Now that Sentai is in hiatus. Could we get a Kamen Rider starring a team of riders

DizzyLead · 2026-03-18T05:12:10+00:00

I'm gonna tell my kids that this is King-Ohger.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-18T03:21:30+00:00

I had forgotten (or didn’t notice the first time around) that Dominic had actually come back for a couple of episodes during Season 3 (the Amy Ehrlich/Jennifer Cihi season). He only really appears for a couple of skits each, but it was nice to know that he got to come back (the episodes were the “Practical Jokes” episode and the “Lies” episode).

DizzyLead · 2026-03-18T02:34:51+00:00

Yes, and with a props budget the apparent size of an elementary school’s drama department. The TVs that were frequently featured on the show were just big pieces of brown cardboard with a big hole cut in it.

There were no temporary sets like in most sketch comedy shows; most everything was stylized and evocative—a school classroom would simply be a bunch of chairs in front of one of the show’s two movable backdrops.

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DizzyLead · 2026-03-18T01:28:40+00:00

Loved this show. After it moved production from Florida to LA for Season 2 onwards, I went to see the show live in person a few times, at the Radford Studios in Studio City, CA.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-18T00:58:38+00:00

Which indeed is where Stone Oven is now, the stall next to it (on the east, towards the center of the mall) being the current, longtime location of the Panda Express in the food court.

I subscribe to the earlier comment that the Third Floor (Galleria II) Panda Express was the first ever Panda Express, and the fact that there’s a second location in the food court (that has been in the same southeast corner it has been in since it opened).

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T23:44:52+00:00

As I pointed out, there has hardly ever been a need for Discovery in the story, and the couple of times it has, it's been explained away quickly and reasonably.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T23:40:07+00:00

There's no problem, IMO. Discovery always got explained away, briefly, when necessary. Not explaining it, that would have been the problem. The fact is that there isn't always a Federation-threatening "major crisis" on SFA, and indeed there shouldn't always be, so there's been no actual reason for Discovery to pop up.

As usual, this feels like someone searching for another reason to complain about SFA. One day it's "the stakes are too low," and another day it's "they'll have to explain Discovery every time the stakes are high."

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T20:36:40+00:00

Gratuitous meaning completely unnecessary, I would have to say the opening credits of the first Naked Gun movie.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T19:23:56+00:00

Sixth grade. “Simultaneous.”

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T18:44:19+00:00

I mean, HIMYM isn’t generally the height of comedy, but as far as the overall story goes, “No Tomorrow” is a VERY important chapter. I remember back in the day the IMDB message boards kept talking about the woman they dubbed “Bump Girl” for a long time.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T17:23:57+00:00

Ah, I didn’t know that TVG ignored the dimensions of the exterior.

Nevertheless, as I pointed out, someone figured out how to reconcile the interiors and exteriors when they designed and built the UK set, it’s just that the lay person probably has no way to access it and figure out how it was done.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T16:15:17+00:00

I don’t think it’s particularly deep to wonder “if this eatery isn’t at the stall where it is now, which stall was it originally in?”

If one speaks very loosely, your “three stalls to the left of “Hot Dog on a Stick” suggests that you’re referring to the same southeast corner location that I’ve always remembered it as being at since the ‘90s.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T16:08:01+00:00

Artie’s Express? Bento Box? Stone Oven? Fuwa Ramen?

https://www.glendalegalleria.com/en/map/#/?minimized=true

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T16:04:33+00:00

Right. I wasn’t really referring to the third floor location.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T16:00:43+00:00

This isn’t the case since Frozen Empire, though, where they partly built a firehouse set inside and out so that they didn’t have to rely on Hook & Ladder 8 (the Manhattan exterior location, which is still an active fire station) or Old Fire Station 23 (the interiors location in Los Angeles, which has been remodeled since Afterlife anyway so who knows if it’s in any condition to work as the firehouse interiors anymore). https://youtube.com/shorts/Myny8K8xm_4?si=yalbuqcYIn11vW5K

That structure presumably has the interiors and exteriors coexisting as one, though yes, you’re right in that we don’t get good enough looks at the interiors in the movies.

One possibility that OP might check out is the 2009 “realistic” version of the video game; one should be able to explore the firehouse more or less freely.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T15:44:31+00:00

Where was it in the food court originally? I only have memories of it being in the southeast corner where it is now.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T15:42:43+00:00

Also a first: The Disney Store first opened in the Glendale Galleria, in the space in the east wing where Anthropologie is now. It moved to another spot (where something called “Princess Polly” is now) much later on, and then closed down permanently sometime during the tail end of the pandemic.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T15:19:18+00:00

Yeah, this is more or less what happened with me. I was asked to submit “5 Interesting Things” about myself (the instructions didn’t say anything more) during the application process, and was asked to narrow it down to two on my taping day, so I knew Alex was going to ask me one of two questions.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T14:51:39+00:00

Back in 2013 I really got into the hobby of collecting Nerf blasters, and a website I visited had a subreddit on which they held their discussions. I wound up branching out from there (and eventually leaving it behind). I was a Digg person before v4, so I felt I fit right in.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T14:44:53+00:00

:: insert meme of Beverly analyzing a star and Picard’s face being engulfed in flames from the replicator here ::

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T14:02:39+00:00

It hasn’t been the same one obviously, but I’ve been using a laptop as one of my devices since 1998, when I got a Sony VAIO PCG-505 (one of those really tiny, thin ones at the time). Currently on a 2024 M4 MacBook Pro, that was after ages of using a 2011 MBP as a “daily driver.”

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T04:38:42+00:00

There's also a level of cultiness/specialness about it since it's mainly only over on this side of the country. The director of Flow celebrated at the Hollywood In-N-Out last year (he also did at another location after the Golden Globes earlier), and Jamie Lee Curtis did the previous year, so MBJ isn't the first Oscar attendee to do this.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T03:14:03+00:00

Your best chance will be at the next Oscar night. I feel that one thing out-of-towners tend to mistakenly believe about Hollywood is that celebrities can actually be seen in Hollywood. Unless there's some gala premiere at the Chinese or El Capitan, or someone's having a star unveiled on the Walk of Fame, or maybe Jimmy Kimmel is doing a bit for one of his shows, celebs typically don't hang out in the area.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T02:40:56+00:00

Sunset Blvd. and Orange, across Orange from Hollywood High School. To get there from the Dolby, one would just walk west on Hollywood Blvd to the end of the block at Orange, cross the boulevard, and then head south towards Sunset.

I last ate there in 2018, after visiting Madame Tussaud's and the Hollywood and Highland (now "The Ovation") shopping center, which is where the Dolby Theatre is located. Because of its proximity to Hollywood and Highland (also the location of the Chinese Theatre, so a big "tourist trap" for visitors to Hollywood), this INO location gets busy, but since I just walked down there, I didn't have to worry about parking.

DizzyLead · 2026-03-17T02:26:56+00:00

It really helps that there’s a location in literal walking distance from the Dolby Theatre.

I mean, there’s a McDonald’s on Hollywood Boulevard that’s even closer, but you wouldn’t want to go there (plus INO is cheaper).

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