Same. This was my favorite movie of all time when I was 13 or so. How can I resist a remake? It’ll probably be bad but I don’t even care.

Oh, I didn’t know Eric could be short for Frederick — that would fit the theme. (Wiki says his full name is Eric Frederick Trump, but both names could be for his grandfather.)

Do we know where Eric Trump got his name? We have two kids named for their parents (Don Jr. & Ivanka), one named for her dad’s favorite deal (Tiffany), and one named for his dad’s favorite alias. Eric’s name is the only one that isn’t an obvious tribute to the Trump ego and it kinda bugs me.

Yeah, he was the one I had to double-check.

Very dark thought:

Would it be legal for Trump to give the Secret Service free or reduced rent? There are all kinds of rules about what gifts the government can accept — it may be that he has to charge them the market value.

OK, but if she was 21, why didn’t she have ID? Or was she just too drunk to remember where it was?

Minority opinion: I’m sure Ronan Farrow is a good person or whatever and I wouldn’t wish his father on anyone, but his face looks smugly punchable in every photo of him I’ve ever see.

Of course, Obama was talking before Trump started assembling a cabinet staffed entirely by racists, islamophobes and conspiracy theorists. It’s like very day is a fresh show of horrors, and he’s not even in office yet.

Didn’t he also get in on the repulsive “Burke Ramsey murdered his sister” thing? The guy has no soul.

I’m of two minds on that. Pence is total Handmaid’s Tale material, but he’s also a normal politician. He knows how government works, he can make a coherent (if wrongheaded) argument for his policy proposals, he could probably go on TV after a national disaster and sound like a somewhat compassionate and reasonable…

I think Americans can take heart in the fact that you have someone who’s so calm under pressure in the White House.”

I hadn’t thought about the FAS thing much, but I have been a little skeeved by how much Becca drinks. I don’t think the show is headed there, but I agree that it’s not something I want as a sitcom plot arc. Depression and PTSD are about as much realness as I need.

Yeah, it’s kind of gross for a married father in his 30s to fuck around with a teenager no matter what iconic characters they played.

To be fair, Lindsey’s entire personality is an argument against letting her have a kid, like, ever. Pro-life person only spoke truth.

Right. And the other defense you’d hear is “I call my kid a monkey all the time, how is this different?” As though something said with affection and something said with the exact opposite intent are the same thing. (Nobody affectionately calls an adult stranger an ape.)

What was the first one? I checked his filmography and the only show he’s had more than a one-shot on was Shades of Blue, and it looks like that overlapped with Crazy Ex-GF anyhow.

And then there’s Lindsay on You’re the Worst, who is basically just such a mess giving her a kid would be more tragic than funny.

I think the idea is that part of the way Rebecca needs to grow and adapt is by getting past thinking she NEEDS relationship drama. Which I respect as probably true for Rebecca personally, but ... man. If the whole show starts being about female maturity and empowerment, that sounds really Lilith Fair-y vagina moon…

I saw somewhere that there might be a loophole if they accept unpaid positions. I hope that’s not the case.