It must be a Mandella effect, because I remember the same thing you do.

That’s it!

This was a distinct show after the Cosby show. Malcolm Jamal Warner played a social worker or teacher or something. Maybe it wasn’t a spinoff, but just a show that he did immediately after.

Wasn’t there an unsuccessful spin-off of the Cosby show, too? One that centered around Theo being an adult. IMBD is pretending that it didn’t exist, but I remember it.

I liked the Lone Gunmen and was sad when it was cancelled.

Is The Golden Palace the one where they opened a hotel? Was that a true spinoff, or did the show just move to another network and get reworked?

Last I checked, Amazon Prime had it.

I don’t think anyone should change their name. It subsumes one person’s identity to the other, and it is way too much paperwork. (However, not my life, not my decision).

Ever since going to grad school with a Chinese woman whose first and last names were both inappropriate in English (she modified them once she learned what they meant) I have been convinced that everyone’s name is some sort of dirty word in at least one language, and most of us are lucky enough to never find out.

No, but that is one of the worst last names I have ever heard.

If your family unit requires the same name to be held together, you have much bigger problems than the paperwork for a name change.

I despise Mrs. I work in a field where a lot of people have advanced degrees. I am Dr. I accept Ms. If you address me as Mrs, your email goes straight to spam.

I have a friend who changed her very lovely last name to her husband’s quite awful (and literally derogatory last name). She constantly regrets it.

I didn’t change mine, either. Perhaps it is because most of my friends and coworkers have advanced degrees that it is considered rather odd for a woman to take her husband’s name among the people that I spend time with. I do think it is part of macho culture that men are punished by society for taking their wife’s…

The article completely skipped the peer pressure and ridicule a man would face for taking his wife’s name.

What you decide to do is entirely your decision. Changing it doesn’t make you a bad feminist, and not changing it doesn’t make you a bad wife (your identity is a mountain, not a molehill).

That sounds like the Curies. Marie Curie’s daughter married a scientist who took her name because there was so much status attached to it.

I didn’t see it in the article, but the age might be part of the reason. I don’t know many men who get married younger than 30. In your 30s, you are well into adulthood and have a strong sense of self.

I have only ever known one man who took his wife’s name. He was a military veteran who was going to college, which is where they met. My husband considered changing his because he is probably closer to my family than his own, but decided not to. I can’t say that I blame him, because who wants to deal with all that…

Scandal has been in my Netflix queue forever, but I still haven’t seen it.