Wow. Kind of like how we chose presidential candidates this year.

Senor Senior Sr and Senor Senior Jr.

I watched the gay version and it's the first time I've ever liked that song. It makes more sense. It removes the icky slut-shaming of calling another girl out for wearing short skirts. He ends up with the person who appears to truly love him. NGL I teared up watching this.

There's deep fried chicken in that song? What the hell version of "Drops of Jupiter" have I been listening to that didn't have tae-bo and chicken and soy lattes in it?

I sort of liked that song but now there's tae-bo connected with Mozart in it and I can't anymore. Plus who "checks out" Mozart? "I've heard about this Requiem in D shit; I wonder what it's like."

Extremely late to this but the line about his "untrimmed chest" disturbed me too. It sounds so gross when he says it like it's this wild unkempt sweaty jungle with Japanese soldiers in it who haven't been informed the war is over. My boyfriend doesn't trim his chest and I know a lot of other guys who, I'm assuming,…

Youngster. #getoffmylawn

I could definitely see Nancy taking a break from guys and being her own bad-ass self alone if this story were set in more modern times but not in the early 80s when many girls were still going to college in hopes of getting their Mrs. instead of their BA or BS degree. Come to think of it, I have friends in their early…

How old were these kids supposed to be? I thought I read somewhere they were supposed to be twelve and thirteen but they seem very unsophisticated to be that old even having grown up in middle America in the 1980s.

El is The Giving Tree.

Actually, I graduated from high school in 1979 in the Pacific Northwest and although I imagine naming trends are different all over the country, I remember there being one girl named Nancy in my high school but no Barbs, Barbaras or Carols. The women I have known with those names were all ten years older than I am.…

I think they didn't have a chance to show how everyone dealt with El's death/disappearance because they were wrapping up the show and there wasn't time. Since these are boys in the early 1980s, I would assume they processed it privately and without a lot of fanfare.They've had a lot happen all at once and there was…

CBS censors "must" have hated that not "much". It's the little things.

Obama puts ketchup on hot dogs. #justsayin

As soon as I saw the picture of Marla Maples, I recognized it as the kind of layout People magazine frequently uses so the reveal at the end was rather anticlimactic. Still, the Maples/Trump/Sinclair pic made this worth a read so good job you.