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From: Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-16 (Saturday)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 04:30:44 -0400
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anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
>Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

>> While recovering from a back injury, I watched:
>
>AMERIGEDDON (2016)
>If this was a lot better, it might be bad enough to be an asylum film. Evil
>terrorists shut down the power grid in the USA. We know this because people
>in their lit homes are watching the news broadcast from the completely
>electrified studios.

But that's not what it was about at ALL!
Oh, AMERIgeddon...

>IRON CHEF
>The original series; episodes from season five. I kept flipping away
>because they were eating horrible stuff and saying stupid things about it.
>Turtle soup made in the turtles own shell (upside down).  Tuna, cooked in
>peanut oil and moon salt, which is salt that is only harvested underwater
>during the full moon, and as the pretty actress judge tells us, has magical
>powers. 

[eye roll]

>And of course, whole octopus.

Was it still alive and kicking?

>THE THUNDERMANS
>And then there's this which I just heard of for the first time. They're
>advertising the snot out of it because they just released a reunion movie
>from this 2013 TV series that’s a complete rip off and intended replacement
>for The Wizards of Waverly Place.  The parents and especially the father
>are indistinguishable from the earlier and vastly superior show. I don't
>think I've ever seen anything as aggressively stupid and unfunny. And I've
>definitely never heard a worse or more intrusive laugh track. I watched the
>original pilot episode and about five minutes of the new movie, which is as
>much as I could stand. it has one redeeming feature and that's that the
>lead actress is really cute. But not even close to cute enough.

Didn't you watch this when  it first aired? I remember you and Ian commenting 
on it.

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Let's go Brandon!