The TV thread

It was great. And such a Michael Schur show in the best ways, right down to the Tom Petty song in the finale. Mrs. W. was a puddle a few times in the finale.

 

Dune: Prophecy. Not bad but kinda depressing.

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If the horrible people destroy the slightly less horrible people, the horrible future we saw in the films might not happen!

 

We are still one episode behind in Shrinking but “you Blind Sided me and then you blindsided me” may have been the funniest thing I’ve heard in a while.

 

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I saw what was coming with Liz from a mile off -- and I still cringed a little when it happened. But of all the things he could have done, did Derek ever come up big with bringing the sons home.

 

We have tried to watch Cross on Prime, but it’s basically a 3 episode show stretched to 8. The lighting on the show is impossibly dark — I feel like I’m in a Progressive commercial complaining that I can’t see anything.

 

I watched the whole thing last night and really enjoyed it. Old people are funny, probably because they are so uninhibited. Maybe I'll be like that when I get old. (Danson's PI boss is hotter than hell and I have never heard of her.)

 

"If it's a girl, Sutton Foster. If it's a boy, Foster Sutton" is up there for me.

As is "Really? Then I'm glad we ruined the planet for them."

I know it's not everyone's favorite, but this is absolutely my favorite show going right now.

 

We really liked it. Sweet and funny. And some real heart-tugging stuff if you've ever experienced a love one headed down the road toward memory care.

On a side note, I wonder how many episodes of TV Ted Danson has done. Is there a record for that, outside of daily talk show hosts?

 

Danson has been in a ton of stuff, but he hasn't been on many long-runners for the past decade or so. Good Place went 50, Mr. Mayor 20. Becker was 129, and Cheers was 269, two different CSI shows combine for 102, Curb 34. Cobble it all together, and he might still be short of Mariska Hargitay, who's at 559 for SVU, plus 13 for the Stabler spin-off and 6 for the mothership. The actual correct answer if you don't put in further restrictions -

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The main cast of The Simpsons, who get 775 or 776 from that show alone. Azaria was also on Becker, which gets him to more than 900 episodes. Tress MacNeille would be the sleeper candidate, since she's just below the main cast in prominence (648) but was also a main voice cast member on tons of other shows - Futurama (144), something called Minnie's Bow-Toons (98), Disenchantment (49), Animaniacs (36), etc.

 

So this thread took me down a Mariska Hargitay IMDB wormhole. I wanted to remember the roles she had before she became a constantly aggrieved, 2020s version of Quincy on SVU.

That took me to her cast list and I saw that one of her first credits was Ronnie Milsap's "She Loves My Car" video.

That took me to Youtube because I'd never seen it/didn't remember it.

It was definitely a gift that gave a lot. We MTV viewers in the 1980s we blissfully unaware of the other genres (country in Milsap's case, though this is hardly country) that also hoped on the video bandwagon.

So if you ever wanted to see a video featuring the two main members of the lauded punk band X, Tattoo from Fantasy Island, the motherfucker from "Secret Admirer", Hargitay, incongruent obligatory breakdancing in a video, an inclusion that breaks the previous tie between Robert Plant's "In The Mood" and Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl" ... as well as a chorus that sounds conspicuously like "she loves my cock" ... dig in!

 

Holy crap Bubs I think you’ve unearthed the ultimate 80s LA time capsule. How the hell did Exene and John Dow end up in it???
And in the timeless tradition of SJ, I’m going to make my reply about me: Mariska Hargitay once slammed her apartment door in my face. I was a tabloid reporter doorstepping her about a tip that she was having a fling with Demi’s hubby Bruce Willis. At the time she was more known for being Jayne Mansfield’s daughter than for her current TV role in some one-season sitcom starring Nancy McKeon. She was living in a tiny two-store walkup off Fairfax in LA.
More about me: Ronnie Milsap lived in (still does, I think) the house across the street from my girlfriend my freshman year in HS. His house has the highest, longest brick wall fence in town.

 

That’s good stuff!