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That last part could apply to a few shows. For the first part, I'm guessing "The Jeffersons." (They spun off of "All in the Family.")

I think I can work this out. I don't know one part, but the other part is obviously "Forever Knight." There's a song known, IIRC, as "John Philip Souza's March" and also as "Stars and Stripes Forever." (Souza was big on marching music and made the souzaphone, IIRC.) So I'm going with "Stars And Stripes Forever Knight."

No. I can only add what little I DO know. Physical addictions have 3 parts, the physical part, the psychological part, and the social part. (Other kinds skip the physical part.) To overcome a physical addiction (usually to a chemical) is harder because the body is accustomed to the substance and will protest its sudden absence. A professional should be consulted on that one. The psychological part is the person's mental dependency- on the behavior and the "reward" of their brain's release of happy chemicals when they indulge their addiction. (For example, a sex addict is addicted as much to the release of endorphins as anything else.) They need to change their thinking. If a person reacted to stress by engaging in a vice or addiction or addictive behavior, they need to rethink and find healthier ways to react. The social aspect means they need to restructure their lives to remove any and all behavior that LED to and FED the addiction. I knew a guy that kicked an alcohol addiction- then later started drinking again. What was he doing in his spare time when he was "dry"? He hung out in the same bars he used to drink in. Surprise, surprise, he resumed drinking eventually. You yourself, I believe, once said that someone who wants to give up gambling doesn't switch from poker to slots- they leave the casino entirely. Whatever solutions are used, if successful, will address at least the psychological and social aspects in one form or another.

Correct, of course.

"DISTINGUISHED"????

The thing is, they can't just cut all the staff loose if they want to maintain the grounds and upkeep. The main reason they can FIND people willing to work for the sub-standard conditions they have, is blind loyalty and fanaticism. If the loyal staff left, the only way to hire normal workers would be to offer what they never will offer their staff. So, either spend more money for the staff, or continue strongarming the foolish and naive to work on staff.

Two singers, best friends Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris pursued by a private detective hired by Lorelei's fiancé's disapproving father to keep an eye on her, a rich, enamoured old man and many other doting admirers. When the detective proves insufficient, he assembles and hires a group of unusual individuals, each special in a different way.

A) Trivia is neither mentioned nor barred in the initial post. A description was given as an example, so it can be argued it suggested trivia was allowed. B) We've had straight trivia clues on a number of rounds, especially mine. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *wild guess* "That Girl"?

"Patch Adams Family."

Robert deNiro Taxi Driver Peter Boyle

And Steve Martin and Timothy Dalton.

I don't know, how would you be getting shorter?

¨Hey, what do ya know? I found Nemo!¨ ¨There's a man there! He's got a woman! She's tied up in a burlap sack and he's taking her to the Eiffel Tower!¨ ¨ Ah, eet eez Spring, eez eet not?¨ "I also work for the Agency. Professional assassin. It's really hard for me to juggle the two sometimes. I don't know what I'm gonna do when I have kids! Do you know how hard it is to find a nanny with advanced weapons training?" "Nice of Wal-Mart to provide these Wal-Mart beverages in return for us saying "Wal-Mart" so many times." "What a fantastic view!" "Unless you're in the audience, in which case you've been staring at an elephant's behind for thirty seconds." " Pointillism. A technique using individual dots of pigment, which, taken together...make an image." "Dynamite? Who has dynamite?" "Welcome to MY world." "Yikes! Illegal aliens!" "Exterminate!" "Tell me about the Blue Monkey." " How do you know about that thing that I've never heard of in my entire life?" "My dad told me." "What is the POINT of making them pinky-swear?" "This security guard thing, that's just what I do for money. I'm a... I'm a stunt double. "Hah! You, a stunt double? Please!" "I am! Did you see those Mummy movies? I'm in them more than Brendan Fraser is." "Eh, f-first they tell me to lose the stutter. Now they tell me I'm not funny! It's a pain in the butt, being p-p-p-politically correct." "You're telling me." "Great nose job Chuck. Good rug Mel, never would have guessed." " So, what do we do? We team you up with a hot female co-star!" "Usually... *I* play the female love interest!" "Okay, about the crossdressing thing - then, funny; now, disturbing." "Lady, if you don't find a rabbit wearin' lipstick amusing, then we ain't got nothin' to say to each other." "That's right, I'm a vicious bird of prey." "Here is you father tied up on the tracks, and here is the train of death right on schedule. You see Mr. Drake, if the train of death doesn't kill your father, then maybe those crates of TNT will, not to mention the two ton anvil hanging over his head, and... Oh, and look there's the pendulum of doom! What's the pendulum of doom doing there? I did not order the pendulum of doom! That's overkill! Get rid of it!" "I'm rich. I'm affluent. My liquidity is assured." "You are going to put him back, right? 'Cause I can't return to LA with duck soup." "We do have the resources to reconstitute the body. The mind, though, will remain a gooey mess." " I told you we should've taken that left turn at Albuquerque." "Now don't start that again." "My God, young man, what am I going to do with you?! You've done nothing but screw up! You've walked off of mesas! You've been smashed by boulders! You've been run over by diesel trucks! And don't blame the equipment! The equipment is good; it's ACME equipment. You're a coyote! Be wily!"

Between previews and commercials showing things, and having "plausible deniability" on the basis of having a kid and being in the same room as it's playing, no you don't. Me, I did see this, at least much of it. One of these days I'll sit through it all willingly.

¨Hey, what do ya know? I found Nemo!¨ ¨There's a man there! He's got a woman! She's tied up in a burlap sack and he's taking her to the Eiffel Tower!¨ ¨ Ah, eet eez Spring, eez eet not?¨ "I also work for the Agency. Professional assassin. It's really hard for me to juggle the two sometimes. I don't know what I'm gonna do when I have kids! Do you know how hard it is to find a nanny with advanced weapons training?" "Nice of Wal-Mart to provide these Wal-Mart beverages in return for us saying "Wal-Mart" so many times." "What a fantastic view!" "Unless you're in the audience, in which case you've been staring at an elephant's behind for thirty seconds." " Pointillism. A technique using individual dots of pigment, which, taken together...make an image." "Dynamite? Who has dynamite?" "Welcome to MY world." "Yikes! Illegal aliens!" "Tell me about the Blue Monkey." " How do you know about that thing that I've never heard of in my entire life?" "My dad told me." "What is the POINT of making them pinky-swear?" "This security guard thing, that's just what I do for money. I'm a... I'm a stunt double. "Hah! You, a stunt double? Please!" "I am! Did you see those Mummy movies? I'm in them more than Brendan Fraser is." "Eh, f-first they tell me to lose the stutter. Now they tell me I'm not funny! It's a pain in the butt, being p-p-p-politically correct." "You're telling me." "Great nose job Chuck. Good rug Mel, never would have guessed." " So, what do we do? We team you up with a hot female co-star!" "Usually... *I* play the female love interest!" "Okay, about the crossdressing thing - then, funny; now, disturbing." "That's right, I'm a vicious bird of prey." "Here is you father tied up on the tracks, and here is the train of death right on schedule. You see Mr. Drake, if the train of death doesn't kill your father, then maybe those crates of TNT will, not to mention the two ton anvil hanging over his head, and... Oh, and look there's the pendulum of doom! What's the pendulum of doom doing there? I did not order the pendulum of doom! That's overkill! Get rid of it!" "I'm rich. I'm affluent. My liquidity is assured."

Billy always shouted "SHAZAM!" to transform to Captain Marvel. In each episode, more or less, he CONSULTED with The Elders so we could get a foreshadow of the episode's moral. He went into the RV, activated the hemisphere with the colored lights, and said the invocation I posted.

How "wild" can that be? Billy Batson said it in probably every episode! You are correct. Been a while since they aired, no?

¨Hey, what do ya know? I found Nemo!¨ ¨There's a man there! He's got a woman! She's tied up in a burlap sack and he's taking her to the Eiffel Tower!¨ ¨ Ah, eet eez Spring, eez eet not?¨ "I also work for the Agency. Professional assassin. It's really hard for me to juggle the two sometimes. I don't know what I'm gonna do when I have kids! Do you know how hard it is to find a nanny with advanced weapons training?" "Nice of Wal-Mart to provide these Wal-Mart beverages in return for us saying "Wal-Mart" so many times." "What a fantastic view!" "Unless you're in the audience, in which case you've been staring at an elephant's behind for thirty seconds." " Pointillism. A technique using individual dots of pigment, which, taken together...make an image." "Dynamite? Who has dynamite?" "Welcome to MY world." "Yikes! Illegal aliens!" "Tell me about the Blue Monkey." " How do you know about that thing that I've never heard of in my entire life?" "My dad told me." "What is the POINT of making them pinky-swear?" "Hah! You, a stuntman? Please!" "I am! Did you see those Mummy movies? I'm in them more than Brendan Fraser is." "Eh, f-first they tell me to lose the stutter. Now they tell me I'm not funny! It's a pain in the butt, being p-p-p-politically correct." "You're telling me."

"Oh, Elders, great, strong and wise, appear before my seeking eyes."

He's mentioned he forgets and repeats rounds, sometimes. So, this COULD be about some mother with a color in her name, now that you've mentioned it.

To say that completely misses the meaning of "cults" and "thought control." Schools are meant to EDUCATE. To a minor degree, they teach how to be a good citizen and how to behave. (Some kids don't know how to SIT STILL and LISTEN like the rest of the students.) The citizen thing is a very general one, and includes the local slant on history. (Which would go off-topic, but every country does that.) Their influence is limited, and the parent is intended to "do the heavy lifting." 4H and other clubs are VOLUNTARY CLUBS and have nothing to do with thought control and cults. Sports and games? Don't be silly. All of them require RULES-otherwise there's no way to win, no way to lose, and no way to determine progress. With no rules, there's no way to actually PLAY- and most of us would end up making up our own rules to play anyway. Try that with a handful of friends, a ball, and some space. Start with no game at all. I guarantee you, stay there several minutes, it will become a simple game with simple rules- Catch, or something. People may not announce the rules, but they'll play with them. It may not be a game with winning and losing, but it will be a game. With each of those, you are meant to CONTROL YOUR OWN THINKING AND CONDUCT. The problems with them (generally, there's always someone ruining things for everyone else) is when you FAIL to control your own thinking and conduct. THEN the rules are used to keep you from ruining a game or activity for others. Any activity with zero rules (like a completely unregulated messageboard) sooner or later becomes anarchy and troll-like. Those who will always abuse power at any level will bully others and, in effect, run things.

¨Hey, what do ya know? I found Nemo!¨ ¨There's a man there! He's got a woman! She's tied up in a burlap sack and he's taking her to the Eiffel Tower!¨ ¨ Ah, eet eez Spring, eez eet not?¨ "I also work for the Agency. Professional assassin. It's really hard for me to juggle the two sometimes. I don't know what I'm gonna do when I have kids! Do you know how hard it is to find a nanny with advanced weapons training?" "Nice of Wal-Mart to provide these Wal-Mart beverages in return for us saying "Wal-Mart" so many times." "What a fantastic view!" "Unless you're in the audience, in which case you've been staring at an elephant's behind for thirty seconds." " Pointillism. A technique using individual dots of pigment, which, taken together...make an image." "Dynamite? Who has dynamite?" "Welcome to MY world."

Not even close.

¨Hey, what do ya know? I found Nemo!¨ ¨There's a man there! He's got a woman! She's tied up in a burlap sack and he's taking her to the Eiffel Tower!¨ ¨ Ah, eet eez Spring, eez eet not?¨ "I also work for the Agency. Professional assassin. It's really hard for me to juggle the two sometimes. I don't know what I'm gonna do when I have kids! Do you know how hard it is to find a nanny with advanced weapons training?" "Nice of Wal-Mart to provide these Wal-Mart beverages in return for us saying "Wal-Mart" so many times."

I lacked access to my normal PC and keyboard, etc, for a few days. So, those were the clues for the next movie/round. I'll reformat them here for easier viewing. =========================================== ¨Hey, what do ya know? I found Nemo!¨ ¨There's a man there! He's got a woman! She's tied up in a burlap sack and he's taking her to the Eiffel Tower!¨ ¨ Ah, eet eez Spring, eez eet not?¨