Raf

You are slowly backing away from the finish line 

You have reached the finish line but have not crossed it.

ON AVERAGE

Every six days, some country somewhere is celebrating this event. What is it?

Decent guesses, but no.

I keep going back to Why Thor? [I'll do you one better...]

If a show features lawyers and law enforcement but is not about them, who's it about? 

The fast food restaurant sold chicken.

Law & Order is ABOUT the cops and lawyers.

This show is about not them.

it featured law enforcement officers and lawyers, but they it was not ABOUT them.

law firm, yes. the major supporting character in question is a lawyer.

Not Suits. 

Not a legal show.

One of the major characters is played by an actor who is not Jewish. At first, when he read the character's name, the actor said he shouldn't be cast BECAUSE he's not Jewish. But he learned that the character, despite his name, is not Jewish either. It's a deliberate choice on the character's part to let people THINK he's Jewish, because a Jewish person in his line of work is common.

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Fair enough.

My paranoia is in the other direction: that we are not seen as a site that gleefully reports every rumor without any concern over its veracity.

At the same time, the original post was specific in its query and I was specific in our reply, but I agree that a more expansive look at the question could easily yield insightful answers.

To wit:

Has TWI ever done anything that you considered an invasion of privacy?

[For Clarification: Raf and Modcat5 are the same person]

3 hours ago, WordWolf said:

Let's see.   Setting between Iron Man 2 and Iron Man 3 (IM2 ends with Thor's hammer as a teaser.)   It was a JOKE that it was part of the MCU, so it wasn't an MCU show- which makes sense because MAoS was the only one I remember for then and Fury would be conspicuous there. Correct. An MCU appearance would have been a joke not taken seriously at all by anyone.

If I wanted a cameo as a fast food restaurant patron, I'd expect the show either had a fast food restaurant as a regular setting and set, or have something like SNL where they set up anything whenever they feel like it. Define "regular."  It was a TV show, not a movie. Correct. 

This show either had to be run by geeks [To an extent that is true because of the sceintific consultations involved], or by people with a fantastic sense of humor, otherwise, why think they'd slip Nick Fury into a background? This was the only part of the guess that was completely off base. The producers did not want to slip Nick Fury into the background and I am confident, without evidence, that they did not consider it for more than a few minutes... and then only because it would have been so cool. But that is ALL speculation.

 

So, based on all that, I'm going with "THE BIG BANG THEORY."  NO. We have the rough time-frame, we have geeks, we have comedy, AND multiple sets with places to eat (primarily The Cheesecake Factory, but sometimes a Chinese restaurant or somewhere else.) "Geeks" overstates that element (hint) of the show, not a comedy, and I can't think of very many shows that have no "places to eat" settings.

 

In case I wasn't clear, Big Bang Theory was incorrect, and THOR (the first movie) is crucial to an accurate guess.

Sight?

Why Thor?

Ok, great thinking. Correcting a misconception: the producers did not seriously consider the cameo. Samuel L. Jackson asked for it and got turned down. Joking that the show was part of the MCU was a non-starter. That was NOT a hint about the genre of the show. 

This is one of the best examples I've ever given you of a subtle but MAJOR hint hiding in plain site.

So was that.

That would be hilarious, but no.

Samuel L. Jackson once showed up on the set of this series in character as Nick Fury. He wanted a cameo as a fast food restaurant patron. The scene likely would have been set during the events of Thor, though that's not 100 percent certain. In any event, even joking that this series was a part of the MCU was a non-starter. Jackson/Fury did not get the cameo.

I know. I was stalling.

am i?

Nill.

Move along.

Wild guess based on a name in common. 

Peter Sarsgaard (sp checked) played Charles "Chuck" Lane in "Shattered Glass," arguably my favorite movie. It remains the only movie I can put on any time and don't have to be in the mood for it. 

"Did someone say my name?"
"Who are you?"
"I'm Brian Dennehy."
"No, not f'ing Brian Dennehy." "Get the f out of here."
"Oh. Bye."

Pretty sure we left the original topic of this thread a few pages ago. While starting a new thread might be a good idea, I wouldn't enforce it. Let the conversation go where it may at this point.

[But more people might be attracted to a new thread].

Peter Skaarsgard

Excellent.

Of course, we would have to know that the Quaker who preceded Nixon was Herbert Hoover.

Could use a man like him again?

You sure about that?

Jack Black

Shallow Hal

Gwynneth Paltrow

Did he figure in any iconic TV show theme songs?