Crashing 1.04

Episode 4

Kate poops in the bed. Anthony helps Lulu get properly registered as a guardian of the building. Sam hangs out with Fred and Will, who doesn't care for the way Sam treats Fred. Melody helps Kate get over her anxiety by painting her.

Sam and Lulu jump into bed together at the end of the episode. Kate decides that she isn't sure about her relationship with Anthony and she tells him so.

UFO Robo Grendizer 2.10

An Oath in Space

or An Oath to the Blazing Skies!

or L'invincible du cosmos (The Invincible of the Cosmos)

Skull Moon Base is threatened and almost destroyed by a great meteorite. It looks like the base is going to be destroyed when Commander Zegra in Saucer Beast Gera Gera shows up. He slices the meteorite in half and it only causes minimal damage to the base. 

Gandal and Zuril are very impressed by Commander Zegra who announces his plan to destroy Grendizer. He has discovered Grendizer's weakness. The giant robot is vulnerable for a few seconds when launching from and returning to Spazer. Zegra plans to take advantage of that vulnerability and destroy Grendizer.

Professor Umon has discovered the same weakness. He pushes Duke Fleed and Kouji to train to perfect the duo of Grendizer and and Double Spazer. They train for more than 5 hours but are no closer to improving the technique of combining the two spaceships when Saucer Beast Gera Gera is sighted. 

Duke Fleed goes out in Grendizer to fight Commander Zegra. Grendizer proves to be ineffective against the saucer beast. Kouji sees the battle and decides to join his friend. He launches in Double Spazer despite Professor Umon's objections that he is too tired. Kouji and Duke Fleed overcome their exhaustion. They join the spaceships together and defeat Commander Zegra.

Doctor Who (1963) 14.02.03

The Hand of Fear - Part 3

The Doctor and Sarah arrive at the reactor room too late. Driscoll has already entered with the hand. The Doctor considers sticking around but decides to leave after Professor Watson announces that the RAF who will be hitting the facility with tactical nuclear weapons in less than 10 minutes.

The RAF fires missiles at the facility but Eldrad absorbs the energy of the weapons and there is no explosion.

Eldrad emerges from the reactor core. Eldrad has assumed a human form. The Doctor, Sarah, and Professor Watson return to the reactor room after they witness what happened to the RAF strike. The Doctor has a chat with Eldrad who uses her power to confirm that he is telling the truth and to ascertain that he is not human. She knows of the time lords and asks the Doctor to help her.

Eldrad explains that she came from Kastria. She restored the planet, which was once a barren world, but then it got caught in the middle of a war between two other planets. She learns from the Doctor that it has been 150 million years since she arrived on Earth. Ekdrad asks the Doctor to take her back in time to the time she left Kastria so that she can get her revenge.

The Doctor agrees to take Eldrad back to Kastria but in the present. Professor Watson doesn't trust Eldrad and tries to kill her with a gun. Eldrad almost kills the professor but stops when the Doctor threatens to break his promise (to take her back to Kastria) if she kills Professor Watson.

The Doctor, Sarah Jane, and Eldrad return to the TARDIS. They travel to Kastria. Eldrad is happy but then she gets shot with a bolt in the chest.

Samurai Jack 4.13

LII: Jack and the Baby

Jack rescues a baby from ogres who are getting ready to cook the baby. Jack goes looking for the baby's mother. He entertains the baby with the story of Momotaro, a story which Jack's mother used to tell him. Jack struggles to find milk for the baby.

Jack and the baby eventually find themselves back in the woods where they first met and where the ogres live. Jack battles the ogres once again. This time he makes sure that they will never harm the baby again. The episode ends with the baby's mother showing up and Jack walking off over the horizon.

The Phil Silvers Show 1.32

The Con Men

Doberman receives a check for $500. He goes into town and promptly loses the money to some con men. Sgt Bilko decides he must get Doberman's money back. He goes into town, dressed as a private and flashes a lot of money around. He quickly gets the attention of the con men.

Thoughts

Colonel Hall is not in this episode.

There was at least one inconsistency in this episode. Sgt Bilko already seems to know that Doberman was hanging out with people from his hometown before he tells him that. I don't understand how that can be possible.

This was a lot of fun and very funny. I love watching Bilko work.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 1.05

Doink

Midge gets a job working in a department store. She wants a job as an elevator operator but they won't hire her to do that. She instead gets a job at the makeup counter. Her mother is very disappointed. Her father is a bit surprised and has lots of questions.

Joel introduces Penny to his parents. They are not impressed.

Midge bombs on stage at the Gaslight. She's doesn't understand what went wrong. Midge turns to Herb Smith, a "professional", for help writing material. His help doesn't help. She bombs again. The jokes Smith writes are old and tired and seem as if they are written for someone else. Midge and Susie get into an argument after her second bombing run. Midge declares that she's done with comedy.

The next night Midge goes to a party thrown by one of her coworkers. She tells her coworkers stories and quickly has them all laughing.

Animaniacs 1.03

H.M.S. Yakko - Yakko, Wakko, and Dot travel to an island where they encounter a pirate and sing songs composed by Gilbert & Sullivan for the Pirates of Penzance but with new lyrics.

Slappy Goes Walnuts - Slappy Squirrel - Slappy doesn't mess around or let Doug the Dog between her and the walnuts she needs for a recipe.

Yakko's Universe Song - Yakko sings a song about the universe

Thoughts

Fun, decent, but not great.

Booksmart (2019)

starring Beanie Feldstein, Kaitlyn Dever, Jessica Williams, Jason Sudeikis 

directed by Olivia Wilde

1 hr 43 min

Molly (Feldstein) and Amy (Dever) are about to graduate from high school. It is the day before graduation. They've spent all their time studying so that they can get into top schools only to discover that the people who partied and had fun are also getting into the top schools. Molly decides that they have to make up for it by going to the party that one of their classmates is throwing.

They realize that they don't know where the party is happening. They call one guy who takes them to the party he is throwing. He agrees to pick them up but they quickly realize that no one else is at his party. They get what they think is the right place only to discover that once again it is the wrong party. They finally get to the right party but things don't go exactly according to plan.

UFO Robo Grendizer 2.09

Flying in Space with Double Spazer

or Fly! Double Spazer!

or Le premier raid (The First Raid)

The Vegans send a new saucer beast to Earth. Commander Beto is the pilot and he is given instructions to tunnel underground in search of Grendizer's secret base. His digging causes earthquakes at the Makiba Ranch, the Space Center, and elsewhere.

Grendizer launches in search of the source of the earthquakes. Professor Umon and Duke Fleed suspect that a saucer beast might be the source of the earthquakes. Grendizer goes looking for the underground saucer beast by tunneling underground. 

Duke Fleed finds the beast on two occasions but it keeps getting away from him. Grendizer gets in a couple good hits but then the beast crashes into the Space Center. Duke Fleed doesn't know what to do. If he shoots the saucer beast he might destroy the Space Center. Professor Umon tells him to send Spazer at the saucer beast. He does and it works, the saucer beast is pushed away from the Space Center.

Professor Umon tells Kouji to launch in his new ship. Kuoji in Double Spazer and Duke Fleed in Grendizer team up and destroy the saucer beast.

Doctor Who (1963) 14.02.02

The Hand of Fear - Part 2

Sirens start to go off at the nuclear power station. The Doctor and Dr. Carter escape from the guards in the confusion and make their way to the control room. Professor Watson, the top man at the power station, asks them to leave but they stick around.

Sarah has sealed the door to the room where whe is holed up with the hand that is now wiggling and regenerating. Professor Watson and the Doctor try talking some sense into Sarah but she is under the sway of Eldrad and won't listen. Dr. Carter is also under the sway of Eldrad but that isn't apparent to the Doctor just yet

The Doctor heads down to the room in which Sarah has locked herself and the hand. Dr. Carter goes with him. He tries to kill the Doctor. Dr. Carter falls to his death off from a great height when he tries taking a swing at the Doctor.

Samurai Jack 4.12

LI: Young Jack in Africa

Young Jack is taken by a friend of his father to live and train with an African chieftain and his people. It takes Jack time to accept his new surroundings. The chieftain's son, who is about Jack's age, doesn't warm to Jack as quickly as his father but eventually they become friends.

One night, after Jack has been there for some time, the village is attacked. The attackers are also humans but they work for Aku. They carry bladed weapons that they spin above their heads and that have large flat sides. Jack is the only one to evade capture. Jack follows the attackers back to their village.

Jack steals one of the attackers weapons, trains with it, and then comes back to free his new friends. 

Newsradio 4.15

Big Brother

Matthew reveals that he's a part of the Big Brother program. Danny, Matthew's big brother, comes to visit WNYX. Beth and Lisa are surprised to see that Danny is about the same age as Matthew. Beth and Lisa try talking some sense into Danny and Matthew without much success.

Bill, Joe, and Mr. James (in that order) become obsessed with learning whom Lisa is dating since she and Dave split up. Dave has no interest in finding out.

Thoughts

I enjoyed this one very much. I think I've probably seen it before but it didn't bring back any memories. I did laugh on more than one occasion. 

Animaniacs 1.02

Yakko's World - Yakko sings a song which identifies all the countries of the world

Cookies for Einstein - Yakko, Wacko, and Dot attempt to sell Kid Scout Cookies to Albert Einstein

Win Big - Pinky and the Brain - Brain competes on Gyp-Parody, a game show, hoping to win enough money to buy the device he needs to take over the world

Thoughts

Yakko's World might have been accurate when this cartoon first aired but that is no longer the case.

The Warner siblings sing the opening song to Pinky and the Brain. They also make a cameo appearance later in the segment. 

This episode opens with the story behind the Warner siblings, although it is a slightly shorter version than opened the previous episode.

The episode closes with the Warner siblings spinning the wheel of Morality.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 1.04

The Disappointment of the Dionne Quintuplets

The episode opens with a montage of scenes There are scenes of Midge and Joel moving into the apartment. They are mixed with scenes of Midge supervising as movers move things out of their apartment. Midge and her kids move in with her parents. Rose is convinced that Midge and Joel will get back together within a couple weeks.

Susie makes business cards, one at a time. She shows them to people but then asks for them back. She and Midge make plans to meetup the next day to talk shop. They meet at the Gaslight Cafe. Susie takes Midge to a record store. Midge buys a Red Foxx album for $50. 

Joel calls Midge to let her know that he has an apartment and is no longer living with their friends. He wants to see Ethan, their son. Midge doesn't want to stop by the office. Joel agrees to pick Ethan up. The next day Midge goes to the park with Ethan. She winds up speaking at a rally to protest plans to destroy the park. She is invited up to speak by Jane Jacobs who is leading the protest of the plans which were drawn up by Robert Moses.

Midge calls Joel's office only to discover that he isn't there. She talks to Mrs. Moskowitz, Joel's new older secretary. Midge gets his address from Mrs. Moskowitz and takes Ethan over to his new place. It looks very much like their place. Penny, Joel's former secretary is there. Midge has a few choice words for Joel but she leaves Ethan with him.

Mr. Inbetween 3.09

I'm Not Leaving

Ray sells his place. He's decided to move on. Brittany isn't happy about it. He tells her he will only be an hour and a half away.

Gary visits Ray at his new place, a camper.

Ray has a chat with Freddy who gives him some information on someone who wants to meet with him. Ray takes Dave to the meeting. It turns out to be a setup. Rafael wants Ray dead. Things don't work out for Rafael or the two men he brings with him. Dave gets shot. He doesn't make it either.

Ray goes back and sees Freddy who admits to what he did. He says they made him. They were watching him.

Ray starts a new life, as a taxi driver. He stops shaving his head, lets his beard grow out. One night he picks up a couple young guys in his cab. They want him to drop them off in a remote spot, at night. 

Animaniacs 1.01

De-Zanitized

Dr. Scratchansniff is given orders to deal with the Warner siblings (Yakko, Wakko, Dot). They are causing problems because they are too zany.

The Monkey Song

Dr. Scratchansniff and the Warners sing and dance around the studio lot to the tune of The Monkey Song, with modified lyrics.

Nighty-Night Toon

The narrator wishes everyone on the lot good night.

Doctor Who (1963) 14.02.01

The Hand of Fear - Part 1

A creature, possibly humanoid, wrapped in protective garb mans a post on an extremely cold planet and in the distant past. It is given orders which it follows to blow up a spaceship, which it does.

The TARDIS materializes on Earth in a quarry. The Doctor and Sarah Jane emerge and start walking around. They are caught in an explosion which levels a wall of rock. The Doctor emerges from the explosion relatively uninjured but Sarah is buried under some rubble. The Doctor and men who were working at the quarry dig her out.

Sarah is taken to a hospital. She is holding a stone hand which must be much be older than mankind, based on where it was found. There is a ring on the hand which Sarah takes. The hand is examined by Dr. Carter at the hospital while Sarah is unconscious. The Doctor checks in first on Sarah and then on Dr. Carter. The Doctor decides to return to the quarry to have a look around to see if he can find anything related to the hand.

The Doctor returns empty handed from the quarry but by then Sarah is gone. She awoke while he was at the quarry and went to see Dr. Carter. She took the hand and knocked out Dr. Carter using a ray beam that the ring emits. She heads to the nearest nuclear reactor, Nunton Experimental Complex. She uses the ring again a few more times at Nunton.

Outlaw Star 1.04

When the Hot Ice Melts

Ice Hilda leads Gene, Jim, and Melfina into the asteroid. It is there that they finds the XGP15A-II, the ship that was made with "the pirates brains and the Space Forces technology". Hilda has the means to activate the ship. Melfina turns out to be the key to navigation. The pirates arrive before they have the ship ready to depart.

Hilda returns to the Horus to deal with the pirates. The others continue to get the XGP15A-II ready for departure with some help from the ship's primary computer, Gilliam II. The pirates want the ship and put up a fight. Things aren't looking good for the heroes. The fight gets interrupted by the MacDougall brothers. They are there to destroy the XGP15A-II and anyone who gets in their way. Gene recognizes the MacDougall ship as the one that attacked his family on the day his father was killed. 

The Phil Silvers Show 1.31

Hair

Three other Master Sargeants (Sowici, Pendelton, Grover) play a trick on Bilko. They attach a wig to his head while he is sleeping. He wakes up and thinks his hair has grown back. The other Master Sergeants have plans to reveal the trick in front of a crowd but Bilko discovers the truth before they get a chance to do so. Bilko comes up with a plan to get revenge on Sowici, Pendleton, and Grover.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 1.03

Because You Left

Midge gets bailed out by Lenny Bruce. It is his way of repaying her for helping him out.

Rose, Midge’s mother, is sick with worry about Midge. Abe doesn’t listen but then he goes to see Moishe, Joel’s father. He offers to pay for half of the apartment. Moishe agrees to the offer.

Midge gets a lawyer and goes to court. She mouths off to the judge and is held in contempt. She needs $200 to pay the fine she incurred. She turns to Joel for help and he comes through. She apologizes to the judge, which she did not want to do. She is then pushed into pleading guilty, which she also did not want to do and is sentenced to time served.

Midge hangs out with Lenny and helps to emcee a jazz club. It gives her an opportunity to try out some new material. She goes home and finds Joel waiting for her outside the building. He tells her he wants to get back with her. She says no. He asks her why. Her answer is the title of this episode.

Crashing 1.03

Episode 3

The group has dinner together. Anthony does the cooking. He makes three Indian dishes. Fred brings a date. Sam is jealous. The truth about Melody and Colin finally comes out: he is her muse. Kate gets angry when the group finds out that she can’t orgasm but she's angry because she can, just not with Anthony. Lulu wants to have sex with Sam.

Mr. Inbetween 3.08

I'll See You Soon

The next day, Ray and Zoe continue on down the road. Zoe is driving. They are out in the middle of nowhere. Ray and Zoe are talking when a kangaroo appears out of nowhere. They hit it. The car starts rolling. The car is totaled. Ray survives without serious damage but Zoe is knocked unconscious.

Ray calls Rafael. An elderly couple in a camper shows up while Ray is waiting for Rafael. Rafael doesn't like the situation he finds when arrives. He kills the elderly couple. Ray and Rafael put Zoe in Rafael's car, along with all the junk they had. Ray takes the camper and the two bodies and finds a place to bury them. He makes his way back to town on foot.

He steals a car and finds Rafael. Zoe didn't make it. Rafael says she died before he could get her to a hospital. He gives Ray his car and Ray takes off.

Samurai Jack 4.11

L: Tale of X-49

X-49, a robot heavy who used to work for Aku, comes out of retirement for one last job: kill Samurai Jack. X-49 was the best of the X line of robots, possibly beause he had been given an emotion chip. It made him sensitive in a way that the other robots were not. His fellow robots were eventually killed off. He retired and spent his time in retirement with Lulu, his dog.

X-49 agrees to come out of retirement and hunt Jack down after Aku kidnaps Lulu. He tracks down Jack. The confrontation occurs in an old robot factory. Jack, in the end, proves to be a little little too quick for X-49.

Bigger on the Inside (2009)

Bigger on the Inside (2009)

19 minutes

This documentary feature examines the interior of the TARDIS and how it has evolved since it first appeared. A mixture of people who are fans of the show and worked on the show offer their opinions of the various ways in which the interior changed over the years. Tom Baker is the only actor interviewed. 

Now and Then: The Locations of the Masque of Mandragora (2010)

8 minutes

This documentary shows where all the outdoor scenes were shot. It uses a map to show where in Portmeirion scenes were set, followed by shots of the town as it existed in 2010, and then finally shots from the show of the same locations. There is a narrator who explains everything but there are no interviews.

Outlaw Star 1.03

Into Burning Space

Gene and Hilda deal with the heavy machinery that the thugs brought with them. They high tail it back to the Horus with Jim and Melfina and quickly depart Blue Heaven. They are followed by 5 grappler ships. Gene is still dealing with space sickness. Jim mans the guns but the grappler ships have defenses that render the lasers useless.

The fight with the grappler ships gets interrupted by a giant ship of the Ctarl-Ctarl Empire. Hilda manages to force the big ship to yield. The Horus gets away but the commander of the Ctarl-Ctarl ship doesn't let the grappler ships slip by.

The Horus makes its way to a rendezvous with some associates of Hilda but when it gets there they find the wreckage of her friends' ships. Kei pirates, the same ones they dealt with before, show up and attack the Horus. The pirates found the Horus with some help from the MacDougall Brothers who also hired the thugs that were trying to capture them in Blue Heaven.

The Invaders 1.10

The Innocent

David Vincent is contacted by Captain Ross, US Air Force. Ross has first hand knowledge of the Invaders and wants Vincent to testify about what he has seen in front of the Peterson Committee of the US Congress. Vincent is in Maine trying to track down Nat Greeley who has one of the Invaders weapons, a disc. The Invaders are also looking for Greeley.

The Invaders get to Greeley. They capture his kid. He helps them to capture David Vincent. Magnus, the leader of the Invaders, makes an effort to convince Vincent that his people don't want to do the people of Earth any harm. He takes him on a trip in a space ship. The go to Santa Margaretta, a town where David used to live. He reconnects with Billy Stearns, an childhood friend, and Helen, an ex-girlfriend who wants to get back together with him. It all seems so good but Vincent senses that something is wrong.

It turns out that the whole trip is an illusion. They never went anywhere. Magnus just made him think they did using a high tech device. David tries to escape. Magnus wants him to call Captain Ross and tell him that he was mistaken, that he has nothing to tell the Peterson Committee. David refuses until they threaten to kill Nat Greely's family.

Vincent makes the phone call. The Invaders won't let him or Greely go. The Invaders force them to drink whiskey and then put them in a car which they send hurtling down a mountain road. The brakes don't work. The two men barely survive the experience.

Thoughts

This was a pretty good episode although its funny how the Invaders keep changing their approach to David Vincent. In the earliest episodes they just wanted to kill him. The attempt to convince him that they are only trying to help the Earth in this episode but when that doesn't work they resort to their old ways.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 1.02

Ya Shivu v Bolsham Dome Na Khlome

The breaking of the fast gets canceled at Midge and Joel's place. Rose, calls everyone and tells them that they have come down with the flu. Midge starts to worry that her looks are changing because she is now separated.

Joel goes to see his father, Moishe Maisel, who owns a clothing business. Rose goes to see a psychic who promises that everything is going to be all right. Susie comes to see Midge but Midge can't believe that she flashed the crowd the night before and has changed her mind about performing on stage. 

Shirley, Joel's mother, calls Rose. A dinner is planned for the next night for everyone (Midge and Joel, Abe and Rose, Moishe and Shirley) at Midge and Joel's place. Joel finds out that his father has contacted Joel's uncle, who is also Joel's boss, and had his secretary reassigned to another department. Joel goes to his father but Moishe won't budge.

The dinner happens. Things get explosive. Midge finds out that their apartment is paid for by her father-in-law. She winds up walking out and heads back to the coffee house where she got arrested a couple nights before. She goes on stage. She isn't drunk this time. She airs some of her grievances and get some laughs but then the cops walk in and she gets arrested for using obscene language.

Mr. Inbetween 3.07

I'm Your Girl

Freddy gets beaten up on account of gambling debts. Michele, Freddy's woman, goes to see Ray, asks him to do something about it. Ray goes to see Remy, the bookie to whom Freddy owes money. Remy agrees to give Freddy a little more time to pay up.

Ray leaves town for a bit. He's traveling with Rafael and Zoe. Rafael drives in one car. Ray and Zoe travel in the other one. Ray does all the driving. They talk a lot. They don't spend much time with Rafael. The episode ends with Ray and Zoe kissing.

Thoughts

Gary and Brittany are in this episode but blink and you'll miss them.

WTF? I assume Ray is protection. He's there in case Rafael needs protection. I'm not sure what the deal is with Zoe. I assumed she was also there to guard Rafael but between the wide berth they seem to be giving him and the way she is acting I'm starting to have my doubts.

What is Ray doing? If he's there as muscle I would think that having sex with his traveling companion, whatever her role is, would be a no-no. Isn't he more professional than that?

This was a very low key episode. Hopefully it leads somewhere good. I would be surprised if it goes nowhere.

Crashing 1.02

Episode 2

Kate almost gets killed by a light fixture. She's still worried about Anthony and Lulu. She hires Lulu to answer the phones at her job. Kate does what she can to keep Lulu away from Anthony.

Sam shows up at Fred's job, interrupts a meeting, and lures him away from work for the day. Sam says it is for something special. It turns out to be a funeral for his father.

Melody pursues Colin, who is still living with his wife and her lover. They wind up having lunch at the restaurant where Anthony works: We Don't Give a Fork. The food is messy but there are no eating utensils. They don't give a fork.

Lulu winds up bringing one of Kate's colleagues back to the abandoned hospital where they all live.

Thoughts

I thought that Sam's line in the previous episode about his father dying was a lie. I guess not.

I like this episode a lot, much better than the last one. The humor just worked better for me. I love the tension between Lulu and Kate. 

Samurai Jack 4.10

XLIX: The Four Seasons of Death

Summer... Jack crosses a desert. He is attacked by creatures which look real. Jack eventually comes to the realization that the heat is making him see things that aren't really there.

Fall... An evil-looking scientist, who lives in a windmill, makes a mixture. He uses the it to infect a nearby well. Jack comes along and takes a drink from the well. He collapses but when the scientist moves in to get a closer look at Jack he discovers that all is not as it seems.

Winter... Miners, blacksmiths, and wizards work to create a mighty sword but it is no match for Jack's magic blade.

Spring... Jack is passing through a thorny wood when he encounters a magical woman who convinces him to stay a while. She gets very angry when he tries to leave.

Thoughts

Aku shows up very briefly in this episode.

This is different. There is no single thread that binds these four stories together. They each have their own flavor. I vaguely remember this one from the last time I watched it, years ago.