Surely, Sony is aware of how easily these discs can be scratched that way?
Was wrapping some presents & noticed some oddities on a box for a toy/model line called The World of Dinosaur.
"Loverly and fun toys they are what you want!"
Even odder in some spots on the box Lovely is spelled correctly.
"The model is made according to the scale of the real thing so that it is lifelike and breathing."
Well, the model didn't do any breathing while I was looking at it. ;-)
"It is the best educational aid for children to learn the creature and the nature and also can be used as artistic ornament or children's toy."
Is it really that hard to find people who can write proper English?
"Made in China"
So now we have to make sure the toy doesn't have lead paint?
Then again the skeleton does glow in the dark so maybe we should run a gieger counter over it?
The index on the back identifies one of the dinosaurs as an edaphosaurus.
Edaphosaurus is not a dinosaur, it is a pelycosaur & died out before the dinosaurs came along. However the edaphosaurus has 'knobs' on its spine, whereas the model skeleton has smooth spines like edaphosaurus's 'cousin' dimetrodon.
Sounds like Engrish to me.
Could THAT be the explanation of the "Scpipt Supervisor Snafu" of Season 1 TOS?
Ah, the Scpipts the thing, Mr. Shaekspear
For some dumb reason I agreed to take a telephone survey. Seemed rather bizarre. One question would have been better broken up as two it was so complex. One question was multiple choice, but lacked an obvious answer as a choice (mine of course ;-).
However the really odd thing was one set of questions was preceded with, "You must answer with a number from Zero to 100, with Zero meaning "Most displeased" & 100 "Most pleased", that was followed by another set of questions where Zero meant "Most pleased" & 100 meant "Most displeased".
I suspect that when the people correlate this information they will ignore what the numbers were supposed to mean & just go with what suits their purposes best.
And really, 0-100? 1-10 wasn't good enough?
Now you know why I always hang up whenever someone tells mer they're doing a phone survey.
In the movie "Remember the Titans", all of the TC Williams high school football games, which are supposed to be from the 1971 season, are shown as taking place at night, whether at home or away. At the time, there was a ban on night games in the city of Alexandria, Virginia, where the school was located. The Titans played all their home games that year on Saturday afternoons during the daytime.
In the opening moments of "The Bionic Woman", Malachai Throne's character, who is supposed to be an organized crime kingpin, is seen buying an authentic $20 bill plate stolen from the US mint in a clandestine meeting with a seller. Maybe I'm missing something here, but what kind of money could you possibly offer soemone who had the capability to print twenty dollar bills at will?
$10s, $5s... ;-)
Just because someone has the plate doesn't mean that they have a printing machine, or the ink, or the paper, or the courage to actually spend what they know is a fake.
Point taken, although as the episode points out a bill printed with a geniune plate wouldn't be a fake.
This discussion reminds me of the turn of the century confidence swindler Victor Lustig. One of his biggest scams was selling a machine that he claimed would duplicate money. He successfully sold this several times. You'd think just one of his victims would have thought "Gee, if he can print all the money he wants with this thing, then why is he asking for money for it?"
Point taken, although as the episode points out a bill printed with a geniune plate wouldn't be a fake.
Sure it would, especially if it's not on the special paper.
I believe there is also a special ink that's only used on real money.
Posting here because there's no board that I can find for the movie October Sky.
When Homer goes down into the mine for the first time, he's in the front of the elevator. But when he gets out, he's in the back. I doubt that they'd be moving around like that in the mineshaft elevator.
This is probably discussed in the "Crossover Madness" thread, but...
"St. Elsewhere" takes place in the same universe as "The White Shadow" -- Luther is the link -- but in the episode with the guy who thinks he's Mary Richards, we see that "The White Shadow" is a TV show.
NANJAO, in that episode, the head of NASA is referred to as "Commander Healy", possibly a reference to "I Dream of Jeannie".
"St. Elsewhere" takes place in the same universe as "The White Shadow" -- Luther is the link
Actually, the link wasn't Luther, but orderly Warren Coolidge. Who at one point thought a creep played by Tim Van Patten was his Carver classmate "Salami."
Oops... whatever, the nit still stands.
Rather than start a board for a movie that won't get too many posts, here's a nit for Exodus (1960).
AT the funeral at the end, after dumping a shovelful of dirt on the grave, Ari hands the shovel to the next person. However, in Jewish tradition, you don't hand the shovel, you put it back in the dirt for the next person.
Isn't "Exodus" an excellent movie?
Karen's death is a tear-jerker.
BTW...when Ari and the female journalist kiss near Jezreel, you can see the shadow of the camera.
Here's a nit on the NBC chimes.
When they are played, the second note is higher-pitched than the third note. Yet they are always shown with the chimes in decreasing size, and struck in that order. That means that the second note should be *LOWER* pitched than the third note.
In the Barney Miller episode, "Power Failure", Wojo arrests a man with multiple personalities. After being locked into the Cage, Charles Foster Keller,* changes to his other self, Lenny Keller.** Lenny demands his "one phone call" to call his lawyer. But Charlie has already called his psychaitrist. So to Wojo, Keller's already had his "one phone call". Lenny keeps insisting he's not Charlie and is entitled to the call. Wojo scoffs at the notion, saying he is Charlie. I kept wondering why somebody didn't ask to see Keller's I.D. or driver's license?
Deitrich referred to Keller as "schizoid". Of all people, Sgt. Deitrich should know that schizoid/schizophrenia is an inaccurate description of Keller's condition.
In the secondary arrest, Yemana is shot at by a jewelry store owner, who panicked because of the blackout.*** Wojo says the bullet went past Nick's ear, hitting Yemana's sideburn. Yet when Nick shows up, there's no way you can tell he'd been shot. No blood, no bandage, hair looks about normal. And you'd think if his sideburn had been hit, his ear would have been, too.
Kinda interesting to note that Wojo is the one who handles both criminals in this ep. Nick goes out on patrol with Wojo, and is thus the only other detective to leave the squadroom. Fish and Deitrich basically do paperwork for the duration of "Power Failure". Not a nit, mind you. Just an observation.
*Amazingly, the audience didn't react to the name, which is clearly an allusion to the movie Citizen Kane.
**I think it's a bit unusual for alternate personalities to share the same last name in cases of multiple personality syndrome. I could be wrong, though.
***Nick Yemana and Wojo are sent to answer some calls during the blackout. The jewelry store was one of their stops.
Oh yeah, this is probably not the right board for this, but I've really got to complain about the packaging for the third season of Barney Miller. All three discs for this set are stacked one on top of the other in the same slot. Surely, Sony is aware of how easily these discs can be scratched that way?
In the Barney Miller episode, "Christmas Story", Harris refuses to impersonate Santa Claus, saying he doesn't look good in red. However, in the episode, "Rand Report", Harris has a red tie on.
Surprisingly, in the ep, "Rand Report", when Wojo resigns, the detective turns in his badge, but Captain Barney Miller doesn't ask for Wojo's gun also. Would've thought that'd've been SOP.
Barney Miller
In "Sex Surrogate", Harris (Ron Glass) arrests Billy Barty for robbery. Watch Ron Glass and Hal Linden's (Captain Barney Miller) faces after Harris tells Barty to climb into a chair. Both actors break character, clearly trying not to laugh at Barty.
Don't know where to put this, but the tv show House is running on Usa and our local station
that used to carry Tos Remastered!
wonder what the ratings are.
I suppose it depends on what your point actually is.
Are you complaining that the remastered version of Classic Trek was removed for House reruns?
If, so I would suggest looking in the Classic Trek Sink for an appropriate board.
well, yes, Kam, and I switched channels and
House is running on the station that is running Trek Remastered, and Usa is showing House Marathon (I think).
, no i'm not complaining , just curious.
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several times I watch Cops on one channel and Cops on another.(at the same time both were on two diffrent cable channels., yes I have the comp next to my tv -vcr.
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and for scottn-, and anyone else who cares,my dad was a government employee teaching chinese manderin for 25 years and yes he has money.I still remember that fiasco football game. I was
4 or 5. I didn't have much money. I had to go to work.. He wrote the will meant for me and my wife, to my uncle, who i despise, and disown. I threw him out one night when he came over to visit,he never showed up for my wedding- and he hated my new fiance., his wife (a diffrent color than his)even stood up for me when i came down for dinner..I have to beg him $ for quatloos.when i found out he (my dad) paid for his house he couldnt afford, i had my brain absess.(braintumor).
I am now living on my uncle's money (my dad's actually).I didnt tell him I had a brain absess.
i tried to ask you for your email address, scottN.,
so we can write.I sent Johna and ol Sigh ,a similiar note.
(keep this part up tell he reads it, thanks.)sorry for the typos.
(this is what i was gonna tell ScottN in a email.)
dont know where to put this-my wife got a ticket, she didnt notice
a wheelchair person in the white lanes, so she drove
over and got stopped by the marina pd to give her a nice ticket. $149.the funny part was the wheelchair person never complained.
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i scared a guy to death and i was 50 yards from him.Beeeeeeeep..
(driving my cherokee). He should be beware I got a tailgating ticket. wow.i was 100 feet from a blue toyota pickup, on the empty freeway.
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and a 60ish yr old lady at the 4 way stop never stopped at at all and gave me the bird. If we hit,its my fault.
I had that nice 70 yr old lady gave me the Liar when
we hit.or she hit me.when i complained (I was the passenger) she hits my car again with her car and drove off.i got her license and told the police I wantthem to give her 3 tickets, two hit and runs and leaving from a scene of an accident, all she had to do was say I'm sorry i hit you and I never would of thought of this again..My wife said it was very pity.4 months later she saw my ugly face and hid from me, so i knew what happened!,( this was in 1989 when my dad died of diabetes and had i no sense of humor for 6 months.)
sorry for the typos.
moderator can move this to the proper board.
keep this till ol sigh and Scottn reads it.thanks.
dont know where to put this-my wife got a ticket, she didnt notice
a wheelchair person in the white lanes, so she drove
over and got stopped by the marina pd to give her a nice ticket. $149.the funny part was the wheelchair person never complained.
A traffic violation does not need a complaint.
(driving my cherokee). He should be beware I got a tailgating ticket. wow.i was 100 feet from a blue toyota pickup, on the empty freeway.
100 feet = 1 second at 60MPH. Too close. You are supposed to be at least 2-3 seconds behind.
And will you *PLEASE* stop addressing your comments to me? I'll read them if I feel like it, and I'll reply if I feel like it.
btw, the cop should in LA, they go thru red lights like they dont exist. I've been there too
many times.
also, I was at 60, he wanted to get me a speeding ticket.I got passed at at 90 twice, and the chp instantly got em.(the usual infraction).
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on a personal note, I felt like dying on the 21st of july, at 7:40 i felt really depressed.
I thought better of it when i realized my uncle will tell my wife i told you so.
Non-Sci-Fi Novels is shut down, so I guess I'll put this here.
Still Whispers by Phil Farrand
Page 124. "I noticed she had a car seat in her and I asked her how old her child was."
If I noticed someone with a car seat in them, I think I would ask them if they were in any pain or needed a doctor. ;-)
Page 136. "I have searched for it on goggle.com".
I think he meant Google.
Page 152. "wise and serpents and harmless as doves"
I believe that first "and" should be an 'as'.
Page 164. "You can almost here the chuckle in Mrs. Beaver's voice".
Hear, not here.
Page 182. "Translation: "It's too bad your girlfriend isn't like me because I'm willing to be used a tool anytime".
I think he meant 'used as a tool'.
Additionally in these two chapters on sexuality he uses the term "sperm count" in a way I'd never heard before. Usually when I've heard the term it's about doctors determining how fertile, or infertile, a man is. Here Phil seems to use it as a measurement of the amount of sperm a man has... ready to go.
Page 218. "Men everywhere to life up holy hands in prayer".
I believe that quote should be Lift, not Life.
Page 228. "wouldn't we better off".
I think there's a missing Be there.
Melrose Place (2009)
This CW series is a revival of the 1992-99 Fox trashfest, one of my all-time guilty pleasures. It has quite a way to go, however, before it even comes close to the over-the-top shenanigans of the original.
One of my nitpicks is that old series character Dr. Michael Mancini (Thomas Calabro) appeared on the first episode of the revival, driving a super-hot Mercedes coupe. He's shown in the car talking to his grown son (who now lives in the same Melrose complex that Mancini did way back when.) But - Mancini was childless in the old show. So, where did he get a grown son from? (Calabro is supposed to make a number of appearances on the new show; maybe my question will be answered at some point.)
The Complete Encyclopedia Of Signs & Symbols by Mark O'Connell & Raje Airey
Page 40. They have an illustration of Ganesh, underneath it they have the caption, "Above The four heads of Brahma represent the four directions." Below that they have an illustration of Brahma & below him the caption reads, "Top Ganesh, the elephant-headed god, symbolizes sacred wisdom and abundance."
Page 88. "In the 16th century, Europeans introduced the horse to North America (though it may have existed there previously).
May? The fossil record proves that horses lived on the continent of North America. There's no "may" about it.
Page 121. Quotes Neil Armstrong as saying, "One small step for man, one giant step for mankind."
That second "step" should be "leap".
Page 210. Under the BMW symbol it spells Emblem as "emb lem".
Page 212. NNANJAO. "Ceres Asteroid."
Given that the book has a 2005/2006 copyright date I'd say this was written and possibly published before the decision that turned Ceres into a Dwarf Planet. ;-)
Page 228. "Homosexual See Male"
Except there is no symbol with the heading that is just "Male". There is Male Homosexual Love (what the reference was to) & Man/The Male.
Pages 237 & 238. Symbols for Pluto all list it as a planet.
NNAN, same comment as for Ceres up above.
Page 244. Star Of David. Says that it is known "in mystical traditions as the pentagram."
As it has 6 points instead of 5, shouldn't it be known as a hexagram?
Couldn't find a board for Armageddon.
At the end, Truman and Grace get to Canaveral way too fast. They're at Houston when the bomb blows, and it doesn't appear that enough time passes for them to get to Kennedy Space Center to meet the returning heroes.
ScottN; Was it ever established that they land in Cape Canaveral? I know the shuttle lands there now, but it used to land in California and there are air force bases all over the US with runways long enough to accommodate it.
I believe they use the word "Kennedy" as they're approaching the runway.
Not really a nit, but I couldn't really find a good place for this.
The last roll ever of Kodachrome has been processed.
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away!
Saw a sign on the road that read "Mud Mt. River".
Mt. is the abbreviation for Mount, it should have been Mtn. which is the abbreviation for Mountain.
The Event.
The magic freeway from 24 appears here. Sean and Laila go from Texas to her parents house, practically instantly. But her parents live(d) in Florida.
Seinfeld
In the episode "The Marine Biologist" (the one where George pretends to be one), Jerry is at an ATM, reciting how he's working the machine in an attempt to impress the woman at the adjacent ATM. When the machine asks if he wants a receipt, Jerry says "No." Yet, when he's finished and starts to leave, he takes a receipt that the ATM dispensed.
Two of the most iconic houses in 70's television, the Brady house from "The Brady Bunch" and the Bunker house from "All in the Family", both have interiors which are completely at odds with their exteriors as depicted on their respective programs.
First, let's take the case of the Brady house. The exterior shots of the house that we see at the beginning of the episode shows that the front door leads into an interior whose length runs at right angles to the front door (in other words, the house is shaped like a rectangle, and the front door enters into the bottom half, or longer area, of that rectangle). Also, the upstairs level of the house in the exterior shots is shown as being to the left of the front door, meaning that if you entered the house, you could probably expect to be facing a staircase running horizontally from your right to your left upwards.
BUT, inside the Brady house interior, we are treated to a setup completely different from that the outside leads us to expect. Entering the front door, the interior of the house does not run horizantally as we've been led to expect from the outside, but vertically. (It's like entering that rectangle from the right side instead of at the bottom.) The stairs run up in the rear of the house in the same direction of the house entrance.
The Bunker house also has the same blatant discrepancies from the exterior shots. In the exterior, we see a house with a front door and windows to the left and right. The upstairs also has two different windows set apart on either side.
But the interior of the Bunker house gives a slightly different picture. There is indeed a window to the left side of the door - but on the right of the door, there is a wall with only room for the narrow coat closet. No window on the right.
Upstairs in the Bunker house, Archie and Edith's bedroom faces the front of the house (Mike and Gloria's bedroom is at the rear, across the hall). Only one window in that bedroom. Not two, as the outside of the house claims.
PBS runs an interesting series that airs sporadically titled Pioneers of Television. The show has touched on subjects from nighttime soaps, variety shows, superheroes and game shows. In the episode that focuses on game shows, one of the interviewees (IIRC, it was Monty Hall) credits The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game and Let's Make A Deal with saving ABC. But, Deal aired for its first five years (1963-68) on NBC. In fact, LMAD aired its last NBC episode on a Friday, and its first ABC episode the following Monday. Same time slot, too - weekdays at 1:30 p.m. (LMAD aired on ABC through 1976, and has been revived many times; the latest version currently airs on CBS with Wayne Brady as host)
Couldn't find a board for "How I Met Your Mother".
In the episode "Lucky Penny", Ted and Robin are at the airport. You can see they used some VERY old stock footage in the greenscreened windows.
You can see an Air Cal plane in its glorious 1980s livery. However, Air Cal has been defunct since 1983, and therefore should not be there.
Of course, this raises another nit. Air Cal was a West Coast regional airline, and never served any New York airports.
Watched Sea Hunt on Hulu.com.
Interesting show.
Fun to see some stars before they got famous. Larry Hagman appears in two episodes playing different characters. Leonard Nimoy plays a man accused of murdering his wife [insert joke about it being the logical thing to do. ;-)].
Nits? Oh, yeah.
A big one is how during Mike's narration he knows what someone was doing even though he wasn't there or had any way of knowing what they did.
Another one is how often he scuba dives alone, but when he teaches others he stresses the buddy system. A late episode tries to lampshade this by saying he will dive alone when he doesn't want to risk someone else's life or get them in trouble, but there are still too many instances where he dove alone in pleasure situations.
An interesting one is the killer whale episode. At the time this episode was made everything stated was believed to be true, but Science Marches On and we now know that those beliefs were wrong.
How I Met Your Mother, "Subway Wars". NANJAO.
Maury Povich is in nearly EVERY race scene.
In episodes of Barney Miller, NYPD Officer Carl Levitt (Ron Carey) sometimes is a patrolman, and sometimes is in plainclothes as one of the detectives. My brother, the (now retired) NYPD detective, told me that would never happen. You have to earn the promotion to detective (my brother did, after four years on the force); you don't alternate between one and the other. I should ask him if he's ever met anyone like Inspector Luger...
BTW, Shout Factory has released the entire series on DVD, and it currently runs on Antenna TV Thursdays and Sundays. If you can get that channel, enjoy it. I sure do. 
A Green Acres board has been created under Media (TV, Print, Sports, etc.): TV More or Less: Specific Show Discussions: Comedies (supposedly) ;-) and the nits for it have been moved there.
Leverage
In The Two Live Crew Job (7th episode of the second season) a con man mentions hearing of Nate & his crew & one of the things he mentions was their taking on the Irish Mob.
1. You would think that being famous for conning people would work against them.
2. The Irish Mob episode was The Bottle Job which was the 11th episode of the second season. (I assume they shuffled the episodes around after the actress who plays Sophie got pregnant.)
3. I can't imagine that the Irish mobster would want word of what happened to get around.
Psych - The Musical
Juliet says that yes, Sean is a psychic. But in Deez Nups (7.7) and Right Turn or Left for Dead (7.8), she finds out that Sean is not psychic, leading to their breakup.
Also, Vick is still Captain, but she was suspended for 6 months in No Trout About It (7.14). McNab is still around, and Lassiter is still Head Detective, even though McNab was fired, and Lassiter demoted (also in No Trout...).
Frasier
When Dr. Frasier Crane is in the studio doing his radio call-in show, he's always shown with headphones (a Sony MDR-V6 model, if I'm not mistaken.) However, Fraiser always wears them the wrong way, with the corded side on the right ear. All single-cord headphones (which include that Sony model) have the cord on the side for the left ear. His producer, Roz (Peri Gilpin) also wears that same Sony headphone. The right way.
The Honeymooners Second Honeymoon
This special was the first of three (or four; Amazon says four, but I only remember three) specials that aired on ABC in the late 1970's; this particular one aired (just once) in February of 1976. Those specials reunited three of the stars of the classic Honeymooners series (Jackie Gleason, Art Carney and Audrey Meadows) for the last time as their characters. This particular one celebrates Ralph and Alice Kramden's 25th anniversary. But, in some of the "Classic 39" episodes, it was established then that Ralph and Alice were married for 15 years, making 1976 their 35th or 36th aniversary. Also, it's hard to believe that Ralph and Alice in 1976 would be living in the same dreary Brooklyn apartment, without a phone or TV. (Ralph did spring for a phone in the "Second Honeymoon" special, but I can't remember if he kept it in the subsequent shows).
The special, which no doubt was made to celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Honeymooners, is available on DVD.
Psych In Dead Bear Walking
The Santa Barbara Zoo does not have a polar bear exhibit.
Just caught a rerun of Ice Age.
NANJAO. When they're in the ice tunnel, and walk by the UFO, Pinkie makes the Vulcan sign and says, "Spock".
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
There is no way that they should be able to come out at Vesuvius.
They fell into the subterranean world in Iceland. They fell for about 2 minutes. Terminal velocity in Earth's atmosphere is roughly 120 mph. That means that in 2 minutes they fell at most 4 miles.
That 4 mile depth is trivial compared to the size of the earth, so the distance from Iceland to Italy is essentially the same as it is on the surface.
Per Google, said distance is 2,014 mi. They had 48 hours or less to travel that distance. They were using only human muscle power, wind power, and ocean currents. There is no way that they could travel that distance in that short of a time.
NANJAO
Leverage, The White Rabbit Job.
The mark's name is Charles Dodgson. This is, of course, the real name of Lewis Caroll.
Constantine Angels and Ministers of Grace
This episode seems to indicate that this is the first time Zed has seen Manny, but didn't she see him in Blessed Are The Damned in the barn with the other angel?
Vixen is an animated series set in the Arrowverse that will air online starting August 25.
A preview clip.
Cisco say "Our very first external metahuman sighting."
Presumably talking about Vixen, but in the Arrow episode Broken Arrow (I think) they discover that Deathbolt had been in Hub City when the particle accelerator accident happened meaning he couldn't have been created in that incident, so shouldn't Vixen be the second external metahuman?
Saw the first 5 "episodes" of Vixen.
When did breaking up a whole story into 5-7 minute installmants come to be calling them episodes? Heck, I swear some of the commercials CW Seed ran were longer.
Anywayyyyyyyy...
Episode 1
Why exactly is Ollie firing sharp pointed arrows at Vixen?
They just want to talk to her, not kill her.
Episode 3
Crawling up the side of a building like a spider, okay, but walking up the side of a building?
Gravity should be pulling on her body. BILC.
Episode 4
Okayyyyyy, how the heck did Ollie slide UP the cable?
How did Barry slide to a stop down the side of a building?
That camoflauge technique is more like invisibility than blending in.
So where the heck were Barry & Ollie when Vixen got attacked?
You'd think they might hang around to keep an eye on her.
Okayyyyyy... so her sister wants the amulet and is willing to kill her to get it... so why patch her up and take her to Africa?
Back in the third or fourth grade our class had a visit from the Great Pumpkin. (Basically some gal in a black body stocking with an oversized fabric pumpkin covering her head and body IIRC.)
Now I don't remember much of what she said, but one thing was that she mentioned not visiting Linus' pumpkin patch, which looking back on it, was an odd thing to reference.
I mean, yeah, I don't think any of the kids in class believed there really was a Great Pumpkin, but still, intentionally snubbing your most devoted believer? Talk about pumpkin-dickery.
You know what really annoys me this time of year?
TV's using the term finale for a hiatus. It doesn't matter if it called the Mid-season Finale, the Winter Finale, or the Fall Finale, it's not a freakin' finale!!!
Yes, we have the term Season Finale, but that came around at a time when TV shows were bought by the season, and the new episodes ran half the year with reruns the other half, so the final episode of a season would be written, filmed and showed without knowing if the show would be renewed or not.
That's not the case with these mid-season breaks! Heck they hype the return of the show in the coming attractions.
It is not a Finale, it's a Break!
The news has had this story about a woman running over pedestrians in Las Vegas.
So much for that whole, "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas." ad campaign. ;-)
TV's using the term finale for a hiatus.
TNT is promoting Sunday's finale of its Sharon Stone series Agent X as the "season finale". It should be called the series finale, as TNT has cancelled it (the show was awful to begin with).
I came across one of those "10 American words & phrases foreigners hate" things and had some thoughts when going through it.
If someone visiting the U.S. asks a question or makes a statement and gets "whatever" as a response, it means the person responding doesn't care what the foreigner has to say.
Well, duh. That's exactly what it's supposed to convey. Has anyone ever used the term "Whatever." in a way that doesn't mean, 'Eh, I don't care.'
Responding with "no way" basically means that you don't believe what a person is telling you.
Well, sorta. It could be used that way, or it could just indicate that the person is surprised to learn something. Facial expressions and body language should help figure out which is which.
The traditional use of the word "like" is a synonym for "such as" or as a verb but the overuse of the word as a meaningless filler is very annoying to foreigners. For instance, if you said, "He worked like 15 hours straight," a foreigner would consider this a bad habit or careless way of speaking.
Not just foreigners. I've encountered plenty of Americans who get really annoyed by it. My mother being the top of my list.
It Is What It Is If you use this term, you're saying that you're helpless to change anything, instead of offering a solution.
Well, in some cases you actually are helpless to change anything.
I downloaded a free art program called MediBang Paint Pro and sometimes when I open it up I get a message for the MediBang website's Partner Program. What's funny is the steps to being a part of this program.
Post your work on MediBang
Become a top ranked creator
Get invited to the MediBang Partner program
Now the first step is easy.
The second step is... kinda dependent on the people who visit the site rather than the artist.
The third part... well, most people would consider that pop-up inviting people to get involved in the program an invite so it seems redundent...
ScottN - Leverage, The White Rabbit Job.
The mark's name is Charles Dodgson. This is, of course, the real name of Lewis Caroll.
And there was also an Alex Liddel.
The real life Alice was Alice Liddel.
A recurring nit for Leaverage.
How many times do they handle things without gloves, leaving their fingerprints all over potential crime scenes?
Just keeps popping up too many times throughout the series.
My left calf muscle is really sore. Probably a result of all the walking I did on Free Comic Book Day. The weird thing is my right calf is normal.
I use both legs equally. It's not like I took twice as many steps with my left leg as I did with my right. I didn't do any hopping, so why is one leg muscle in pain and the other not?
Nitpicking your calf muscles: not something I ever imagined us doing! Nitcentral just gets more weird all the time ... ;-)
I use both legs equally. It's not like I took twice as many steps with my left leg as I did with my right. I didn't do any hopping, so why is one leg muscle in pain and the other not?
Possibly because, as you stand, you unconciously favor one leg over the other to hold most of your weight. You probably did a lot of standing in line and in front of display booths as well as walking.
You're probably right, Francois. I have a condition where the nerves in my right leg get aggravated and I get pain. It's worse when I'm standing around, or walking and stopping a lot. It doesn't bug me if I'm just walking.
Callie, was I nitpicking the muscles, God, or a godless universe where random chance rules? ;-)
Okay, it was hurting longer than usual & I'd already bored all the offline people I know with my whining.
Francois, interesting, and since that would be a subconscious thing it wouldn't come to mind when I tried to think of what I could have done to it.
Saw a listing for a Batarang Letter Opener.
... O_o ...
Yeahhhhhh... many is the time when I've wanted to open a letter... from the other side of the room!
Better yet, get some some young ward to stand there holding the letter and show them just how cool you are!
Pitch, episode "The Break".
The All-Star game is being played in San Diego, but the NL is wearing road grays and the AL is wearing home whites.
San Diego is in the NL, the home/visitor uniforms should be the other way around.
"Family Affair"...Episode 1: "Buffy"
We learn that Bill Davis' brother and wife (sister-in-law) dies in an accident...one of Bill's other relatives dumps Buffy in his condo and leaves without him noticing.
Isn't that child abandonment?
Later on, Jody & Cissy appear.
How did they get there? Jody can't drive!
Cissy is not old enough to drive either!
Vixen "Season 2 Episode 3"
Vixen uses the power of a fish to stay submerged in a swimming pool.
I did not know that fish could breath in chlorinated water.
Also she should still be visible, but the guy after her, apparently, did not see her.
Now if she had used an octopus's power she could have stayed underwater and camouflaged herself.
Lucifer My Little Monkey
Yeah, this series has a ton of nits that could be listed.
Anyway... when the detective pulls the duct tape off of the assistant warden's face, the sticky side of the duct tape is surprisingly clean considering that it should have beard and mustache hairs stuck to it.
Good Behavior
Not a nit, but a snarky comment - This TNT series follows Letty Raines (Michelle Dockery) as she tries (and mostly fails) to stay on the straight and narrow after her release from prison. In the first episode, we see how Letty turns a light bulb into a bong, so she could smoke (I assume) crystal meth. IMHO, that's educational TV at its finest.
Lethal Weapon Can I Get A Witness?
Normally I watch this show just for laughs (it's better than a lot of so-called comedys), but this episode had some nits I couldn't ignore.
First off they are told that one of the motorcycles that robbed the casino had a snake design on it.
That's it just "Snake" no color, no pose, no identifiable type, just snake.
Secondly, they find a motorcycle seller, but when they find out he puts a snake on every motorcycle he sells, they say "Another dead end."
Not quite. They can still get a list of his customers and reduce the overall suspect list by a little.
Riverdale Chapter One: The River's Edge
Ugh. An 'adaptation' that makes To Riverdale And Back Again look like continuity porn.
I suspect this monstrosity was written as an independent story and then slightly rewritten to change the names to Archie character names.
Any similarity to Archie Comics is hard to find.
This sounds like a 2017 remake of David Lynch's Twin Peaks, with the Archie characters thrown in.
Is this an attempt to rope in comic book readers?
At least the DC show are faithful to their source material.
Except that Twin Peaks was interesting to watch, Tim. ;-)
But yeah, since you mentioned it, several plot points are similar.
Kind of odd that in what I think is Jason Blossom's first live action appearance and he's killed in the first episode.
This sounds like a 2017 remake of David Lynch's "Twin Peaks", with the Archie characters thrown in.
Showtime has been running the original Twin Peaks, as a lead-in to their event series remake, set to premiere in May, 2017. Without the "Archie" characters, I assume. More here.
Both the Flash and Legends are getting pre-empted next week for some reason.
Yet, the CW keeps shoving Rubbishdale down our throats...
From the Earth to the Moon, Episode 3, We Have Cleared The Tower:
Schirra is talking with Deke, and says that Gordo (Cooper) has retired from NASA. This is not true. This conversation occurs prior to Apollo 7. Gordo was still in the rotation as of Apollo 10 -- He was backup Commander for Apollo 10.
I didn't feel like starting a new board in Movies for a single nit (though I'm sure there were more)...
Kingsman: The Golden Circle. When Eggsy comes back to Kingsman the morning after the fight with Charlie, all the cars are parked on the right-hand side of the street.
The British drive on the left side, shouldn't they park on the left side as well?
Got a birthday coupon for a free sandwich and drink from a restaurant... the coupon expired the day before my birthday.
Guess that's how restaurants keep costs down these days. ;-)
Freedom Fighters: The Ray
NANJAO. This is a cartoon series on the CWSeed, set in the Arrowverse. There have been 6 episodes (6-8 minutes long), not sure if there are any more coming.
Episode 1
Black Arrow is shown fighting the Freedom Fighters.
Given that this is the Fuhrer of Earth-X, one wonders why he's putting himself on the line. Why couldn't he have sent Prometheus?
There is also a Dark Flash (name from IMDB) which seems odd that we never saw any trace of him in the Crisis On Earth-X crossover, just the Reverse-Flash.
NANJAO. Doll Man has a really ugly costume.
Okay, his original costume from the comics wasn't exactly a winner, but if they had tried to go with an updated form instead of just picking a random costume they could stick on any random superhero, it would have been easier to recognize him.
The writers have a bad habit of not identifying characters in dialogue.
Definitely a nit.
Episode 2
NANJAO. Vibe shows up.
Now this confused me since Overgirl & Black Arrow showed this was set prior to the crossover, but it's just the Earth-X version, although wearing an outfit that appears identical to the Earth-1 version. (You're drawing this guys, would it have killed you to make it look different!)
Episode 3
NANJAO. God this was a boring episode. All the energy and storytelling inertia of the previous 2 eps just ground to a halt. Turns out the Ray we've been following for the previous 2 eps was actually the Earth-X version. He ends up here and gives the Earth-1 version his powers as he dies.
Episode 4
The Earth-X Ray had brought the Earth-X's version of the Red Tornado's computer core to try and keep it safe from the Reich. It activates in front of Earth-1's Ray & his friend John. It mentions that there are thousands of dimensions in the multiverse.
Kind of goes against the idea that there are only 53 Earths.
Testing his powers Ray accidentally destroys John's TV and makes a comment about replacing it when he gets a job.
Thing is, Ray was working a government job in the previous episode when the department was shut down. Don't government workers usually have a good severence package?
Episode 5
No real nits jumped out at me, but since I listed all the other eps, I figured I should say something.
Episode 6
The Earth-X version of Vibe is trying to find where he sent Ray (You'd think Vibe would know that) and comments that if he was a pizza he'd get it for free now.
Clearly a reference to the 30 minute delivery or it's free promotions from the '80s, but this is a world where the Nazis conquered the world in the 1940's. It just seems frivolous to assume pizza delivery services would have ended up with the same concept on a world being ruled by National Socialists.
NANJAO. The episode ends with Ray still on Earth-1 with a cliffhanger so I'm not sure if there are more episodes coming or not.
22 Jump Street
NANJAO: Nice sight gag. The quick back and forth chase in front of the "Benjamin Hill Center for Film Studies"
Darkest Hour
When Churchill is consulting the route maps for the Underground, they look remarkably modern.
I don't recall if they were backlit plastic, but the map style was very much like current route maps.
Was the current style of route map in use during WWII?
The news keeps saying that the odds of the Chinese space station hitting anyone is less than winning the lottery.
I think this is a false comparison because people WANT to win the lottery. It's an example of GOOD luck.
Bad luck is far more common than good luck, so they really should compare it to something else bad, like the odds of getting hit by lightning, or struck by a meteorite.
The Outpost The Dragman Comes
In the big fight with the Prime Order has Garret knock an armored soldier down, grabs a sword and stabs the soldier in the chest... through what should be armor.
What's the point of wearing these bulky outfits into battle if they aren't really armor?
Lethal Weapon Get The Picture
Why did the thief pull all the paintings out of the van and spread them out in the building? He stole them for someone else, so keeping them in the van would be more convenient for his "client".
Lethal Weapon There Will Be Bud
A big deal was made about the Murtaghs not having someone to watch their youngest daughter, but neither seemed to mention their oldest daughter or son. Didn't Roger, Jr. return home without a job? Shouldn't he be available?
Doom Patrol Pilot
For some inexplicable reason DC put the pilot for Doom Patrol on YouTube. Normally it's on their pay streaming service, DC Universe. My expectations were low, but I gave it a try.
Whew. Arrogant voiceover and even though it's later revealed that the villain is narrating, I can't help but feel the writer was offering his personal opinions and pretending it's the villain talking.
Starting with Cliff putting his best face forward, the scriptwriter dove straight into the gutter and wallowed in it.
They actually expect people to pay money to watch this swill??? My expectations were way too high.
Why give Robotman what looks like should be a movable jaw, but not have it move?
How was Negative Man planning to drink the beer without any opening in his bandages for his mouth.
For that matter why doesn't Larry's voice sound muffled?
Why was a school bus speeding through an intersection???
Yeahhhhhhhh... don't think I'm missing anything by not subscribing to the DC Universe streaming service.
I watched the first few episodes on Space Channel, then lost interest. The stories are somewhat interesting (the best one was when they met the predecessor Doom Patrol, and learned what happened to them), and the characters do experience some development, but everyone is so darn depressed and depressing all the time that I just couldn't stay with it.
The stories are somewhat interesting
*snicker* I'm sure every author wishes they could have such glowing praise to put in their scrapbooks. ;-)
I found myself wondering what the heck was the point. Pilots are supposed to be a showcase for what the series will be about. What they should have done is have them fighting a menace and have brief flashbacks to their origins which would be explored more in-depth later on when the viewers are more invested in the characters. As it is if you didn't like the characters here there's pretty much nothing to look forward to.
NANJAO:
All In The Family Live:
Woody Harrelson nailed the character of Archie.
And, Jamie Foxx flubbed a line as George Jefferson; he ad-libbed a funny comeback. Also, in a surprise cameo, Marla Gibbs assumed her original Jeffersons role of Florence Johnston. (At age 86, she is the last surviving cast member.)
Foyle's War
Not sure what episode. Caught part of the show where someone mentions a bit of a Barney, which is Cockney rhyming slang for trouble (Barney Rubble rhymes with trouble).
Now if I heard it right, that's a bit of an anachronism since Foyle's War is set during WWII and Barney Rubble wasn't created until the late '50s and I'm not sure when it became part of Cockney rhyming slang, but probably the '60s.
KIRO News
The local news was reporting on a story about a thief stealing $700 and an unknown amount of donated comics from the Friends of the Seattle Library prior to a planned sale. The reporter mentioned that some books had been signed by "Jim Lee, brother of the late Stan Lee".
Errrrrrrrrrrggggggg... no, just no. In addition to Jim just being too young to be Stan's brother, Stan's real brother is named Larry Lieber, because Lieber is the family name. Jim Lee is not related to Stan Lee.
The Outpost This Is Our Outpost
Garret and Janzo are in the tunnels under the battlefield. They did not bring any ladder. Garret has to lift Janzo so he can somehow stick an explosive against the roof. They run a little bit away, the ground above opens up and we see Garret immediately climb out of the hole, without any problem.
Nancy Drew Pilot
I suspect the script was written by someone who had never read Nancy Drew and had the names in the script changed afterword so they could call it Nancy Drew.
Not very good.
Over the past 40 years, there have been multiple attempts to launch a Nancy Drew TV show. All were failures.
I wonder if this version will have better luck?
Was rewatching the Banana Splits opening and realized... the Banana Splits are faking playing their instruments.
Would YOU be able to play and instrument if you wore a costume like those? 
Costume? Are you saying that the Banana Splits weren't a beagle, an ape, a lion and an elephant, but were humans in costume???
Well that's just crazy talk.
Only on a site full of old codgers like us would these references fly.
Mention the Banana Splits to anyone born in the 1980's or later, they probably look at you and go "huh?" (and then head off to Google or Wikipedia).
What I hate is the Very Special Episode about the young girl in the family's first period (Rudy in the Cosby Show et al). It can't be comfortable for the young actresses, and besides, how often do you see a VSE about a boy's first wet dream?
Crisis On Infinite Earths Aftermath
During the trivia contest the final question is how did Green Arrow die in the comics.
A bit unfair since Kevin Smith wrote Quiver which brought Ollie back to life, so obviously he would be familiar with how Ollie died.
Crisis On Infinite Earths Aftermath II
Kevin Smith says that Jon Cryer's performance as Luthor was the Luthor from the comics, and Cryer later comments that the comic Luthor had never appeared on screen.
Problem is that Luthor's personae in the comics has changed in the 70-some years he's been appearing. Starting off as a guy trying to start a war to make a fortune, then becoming a recurring mad scientist villain (taking over from the earlier mad scientist, the Ultra-Humanite), then developing a backstory as a once friend of Superboy, then Post-Crisis being turned into the DC version of The Kingpin.
So there is no one personae for Luthor and I believe writers have admitted that both Gene Hackman's version, and Smallville's version, of Luther affected how the comic version was written.
Crisis On Infinite Earths Aftermath II
Kevin Smith said that Conroy was the best Batman. That's a matter of opinion, but I really think that Michael Keaton says hello.
Not to mention Adam West
I get the feeling Kevin Smith would say, "You're the best Batman!" to any Batman actor.
Hallmark inflicted its Christmas movies on us this year, as usual.
One of those movies was Journey Back To Christmas about a woman named Hannah (Candace Cameron Bure) somehow transported from 1945 to 2016 (the year the movie was made). Of course you had the usual hijinks of someone from the 1940's coping with the modern world.
However, one scene does stand out. At one point, Hannah is being treated by a black female doctor, while a black Sherriff talks to her. And, Hannah, who is from 1945, doesn't even so much as bat an eye!
Yeah, because we all know that there were plenty of black Sherriff's and doctors (and female ones at that) in 1945.
Candace Cameron Bure
Shows how nobody good is willing to work for the peanuts Hallmanure is willing to pay.
There is this show on History called Project Blue Book. It's set in the year 1953.
In last nights episode, there was this scene in which one of the characters, who is a Russian spy, wants to talk to her daughter, who is back in the then USSR. The spy refers to the city of St. Petersburg.
However, at that time, the city in question was called Leningrad.
Makes you wonder how long she had been in the US. ;-)
Also let us know if they call Sverdlovsk, "Yekaterinburg".
The Has DC Comics Done Something Stupid Today website lists the firing of co-publisher Dan Didio as the most recent stupid thing.
1. Technically wouldn't this be an AT&T thing as they own DC and the firing would have had to come from higher up in the corporate food chain than just DC.
2. Why are they considering this a stupid thing? The people behind the page (originally the Outhouse & currently Jude Terror/Bleeding Cool) hate Dan Didio and have been wanting him fired for years. You would think they would think this a smart thing, not stupid.
Anyone else annoyed by people referring to it as "THE coronavirus"? There's more than one! At least 18 others as this is Covid-19. It's "a" coronavirus, not "the" coronavirus.
It's easier to say and remember than "SARS-CoV-2".
@KAM, the 19 in COVID-19 stands for "2019".
Francois, Wuhan virus is pretty easy. Unfortunately the American news media has a greater loyalty to China than the truth.
ScottN, oh, yeah, that makes sense. But still coronavirus is a type of virus of which more than one is known.
So "Spanish flu" is OK, left-wingers, but "Wuhan flu" is "racist" Oookaay.
See also: "foreign countries can have different pronunciations and spellings of English words and places to the native English versions but it's bigoted for English to do the same in reverse".
Love this cartoon. 
The caption translates as « Saving the world during a pandemic »
I was watching an episode of the 1980's revival of Mission Impossible the other day. The episode, Legacy, had the teaser scene set during the fall of Berlin in 1945.
During that scene, we see Nazis battling American soldiers.
Whomever wrote this episode clearly flunked history, because it was the Russians, not the Americans, that captured Berlin at the end of WWII. U.S. troops didn't get within a mile of Berlin, let alone fight there.
I know that there was no Internet in those bygone days, but would picking up and reading a history book been too much like work!?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AmericaSavesTheDay
Bear in mind that this episode was made in 1988. There were still lots of people around who remembered the war first hand.
Heck, I was born a full 21 years after the end of World War II and I knew that the Russians had been the ones to take Berlin.
There was no excuse for this kind of sloppy writing.
Made a meme, 
I don't think near as many babies in real life are born on lifts (elevators) as on TV. If so, a law would have been passed long ago that every lift has to be permanently occupied by an obstetrician.
NONJAO: Another episode of the 1980's Mission Impossible series was centered round the Berlin Wall.
At the end of the episode, Jim Phelps (Peter Graves) says "We've just taken a brick out of the Berlin Wall."
A year and a half after this episode sired, the Wall came down.
Jim, if you only knew!
For the past couple of days a nearby fire has been consistently described on the news as "20 percent contained".
Shouldn't that number change? How do you keep it at 20 percent over a couple of days? Especially as the number was used before and after the fire jumped from covering 500 acres to 800 acres.
Not to mention that "20 percent contained" sounds suspiciously like "slightly pregnant". Either it's contained, or it's not.
They basically guess at the percentage contained. It's not very acurate, about as good as a weather forecast.
It's not the guess nature of an estimate that's annoying me.
I mean you know approximately how big the fire is, feedback from firefighters on the ground can tell you how much of the overall fire they think is under control, and you estimate based on that.
The more they keep using the "20 percent contained" jargon the more I assume they pulled this number out of a hat as a way to lie to the public about having some kind of control of an uncontrollable fire.
Eh, stuff happens.
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous
NANJAO. Watched the first episode and there isn't a character I don't want to see get eaten by dinos.
Sadly this is a children's cartoon so no such luck.
@KAM,
My younger (27!) daughter watched it and said it took a few episodes to get into. She also said, yes, people do get eaten.
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Things Fall Apart & Happy Birthday, Eddie!
Why did both camp counselors need to go to speak to Claire? Logically only one needed to go.
NANJAO. While the Jurassic World movie got referenced earlier, this is the one where it becomes a full-on crossover by having the Indominous rex show up.
Yes, you're being chased by a dangerous dinosaur so of course stop what you're doing and yell at each other from time to time.
*rolls eyes*
Forget if it belongs in this ep or the next one, but why have both Darius and Kenji forgotten the underground tunnel system they used in episode 2? It was especially egregious when they find the Carnotaurus cage had been broken open because one opening was nearby. You'd think they'd realize the Indominous is too big to fit down those tunnel openings.
I think the only way to make it more obvious that Eddie is a dead man would be a neon sign flashing "Redshirt!"
NANJAO. While the Jurassic World movie got referenced earlier, this is the one where it becomes a full-on crossover by having the Indominous rex show up.
The Indominous is killed at the end of Jurassic world. You mean those idiots made another one? O.o
Fonzie reminded me of the 20 something dudes that showed up at our high school parties.
I can still name the guys who were into their 20s but couldn't move past high school and would always be around
Francois - The Indominous is killed at the end of Jurassic world.
Camp Cretaceous is set DURING the events of Jurassic World. So this is after the Indominus escapes and is going on a killing spree but before the end of the movie.
You mean those idiots made another one? O.o
Yeah, that was mentioned in the movie. They were raising two of them, but one ate the other. (First clue they should have had that this dino would be a problem.)
Today's LA Times crossword.
Clue: "What the big hand indicates"
Answer: HOUR
Uh, no. The LITTLE hand shows the hour.
And another:
Clue: "Cocoon occupant"
Answer: LARVA
No, it's a pupa.
NNANJAO. Watched the trailer for Resident Alien (based on the Dark Horse comic series). Found it interesting that Harry's alien face is more detailed than the alien face he has in the comic.
Having never read the first miniseries I was shocked to see "Harry" apparently kill the real Harry.
This was never mentioned in the later issues that I've read.
NANJAO. While foreigners watching TV to learn English is an old practice, watching Harry doing it brought to mind Darwin Cooke's use of the trope in 2004's New Frontier where he did a similar thing with the Martian Manhunter. Resident Alien first miniseries came out in 2012 so it could have been an homage.
It's practically par for the course that aliens coming to Earth learn our language by intercepting our television and/or radio signals.
Finding the ancient lost treasure involves traversing a series of puzzles and traps that are so difficult and/or dangerous that the baddie lets the goodies get ahead to clear the way. Thus the audience get to see the hero(es) confront the puzzles and overcome them, whilst the plot still retains the overarching danger of having the baddie in play.
Invariably the baddie steps in at the last puzzle, 'thanks' the goodies for getting him through it all so easily and says he will take it from here. The baddie then gets the last puzzle wrong, with terrible consequences: lava pits suddenly opening beneath his feet, crystal skulls shooting their laser eyes at him, hidden guards of the ancient one suddenly appearing, the temple collapsing on him, etc.
Often the last puzzle will involve some kind of worthy or anti-materialistic solution that the baddie is too greedy to understand, to his peril: water is more valuable than gold; the wooden cup of a carpenter is more likely than a golden chalice; 'eternal life' with Rassilon, etc.
There is a scene in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind in which they find a ship in the Gobi Desert. The ship is identified as the S.S. Cotopaxi, that was lost at sea in 1925.
This is now Dated History, as the real Cotopaxi has been found at the bottom of the Atlantic.
Dated History:
Grand Duchess Anastasia survived (nope, her remains have been found and DNA matched to her parents)
Nazi goon Martin Bormann survived (Nope, again DNA matched)
...a car / plane / boat starts to splutter as it‘s running out of fuel... so the driver taps the fuel gauge as though the gauge will magically produce petrol from somewhere...
\_ _/
The vehicle is telling you it’s out. The gauge isn’t lying!
In Thomas the Tank Engine the engines speak and are “alive” yet they visibly have human drivers. Why don't these drivers prevent the madcap schemes and events from happening?
>Why don't these drivers prevent the madcap schemes and events from happening?>
Perhaps the humans enjoy the madcap schemes?
Watching an old episode of The Professionals where sociopathic bio-chemist (Keith Barron) is going to pollute a London reservoir with an intricate time-bomb that will explode a container full of poison that will send half of the city psychotic
If only he had the common sense to pour the poison in to the water supply when no one was looking his plan might have worked but I guess the good guys would never win against sensible villains in that case
Last night, on YouTube, I watched the TV movie, The Sins Of Dorian Gray.
Made in 1983, this was a gender swapped version, with Dorian being a woman. The movie starred Anthony Perkins and Belinda Bauer, who played Dorian, and covers a 30 year period, from 1953 to the then present of 1983.
Anyway, in one of the 1953 scenes, we see Dorian trying to call her lover, Stuart Vane (unaware that he's just killed himself), and gets his answering machine.
My question is, did they have answering machines in 1953?
Anthony Perkins shares my birthday of April 4th
My question is, did they have answering machines in 1953?
According to Wikipedia, the first commercially successful answering machine came out in 1949. However, such machines really started becoming popular in the mid 1980's
Resident Alien Pilot
Syfy has put the first two episodes up on YouTube.
Steve Parkhouse did the artwork for the actual comic, so why didn't they get him to do the artwork for the show opening? Did he ask for too much money? Did they get the artist they did by going to Fiver?
Me - Having never read the first miniseries I was shocked to see "Harry" apparently kill the real Harry.
This was never mentioned in the later issues that I've read.
Because it never happened in the comics. For some reason the screenwriter decided to add this to the TV version.
A shame because it taints the hero and makes him less heroic.
Considering some of the incredible amounts of energy that spaceships might encounter in outer space it's odd that a mere lightning bolt damaged Harry's ship.
Homesick
This episode was horrible. A few minutes into the clinic scene I gave up with this alleged comedy.
Thinking over it I get the feeling that the screenwriter had an unsold script involving an evil alien on Earth trying to pass for human while plotting to destroy Earth and he just grafted these bits onto the Resident Alien property rather than accurately adapting the much better comic book.
I was trying to decide if I should watch this, wasn't to enthusistic to begin with. I think I'll abstain.
And I didn't even mention what looks to be a running gag.
One in a million humans can see past Harry's disguise. In this town it's a little boy. In the first episode Harry gets drunk and tries to kill the kid. At the beginning of the second episode a sober Harry tries to kill him again.
I had a mental image of the writers in the writers' room laughing themselves silly over the various ways the 'hero' can try and fail to kill a scared little child. Yeahhhhhh...
I feel sorry for the creators of the comic, it's actually a nice little group of sci-fi detective mini-series, but the TV show will probably be seen by more people and they'll have the wrong idea of what the comic is about.
Heard of this show.
Didn't know it was based on a comic though.
Is this the same Steve Parkhouse that worked on the Doctor Who comic, back in the 1980's?
He was the one that inflicted the boring and plodding Tides Of Time story on us. Hey, Steve, when we buy a comic called Doctor Who, we want to read about the Doctor, not your Gary Stu characters.
Yep. But he's just the artist for the comic, Peter Hogan created & writes the comic.
Ah, thanks Keith.
Baywatch: I heard about a character being called "Lieutenant".
Since when do lifeguards have ranks? Isn't lifeguarding just a summer job for kids to pass the time (and make some money) before fall rolls around and their school starts back up again.
No. Maybe at the community pool, but not professional lifeguards.
One nitpick I have in regards to Fan Fiction is when said Fan Fiction is not period specific. What I mean is that when someone writes a Fan Fiction about a particular show, they should keep the world the writing confined to the time the show in question ran.
For example, the show, Three's Company, ran from 1977 to 1984. Most of us know the technology that existed in that time.
So when I read a Fan Fiction, in which Jack, Janet, and Chrissy (or Cindy or Terri) are surfing the Net, or using cell phones, that just throws me right out of the story.
Anyone forging a letter will give themselves away by screwing up their early attempts and leaving them in the waste paper bin rather than, say, burning them, ripping them into tiny pieces or disposing of them in some other way.
Yeah, so many incriminating letters, documents, mobile phones etc, just casually thrown into a waste bin.
Lassie and Francis the talking mule were males played by females. ;-)
And I think we can all remember Eleen's baby from Star Trek's 'Friday's Child' (a.k.a. Leonard James Akaar).
Guess what? That baby boy grew up to be Matt LeBlanc of 'Friends' fame!
What?? Huh?? Excuse me, Steve.
**a trip to Wikipedia and Memory Alpha later**
That was some trick. I mean baby Matt LeBlanc showing up on an episode of Trek that was filmed two months before he was born!
Must be a timey-wimey thing.
No, it's april 1st syndrome.
In several of WE John's "Biggles" stories, he has Biggles acknowledge the common prejudices of the time, but also has him state that he doesn't care about them and that if someone is decent to him, he will be decent to them.
I did note the date, but not until after I'd gone off for the night.
However, Matt LeBlanc was born the same year that Friday's Child aired, and that's what threw me.
GOTCHA!
Yes, that was my only April Fool's joke of the day!
The baby probably grew up to be an accountant in Cincinnati!
in an episode of Round The Twist as TV Tropes points out:
quote:Kissing Cousins - Done indirectly in "Ice Maiden" when Bronson becomes infatuated by an ice sculpture to the point of kissing it. He then discovers that the sculpture was based on his cousin Terry, about whom he has been having psychedelic nightmares. He very quickly abandons his loathing of her and seems very happy about her sleeping in his bedroom. He smiles at her in a rather amorous way throughout.
In the original '70s Bionic Woman series, Jamie lived in Ojai, while working at Vandenberg AFB.
It is 95 miles from Ojai to Vandenberg, with a 1 1/2 to 2 hour commute each way.
I find this commute distance to be unlikely in 1976-78.
It's unlikely but arguably less traffic back then.
Or she could just jog. ;-)
NANJAO: All the U.S. networks basically surrendered last Sunday night. Why? Because the Oscars were on and they were worried that their shows couldn't compete?
If that was the case, they threw the night for nothing. No one watched the Oscars, in fact, ratings for award shows have been in decline for years.
Why sit through two hours of stuff you don't care about, to get to the one that that you do, when you can just go online the next day and find out that way.
Award show are past history, IMO.
Especially for this year, when theaters were closed and nobody knows anything about these movies. Also, the other networks had nothing to lose because there was no fancy-shmancy red carpet with all the hot actresses (at least, not like it was).
And to top it off, it wasn't even funny. Glenn Close twerking. Gag me with a spoon.
The other networks must have been slapping their heads for their bad decision, except for TLC, which showed a new episode of '90 Day Fiance'.
Yeah. Just think, if Batwoman had run a new episode it could have been Sunday's number 1 show. ;-)
It's not just in this instance. The ratings for all award shows have been in decline for years. Because now you can go online the next day and find out who,or what, won in the categories you're interested in.
You don't have to sit through all the minutia that you don't care about anymore.
AMC also showed a new episode, the latest Fear The Walking Dead, BTW.
About Amy Pond and "kissogram" instead of the more realistic "female prostitute" she'd be in an adult BBC drama, television producers to a man or woman have all learned some musical skill - namely how to play the euphemism.
NANJAO: I've noticed something about the CW. A few times their affiliates will preempt a show for local sports.
Why are they allowed to do this?
Here in Canada, when one of our networks (CTV, for example) says "Jump!", their affiliates say "How high?" It's clear who is the boss here.
The CW, and other U.S. networks, need to start cracking down. Tell the affiliates that, in Prime Time, the network in question owns their schedule.
Because traditionally sports brought in higher ratings?
And really, it's the CW so ratings are low to begin with.
Usually in such cases the show is moved to another time slot, so it's bumped rather than not shown.
Admittedly there are some odd rules for things like this. Years ago the NBC affiliate in Seattle (KING) had started airing an episode of Seinfeld when an earthquake hit and they wasted some 2 hours of news covering what turned out to be a very minor earthquake (some stuff got shook up, but no serious damage or injury), but they weren't allowed to reschedule the Seinfeld episode because they had already started airing it, so it counted as "having aired".
Affiliates are not owned by the networks, so technically the network is not the "boss", they have an agreement to air network shows, but they also have the autonomy to do their own stuff & sometimes that's contracts with local sports teams which might be of higher local viewer interest than a network show.
That might be it, Keith.
Did a little research and found that, in Canada, the networks own their affiliates, and thus have full control over them.
"And then... and then... Oh, I can't tell you this! You'll laugh at me!"
"No I won't. Tell me!"
"Yes you will. You'll laugh at me!"
"No I won't. I promise!"
"Oh, alright. Then mummy appeared at the door of the senior disco carrying my teddy bear Snuggly-Wuggly and--"
"BWAHAHAHAHAHA!"
(In tears) "But you promised you wouldn't laugh at me!" (Storms off)
???
I think she was quoting Trump and Melania.
Or King Arthur and Sir Gallahad.
But how is this a nit?
In the Nazi crate, the Ark burned off the Swastika. But in the American crate, the Ark did not burn off the Flag, nor USA.
I was gonna ask why you didn't post this in the Raiders thread, but you can't post there now.
I guess the Ark knows that the USA are the good guys. I know, Ameri-centricity, right.
When she was much younger, a friend of mine thought the Indiana Jones movies were set in present days and the Nazis were actually a smaller party which had been recentely founded in honour of the real WWII Nazis.
[Insert Twitter joke here]
I’ve always wondered why Fedora and Indy wear the same outfit.
(Obviously we didnt see the whole scene. He gives Indiana his jacket, his shirt, his trousers, his socks, and his shoes).
The most silliest set dressing I ever saw in a movie was in 1982s poltergeist, where among the Sesame Street and Starwars stufff… is a poster for the movie “Alien”. Little Carol Anne has freshly graduated preschool..
I've seen ads for this new mini-series about Anne Boleyn...
ANNE BOLEYN WASN'T BLACK!!!
If it's no longer acceptable for a Caucasian actor to play person of colour, then the same rules should apply the other way around. Especially if the character in question is a real life historical figure!
What's next? An Asian actor playing George Washington!?
Tim - "What's next? An Asian actor playing George Washington!?"
Actually, howabout a new TV drama with Harrison Ford playing Martin Luther King Jr. as a white man, and Malcolm X played by Lady Gaga. So what if they were both living, historic people that were male and black? It's 2021, baby.
Fair is fair.
You're just seeing commercials for this now, Tim?
Various YouTubers I watch mentioned this months ago and it already tanked in the ratings in England a few weeks ago.
Natalie, I deleted your post because I felt your language went too far. If you wish to rewrite with tamer language go ahead.
Sorry, Keith. I”m angry that far leftists and fellow travellers like Kate Orman and Jon Blum advocate forcible acceptance of identities - “if you DARE openly oppose our idenity, we’ll persecute you as a bigot!”
Thank you, KAM. I was debating whether I wanted to say something.
You're just seeing commercials for this now, Tim?
It's only now airing in Canada.
Various YouTubers I watch mentioned this months ago and it already tanked in the ratings in England a few weeks ago.
And I can see why.
No doubt there are some that will say that the series was rejected due to racism, which is nonsense. This isn't about race, it's about historical accuracy. Anne Boleyn wasn't black, so I don't understand the reasoning here.
As Steve said, this would be like casting a white actor to play Martin Luther King Jr.
Even worse, it's being advertised, hypocritically, as 'the true, untold story' of Ann. Um, excuse me, but it's neither 'true', nor 'untold' because the lady wasn't black!
I couldn't believe it when I started seeing commercials for this misrepresentation of history on the Canadian cable channel, Crave TV, which should have been aware of the controversy in the U.K. and the terrible ratings. Unfortunately, we have more than enough SJWs here in Toronto, and our idiot-city council, that somebody will actually watch this historically-inaccurate nonsense.
I shouldn't have used MLK Jr and Malcolm X in my example, though, since this was a BBC mess and not an American debacle.
The question I have is what part of the black community actually asked for this to be made? Fans of Tupac Shakur? Lebron James fans? Fans of the Madea movies?! Who?!
Pretty bad when your ENTIRE movie is one, great, big, giant NIT!
one of the things that irks me about reality shows is that i'm aware of how much artifice is involved in television production.
Presenter/celebrity arrives at someone's front door, who then acts surprised to see them, despite having been filmed from within their house opening the door. Are we expected to believe they didn't notice the camera crew setting up in their hallway or ask what they were doing there?
In Long Lost Family, when Davina McCall reveals they have located the missing birth mother, the subject always acts surprised and delighted, etc. It's obvious they wouldn't have sent out Davina and a camera crew if the results of the search were negative…
Or a show like American Restoration where a price is quoted and the person pauses as if they're thinking it over, but if they're filming it of course the answer will be yes, or there's no show.
Steve - I shouldn't have used MLK Jr and Malcolm X in my example, though, since this was a BBC mess and not an American debacle.
Martin Luther King isn't known outside of the US??? O_o ;-)
I mean it sounded like I was accusing American TV of doing this dumb switcheroo, but it was the BBC
Didn't want to ridicule the wrong SJWs!
To KAM: A former colleague of mine had to do this repeatedly, and he said he always felt like an absolute tit. It’s not just the feigned surprise, it’s the fact that they always answer the door immediately in a way that just never happens in real life unless you’re actually walking past the door when someone rings the bell.
The 21st Century Communism called Woke is infamous for rewriting history to fit their agenda. However, in the case of this ill conceived Anny Boleyn series, they've gone too far.
This isn't like making Superman black. Anne Boleyn was a real person, who met a tragic end (having her head chopped off because her hubby didn't love her anymore). For the Woke crowd to do this series is not only a disrespect to historians, but a disrespect to Anne herself.
Legend has it that Anne's headless ghost haunts the Tower Of London (where her execution took place in 1536). Perhaps she should haunt the clowns that came up with this mini-series as well, to teach them a lesson.
quote:Giving equality to people who are clearly *not* equal is another relic of Communism.
Giving equality to people who are clearly *not* equal is another relic of Communism.
I may be misinterpreting this phrase as prejudicial, but which people exactly do you claim are not equal?
Um iit is a joke said by a character on the Simpsons that poked fun at Shirley Temple’s conservative politics as an adult.
Natalie, I put your post in a Quote. Please try to remember to do this in a future, so we know that it isn't you talking, but an outside source.
And please remember that not everyone here watches the same shows that you do. What may be familiar to you, would be totally unknown to them. I myself have never watched the Simpsons, so any quotes from that show would go right over my head.
Here's a suggestion. In the future, when you make such a post, start it with "So-and-so on the Simpsons said" and then put the comment in question in Quote. That might help clear up any further confusion in such matters.
NANJAO: Looks like Mike Richards will be the new host of Jeopardy!
I like this choice. He did extremely well on his guest stint.
I take it this "Mike Richards" is not the disgraced former Seinfeld actor.
No, he's not that dweeb. Mike Richards is a seasoned game show producer. He also did a nice tribute to Alex Trebek on the first episode aired after Trebek's death. As for me, I was hoping LeVar Burton would get it.
Ah, I see.
This kids dance outfit is what happens when you try to expy Shirley Temple on a telemovie’s budget:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgbQJGvN1cQ
Michael Portillo has spent more than a decade travelling by train throughout the UK, Europe, Canada, USA, Australia and India but he never carries any luggage. He gets on and off every train with nothing more than his Bradshaws or its foreign equivalent. He struts into luxury hotels with not so much as a holdall in sight. So how does he manage to enter a hotel wearing a pink jacket and green trousers but leave the following morning wearing a yellow jacket and mauve trousers? I'd love to see some behind the scenes footage of how this programme is actually made. In the early days he would approach random people in the street and ask them what they knew about a particular location or significant historic events. The answer was nearly always little or nothing and this aspect was soon dropped. I'm willing to bet there must have been some pretty amusing interviews deemed unfit for transmission. Not to mention the invariable insults that must have been directed towards Michael.
Looks like Richards and Mayim Bialik will be sharing the duties.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/08/11/jeopardy-guest-hosts-ranked/
Oops. Jeopardy! hosting duties.
They're making a Chucky TV series. Don't ask me why.
Oh, Boy! I love pizza!!!
Brad Dourif will be doing the voice, of course (that guy has made a career out of playing weirdos, kooks, and psychos).
Couldn't have Angry Anderson these days. Would have to be Slightly Offended Anderson
Do you mean this chap?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_Anderson
Yes
Got it.
The actress who played Jackie Heron in the children’s school drama “Grange Hill” was 26. I wonder with unemployment going up in the nineteen seventies, she decided to stay at school permanently.
It's SOP to cast adults to play teens, to get around labour laws.
Is that a guy in drag in the pink? *giggles*
***link removed***
I had to reverse image search for context, but that comment is offensive in several ways.
It was a joke.. and one I took from a woman called Donna on Twitter
Except you give no indication of it being a joke.
It was very funny when I saw Donna make that remark on Twitter about that photo so I borrowed it and used it here.
Natalie, if you have thoughts of your own you're encouraged to share them here, this site is not a clearinghouse for social media ephemera
Yeah, this is a board for nits. Not lame humor and certainly not other people's lame humor.
I am sorry John and Keith.
That Warriors of the Deep quote (essentially boiling down to "how dare you humans refuse to join my pacifist suicide cult") is the worst trash ever written for the Doctor.
Should never have aired.
And this is no doubt here because you're still persona non gratta in the Doctor Who forum.
I thought we were friends?
The Kitchen Sink is for shows that don't have sections, Natalie, not a 'backup' for people who've gotten themselves banned from the official section.
Don't post Doctor Who nits here.
I’m sorry, Stackpole.
(Australian cricket history tragic hence comedically using Stackpole instead of Morgan)
Can someone be banned from the kitchen sink here?
Why can't we finally just ban the misanthrope from the entire site?
That would be up to Phil ultimately.
Seen a few movies, set in the 19th Century, in which the British Royal Family is referred to as the Hose Of Windsor.
Of course, they didn't adopt that name until 1917!
Aren't you a mod, JD? There is the Moderator's Messages section where that question would probably be better asked.
JD, I suppose you are doing ok for a 90 year old, in that you seem to remember your password.
Or are you talking about Rupert Murdoch?
What a dignified and well considered response, Natalie. I’m so glad you didn’t resort to your usual tactic of childish insults.
Oh wait….
…everyone get your ‘Natalie excuse” bingo cards ready….
When you throw the first insult like JD did, you shouldn’t be thinking it will remain unanswered.
For someone who supposedly doesn't want to get banned, Natalie, you sure do splash a lot of gasoline around and strike matches.
Seen ads for streaming services on TV networks. Shilling for the thing that is gonna eventually put them out of business.
Kind of like Neanderthal man shilling for Cro-Magnon man.
NANJAO: Reading the novels such as The Lost World and Journey To The Center Of The Earth, you see that there are no women among the explorers. Of course, given the time said novels were published, that's not a surprise.
It was only when they started making movies based on those novels that women were brought in. Since most of the movie adaptations are set around the time the novel was written, they have to make allowances for that.
In the case of The Lost World, they usually have the woman in question well connected, and offers to help fund the expedition, provided that she gets to go along. They have no choice but to accept her terms.
Works for me.
ANNOUNCEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT
Couldn't find the right place to put this (I couldn't find a History of the World Part 1 board)...
Hulu has ordered 8 episodes of "History of the World, Part II" from Mel Brooks!!!
Mel Brooks? I thought he died years ago.
*one trip to Wikipedia later*
Nope, he's still with us at 95.
The ABC reboot of The Wonder Years has a couple of recurring nitpicks. The series is set in 1968; it begins on the day of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - April 4, 1968. Yet we see characters using modular telephones, which weren't introduced until 1976. Also, the Williams family (the focus of the series) stores cereal in those Rubbermaid 1.5 gallon containers. (I have two.) Yet, I don't recall seeing those things in the real 1968.
Another reboot that no one wanted or asked for.
The African-American community would do better to create fresh shows of their own, not retread something white people did thirty years ago.
Beebo Saves Christmas
Kinda/sorta spinoff of Legends of Tomorrow?
It won't be a classic.
When Beebo was created on Legends wasn't his peak popularity in the '80s or '90s? And yet this Christmas special has a lot of current references. So was this Christmas special an attempted revival of the Beebo brand in the Arrowverse?
Santa's skin is awfully dark for someone who lives at the North Pole and who was based on an actual saint.
Not really a nit, just an amusing thought. The other day I was walking through a store and spotted some overnight diapers for kids with the Hulk on them, and I thought,
"Hulk smash puny bladder!"
"Hulk smash bedwetters!"
Almost posted this on the Superman & Lois board, but realized it's actually a broader topic, so I'll stick it here in Misc. Nits, for now.
I wonder how the sale of the CW will affect the Arrowverse (and other) shows?
I'll have a look at my small change, maybe I can make them a better offer.
I was watching a SciShow video on snapping fingers when I noticed the person in the example was using their second finger whereas I use my third finger.
I tried using my second finger, but I found the third finger to make a more satisfying snap.
So which finger do you use when you snap your fingers?
I get my best snaps using my second finger, I get passable ones with my third finger, and no snap with the other fingers.
I never learned how to do it with anything other than my second (middle) finger. I had no idea the third could even snap.
I did try with my pinky. Difficult and a very pathetic snap. Not even worth the effort.
I tried with my index finger and my thumb slid off too easy. So not enough tension to build up the kinetic force, I guess.
I did ask my dad, but he uses his second finger, so I'm not sure where I got the idea of using the third finger from originally. Hidden in the mists of time.
I can only snap with my middle finger.
I had a look at the first episode of the second season of Resident Alien. Harry is back on Earth, his ship is destroyed and he is now stranded here. Which wouldn't be so bad for him if he had not failed in his original mission to kill every human, and his planet wasn't sending someone else to complete the task. So now, he has to find a way to stop that from happening. I may watch a few more episodes, see how that turns out.
I've seen old TV shows and movies, set in Africa, that include tigers.
Except tigers are indigenous to Asia, NOT Africa.
There was an episode of the 1960's series Tarzan, starring Ron Ely, in which the people were reporting attacks by a strange striped beast lurking in the savanha. It turned out to be a tiger, but it had been brought there by someone for neferious reasons I don't remember.
At least they explained why the tiger was there.
A lot of shows and movies didn't even bother. Leaving one to assume that the writers just thought that there were tigers in Africa.
Not to mention shows and movies where penguins and polar bears are together, despite residing on opposite poles.
These days you could just say it was a lion identifying as a tiger. ;-)
*Groan!*
KAM; Copyright that joke RIGHT NOW! As Banya would say, "That's gold, Jerry! GOLD!" :D
Well, three and a half episodes in, I lost interest in Resident Alien. It's never a good sign when you pay more attention to how much time is left in the episode than to the episode itself.
Ouch!
On some shows and movies, when Medusa shows up, she is called "the Medusa" or "a Medusa".
Except that Medusa is her name, not her species! Her species were called Gorgons.
In the episode of The Wonder Years that aired on 5/11/21, Dean (Elisha Williams) is established as a Star Trek fan, as he is seen assembling the AMT model kit of the Enterprise. However, the kit shown has the decal sheet that lists all twelve starships. IIRC, that variation wasn't available until the early 1970s; the series is set in 1968.
Well a study reveals that the average CW viewer is 58.
I guess this means we can expect reboots of Matlock and Murder She Wrote.
Does this mean that we can expect computer fakes of Angela Lansbury?
Oh, The pain, the pain...
God, sometimes I miss the days of Three Networks And Nothing But.
Tim- I agree totally -in fact it's been years since I even turned on my tv, to watch anything I play a DVD on my computer.
It's the CW, so that means hotter and sexier Matlock and Murder She Wrote.
CW Matlock will be some 20-year old stud who spends half the episode with his shirt off.
CW Murder She Wrote would probably hire the "old woman" they used to play Miss Grundy on Riverdale as the new Jessica Fletcher.
If you are right, all I can say is yuck.
That's even worse than I expected.
The recent show, Tales From The Walking Dead, is an anthology show, that takes place in the TWD reality.
However, two episodes have supernatural elements in them. Yet, none of the previous shows acknowledge supernatural stuff. What caused the zombies to rise was a virus, not magic.
The supernatural stuff came right out of left field, IMO.
NANJAO, and I couldn't really find the right place for this so...
Yuri's Night is a world-wide party celebrating human spaceflight.
At this years party in Los Angeles, the special guests will include:
* Robert Picardo (was also there last year)
* Denise Crosby
* Michael and Denise Okuda
* Armin Shimerman
* Tim Russ (was also there last year), and
* Gates McFadden
This is in addition to the astronaut guests.
Lackadaisy Pilot
Years ago there was a webcomic called Lackadaisy that I tried following. The art was beautiful, but the story didn't keep me reading (more on that later).
Recently I've seen Youtube references for an animated adaptation and a few days ago they put the pilot online, so I thought I'd give it a try.
I almost gave up at the opening soliloquy. Ugh!
The animation was beautiful though. Also there were funny and dramatic points that I liked.
Although watching it reminded me of something I had forgotten while reading the original comic. It wasn't exactly the story that I had a problem with. It was all the crazy people in the story. It just seems like they have crazy people for the sake of having crazy people, not necessarily for story-related reasons.
I wish the creators luck, but it's not a story for me.
Never heard of it.
With possibly few exceptions, I think most people have never heard of most (if any) webcomics.
If a comic doesn't run in their local newspaper most people have never heard of it.
Of course, newspapers are a dying species.
The Wolf of Wall Street
This very good (and very long-three hours) 2013 Scorsese pic shows the rise and fall of stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo De Caprio) and his firm Stratton Oakmont. In one scene, Belfort is speaking to former NYPD detective Bo Dietl (who plays himself) as Dietl is driving. However, the gearshift on Dietl's car is in the "Park" position.
If you believe this pic, Belfort and his employees spent more time partying, doing cocaine, quaaludes (and seemingly any other drug that crossed their path), laundering money, and swearing to the N-th degree, than selling stocks.
Fran Lebowitz plays an arraignment judge here. She has also frequently played one on Law & Order.
Gotham Knights
Me:
quote:Instead the axe fell on Gotham Knights.
quote:I am not surprised that it is a show that no one here has been talking about.
quote:Yeah, well, from what I hear the Batwoman creators were given Gotham Knights, and that's enough of a warning sign to stay away.
quote:This show was doomed from day one.
First of all, the people behind it were the same people behind the less-than-successful Batwoman. Furthermore, they used the exact same premise, namely Batman being out of the picture, so someone has to step up to take his place.
If it didn't work the first time, what made them think it would this time?
Second of all, I guess they though that parking this show behind Superman & Lois would guarantee that it would be a hit. Well, following S&L didn't do Naomi any good, did it.
Finally, they were probably banking that having Misha Collins would bring in the Supernatural fans. They were wrong. Talented as Mr. Collins is, even he couldn't save this train wreck.
A few months back I began noticing that new street poles on corners were beeping, loudly. I mean I'm sitting in a car at an intersection with the sounds of other cars going by and I can hear the beeping. Although sometimes a pole that had been beeping would stop beeping, so it could be changed, but for some reason a lot of the poles keep beeping for some reason.
Then I saw a video about a beep meme. Basically when smoke detector batteries need to be changed the detector beeps, but apparently most people don't change them or get used to the beeping. Which had me wondering, "Do those street poles need their batteries changed?" ;-) Are there teams of workers going around changing batteries on street poles? What battery size do they take and how many? ;-)
It struck me funny anyway.
Kept meaning to post this, but kept forgetting.
When the monster cereals were released this year they had a new cereal/spokesmonster, Carmel Creeper. I took one look and thought, 'She won't stand the test of time."
Basically she looks like a goth girl on her way to a rave and not an iconic monster.
Count Chocula is a vampire.
Frankenberry is a Frankenstein monster.
Boo Berry is a ghost.
Fruit Brute is a werewolf.
Yummy Mummy is a mummy.
Obviously Carmela was added because people felt they needed a woman monster, but for some reason they ignored the most obvious female monster type... a witch!
Well, there's also the succubus, but hey this is a cereal for children, so that's right out. ;-)
If they'd only given her a pointy hat, a broom, and a black cat it would have fit the iconic monster theme.
Never heard of this character.
Guess they don't sell her cereal in Canada.
Thanks.
She looks like an alien. Her features are too intact to be a zombie. Yep, should have been a witch or a variation of the Bride of Frankenstein/Frankenbarry.
Fitting for this time of year.
In "The Brady Kids" cartoon series, Marlin sends the Lone Ranger and Tonto to the moon...and somehow, they are able to breathe and talk there.
Also, in later episodes, its blatantly obvious Barry Williams is no longer doing the voice of Greg
Yeah they wanted to pay him at essentially a kids rate and he was (I think) around 19 or 20 and when he said he wanted the pay of an adut they replied "We'll get a soundalike". He told them to go ahead...
Weren't most child's voices at this point voiced by adults?
I think the Peanuts cartoons were unusual in using actual kids to voice kids.
In "The Brady Kids" cartoon series, Marlin sends the Lone Ranger and Tonto to the moon...and somehow, they are able to breathe and talk there.
Dude, the Marlin in question was a talking bird with magical powers. Reality had already left the building.
The makers of this cartoon must have made a deal with DC Comics, as both Superman and Wonder Woman make appearances (albeit not in the same episode).
Checking the IMDB page for The Brady Kids I saw that the replacement voices for Greg and Marcia were the kids of Filmation's Lou Scheimer. Must have been a tough audition process for them. ;-)
Tim - The makers of this cartoon must have made a deal with DC Comics, as both Superman and Wonder Woman make appearances
Well, Filmation had previously produced The New Adventures of Superman as well as other DC superhero cartoons so clearly they had contacts.
KAM - "I think the Peanuts cartoons were unusual in using actual kids to voice kids."
You just reminded me that the most recent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie has the turtles voiced by ACTUAL teenagers for the first time instead of adults.
Maybe one day we'll be progressive enough that we'll have teenagers who are actually mutant turtles trained in ninjitsu doing the voices.
;-)
Could be.
Not a nut, but couldn’t find the right place in the Bat-Sink to put this, so it’s going here. Mods feel free to move it.
Mark Hamill will no longer voice The Joker due to Kevin Conroy’s death.
https://cosmicbook.news/mark-hamill-done-as-joker-i-realize-now-i-dont-have-my-partner
Can't blame him.
Not really a nit, more of an interesting tidbit and it kind of fits in, at least, two shows, so wasn't sure of the best spot to put it.
Anyway, I watched a YouTube video wondering where the paintings from Night Gallery went after the show was cancelled.
And apparently some were used in the Universal offices while others were used for set dressing on episodes of Columbo.
I would assume some probably popped up on other Universal productions as well.
So something to keep an eye out for if you see a painting in Columbo or some other show/movie.
Just a random thought.... Anybody think that the characters Cam and Mitchell on Modern Family are a nod to Stargate: SG-1?
Never watched Modern Family.
Never will.
Was watching the openings of a couple of different Lupin III anime series and found it odd that whenever they show Fujiko dancing... it doesn't look good.
So I'm wondering if the animators were just bad at animating dancing, or if Fujiko is supposed to be a bad dancer in story?
Lupin the 3rd Part II Lupin vs. Superman
I wonder if they had any problem with DC over that title?
The story has them in, I think, New York, and there is a brown-haired man in a Superman costume (well, the S is actually a dollar sign $), who flies around stopping crimes, and nobody acts like this is unusual.
In the story the Superman fighting crime seems to only have started shortly before Lupin and company arrive, so you'd think people would be commenting on how weird it is to have a comic book character flying around stopping crime, but... no. It's treated as... normal.
There's a cowboy-dressed inspector named McCleed who is clearly a parody of McCloud.
Why bother with a parody name for McCloud when you're using Superman's name without change? Were they more worried about a lawsuit from Universal then DC/Warner?
In the story the Superman fighting crime seems to only have started shortly before Lupin and company arrive, so you'd think people would be commenting on how weird it is to have a comic book character flying around stopping crime, but... no. It's treated as... normal.
Well, this is New York, so.....
There's a cowboy-dressed inspector named McCleed who is clearly a parody of McCloud.
Why bother with a parody name for McCloud when you're using Superman's name without change? Were they more worried about a lawsuit from Universal then DC/Warner?
Guess they were.