Aw, Robert Guillaume!
Indeed. I always identified with Jessica and the Benson/Jessica interactions were so delightful. eta: Huge Soap fan. Have seen the episodes multiple times.
Angel: If I'm not back in a couple of hours— Gunn: You're dead, we're screwed, end of the world.
'Underneath'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Laura - Oct 24, 2017 3:27:12 pm PDT #18137 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 24, 2017 3:38:07 pm PDT #18138 of 30002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am realizing now with Robert Guillaume-- I think I always wanted Benson to be my dad. I never had a dad, and for my young childhood didn't even really understand that it was "normal" to have a dad, but when you say "dad"- I picture Robert Guillaume on Benson with the governor's daughter. Even though he clearly wasn't her actual dad, but that it what it meant to me at the time.
Jesse - Oct 24, 2017 3:59:39 pm PDT #18139 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Aw, Sophia. That's so sweet/sad.
JZ - Oct 24, 2017 4:30:53 pm PDT #18140 of 30002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
My strongest memory of Robert Guillaume is from the Christmas episode of Benson when he sang "O Holy Night," and breaking out in goosebumps at the sheer swoony richness of his voice. And of course that episode is up on YouTube, so I just listened again, and... exact same thing. Utterly, viscerally, heart-rattlingly thrilling.
NoiseDesign - Oct 24, 2017 5:38:58 pm PDT #18141 of 30002
Our wings are not tired
I remember seeing him play the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera at the Ahmanson here in Los Angeles. He was amazing, his voice in that role is my benchmark for how the Phantom should sound.
Dana - Oct 24, 2017 5:46:48 pm PDT #18142 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I've heard so many people say that today. I need to look it up online.
Scrappy - Oct 24, 2017 6:23:46 pm PDT #18143 of 30002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
In high school, I saw him in an all-black production of "Guys and Dolls." Which was on its way to Broadway. He played Nathan Detroit and was incredible.im so glad my parents took us to cool stuff.
-t - Oct 24, 2017 7:08:50 pm PDT #18144 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Weirdly, I always think of Robert Guillaume when I am filing my taxes because of an episode of Benson where he was audited and one of his deductions is the suit he is wearing to the audit. I don't know why that particular scene lodged in my head so securely, but it certainly did.
Today was very long. Tomorrow will also be long, but with fewer exciting new experiences. At least that's the plan.
Kat - Oct 25, 2017 4:27:58 am PDT #18145 of 30002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm sure they let you pet the cheetahs, right?
This is what Archer has led me to believe. Or am I thinking of ocelots?
At the San Diego Zoo, I think you can have an up close encounter at the cheetah run with an ocelot. I don't know that you can pet it. Or maybe the animal they offered the day we were there was an ocelot.
-t - Oct 25, 2017 5:19:47 am PDT #18146 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ooh.
I tried to make getting to rehearsal after work easier by parking at a different bus stop this morning, only to be told by NextBus once I got there that the schedule has changed and if I waited for the bus I would be late to work. So I drove in and am an hour early instead. Yay?