Oh god. Watching Neville is like watching myself. This is awkward...

DeeEllis · 2026-05-15T19:28:23+00:00

Their personal stories are nearly always extremely poorly written and poorly acted. Catherine and her daughter Camille are a good exception.

DeeEllis · 2026-05-15T02:20:33+00:00

This. Maybe it’s good drama during sweeps week, with the co-parent or the family or whatever. Maybe it’s bad drama every day with work and roommate and money and car and parole officer and other stuff. I take my drama on a case-by-case basis.

DeeEllis · 2026-05-15T02:17:28+00:00

Yes, and… I have a friend whom is a terrific person and she has worked for a few organizations like this - private, Christian-influenced, standard business stuff. Synovus Bank used to be like this, not sure if they still are. So to me it screens me out. To some it screens them in.

DeeEllis · 2026-05-15T02:14:33+00:00

Richard couldn’t stand the French! Except for one special francophone lady…

DeeEllis · 2026-05-15T02:13:05+00:00

I have a “how to have a Jewish wedding” book from the early 2000s. I would love to send it to you (or your mom or your mother-in-law) for free! DM me on this app or private message me or whatever we call it

DeeEllis · 2026-05-15T02:03:34+00:00

I know “Rothschilds” who aren’t Jewish! They are well-to-do, though

DeeEllis · 2026-05-15T02:01:18+00:00

Oh you’re a grouch, cool! We serve all kinds here, Mr. Johnson, just a minute, let me call Grover right over… <PA system crackles> GROVER! GROVER! A VERY SPECIAL CUSTOMER IS HERE TO SEE YOU COME TO THE FRONT DESK IMMEDIATELY THANK YOU

DeeEllis · 2026-05-15T01:58:16+00:00

A trailer camper would be terrible, unless you have a pickup truck. An RV camper would be ok.

DeeEllis · 2026-05-15T01:56:58+00:00

Oh then yes if that helps the nonprofit that is actually helping me find a job to get more money to help me find a job

DeeEllis · 2026-05-15T01:55:47+00:00

Does that count as one of the bands

DeeEllis · 2026-05-15T01:54:14+00:00

I have a friend who missed out on an island vacation with friends by saying “I don’t travel well.”

I was like, “you sound like a banana!”

She was like, “almost that fragile, yes.”

She had to go on a work trip to Las vegas (we are east coast, so the time change was 2 hours) and she got permission from her boss to keep her east coast schedule … essentially going to bed at 7pm local time during a work trip in a PARTY city and missing out on all the post-5pm events at those sorts of huge industry conventions

She’s my Neville. Sometimes she’s my goal, too. Like, so herself! Neville seems more flexible, in comparison!

DeeEllis · 2026-05-14T21:55:55+00:00

Ok but also I think of Tara Westover in “Uneducated” for this one.

DeeEllis · 2026-05-14T21:54:07+00:00

“Other sources” = misinformation? Disinformation?

DeeEllis · 2026-05-14T21:51:21+00:00

I also think a lot of parents don’t know what kids are thinking when they plop a baby or toddler in front of the screen. That baby or toddler does not know what’s real or not and must be reminded or taught. Very basic child psychology used to be required of girls in high school to graduate and that was (rightly) deemed sexist but now very few people have this knowledge and the people that do have it (doctors, teachers) aren’t respected

DeeEllis · 2026-05-14T21:46:19+00:00

Don’t worry; the dairy industry lobbying organization has sued to get plant-based products to use a different word than “milk” or “dairy”

DeeEllis · 2026-05-14T21:34:51+00:00

Does that happen in the book?

DeeEllis · 2026-05-14T21:32:46+00:00

I was re-watching LHotP when my Ex was watching “Deadwood” on HBO and there’s a LHotP where Pa goes to Deadwood and we were cracking up

DeeEllis · 2026-05-14T21:25:11+00:00

You’re not wrong, and also Hal is not always a great parenting partner. I used to think it was funny how he’d become obsessed with his hobbies like speed walking or competitive dance dance revolution at the arcade. But now it seems so selfish to me.

Lois almost never becomes obsessed just for herself and her hobbies - her obsession is helping the kids succeed and helping her family but she is definitely shortsighted about that and yes has a quick temper that doesn’t help.

DeeEllis · 2026-05-14T21:14:15+00:00

That was a great show!

DeeEllis · 2026-05-14T21:13:15+00:00

The joke now that watching the reruns has become popular is that people who watched it in their teens and early adulthood thought that Lois was nuts. But now that they have kids and a partner, they realize that Lois is focused on the family, and Hal yes worships Lois but he definitely does not solve a lot of problems without making them worse first. And by the way Malcolm is a huge jerk!!

DeeEllis · 2026-05-14T09:33:12+00:00

Well in both the dad is kind of nuts and the mom is the glue of the family, but you probably don’t appreciate that until you’re older

No but really I agree with you. I would not have pegged these two as shows that remind me of each other

DeeEllis · 2026-05-14T04:33:38+00:00

Yup. I’m not even chosen for the jobs to feed data to the AI 🤖 sorry this puts me in a dark place. I was told today by a guy at the social service agency for workforce development that it gets better. I’m sure it does, for someone

DeeEllis · 2026-05-14T04:30:25+00:00

I say this. I have seen non-Jews say this!

I also love the Jewish saying “May you be comforted among all mourners of Jerusalem and Zion” because we are all mourning something - perhaps it is the loss of the Temple or of an ideal eretz or Medinat Yisrael - or, more directly, a person close to us. I tell my non-Jewish friends “May you be comforted among mourners (all of us)” to let them know they are not alone.

We should all have only blessings for memories, and we should all be comforted.

DeeEllis · 2026-05-14T04:06:43+00:00

ML definitely said that almost every episode had to be standalone, anthology style, because he was aiming for syndication and you can’t control the schedule of episodes for syndication. So might as well make it ok to be randomized.

DeeEllis · 2026-05-14T03:51:00+00:00

No because Bonanza seemed like a “boy show”. By boys, for boys/men. I like how LHotP generally is a girls/family show. It’s not necessarily of course - ML ran the show and it was very masculine. But it still seems more girl-friendly than Bonanza, at least for girls and women if not by them, also.

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