“Double-extra whipped cream”
The Christmas Bow might be the most cloyingly sweet Hallmark holiday movie ever.
Mystery actor
A tough one.
Mystery actor
I’m surprised to see this actor in black and white.
Recently updated
A Bowery establishment makes yet another appearance in Naked City.
¿Quién es más confiable?
¿Joe Namath, o Tom Selleck?
Mystery actor
She’s best known as the co-owner of a Santa Monica aoartment complex.
Domestic comedy
The people on the news, it’s like we know them now.
Mystery actor
He may be best known for dancing in a Brooklyn apartment.
Mystery actor
This one’s tough.
Mystery actors
Do you recognize either actor? Both?
Just say no to interregnum
There is no throne. There is never not a president. And we don’t (yet) have a declaration of martial law.
Mystery actor
Recognize her?
Saturday night lineup
Is there a viewer anywhere who can name every current Saturday Night Live cast member?
Overheard
“This is a three-quarter-length child.”
Wha?
On The 11th Hour, Brian Williams just characterized Republican distancing from Donald Trump* as a Great Migration and “a family trip to Africa.”
A commercial to go with it
“A spray-tanned, drugged-up pitchman for Regeneron.” Now there’s a TV commercial. Or a “TV commercial.”
A concise description
“A spray-tanned, drugged-up pitchman for Regeneron”: on MSNBC, David Plouffe just offered this concise description of Donald Trump*.
An EXchange name sighting
From an episode of Naked City, Peter Falk and TEmpleton.
A modern “rec” room
One in a series of Motorola ads with artists’ renderings of futuristic abodes.
Back to Naked City
Escaping the news for an hour, finding out what we missed, and going back to Naked City.
*SIGH*
Today’s Peanuts makes me want to pop some corn and take out my stamp collection. Wait — what stamp collection?
Debate advice
C-SPAN’s split-screen.
Meta, they wrote
Where Jessica Fletcher goes, murder follows.
Misheard
“Don’t spend another sleepless night worrying about death.”
“My dear Mr. Cleaver”
Uh-oh, it’s a letter from the principal.
“Anthony! Anthony!”
I remember “Anthony! Anthony!” not so much from the commercial as from Bob and Ray’s radio repurposing of it.
Calamari on the beach
Many people found Rhode Island’s presentation delightful. But mileage varies. I found this bit deeply, unintentionally weird, in that low-budget-TV-commercial way.
Eugene Levy, honored
In these terrible times, I liked seeing this video with fellow actors paying tribute to Eugene Levy, recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Newport Beach Film Festival. And I went down an SCTV rabbithole.
Awkward
On Jeopardy a few minutes ago, someone answered a question about “Donald Trump’s second wife” with “Who is Ivanka Trump?”
Domestic comedy
“We have some new polling to show you, and it shows some trouble for the Trump campaign.” Followed by spontaneous applause from our four hands.