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The results of the Five meme
Note: I love "Subway Hero" SO MUCH.
5. "Your boobs are going to get bigger," complete with obscene-yet-gleeful hand gesture that ends in a double thumbs-up, natch.
4. "Hey, Dummy! I was just telling these dummies how we used to go to the park and make fun of all the joggers."
3. "Thank you, Mayor Bloomberger. I accept this honor on behalf of every...Stern rules! Baba Booey!"
2. "We’re like Ross and Rachel, but just not gay."
1. "Dear Liz Lemon: While other women have bigger boobs than you, no other woman has as big a heart. When I saw you getting ready to go out and get nailed by a bunch of guys last night, I knew for sure it was over between us, and for the first time since the '86 World Series, I cried... I cried like a big, dumb homo."
1. From the deleted scenes of "Gus' Parents Killed an Old Guy": the hand-holdening.
WHY? WHY, POWERS THAT BE? WHY DID YOU PUT A STOP TO THIS? IT WAS ABSOLUTELY THE BEST, MOST TOUCHING, WONDERFUL THING EVER. I *HEARTED* THEM SO HARD IN SEASON 2! WHY AM I YELLING?
2. The "peaches..."/"NOT HOT!" discussion.
3. Almost all of 2x02, but particularly the "Do you need a hug?" moment.
4. Juliet: totally Lassiter's boss in all respects, and he LOVES it.
5. Their fantastic competition in "There's Something About Mira."
1. "Pas de Deux" wrist-touching. It's so reflective of where they were at that time in their relationship: Eames had just returned from her maternity leave, and Goren was clearly over-the-moon to have her back, especially after expressing in "F.P.S." his frustration and loneliness at being without her. And yet, for how much he needs her and cares about her, the intimacy of dancing together, which is clearly not something Just Partners or even Just Friends do, keeps him tentative. There's no big show of it, but I'm sure that the disappointment and relief upon Random Extra swooping in to take her away was about neck-and-neck.
2. the "Are we okay?" drink at the bar in "Albatross.". I think because there is so much in later eps on how Goren allows his personal life to leak into all aspects of the job, a viewer forgets that there are times when Eames lets her feelings or a case get to her--it happens in season 1's Catholics! episode "The Faithful," and it most certainly happens in "Albatross." In those rare times when Eames takes!it!personally!, I love how steady and unswerving Goren is, how he'll take a moment or two to stand back in silence, respecting her feelings and her opinions, and then move forward pragmatically.
Sometimes, as we see in "Blind Spot," when he lets Eames take the keys, it doesn't always work out so hot. Goren is also sort of at the mercy of how level-headed and pragmatic Eames can seem. She is quite the little steamroller when she wants to be.
And there are times, as in the ep where Goren reopens her husband's murder, where it might be advisable for Bobby to use his damn words or back off a little and NOT be so determined and pragmatic.
That went on a little...longer than I intended.
Also: they look really hot together at the bar. All intimate and direct eye contact and D'Onof's eyes are all dark and liquidy.
3. "The Third Horseman" schmaschmortion discussion. I really loved that as an establishing scene for them. And again, with the intimacy and eye contact and "just the two of us."
4. "In the Wee Small Hours" - post-Eames request for new partner letter. I love how Goren doesn't allow her to apologize, how he uses his words for once to express how much the partnership has meant to him, how the camera allows us to see Eames absorbing that after he leaves her. It's just marvelous.
5. I know it was sort of a knife in the side to their relationship, but Eames bawling out Goren after his undercover shenanigans in "Purgatory." She wouldn't be so angry if she didn't care so much about their partnership, if she hadn't invested years and years of her professional and personal life in supporting him at every turn. It makes Goren's shocked-amused-knowing reaction to Declan Gage's question about Eames' nerve in the finale all the sweeter, because we know that Goren knows exactly how much steely resolve is contained in that woman's tiny frame (and frankly, Declan should know it too, the fucking gross old coot).
1. At Bistro Campagne a few months ago, I had sturgeon that was pan-seared in brown butter. It came on a bed of roasted beets with some kind of beet reduction. The experience was mind-blowing. Seriously.
2. Any time I eat a gyro that has the good kind of thick yogurt-cucumber sauce and lots of tomatoes.
3. Occasionally, I get off my lazy ass and have some Indian, and it is always great. I especially love curries that include apples. And naan. Naan rocks.
4. A really great cheeseburger, especially if I can get blue cheese or avocado on it.
5. Enchiladas, particularly cheese enchiladas, PARTICULARLY with a side of guac.
Apropos to this next one, Best Week Ever and Gawker cover some familiar yet still awesome ground re: last night's P-Run.
1. Those shirts. Those terrible Hawaiian shirts. Tim will probably have Brown Elephant come and take away a Hefty bag full of them and Victor will be all, "Those are my going-out-to-the-park shirts!" And Tim will remind him of the time Victor tried to wear one when they were going out to lunch with Michael Kors and his boytoy and...yeah. I imagine it will end in a slammed door.
2. Tim: wants to stay home and watch Food Network. Victor: wants to go to three parties, all hosted by ex-boyfriends.
3. Tim gets so nervous when Violet is around the Poms, because she's always grabbing at them and feeding them random bits of her lunch "accidentally." And Victor, as a farm-fresh kid from Ontario with a billion siblings, just doesn't care as much. Which will lead to a "discussion" about being "good dad" vs. "bad dad" to the Poms.
4. Victor's cholesterol is high, and Tim tries to get him to eat oatmeal every morning. Victor seems enthusiastic, but keeps encouraging Tim to go ahead and shower and get ready for the day after breakfast has been prepared.
And one day, Tim will catch Victor eating a chocolate croissant and some bacon that he has Letitica, their maid, sneak out and get.
5. Victor sleeps in the nude; Tim in full-on grandfather PJs. They have several animated discussions about how if Tim would just lighten up! And try to sleep without a shirt on! Sometimes it's a fight that ends in shenanigans, but sometimes it's a Metaphor for Their Relationship.
1. Predictably, The Greatest American Hero
2. The Jeffersons
3. Good Times
4. Reading Rainbow
5. Perfect Strangers (the poor man's "Greatest American Hero")
5. David Addison visits Maddie's house to confess his love, and Stupid Jerkface Mark Harmon is there (Moonlighting)
4. Jack and Jen kiss in the hidden passage in Patch and Kayla's house (DOOL)
3. Scully: diagnosed with cancer (X-Files)
2. Jon Stewart's first post-9/11 Daily Show
1. Whatever I'm talking about this week
1. Partners becoming romantically involved.
2. The crabby person with the soft spot for the super perky person, e.g., Lassiter/Juliet, Xena/Gabs...why didn't I ever dig House/Cameron? It's such a mystery.
3. Someone gets sicks, and their Someone Special plays nursemaid.
4. Going Undercover = Making-Out Shenanigans.
5. Any Richard Marx song lyrics.
5. At the risk of sounding condescending, I wasn't prepared for TW to be about characters; I was prepared for exploding whatnot, as in ER (sure, sure, ER was about characters too...not characters I really cared about, but...characters). And as with The Wire or Deadwood or, heck, even X-Files, I go through an ever-changing set of feelings about the characters: I love them, I get mad at them, I get mad WITH them, I am sad about them, I get frustrated for them and about them.
4. I love that the daily work, at least in the first season, affects the characters but doesn't necessarily relate directly TO the characters. ER has really fallen into the trap of making Every Patient = The Doctor of Choice's Current Life Crisis. Gross. Dude, even at the most Goren Manpainy-est, LOCI managed to avoid that.
3. Bobby Cannavale? So, so fine. Bobby the character can be...yeah, anyway, it doesn't matter. Bobby Cannavale? Is hot.
2. The Bosco/Yokas partnership. Absolutely one of the few, few partnerships where I don't 'ship and love the platonicness of their love.
1. Sully. God, I love Sully so much. Seriously. So much that I rank him above Bosco and Yokas.
5. Walk across the Adams bridge and hope to spot the El going by the Sun-Times building.
4. Eat at a Chicago restaurant with a patio in the summertime in whatever neighborhood to people watch and get terrible service.
3. Okay, this is going to sound so dopey, but sometimes, whether I'm on a bus or the train or out walking around, the sun hits my face and I look up, wherever I am, and bask. I've done it in downtown, up in my Z Frank ghetto-north neighborhood, on Taylor Street, at Greekfest...
2. Go to Wrigley. Not because I'm looking for a husband, but because I love Wrigleyville (the vendors, the smells--some pleasant, some not--the El rattling by Wrigley) and I love baseball.
1. Walk by Lake Michigan on a spring, summer, or early fall day. So much to see, whether it's people or the buildingscape or whatever.
The results of the Five meme
Note: I love "Subway Hero" SO MUCH.
5. "Your boobs are going to get bigger," complete with obscene-yet-gleeful hand gesture that ends in a double thumbs-up, natch.
4. "Hey, Dummy! I was just telling these dummies how we used to go to the park and make fun of all the joggers."
3. "Thank you, Mayor Bloomberger. I accept this honor on behalf of every...Stern rules! Baba Booey!"
2. "We’re like Ross and Rachel, but just not gay."
1. "Dear Liz Lemon: While other women have bigger boobs than you, no other woman has as big a heart. When I saw you getting ready to go out and get nailed by a bunch of guys last night, I knew for sure it was over between us, and for the first time since the '86 World Series, I cried... I cried like a big, dumb homo."
1. From the deleted scenes of "Gus' Parents Killed an Old Guy": the hand-holdening.
WHY? WHY, POWERS THAT BE? WHY DID YOU PUT A STOP TO THIS? IT WAS ABSOLUTELY THE BEST, MOST TOUCHING, WONDERFUL THING EVER. I *HEARTED* THEM SO HARD IN SEASON 2! WHY AM I YELLING?
2. The "peaches..."/"NOT HOT!" discussion.
3. Almost all of 2x02, but particularly the "Do you need a hug?" moment.
4. Juliet: totally Lassiter's boss in all respects, and he LOVES it.
5. Their fantastic competition in "There's Something About Mira."
1. "Pas de Deux" wrist-touching. It's so reflective of where they were at that time in their relationship: Eames had just returned from her maternity leave, and Goren was clearly over-the-moon to have her back, especially after expressing in "F.P.S." his frustration and loneliness at being without her. And yet, for how much he needs her and cares about her, the intimacy of dancing together, which is clearly not something Just Partners or even Just Friends do, keeps him tentative. There's no big show of it, but I'm sure that the disappointment and relief upon Random Extra swooping in to take her away was about neck-and-neck.
2. the "Are we okay?" drink at the bar in "Albatross.". I think because there is so much in later eps on how Goren allows his personal life to leak into all aspects of the job, a viewer forgets that there are times when Eames lets her feelings or a case get to her--it happens in season 1's Catholics! episode "The Faithful," and it most certainly happens in "Albatross." In those rare times when Eames takes!it!personally!, I love how steady and unswerving Goren is, how he'll take a moment or two to stand back in silence, respecting her feelings and her opinions, and then move forward pragmatically.
Sometimes, as we see in "Blind Spot," when he lets Eames take the keys, it doesn't always work out so hot. Goren is also sort of at the mercy of how level-headed and pragmatic Eames can seem. She is quite the little steamroller when she wants to be.
And there are times, as in the ep where Goren reopens her husband's murder, where it might be advisable for Bobby to use his damn words or back off a little and NOT be so determined and pragmatic.
That went on a little...longer than I intended.
Also: they look really hot together at the bar. All intimate and direct eye contact and D'Onof's eyes are all dark and liquidy.
3. "The Third Horseman" schmaschmortion discussion. I really loved that as an establishing scene for them. And again, with the intimacy and eye contact and "just the two of us."
4. "In the Wee Small Hours" - post-Eames request for new partner letter. I love how Goren doesn't allow her to apologize, how he uses his words for once to express how much the partnership has meant to him, how the camera allows us to see Eames absorbing that after he leaves her. It's just marvelous.
5. I know it was sort of a knife in the side to their relationship, but Eames bawling out Goren after his undercover shenanigans in "Purgatory." She wouldn't be so angry if she didn't care so much about their partnership, if she hadn't invested years and years of her professional and personal life in supporting him at every turn. It makes Goren's shocked-amused-knowing reaction to Declan Gage's question about Eames' nerve in the finale all the sweeter, because we know that Goren knows exactly how much steely resolve is contained in that woman's tiny frame (and frankly, Declan should know it too, the fucking gross old coot).
1. At Bistro Campagne a few months ago, I had sturgeon that was pan-seared in brown butter. It came on a bed of roasted beets with some kind of beet reduction. The experience was mind-blowing. Seriously.
2. Any time I eat a gyro that has the good kind of thick yogurt-cucumber sauce and lots of tomatoes.
3. Occasionally, I get off my lazy ass and have some Indian, and it is always great. I especially love curries that include apples. And naan. Naan rocks.
4. A really great cheeseburger, especially if I can get blue cheese or avocado on it.
5. Enchiladas, particularly cheese enchiladas, PARTICULARLY with a side of guac.
Apropos to this next one, Best Week Ever and Gawker cover some familiar yet still awesome ground re: last night's P-Run.
1. Those shirts. Those terrible Hawaiian shirts. Tim will probably have Brown Elephant come and take away a Hefty bag full of them and Victor will be all, "Those are my going-out-to-the-park shirts!" And Tim will remind him of the time Victor tried to wear one when they were going out to lunch with Michael Kors and his boytoy and...yeah. I imagine it will end in a slammed door.
2. Tim: wants to stay home and watch Food Network. Victor: wants to go to three parties, all hosted by ex-boyfriends.
3. Tim gets so nervous when Violet is around the Poms, because she's always grabbing at them and feeding them random bits of her lunch "accidentally." And Victor, as a farm-fresh kid from Ontario with a billion siblings, just doesn't care as much. Which will lead to a "discussion" about being "good dad" vs. "bad dad" to the Poms.
4. Victor's cholesterol is high, and Tim tries to get him to eat oatmeal every morning. Victor seems enthusiastic, but keeps encouraging Tim to go ahead and shower and get ready for the day after breakfast has been prepared.
And one day, Tim will catch Victor eating a chocolate croissant and some bacon that he has Letitica, their maid, sneak out and get.
5. Victor sleeps in the nude; Tim in full-on grandfather PJs. They have several animated discussions about how if Tim would just lighten up! And try to sleep without a shirt on! Sometimes it's a fight that ends in shenanigans, but sometimes it's a Metaphor for Their Relationship.
1. Predictably, The Greatest American Hero
2. The Jeffersons
3. Good Times
4. Reading Rainbow
5. Perfect Strangers (the poor man's "Greatest American Hero")
5. David Addison visits Maddie's house to confess his love, and Stupid Jerkface Mark Harmon is there (Moonlighting)
4. Jack and Jen kiss in the hidden passage in Patch and Kayla's house (DOOL)
3. Scully: diagnosed with cancer (X-Files)
2. Jon Stewart's first post-9/11 Daily Show
1. Whatever I'm talking about this week
1. Partners becoming romantically involved.
2. The crabby person with the soft spot for the super perky person, e.g., Lassiter/Juliet, Xena/Gabs...why didn't I ever dig House/Cameron? It's such a mystery.
3. Someone gets sicks, and their Someone Special plays nursemaid.
4. Going Undercover = Making-Out Shenanigans.
5. Any Richard Marx song lyrics.
5. At the risk of sounding condescending, I wasn't prepared for TW to be about characters; I was prepared for exploding whatnot, as in ER (sure, sure, ER was about characters too...not characters I really cared about, but...characters). And as with The Wire or Deadwood or, heck, even X-Files, I go through an ever-changing set of feelings about the characters: I love them, I get mad at them, I get mad WITH them, I am sad about them, I get frustrated for them and about them.
4. I love that the daily work, at least in the first season, affects the characters but doesn't necessarily relate directly TO the characters. ER has really fallen into the trap of making Every Patient = The Doctor of Choice's Current Life Crisis. Gross. Dude, even at the most Goren Manpainy-est, LOCI managed to avoid that.
3. Bobby Cannavale? So, so fine. Bobby the character can be...yeah, anyway, it doesn't matter. Bobby Cannavale? Is hot.
2. The Bosco/Yokas partnership. Absolutely one of the few, few partnerships where I don't 'ship and love the platonicness of their love.
1. Sully. God, I love Sully so much. Seriously. So much that I rank him above Bosco and Yokas.
5. Walk across the Adams bridge and hope to spot the El going by the Sun-Times building.
4. Eat at a Chicago restaurant with a patio in the summertime in whatever neighborhood to people watch and get terrible service.
3. Okay, this is going to sound so dopey, but sometimes, whether I'm on a bus or the train or out walking around, the sun hits my face and I look up, wherever I am, and bask. I've done it in downtown, up in my Z Frank ghetto-north neighborhood, on Taylor Street, at Greekfest...
2. Go to Wrigley. Not because I'm looking for a husband, but because I love Wrigleyville (the vendors, the smells--some pleasant, some not--the El rattling by Wrigley) and I love baseball.
1. Walk by Lake Michigan on a spring, summer, or early fall day. So much to see, whether it's people or the buildingscape or whatever.