Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-05-09 (Thursday)

On 5/10/2024 2:42 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 5/10/2024 5:31 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

On 5/10/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
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While nursing my back, I watched:
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HIDDEN GEMS: FAILED 80S SPINOFFS THAT WERE ACTUALLY GREAT!:
Join me (Kevin) from Retro Renaissance as I uncover the best-kept
secrets of
the 80s TV world! Discover the unexpectedly amazing shows that emerged
from
failed spinoffs like "Enos," "AfterMASH," "Booker," and more. Get
ready for
laughs and nostalgia as we delve into these retro treasures.
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Chapters:
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00:00 Intro
00:20 Enos
03:25 AFTERMash
08:08 Booker
10:21 Flo
14:37 The Toretellis
17:46 Day by Day
20:12 Just the Ten of Us
22:43 Checking In
34:44 The Law and Harry McGraw
27:09 Living Dolls
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https://youtu.be/Q8fO5xN9DHM?si=4Nv3oQM_ZRbqfuYt

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Are they high?! - Most of these were terrible. For example, "Just the
Ten of Us" was awful, with its only redeeming quality being that it was
stuffed full of hott chycks!
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What did you watch?

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Still trying to get through grading. So at night, I just put "John Wick
3" in the background, and did some online grading. The only things I
actually watched were:
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Night Court (2023) (Peacock) - "Chips Ahoy" (ep. #2.10). I have mixed
feelings about this one. The 'A' storyline had Melissa Fumero (who looks
middle-aged these days - I remember when she was a young hottie on
OLTL!!) as a "mean mom" acquaintance of Wyatt's whom Abby convicts in
the Night Court. Fumero then sticks around to menace Wyatt and annoy
Abby. In the 'B' storyline, Dan desperately wants to get in to an annual
'Fleet Week' poker game, so he can fleece the sailors and take their
money, while Gurgs tries to resist the "charms" of hott(?) sailors. In
the 'C' story, Flobert insists upon teaching Olivia how to scam people.
    This episode had some amusing bits. But, overall, I also didn't feel
that it really worked.
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On Wheel of Fortune, the youts with grandparents teams were still
annoying! Also, I embarrassingly couldn't figure out the final puzzle.  :S
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What did you watch?
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I watched:
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Star Trek: Discovery (Paramount+) - "Erigah" - I saw a bit of a preview
for this episode that made it look like this would be an action packed
episode with the Federation and Breen in an all out battle.  Instead
this episode had the Breen showing up to throw their weight around and
try to intimidate the federation but not a single shot was fired.  Then
there were the two smugglers who I have increasingly grown to hate this
season.  Meh!!!!
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Funny Girl (TCM) 1968 musical starring Barbra Stresand as a real life
singer who rises to fame while falling in love with Omar Sharif.  I have
tickets to see Funny Girl live on stage this weekend.  I wanted to watch
the original movie before seeing it live.  I saw the movie once before
many years ago but didn't remember it.  On this viewing I think I liked
it a bit more.  It's still not a movie I'd particularly want to revisit,
but it was watchable.
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 Is it significantly better than other Streisand movies, say, Up the
Sandbox?
 

Off the top of my head I can't think of any Streisand movie I'm a fan of.  Then again, I don't think I've only ever watched a handful of them.