Currently watching.

[JennyB]

Speaking of old sitcoms....Everbody Loves Raymond still pops up on my screen quite regularly. I definitely don't love Raymond. I never loved Raymond.

But I love Phil Rosenthal (co-creator) and his show Everybody Feed Phil.

[Dr. Medulla]

3rd rock asides:
• French Stewart looks enough like Jello Biafra to have the inside track in a movie.
• Joseph Gordon Levitt seems like a genuinely decent guy, like a non-Hollywood-shithead kind of person.
• I can't find a clip on it online, but on the next-to-last season of Better Things, Matthew Broderick does an amazing one-word John Lithgow impression (the word: "Butterfly"). If you haven't seen it, you should watch Better Things anyway.

I agree with this post.

Even if I dislike the kids most of the time. Duke is mostly cool but Max and Frankie are infuriatingly terrible to their mom.

[JennyB]

3rd rock asides:
• French Stewart looks enough like Jello Biafra to have the inside track in a movie.
• Joseph Gordon Levitt seems like a genuinely decent guy, like a non-Hollywood-shithead kind of person.
• I can't find a clip on it online, but on the next-to-last season of Better Things, Matthew Broderick does an amazing one-word John Lithgow impression (the word: "Butterfly"). If you haven't seen it, you should watch Better Things anyway.

I agree with this post.

Even if I dislike the kids most of the time. Duke is mostly cool but Max and Frankie are infuriatingly terrible to their mom.

So awful. They are the worst kids since The Americans.

[Dr. Medulla]

3rd rock asides:
• French Stewart looks enough like Jello Biafra to have the inside track in a movie.
• Joseph Gordon Levitt seems like a genuinely decent guy, like a non-Hollywood-shithead kind of person.
• I can't find a clip on it online, but on the next-to-last season of Better Things, Matthew Broderick does an amazing one-word John Lithgow impression (the word: "Butterfly"). If you haven't seen it, you should watch Better Things anyway.

I agree with this post.

Even if I dislike the kids most of the time. Duke is mostly cool but Max and Frankie are infuriatingly terrible to their mom.

So awful. They are the worst kids since The Americans.

One thing we love about BT is that Sam is so damned much like our dear friend Michelle. Michelle doesn't have kids, but the way they each approach their lives and their mannerisms and speech is so damned eerie. So it's like watching an alternate universe where she got married/divorced and raised three kids.

[JennyB]

3rd rock asides:
• French Stewart looks enough like Jello Biafra to have the inside track in a movie.
• Joseph Gordon Levitt seems like a genuinely decent guy, like a non-Hollywood-shithead kind of person.
• I can't find a clip on it online, but on the next-to-last season of Better Things, Matthew Broderick does an amazing one-word John Lithgow impression (the word: "Butterfly"). If you haven't seen it, you should watch Better Things anyway.

I agree with this post.

Even if I dislike the kids most of the time. Duke is mostly cool but Max and Frankie are infuriatingly terrible to their mom.

So awful. They are the worst kids since The Americans.

One thing we love about BT is that Sam is so damned much like our dear friend Michelle. Michelle doesn't have kids, but the way they each approach their lives and their mannerisms and speech is so damned eerie. So it's like watching an alternate universe where she got married/divorced and raised three kids.

That's cool - it gives it an extra element of interest.

[tepista]

I guess I'm a couple years late to this party but I only just acquired HBO, anybody seen DOOM PATROL? 6 eps in, i fucking love it

[revbob]

I guess I'm a couple years late to this party but I only just acquired HBO, anybody seen DOOM PATROL? 6 eps in, i fucking love it

No I just assumed it sucked Ike all the rest of the DC super hero based sbows/movies.

[tepista]

I guess I'm a couple years late to this party but I only just acquired HBO, anybody seen DOOM PATROL? 6 eps in, i fucking love it

No I just assumed it sucked Ike all the rest of the DC super hero based sbows/movies.

This is the one that doesnt!

[revbob]

I guess I'm a couple years late to this party but I only just acquired HBO, anybody seen DOOM PATROL? 6 eps in, i fucking love it

No I just assumed it sucked Ike all the rest of the DC super hero based sbows/movies.

This is the one that doesnt!

I'll give it a look.

[Dr. Medulla]

[Mimi]

Major Dad is out on Netflix. It ran from 89-93 and I remember enjoying it when it was on. It didn't age well. Holy shit, let me count the ways. The Major, a marine, meets a female journalist who is interviewing him for a piece about the marines, I guess, and he falls for her in an instant. They know each other 3 days and he asks her to marry him. And he keeps pestering her. She has three kids and they're all like hey mom met this guy and we don't know anything about him, sure let's make him our new daddy. He doesn't treat the kids well at all and the woman is like I see nothing. So they go and get married and the woman comes to find he's rigid and doesn't like to do anything she wants to do like go pick peaches (a yearly family event) because he wants to watch the big game. When they're losing he pouts and goes and picks peaches where he pouts some more because by then his team is winning and he's missing it because peaches. At first the woman was all hey he's a man and must watch game but then she got pissed and was all no sex for you, jarhead. And then there was the episode where the oldest daughter, still in high school, can't go to the concert she had tickets for because her date came down with the measles so jarhead is all well, there's this lieutenant and he's young (he's not a teenager, that's for sure) and he can escort the daughter to the concert and because he wanted to go the concert too, he was all sure, I'll do it even though the girl is barely legal. While at the concert, apparently, there was a "moment" and the girl develops a crush on him. When the girl tells her mom that the lieutenant made her feel like a woman for the first time, mom's head flips because the alarm bells going off in her head before the concert weren't loud enough. So then jarhead says, I'll fix this because I'm a marine and tells the lieutenant to come and set the girl straight...up in her room...alone...where his boundaries are clearly missing because ego. Long story short, the show is cringe-worthy and I don't know how we tolerated this behavior before.

[revbob]

Major Dad is out on Netflix. It ran from 89-93 and I remember enjoying it when it was on. It didn't age well. Holy shit, let me count the ways. The Major, a marine, meets a female journalist who is interviewing him for a piece about the marines, I guess, and he falls for her in an instant. They know each other 3 days and he asks her to marry him. And he keeps pestering her. She has three kids and they're all like hey mom met this guy and we don't know anything about him, sure let's make him our new daddy. He doesn't treat the kids well at all and the woman is like I see nothing. So they go and get married and the woman comes to find he's rigid and doesn't like to do anything she wants to do like go pick peaches (a yearly family event) because he wants to watch the big game. When they're losing he pouts and goes and picks peaches where he pouts some more because by then his team is winning and he's missing it because peaches. At first the woman was all hey he's a man and must watch game but then she got pissed and was all no sex for you, jarhead. And then there was the episode where the oldest daughter, still in high school, can't go to the concert she had tickets for because her date came down with the measles so jarhead is all well, there's this lieutenant and he's young (he's not a teenager, that's for sure) and he can escort the daughter to the concert and because he wanted to go the concert too, he was all sure, I'll do it even though the girl is barely legal. While at the concert, apparently, there was a "moment" and the girl develops a crush on him. When the girl tells her mom that the lieutenant made her feel like a woman for the first time, mom's head flips because the alarm bells going off in her head before the concert weren't loud enough. So then jarhead says, I'll fix this because I'm a marine and tells the lieutenant to come and set the girl straight...up in her room...alone...where his boundaries are clearly missing because ego. Long story short, the show is cringe-worthy and I don't know how we tolerated this behavior before.

Ive never seen this and dont know you well obviously but am still amazed you ever tolerated it.

[Mimi]

Major Dad is out on Netflix. It ran from 89-93 and I remember enjoying it when it was on. It didn't age well. Holy shit, let me count the ways. The Major, a marine, meets a female journalist who is interviewing him for a piece about the marines, I guess, and he falls for her in an instant. They know each other 3 days and he asks her to marry him. And he keeps pestering her. She has three kids and they're all like hey mom met this guy and we don't know anything about him, sure let's make him our new daddy. He doesn't treat the kids well at all and the woman is like I see nothing. So they go and get married and the woman comes to find he's rigid and doesn't like to do anything she wants to do like go pick peaches (a yearly family event) because he wants to watch the big game. When they're losing he pouts and goes and picks peaches where he pouts some more because by then his team is winning and he's missing it because peaches. At first the woman was all hey he's a man and must watch game but then she got pissed and was all no sex for you, jarhead. And then there was the episode where the oldest daughter, still in high school, can't go to the concert she had tickets for because her date came down with the measles so jarhead is all well, there's this lieutenant and he's young (he's not a teenager, that's for sure) and he can escort the daughter to the concert and because he wanted to go the concert too, he was all sure, I'll do it even though the girl is barely legal. While at the concert, apparently, there was a "moment" and the girl develops a crush on him. When the girl tells her mom that the lieutenant made her feel like a woman for the first time, mom's head flips because the alarm bells going off in her head before the concert weren't loud enough. So then jarhead says, I'll fix this because I'm a marine and tells the lieutenant to come and set the girl straight...up in her room...alone...where his boundaries are clearly missing because ego. Long story short, the show is cringe-worthy and I don't know how we tolerated this behavior before.

Ive never seen this and dont know you well obviously but am still amazed you ever tolerated it.

We all do stupid things in our youth that we regret later on.

[revbob]

Major Dad is out on Netflix. It ran from 89-93 and I remember enjoying it when it was on. It didn't age well. Holy shit, let me count the ways. The Major, a marine, meets a female journalist who is interviewing him for a piece about the marines, I guess, and he falls for her in an instant. They know each other 3 days and he asks her to marry him. And he keeps pestering her. She has three kids and they're all like hey mom met this guy and we don't know anything about him, sure let's make him our new daddy. He doesn't treat the kids well at all and the woman is like I see nothing. So they go and get married and the woman comes to find he's rigid and doesn't like to do anything she wants to do like go pick peaches (a yearly family event) because he wants to watch the big game. When they're losing he pouts and goes and picks peaches where he pouts some more because by then his team is winning and he's missing it because peaches. At first the woman was all hey he's a man and must watch game but then she got pissed and was all no sex for you, jarhead. And then there was the episode where the oldest daughter, still in high school, can't go to the concert she had tickets for because her date came down with the measles so jarhead is all well, there's this lieutenant and he's young (he's not a teenager, that's for sure) and he can escort the daughter to the concert and because he wanted to go the concert too, he was all sure, I'll do it even though the girl is barely legal. While at the concert, apparently, there was a "moment" and the girl develops a crush on him. When the girl tells her mom that the lieutenant made her feel like a woman for the first time, mom's head flips because the alarm bells going off in her head before the concert weren't loud enough. So then jarhead says, I'll fix this because I'm a marine and tells the lieutenant to come and set the girl straight...up in her room...alone...where his boundaries are clearly missing because ego. Long story short, the show is cringe-worthy and I don't know how we tolerated this behavior before.

Ive never seen this and dont know you well obviously but am still amazed you ever tolerated it.

We all do stupid things in our youth that we regret later on.

Being the witty guy I am I used to refer to the show as Major Dickhead.

[Dr. Medulla]

Speaking of "how was this popular," one of the regional stations, I found, has been showing Family Ties re-runs. I decided to tune in to see how wretchedly it had aged (I mean, I'm making a presumption …) and it was jaw-droppingly awful. Like, Big Bang Theory inane. The only thing interesting was that it featured River Phoenix as an immature super genius who dates the ugly daughter and is taught he needs to lighten up and be a teenager. It was fully immunized against funny.