Weekendering : The Weekenders : Season 1: Makeover / The New Girl

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         The Journey through "The Weekenders" season 1 continues. If you missed our look at episode 5 then click here.  We continue with episode 6's pair of segments now.

Episode 6 A : Makeover 

       
             That video game featured in the opening theme is now in an episode, well finally.  Anyway, Lor is playing the game against some kid and wins and remember that guy from episode 1 , that Lor had a crush on? He's back! Now we find out that Thompson is first name and he apparently has asked Lor to hang out. Two girls who've never seen before take her somewhere. (To kill her?)  Ok their names are Christi and Candy. (what?)

        These two girls want to give Lor a make over according to their standards. They tell Lori that this magazine girl is what all boys want , even though Tino and Carver think the person in the magazine doesn't look good. The rest of  them go doing their own make-overs. Eventually, they see what the new  Lor looks like.  She tries to eat food but,  Christi and Candy uhhh don't want to. (see my question about killing her above.)

             Lor does show questioning of feeling a bit wrong. Tino's mom says that Tino and his friends should let  Lor figure out things herself. Meanwhile, Lor hears more of what those two girls want to do  and it causes her to twitch but, that may have snapped her out of it back to normal.  Also , if you'v been following along  Thompson does like normal Lor and he didn't like the "other Lor".   Meanwhile, Christi and Candy hear that Thompson doesn't like the model girl they like so, they instead decide to copy a rock climber. So happy ending for all?

              It's  a be yourself episode with that message that is alright to change how you dress and stuff as long as it is something you want to do and it's alright to want to be yourself and not change how you look. That's a nice expansion of that kind of message where it fills in nuisances of it. The advice by Tino's Mom to just make sure Lor is eating right and not doing anything to harm herself  was a good touch and again the idea of expression as long as it doesn't do anything harmful was well crafted.  It was a really good episode  I give it 9.5/10

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Weekendering : The Weekenders: Season 1: Sitters/Band

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                  Previously :  Episode 4 

                   Our journey continues with Episode 5's pair of segments.

     Episode 5A: Sitters 

             We have so far seen glimpses of the different characters' families like  Tino and his Mom, who is divorced,  Tish and her parents, Lor and her multiple brothers with a guest appearance by her Grandma, and Carver's glimpse mostly with his parents. In this episode we meet another family member from Carver's family, his brother.


               With Carver's family we also see that he is the middle child, with an older sister named Penny and his younger brother Todd. His parents say he has to watch Todd that weekend during the day while they are at a seminar.  Carver begs his friends to help him and his plan is divide the work by the 4 of them with 3 hours each. (The Parents will be gone from 8am to 8pm on both days)

              The parents say Todd shouldn't have any sugar and guess what Todd ends up eating from a bowl  when Carver was distracted on the phone? (Butter?) So, that means that Todd has gone wild.  There's also this running gag for this episode where an announcer talks over the characters trying to pull a giant Todd up a mountain to the goal of Sunday Night.

                   Tish reads  a story to Todd  that she says is for children that story being "Oedipus Rex". (Uhh Tish, there's something you should... oh forget it)  Todd doesn't seem to like Tish's stuff at all and poor Tish.  Tino does the job next and well that's go well.  Lor makes the record 0-4.


                 Carver has a dream that Todd ate his friends and that leads us into Sunday. Tish's Mom offers her wisdom of saying they all work together. They spend Sunday to working together. The parents make it early as well so that's convenient.

                  A fine episode, It does have it's message kind of  obvious that if they work together they could take care of Todd easier. That doesn't detract from the episode though, it was interesting to see what Todd was doing and to see how the different characters tried to handle him.   Tino's Mom  wisdom comes into  play fairly easily.   I give this one 8.5/10.

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CBS Fall 2019 season Premiere Dates announced

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    CBS has released their fall premiere dates  from their 2019 fall line up.

              The week of September 23rd is a big one for CBS all five of it's new shows will be making their starts that week.   Along with the majority of their line up. 

  Here's the dates all times ET unless, otherwise denoted


Monday, September 23rd
8PM  The Neighborhood (2nd Season Premiere)
8:30pm  Bob Hearts Abishola (series Premiere)
9PM    All Rise (Series Premiere)
10PM  Bull (Season Premiere)


Tuesday, September 24th
8PM  NCIS  (Season Premiere)
9PM  FBI (season premiere)
10PM  NCIS :New Oreleans (season premiere)

Wednesday, September 25th
8pm  Survivor  (90 Minute season premiere)
9:30pm  Big Brother (Live Season Finale)

Thursday , September 26th
8PM Young Sheldon  (Season Premiere)
8:30PM The Unicorn (Series Premiere)
9PM    Mom (Season Premiere)
9:30pm Carol's Second Act (Series Premiere)
10PM   EVIL (Series Premiere)

Friday, September 27th
8PM Hawaii FIVE-O (Season Premiere )
9PM   Magnum P.I  (Season Premiere)
10PM  Blue Bloods (Season Premiere)

Saturday ,September 28th
8-10PM  Crime Time Saturday
10PM   48 Hours (Season Premiere)

Sunday, September 29th (Times may start later due to NFL Football)
7:30PM  60 Minutes  (Season Premiere)
8:30PM  God Friended Me (Season Premiere)
9:30PM  NCIS: Los Angeles (Season Premiere)


Wednesday, October 2nd
8PM Survivor (Time Period Premiere)
9PM  SEAL Team (Season Premiere)
10PM S.W.A.T (Season Premiere)

Sunday, October 6th
7PM  60 Minutes (Regular Time Period)
8PM  God Friended Me (Regular Time Period)
9PM  NCIS: Los Angeles  (Regular Time Period)
10PM Madam Secretary (Season Premiere)


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Weekendering: The Weekenders: Season 1: Home @Work To Be or Not To Be

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        Our Journey through the "The Weekenders" season 1 continues with episode 4's pair of segments.  [ If you want to read Episode 3 Click Here]

       
   Episode 4a : Home@Work

                   The Gang has plans for the weekend as normal but Lor has a problem if she fails her history test on Monday then her father will send her to military school. (harsh) The friends want to get out of it but, guess what they will be doing?  (Going to jail?) So they ditch her but of they do end up help her and actually it falls on Tino to help her.   Meanwhile, Tish and Carver try to make tempoary friends because that makes sense.

                 Lor gets distracted by playing a video game and Tino thinks that she gets bored by things and that's why she doesn't want to study.  Tish decides to cut and help Lor as well. Carver feels bad for not helping Lor in her time of need and goes to Tino's house with a video game for Lor to learn about the Civil War.   They even add a little thing to show that Lor did well  on her test.


    It's an alright episode  I do like Tino and later Tish's attempts to help Lor with studying and it was nice that Carver did come in the end to help her after the people he joined to be their temp. friend made him feel bad indirectly. I like that he came with the idea to help Lor with the video game as well.  I give this one a 7/10.


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Weekendering: The Weekenders: Season 1: The Perfect Weekend/ Throwing Carver

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 Previously, on Joshuaonline : We started our look at the Disney animated TV series, "The Weekenders" now we move on to another pair with episode 3. 

  

                                    [If you Want to Read the Previous Post Click Here ]

Episode 3a : The Perfect Weekend 

           
                   I've seen something that fits this from "Hey Arnold" where Arnold does a list for the prefect Saturday but it doesn't seem to fall into place and he learns that a day doesn't have to follow some list to be perfect. I wonder if this episode will be like that.

      Tino has planned a perfect weekend for him and his friends. First of, we see more of Lor's  mutiple brothers and her grandmother has shown up and Lor can't spend time for the perfect weekend with Tino.  They go to Carver's house and now Carver has to do something for his parents since they have to go away. It's Tish and Tino to be together that was until Tish finds out about a contest and she enters so it's just Tino.

                 He tries to see if his friends could maybe do something on Saturday. So, he visits Lor who with  her grandmother and trying to fix a lawnmower. Meanwhile, Carver is having a pretty good time volunteering after all. Tish is still practicing.   His mother tells him he needs to be flexible but takes that to mean that he could just do his plans  by himself.    This episode also add something else you'll see in this series : the museum serving random food.  Tino tries but it seems nothing is going as well he wanted it to at all.  Tino decides to go Tish's contest to watch her play the dulcimer.  His friends seemed to have a good weekend.


               Tino states the lesson at the end  with how it is good to have a plan but sometimes you do have to be flexible and who knows how much fun you might have. It shows like with Carver's thing where he thought it was going to be some boring thing but ended up some great fun. It was kind of quick how Tino learned the moral just by getting a Sunday newspaper tossed him with the convenient  headline to make him go to Tish's contest and inviting the others to see it too but, fine.  A good episode : 8/10.


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The Flashback: Dr. Seuss' look : The Butter Battle Book the TV special.

The Flashback

  What is something that this blog hasn't really done in something? Yes, Dr. Seuss!  Guess it's time to rectify that.  (That and the title of the post gives it away)  This time we look at special based off the good doctor's  1984 book of the same name ,"The Butter Battle Book".    I'll get to what the book and the special  are about soon, but keep the Cold War in the back of your mind there.  In 1989, TNT (Turner Network TV)  aired this special.  November 13th ,1989, also something else important coming up, also later.   This special was animated by Ralph Bakshi (yes that one)  the narrator is Charles Durning.    This was the last special with any Seuss media made while he was still alive. (He died in 1991) 

       Let's get started.   The special starts with showing a long wide wall that seems be separating something.   A child and his grandfather are standing near the wall and the grandfather explains that they are the Yooks (pronounced Yukes ) and on the other side are the Zooks (pronounced Zukes, hey that rhymes with oh) he goes on to explain the Zooks like to eat their bread with the butter side down. (What? ) Then he explains that they Yooks eat their bread with the butter side up.  Infact, they go to bread buttering school. (What?)  Grandfather explains that Zooks must be watched in fact, his job is watch for Zooks.  Then he explains everything was going fine until a Zook named Van Itch (don't question it)   disarmed Grandfather. (which seemed to have ruined his whole day)

Keep on the butter side of life./ Copyright Turner 

    Editor's note: I am just gonna call him Grandfather , even though it's past events in the story being told by him in present since he doesn't have any name. 

       So the grandfather goes to the chief Yookaroo  who explains that the switch wasn't modern compared to their sling shots. So, a newer more modern weapon must be made and used. That being a "triple sling-jigger" (three slingshots put together on some poll thing).  Grandfather goes back to the wall and threatens the Zooks and machine scares them away.  But, the Zooks have found a new more modern weapon called,  Jigger Rock Snatchem, that will catch the rocks from the sling thing and send them back.

                                            This is why Dumbo quit/ Copyright Turner

    You know the Yooks need a even even more modern weapon. This was called the "Kick-A-Poo Kid" which looks like a gun that is propped on a dog named Daniel who is a spaniel. (that was unnecessary)  That works until guess what? It doesn't.  The Zooks created an" Eight-Nozzled Elephant-Toted Boom Blitz" it shoots cherry stone pits. Time for a even even even more more modern weapon. They made Grandfather a general and a new weapon that's a vechile called the  "Utterly Sputter". It drops blue goo.    Oh yeah, the Zooks have another weapon to stymie the Yooks weapon.
           

Mutually assured destruction /Copyright Turner 

      They need something even more more even modern as a weapon. So there's a song never heard a song for a weapon being created before.  This weapon is a bomb called  "Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo",which looks like a small red ball with electrical noises coming from it.  The chief tells Grandfather to drop the bomb on the Zooks while the Yooks hide underground.  The Zooks also are going underground, I wonder why. It leads up to Grandfather with the grandson as he is about to drop the bomb.  Van Itch  has the same bomb too. The grandchild wonders who will drop the bomb first and the special zooms over the Grandfather and Van Itch standing on the wall , he says "we'll see" then it cuts to saying "The End (maybe)"  or a cliff hanger. 

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Weekendering: The Weekenders : Season 1 :Shoes of Destiny/ Sense and Sensitivity

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   Previously, on Joshuaonline : We started our look at the Disney animated TV series, "The Weekenders" now we move on to another pair with episode 2.  

  

      [If you Want to Read the Previous Post Click Here]

             Episode 2a:  Shoes of Destiny  

                   Tino does his thing where talk to the audience this time about his friend, Carver, and his goals on being cool.  They also show us more about the characters like how Tish is interested in Shakespeare  and Tino seems to like science fiction comic books.  Carver tells his friends that he is going to be standing with the cool kids in the class picture which is impressive or something.  Carver wants to become C.A.R.P (Cool and Radically Popular). They also manage to thrown in a line where Tino says "Good thing you don't want to be Cool Rich And Popular". (Oh wow!) 

             There are two characters are called "the cool kids" who Tino explains have the ability not block out anyone who's not cool.  Carver sees shoes that he thinks will make him C.A.R.P and buys them and the cool kids apparently noticed him.  Tino imagines that Carver gets really cool and has him made into boots. (What?) 

             Tino goes to his mom for some advice and she tells him don't worry because their friendship  is strong.  The next day, Carver  tries to dress like the cool kids and they apparently like this because well of course. Meanwhile, Tish and Lor worry that Carver won't  want to be their friend anymore. Carver hangs out with the cool kids who pretty much spend their time leaning against things because that works.  They also make fun of people who are beneath them, which means they can see them ruining what was said before. (Don't you start)  Carver doesn't want to say anything mean about his friends so he lost his cool spot.   

               This episode's moral because yes each episode has one or something is that sometimes something you wish for might not be all that great.  I really like that Carver at the first time he was tpld to make fun of his friends he didn't want to instead of doing it then maybe asking forgiveness later like this plot could have gone.  It does show how great this group's friendship bond is with each other.    It was pretty entertaining episode as well and there are some good jokes in this one.  So this opne I give 7.5/10. 

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Weekendering: The Weekenders : Season 1 :Crush Test Dummies/ Grow up.

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        As mentioned when I talked about Disney's One Saturday Morning , and Disney' One Too on UPN there was program called "The Weekenders". "The Weekenders" is a slice of life/comedy from 2000 that ran on both the ABC and UPN blocks. 
 
    The basic premise of the show  is about the weekend (Friday after school, Saturday, Sunday) adventures  of four middle schoolers named Tino Tonitini,  Lor McQuarrie, Carver Descartes, and Tish Katsufrakis as friends who deal with life but on the weekend. 

  It rain for 4 seasons with 39 episodes, and this month (June 2019) we will be looking at the entirety  of season 1.  And Yes, this is one of those I really like this show series of posts that I want to do for that reason.

   Episode 1a  :Crush Test Dummies 
       
                The main idea of this episode is misunderstandings.  In this episode Lor has a crush on a boy named Thompson ( I don't know if that's his first name, last name, or some sort of Cher thing going on there) and shew wants him to notice her.  Tish suggests a love poem and a make over which leads into Lor  thinking about asking their friend Carver for fashion advice since he knows fashion. This causes him to overhear something out of context and thinks the Lor has a crush on him.  Carver is worried because he doesn't like her like that and doesn't want everyone's friendships and weekends messed up.

      One of the best characters in this series you will find is Tino's mother she is the person he ends up going to for advice in episodes. She also has this running gag where she makes the strangest foods that ever exist.  Her advice is for Carver to tell Lor how he feels but Tino shoots this down because "guys don't that".  He does end up passing the advice on to Carver anyway.  Carver shoots it down and thinks they have to find someone else to replace Lor. (Makes sense)

          Meanwhile, Tish's mother is not the best at make overs and Tish picks out the same thing she's wearing for Lor. Evenutally, Thompson talks to Lor and tells her she's a good soccer player.   Tino's mom' s outburst at Carver was funny, and Tino tells Carver maybe they should talk to Lor since not having her as a friend wouldn't be a good change.


       Carver starts telling Lor how he feels but, she is confused about what he is even talking about.  He finds out that she's not in love with him.  Tino finishes out the episode as customary in this series he starts and ends the episodes talking to us the viewers. 
   
           It's a misunderstanding episode that could have been solved by Carver doing what Tino's mom suggested in the first place. I think the comedy in the episode while sparse is fun.  It's a good message for people, even males, to talk about how they feel and  that it' s better for a friendship to do so.

           Since this was the first episode it does feel like a first episode of a show getting it's barrings but it's not a bad one in the slightest.  I also like the interactions between Tino and his mom because it feels slightly more realistic than alot of media, even at the time, did and it's really nice touch.  I give it 7/10.


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