I’ve spent decades thinking that Christina Pickles, who played Ross/Monica’s mother, was Jewish, but I seem to be wrong about that. 

Yes. The mnemonic can be Phoebe’s holiday song one year:

Since people keep throwing lengths of time around: the 60-D Senate lasted from July 7 2009 (Al Franken seated) to Feb 4 2010 (Scott Brown wins election in MA).  So 7 months, including end-of-year holidays and all.

I forget the line, but not only are the Sovs using US design, Margo knows it, which is an extra tell.

Once, at a small startup, I found some exec’s notebook sitting in the coffee area. Opening it to see if I could figure out who to return it to, a saw a page that said “RIF [Reduction in Force] Thursday”. I was “good” and only asked my own (lower-level) manager about it, to whom it was news but investigated and eventual…

“So you clearly don’t know how polls work. Polls only get 1000-1500 responses. Several polls would still only be a few thousand respondents. Not indicative of over 8 million people.”

Margot confessed to the FBI and is now a double agent, right?  RIGHT?  Please?

I also laughed my head off at Obi-Wan’s “Hello there.”

I believe the intended question is, why isn’t Lola around by ANH?

Let’s reflect on the existence of The Jackie Thomas Show, a sitcom in which Tom Arnold played a guy who was bad at being in a sitcom.  (I actually saw every episode and liked it, but talk about being given lemons and making lemonade.)

Fair point, but as I recall it, Sue has a crush but Reed doesn’t act on it (or, probably, notice) until it’s no longer problematic.

I saw an nth-generation dub of the famous Roger Corman FF film some years ago, and there is exactly one thing where I said “Yes, this gets it right.” That’s the scene of how they all meet; Reed (and I guess Ben) are college roommates in Mrs. Storm’s rooming house. Sue is a high school girl with a crush, and Johnny is…

Two points on that guy:

I am less mystified by the people who like motion smoothing than I am by the people who can’t see the difference.

This is the first time that a live-action SW series and a new Marvel show are both coming out, which is in itself an interesting schedule decision, and beyond that I’m really surprised they’ve decided to release their two biggest originals on the same day of the week.

To all replies here: I now realize that I have no idea what SW is about any more, because I missed all the animated shows and comics. (I sort of knew this before, what with the constant stream of “oh, that Mandalorian character is a fan favorite” for people I’ve never heard of.)  So it goes.  Thanks.

Is Vader really canonically strong enough to hold back a jet engine?

None of them have ever seen a James Bond movie, so they have that excuse.

All this said, going forward, a show about “Barry, the actor who’s also secretly a contract killer” is not the same show as one about “Barry, who’s accused of killing most of those people but they can’t quite convict him”.

The younger Stevens boy looked like an old person digitally de-aged with age makeup added on.  Or something.