now excuse me, I’m on my way to purchase one of these new handheld cellular phones!

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    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

    Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

    bit.ly/2XQM1ke
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    Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    i honestly miss my five disc changer surround sound

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    A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    Gilmore update

    Everyone in this show is insufferable. The dialogue is maddening. Rory is complete and utter shit.

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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Yes, you are 100% correct
    Keep watching! Almost everybody gets so much worse.

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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    It’s really never clear to me in any given Amy Sherman-Palladino project how many of the characters are intentionally written to be horrible. There are occasional flashes of self-awareness
    like when the judge sent Rory down for being a privileged little shit
    , plus with a lot of her heroines (anti-heroes?) I legit don’t see how you could jam so many insufferable character traits into one human purely by accident. She has to know these people are society’s worst villains, right?

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    MagellMagell Detroit Machine Guns Fort MyersRegistered User regular
    Lane Kim is great and I'll brook no slander against her.

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    Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    i started watching search party yesterday, a show that is also full of insufferable people

    but it's funny and those cliffhangers keep me watching. i'm 5 episodes in so far

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    Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    search party rules

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    tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Magell wrote: »
    Lane Kim is great and I'll brook no slander against her.
    I mean case in point really - Lane is awesome, and the show can’t punish her for it hard enough.

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    I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    there should be a supercut of masked singer/dancer that is exclusively the audience reaction shots

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    DessertedDesserted Dessert desertRegistered User regular
    I know you guys have mentioned how good The Good Place is, but you guys.

    The Good Place is really good!

    I thought the premise might get old, but was very impressed how they managed to keep things interesting. I'll probably end up rewatching it soon here.

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    StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    I need to try again with Search Party

    I made it a few episodes in back in the fall, but it was far too familiar feeling to continue

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    ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Gilmore update

    Everyone in this show is insufferable. The dialogue is maddening. Rory is complete and utter shit.

    I hate hate hate the dialogue in gilmore girls, I hate it so much

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    nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    I'm sure you all are right about most everybody being awful in Gilmore Girls but I'm afraid I can't see past Richard and Emily doing about one or two things that would be grounds to cut them out of your life every season and just never suffering consequences for them.

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    AphostileAphostile San Francisco, CARegistered User regular
    tynic wrote: »
    It’s really never clear to me in any given Amy Sherman-Palladino project how many of the characters are intentionally written to be horrible. There are occasional flashes of self-awareness
    like when the judge sent Rory down for being a privileged little shit
    , plus with a lot of her heroines (anti-heroes?) I legit don’t see how you could jam so many insufferable character traits into one human purely by accident. She has to know these people are society’s worst villains, right?

    Amy Sherman Palladino hates young people, that’s for sure.

    Nothing. Matters.
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    Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Aphostile wrote: »
    tynic wrote: »
    It’s really never clear to me in any given Amy Sherman-Palladino project how many of the characters are intentionally written to be horrible. There are occasional flashes of self-awareness
    like when the judge sent Rory down for being a privileged little shit
    , plus with a lot of her heroines (anti-heroes?) I legit don’t see how you could jam so many insufferable character traits into one human purely by accident. She has to know these people are society’s worst villains, right?

    Amy Sherman Palladino hates young people, that’s for sure.

    As should everyone

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    Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    how dare you

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