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One of Doctor Who’s biggest strengths is its ability to cover different genres. Everything from farce to gothic horror, kids animation to disaster movie. But one genre we haven’t seen is a musical.

We’ve had a couple stories with a musical element such as The Gunslingers or Church in Ruby Road. However we haven’t seen yet to have a full episode be in a musical format.

Buffy managed it by having it be demon magic, Captain Marvel travelled to a planet where everyone communicates via singing & Scrubs had it be a hallucination/illness. So there’s clearly lots of ways a show like Doctor Who can justify the Musical gimmick.

Is this something other fans would like to see as an episode or a special?

I have a pretty common first & surname. I’ve been lucky in that I have never had a major character share my full name. I do feel sorry for anyone born Harold Potter or Phillip Mitchell but I’ve somehow avoided that fate.

I discovered a minor character in a novel with my name, in the novel they died. I just watched an adaptation and saw my namesake die. It’s quite a weird experience. As even though they were in no way based on me, it still is impactful when they died and people were talking about their death.

It got me thinking about people called Harold Potter or Phillip Mitchell or whatever and how they feel watching their namesakes.

For context, I’m totally against the death penalty itself and I am hopeful that this will focus on the logistics rather than the political/ethical issues.

The USA still executes convicted criminals but the systems they use to actually kill somebody is incredibly bad. Electrocutions, gassing or lethal injections that don’t take properly. Why are these ineffective & complex methods used?

Putting someone under general anaesthetic is easy and even easier when you don’t care about them ever waking again. Once the victim is unconscious, how difficult is it to literally cut the jugular or similar?

A simple guaranteed death where the victim feels zero pain?

There’s several very well regarded theme park attractions that are heavily based around IPs that are otherwise barely remembered.

Waterworld Stunt Show at Universal Hollywood has been running for 20 years and still regularly has packed arenas despite the Waterworkd movie being an infamous bomb.

Splash Mountain was a long running incredibly popular ride at various Disney parks, despite being based on Song Of The South, a movie that Disney intentionally keeps away from the public.

Dudley Do Right’s Ripsaw Falls at Islands of Adventure is based around the Dudley Do Right cartoons which haven’t been made since the 1979s.

Clayton has the chance to give the facials the finger in the funniest way imaginable.

Scotland’s opening World Cup game is against Haiti, at 2am Sunday Morning. This is far later than normal football showing pubs are open, and the bars/clubs open at 2-4am in Blackpool tend not to be the sport on tv style places.

Which pubs are going to be opened late on Saturday, early on Sunday to show the full game?

I have been to the opticians today and come away with a small shopping bag with ‘vision express’ on it. Inside are glasses that cost me several hundred quid. Yet due to prescription lenses & fittings, they are practically useless for anyone else and have no resale value.

This got me randomly thinking about how surely a mugger/thief must target certain shopping bags. Which lead to me thinking if there were any less desirable store bags for the thieves.

I just finished a watch through of the entire run of Silly Symphonies. However despite there being 4 cartoon shorts revolving around The Three Little Pigs & The Big Bad Wolf, I didn’t rewatch one cartoon from my memory. So i have to assume it was a derivative cartoon from a different series of shorts.

I remember The wolf & his son trying to break into the Little pigs house at Christmas, at one point the Wolf dresses up like Father Christmas & tries to come down the chimney. I’m pretty sure the wolf’s son actually gets along with the pugs & is embarrassed by his Dads actions.

Does anyone remember this cartoon?

SNL UK, just like the original is always going to be hit & miss. It’s a given with a live weekly sketch show. Yet every week easily the worst sketch is the opening “political” sketch.

I understand that they feel they have to do a political open because it works so well in the American version. However every week we have a terrible Kier Starmer parody that doesn’t get a single laugh. It’s shocking that if a cast of a dozen comedians, That is the best Kier Starmer they have. They seem to be aware how bad the impressions are themselves because they actually introduce each character by name because otherwise you’d have no idea what famous person they are trying to be.

I actually enjoy the rest of the show. Weekend Update is a particular delight but they need to switch up that opening as it must turn off viewers who are trying the show for the first time and have to sit through that, the 2 minute opening & the awkward monologue before we get to the funny stuff.

In the early years of Defunctland, Kevin’s videos were 10-20 minutes maximum. Now they run for multiple hours. I love the early stuff but there’s definitely topics with far more material than he was able to cover originally.

I’d love to hear what topic(s) you’d like to see revisited.

Personally, I’d love a deep dive into Pleasure Island. It’s such an interesting concept that featured so many moving parts. The original video was 2 parts totalling about 15 minutes and Kevin barely had the time to scratch the surface of the insanity with the fictional backstory, the individual clubs, the issues, etc.