Sunday, July 6, 2025

The Phil Silvers Show 4.15

Bilko's Bopster

Skinny Sanders, a jazz musician, joins Bilko's platoon. Sanders is loud and gets on everyone's nerves. Bilko tries to get him transferred to another base until he learns that Sanders is in high demand.

Bilko withdraws his transfer request for Sanders and instead focuses his energy on finding a band for Sanders.

Thoughts

Captain Barker is in this episode but Colonel Hall is not.

Ronny Graham played the part of Skinny Sanders. I didn't recognize him but he was in a few films that I have seen including The World's Greatest Lover (1977), History of the World: Part I (1981), To Be or Not to Be (1983), Spaceballs (1987), and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993).

The Long Season 1.01

Episode 1

Chapter 1 - A Train Lost in Autumn

Hualin, 2016. Gong Biao who up until now has shared a taxi with Wang Xiang, a distant relative to whom he is related by marriage, buys a cab which turns out to be in bad state of repair despite how it looks. It turns out that recently someone driving the cab hit a pedestrian but everything doesn't make sense. The video footage of the accident shows that the cab had a sticker on the back but the car that Biao bought does not.

Xiang and Biao go to the hospital to see the victim but there is no one there. The name on the patient's records seems to be an alias. They start looking for the cab in the video. They ask all the other taxi drivers to let them know if they see it. Eventually someone sees it lets them know where.

Saturday, July 5, 2025

Adventure Time 4.26

The Lich

Finn has a nightmare about Billy. He tells Jake about the dream and then they go to see Billy. Finn and Jake join Billy on a quest for all the gems of power. They get them and unlock the power of the Enchiridion only to discover that Billy is actually the Lich.

The Enchiridion opens a portal. Princess Bubblegum warns them that the Lich must not be allowed to step through the portal. Finn and Jake grab the Lich but are unable to stop him from passing through the portal. 

The episode ends with Finn and Jake waking up looking a little different. They are near a barn and someone is calling for them.

Steven Universe 1.24

An Indirect Kiss

Steven tells Connie about how Amethyst fell off a cliff while horsing around. Her gem got cracked and she started acting weird. Steven, Garnet, and Pearl took Amethyst to Rose's shrine. Rose's tears healed people. Steven tries to cry thinking that maybe his tears can also heal people.

Rose's shrine is overgrown with thorns when they get there. The pool has dried up. Things get weird as Amethyst's condition gets worse.

The episode ends with Connie discovering that she no longer needs glasses to see. Steven concludes that it is his saliva, not his tears, that heal people.

Friday, July 4, 2025

The Silent Partner (1978)

The Silent Partner (1978)

starring Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York
directed by Daryl Duke

102 minutes

Miles Cullen (Elliott Gould), the vault manager at a bank in Toronto, gets wise to the fact that a mall Santa is getting ready to rob the bank. It gives him an idea to steal some money and let the mall Santa take the blame. It seems like a good idea. Everything goes smoothly except that the mall Santa gets away and discovers that the amount he took is considerably less than what he is accused to stealing.

A Model Family 1.02

Episode 2

Dong-ha confirms that it is his wife that is trying to reach one of the dead men. He digs up one of the bodies enough to use the fingerprint of the dead man to unlock the phone. He looks at pictures and videos that the dead man shot, including one with his wife.

Kwang-chul moves into the neighborhood. He has his men learn what they can about the neighborhood. He is watching when Dong-ha is playing catch with Hyun-woo, his son, and Hyun-woo collapses. Kwang-chul offers some assistance. Dong-ha and Eun-joo take Hyun-woo to the hospital. Eun-joo blames Dong-ha for the incident and once again asks him for a divorce.

Black Mirror 2.01

Be Right Back

Martha loses Ash, her boyfriend. He is killed in a car accident. She learns soon afterwards that she's pregnant. She grieves until she learns about a service that uses A.I. to create a facsimile of a lost loved one.

It starts with text messages, then moves to conversations over the phone, and then finally she pays for an android copy of Ash. At first it is wonderful but then she starts spotting the differences and realizes that it isn't the same.