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John Waters TOTALLY needs to do a guest spot.

outstanding.

KC's flee from the aunt's porch was priceless. And a nice parallel to Emerson's run.

The twee isn't bothering me - and I am usually bothered by twee. I think the candy-colors have had their effect. But Waters could provide substantial un-twee-ing, while still staying within the scheme of the show.

I think there were some huge problems with PD last night. The villain's back(hi)story was un-buyable for me, even on a fairy tale level (a Chinese worker leading Confederate troops? Really?), and the transition from cops-outside-the-Pie-Hole to bringing-the-body-back-to-where-it-was-found to bad-guy-in-custody-Ned-off-the-hook-and-Emerson-let's-them-return-the-treasure was WAY too "What? How? What?" for me to let it slide.

And yet, I didn't care. I had a big silly grin on my face the whole time (the "Oh HELL no!" being one of the best moments) even as I was noting issues I was having. Emerson has gone from not really doing much but be a plot advancer to being one of my favorite things on the show. Plus Lee Pace got to swash his buckle. And I've started to get acclimated to the narration; I might even miss it if they started rationing it more stingily.

I will say that Chuck's insistence on being with Ned 24-7 is going to get grating if they don't address it. Her calling Emerson Pooh ("Kick, Pooh, kick!!!") did amuse the hell out of me though. And her getting on Emerson's last nerve is quite enjoyable (much like Spike annoying the snot out of Angel season 5).

I guess I hate spunk.

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...from the utter calm that greeted this assertion, I gather that either (a) you are all far more mature than me, or (b) it doesn't have the same connotations across the pond.

Lou Grant and Mary Richards trump any seedier connotations on this side of the pond, Fay.

Heh. You said 'seedier'. Heh.

And now I'll stop giggling like a twelve year old.

Was there a pun in Matt's post? Oh well, it will come to me eventually, I guess.

Bwah.

ION, rumor has it that BSG season 3 dvds aren't coming out 'til APRIL.

At least it's April of 2008 and not any later April.

Kristen Chenowith's ability to walk like a normal person

I didn't watch the whole show, but one of the parts I did watch involved her fleeing off the porch, down the front steps, and down the walk to the gate. I was pleased to see that, like a normal (amply-bosomed) person, she tucked her hands around her bosom to go running down stairs.

I guess I hate spunk.

...from the utter calm that greeted this assertion, I gather that either (a) you are all far more mature than me, or (b) it doesn't have the same connotations across the pond.

Umm OK yeah - in the U.S. spunk is almost never used as a word to describe sperm. I think that would be considered archaic. The short version is that "you've got spunk" is not too far (as something one fictional character says to another) from "I like a girl with spirit".)

That is the short version. This being the buffistas, I'll give you the long version. Back before a show called "The Mary Tyler Moore" show, it used to be common cliche in fiction (especially situation comedy)for the perky heroine to take s certain amount of verbal bullying in a job interview or other encounter with a dominant male, be pushed on step too far and push back - but you know not very hard. It was considered very daring for a woman faced with a man in authority to push back at all, and not simply eat any shit he handed out. (In fiction; these were male fantasies, I suspect women were not as easy to push around as this type of fiction portrayed.)

Observing how enormously cute the woman (probably called a girl) was when she pushed back, the man would say "You've got spunk!" as praise.

The Mary Tyler Moore show more or less killed that cliche forever in its first episode.One of the main characters (Lou Grant, the boss) interviewed Mary Tyler Moore, the star, and pushed her round with some verbal bullying in a job interview. She pushed back, in annoyingly cute and perky way and Lou told her:

"You've got spunk"

Long pause

"I hate spunk!".

Won the hearts of every American who saw that episode, and killed the phrase "you've got spunk" forever.

"I hate spunk" remains as cultural reference for someone who is annoyed by the excessively cute/perky especially when hating said cute/perky is a minority position.(At least it does for Americans of a certain age, or those who caught the MTM show on Nick at Night.)