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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:54 UTC

Yeah it would been like Frasier before Frasier, just in a different key.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 05:23 UTC

Hesseman is the hippie prodigal son who moves home when their mom dies. Mull is the uptight son who cared for mom. The twist is mom had been caring for Hesseman’s estranged teen daughter. Over time, Mull becomes more like Hesseman and vice versa. Fred Willard recurs as wacky neighbor Patch.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 05:19 UTC

It’s a shame we did not get the Martín Mull-Howard Hesseman-as-brothers early 90s sitcom that we deserved.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 01:39 UTC

I saw it in the 80s and seem to remember (a) Travolta sleepwalking through it and (b) it not being very good overall.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 19:21 UTC

I watched about 5 minutes and am now 99% sure I never watched it (aside from clips and maybe a few minutes while flipping the channel). I was a little too old when it came out. But I am now 99% sure I saw the 1980 Return to Oz cartoon TV special with the Jack o' Lantern character.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 19:16 UTC

I read Tinderbox off and on for about a year. It was good stuff. The constant churn of executives was a little hard to follow, but the fun part was the real time regime change going on between the time I started and finished.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 16:05 UTC

“Opposable Thumbs” is on my nightstand. I’ve been saving it for a long flight this week.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 15:58 UTC

Yes! I also remember their particular hate for St. Elmo’s Fire but just not the words. The worst of the year show was usually the best show of the year.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 05:16 UTC

The pod was a fun listen, but the movie itself looks like a dark bummer. Hiding Out was bad but in a fun way.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 04:57 UTC

Yeah, but the two hours. I don’t want Siskel’s words haunting me on my deathbed.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 03:44 UTC

I have no memory of the actual movie, but I vividly remember the scathing (and now poignant) Siskel & Ebert review: Gene says if Roger comes to his funeral, he wants Roger to know his last thoughts would have been he wished his life had two more hours of happiness by not watching Return to Oz.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 23:57 UTC

These were great except the one time we let a couple younger siblings stay, the parents left, but they did not know how to swim, so I had two squirmy five year olds clinging to my back for two hours.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 01:35 UTC

The song of the summer is Eddie Vedder’s “Save It For Later” cover. Everyone over 40 will be blasting this from their 1992 Honda Prelude while cruising the beach parking lot.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 17:27 UTC

It's either this or one giant billboard that blocks out the best viewpoint.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 17:09 UTC

As a little kid, my sister loved buttermilk. When we got a treat at the grocery store, I'd get chocolate milk, and she'd get buttermilk. Then one day she was like "nope."

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 04:20 UTC

BEAR! BEAR! BEAR! BEAR! BEAR! BEAR! BEAR! BEAR! BEAR! BEAR! BEAR! BEAR!

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 23:47 UTC

The Royals might not be good or bad, but this is the most interesting they have been since Ned Yost fell out of a tree and made a cell phone commercial about it.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 05:33 UTC

Starting to think I did not need to camp out this early for Minions.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 23:26 UTC

And we are back to two 2015 Royals still active in the majors. One is easy. The other? Not so much.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 05:02 UTC

Holy crap I watched 30 minutes of this before being sent to bed. There was controversy on the playground the next day when one kid tried to claim there was actual nudity and others who watched it called him out.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 01:17 UTC

In junior high, we got “no stain” carpet that pretty much lived up to its name, but it would not repel dirt so it would quickly change from light gray to dark gray until the next steam cleaning.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 00:50 UTC

We moved into a house built in 1974, and it had a bathroom with pink shag carpeting and wallpaper with pink roses and shiny flecks of silver (kind of like foil wrapping paper). We ripped out the rug pretty quickly, but mom thought the wallpaper was classy and kept it until the full redo years later.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 21:26 UTC

Much like dinosaurs and feathers, experts now agree that most dragons had fur.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 19:50 UTC

Milwaukee, Toronto, San Francisco, and Texas too high; Washington, San Diego, and Angels too low.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 18:34 UTC

House of Dragon has become the equivalent of a solid "B-" Game of Thrones episode, but (1) at some point you need some fun characters and (2) avoid self-inflicted wounds where a lack of cohesion in visual storytelling (like the latest episode) leaves the viewer saying "WTF?" instead of "WTF!"

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 18:15 UTC

Johnny Rockets was my introduction to the evil practice of table service restaurants charging separately for fries with the burger. Screw Bennigan's too.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 02:14 UTC

I knew to keep it as heavy as possible, weighted at the front, and with a relatively flat design to prevent drag. Dad helped me solder fishing weights to the front undercarriage. WD40 on the axles was the coup de grace.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 21:21 UTC

Klaus Maria Brandauer’s smarm can carry a movie only so far.

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 20:52 UTC

According to Rotten Tomatoes, the Citizen Dick review was “fresh.”

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Gopherballs @gopherballs.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 20:32 UTC

Holy crap! This blew my mind. I am moderately offended because although mine looked exactly like that (with front and back reversed), I won the derby.

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