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Bill Hader as Richie Tozier

IT CHAPTER TWO (2019)

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The Bear + Text Posts

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Skrimm: Guess what number I’m thinking of.

Jornir: 420?

Skrimm: No, that’s really immature of you. Someone else guess, and please take this seriously.

Barnabos: 69.

Skrimm: Yeah it was 69.

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merwaine thoughts rn

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In "Tantrum", Thomas Kim is dismayed to receive a 99 on a returned essay, much to Virgil's amusement as he is pleased with his 95. Interestingly, particularly given later developments in the show, Richie didn't get as good of a grade although the specifics go unsaid.

After school, a Bang Baby attacks a teacher in the parking lot. Virgil hears the racket from the library, leading to Static intervening.

While the Doylist reason is clear, I suspect at this point in the episode, Virgil is avoiding home because that's where Robert and Sharon are watching VHS tapes that feature Jean.

Richie checks out the parking lot after the fight, finding Thomas' essay. He theorizes that Thomas must be the Bang Baby, as it would explain the situation. They decide to directly ask him about it.

At the Kims' house, Mr. Kim is quizzing his son relentlessly on history facts. Mrs. Kim interrupts due to Virgil and Richie arriving, pleased to see her son have friends over so she insists on a break.

The discussion doesn't go well, with Thomas being genuinely bewildered by Richie having found his essay.

In large part thanks to having seen a video with Richie where Jean successfully deals with a small Virgil having a tantrum of his own, Static later just lets the Bang Baby tire himself out and revert to Thomas. And yes, the episode does make a Jekyll and Hyde reference. It is mentioned that now that all three Kims know what's happening, they're getting help for Thomas. The specifics aren't given, but I'm choosing to be hopeful it'll be successful. It is unclear how Thomas became a Bang Baby in the first place- maybe the gas was further-spreading than initially assumed?

This was a great first season finale that showcases Virgil's growth as a person and a superhero, as well as emphasizing how while his mother is gone, she's still a positive influence for him.

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jon matteson's choice to over-enunciate his T's as richie brings me so much joy

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Screenshot from Peter Tork's My Generation interview.

“I did some work accompanying Steve Stills when he was with Ron Long and the Buffalo Fish.” - Peter Tork, Goldmine, May 1982 “I’d run into Stephen earlier when he was playing with Peter Tork and John Hopkins, and I thought they were really doing it right.” - Richie Furay, Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Authorized Biography (1984) “[Stills] put together a short-lived folk duo called Buffalo Fish with bass player Ron Long (another refugee from Greenwich Village). Together, they hit the Southern California folk circuit in late 1965, playing mostly folk and blues standards. One night, when they hit the Golden Bear, in Huntington Beach, Peter Tork was working in the club’s kitchen.‘I was between gigs,’ says Tork, ‘washing dishes and jerkin’ beer at the Golden Bear, when all of a sudden I hear this voice coming from out in the club. I look and it’s Stephen, who I hadn’t seen since leaving New York.’Over beers, Stills and Tork renewed their friendship and Buffalo Fish became a trio, with Tork adding some vocal support and comedic touches. But after a few more times around the circuit, Buffalo Fish spread apart.” - ibid “So we [Stephen Stills and Ron Long] were booked into the [Golden] Bear [in 1965] and we were really terrible for the whole gig except for two nights. Those two nights Peter [Tork] got up and played piano with us.” - Stephen Stills, Stephen Stills: Change Partners: The Definitive Biography (2016)

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Milwaukee Lakefront, Lincoln Memorial Drive just south of MooSa's - February 23, 2025

Finally was able to get a photo of this abandoned boat on the lakefront. Want to eventually try to get closer, but the rocks were a bit precarious with the snow on them. - Admin Jolly

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a cool video that's essentially a timelapse of graffiti getting added to the boat. Check it out here.

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richie lipschitz

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Bill Hader as Richie Tozier

IT CHAPTER TWO (2019)

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This isn't the best image of it, but here are Virgil, Richie, and Daisy realizing that there are thefts happening at the mall at the beginning of "Replay".

The titular metahuman villain of the episode is Johnny Morrow, who starred in a show when younger and isn't coping well with the loss of the spotlight. This is highlighted by having Neil Patrick Harris voice him. Due to an incident in his first clash with Static, Replay/Johnny gains access to a 'copy' of Static that he orders to commit crimes to ruin the superhero's reputation.

The narrative timing for this works out- it's far enough into the show that the 'broken pedestal' element for Richie and the civilians feels earned, but not so far into the show that they don't seem foolish for not considering superpowered shenanigan as an explanation for Static's apparent turn to the villains.

I don't think the show meant to have any special meaning to having a white guy frame Virgil for crimes, particularly as the police chief is also African-American. The writers probably just wanted to touch on what happens when a child star stops being a child and/or somebody had access to Neil Patrick Harris as a talent and the storyline spun out from there. There's also the fact that a villain framing a hero for crimes (with the variant for brainwashing or blackmailing them into committing crimes) is a staple in the superhero genre.

Richie ends up believing Virgil's claim of there being an 'evil twin' and following him to the TV station, broadcasting Static's confrontation with Replay that proves the former's innocence.

With that wrapped up, up next to watch & review is the first season finale!

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jon matteson’s belt on “i’m not a loser” added 5 years onto my life and paid for my college tuition

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— richie lipschitz blue stims 🌀🦕

hey babygirl…you could be the thematic blue to my thematic red…haha…if you wanted….😘

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Stephen Stills and Peter Tork, early 1960s.

“I did some work accompanying Steve Stills when he was with Ron Long and the Buffalo Fish. I accompanied this black trio called the [Apollas], on the stand-up string bass.” - Peter Tork, Goldmine, May 1982

“I’d run into Stephen earlier when he was playing with Peter Tork and John Hopkins, and I thought they were really doing it right.” - Richie Furay, Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Authorized Biography (1984)

“[Stills] put together a short-lived folk duo called Buffalo Fish with bass player Ron Long (another refugee from Greenwich Village). Together, they hit the Southern California folk circuit in late 1965, playing mostly folk and blues standards. One night, when they hit the Golden Bear, in Huntington Beach, Peter Tork was working in the club’s kitchen. ‘I was between gigs,’ says Tork, ‘washing dishes and jerkin’ beer at the Golden Bear, when all of a sudden I hear this voice coming from out in the club. I look and it’s Stephen, who I hadn’t seen since leaving New York.’ Over beers, Stills and Tork renewed their friendship and Buffalo Fish became a trio, with Tork adding some vocal support and comedic touches. But after a few more times around the circuit, Buffalo Fish spread apart.” - Crosby, Stills & Nash: The Authorized Biography (1984)

"[Peter] has had a great effect on the way I perform. The way he used to move, the way he used his accent, his whole attitude toward the theater, the entire theater, gave him a great basis from which to work. He never looks past the fact that he’s supposed to be up there: to entertain the people. And every time he got up there he would perform and do his whole number, exuding all the personality he could and he did some marvelous comedy routines. It was mostly by watching him that I picked up some of those things.” - Stephen Stills, Tiger Beat, June 1967

"When we’re not playing music or listening to music, we’re usually picking things apart — groups, ideas we hear from people, pieces of music, each other’s brain." - Stephen Stills, Tiger Beat, July 1967 (x)