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In this time where it’s very easy to run out of things to watch… I present to you a few shows you can watch now on Hulu or YouTube. Do you have any recommendations that aren’t on other lists of popular shows to watch? Click on each one to find out more, or to be taken to their YouTube pages…
Today I Googled, “Can an armadillo be a pet?” So yeah, this whole staying at home thing is going well. If you ever hear again that I’m asking about wild animals as pets, or that I’m cheering for the Gators, come check on me, please.
If you follow my blog, then it’s no secret I’ve been watching Perfect Strangers lately. Yes, the show from the late 80s/early 90s. Here’s a post about how it’s been going as I watch as an adult for the first time. This show, as you may remember, was part of a memorable line-up of Friday night sitcoms designed for kids, a block of scheduling called TGIF (Thank Goodness It’s Friday). The original lineup included Full House, Family Matters, Perfect Strangers, and Just the Ten of Us. Of course, it went on to include my favorite show of all time… Boy Meets World.
But the point of this post… at the very center is an actor named Ernie Sabella.
photo from IMDB.com, Mr. Sabella as boss on Saved by the Bell
He played the boss man at Larry and Balki’s work in season 1 of Perfect Strangers. Well, right away I remembered him for playing the boss on another popular show around the same time: Mr. Carosi, the boss at Malibu Sands Beach Club in season 3 of Saved by the Bell. Yes, the same guy Zack Morris was always at odds with… and Zack also dated his daughter! I mentioned this to a clever and like-minded friend who then pointed out the location of the Malibu Sands Beach Club is the very same location used in the original Beverly Hills 90210. Both Brandon and Dylan worked at the Beverly Hills Beach Club, different name than what was used on SBTB but the same exact set!
Crazzzzzy!!!!!
My friend gets major kudos for making this connection.
Well, we also shouldn’t forget the connection I actually kind of sort of forgot about… Tiffany Amber Theissen played Kelly Kapowski on SBTB and then Valerie on 90210. I guess they knew she was a teen heart throb so another role on a popular teen show just made sense. To bring this full circle, T-Theiss is also linked to Perfect Strangers in another rather roundabout way… she appeared on an episode of Step by Step… a show featured in the Friday comedy block TGIF (although not one of the original TGIF shows).
Was Hollywood just a small town back then, or did Miller-Boyett become the GOAT for sitcom TV shows before calling anything “the GOAT” was a thing?
Anywho, thanks for going down the rabbit hole with me on this one 🙂
The other day I witnessed something I really, really want to forget. But I’ll back up to the day before when I was walking my dogs. We were in the neighborhood about a half mile from my house when I saw the most beautiful green bird (similar to the one pictured below). It had to have been someone’s pet, I thought, because I’ve never seen a green bird in my neighborhood. It was also not reacting like wild birds do… meaning it wasn’t spooked by me or my dogs, or cars driving by. It was a good part of our daily walk!
Fast forward a day, and I saw the bird again on another walk around the neighborhood. This time, I almost stepped on it before I even knew it was there. That’s another confirmation it must be a tame bird, not acclimated to life in the wild. It flew away from me and landed in the middle of a street perpendicular to the one the dogs and I were walking.
I will spare you the details as this beautiful little bird was able to survive one car driving past it, but not the second. I feel responsible as I was the one who caused him to fly to a new spot, just happening to be the middle of a street. Wild birds fly away when a car is approaching, but not this one.
I felt bad thinking about the unfairness of it’s life taken away. So to make up for my role in this tragedy, I’ve decided I need to save a bird. A life for a life. How in the world I’ll save a bird, I have no idea, but I’m keeping my eyes peeled for opportunities now!
Me. I’m the regular guy as referenced in the title of this post. As in, I’m not a movie critic. But that won’t stop me from giving this review! I’d been curious about this movie because it stars Adam Sandler, who is definitely known for being a funny guy. He’s so likable in real life, so I think that’s why people always give any movie he’s in a chance. In this one, which is not a comedy, Adam takes on a serious character, even if this guy is someone we laugh at. “At” being the key word there. His character, Howard, is always getting himself in trouble and Sandler does an excellent job portraying him as the bug in the old adage, “Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug.”
I won’t give anything away except to say this: at the end of the movie I think I felt exactly how they wanted me to feel as a viewer. Pity, some sympathy, and just sad for Howie.
This movie is definitely NOT family friendly, but I’m assuming if you’ve seen the trailer you already knew that. Lots of language and some adult scenes throughout.
I’d say it’s worth watching if you’re OK with the adult nature of it but just be warned, it’s not a feel-good movie by any means.
Out of the Wilderness 