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   Ubiquitous to arthur@alum.calberkeley.org   
   Re: What Did You Watch? 2026-02-07 (Satu   
   08 Feb 26 20:06:17   
   
   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   arthur@alum.calberkeley.org wrote:   
   >On 2/8/2026 5:15 AM, The True Melissa wrote:   
   >> Ubiquitous wrote:   
      
   >>> What did you watch?   
   >>   
   >> I watched South Park s22e07-07, "Time to Get Cereal" and "Nobody Got   
   >> Cereal?"   
   >>   
   >> This is an interesting pair of episodes, in part because Trey and Matt   
   >> publicly apologize to Al Gore for making fun of him. Despite having come   
   >> to believe that climate change is real, they stand by representing it as   
   >> Manbearpig. The first episode has several scenes of the boys saying   
   >> things like "We're sorry, Mr. Gore. You were right," directly to the   
   >> camera.   
   >   
   >Manbearpig sounds vaguely familiar.  That might have been one of the   
   >last episodes I watched before I stopped watching the series.  I still   
   >need to finish out the couple of episodes from this season I have saved   
   >on the DVR.   
      
   Yes, Manbearpig was an ep in which they mocked AlGore for his "global warming"   
   nonsense.   
      
   >> What did everyone else watch?   
   >   
   >The Notebook 2004 romantic drama starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel   
   >McAdams.  I never saw this before now, although I was well aware of it   
   >being popular.  I have (season) tickets to see the live stage musical   
   >version, so I figured I might as well watch the original.  The movie was   
   >mind-numbingly boring!  McAdams plays a rich girl who falls in love with   
   >a poor man (Gosling) but her parents disapprove.  I could not care less   
   >about any of the stupid characters and their stupid problems.  Please,   
   >please, please, let the live stage musical be better than this!   
      
   Is that the one about the time-travel mailbox?   
      
   >Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - "Series Acclimation Mil" - The school's   
   >holographic cadet decides she wants to solve the mystery behind what   
   >happened to Benjamin Sisko.  This was an OK one with lots of nostalgia   
   >value for fans of DS9.   
      
   No, it was NOT. It was obvious that whoever penned this (and self-inserted   
   herself) had no clue what DS9 was about.   
      
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