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I need a movie just on Jerome. A man who will throw a woman into a dumpster and whose is a cartoonish modern Jeeves is a man I need to know more about

Thank you!! I was ready to write a scathing rant on his incredible bitch baby antics! Just because you're talented doesn't mean you can treat people like shit.

You guys now I really want this jam I had in Chicago at a cafe called Wildberry. They don't have an online store and this is the current tragedy of my life. I AM IN A JAM OVER JAM Y'ALL!

I worry about sort of the opposite thing. I worry that as new people on the boards they may feel discouraged by their "work" so to speak, being overlooked in favor of calls that essentially day the same thing. Especially when, as you mentioned, often the people who are on the boards tend to write the questions/ observations on a more engaging and interesting way than how the callers phrase things. I think part of that is due to the general awkward nature of leaving a voice mail message but also partly because I think on the boards we take out time and can really go at a subject. I don't know I just feel like sometimes on the boards we are more passionate and interested in the subject. I don't mind the calls I just think that we have some really good content on here and I love it .

At the*very* least I would have some more questions and need to get said parents before being ok with sentient cartoons stealing from my family.

Does Quizbowl count as a "sport" ? Technically there were Jr and Varsity teams!

On the topic of Pinocchio asking his dad to make him a girlfriend ( would that also make her his sister?) I think he kind of has to go with Geppeto's Real Doll service because can you imagine having to ask a human woman , honestly any partner, to (as June would say "take on" all Pinocchio's shit? That's just cruel. Better to have him meet someone else who understands some of his shared traumas. Or I don't know, crazy idea, maybe now that your human spend time with your family before you go off to fuck an American Girl Doll store, you hornt up freak of sorcery.

So who exactly is Gepetto making all these puppets for? Is there a booming puppet/ marionette economy? Like besides that one evil puppet rival who is he selling to?. I feel like he's either hoarding those puppets in his shop and if anyone tried to buy one he would have an emotional breakdown or something OR he's a crazed old man who keeps making puppets to fill his sad emptiness and frankly because there's no fucking SSRI 's in this world and I'm not even sure Lexapro could save this fucker. Like even of he didn't seem to be deeply depressed or ... Something, no sane well adjusted person had that many puppets and he honestly has them for no reason which is even wose. Like he's not a puppeteer. He just.. Makes them and that is a truly terrifying hobby even without *vague gesture at everything going on with this mess of a man* Honestly is Gepetto alone terrifying? Like we all agree he has to notify people when he.moved into their neighborhood right?

All this talk of pinball leads me to the only fact on pinball I know which is apparently it was illegal for a while because people thought it was gambling? From Wikipedia "Pinball was banned beginning in the early 1940s until 1976 in New York City.[41] New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia was responsible for the ban, believing that it robbed school children of their hard earned nickels and dimes.[41][42] La Guardia spearheaded major raids throughout the city, collecting thousands of machines. The mayor participated with police in destroying machines with sledgehammers before dumping the remnants into the city's rivers" There's also a pretty interesting Slate article about it. Apparently it was banned in Oakland until 2014?! http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2015/05/29/pinball_was_banned_in_new_york_until_a_single_miraculous_shot_convinced.htm this and I was always very confused by the rock opera Tommy I sometimes listened to with my grandfather as a kid. I'm still not sure what exactly was going on there, I was very busy eating my Friday McDonald's ( we traditionally got McDonald's every Friday)

Who exactly was this movie for? Like what age group were they hoping to get? Because it's pretty horrifying so I don't think young kids would be able to handle it. Much like the evil owner of Pleasure Island they lured them in with the promise of a fun time with harmless J.T. T but then did a switcheroo and boom it's the story of a terrifying puppet and actors only your parents know. You cannot tell me other children were raised on Absolutely Fabulous vhs tapes (God bless you grandma and your insistence we watch what you wanted. Though maybe it isn't good that 7 year old me wanted to be Patsy ..) And knew Dawn French on sight. I'm willing to buy they maybe clocked Rob Schneider because he was on SNL but I would assume the target audience is too young for that? So who is this for? Nostalgic parents who yearn for the terror of the cartoon? ( You cannot tell me that shit wasn't scary) Kids old enough to handle it but not so old they find it boring? What is that age?!

As an adult I shudder to think about the amount of water park water I have ingested in my lifetime.I assume that is how you get modern day cholera. Forget poisoned wells that are also sewers, wave pools are the new breeding ground for monstrous disease.

As an adult I shudder to think about the amount of water park water I have ingested in my lifetime.I assume that is how you get modern day cholera. Forget poisoned wells that are also sewers, wave pools are the new breeding ground for monstrous disease.

I had a mini anxiety attack about the fact I called in to fix a mistake and I made a mistake and I'm currently working on if I should call again to fix it. We can all clearly see I'm too sensitive!

Hmmm no card of The Photo I see...

I cannot stress how much this fucked up monstrosity WAS WRITTEN EXPLICITLY FOR CHILDREN. Normally most original fairy tales were stories originally told for adults. Not Pinocchio! It was published in one of Italy's first weekly children's magazines Giornale per i bambini . ( Google translate tells me this means Newspaper for children) This was for Kids!!! Lynching, cricket murder, burning off Pinocchio's feet, being turned into a fucking donkey and abused and overworked to death by a farmer.... This is just your average late 19th century addition of Highlights y'all! This movie had no chance but to be a monstrous horror show ok?! PINOCCHIO IS THE DEVIL'S CHILDREN'S BOOK DO YOU HEAR ME

Will I never be free? Will this vile image haunt me until my dying days?

Don't you dare I love Paul's mom with all my heart. She lives above a mall!

In the original book Pinocchio kills him with a hammer as you mentioned and his ghost does pop up "Poor Pinocchio! I really pity you!" "Why do you pity me?" "Because you are a puppet and, what is worse, because you have a wooden head." At these last words Pinocchio jumped up in a rage and, snatching a wooden hammer from the bench, he threw it at the Talking-Cricket. Perhaps he never meant to hit him, but unfortunately it struck him exactly on the head, so that the poor Cricket had scarcely breath to cry "Cri-cri-cri!" and then he remained dried up and flattened against the wall. " The fairy has her servants fetch Pinocchio from the tree after he is hung and calls three doctors, A Crow, an Owl, and what I can only assume is the Talking Cricket's ghost? "And you—have you nothing to say?" asked the Fairy of the Talking-Cricket. "In my opinion, the wisest thing a prudent doctor can do, when he does not know what he is talking about, is to be silent. For the rest, that puppet there has a face that is not new to me. I have known him for some time!" Pinocchio, who up to that moment had lain immovable, like a real piece of wood, was seized with a fit of convulsive trembling that shook the whole bed. "That puppet there," continued the Talking-Cricket, "is a confirmed rogue." Pinocchio opened his eyes, but shut them again immediately. "He is a ragamuffin, a do-nothing, a vagabond." Pinocchio hid his face beneath the clothes. "That puppet there is a disobedient son who will make his poor father die of a broken heart!"

So I actually spoke at the lie show AND I WAS WRONG. I felt so bad I called the Paul help line to correct myself. I told everyone that they were turned into donkeys for their skin. But I thought I had mis-remembered. Only boys who don't study get "donkey fever" . And only Pinocchio was going to be turned into a drum because he ended up breaking his leg ( as a donkey) in a circus and being sold to a guy who wanted him for his skin for a drum. So I go to double check and now I'm more confused than ever. Because it looks like I found a short story called Donkey Fever . I usually listen to the episodes and look things up that I want to talk about and somehow found this. So then I went back and ended up reading the chapters in the original book. It turns out that I was sort of right and sort of wrong? So the Coachman basically lures children to ToyLand where they get Donkey Fever from not studying and being good. This is apparently his business model. He then sells the former little boys. ( When he meets Pinocchio and his friend Candlewick he fucking bites a donkey's eat off but pretends he's giving it a kiss? HOW DO YOU FAKE A KISS FOR BITING A GIDDAMN EAR OFF!!?) Pinocchio is then sold to a circus where he breaks a leg or something to that effect ( the book says he goes lame) while performing. He's THEN sold to the man who wants to turn him into a drum and that man throws him into the sea. And Candlewick you ask? Well I have the 1916 version which isn't as hard core but apparently he FUCKING DIES FROM BEING OVERWORKED AND ABUSED . I CAN'T STRESS ENOUGH HOW THIS WAS ACTUALLY WRITTEN FOR CHILDREN IN A CHILDREN'S MAGAZINE Should I call again and apologize for calling in very late and tried and messing yet again? Should you guys just start a shame bell walk for my lack of clarity! I'm normally so precise on research! ( Tbf at the show I had a really awful time with the theater management and if you saw two women having panic attacks on the lobby that was me and my friend hi!)

I know that it's late but because of the Spirit of Christmas (or as I call it Horny Ghost Inn) I wanted to recommend one of my favorite books that takes place at an inn during Christmas and has slight mystic tones . I should mention first off It's not written for adults though It's a lovely book. It's in that weird category where it's not exactly young adult fiction but it's definitely not small children fiction and saying junior fiction sounds oddly dismissive. The book is called Greenglass House. Here's how Goodreads describes it: "It’s wintertime at Greenglass House. The creaky smuggler’s inn is always quiet during this season, and twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers’ adopted son, plans to spend his holidays relaxing. But on the first icy night of vacation, out of nowhere, the guest bell rings. Then rings again. And again. Soon Milo’s home is bursting with odd, secretive guests, each one bearing a strange story that is somehow connected to the rambling old house. As objects go missing and tempers flare, Milo and Meddy, the cook’s daughter, must decipher clues and untangle the web of deepening mysteries to discover the truth about Greenglass House—and themselves" It's a fun little read and I recommend it if you just want a cozy story for a few hours.

Apparently in North Carolina there is a bank robber that the FBI has dubbed " The Bad Wig Bandit " https://www.wbtv.com/2020/01/17/fbi-says-bad-wig-bandit-has-robbed-yet-another-nc-bank/ It looks like SOMEONE couldn't " become another person". Also I personally feel that June could stop him based on his shoddy wig work as the reigning Queen of Wig Talk

This was one of my favorite movies as a kid. I just got a visceral jolt of nostalgia

Yes!!! I was confused why with all the Master of Disguise songs they went with the Fun for the opening song. The music seemed very odd and off putting. It was all over the place and didn't match the tone of the scenes a lot of times. They also replayed several songs with different people singing them. It was very disjointed.

This is another example of why they are clearly not real Italians. They would know that the latest American movies would get to Italy later in the year #FakeItalians

If you like To All The Boys I've Loved there's a WILD rabbit hole you need to fall down based on the actor who plays the love interest! His dad reportedly bought his way into Hollywood and may have used money stolen from investors from awful movies to do so. The first video on the movie in question is insane in and of itself and worth a watch too.