WordWolf

That's it.

He's the "LOCOMOTIVE BREATH" that JETHRO TULL sang about. "In the shuffling madness of the locomotive breath..." I saw Ian Anderson do this one live. He's still got it.

Naked Gun 33 1/3 Kathleen Freeman the Blues Brothers

Any chance at all that this is a voice actor who gets a lot of work, like ROB PAULSEN or PHIL LAMAR?

Knowing there was an episode of a show TITLED The One With The Lesbian Wedding" can put one on the right track. As it turns out, "Mad About You" had Ursula, a neurotic waitress or something, played by Lisa Kudrow. She also played Phoebe Bouffet, who has a neurotic sister named "Ursula." Both clues, AFAIK, don't apply to "Mad About You." However, they DO apply to "FRIENDS."

Well, I felt like watching it again, then I felt like doing a round on it again. I've really gotten out of the habit of watching movies. Mostly, now, I watch them in 2 seatings like 2 episodes.

"retemory" was a portmanteau word mixing together "retain" and "memorize" because twi had to have it's own word for memorizing something. Saying you "retained" what you memorized is needless. It's like saying you have to mention you ATE something that you DIGESTED. It demonstrated a lack of understanding of what it meant to memorize. "Cop out" became really popular once 80% of the people got up and left at once in 88-89. They needed a slur to slap on the other Christians who were doing all the same things as them but not with the same social organization, so they were "copped out." "The Best" - It's shocking how dissatisfied the cadre at the top of twi can be about everyone else who has a life and a job and still does HOURS of stuff for twi. On the one hand, vpw always claimed twi had all the "best" people and he studied under "the best" despite their lack of background. However, if YOU do something for twi, the top person from there can avoid saying something nice and say it wasn't "best" instead, implying it wasn't good enough. "All 9 all the time." - A nice goal to aim for, but impossible in practice. NOBODY EVER walked around in twi, CONTINUALLY performing miracles, doing healings, casting out demons or devil-spirits, etc INCLUDING vpw, no matter how often he FAKED getting revelation.

That was just plain stupid. However, for a lazy researcher like vpw or even lcm, downgrading "research" to just "rereading" something made it possible to CLAIM you "researched" something when all you did was read the twi explanation. It also made it easier for vpw to justify just plagiarizing anyone else's explanation so long as he "READ" it, after all, he searched it again, "that's 're-search' ".

"Manifestations" had a reason- saying all of the "gifts" were standard-issue to ALL of the Christians. The former seemed to be an example of changing the language to change the language and make it more coded.

Halloween- Bless and Treat All the holidays were wrong because they had pagan origins, so other Christians were wrong to celebrate them. So, we just renamed them and got to celebrate them just the same????? Yeah, stupid. Shows the degree that integrity DIDN'T have. Jehovah's Witnesses think that and FORBID a holiday. That at least has integrity and conviction.

No.

"You got a family?" "Yes, and I will see them when I leave here." "You know that I would help you with anything, but I cannot help you if you're going to start all this again." "There is nothing except this. There's no art opening, no charity, nothing to sign. There's the next mission, and nothing else." ===================================== About the filming: "They had no script, man. They had an outline. We would show up for big scenes every day and we wouldn't know what we were going to say. We would have to go into our trailer and work on this scene and call up writers on the phone, 'You got any ideas?' Meanwhile the crew is tapping their foot on the stage waiting for us to come on. " "When someone used to be a schmuck and they're not anymore, hopefully they still have a sense of humor." " One of the first things I did was I sat down all the people working on the visual effects and we screened scenes from Top Gun and scenes from Stealth and I said, “Why does Top Gun look so much more real?” Stealth had all of this money, technology and state-of-the-art effects and it looks like you’re watching a video game. We figured out that a lot of it had to do with how restrained the camera was. Don’t give the camera too much freedom or choreography. Get the shading right, the lighting right and there are things you can do to make the CGI look more real. People end up going crazy and give themselves a little too much freedom in how they use CGI and if you overuse it, it draws attention to itself." Early in the film, a main character is compared, obliquely, to Alfred Nobel. (They both seemed to share a certain nickname.)

If I could only remember even ONE other movie Benny Hill was in, but I can't. Oh, I can use Q! Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Desmond Llewelyn Man With The Golden Gun (Got 3 people I can think of to work with, from there, plus anyone I can't think of...)

Next movie. "You got a family?" "Yes, and I will see them when I leave here." "You know that I would help you with anything, but I cannot help you if you're going to start all this again." "There is nothing except this. There's no art opening, no charity, nothing to sign. There's the next mission, and nothing else."

So, to recap, Raf is correct.

The first show was "The Muppet Show", the second was "Muppets Tonight", and the third was "the muppets'. When Jim Henson was putting together his first muppet show, he was unable to find any interest whatsoever in Hollywood. He had to go to the UK and ITV to find a home. ITV's subgroup, ATV, was run by Lew Grade. There's a nod to him in The Muppet Movie- the Hollywood producer played by Orson Wells, was named "Lew Lord" (Lew Grade became Lord Lew Grade in 1976.) It looks like the Muppet Show may have been filmed at Elstree Studios, a name which should ring a bell for fans of the original Star Wars trilogy.

Having NEVER seen The Muppet Movie, (it came up once), George sounds like he may never have seen any Muppet show, ever.

The "Muppet Babies" spinoffs (both with that name) were animated, but the 3 shows had live guests and muppets as the actors.

CORRECT! The Muppet Show was the first. Later seasons have passing mentions of The Muppet Movie (the Christopher Reeve episode has Miss Piggy preparing to sing "Never Before" and mentioning to Kermit she sang it to him in the movie.) The third show, "the muppets ", came out shortly after the movie "The Muppets." The animated spinoffs were "the Muppet Babies", and one version is current. The critics seemed to applaud "the muppets" but the ratings were in the basement and the show was pulled fast. The Muppet Show lasted 5 seasons, "the muppets" lasted one, and "Muppets Tonite" was 2 seasons long (picking up a second season when it was dropped by one network and picked up by another-the Family Channel IIRC.)

This show had way more guest-stars than "Lost in Space."

Not any form of Brady. None of the shows I mentioned were animated. (I chose not to mention 2 animated spinoffs among my clues.)

Knowing your posting history, I would not be surprised if you never sat down to watch ANY of them. However, you certainly know the first show, and may know of at least the most recent.

Possibly the main divide in the RCC now is the "traditional" vs "Novo Ordus" stuff. One thing I've noticed with the new stuff, besides "charismatic Catholics", is both an increase in involvement of the laity (the everyday churchgoers) and an increase in involvement in and of Franciscan orders (of which there are several.) I see those as overlapping. When I was in contact with a parish in NYC where the laity was very active, involved, and fun to be around, I joked about their parish possibly ruffling a few feathers. One of the lay-leaders told me, matter-of-factly, that this was a Franciscan parish, so involvement was encouraged. I don't have real problems with "trads" other than to say that I think the new guys are, in at least some cases, pillars of their local communities, and genuinely helping those in need (with food and other necessities as well as job assistance.) I grew up with a "trad" RCC parish, and the thing felt PONDEROUS. It didn't seem to affect its community beyond the reach of sound during held masses. Granted, they had a parochial school, which was a real benefit to the families who sent their kids there, but otherwise it seemed fine ignoring the community and vice versa. The aloof arrogance, frankly, wasn't a bad preparation for the aloof arrogance of twi. It should not be a terrible shock that "novo ordus" stuff and "charismatics" are correlated. If it's all real, then God's working with the people who actually care and want to help. If it's all just religion and sociology, then the "charismatic" stuff won't be embraced by the old guard and will be embraced by the new- precisely because of who they both are, and it will help form a demarcation between the two.

This show lasted for 5 seasons. It had 2 shows eventually follow. One/the 2nd used a very similar format and lasted for about 2 seasons (changing networks in the process.) The third/other used a completely different format and lasted 1 season. Apparently, critics seemed to like it, but the public didn't watch it. (Me, I thought it was awful, but I don't speak for everyone. In fact, I found "The Star Wars Holiday Special" more watchable.) None of the shows premiered while any of the others was in production of new episodes, nor did they premiere shortly after any of the others ended filming. Although the first show occasionally made a passing reference to a cinematic release, AFAIK, the others did not (in the case of the last one, that seems just a little strange, given the timing.) Name the first show (for bragging rights, the names of all 3 shows.) I found the 3rd series unwatchable. All the shows had different names from each other. However, you'd know they shared characters just from the titles. Another tidbit is that all 3 shows premiered in different decades, and were not only separated by a few months (one premiering at the end of one decade, another at the beginning of the next), they premiered long after the preceding one had entered syndication in one form or another. BTW, my mention of The SWHS was not a clue, just a measure of how unwatchable I found the newest show. The third show was billed as a sort of "slice of life comedy" and a "mockumentary". I found the resulting product both unfunny and an abandonment of everything that made the first show memorable and accessible to the whole family (a classic, as I see it.) You may disagree, of course (the critics did and I don't know why.) Another example of Hollywood not being able to find 2 brain cells to rub together was that the first show was unable to find a studio or network willing to take a chance on it anywhere IN Hollywood. Eventually they found one elsewhere, and the results were excellent.

*checks* Interesting coincidence. "Get Smart" ALSO lasted 5 seasons. However, it didn't have 2 series' follow, and the later "Get Smart" was meant to follow approximately the same format, with Agents 86 and 66 working together in an action-comedy.