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The Pitt S2 E7

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“1:00 P.M.”

The Pitt dropped the reason why all the patients have been sent to them from the other hospital … it is a cyberattack. And, starting next episode, the Pitt is heading for a world without technology.

Before we get to that, the episode deals with several of the patients that have been taking up time during the season, plus a new sexual assault victim, who Dana spends a lot of time with.

We get a quick scene between Robbie and Langdon that just makes me think that Robbie is being hardheaded for some reason. It is tense, and it does not seem that the loss of Louie brought them together, but that does not seem to be the case.

Dr. Abbot returned to the ER after helping a police officer who had been shot in the field.

Sha Na Na S4 E4, E5, E6

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Lennie was in a dress in two of these three episodes…and Santini was in one in the other.

Lennie was in a Snow White dress for much of episode 4. It was a weird stretch of the show.

I’m going to be honest, but these were not my favorite episodes of the show. I did enjoy John Sebastian’s “Welcome Back” performance (the theme song from Welcome Back, Kotter). However, Jayne Kennedy sang a song (“Then He Kissed Me”) and she was not a singer. Her performance was not the best I have heard.

Then, there was Marty Allen, the comedian, and his comedy was not very enjoyable.

The comedy song/bits seemed to be extra long on these episodes. The best of the three was Screamin’ Scott singing “Act Naturally,” with it being skits about acting. Bowzer De Mill was the director and he was veyr lud. Jocko mispronouncing the word “sword” as S-Word was funny.

Best song from the three episodes was easily Johnny’s version of “Wonderful, Wonderful” at the end of the episode 6. Most of the other songs were ones that I had not heard before. Santini did a “Don’t Be Cruel” version too.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

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This movie is like Everything, Everywhere All At Once on a combo of speed and LSD.

That is in the good way.

Sam Rockwell leads this intriguing ensemble in a wild, time travel, sci-fi mash up with stuff that you would never expect to see on the big screen. It is a dark comedy, with some extremely dark moments of humor.

Sam Rockwell is great as always. He throwed himself into this project as he does in everything that he ever appears in. He is such a top notch performer that you know you are getting his best in every role.

According to IMDB, “A ‘Man From the Future’ arrives at a diner in Los Angeles where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.“

This film does not hide its themes about AI. It is anything but subtle that it sets AI as the villain of this film and that it sees AI as being a major problem to the world. While it also blends the idea of technology into the theme, AI is absolutely the leading concept.

This movie is utterly batshit crazy. It has some of the most wild, crazy situations I have ever seen. I compared it earlier to Everything, Everywhere All at Once, and that is a fair comparison, but this takes it to another level. If you were someone who did not like the absurdity of some of EEAAO, then this will not be your cup of tea. If you came out of EEAAO with the wish that the writers would have taken the gloves off and really gone to town with the weirdness, then Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is for you.

I was thoroughly entertained by the film, even if my jaw was agape several times.

Gore Verbinski, who directed the Pirates of the Caribbean films, returned to helm this satire and he brought a vision that just was engaging and hilarious, while still bringing an important message to the screen.

One of my favorite movies so far in 2026.

4.8 stars

Psycho Killer

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So I went to a movie today.

Psycho Killer is a new serial killer film from director Gavin Polone, featuring Georgina Campbell. It was written by Andrew Kevin Walker (who also wrote Se7en). I saw the original poster for this movie when I was doing the banner for February 2026, and it looked good. I saw it at Cinemark today and I realized that Psycho Killer was anything but good.

In fact, it was the worst film I have seen so far in 2026. Yes, the year is only in its second month, but this was certainly bad and it was outside of January.

What was good about this movie?

Hm

Wait a minute….

Um… it is better than last year’s War of the Worlds.

To be fair, I believe this film had a premise that could have been cool and could have worked, but anything that was cool about the movie was discarded and was ignored as the film moved on. It was such a mess, writing wise that one wondered how this could have been written by the guy who wrote Se7en.

There are no characteristics about any of the characters. They are all just one-dimensional cardboard cutouts. The psycho killer is not a character at all. The Psycho Killer is nothing more than a deep (silly) voice.

I have to say as well that the end of this movie is one of the worst endings that I have seen in such a long time. It totally did not make any sense and even the lacking character that this psycho killer had made no sense as to why this was done. It was just DUMB. I thought that I missed something along the way before this ending, but I did not. There was nothing that led to this story arc.

This felt like a lazy film without any real characters or real stakes for anyone I gave a crap about. It has one of the worst ending sequences of the last several years and just is not worth an hour and a half of anyone’s time.

0.8 stars

Daily Countdown: TV Show Themes #28

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#28

The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

Title: “Yo Home to Bel-Air”

Written: Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff

Performed: Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff

Fun fact: This theme song replaced a theme that had been originally composed by Quincy Jones.

The Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song has become iconic and it not only represented the show perfectly, but became an anthem for the 1990s.

Daily Countdown: TV Show Themes #29

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Mr. Belvedere

Title:  “According to Our New Arrival”

Composed: Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart-Angelo

Performed: Leon Redbone

One of the lesser known shows on the Top 100 Theme Song list, Mr. Belvedere was a sitcom on ABC for several years. It featured Christopher Hewett and Bob Uecker as leads.

The theme song by ragtime singer Leon Redbone is full of jazz and lyrics of change.

EYG Favorite Comic Covers of the Week

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February 19

Two variant covers in the medal winners stand out this week. One Marvel, One DC, and one independent. That is fun.

Also-Rans: The End of Life #1, White Sky #1, Smile For the Camera #1 (Foil), Amazing Spider-Man #22, Ultimate Spider-Man #24 (Cover E), X-Men #25 and Fantastic Four #8.

Bronze Medalist

Batman/Superman World’s Finest #48

Variant cover B

Cover art by Mark Spears

Last year’s cover champ returns for a Bronze Medal with the first time Mark Spears draws The Joker. As always, he brings a gravitas to the covers.

Silver Medalist

Smile: For the Camera #1

Cover art by Skylar Patridge

Dark ID has come out with a new story set in the Smile universe. Smile is one of the creepiest and scariest horror film franchises and now, looking at this cover, perhaps Smile is going to make this one of the best horror comics around. The scissors on this cover with the blood dripping from them… frightening.

Gold Medalist

It’s Jeff! Meets Daredevil #1

Variant Cover C

Cover art by Nic Klein

Some of my favorite covers recently have been horror movie homages, and last year’s cover of the year was a Jaws metal cover from the Mark Spears Monster run. This cover has the same pieces to it and I just love DD as Jaws coming up under Jeff. Those giant fangs and wide open mouth of Daredevil makes this one of the best variants of the year so far.

Daily Countdown: TV Show Themes #30

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#30

The Brady Bunch

Composed: Sherwood Schwartz and Frank De Vol

Performed (Season 1): The first season featured studio session singers (Paul Parrish, John Beland, and Lois Fletcher) with the musical track from the Peppermint Trolley Company.

Perfromed (Season 2-): The Brady cast members (kids)

There are few theme songs in the Top 100 countdown more iconic than the theme from The Brady Bunch. It is known worldwide and parodied by many, including the prince of parodies himself, “Weird Al” Yankovic.

The opening credits are fun and set the tone for the offbeat series featuring two blended families.

Daily Countdown: TV Show Themes #31

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Alice

Title: “There’s a New Girl in Town”

Written: David Shire

Lyrics: Alan and Marilyn Bergman

Performed: Linda Lavin

Alice was a solid show in the late 70s/early 80s that was based on martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. The waitreses at Mel’s Diner was the standout reason for this show’s success, led by Linda Lavin, Polly Holiday and Beth Howard.

Sha Na Na S4 E1, E2, E3

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We kicked off the final season of Sha Na Na with the first three episodes and a surprise. Dirty Dan was gone. He was no longer on the show, off the theme at the beginning and out of the “Goodnight Sweetheart” line at the end. I took a deep dive trying to discover the reason why he left the group and I did not find much of anything outside of wanting to pursue other opportunities. It did leave a gap in these episodes because the lack of guitar limited the type of songs they were singing.

Fourth season guests included Stephanie Mills from The Wiz, impressionist Fred Travalena, and, my personal favorite, The Unknown Comic (aka Murray Langston) who I saw regularly on the Gong Show, which was another show of the time that I enjoyed. Just a few years ago, I dressed up as the Unknown Comic for Halloween which was a ton of fun.

The group redid a song called “Remember Then” on stage as an opener. They had done this on the rooftop set a few seasons before (may have even been season one). It is a great song and was well worth the redo.

In episode two, they did a whole comedy bit called Mastergrease Theater, without the musical song between the jokes. They had three of the boys dressed up like detectives (Jocko was Columbia- a parody of Columbo, Bowzer was dressed like Sherlock Holmes and Santini was dressed like Sam Spade/noir detective). They were there to investigate the murder of Lennie, who was supposed to be a rich, high class businessman. It was a weird bit, but I liked that it was different than what they had ever done before.

Chico and Donny continued the trend of blending voices extremely well as Chico sang “Teenage Idol” with Donny providing the backing vocals. Chico and Donny had a couple of songs in these episodes and both seemed a touch soft. I thought they were living singing these and both were quite tender. Screamin’ Scott had a song like that too called “Things We Used to Do.”

The group was using more props in the opening songs during these episodes too, including long white beards for “Rip Van Winkel” and a giant broken heart for “Remember Then”

Agents of Shield S3 E11, E12

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“Bouncing Back”

“The Inside Man”

A sick day allowed me to watch a couple more Agents of Shield in season three. The ongoing Inhumans story continued through these two.

President Ellis named General Talbot the new head of the ATCU, but promises Coulson that Talbot would follow Coulson’s lead. Not necessarily how this was going to turn out.

We meet “Yo-Yo” Elena Rodriguez, who is a new Inhuman with super speed, and she will become a regular later on in the series. They started the relationship between her and Mac, which becomes more important later on.

They brought back Crusher Creel, the Absorbing Man, and put him with Talbot. It created uncertainty about what Creel’s plans were.

Hydra blackmailed Talbot by grabbing his son. It was a way to make Talbot turn away from Coulson without making him the bad guy.

Daily Countdown: TV Show Themes #32

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Spectacular Spider-Man

Composed: Chuck Gil, Joey Medina, Ric Moon, and Steven Mungarro

Performed: The Tender Box

 “Living on the edge / Fighting crime, spinning webs / Swinging from the highest ledge / He can leap above our heads”.

This theme song captured the energy and power of Peter Parker’s hectic life.

This is the third and final Spider-Man animated theme song to appear in the Top 100 TV Show Theme Songs and it is the highest ranked one. The others included #72 (Spider-Man 1967) and #60 (Spider-Man: The Animated Series).

Full theme:

Sha Na Na S3 E17, E18, E19, E20, E21, E22, E23, E24

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I finished watching season three of Sha Na Na over the last couple of days from episode 17 to episode 24. There were some interesting things that went through these episodes.

After the first three or four episodes, I noticed that Dirty Dan and Screamin’ Scott had been doing a bunch of the songs, more than they usually would do. Then, I wondered why we were not getting the amount of Denny songs. As soon as I thought that, Denny did a bunch of songs over the next several episodes. I have to admire how well the group did of giving everybody the spotlight without shorting anybody. Chico was probably the least used singer in the group of episodes I saw, but he was there with Rubber Ball, where he was back on roller skates.

The final two episodes were very different than any other ones prior. They both carried a storyline throughout the entire show. In episode 23, Jocko fell for an uppity British woman named April (played by Lorrie Gia, who was announced with the opening credits). April wanted Jocko to change for her and he went on an episode-long journey to try and de-grease himself. Troy Donohue guest starred and tried to help in a My Fair Lady type story.

Meanwhile, in episode 24, Bowzer was hired away from Sha Na Na by Charo to play the piano for her Charo’s Cuchi Cuchi Club. The whole episode focused on Bowzer’s work for Charo and his eventual return to Sha Na Na.

I am curious to see if these storyline-based episodes will continue into Sha Na Na’s final season.

It was also interesting that Jay Johnson from Soap appeared on the show with his ventriloquist dummy, Squeaky… whose name was Bob on the show. Did that mean that Squeaky was the real name and Bob was the character he played? That seems weird.

Other guests in this run included The Kingston Trio, James Darren, Steve Allen, The Crystals and the 5th Dimension.

These episodes featured some of the comedy bits that stood out in my memory, such as 16 Tons, Romeo & Juliet, Book of Love and one that I did not remember, but it had the cast dressed up as bunnies doing At the Hop.

Screamin’ Scott was always my favorite Sha Na Na member and I remembered clearly him doing “Does Your Chewing Gum Lose its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?” So to see it again in episode 18 was a treat.

Lennie and Bowzer did a version of “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling” and their voices mixed so well together. I think Lennie could sing with anyone.

It was sad that episode 17, specifically, was such poor video quality. I know that the person who put these episodes up on YouTube did the best they could to make it as watchable as possible, but it was an old VCR recording from 40 plus years ago. Clearly, the rights to the songs make it nearly impossible to put these out on anything more up to date, despite the fact that I do believe that there would be an audience for them.

I have just one more season of Sha Na Na to go.

Daily Countdown: TV Show Themes #33

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Beverly Hillbillies

“Oil, that is…“

Title: “The Ballad of Jed Clampett”

Composed: Paul Henning

Performed: Jerry Scroggins

Music:  Lester Flatt (guitar) and Earl Scruggs (banjo)

One of the most standout theme songs of any show during the sixties, “The Ballad of Jed Clampett” brought the musical style of bluegrass to the forefront of American pop culture.