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Sunday, July 17, 2016

Limitless potential


I started watching the TV show "Limitless" on Netflix last night, and I watched the first two episodes. I don't even know the main character's name yet (Brian Finch; I looked it up).

 The show has an attractive premise: a 28-year-old screwup takes a special pill that makes him super-smart for the next 12 hours. He's helping the FBI, and they're slowly giving him more and more leeway.

 I can't imagine the real FBI trusting this guy at all; they couldn't control him.

 By the way, I see the show was not renewed for a second season. Bummer. It's kind of like the TV show "Forever," which I loved and watched faithfully. That show had a cliffhanger at the end of its lone season, and the show wasn't renewed. I wonder if they did the same thing with "Limitless."

 STRAY THOUGHT: Wasn't one of the main characters on "Person of Interest" named Harold Finch? Why do they like Finch so much?

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Sunday, April 17, 2016

A M*A*S*Hed jeep

 

In 1980, my friend Todd and I were watching M*A*S*H on re-runs, and this particular show seemed familiar to me. So I told Todd about an episode in which Frank Burns commandeered a tank and was going to run over Col. Potter's jeep with Col. Potter still in it.

 We watched as that episode unfolded. Fairly late in the episode, Col. Potter jumped out just before the tank mashed his jeep. He unbuckled his side pistol and fired to "put the jeep out of its misery."

 Todd looked at me as though I'd played a trick on him. I told him that the beginning of the episode made me think of the tank episode. No big deal, but it didn't seem that way to him.

 Before Netflix pulled M*A*S*H from its lineup recently, I watched the tank episode again. And I thought of a 1980 scene from an apartment in Seneca, S.C.

 You can see a clip here.

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One of my favorite M*A*S*H episodes involves Major Charles Emerson Winchester standing up for a private who stutters. At the end of the episode, we learn why he does it.

 He's listening to a tape of his sister Honoria stammering. You can find YouTube clips from that episode here.

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I was just watching a M*A*S*H episode (MASH S10E14 - The Tooth Shall Set You Free) featuring a familiar face: Lawrence Fishburne. He was skinny then, so I didn't recognize him at first. But I eventually recognized that jaw.

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