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Part 1: Don't Tread On Me (1776-1820)
Part 2: A House Divided (1820-1865)
Part 3: A Cross of Gold (1865-1913)
Part 4: Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself (1913-1971)
Part 5: I Did Not Have Sexual Relations with A Scanner Darkly (1971-present)

The first four get their names from political speeches, or in one case, a flag. Then part 5 breaks the pattern by being named after a 1977 novel and 2006 movie about the War on Drugs and surveillance state. I didn't like breaking the pattern but it was too fitting a name to pass up. Other contenders included "A Crisis of Conscience" (Carter), "Morning Again in America" (Reagan), "A Bridge to the 21st Century" (Clinton), and "The End of History" (Fukuyama). I'll admit that last one would have been hilarious as the final chapter of a history book.

The unusual choice of 1913 and 1971 as breakpoints, plus the "cross of gold" reference, should indicate that this book would have an abnormally heavy focus on economic and monetary policy. 1820 was chosen because that was the year of the Missouri Compromise, the transition point when our national focus stopped being about proving ourselves to the Old World powers, and was directed westward and to the problems caused by the expansion of slavery... and because 1820 is exactly halfway between 1776 and 1865.

I also considered a three-part structure in which the Civil War and the end of WW2 would be the dividing lines.

Feedback would be appreciated.

Part 1: Don't Tread On Me (1776-1820)
Part 2: A House Divided (1820-1865)
Part 3: A Cross of Gold (1865-1913)
Part 4: Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself (1913-1971)
Part 5: I Did Not Have Sexual Relations with A Scanner Darkly (1971-present)

The first four get their names from political speeches, or in one case, a flag. Then part 5 breaks the pattern by being named after a 1977 novel and 2006 movie about the War on Drugs and surveillance state. I didn't like breaking the pattern but it was too fitting a name to pass up. Other contenders included "A Crisis of Conscience" (Carter), "Morning Again in America" (Reagan), "A Bridge to the 21st Century" (Clinton), and "The End of History" (Fukuyama). I'll admit that last one would have been hilarious as the final chapter of a history book.

The unusual choice of 1913 and 1971 as breakpoints, plus the "cross of gold" reference, should indicate that this book would have an abnormally heavy focus on economic and monetary policy. 1820 was chosen because that was the year of the Missouri Compromise, the transition point when our national focus stopped being about proving ourselves to the Old World powers, and was directed westward and to the problems caused by the expansion of slavery... and because 1820 is exactly halfway between 1776 and 1865.

I also considered a three-part structure in which the Civil War and the end of WW2 would be the dividing lines.

Feedback would be appreciated.

Part 1: Don't Tread On Me (1776-1820)
Part 2: A House Divided (1820-1865)
Part 3: A Cross of Gold (1865-1913)
Part 4: Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself (1913-1971)
Part 5: I Did Not Have Sexual Relations with A Scanner Darkly (1971-present)

The first four get their names from political speeches, or in one case, a flag. Then part 5 breaks the pattern by being named after a 1977 novel and 2006 movie about the War on Drugs and surveillance state. I didn't like breaking the pattern but it was too fitting a name to pass up. Other contenders included "A Crisis of Conscience" (Carter), "Morning Again in America" (Reagan), "A Bridge to the 21st Century" (Clinton), and "The End of History" (Fukuyama). I'll admit that last one would have been hilarious as the final chapter of a history book.

The unusual choice of 1913 and 1971 as breakpoints, plus the "cross of gold" reference, should indicate that this book would have an abnormally heavy focus on economic and monetary policy. 1820 was chosen because that was the year of the Missouri Compromise, the transition point when our national focus stopped being about proving ourselves to the Old World powers, and was directed westward and to the problems caused by the expansion of slavery... and because 1820 is exactly halfway between 1776 and 1865.

I also considered a three-part structure in which the Civil War and the end of WW2 would be the dividing lines.

Feedback would be appreciated.

The First and Second Banks of the United States were chartered for 20 years.

When Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act, it was given the exact same lifespan. It was supposed to die in 1934.

Then the McFadden Act comes along. Signed by Silent Cal on February 25, 1927, despite his otherwise Constitutionalist and non-interventionist policies, the act rechartered the Fed banks indefinitely. It also greatly eased restrictions on the shenanigans that member banks could get involved in - like speculating in real estate - and these shenanigans may have contributed to the Great Depression.

https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/mcfadden-act

I just learned this today.

Movie pitches from 20+ years ago were utterly bonkers. They sounded like something you'd come up with while playing Mad Libs. Examples:

• Three college guys start up a ghost-extermination business.
• A dog gets murdered by his organized crime partner, returns from the dead, and adopts a human girl who can talk to animals so they can make a fortune cheating on horse races together.
• A skeleton from a parallel universe where every day is Halloween gets sucked into a parallel universe where every day is Christmas, and kidnaps and impersonates Santa Claus.
• Whoopi Goldberg goes into the witness protection program and teaches nuns how to sing.
• Jim Carrey finds an object that imbues him with the powers of the Norse god of mischief.
• The Looney Toons suck Michael Jordan into the center of the Earth to help them win a basketball game against space aliens.
• Bill Murray inherits a live elephant. Hilarity ensures.
• Idiocracy

And none of them were based on pre-existing source material, except Space Jam, which was based on... (checks notes)... a Super Bowl commercial from 4 years earlier, which involved neither the center of the Earth nor aliens. Honestly, it's difficult to image how much cocaine went into getting that movie made or how that pitch meeting went.

What's ruling the box office today? Our 527th Spider-Man movie in the past 24 years and an adaptation of a Greek legend that's thousands of years old.

South Park season 5 has the episode "Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants", and then promptly forgets that 9/11 happened, deferring War On Terrorism commentary to the movie "Team America: World Police".

Boston Public season 2 eases into it more gradually, with some vague references to being at war in a couple of episodes but fully saying "this is a post-9/11, post-Patriot-Act episode" in episode 2B11.

What else?

Original thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1vduifs/im_rewatching_boston_public_and_omfg_every_single/

So anyway... Season 2, episode 1.

A student decides to start a conversation in class about masturbation, and about the girls that boys think about when they're doing it. The teacher tells that student "I've thought about some of your nasty little classmates"

DUDE.

WHAT THE FCK.

WHO IS HIRING THESE TEACHERS?

- One of the teachers is apparently screwing a student
- Lipschitz is senile and racist
- One teacher FIRED A GUN IN CLASS... wait, wasn't he the same one who's screwing a student?
- Fat black lady is emotionally unstable and refuses to take her meds
- Hot white female teacher refuses to get fingerprinted to prove she's not a child molester, which is a totally valid concern given that one of the other teachers is actually banging a student
- Hot black female teacher hasn't done anything especially stupid or criminal yet but I'm only on episode 2 so it's probably coming up

It's no wonder Jeri Ryan got hired in a later season. The job interview was probably like "Are you criminally insane? Are you a pedophile? No? Great! You start tomorrow."

UPDATE: oh yeah, there's...
- an old hag who paddles her students because she gets off on it (and in fact they DID try to fire her for it).
- A teacher who was literally delusional and thought he was banging one of his students (but he couldn't be fired for it because he died before anyone found out).
- the cheerleading coach who has the cheerleaders doing a dance routine more overtly sexual than anything you'd see at a strip club
- Episode 14 opens with two female teachers in the faculty lounge talking about which "toy" (meaning male student) they want to "take home".

Again, this is why you're getting fingerprinted, you stupid bitch. Every pedophile in the entire state of Massachusetts is a teacher at this fucking school.

I've ripped all 5 seasons of Charlies Angels from DVD and I'm in the process of cutting off all the modern CGI Sony bumpers and replacing them with historically correct ones. I've found the late '70s Columbia Pictures Television logo that I believe is correct for seasons 2-5 but I still need the Metromedia logo that I believe came at the end of the Season 1 episodes.

Alien Romulus and Bumblebee were among them, and apparently now The Crow is getting a re-release.

I'll start:

The planet where everyone wears diapers and the dominant industries are jogging and f-cking.

I'm working on a project that requires the original, standard-definition, NTSC broadcast cuts of TNG as it aired from 1987 to 1994, with their insane mix of 3:2 pulldown, 2:2 pulldown, 60 hz effects, orphaned fields around scene changes, et cetera. No, the Blu-Rays will not work. They are completely new edits, and not broadcast-accurate. They are not suitable for my project.

I've noticed that the DVDs are in exceptionally horrible quality. DVDs of other shows from the same time period that were edited on tape do not look that bad. Can I expect better quality by capturing the laserdisc releases? A user on another sub indicated that the season 1-4 DVDs were actually transferred from the laserdisc releases, not from the original master tapes, but some kind of citation or confirmation would be great.

I was able to get my hands on the 2001 DVD release of season 1 today. I'm currently ripping and encoding it. The episodes are >99.5% progressive content, switching to NTSC only during the pure black parts between a fade-out and the following fade-in.

I've seen other people, however, complain about drops in visual sharpness during certain effects shots, implying that those shots don't exist on film in finished form and had to be sourced from tapes instead.

Can anyone explain this discrepancy? Did they edit on film in season 1 and switch to editing on tape in season 2? Was the 2001 DVD set a Star Trek TNG-style complete re-edit, over a decade before Star Trek TNG did it?

So yeah. Dog City seasons 2 and 3 finished downloading years ago, no problem. But season 1 was always stuck at 99% on that last file.

Yesterday, whoever had that last 1% finally got back on Bittorrent after what I assume was a years-long absence.

Thank you, random lover of '90s cartoons.