Disney Marvel's Big Rising Star, Their Next "Thanos-Level Threat," Was Just Convicted of Harassing and Assulting His Girlfriend<br>Disney Planning a Woke Reboot of the X-Files

Disney Marvel's Big Rising Star, Their Next "Thanos-Level Threat," Was Just Convicted of Harassing and Assulting His Girlfriend
Disney Planning a Woke Reboot of the X-Files

Whoops!

They jury acquitted him of two counts.

Before getting into all this, let me say that I usually would not do two entertainment posts in a row. On a different day, I would put this one into draft and save it for tomorrow.

BUT THERE IS NO NEWS TODAY, and so I'm not going to keep hunting for news when I have this perfectly-decent post ready. I know it's not ideal to have two back-to-back entertainment posts but seriously, it's a slow news day.

On to the story, and to more Disney Disaster:

A Manhattan jury found Jonathan Majors guilty on Monday of two misdemeanor counts of harassment and assault, but acquitted him on two other counts.
In the domestic assault trial, the Marvel actor was found not guilty on one count of of intentional assault in the third degree and aggravated harassment in the second degree against his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari. Majors, wearing a dark gray suit and seated with his attorneys and current girlfriend Meagan Goode, did not display a reaction when the verdict was read.
Judge Michael Gaffey set a sentencing date of Feb. 6. Majors faces up to a year in jail, but he could also be sentenced to probation.

The two-week-long trial resumed in a lower Manhattan courtroom as the six-person jury requested to hear the definition of harassment in the second degree, which is when a person is guilty of "intent to harass, annoy or alarm" another person -- "he or she strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise subjects such other person to physical contact, or attempts or threatens to do the same."

The texts in the case were damning. Majors attempted to claim that he had not hit his girlfriend (causing her a head injury), but in texts between them, it is clear that both agree that he hit her, and that she needs to go to the hospital due to the injury she suffered, and that they both plan on lying to cover up the reason for the injury.

I mean, the girlfriend even promises to lie.

Update: Disney fired him, says The Hollywood Reporter.

You notice, they waited for an actual court resolution.

OTOH, they fired Johnny Depp on Amber Turd's say so where she didn't even say so. (She just strongly hinted.)

Another big problem for Disney Marvel and the One-Man Brain Trust we know as Kevin Feige, but... the entire franchise is melting down. Who notices another log on the fire?

Meanwhile, the Trian group (lead by Nelson Peltz) formally launched its bid to solicit shareholder votes to put two of its own nominees on to the Disney board, vowing that they will be responsive to the shareholders and not whatever weird shit Bob Iger's into these days.

The two men Trian nominated for these seats are Nelson Peltz himself, who's had a good run turning companies around, and Disney's former CFO, Jay Rasulo, a man once groomed to take over Bob Iger's position.

So they can't say these men don't know their beans. Peltz is great on the business turnaround side, and obviously this other cat could run Disney. Even Bob Iger thought so until recently. His experience compares very favorably to all of Bob Iger's handpicked rubber-stamp henchmen on the board.

In fact, none of Disney's board members had any experience in the entertainment sector at all until they just added a single person with entertainment experience a month ago.

The greatest pitch Peltz makes here is that Disney's current board members don't give a shit about what happens to Disney's share price because they own so little of it themselves. Altogether, this club of millionaires who have served on other boards and CEOs at other companies have only $15 million in Disney stock.

With so little an investment, they can afford to say, as Bob Iger does, "F*** shareholder value" and just use other people's monies push their leftwing politics.

Trian also points out that Bob Iger hardly holds any Disney stock any longer -- though he was paid in a ton of Disney stock, he's sold the bulk of that off for cash, giving people a clue about what Bob Iger actually thinks Disney's mid-term value will be. Hint: You don't unload most of your stock if you think the price is going up.

Again, another man in power at Disney who is completely misaligned with shareholder interests, because he's barely one himself at this point. What the f*** does he care if Disney keeps tanking? He sold most of his stock and made his money.

The letter is here.

Some of the spicier quotes:

Disney is one of the most iconic companies in the world with unrivaled scale, unparalleled customer loyalty, irreplaceable intellectual property ("IP"), and an enviable commercial flywheel. However, Disney has woefully underperformed its peers and its potential.
Earnings per share ("EPS") in the most recent fiscal year were lower than the EPS generated by Disney a decade ago and were over 50% lower than peak EPS despite over $100 billion of capital invested.
...
For shareholders, this subpar performance has destroyed value. Disney stock has underperformed the stocks of Disney's self-selected proxy peers and the broader market over every relevant period during the last decade and during the tenure of each non-management director. Furthermore, it has underperformed since
Bob Iger was first appointed CEO in 2005 -- a period during which he has served as CEO or Executive Chairman (directing the Company's creative endeavors in this role) for all but 11 months.
Disney shareholders were once over $200 billion wealthier than they are now.
Unfortunately, the Board and CEO appear to have no conviction that things will get better. The non-management directors collectively own less than $15 million of Disney stock, and Mr. Iger has sold the vast majority of his ownership stake built up primarily through share-based compensation -- more than $1 billion of
Disney stock -- leaving shareholders alone to face the daunting reality of a complex turnaround in a rapidly evolving industry.
And, that turnaround does not appear to be materializing. Since Mr. Iger's first earnings call after returning as
CEO:
* Tens of billions of shareholder value has been lost;
* Consensus EPS estimates for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 have fallen meaningfully, even as the Company claims to be cutting billions of costs; and
* Studio content continues to disappoint consumers, slowing the speed of the flywheel and threatening future earnings growth.

I'm not certain, but I think they're using "flywheel" to mean the central engine -- making movies and tv shows -- which can then be exploited by all the other Disney businesses, like parks and cruises.

...
The root cause of Disney's underperformance, in our view, is a Board that is too closely connected to a long-tenured CEO and too disconnected from shareholders' interests.
The Board, we believe, lacks objectivity as well as focus, alignment, and accountability.

The shareholder meeting where they'll wage their proxy war comes in spring 2024.

In case you weren't sick enough of Disney: Disney bought Fox Studios (all Iger knows how to do is buy successful companies, and then destroy them in 10 year or less), so it owns the rights to the X-Files.

They're re-making the X-Files... with the woke director of Black Panther. The one who thought it would be cute to have the little shit Shuri call a white guest a "colonizer" for daring to be present in a Black Space even when invited there.

Does that mean they're going to give the X-Files the "diverse" treatment?

It sure does!

Original series creator Chris Carter made the revelation during an interview with "On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko" to celebrate the 30th anniversary of "The X-Files." During the interview, Carter said, "I just spoke to a young man, Ryan Coogler, who is going to remount 'The X-Files' with a diverse cast.

Can't wait to not watch this.

Via Ethan Van Sciver, who predicts another Gingercide. "Gingercide" is the crime of Hollywood taking redheaded white characters and turning them black. They've literally done it 40 times by now.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:14 PM

Comments

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1 I can be entertaining!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 18, 2023 05:15 PM (MZ8pM)

2 What the fuck. There’s jizz on my desk

Posted by: Amy Klobuchar at December 18, 2023 05:16 PM (V/pbu)

3 So it ain't so good to be the Kang?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 18, 2023 05:16 PM (Gsmsg)

4 *juggles*
*dances*
*does flips down the hallway*

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 18, 2023 05:16 PM (MZ8pM)

5 This guy was deranged. In his conversations with the GF he was comparing himself to Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, etc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:16 PM (di6C2)

6 The X-files was good until maybe season 7, season 8 (with the T-1000) was meh, season 9 and the revival seasons 10 and 11 were *AIDS*.

Yeah, I can't wait to not watch nuX-files either.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 18, 2023 05:16 PM (5aFbR)

7 Probably a child molester too. Who would be surprised?

Posted by: fd must be dreaming at December 18, 2023 05:16 PM (vFG9F)

8 3 So it ain't so good to be the Kang?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 18, 2023 05:16 PM (Gsmsg)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:16 PM (di6C2)

9 "What the fuck. There’s jizz on my desk
Posted by: Amy Klobuchar"

Don't look in the cup holder.

Posted by: fd must be dreaming at December 18, 2023 05:17 PM (vFG9F)

10 What the fuck. There’s jizz on my desk
Posted by: Amy Klobuchar at December 18, 2023 05:16 PM (V/pbu)

It's raining men!

Posted by: Aidan Maese-Czeropski at December 18, 2023 05:17 PM (Gsmsg)

11 Was thinking that exact 'whoops! whoopsie!' joke.

Ah well. He's a good actor actually. But this fucks Kang as an MCU character. Which is fine. Fuck Marvel

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at December 18, 2023 05:17 PM (xcxpd)

12 >>>5 This guy was deranged. In his conversations with the GF he was comparing himself to Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, etc.

oh yeah i forgot that, lol. that's in the clip i linked.

lol.

Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:17 PM (KRtlO)

13 #metoo

Posted by: Amber Heard at December 18, 2023 05:18 PM (Gsmsg)

14 11 Was thinking that exact 'whoops! whoopsie!' joke.

Ah well. He's a good actor actually. But this fucks Kang as an MCU character. Which is fine. Fuck Marvel
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at December 18, 2023 05:17 PM (xcxpd)

He wasn't though...his best roles were when he didn't have to act, as we now see.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 18, 2023 05:18 PM (exHjb)

15 i never got into the x-files. I have seen an episode here or there that I liked. but not enough to check in with the show.

Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:18 PM (KRtlO)

16 "Remount?"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 18, 2023 05:18 PM (63Dwl)

17 Will it ever be possible for the Senate to live this down? I say no, not ever. They might as well team up with Bud Light.

Posted by: fd must be dreaming at December 18, 2023 05:19 PM (vFG9F)

18 15 i never got into the x-files. I have seen an episode here or there that I liked. but not enough to check in with the show.
Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:18 PM (KRtlO)

I loved its 1st few seasons...and then less so.

I won't watch the reboot...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 18, 2023 05:19 PM (exHjb)

19 as I always like to point out, X-Files just took what was working in Twin Peaks and streamlined it into high-concept repeatable procedural show.

Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:19 PM (KRtlO)

20 IIRC from my misty memory, Kang was kind of a shit villain anyway- for the same reason Marvel found when they did him here. Multiple versions of the same guy. So... kind of boring.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:19 PM (di6C2)

21 >A Manhattan jury found Jonathan Majors...
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I've gotten too old
I read 'Jonathan Majors' and think of the former British PM

Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 05:20 PM (geLO8)

22 "A Manhattan jury found Jonathan Majors guilty on Monday of two misdemeanor counts of harassment and assault"

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Obviously another case of white people being so violent toward blacks!!!

Posted by: Jay in PA at December 18, 2023 05:20 PM (i7Q7S)

23 15 i never got into the x-files. I have seen an episode here or there that I liked. but not enough to check in with the show.
Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:18 PM (KRtlO)

I watched the movie when it came out...

It was all right, never got the point of the show.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:20 PM (di6C2)

24 ...remount 'The X-Files' with a diverse cast."

"Remount". So he's pretty confident they're going f*ck it all up.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 18, 2023 05:20 PM (dZVON)

25 The last attempt to bring back The X-Files was so terrible I gave up after the first episode. And the series was at least 3 to 4 seasons too long in the first place.

Posted by: Bete at December 18, 2023 05:21 PM (k9R3I)

26 18 15 i never got into the x-files. I have seen an episode here or there that I liked. but not enough to check in with the show.
Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:18 PM (KRtlO)

I loved its 1st few seasons...and then less so.

I won't watch the reboot...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 18, 2023 05:19 PM (exHjb)

It's really off-putting to see Agents Mulder and Scully look old and worn-out. Especially Scully (Gillian Anderson). The Wall and Father Time come for all, but some it treats harsher than others.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 18, 2023 05:21 PM (5aFbR)

27 I have watched some episodes of the X Files… Cigarette Man was a good character.. Mitch Pileggi was pretty cool.. Gillian Anderson was pretty cute.

Posted by: tubal at December 18, 2023 05:21 PM (PCK5/)

28 21 >A Manhattan jury found Jonathan Majors...
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I've gotten too old
I read 'Jonathan Majors' and think of the former British PM
Posted by: Don Black at December 18, 2023 05:20 PM (geLO

I think immediately of Six Million Dollar Man and the Fall Guy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:21 PM (di6C2)

29
I mean, the girlfriend even promises to lie.

__________

Otherwise she'd lose her meal ticket.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 18, 2023 05:21 PM (MoZTd)

30 Hey he plays a villain right?

//Disney

Really though how can you tell the story of Kane in a Marvel universe that can't get the Fantastic Four right?

Posted by: sven at December 18, 2023 05:21 PM (X0I7i)

31 i get the point of the show. I like the idea. I just though the execution was "eh." And a lot of the monsters of the week are silly.

Kolchak got away with that because the show's tone was comedic and sardonic. But X-Files is very serious. I dunno how you can have monsters of the week and be serious about it all.

(I know there is humor here and there.)

Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:22 PM (KRtlO)

32 It's really off-putting to see Agents Mulder and Scully look old and worn-out. Especially Scully (Gillian Anderson). The Wall and Father Time come for all, but some it treats harsher than others.
Posted by: Thrawn at December 18, 2023 05:21 PM (5aFbR)

It's happens to all non-real redheads. If they ever cast a real one, I might fall over...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 18, 2023 05:22 PM (exHjb)

33 It's really off-putting to see Agents Mulder and Scully look old and worn-out. Especially Scully (Gillian Anderson). The Wall and Father Time come for all, but some it treats harsher than others.
Posted by: Thrawn at December 18, 2023 05:21 PM (5aFbR)

She was smoking hot as a blonde in a couple episodes of Hannibal I watched.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:22 PM (di6C2)

34 Trian also points out that Bob Iger hardly holds any Disney stock any longer -- though he was paid in a ton of Disney stock, he's sold the bulk of that off for cash, giving people a clue about what Bob Iger actually thinks Disney's mid-term value will be. Hint: You don't unload most of your stock if you think the price is going up.

To be fair, Iger did need to buy a larger yacht.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 18, 2023 05:23 PM (Gsmsg)

35 Kolchak.. pretty silly, from what I have seen… but that is not really a knock on it..

Posted by: tubal at December 18, 2023 05:23 PM (PCK5/)

36 Call me crazy, but I'm willing to bet the "conspiracy" behind all the weird stuff in the new X-Files will be a cabal of rich, white, racist men.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 18, 2023 05:23 PM (7fElN)

37 Willowed: The funny thing is a moonbat is reduced to making arguments that the AR is somehow like the Magic Negro in Ace's post a magical weapon that makes ammo "more lethal it will blow you lungs out!"
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That was 9mm, sven!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 05:23 PM (2yu8s)

38 ...remount 'The X-Files' with a diverse cast.

Does this mean The Smoking Man will become the Menthol Guy? Because that might be funny.

Posted by: Flyguy at December 18, 2023 05:24 PM (OYxA4)

39 as I always like to point out, X-Files just took what was working in Twin Peaks and streamlined it into high-concept repeatable procedural show.

Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:19 PM (KRtlO)

I only watched a few episodes during the early seasons, but, with hindsight, didn't they just re-do Kolchak, except with a busty redhead tagging along?

Posted by: spindrift at December 18, 2023 05:24 PM (B/KRV)

40 36 Call me crazy, but I'm willing to bet the "conspiracy" behind all the weird stuff in the new X-Files will be a cabal of rich, white, racist men.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 18, 2023 05:23 PM (7fElN)

Elan Must
Dan Trumps

Posted by: Nova Local at December 18, 2023 05:24 PM (exHjb)

41 It's happens to all non-real redheads. If they ever cast a real one, I might fall over...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 18, 2023 05:22 PM (exHjb)

I can mention Amy Pond here right?

Posted by: blaster at December 18, 2023 05:24 PM (IFNME)

42 "Hint: You don't unload most of your stock if you think the price is going up."

You're welcome.

Posted by: Jim Cramer - Investment Pro and Media Personality at December 18, 2023 05:24 PM (v0R5T)

43 I wonder if the government will still be the bad guys in the X Files reboot?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at December 18, 2023 05:24 PM (xcxpd)

44 Does that mean they're going to give the X-Files the "diverse" treatment?

It sure does!

could be promising, if the diversity includes "visitors"

Posted by: Sam Francisco at December 18, 2023 05:24 PM (oY6Yp)

45 37 Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 05:23 PM (2yu8s)

9mm ARs can rule the cosmos friend...think about it....!

//Joey Plugz

Posted by: sven at December 18, 2023 05:24 PM (X0I7i)

46 Can't wait for Foxx Mulder, D'anae Skully, and the Loosey-Smokin' Man.

At its best, The X-Files was some of the best t.v. of the day. I haven't revisited it; it was wildly uneven in its good seasons. It is very much of its era. The reboots had some real stinkers.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 18, 2023 05:25 PM (brrec)

47 >>>(all Iger knows how to do is buy successful companies, and then destroy them in 10 year or less),
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That's the IBM and Pepsico paradigm.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 18, 2023 05:25 PM (aUim1)

48 My Sig 9mm is rated for Lungblower and Lungblower Plus.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 18, 2023 05:25 PM (cf/0E)

49 several things I don't like about the X-Files:

David Duchovny babbling these long Wikipedia entries for every monster or folklore thing or psychic phenomenon. He's got them all memorized.

And then their debates about whether this could be aliens or a monster or not. The funny thing to me is, they're still doing this from season two onwards, despite Duchovny having been right literally every single time and in every episode and Dana looking like a big fucking dummy every time. But any time there's a new mysterious incident, she's like, "There's a rational explanation for this." Oh Dana, you big pouty-lipped dum-dum. Come over here and sit on my lap.

Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:25 PM (KRtlO)

50 as I always like to point out, X-Files just took what was working in Twin Peaks and streamlined it into high-concept repeatable procedural show.

Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:19 PM (KRtlO)

*buzzer*

Wrong again, ace.

X-Files lacked Audrey Horne (or even an approximate facsimile.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:25 PM (di6C2)

51 23 originally it didn't have a point, just weird stuff of the week. Then they invented a conspiracy them to explain Gillisn Anderson's absence during pregnancy and was supposed to all wrap up in the movie. Then Fox have them a ton of money to keep the show going, so they just rode it into the ground with no plan on where they were trying to get to.

This too is the story of JJ Abrams.

Posted by: Bete at December 18, 2023 05:26 PM (k9R3I)

52 I'm guessing Iger does own a ton of stock in Universal.

It would explain so much.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 18, 2023 05:26 PM (Gsmsg)

53 The X Files...

That's where I keep Old Girl Friends pictures...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2023 05:26 PM (xaFKb)

54 And then their debates about whether this could be aliens or a monster or not. The funny thing to me is, they're still doing this from season two onwards, despite Duchovny having been right literally every single time and in every episode and Dana looking like a big fucking dummy every time. But any time there's a new mysterious incident, she's like, "There's a rational explanation for this." Oh Dana, you big pouty-lipped dum-dum. Come over here and sit on my lap.

Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:25 PM (KRtlO)
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Even worse, their roles tended to flip if there was a religious dimension to the case. Scully, supposedly a devout Catholic or something was all-in if the case had a spiritual angle while Mulder became the ultimate skeptic. Never felt in character for either of them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 18, 2023 05:26 PM (7fElN)

55 49

And then their debates about whether this could be aliens or a monster or not. The funny thing to me is, they're still doing this from season two onwards, despite Duchovny having been right literally every single time and in every episode and Dana looking like a big fucking dummy every time. But any time there's a new mysterious incident, she's like, "There's a rational explanation for this." Oh Dana, you big pouty-lipped dum-dum. Come over here and sit on my lap.

Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:25 PM (KRtlO)

But cute enough not to replace…

Posted by: tubal at December 18, 2023 05:26 PM (PCK5/)

56 What the fuck. There’s jizz on my desk
Posted by: Amy Klobuchar at December 18, 2023 05:16 PM (V/pbu)
......

You've seen jizz before? Huh.

Posted by: wth at December 18, 2023 05:27 PM (v0R5T)

57 Gingercide?
Looks like football is being pushed to footballicide. Some chump who won a Superbowl ring with the Steelers is tired of average white guys talking about football and the solution is a racial bowl.
Hey Rashard Mendenhall...piss off.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 18, 2023 05:27 PM (W/lyH)

58 >>>9mm ARs can rule the cosmos friend...think about it....!
---------------

S and W has one that shares magazines.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 18, 2023 05:27 PM (aUim1)

59 FUTURE HEADLINE: Disney's reboot of the highly successful FOX series and movie X-FILES tanks and is cancelled after one short 8 episode series losing Disney over $50 million.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 18, 2023 05:27 PM (17s+e)

60 It's happens to all non-real redheads. If they ever cast a real one, I might fall over...
Posted by: Nova Local

Rula Lenska has joined the chat - again.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 05:27 PM (qoGsy)

61 Best Kolchak moment was him flashing a cross to ward off a vampire and the vamp sneering "I'm Jewish!"

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 18, 2023 05:27 PM (brrec)

62 A woke X-Files would say that the government is totally telling you the truth on everything.

Posted by: Wally at December 18, 2023 05:27 PM (hqVaF)

63 Proposed:

Fringe>>>> Alias ~ Lost

In hindsight.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:27 PM (di6C2)

64 27 I have watched some episodes of the X Files…

never watched x files, but i really enjoyed the lone gunmen

Posted by: anachronda at December 18, 2023 05:28 PM (oY6Yp)

65 The X-Files are less inteteresting than old ONTs here....

I am not on them all that often but we had fascinating discussions here in the old days.

The UFO phenomenon is a psyop aimed at providing cover for drone and stealth research and goes back to the 30s.

Posted by: sven at December 18, 2023 05:28 PM (X0I7i)

66 What the fuck. There’s jizz on my desk
Posted by: Amy Klobuchar at December 18, 2023 05:16 PM (V/pbu)

You can eat it with a comb.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 18, 2023 05:28 PM (xPl2J)

67 53 The X Files...

That's where I keep Old Girl Friends pictures...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2023 05:26 PM (xaFKb)

It still cracks me up that a Chinese Rom-Com, "The Ex-File 3: The Return of the Exes", did better in China than The Last Jedi. Even though the latter had the most stronkest, most independent woman protagonist evar!

Posted by: Thrawn at December 18, 2023 05:28 PM (5aFbR)

68 i was actually thinking of watching Fringe. I saw some guy on YouTube saying it was good.

Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:28 PM (KRtlO)

69 JJ Abrams has ruined more franchises than amazon.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 18, 2023 05:28 PM (cf/0E)

70 Fringe was my favorite series of that ilk… characters were good…

Posted by: tubal at December 18, 2023 05:29 PM (PCK5/)

71 by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:25 PM (KRtlO)

50 as I always like to point out, X-Files just took what was working in Twin Peaks and streamlined it into high-concept repeatable procedural show.

That show was just garbage, the most interesting thing about it was the spooky intro

When the guy making it announced that it was never a story, never building towards something, just a bunch of essentially one off shows he should have been tarred and feathered

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:29 PM (Bo0wh)

72 The Monster of the Week X-Files incidents were hit or miss. But the Mythology episodes, about aliens and government coverups, those strung together nicely.

It was good TV.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at December 18, 2023 05:29 PM (xcxpd)

73 . _ Alex Karras vs. Big Daddy Lipscomb

Posted by: Braenyard at December 18, 2023 05:29 PM (aUim1)

74 35 Kolchak.. pretty silly, from what I have seen… but that is not really a knock on it..
Posted by: tubal at December 18, 2023 05:23 PM (PCK5/)

Used to show those on a TV slot called 'Brilliant but Cancelled'.

Pretty Kolchak only lasted one season, yet here we are talking about it decades later.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2023 05:29 PM (xaFKb)

75 as an aside...I saw "The Golden Compass" on late night TV last week, wondered why sequals were never made. Turns out that it made three times what it cost to film/market, but Back Then such a profit margin was considered "Not worth it" and they canceled the next two installments.
There was also some crapola about the "Catholics" being a problem over the content...as IF any current film company gives a RIP about what "Catholics" might be offended by.

Posted by: birdog at December 18, 2023 05:29 PM (sYlnp)

76 68 i was actually thinking of watching Fringe. I saw some guy on YouTube saying it was good.
Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:28 PM (KRtlO)

Recommend… Denethor was very good..

Posted by: tubal at December 18, 2023 05:29 PM (PCK5/)

77 Ace, give Fringe a go. It took a few episodes to find its groove but once the real story arc kicks in it's terrific.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 18, 2023 05:30 PM (brrec)

78 Word is that the GSA just put in an order for 500 large placards that say "Buttfucking Is Absolutely Forbidden On This Desk"

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 18, 2023 05:30 PM (Gsmsg)

79 gingercide!

that's funny

because ... well ... I have heard that maybe it was "Moorish" blood that caused that particular dilute type to appear?

so yeah I dunno, switching Gingers to being Black does make a sort of sense

Posted by: BlackOrchid, I meant to say at December 18, 2023 05:30 PM (AcWfM)

80 THE ARISTOCATS!

Posted by: Just the Punchline at December 18, 2023 05:30 PM (VbW3c)

81 60 It's happens to all non-real redheads. If they ever cast a real one, I might fall over...
Posted by: Nova Local

Rula Lenska has joined the chat - again.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 05:27 PM (qoGsy)

Damn. TP from downtown!

https://tinyurl.com/54fwwkpt

https://tinyurl.com/yck9emx3

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:30 PM (di6C2)

82 Fringe is really good!

Posted by: BlackOrchid, I meant to say at December 18, 2023 05:30 PM (AcWfM)

83 Best Kolchak moment was him flashing a cross to ward off a vampire and the vamp sneering "I'm Jewish!"
Posted by: All Hail Eris

Randomly apropos - my wife is listening to the "Hail Mary" sung in Hebrew on UooTooob.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 05:30 PM (qoGsy)

84 68 i was actually thinking of watching Fringe. I saw some guy on YouTube saying it was good.
Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:28 PM (KRtlO)

I've heard good things about Fringe. And Eureka.

I've got too many movies to watch to catch up on old TV shows though.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at December 18, 2023 05:30 PM (xcxpd)

85 >>>When the guy making it announced that it was never a story, never building towards something, just a bunch of essentially one off shows he should have been tarred and feathered

well, I sort of agree, except that's how all tv is done. I asked Joel Surnow if he has a plan for each season of 24. He said no, they just make up the story every week. There is no plan.

(And the show certainly seemed as if there was no plan and it was all just random shit.)

I was blown away that you'd go into a many million dollar season long shoot without even an outline, but he said, "It's just how tv is done"

Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:31 PM (KRtlO)

86 Trump is Thanos!

Scott Adams retweeted Mike Suarez @suarezoo 5h Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
Why they coming at us with the B team when we want Thanos?

And we shall have Thanos.
https://tinyurl.com/y5c9rfef

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 05:31 PM (2yu8s)

87 Lone gunman posse?

Posted by: Archer at December 18, 2023 05:31 PM (gmo/4)

88 Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays Dec 13
Watching the mentally challenged people in the media cry that "Trump is Thanos" will be the comedy theme for 2024.

Trump's "I'll only be a dictator for one day" is looking brilliant. Total nut-bait.

Nuts, show us your stuff! LOL

The Hill @thehill Dec 14
Former Speaker Paul Ryan says former President Donald "Trump’s not a conservative, he’s an authoritarian narcissist"

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays Dec 14
Just say "Thanos." You know you want to.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays Dec 16
On the plus side, once Trump-Thanos snaps his bejeweled and gloved fingers and half the population dies, climate change is largely solved.

POLITICO @politico Dec 17
Biden campaign: Trump 'parroted Adolf Hitler' in remarks targeting immigrants.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays Dec 17
Lol, just say Thanos.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays Dec 17
Hitler is overused. Go full Thanos or go home.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 05:31 PM (2yu8s)

89 The Monster of the Week X-Files incidents were hit or miss. But the Mythology episodes, about aliens and government coverups, those strung together nicely.

It was good TV.

Nah, if you go back to watch it now it was just garbage

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:31 PM (Bo0wh)

90 >>>Best Kolchak moment was him flashing a cross to ward off a vampire and the vamp sneering "I'm Jewish!"

did that happen? Sounds like a similar but different gag in Love at First bite.

Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:31 PM (KRtlO)

91 68 i was actually thinking of watching Fringe. I saw some guy on YouTube saying it was good.
Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:28 PM (KRtlO)

Anna Torv (especially 1st season) ++1

It holds up far better than a lot of old series.

If you can get past Pacey as a male lead.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:31 PM (di6C2)

92 Fringe is on Freevee

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 18, 2023 05:31 PM (xPl2J)

93 69 JJ Abrams has ruined more franchises than amazon.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 18, 2023 05:28 PM (cf/0E)

Penis nose seems to have missed the lesson that stories need endings to be a story.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at December 18, 2023 05:32 PM (xcxpd)

94 Aetius451AD, I'd do sketchy things for Rula. Even today.

Very sketchy.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 05:32 PM (qoGsy)

95 Ace, give Fringe a go. It took a few episodes to find its groove but once the real story arc kicks in it's terrific.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 18, 2023 05:30 PM (brrec)

To me, the ending was .. unsatisfying, but very good up to the last season. Really, IMO they should have not done the last season and left things bizarre and ambiguous.

Posted by: Just the Punchline at December 18, 2023 05:32 PM (VbW3c)

96 Posted by: Diogenes at December 18, 2023 05:27 PM (W/lyH)

What is sad is that football was one place where our tribal loyalties had NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE.

It was all about City, and Team....

Now, instead of a unifying good thing... we have another Racial Grievance vehicle.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2023 05:32 PM (xaFKb)

97 The best scenes in Kolchak take place in the office, where Kolchak is exchanging banter with Vincenzo and/or Ron.

Also, some hot chicks showed up on that series.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 18, 2023 05:32 PM (9yWhg)

98 68 Fringe is good, it sags a bit in the middle and at the end it could use a few more episodes but it maybe be the best thing Bad Robot ever touched. And yes, touched in that way.

Posted by: Bete at December 18, 2023 05:32 PM (k9R3I)

99 89 The Monster of the Week X-Files incidents were hit or miss. But the Mythology episodes, about aliens and government coverups, those strung together nicely.

It was good TV.

Nah, if you go back to watch it now it was just garbage
Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:31 PM (Bo0wh)

No TV show that shows the FBI as corrupt and conspiring against the citizens of the US is complete garbage.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at December 18, 2023 05:33 PM (xcxpd)

100 dammit

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 05:33 PM (VbW3c)

101 It was available for free on prime (or free with ads.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:33 PM (di6C2)

102 I remember really being into X-Files in my teens. But in an era before DVR's (much less streaming) you miss a few episodes, and I had no idea what was going on anymore.

I was also into Twin Peaks, but like most David Lynch things, things just got too weird.

I agree X-Files was a huge rip off of Twin Peaks, David Duchovny supposedly was runner up to play the lead.

Posted by: Blago at December 18, 2023 05:33 PM (Sf+m/)

103 94 Aetius451AD, I'd do sketchy things for Rula. Even today.

Very sketchy.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 05:32 PM (qoGsy)

But is that really saying anything?

j/k

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:33 PM (di6C2)

104 X files does not hold up, sadly

Posted by: BlackOrchid, I meant to say at December 18, 2023 05:34 PM (AcWfM)

105 I was also into Twin Peaks, but like most David Lynch things, things just got too weird.

Bob Iger ruined it

Posted by: BlackOrchid, I meant to say at December 18, 2023 05:34 PM (AcWfM)

106 >>>I agree X-Files was a huge rip off of Twin Peaks, David Duchovny supposedly was runner up to play the lead.

he was also in Twin Peaks playing a transsexual DEA agent.

Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:34 PM (KRtlO)

107 Nah, if you go back to watch it now it was just garbage
Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:31 PM (Bo0wh)

Jose Chung's From Outer Space was very entertaining.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 05:34 PM (VbW3c)

108 104 X files does not hold up, sadly
Posted by: BlackOrchid, I meant to say at December 18, 2023 05:34 PM (AcWfM)

I didn't like it 30 years ago, I doubt I would now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:35 PM (di6C2)

109 , I sort of agree, except that's how all tv is done. I asked Joel Surnow if he has a plan for each season of 24. He said no, they just make up the story every week. There is no plan.

(And the show certainly seemed as if there was no plan and it was all just random shit.)

I was blown away that you'd go into a many million dollar season long shoot without even an outline, but he said, "It's just how tv is done"

That is a bit disconcerting from a management perspective, but it is not so bad for a detective show or something similar.

But with this show it was implied that there was a grand scheme or plot that would be revealed.

And what was eventually revealed was that the grand scheme was just to fuck the fans.

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:35 PM (Bo0wh)

110 The Left are super projectionists without self awareness . That has to be a subclass of a mental disorder associated with narcissistic psychopaths. .

They do more misdirected projection than an Obama first pitch in a hurricane.

Posted by: Drive by at December 18, 2023 05:35 PM (MNhXM)

111 FWIW, Joe Biden has "Black Oil" eyes.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 05:36 PM (VbW3c)

112 Sorry that was for the last post.

Posted by: Drive by at December 18, 2023 05:36 PM (MNhXM)

113 he was also in Twin Peaks playing a transsexual DEA agent.
Posted by: ace
___

That's right! Hell of a consolation prize.

Duchovny was probably better off with X-Files, but he never really could cross over into film like he wanted.

Posted by: Blago at December 18, 2023 05:36 PM (Sf+m/)

114 X files does not hold up, sadly

Fwiw, shows rarely do, those that do re the exception,

Miami vice should never be watched again, intro aside

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:37 PM (Bo0wh)

115 David Duchovney was always a shit actor.

What was that one where they defeat the aliens using Selsun Blue? Evolution?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:38 PM (di6C2)

116 Jose Chung's From Outer Space was very entertaining.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 05:34 PM (VbW3c)

The Millennium crossover was good. Millennium...THERE'S a show that was full of promise and it fucked off and left us with nothing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at December 18, 2023 05:38 PM (xcxpd)

117 115 David Duchovney was always a shit actor.

What was that one where they defeat the aliens using Selsun Blue? Evolution?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:38 PM (di6C2)

Yes. I thought it was kinda okay.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 18, 2023 05:38 PM (5aFbR)

118 Duchovny as the AI in Space: Above and Beyond was good.

That's another show that got canceled just when it got interesting.

And amusingly, since the writers knew that they had been canceled, the had the 2nd best cliff hanger episode ever as the finale.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 05:38 PM (VbW3c)

119 Miami vice should never be watched again, intro aside

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:37 PM (Bo0wh)

That music and the view of the bouncing ta ta's -TV at its finest

Posted by: Archer at December 18, 2023 05:39 PM (gmo/4)

120 I miss the 90's obsession with UFO's and government cover ups. Coast to Coast AM was fun in that era also.

Posted by: Blago at December 18, 2023 05:39 PM (Sf+m/)

121 Miami vice should never be watched again, intro aside
Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:37 PM (Bo0wh)

How much 80s stuff does?

Magnum PI.

A-Team, no.
Hardcastle and McCormick? Probably not.
Riptide? (laughs)
Scarecrow and Mrs King? Maybe.

I think we are getting to the point where I would like to watch them just to see a world that is not bugfuck crazy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:39 PM (di6C2)

122 Call me crazy, but I'm willing to bet the "conspiracy" behind all the weird stuff in the new X-Files will be a cabal of rich, white, racist men.

If those men run everything out of Davos watch the show disappear mid season.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 18, 2023 05:39 PM (dZVON)

123 You can't go wrong with Samurai Jack.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 05:40 PM (qoGsy)

124 The Millennium crossover was good. Millennium...THERE'S a show that was full of promise and it fucked off and left us with nothing.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at December 18, 2023 05:38 PM (xcxpd)

Why did it have a season after the End Of The World? That is what fucked it to me. The go to black ending of the first (?) season was where to end.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 05:40 PM (VbW3c)

125 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 18, 2023 05:40 PM (T4tVD)

126 There's not much of 80s TV that is worth watching

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:40 PM (Bo0wh)

127 How much 80s stuff does?

Moonlighting?

Posted by: Archer at December 18, 2023 05:40 PM (gmo/4)

128 Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:38 PM (di6C2)

I like the David Duchovney chick flick movie with Minnie Driver, Return to Me.

Posted by: Drive by at December 18, 2023 05:41 PM (MNhXM)

129 118 Duchovny as the AI in Space: Above and Beyond was good.

That's another show that got canceled just when it got interesting.

And amusingly, since the writers knew that they had been canceled, the had the 2nd best cliff hanger episode ever as the finale.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 05:38 PM (VbW3c)

The show got better, I think, as it went on. Made about 10 years too early.

They also could have gotten better actors. Vansen's actress was more than a bit stiff. Wang, Hawks and Opie were all decent.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:41 PM (di6C2)

130 I've seen two very recent BBC series where a character calls someone "Columbo" as in "Really, Columbo?" making me wonder if someone on British TV has started running the 1970's Columbo and it's a hit.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 05:41 PM (2yu8s)

131 A-Team is fun to watch except the later shows. They sure go thru a lot of jeeps.

Posted by: fd must be dreaming at December 18, 2023 05:41 PM (vFG9F)

132 Call me crazy, but I'm willing to bet the "conspiracy" behind all the weird stuff in the new X-Files will be a cabal of rich, white, racist men.

It's going to be the stupid al Pacino white hunting show with aliens that hate whitey too

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:41 PM (Bo0wh)

133 >>>Call me crazy, but I'm willing to bet the "conspiracy" behind all the weird stuff in the new X-Files will be a cabal of rich, white, racist men.

I call you crazy. Now eat ze bugs.

Posted by: Klaus Schwab at December 18, 2023 05:41 PM (CwhoI)

134 in these times, more than ever before, No News Is Good News!

amirite?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 18, 2023 05:41 PM (kc18b)

135 And of course, McQueen was perfect for that role and that role alone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:42 PM (di6C2)

136 I wanted so much to learn more about the AI War and their computer virus implanted religion. That idea was fabulous.

"Take a chance"

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 05:42 PM (VbW3c)

137 How much 80s stuff does?

Magnum PI.

A-Team, no.
Hardcastle and McCormick? Probably not.
Riptide? (laughs)
Scarecrow and Mrs King? Maybe.

I think we are getting to the point where I would like to watch them just to see a world that is not bugfuck crazy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:39 PM (di6C2)

Remington Steele was very good.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 05:43 PM (eoQWY)

138 Watched the Archer finale last night. I was happy to see they made Archer what he was in the first two seasons. They wrapped it up nicely .

Posted by: Drive by at December 18, 2023 05:43 PM (MNhXM)

139 I want Snoop Dog as the "cigarette smoking man."

Posted by: Orson at December 18, 2023 05:43 PM (dIske)

140 Star Trek Enterprise.

Jolene Blalock, Sub Commander T'Pol in that skin tight one piece. Yowza!

Posted by: Archer at December 18, 2023 05:43 PM (gmo/4)

141 >>> I've seen two very recent BBC series where a character calls someone "Columbo" as in "Really, Columbo?" making me wonder if someone on British TV has started running the 1970's Columbo and it's a hit.

it's a worldwide hit. i've seen episodes dubbed into German.

Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:43 PM (KRtlO)

142 136 I wanted so much to learn more about the AI War and their computer virus implanted religion. That idea was fabulous.

"Take a chance"
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 05:42 PM (VbW3c)

There were some damn fie episodes.

'Who Watches the Watchers?'

'River of Stars.'

They actually tried to tackle a lot of heavy themes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:44 PM (di6C2)

143 I think I've watched one or two episodes of X-Files. They were okayish.

Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 18, 2023 05:44 PM (miT2W)

144 It is not what was good but what was good then and now, not much of what was thought to be good then is now

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:44 PM (Bo0wh)

145 127 How much 80s stuff does?

Moonlighting?

Posted by: Archer at December 18, 2023 05:40 PM (gmo/4)

Had to go look... Due South was early 90's... liked that one.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2023 05:44 PM (xaFKb)

146 How much 80s stuff does?

Moonlighting?

Posted by: Archer at December 18, 2023 05:40 PM (gmo/4)

Bruce Willis, WITH HAIR!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 05:44 PM (VbW3c)

147 A-Team is fun to watch except the later shows. They sure go thru a lot of jeeps.
Posted by: fd must be dreaming at December 18, 2023 05:41 PM (vFG9F)

There really were little ramps concealed in tiny bushes to flip jeeps and vans onto their side all over the US in those days. True Story.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 05:45 PM (eoQWY)

148 All the old Mission Impossible shows are available on DVD.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 18, 2023 05:45 PM (vLfan)

149 111 FWIW, Joe Biden has "Black Oil" eyes.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 05:36 PM (VbW3c)

#truth

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at December 18, 2023 05:45 PM (xcxpd)

150 Coast to Coast AM was pure entertainment. I had the pleasure of meeting with the show's originator Art Bell. This was after Ramona had passed, Art sold the show, took his millions and moved to the Phillipines, where he married a lovely young lass and they had a child right away. Anyway, we met on a cruise ship on the promenade deck. (Art was on a world cruise I was just on the Alaska portion) Art was shocked I recognized him. He confided that not even he believed the stuff he broadcasted about, it was always, as he said, pure entertainment.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 18, 2023 05:45 PM (MeG8a)

151 Moonlighting and remington steele were essentially the same show

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:45 PM (Bo0wh)

152 How much 80s stuff does?

Night Court.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 05:46 PM (qoGsy)

153 Moonlighting and remington steele were essentially the same show
Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:45 PM (Bo0wh)

Steele was first, and better. The ripoff got more press.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 05:46 PM (eoQWY)

154 (shrugs) I will still watch Miami Vice from time to time. I still like it. It's kind of like a video museum of the 80s.

80s era Magnum PI is still entertaining to watch.

I liked the first 5-6 seasons of the X-Files. My interest tailed off after that.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 18, 2023 05:46 PM (sAmhv)

155 Moonlighting and remington steele were essentially the same show
Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:45 PM (Bo0wh)

Steele was first, and better. The ripoff got more press.

IPhone and android

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:47 PM (Bo0wh)

156

Project UFO 1978

https://tinyurl.com/yc76x4f9

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 18, 2023 05:47 PM (63Dwl)

157 Monk’s last episode was almost 15 years ago. Still holds up.

Posted by: Drive by at December 18, 2023 05:47 PM (MNhXM)

158 141 >>> I've seen two very recent BBC series where a character calls someone "Columbo" as in "Really, Columbo?" making me wonder if someone on British TV has started running the 1970's Columbo and it's a hit.

it's a worldwide hit. i've seen episodes dubbed into German.
Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:43 PM (KRtlO)

Hogan's Heroes was also a big hit in Germany... weird.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2023 05:47 PM (xaFKb)

159 Breaking: Kang (Jonathan Majors) officially fired by Disney AND Avengers Kang Dynasty renamed Avengers 5 (yeah, that won't stay)...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 18, 2023 05:48 PM (exHjb)

160 Monk was depressing, psych and burn notice were better, and are now

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:48 PM (Bo0wh)

161 157 Monk’s last episode was almost 15 years ago. Still holds up.
Posted by: Drive by at December 18, 2023 05:47 PM (MNhXM)

There is talk of doing a Monk movie soon.... according to the original actor.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2023 05:48 PM (xaFKb)

162 82 Fringe is really good!
Posted by: BlackOrchid

Yes, yes it was. The last season was a bit rushed and uneven but overall, a very good and creepy little show. Had no idea that Joshua Jackson could act.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 18, 2023 05:48 PM (sAmhv)

163 Afternoon.

Deadline is reporting Majors has been fired by Disney.

Jeez, guys, what did you expect when you hired a thug?

Guess Disney will either have to completely retool the next Avengers movie (Majors was the main villain) or recast.

Hire a white guy. They're usually a little smarter when it comes to beating their women.

Posted by: Robert at December 18, 2023 05:49 PM (1Yy3c)

164 it's a worldwide hit. i've seen episodes dubbed into German.
Posted by: ace
------
Und noch etwas...

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 05:49 PM (2yu8s)

165 150

That's interesting, I'm actually surprised he privately had such a skeptical take on everything. It sort of reminds of Conservative Inc.

Posted by: Blago at December 18, 2023 05:49 PM (Sf+m/)

166 Hogan's Heroes was also a big hit in Germany... weird.
Posted by: Romeo13

Ich sehe nichts!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 05:49 PM (qoGsy)

167 There is talk of doing a Monk movie soon.... according to the original actor.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2023 05:48 PM (xaFKb)

It should have been done during Covid. Monk solves the crime without leaving his apartment via Zoom.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 05:49 PM (VbW3c)

168 >>Magnum PI.

A-Team, no.
Hardcastle and McCormick? Probably not.
Riptide? (laughs)
Scarecrow and Mrs King? Maybe.

Spenser For Hire did a a lot of filming right around the corner from my old place in Boston. Spenser supposedly lived on Marlborough Street in a place almost directly behind my old building. That was a major pain in the ass. They would block off a large amount of the sidewalk and street for a day or two to get a 2 minute shot.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 05:49 PM (ZLI7S)

169 There is talk of doing a Monk movie soon.... according to the original actor.
Posted by: R

They are trying to get some of that sad depressing psych movie business?

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:49 PM (Bo0wh)

170 "Millennium" was a good one back in the day, for sure. And yes, it did kind of lose its way as time went by.

That said, the episode entitled "Demons" is worth watching even today.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 18, 2023 05:49 PM (kc18b)

171 On the Breaking - Disney probably waited to invoke the morality clause of their contracts b/c they crazily were gonna pay Jonathan Majors $20M for Kang Dynasty...so they decided waiting til the clause was unimpeachable was the play. I think they chose wrong - all year, his stink has hung over all the MCU projects...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 18, 2023 05:50 PM (exHjb)

172 Had to go look... Due South was early 90's... liked that one.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2023 05:44 PM (xaFKb)

First two seasons. I heard the third was absolute shit.

Victoria.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:50 PM (di6C2)

173 >>> I've seen two very recent BBC series where a character calls someone "Columbo" as in "Really, Columbo?" making me wonder if someone on British TV has started running the 1970's Columbo and it's a hit.

it's a worldwide hit. i've seen episodes dubbed into German.

That is the best TV show ever

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:51 PM (Bo0wh)

174 Falcon Crest FTW!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 18, 2023 05:51 PM (9yWhg)

175 Thinking back to 80's tv shows, I'm going to keep saying the X Files was good TV. Before the X Files you had shit like 'Mama's Family' and MacGyver and The A-Team where no one ever got shot.

The Golden Girls? Mister Belvedere? There was a lot of crap on back in the 80's

You had Magnum PI and Spencer for Hire but those were anchored by very charismatic lead actors. Most TV was crap.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at December 18, 2023 05:51 PM (xcxpd)

176 Art came up from nothing. Got rich off of that show. He had the late night locked up on AM radio. Too bad he was a chain smoker. I think Art, as a Catholic, believed the religious shows he put on, like the interviews with the exorcist priests and such. Everything else was show biz.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 18, 2023 05:51 PM (MeG8a)

177 Lance Henriksen rarely disappoints, well, AvP was pretty bad material to work with.

But who else could have delivered this line with a straight face

"That guy Silberman cracks me up, last weekend this guy burned his Afghan, he screwed it first, then he set it on fire..."

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 05:52 PM (VbW3c)

178 174 Falcon Crest FTW

Again intro is great, show garbage.

Same for dallas and dynasty

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:52 PM (Bo0wh)

179 it's a worldwide hit. i've seen episodes dubbed into German.
Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:43 PM (KRtlO)

Hogan's Heroes was also a big hit in Germany... weird.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2023 05:47 PM (xaFKb)

Hmm wonder what they did with the swastikas. The symbol is illegal there so wargames had to invent a new German symbol for WWII to sell there.

But otherwise I can see it - there's Germans in the underground helping the allies, the bad Germans look incompetent and are defeated but nothing bad happens to anyone on screen.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 05:52 PM (eoQWY)

180 I'd rather watch the A-Team than X-Files, that's for sure. Guns, explosions, and the babe of the week. Interesting characters that do good deeds. For a while there it seemed like the actors were having a good time.

Posted by: fd must be dreaming at December 18, 2023 05:52 PM (vFG9F)

181 What has all the Disney, and Big Three, and numerous other corporate adventures taught me ?

That we need to seriously re-think the relationship, protections, and laws regarding corporations. Becaus they do not, in practice, behave in the manner taught in public schools up and through the eighties.

Corporations are not, by necessity, capitalist. Lets stop lying to each other about that.

Posted by: What Is Your Complaint at December 18, 2023 05:53 PM (COhMk)

182 Fringe is amusing despite the magic cortexifam. Which sounds like a shoe polish.

Eureka is fun but a little childish.

Posted by: DaveA at December 18, 2023 05:53 PM (FhXTo)

183 "Star Trek Enterprise."

That was the series that turned me off of Star Trek.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 18, 2023 05:53 PM (ou9hh)

184 183 "Star Trek Enterprise."

That was the series that turned me off of Star Trek.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 18, 2023 05:53 PM (ou9hh)

TOS. That is all.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:54 PM (di6C2)

185 Somewhat related:

Critical Drinker has a new video on YouTube explaining why we'll never have another Lord of the Rings made.

It's an excellent overview of everything done right in those films.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 18, 2023 05:54 PM (JeYYB)

186 "Star Trek Enterprise."

That was the series that turned me off of Star Trek.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 18, 2023 05:53 PM (ou9hh)

I watched half the first season and went Nah, but my brother was a fan and swore it got better with the Temporal War.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 05:55 PM (VbW3c)

187 Fraiser is great even now, cheers, garbage

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:55 PM (Bo0wh)

188 I watched half the first season and went Nah, but my brother was a fan and swore it got better with the Temporal War.

Sure, but who has time for that?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 18, 2023 05:56 PM (dZVON)

189 I still laugh at Barney Miller.

Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 18, 2023 05:56 PM (miT2W)

190 I'd rather watch the A-Team than X-Files, that's for sure. Guns, explosions, and the babe of the week. Interesting characters that do good deeds. For a while there it seemed like the actors were having a good time.
Posted by: fd must be dreaming at December 18, 2023 05:52 PM (vFG9F)

Always liked the running joke that they had to drug Mr T because he hated/feared flying. And that he was the one welding and stuff on the contraptions during the montages.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 05:56 PM (eoQWY)

191 Art came up from nothing. Got rich off of that show. He had the late night locked up on AM radio. Too bad he was a chain smoker. I think Art, as a Catholic, believed the religious shows he put on, like the interviews with the exorcist priests and such. Everything else was show biz.
Posted by: gourmand du jour
____

Also reminds me of Matt Drudge. I just ASSumed he was a true believer, but I guess it was all about the Benjamins.

Truthfully, if Art Bell really believed in most of what his guests were selling, he really would be insane. Most of them were crazy. But he did have more "serious" topics, sort of like what Joe Rogan has done.

Posted by: Blago at December 18, 2023 05:57 PM (Sf+m/)

192 By the way, ford dealership service sucks as much as 80s tv

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 05:57 PM (Bo0wh)

193 That was a major pain in the ass. They would block off a large amount of the sidewalk and street for a day or two to get a 2 minute shot.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 05:49 PM (ZLI7S)
~~~~~

The chase scene in the movie "The Seven Ups" was filmed around my grammar school on 96th Street between Amsterdam Ave. and West End Ave. It's a very busy street and was closed for many hours a day for about a week. Funny thing is that when you watch the scene in the movie, it lasts a couple of minutes and it looks like they were driving all around Manhattan. But if you knew the area it was easy to see that all the shots were of 96th St., with just different camera angles.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 18, 2023 05:58 PM (5GDFY)

194 Sure, but who has time for that?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 18, 2023 05:56 PM (dZVON)

Apparently the Vulcan chick went Pon Farr on the Engineering Chief after I quit watching.

I have to say that I would have watched that part.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 05:58 PM (VbW3c)

195 I watched Bones for awhile when they showed repeats. Sometimes you just need to know when to end a show.

Speaking of, I highly recommend the Australian show Mr In Between . The creator purposely started out that there would only be 3 seasons. Went out on a high note though I would have liked 4 seasons.

Posted by: Drive by at December 18, 2023 05:58 PM (MNhXM)

196 >>> What the fuck. There’s jizz on my desk
Posted by: Amy Klobuchar

Ass juice. Definitely ass juice.

Posted by: Miss Lindsey at December 18, 2023 05:58 PM (cOq4q)

197 I suppose to a 20 year old, the settings for the A-Team and Hogan's Heroes are so far in the past they might as well have happened at the same time. No cell phones and Internet puts them in the Before Time.

Posted by: fd must be dreaming at December 18, 2023 05:58 PM (vFG9F)

198
No news? Miss France seems Ace worthy.

My take? It's not the hair style, she's scrawny as hell. Like 90# Karen Carpenter level. Seems to not actually be French but from some island somewhere the French stole.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 18, 2023 05:59 PM (enJYY)

199 Somewhat related:

Critical Drinker has a new video on YouTube explaining why we'll never have another Lord of the Rings made.

It's an excellent overview of everything done right in those films.
Posted by: Seems Legit at December 18, 2023 05:54 PM (JeYYB)

20th anniversary of ROTK this year.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 05:59 PM (eoQWY)

200 More like Theranos-level threat.

Posted by: scottst at December 18, 2023 05:59 PM (ojBxe)

201 I was reading something about Barney Miller being the closest depiction on TV to an actual Police Precinct. That amused me. Great show.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 18, 2023 05:59 PM (sAmhv)

202 What the fuck. There’s jizz on my desk
Posted by: Amy Klobuchar

Are there pubes in your cok too?

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 06:00 PM (Bo0wh)

203 I bailed on The Next Degeneration even before Worf and Troy started getting it on. Barf. What a stupid show.

Posted by: fd must be dreaming at December 18, 2023 06:00 PM (vFG9F)

204 Quite a few of the 80s Twilight Zone segments were pretty good (Harlan Ellison's "Shatterday" with Bruce Willis, for instance). But for my taste, series television started heading downhill when David Janssen died.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 18, 2023 06:00 PM (a/4+U)

205 1980's Prime Time schedules:
https://tinyurl.com/4h9v23ah

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 06:00 PM (2yu8s)

206 Good thing this crap isn't all caps. Have some decency!

Posted by: 80's music fan at December 18, 2023 06:01 PM (as3uC)

207 A friend who was in the army and stationed in Germany said "Hogan's Heroes" was indeed a hit there.

Colonel Klink had a Prussian accent, Schultz had, I think, a Bavarian accent. You could make a case that the main German characters were pretty decent people just trying to make it through the war, so I guess it wasn't too uncomfortable for my friend to watch it with his GF's family.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at December 18, 2023 06:01 PM (brrec)

208 Here's some news on a slow news day. A smoking gun proving that the NIH was funding the work on bat coronaviruses in the Wuhan lab. Seems pretty big.

https://tinyurl.com/5cn846ek

Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 06:01 PM (ZLI7S)

209 Fwiw, I'm defense of 80s tv, nearly everything's garbage, just a few works from every era are worth remembering

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 06:01 PM (Bo0wh)

210 Abe Vigoda was 53 when Barney Miller started. He's a Wilford Brimley.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 06:01 PM (VbW3c)

211 Who notices another log on the fire?

There's an idea! Kind of wondering about fryingpans too

Posted by: Amber! at December 18, 2023 06:02 PM (hSwza)

212 No news? Miss France seems Ace worthy.

My take? It's not the hair style, she's scrawny as hell. Like 90# Karen Carpenter level. Seems to not actually be French but from some island somewhere the French stole.
Posted by: Divide by ZeroNo news? Miss France seems Ace worthy.

My take? It's not the hair style, she's scrawny as hell. Like 90# Karen Carpenter level. Seems to not actually be French but from some island somewhere the French stole.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

She's an actual Pixie.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 18, 2023 06:02 PM (cOq4q)

213 What the fuck. There’s jizz on my desk
Posted by: Amy Klobuchar at December 18, 2023 05:16 PM (V/pbu)

Shit, too, most likely.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 18, 2023 06:02 PM (LkDH+)

214 Apparently the Vulcan chick went Pon Farr on the Engineering Chief after I quit watching.
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Once you've had Cracker, you'll never go backer!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 06:02 PM (2yu8s)

215 So the girlfriend beater, who beat his ex so badly she was hurt for days and needed hospital attention, is at his criminal trial for beating his ex with a new girlfriend. Seriously: ladies of the world, you gotta wise the fuck up and stop enabling and coddling violent psychopaths. I’m really out of sympathy for girls getting beaten by boyfriends they knew were abusive when they started the relationship ….

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 18, 2023 06:02 PM (lb2PL)

216 T'Pol was hot is those tight cat suits

Posted by: Archer at December 18, 2023 06:02 PM (gmo/4)

217 I bailed on The Next Degeneration even before Worf and Troy started getting it on.

Captain Janeway would like a word. I remember pissing my wife off at the time by saying "this is why brass in 'Nam got fragged now and then".

Posted by: What Is Your Complaint at December 18, 2023 06:03 PM (COhMk)

218 Saw Miyazaki's new movie, "The Boy and the Heron" over the weekend.

It's not very good, I'm sad to say. More of a philosophical lecture regarding how when terrible things happen you can't restore what was lost. You just need to move forward and built the best life you can. He tried to apply this not only to individuals but also the post-WWII nation of Japan.

But, he doesn't really tell this as a strong story, instead it's an incoherent mess some of the old Miyazaki magic is there but not nearly enough. You will be checking your watch.

Sadly, Miyazaki forgot his greatest strength, storytelling in order to deliver his message in his final movie.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 18, 2023 06:03 PM (oHSRY)

219 186 "Star Trek Enterprise."

That was the series that turned me off of Star Trek.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 18, 2023 05:53 PM (ou9hh)

I watched half the first season and went Nah, but my brother was a fan and swore it got better with the Temporal War.

i was hangin' with it until that episode where there were phasers mounted on stukas.

Posted by: anachronda at December 18, 2023 06:03 PM (oY6Yp)

220 THE ARISTOCATS!
Posted by: Just the Punchline at December 18, 2023 05:30 PM

I wonder if anyone has wanted to stream Disney's The Aristocats for the kids and instead streamed The Aristocrats by mistake

Posted by: Chuck C at December 18, 2023 06:03 PM (xttsV)

221 So the girlfriend beater, who beat his ex so badly she was hurt for days and needed hospital attention, is at his criminal trial for beating his ex with a new girlfriend. Seriously: ladies of the world, you gotta wise the fuck up and stop enabling and coddling violent psychopaths. I’m really out of sympathy for girls getting beaten by boyfriends they knew were abusive when they started the relationship ….

Dude, there are two sides to every story

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 06:04 PM (Bo0wh)

222 I suppose to a 20 year old, the settings for the A-Team and Hogan's Heroes are so far in the past they might as well have happened at the same time. No cell phones and Internet puts them in the Before Time.
Posted by: fd must be dreaming at December 18, 2023 05:58 PM (vFG9F)

Yes the Vietnam links for A Team and Magnum left you with a lot of unexplained years to deal with without much adjustment, especially in the later part of Magnum when they introduced a woman he was involved in there in the latter 80s close to 20 years down the line.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 06:04 PM (eoQWY)

223 Interesting... Due South is available on U tube for free...

Know what I'm bingin on..

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 18, 2023 06:04 PM (xaFKb)

224 I missed the end of the last thread, but I think the reason that right minded people kept their guns in the safes in 2020 was this. We still thought there would be a legal challenge accepted by some court, somewhere.
Now we know there won't be.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 18, 2023 06:04 PM (MeG8a)

225 I’m really out of sympathy for girls getting beaten by boyfriends they knew were abusive when they started the relationship ….

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 18, 2023 06:02 PM (lb2PL)

All I can sway is that it runs both ways fellas - sticking your dick into crazy chicks.

Posted by: Archer at December 18, 2023 06:04 PM (gmo/4)

226 Captain Janeway would like a word. I remember pissing my wife off at the time by saying "this is why brass in 'Nam got fragged now and then".
Posted by: What Is Your Complaint at December 18, 2023 06:03 PM (COhMk)

I swear, Janeway longed for death. That woman need a good shagging from Chakotay.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 06:04 PM (VbW3c)

227 210 Abe Vigoda was 53 when Barney Miller started. He's a Wilford Brimley.

yeah. one of my crises was when i realized i was as old as fish. that was a few years ago.

Posted by: anachronda at December 18, 2023 06:05 PM (oY6Yp)

228 Disney Planning a Woke Reboot of the X-Files

------------

Out: The Cigarette-Smoking Man.
In: The Genocide-Stoking Trans.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 18, 2023 06:05 PM (l+VoF)

229 >>The chase scene in the movie "The Seven Ups" was filmed around my grammar school on 96th Street between Amsterdam Ave. and West End Ave. It's a very busy street and was closed for many hours a day for about a week. Funny thing is that when you watch the scene in the movie, it lasts a couple of minutes and it looks like they were driving all around Manhattan. But if you knew the area it was easy to see that all the shots were of 96th St., with just different camera angles.

I don't know if you remember the show Banachek with George Peppard but that was filmed in and around Boston. They did some filming in the town where I went to high school for one episode. The rented a storefront in a pretty upscale strip mall and turned it into a laundramt without telling anyone.

The meltdown that caused with the snooty women in town was a riot. A laundromat next to Ann Taylor!

Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 06:05 PM (ZLI7S)

230 All I can sway? Sounds like I've been drinking...

Posted by: Archer at December 18, 2023 06:06 PM (gmo/4)

231 Cruise is older in MI:4 than Brimley was in Cocoon.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 06:06 PM (VbW3c)

232 Was watching a Nerdrotic vid which said that Warner Bros is on the brink of bankruptcy. They had the Harry Potter franchise and several other money makers, but the recent failures make it a mess. I can't get upset given the woke virus impacting everything these days.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 18, 2023 06:06 PM (NcL9g)

233 So the girlfriend beater, who beat his ex so badly she was hurt for days and needed hospital attention, is at his criminal trial for beating his ex with a new girlfriend. Seriously: ladies of the world, you gotta wise the fuck up and stop enabling and coddling violent psychopaths. I’m really out of sympathy for girls getting beaten by boyfriends they knew were abusive when they started the relationship ….

------------------------------

Women are hardwired to be attracted to someone who can protect them against the world's dangers. The less you teach them to be practical and sensible the more this comes out.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 06:07 PM (eoQWY)

234 Vigoda and Brimley were born old.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 06:07 PM (VbW3c)

235 Is the new season of Reacher any good? The finale of the first season was so bad that I don't have much hope.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 18, 2023 06:07 PM (Dm8we)

236 I don't know if you remember the show Banachek with George Peppard but that was filmed in and around Boston. They did some filming in the town where I went to high school for one episode. The rented a storefront in a pretty upscale strip mall and turned it into a laundramt without telling anyone.

The meltdown that caused with the snooty women in town was a riot. A laundromat next to Ann Taylor!

That was a great show. He did not do more because he did not want to have $ to give to the wife he was divorcing.

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 06:07 PM (Bo0wh)

237 I’m really out of sympathy for girls getting beaten by boyfriends they knew were abusive when they started the relationship ….

Posted by: Elric Blade
___

I honestly think in modern times, more men are being abused by women than the other way around.

I know we're told men are smacking women around all the time, I think it's pretty rare.

Posted by: Blago at December 18, 2023 06:07 PM (Sf+m/)

238 "A friend who was in the army and stationed in Germany said "Hogan's Heroes" was indeed a hit there."

The shame is part of the klink?

Posted by: fd must be dreaming at December 18, 2023 06:09 PM (vFG9F)

239 More news. Joe Biden is a complete scumbag. Well, not news I guess.

@mirandadevine

Breaking: 🚨 James Biden’s business partner, Michael Lewitt, pulled money belonging to elderly Americans from an investment fund and “transmitted it to Americore, which turned around and paid James Biden. James Biden on the same day cut a check to Joe Biden for the exact same amount as James Biden received from Americore.” Per
@GOPoversight
transcribed Interview with Carol Fox, U.S. Trustee for Americore’s Chapter 11 proceedings.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 06:09 PM (ZLI7S)

240 Not tv related but Tiger Woods is looking way beyond his 47 years . Chasing tail and doing prescription drugs has taken its toil. His 14 year old son can crush the ball like his old man used to.

Posted by: Drive by at December 18, 2023 06:09 PM (MNhXM)

241 Abe Vigoda is at the top of the blow-up-a-bathroom list. Only woman to make the list is Marge Schott.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 18, 2023 06:10 PM (Dm8we)

242 I don't know if you remember the show Banachek with George Peppard but that was filmed in and around Boston. They did some filming in the town where I went to high school for one episode. The rented a storefront in a pretty upscale strip mall and turned it into a laundramt without telling anyone.

The meltdown that caused with the snooty women in town was a riot. A laundromat next to Ann Taylor!
Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 06:05 PM (ZLI7S)

That became a thing (in reruns) in the college dorms because of the clever means the baddies used to pull off the heist. I remember one where they 'stole' something by dropping a container box over it with a crane and leaving it on site until they could move it out later.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 06:10 PM (eoQWY)

243 Biff Pocoroba

Watched 3 episodes of season 2.
I thought it was pretty friggen good.
But then, I liked the first season.

Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at December 18, 2023 06:10 PM (VMFAF)

244 Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 18, 2023 06:06 PM (NcL9g)

Didn’t they have Barbie?

Posted by: Drive by at December 18, 2023 06:11 PM (MNhXM)

245 The meltdown that caused with the snooty women in town was a riot. A laundromat next to Ann Taylor!
Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 06:05 PM (ZLI7S)
~~~~~

I believe it! LOL

When you live in a place like NYC or Boston, seeing movies or TV shows being filmed is fairly common. And it's even more common for locals to be very annoyed at the inconvenience (when they're not trying to get themselves into one of the shots!)

Posted by: IrishEi at December 18, 2023 06:12 PM (5GDFY)

246 I used to like Hill Street Blues. Somehow I doubt it again well.

Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 18, 2023 06:12 PM (miT2W)

247 THESE PRETZELS ARE MAKING ME THIRSTY!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 06:12 PM (VbW3c)

248 "Women are hardwired to be attracted to someone who can protect them against the world's dangers. "

People always forget to follow up with the caveat "Including himself"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 18, 2023 06:12 PM (ou9hh)

249 I liked the first 5-6 seasons of the X-Files. My interest tailed off after that.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 18, 2023 05:46 PM (sAmhv)

Yeah it got boring, plus the first 5 seasons were filmed in Vancouver which gave a different visual vibe to the location shooting, dark and odd. It went to LA in season 6 and started looking like dick.

Posted by: Marcus Gravey at December 18, 2023 06:12 PM (TIizU)

250 I honestly think in modern times, more men are being abused by women than the other way around.

I know we're told men are smacking women around all the time, I think it's pretty rare.
Posted by: Blago at December 18, 2023 06:07 PM (Sf+m/)

Most abusive relations are reciprocal - each whaps on the other. Heard a stat that even when the man hits a woman some 70 percent of the time the woman hit, or verbally abused initially.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 06:13 PM (eoQWY)

251
There's some new vaccine for pneumonia. Side effect? Hostility.

Ask me how I know or why I looked it up. Actually, don't bother, I've said all I'm gonna say.

How the pharmaceutical industry gets away with this shit is amazing. Why the tort lawyers aren't all over the pharmaceutical industry is the bigger story.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 18, 2023 06:13 PM (enJYY)

252 Is it asking too much for a third entertainment post in a row today? Come on Ace, make it rain...

FAMOUS FUR HATS
HOLLYWOOD GETS FUZZY FOR THE HOLIDAYS
https://tinyurl.com/fcczp9d8

Posted by: lost in space at December 18, 2023 06:13 PM (tyY91)

253 They filmed a movie downtown near here because of the historic buildings and blew the front off one. Oopsie.

Posted by: fd must be dreaming at December 18, 2023 06:13 PM (vFG9F)

254 In Manhattan when they are doing movie scenes, the routinely tow cars off the street and randomly redistribute the cars to side streets so they are not in the way

They meaning the nypd

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 06:14 PM (Bo0wh)

255 They were filming a movie on the Allman Brothers down by the railroad tracks and someone got run over by a train. Oopsie again.

Posted by: fd must be dreaming at December 18, 2023 06:14 PM (vFG9F)

256 "the routinely tow cars off the street and randomly redistribute the cars to side streets so they are not in the way

They meaning the nypd"

I wonder how many subsequent calls they get about people's cars having been stolen?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 18, 2023 06:15 PM (ou9hh)

257 The Alabama Gulf Coast has films made here all the time. The opening of The Map of Tiny Things, or something like that, is mostly filmed in my little town.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 06:15 PM (VbW3c)

258 Disney's total revenue 2033 is 89 billion

Posted by: Paul at December 18, 2023 06:16 PM (0G2Xo)

259 I would rather watch the new and exciting videos coming from Senate Movie Productions than any crapola from Disney.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 18, 2023 06:16 PM (R/m4+)

260 For Babylon 5 fans, they've just announced a more or less complete set of episodes and movies on blu-ray for $99.99.

That seems pretty reasonable to me given the number of discs

Posted by: naturalfake at December 18, 2023 06:16 PM (oHSRY)

261 Wilford Brimley > Will Geer.

Posted by: Eromero at December 18, 2023 06:16 PM (NxC5+)

262 It used to be mostly Direct to Video stuff but now we have major movies filmed here.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 06:16 PM (VbW3c)

263 I wonder how many subsequent calls they get about people's cars having been stolen?
Posted by: F

They have notices posted before and after explaining what is happening. The bitch is that if you do not move your car you have to wander around to find it.

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 06:16 PM (Bo0wh)

264 Disney's total revenue 2033 is 89 billion
Posted by: Paul at December 18, 2023 06:16 PM (0G2Xo)

So subtracting out the cocaine supply, 9 billion.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 06:16 PM (eoQWY)

265 Shut up, Dunce.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 06:16 PM (VbW3c)

266 A lot of men still beat the shit out of women and worse. There are at least 3 shootings of a wife or girlfriend every month in my city . I’d break it down by race but probably not necessary.

Posted by: Drive by at December 18, 2023 06:17 PM (MNhXM)

267 [Kang] is at his criminal trial for beating his ex with a new girlfriend

Yeah, you gotta have a lot of room space to manage that

Posted by: Jonathan Majors at December 18, 2023 06:17 PM (hSwza)

268 Breaking911 @Breaking911 48m
BREAKING: Texas Governor signs law allowing police officers to arrest migrants who cross the border illegally

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 06:17 PM (2yu8s)

269 I liked the first 5-6 seasons of the X-Files. My interest tailed off after that.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 18, 2023 05:46 PM (sAmhv)

How about this episode of X-Files? We should have paid closer attention back then:

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/
1603512101485805569

Posted by: IrishEi at December 18, 2023 06:18 PM (5GDFY)

270 it's a slow news day

How can you say it's a slow news day? The east coast got rain yesterday! It may turn to snow! In December!! It might've been a tropical storm, or a bomb cyclone, or a nor'easter, but it's not, it's rain!! Or snow! RED ALERT!!!11!
--CBS NYC weather girl on YT.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 18, 2023 06:18 PM (Rbu5d)

271 Paul is a hell of a prognosticator. 2033 , really

Posted by: Ben Had at December 18, 2023 06:18 PM (DRUcF)

272 >>When you live in a place like NYC or Boston, seeing movies or TV shows being filmed is fairly common. And it's even more common for locals to be very annoyed at the inconvenience (when they're not trying to get themselves into one of the shots!)

A few kids from my high school are in one of the opening scenes in Jaws. They put up a sign looking for extras for the scene where they were getting off the ferry in Amity (Martha's Vineyard). No pay and no credit but they did get a free ferry ride.

Had I known the movie was going to do that well I might have gone. It could have been my big break into Hollywood.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 06:18 PM (ZLI7S)

273 All I can sway is that it runs both ways fellas - sticking your dick into crazy chicks.

Posted by: Archer

Guilty - in Army days crazy tried to stab me. Disarmed her... divorced, etc.
A few years later some AF SGT called me. Building a case for divorce... She stabbed him. I laughed and said "She'd TRIED to stab me too. Zoomies not so good at hand-to-hand combat."
That was twenty+ years ago.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 18, 2023 06:18 PM (cOq4q)

274 I was an extra in one bad movie but I ended up on the cutting room floor.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 06:18 PM (VbW3c)

275 My neighborhood was used in a movie a while back. What a pain in the a**. Towed all the cars, I couldn't leave my house. Replaced all the cars with period cars (that was cool). My house appears in the movie for about a second.
But, I got paid.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 18, 2023 06:19 PM (MeG8a)

276 Prolapse Paul!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 18, 2023 06:19 PM (R4t5M)

277 Breaking911 @Breaking911 36m
Officials: Vats of Jalapeño Paste Contained Narcotics Worth $10 Million breaking911.com/officials-va…
OTAY MESA, Calif., – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Otay Mesa Cargo Facility discovered over $10 million worth of hard narcotics hidden in a shipment of jalapeno paste yesterday....

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 06:19 PM (2yu8s)

278 In Manhattan when they are doing movie scenes, the routinely tow cars off the street and randomly redistribute the cars to side streets so they are not in the way
They meaning the nypd
Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 06:14 PM (Bo0wh)
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Yes, cars are towed. However, notices are put up days in advance telling people where not to park.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 18, 2023 06:20 PM (5GDFY)

279 235 Is the new season of Reacher any good? The finale of the first season was so bad that I don't have much hope.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 18, 2023 06:07 PM (Dm8we)

The first three episodes are pretty damn good.

-better dynamic with a team of characters.

-smoking brunette

-I like the set up better and story idea

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 06:20 PM (di6C2)

280 Gung Ho was filmed the next town over. Fun flick with Michael Keaton.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 18, 2023 06:20 PM (R4t5M)

281 "BREAKING: Texas Governor signs law allowing police officers to arrest migrants who cross the border illegally
Posted by: andycanuck"

What are they going to do with them after they are arrested? I hope there is a provision for trebuchets.

Posted by: fd must having a nightmare at December 18, 2023 06:20 PM (vFG9F)

282
Disney's total revenue 2033 is 89 billion

Posted by: Paul at December 18, 2023 06:16 PM

How prescient, you dumb ass.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 18, 2023 06:20 PM (enJYY)

283 Jonathan Majors
Don't know who this guy is, liked him up.
Oh.
Did you know he went to... wait for it...apoison ivy league school?
Yep, he's a Yalie.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 18, 2023 06:20 PM (Rbu5d)

284 A few kids from my high school are in one of the opening scenes in Jaws.

My HS band is in Jaws:2. One of my friends was on a boat at the end and was supposed to have a speaking part but his drawl could not be made into a Yankee tongue.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 06:21 PM (VbW3c)

285 Farm near my house was used for one of the opening scenes in Kingpins. Woody Harrelson flick.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 18, 2023 06:21 PM (R4t5M)

286 I do not mean she was a brunette who smokes, but that she is very hot

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 06:21 PM (di6C2)

287 @244 yup they did have e Barbie. Unbelievably they are still going broke

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 18, 2023 06:21 PM (NcL9g)

288 I do not mean she was a brunette who smokes, but that she is very hot
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 06:21 PM (di6C2)

Better send her to a doctor if she's running a high fever.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 06:22 PM (eoQWY)

289 Had I known the movie was going to do that well I might have gone. It could have been my big break into Hollywood.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 18, 2023 06:18 PM (ZLI7S)
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Hah! Not likely. I got my big break on Candid Camera and all I got was $15. Made more as an extra in Ring Ding commercials (~$30)

Posted by: IrishEi at December 18, 2023 06:23 PM (5GDFY)

290 There was a batman filmed by our building and the batmobil was driving around for some time.

Would be out walking the dogs and the batmobil would just drive by

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 06:23 PM (Bo0wh)

291 I was an extra in one bad movie but I ended up on the cutting room floor.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

I'm in the (far) background in the bar scene in The Deer Hunter. No pay but free lunch and beer. That was real beer we were drinking.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 18, 2023 06:23 PM (qoGsy)

292 Better send her to a doctor if she's running a high fever.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 18, 2023 06:22 PM (eoQWY)

https://tinyurl.com/44rtwb5h

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 06:24 PM (di6C2)

293 Ah, Paul discovers the joys of inflation.

Disney profit margins since 2010:
https://tinyurl.com/mt9juxhb

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 06:24 PM (2yu8s)

294 I do not mean she was a brunette who smokes, but that she is very hot
Posted by: Aetius451AD
_______

That Willa chick from the first season was hot. Eyes too far apart, but hot.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 18, 2023 06:24 PM (Dm8we)

295 234 Vigoda and Brimley were born old.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

and Charles Bronson.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 18, 2023 06:25 PM (sAmhv)

296 Gonna go wrap gifts. I'm determined to finish everything BEFORE Christmas Eve.

I say that every year...

Posted by: IrishEi at December 18, 2023 06:25 PM (5GDFY)

297 and Charles Bronson.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 18, 2023 06:25 PM (sAmhv)

I'm old enough to remember when Bronson didn't squint.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 06:25 PM (VbW3c)

298 >>>I swear, Janeway longed for death. That woman need a good shagging from Chakotay.

Posted by: G'rump928(c)
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She needed to be fired and replaced by a woman.

Posted by: Braenyard at December 18, 2023 06:26 PM (aUim1)

299 nood Quick Hits

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 18, 2023 06:27 PM (2yu8s)

300 "BREAKING: Texas Governor signs law allowing police officers to arrest migrants who cross the border illegally
Posted by: andycanuck"

What are they going to do with them after they are arrested? I hope there is a provision for trebuchets.
Posted by: fd must having a nightmare at December 18, 2023 06:20 PM (vFG9F)

---------

Out: Chain Gangs.
In: Chain Migration Gangs.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 18, 2023 06:27 PM (ZRODl)

301 My mom was in a couple of the crowds in Mars Attacks.

Posted by: Axeman at December 18, 2023 06:27 PM (krQz2)

302 Deeds with Adam Sandler was filmed in a town (Deeds home town) we were living in in CT before we moved to South Dakota.

Terrible unfunny movie.

Posted by: Archer at December 18, 2023 06:27 PM (gmo/4)

303 209 Fwiw, I'm defense of 80s tv, nearly everything's garbage, just a few works from every era are worth remembering

Posted by: N at December 18, 2023 06:01 PM (Bo0wh)

Are ant 60s TV shows worth re-watching, or watching if you're under 29? All I can come up with is the Beverly Hillbillies, the first 3 or 4 seasons, the early years of Hawaii Five-0, and some of The Wild, Wild, West episodes.

On the utoob I've re-watched some episodes of Combat!, Rat Patrol, Twelve O'Clock High, Mannix, The Virginian, and others and they don't hold my interest. I'm sure I'm forgetting some good series.

Posted by: Gref at December 18, 2023 06:27 PM (5fDan)

304 218 Saw Miyazaki's new movie, "The Boy and the Heron" over the weekend.

It's not very good, I'm sad to say. More of a philosophical lecture regarding how when terrible things happen you can't restore what was lost. You just need to move forward and built the best life you can. He tried to apply this not only to individuals but also the post-WWII nation of Japan.

But, he doesn't really tell this as a strong story, instead it's an incoherent mess some of the old Miyazaki magic is there but not nearly enough. You will be checking your watch.

Sadly, Miyazaki forgot his greatest strength, storytelling in order to deliver his message in his final movie.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 18, 2023 06:03 PM (oHSRY)

I liked it. It was very much a fairy tale to me. You even have a male protagonist in this one and he's not a soy boi....he's also not perfect but he's got a strong sense of duty.

It is pretty close to being another fan letter to Imperial Japan though.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at December 18, 2023 06:27 PM (xcxpd)

305 Pitch meeting material: I won't do it. I'm taking a sabbatical. Later!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 18, 2023 06:27 PM (as3uC)

306 Mrs fd is freaked out by Jack Palance. Can't stand to look at him. It's cute.

Richard Boone was born old too. You have to wonder what they looked like as babies.

Posted by: fd must having a nightmare at December 18, 2023 06:28 PM (vFG9F)

307 I don't know. I do detect a small difference between this guy - whom I've never heard of - and Johnnie Depp. One which makes him much less liable to be found guilty. See if you can guess what it is.

A thought occurs to me. We need a bio pic of Zulu King Cetshwayo. The ideal leading man, nowadays, would be Michael Caine.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 18, 2023 06:28 PM (brAQZ)

308 My wife was an extra in the Spiderman where Willem Dafoe plays Green Goblin. You can see her a little bit in the scene where Green Goblin attacks a balcony.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 18, 2023 06:28 PM (lIio7)

309 I've seen two very recent BBC series where a character calls someone "Columbo" as in "Really, Columbo?" making me wonder if someone on British TV has started running the 1970's Columbo and it's a hit.

it's a worldwide hit. i've seen episodes dubbed into German.
Posted by: ace at December 18, 2023 05:43 PM (KRtlO)

Hogan's Heroes was also a big hit in Germany... weird.
Posted by: Romeo13
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Every year on Dec. 24 at 3 p.m., half of Sweden sits down in front of the television for a family viewing of the 1958 Walt Disney Presents Christmas special, “Donald Duck and his friends wish you a Merry Christmas.”

Perhaps Disney ought to try something like that...again.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2023 06:29 PM (XeU6L)

310 So...NOT the X Files.
The LGLMNOPQ Files.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 18, 2023 06:30 PM (Rbu5d)

311 How embarrassing to be dumped on a job over a dump.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 18, 2023 06:32 PM (Q4IgG)

312 303 Are ant 60s TV shows worth re-watching, or watching if you're under 29? All I can come up with is the Beverly Hillbillies, the first 3 or 4 seasons, the early years of Hawaii Five-0, and some of The Wild, Wild, West episodes.

*pouts*

Posted by: batman at December 18, 2023 06:34 PM (oY6Yp)

313 Farm near my house was used for one of the opening scenes in Kingpins. Woody Harrelson flick.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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Gas station down the street was used in a scene in 'Thunder Road'. I would say that it is still there, but, no stunt double was used in the film, and it was blowed up real good.

Quite a few movies have been filmed around here. When 'Last of the Mohican's' was filmed, there were extras all around town with Mohawk haircuts.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 18, 2023 06:36 PM (XeU6L)

314 Gref,

A lot of The Fugitive still holds up nicely. Quite a few Route 66 episodes ditto. The original Twilight Zone (look for the episodes written by Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont). The original Outer Limits. Quite a few of the Alfred Hitchcock Presents/Hour are worth a look and some of the Boris Karloff-hosted Thriller. Combat! was one of the few WWII shows that my father (82d Airborne vet of that war) could tolerate, and he watched regularly -- that one holds up too.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at December 18, 2023 06:36 PM (a/4+U)

315 That was Polanski's Fearless Vampire Hunters (Jewish vampire)

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 18, 2023 06:37 PM (L8hCM)

316 I watched half the first season and went Nah, but my brother was a fan and swore it got better with the Temporal War.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 18, 2023 05:55 PM (VbW3c)

The temporal war is what ruined it for me. Buh-bye.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 18, 2023 06:56 PM (Rbu5d)

317 I watched the movie when it came out...

It was all right, never got the point of the show.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 18, 2023 05:20 PM (di6C2)

The problem with the movie was you needed to watch the show to get the full experience. It was based on a lot of the subcurrent lore.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 18, 2023 07:06 PM (vehlZ)

318 On the utoob I've re-watched some episodes of Combat!, Rat Patrol, Twelve O'Clock High, Mannix, The Virginian, and others and they don't hold my interest. I'm sure I'm forgetting some good series.

Have Gun, Will Travel. The original anti-hero. I also really liked some episodes of High Chaparral.

Posted by: Nic of the Day at December 18, 2023 07:22 PM (COhMk)

319 Original X-Files was hot garbage. Fox Snooze lost all credibility by not supporting Conservatives.

Let them stew in their own feculence.

Posted by: setnaffa at December 18, 2023 09:17 PM (jeNdr)

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