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I watched:

THUNDARR THE BARBARIAN:
"The Brotherhood of Night". Zevon is the leader of the Brotherhood of
Night, a tribe of werewolves that can add anyone to their ranks by
touching them and is also targeting the evil wizard Infernus hoping to
make the pack completely invincible.

THUNDARR THE BARBARIAN:
"Challenge of the Wizards". Thundarr, Princess Ariel, and Ookla are
caught up in a battle between the wizards Sholow and contestants Basim, Skorpos and Chom who seek the Helmet of Power. Thundarr ends up having
to side with the wizard Sholow when he threatens a group of villagers.

THUNDARR THE BARBARIAN:
"Valley of the Man-Apes". Simius and his fellow Man Apes assemble
salvaged parts of a movie studio's giant robotic gorilla in a plot to terrorize the local villagers.

THUNDARR THE BARBARIAN:
"Stalker from the Stars". A spaceship containing an alien vampire lands
on Earth. The alien captures Princess Ariel and all the villagers in
the ruins of Lakeside Amusement Park hidden under the snow and ice of
the Rockies as a source of its food.

CHARLIE'S ANGELS:
"The Mexican Connection". The Angels head to Mazatlan on their next
case. A small charter plane based in Mazatlan and flying between
Mazatlan and the US crashes on US soil, killing the flight attendant,
Laurie Mason. The crash was caused by the pilot, Dan Mason, their now
injured but recuperating client, being shot by a hijacker, who was
after the cargo on board: heroin being smuggled across the border, the
heroin about which Dan was unaware on takeoff. Dan was also unaware
that Laurie, his sister, was a junkie, a small amount of that heroin
strapped to her body. The charter company is owned by Frank Bartone, a
wealthy Mexican businessman who the Mexican authorities suspect is the
head of a massive drug ring, but whose organization they cannot
infiltrate to discover that needed proof. Dan not only wants them to
find that evidence of Bartone being the smuggler, Bartone who he
believes got Laurie hooked on drugs, but to discover who tried to
hijack the plane, the chief suspect being Bartone's emerging new rival,
an unknown man going by the code name Escobar. Dan has arranged for his
fellow pilot and friend, Jim Taylor, to be their inside contact,
Sabrina who will be the only known Townsend associate to Jim working on
the case, she posing as the newly hired flight attendant and his love interest. Kelly, as an American tourist, is assigned to work on
infiltrating womanizing Bartone's circle. And Jill is assigned to see
if Bartone's daughter, Maria, a competitive swimmer, knows anything,
Jill who is to try and get a job as her new swim coach.

HART TO HART:
"Passport to Murder". A yacht trip becomes dangerous when one of the
Harts' guests is blackmailed into running drugs.

FANTASY ISLAND:
"The Prince; The Sheriff". The crown prince of a small European country
wants the experience of being an average man to better understand what
his people go through; and a New York City cop tracks down his
partner's killers -- with the intent to obtain an eye for an eye.

What did you watch?
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FANTASY ISLAND:
"The Prince; The Sheriff". The crown prince of a small European country wants the experience of being an average man to better understand what
his people go through; and a New York City cop tracks down his
partner's killers -- with the intent to obtain an eye for an eye.

What did you watch?

I caught that one a couple of years ago. I thought the cop story was
more interesting. I liked how they handled the prince story, though, particularly that it wasn't about romance.

Over the past few days, I watched Roofman, a movie available on
Paramount Plus. A guy escapes from prison and hides in the ceiling of a
Toys R Us (it's a new movie, but it's set a bit in the past). There's a
pretty and nice store clerk for him to fall in love with, and also a
crabby store manager who might reform. It wasn't as amusing as I'd
hoped. There was a lot of filler, and it was rather predictable overall,
but it was decent and watchable. I didn't realize until the closing
credits that it was based on a true story.

I watched a Bob's Burgers rerun, "The Secret Ceramics Room of Secrets."
I like this one. Louise goes nuts, which is usually a good plot impetus.
I followed it with "Sleeping with the Frenemy," a Tina episode, which is
okay. I went on to watch a few others from season 8, which is a solid
season in general.

I also went back into Krapopolis and watched "Nike (the Goddess)." This
was pretty good. I did think it was lame that none of them could think
of a sincere compliment. "Stupendous, you're one of the bravest people I
know. Hippocampus, you're truly brilliant. Ty, you have the biggest
heart in Greece." Done. Still, if I can believe that all three of them
had brain freeze, the rest of the episode was good.

What did everyone else watch?
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On 1/12/2026 4:23 AM, The True Melissa wrote:

Verily, in article <UBI20260111@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:

FANTASY ISLAND:
"The Prince; The Sheriff". The crown prince of a small European country
wants the experience of being an average man to better understand what
his people go through; and a New York City cop tracks down his
partner's killers -- with the intent to obtain an eye for an eye.

What did you watch?

I caught that one a couple of years ago. I thought the cop story was
more interesting. I liked how they handled the prince story, though, particularly that it wasn't about romance.

Over the past few days, I watched Roofman, a movie available on
Paramount Plus.

I didn't know this was available to stream. I want to see this. I
heard the trailers were misleading and it's actually good.

A guy escapes from prison and hides in the ceiling of a

Toys R Us (it's a new movie, but it's set a bit in the past). There's a pretty and nice store clerk for him to fall in love with, and also a
crabby store manager who might reform. It wasn't as amusing as I'd
hoped.

:-/


There was a lot of filler, and it was rather predictable overall,

but it was decent and watchable. I didn't realize until the closing
credits that it was based on a true story.

I watched a Bob's Burgers rerun, "The Secret Ceramics Room of Secrets."
I like this one. Louise goes nuts, which is usually a good plot impetus.
I followed it with "Sleeping with the Frenemy," a Tina episode, which is okay. I went on to watch a few others from season 8, which is a solid
season in general.

I also went back into Krapopolis

I refuse to accept that's the actual name of a TV show! LOL

and watched "Nike (the Goddess)." This

was pretty good. I did think it was lame that none of them could think
of a sincere compliment. "Stupendous, you're one of the bravest people I know. Hippocampus, you're truly brilliant. Ty, you have the biggest
heart in Greece." Done. Still, if I can believe that all three of them
had brain freeze, the rest of the episode was good.

What did everyone else watch?

Over the past few days I've been making my way through the Kevin Smith
movies in my collection. I won't go through all of them, but highlights included:

Dazed and Confused (4K disc) - Yeah, I know this is not a Kevin Smith
movie. It was written and directed by Richard Linklater, but it's a
movie set in high school featuring several actors who later star in
Kevin Smith movies including Ben Affleck and Joey Lauren. So I decided
to start my Kevin Smithathon off with this one. It was mostly
background noise with the director's commentary.


Clerks (blu-ray) - Kevin Smith's first movie. It held up very well all
things considered.


Mallrats (4K disc) - This was Smith's second movie. I watched a new 4K
disc which included an extended cut I'd never seen before. The extended
cut has about 30 minutes of new footage, and most of that new footage
(about 20 minutes) takes place before they even go to the mall. It
involves this ridiculous, not funny, subplot where the main character is thought to be a terrorist who tried to assassinate the governor. All references to this subplot were deleted from the movie. Smith did an introduction before the extended cut where he basically says the studio
hired a professional movie editor to cut the movie, and the professional editor removed all this nonsense. But when he was given permission to do
his own edit, he literally just put back in every frame of film that was
shot.

(Skipping recaps of Smith movies I watched.)

Jersey Girl - I mention this one not because I did watch it, but because
I *wanted* to watch it and the only place that had it was some no name
low rent streaming service, that kept messing up the stream, until I
gave up on it. And this is why I own my movies on disc! I actually had
a similar issue with Clerks II. I do own the disc, but the disc had
playback issues, and with nowhere to stream for free, I found myself
forced to watch clips of scenes on YouTube whenever the disc would
freeze up. Fortunately, the disc would freeze at key scenes that were available to watch on YouTube.


(Skipping recaps of Smith movies I watched.)


Clerks III (4K disc) - This was my first time watching Clerks III since
I saw it in the theater. This is somewhat autobiographical and has
Randal (Jeff Anderson) deciding to make a low budget black and white
movie about his life as a clerk. It holds up very well and closes out
the chapter on those characters.


The 4:30 Movie (Streamed on DVR) - This is Kevin Smith's latest movie.
It came out a couple of years ago. I missed it in the theater, but I
think it wasn't actually showing near me. This is another
autobiographical movie, but this one is set in the mid 80s and is about
a teenage boy who is obsessed with movies and the friends he hangs
around with. It was an OK movie. Lots of cameos from the regulars.
Steven Spielberg basically did the same thing with his own
autobiography, "The Fablemans." But while The Fablemans spans years of Spielberg's childhood, The 4:30 Movie is just a day in the life of a
movie obsessed kid.
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On 1/12/26 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

A travel back home day, so I only got back home in time to see:

NFL football Wild Card playoffs - Chargers vs. Patriots. As I expected
going in, the Chargers were basically mangled by the Patriots. But what
made this frustrating is that for the first half, the Chargers made it
seem like they might keep it close. But by the second half, it was clear
there would be no offensive generation, and the defense was gradually
worn down by the Pats. Another disappointing playoff performance from
the Chargers... :(

soaps: GH - Thur's ep. I was wondering for a while if they would go this direction, and on Thursday they finally pulled the trigger - it is
revealed that Willow did in fact shoot Drew. (It kind of had to be her
because anyone else would have finished the job and killed Drew!) I am wondering if that means that Katelyn Macmullen is leaving the show which
seems to be only rumored at this point... (Which would suck - the show
seems to keep losing all of their more appealing young actresses.)
Anyway, this was a pretty good reveal, though it means none of Willow's
recent motivations seem to make any sense. And worse it means they're
going to go with "asshole Michael was right!" which is unbearable as the character is as big an ass as Drew is. Anyway, I'm curious to see where
they go with this.

What did you watch?

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On Jan 12, 2026 at 8:11:14 AM PST, "Arthur Lipscomb" <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Jersey Girl - I mention this one not because I did watch it, but because
I *wanted* to watch it and the only place that had it was some no name
low rent streaming service, that kept messing up the stream, until I
gave up on it. And this is why I own my movies on disc! I actually had
a similar issue with Clerks II. I do own the disc, but the disc had playback issues

I just have to point out the amusing irony of saying "This is why I own all my movies on disc" and then immediately noting, "The disc wouldn't play,
either".


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On 2026-01-12 7:23 a.m., The True Melissa wrote:

Verily, in article <UBI20260111@dont-email.me>, did weberm@polaris.net deliver unto us this message:

FANTASY ISLAND:
"The Prince; The Sheriff". The crown prince of a small European country
wants the experience of being an average man to better understand what
his people go through; and a New York City cop tracks down his
partner's killers -- with the intent to obtain an eye for an eye.

What did you watch?

I caught that one a couple of years ago. I thought the cop story was
more interesting. I liked how they handled the prince story, though, particularly that it wasn't about romance.

Over the past few days, I watched Roofman, a movie available on
Paramount Plus. A guy escapes from prison and hides in the ceiling of a
Toys R Us (it's a new movie, but it's set a bit in the past).

Or maybe it is set in Canada :-) I say that because Toys R Us still
exists in Canada and has been here since well before it failed in the
US. (Mind you, I did see an article that says it is having troubles here
too but their website is still functioning and they have several stores
still open: https://www.toysrus.ca/en/home)

There's a
pretty and nice store clerk for him to fall in love with, and also a
crabby store manager who might reform. It wasn't as amusing as I'd
hoped. There was a lot of filler, and it was rather predictable overall,
but it was decent and watchable. I didn't realize until the closing
credits that it was based on a true story.

I watched a Bob's Burgers rerun, "The Secret Ceramics Room of Secrets."
I like this one. Louise goes nuts, which is usually a good plot impetus.
I followed it with "Sleeping with the Frenemy," a Tina episode, which is okay. I went on to watch a few others from season 8, which is a solid
season in general.

I also went back into Krapopolis and watched "Nike (the Goddess)." This
was pretty good. I did think it was lame that none of them could think
of a sincere compliment. "Stupendous, you're one of the bravest people I know. Hippocampus, you're truly brilliant. Ty, you have the biggest
heart in Greece." Done. Still, if I can believe that all three of them
had brain freeze, the rest of the episode was good.

What did everyone else watch?

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On 2026-01-12 4:30 a.m., Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

Landman - S02E09

The lawyer with the freckles finally got a chance to be human, instead
of a pit bull, as she confessed her love for the British geologist.
Ainsley finally got her own scene for the first time since the series
premiere as she met her assigned roommate at cheerleading camp and found herself face to face with an uber-woke they/them. Angela solves that
problem by sheer force of will - and spending money. Tommy had some very unexpected news from Cami. Ariana had a potentially life-ending
confrontation with an obnoxious patron that almost proved life-ending
for him when Cooper found him. Tommy's dad finally seemed happy and is obviously smitten with his physiotherapist/stripper.

Stranger Things - S05E02

The quest for Vecna - and now Holly Wheeler - goes on.
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