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mvk--ar · 5 years ago

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I have (3) out of the water Bob’s Burgers theories. Enjoy :)

This is REALLY long, but my current theories are:

(please don’t get overly defensive abt my theories, I’m just havin fun 😂😂)

1. Colleen Caviello is the Pesto kids’ mom. (I’ve shared my thoughts on a few posts so I’ll save you the trip) Basically though, PTA mom of an unknown kid at Wagstaff. The Pesto kids are some of the only kids who we know have a mom, but we don’t know which. Colleen could easily be another kids’ mom, but knowing Colleen & Linda’s rivalry would make it a little bit more believable. For example, Joanne is on PTA so she has an unnamed kid too. But Linda didn’t really know Joanne when they hung out. If Joanne were the Pesto’s mom, I doubt Linda would’ve acted the way she did with her. Caviello is an italian sounding last name which would make Jimmy Pesto’s italian-loving fetish a reality, and she seems about of a shady culinary artist as Pesto. (“that sauce was store bought and you know it!!!” — also, sabotaging Linda with Banana Bread 😂) I mean, two peas in a pod, right??

2. Linda’s gal pal Ginger isn’t real, but rather her imaginary friend 😳

Although we see Linda talking to Ginger a few times, we’ve never actually physically seen Ginger or heard her talk. (There is some speculation that she appears as a side character in some frames, such as the Pirates of Panache dinner theater.) However, I think it’s possible the animators just coincidentally gave those characters red hair. A lot of characters have similar looks, because I assume it’d be incredibly different to make entirely unique characters for every character that passes by. Anyways, we never actually see Ginger (she does appear when the Belcher’s are creating stories of what would’ve happened if Bob never had a mustache, but technically she didn’t get literal screen time. They’re just sharing stories! Also, if you compare Angie from the essential oils episode and Ginger from the flashback, they look surprisingly similar 👀 Even the scrunchie is the same color! I’m not saying Linda was just having a random chat with someone in the bar, but Linda is so outgoing I could see her doing so! In addition, Linda does preface the flashback by saying “it was a quiet night with my girlfriend Ginger” but not once does Linda introduce Ginger to Bob. And Bob doesn’t ever acknowledge Ginger. I know it’s first impression between Bob/Linda, but I feel like SOMEWHERE in that timeline Bob would have at least been like “I’ll let you get back to your friend.”) Also, on her birthday she gives Ginger a really long message, when Ginger tells Linda about her cat dying, and in the sleepover episode Linda talks about the raccoons, but we don’t actually hear Ginger talk. Ginger is also noted as Linda’s lifelong BFF that she has known longer than she has known Bob. I don’t think I’ve ever hear Gayle bring up Ginger & we have seen some of Linda’s friends from when she was younger, such as Stacy Micelli & Monica. If Linda has been friends with Ginger for this long, why hasn’t Gayle brought up Ginger at all? Knowing how Gayle is, I feel like she would have at least tried to be friends with Ginger. (She’s always wanted was Linda had) I know this one is a STRETCH, but Linda is a kooky crazy bat sometimes. Plus, she is Gayle’s sister. With how close they are, it wouldn’t be too surprising if they both had an element of crazy. And, I know Bob and the family are goofballs as well. I could see them supporting Linda entirely. In addition with Gene, who is 11 and a little old for imaginary friends, with his super close relationship with Linda, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s where he gets it from 🙊 Supposedly we meet Ken, gene’s albingo friend (who I think is like 32??) But it seems more plausible that he’s imaginary.

3. Okay, so now that’s outta the way. Disproving my first and second theory, a lot of people have speculated that Ginger could be the Pesto kids’ mom. We all kind of just assume Ginger has ginger-red hair, right? I mean again, we’ve never actually seen her so who knows what color her hair is. But that could explain the recessive gene for Jimmy Jr’s red hair. Blonde haired genes are more common than red haired genes, and that small percentage would be all it takes to over shadow the gene expression for red hair and produce blonde kids. But if both parents have the recessive gene for red hair, it could explain why one kid is a red head and the twins are blonde. Additionally, what if the Pesto kids aren’t Jimmy Pesto’s kids??? In the family fracas episode, Jimmy calls Trev the “son I’ve always wanted.” I know he’s not as close with his kids as the Belchers are, but even that’s a little cruel. So, if Jimmy isn’t the kids’ dad, who would be? Well we know from way back in season 2 Ginger is married to (or having sexual relations with) her pill-poppin’ sex freak of a partner, Tony. Tying into that, when Bob goes to get multiple Turkeys later in season 4 because he keeps throwing them in the toilet, the Butcher goes “Things haven’t been going great with Tony for a long time” & “I’m so sick of tony and his dancing!!” 2 seasons I think is enough chronological time to have Tony leave Ginger for the Butcher, and offer some commitment issues to the Butcher. What if the Butcher’s Tony is also Ginger’s Tony? And what if Ginger & Tony are the real Pesto kids’ parents? It’d explain why Jimmy loves dancing so much. It’s in his genes!! We see Jimmy Pesto gets mad at Jimmy Jr. a lot for dancing. I feel like a normal parent wouldn’t really find that much of an issue with it, but who knows ��🏻‍♀️ (Also, Jimmy Pesto calls Jimmy Jr. “Pepper” in one episode, and idk what that’s all about lol. I read that it’s a possible reference to something else, but I forget what.) Then in the musoems episode, Jimmy Jr. sings “my mom’s new friend Allen, he’s okayyyy!” What if Ginger left Tony because Tony went with the Butcher (or Tony left Ginger for the Butcher), so now Ginger is with Allen??? The biggest flaw for that theory is why would Jimmy Pesto then have custody of the kids 😂😂 (Maybe Jimmy Pesto is their uncle or something 😱😱 I’m just kidding lolol) And in the Rent Strike episode, Jimmy says “did we really have to bring our kids???” Although some kids are named after different family members, Jimmy Jr. being named after Jimmy Pesto is probably the most likely. So there’s really no disproving he’s the father, but I’m not completely dismissing the idea that the kids aren’t Poplopoviches ;) If they are Poplopoviches though, it kinda confuses me as to why they’d all change their name to Pesto. But a background story on that could easily explain why lol

Also, J-ju doesn’t call Pesto “dad” a whole lot (probably cos we don’t see them that much, but i’ve only heard him say “dad” like three times) and although the twins say “Daddy! You came for us!!” in the Taffy factory episode, and Pesto says “I thought you were with your mom? I just came to see the demolition. Er—Come and rescue you guys [something like that] I’m a great father!” If Pesto was a close family member or like an uncle, it’d be reasonable for the kids to call him Dad as they see him like a father figure. The twins are young enough they’re easily impressionable so I could see them genuinely calling Pesto “dad” even if he wasn’t. Especially if their real dad isn’t in the picture & genuinely felt like Jimmy Pesto was their dad.

Additionally, in the slumber party episode, Linda says Ginger has to take her daughter to a slumber party. People have mentioned that we probably would have known by now if the Pesto kids did have a sister. But if Ginger’s daughter is the same age as the twins & Louise or even younger, it’s possible the Pesto kids didn’t get to hangout with their sister very much. It’s also possible that Ginger’s daughter would be the Pesto kids’ half sister which would explain why the kids don’t ever talk about her.

Again, I’m way overanalyzing the show and all my theories are CRAZY unrealistic, but it’s fun to imagine!

I dunno. I know all three of these theories are way far fetched and HIGHLY unlikely, and I doubt the writers would have made a storyline this intricate, but it’s kinda fun putting a twist on the show!!

What are some of your wild theories ??

#bob’s burgers #fan theory #the belchers #linda belcher #bob belcher #jimmy pesto jr #jimmy jr #tina belcher #louise belcher #gene belcher #fox animation

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fearsmagazine · 4 years ago

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AT NIGHT COMES WOLVES - Review

DISTRIBUTOR: Gravitas Ventures

SYNOPSIS: Leah is about to unknowingly change the world forever. After she finally leaves her emotionally manipulative husband, Leah befriends a drifter whom she quickly feels a deep connection with. The drifter introduces Leah to a prodigal chemist. Leah discovers her new friends are all that is left of a doomsday cult that disbanded years earlier. Together, the new trio is about to change the world, but before they can reveal their secrets, they have to tie up loose ends with Leah’s husband, their ex-leader.

REVIEW: TJ Marine’s film AT NIGHT COMES WOLVES there is a story about wolves that is the thread binding this tale of five characters together. The narrative is set in the past, present and future, and Leah’s decision to finally leave her abusive husband is the catalyst that sets things in motion. It seems that fate has brought Leah to an encounter with her husband’s former cult members. Paris introduces Leah to Davey, who has become a herbal alchemist on a quest for a legendary elixir. The film moves back in time to lay the foundation of the characters’ relationships, and to a future that foreshadows the consequences of Davey’s elixir. The director does an amazing job of editing it together so as not to be confusing, while creating intense suspense. As events come to a head, the present and future stories draw to a crescendo that delivers a horrific climax.

Debut feature filmmaker TJ Marine does a skillful job of laying out this non-linear narrative in a way that keeps the viewer guessing and engaged by the tension and drama. He makes a compelling tale of Leah’s journey to find herself in the maelstrom her life has become at the hands of her husband. Before we know anything about her husband’s background, Marine tastefully presents this mysterious, almost ‘Eyes Wide Shut,’ and complex controlled relationship. He pushes the boundaries as Leah makes choices to try and please her husband, as well as accepting some of the demands he makes in order for Leah to try to save her marriage. Leah’s encounter with characters from her husband’s dark past feels like a macabre journey into a supernatural wonderland. Looking for meaning in her life, Leah unquestionably accepts Davey’s guidance and potions. Leah is somewhat of a modern day Pandora as her quest unleashes a nightmare onto the world, fully realized in the future story line.

The complex narrative is held together by strong performances that engage the viewers emotions, empathy, and secure them in for the ride. Working with a low budget, you can feel Marine’s frugal spending on the effects and visuals to help sell his tale. There are some excellent transition shots, a compelling location, and a fantastic score by Keaton Landis that all add to an entertaining viewing experience.

With Earth Day falling on April 22nd, 2021, AT NIGHT COMES WOLVES is also a fun way to mark the occasion. The character of Davey uses plant based/organic elixirs and tinctures to build his ultimate potion and makes for a fun reminder of nature's powers to heal or do harm. Filmmaker TJ Marine clearly demonstrates his talents as a cinematic storyteller and is a name to keep an eye out for as he works on his next film.

CAST: Gabi Alves, Jacob Allen Weldy, Vladimir Noel, and Sarah Serio CREW: Director/Screenplay/Producer/Editor - TJ Marine; Cinematographer - Cooper Shine; Editor - Fargol Rose; Score - Keaton Landis; Special Makeup Effects Artist - Colleen Elizabeth Miller/ OFFICIAL: N.A. FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/AtNightComesWolves TWITTER: N.A. TRAILER: https://youtu.be/_hMAkTJ4Zl8 RELEASE DATE: Digital Platforms April 20th, 2021, including iTunes http://apple.co/3c4xKst.

**Until we can all head back into the theaters our “COVID Reel Value” will be similar to how you rate a film on digital platforms - 👍 (Like), 👌 (It’s just okay), or 👎 (Dislike) Reviewed by Joseph B Mauceri

#film review #movie review #at night comes wolves #tj marine #gravitas ventures #horror #thriller #joseph mauceri #joseph b mauceri

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martyslittleusedblog · 5 years ago

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Namco X Capcom and Project X Zone series Hypothetical English Voice Cast

Lots of characters means Keep Reading! I’ve done a post like this before, but I thought it needed some revising. So, here are my personal picks for the English-language voice cast of Namco X Capcom and the Project X Zone duology!

Introduced in Namco X Capcom

From Bravoman:

Bravoman: Rob Paulsen?

Black Bravoman / Anti-Bravoman: Dee Bradley Baker?

Doctor Bomb / Dr. Bakuda: Dee Bradley Baker?

Waya-Hime: Romi Dames?

From Darkstalkers:

Felicia: Janyse Jaud, Tara Strong, Andrea Libman, Tabitha St Germain, or Kimlinh Tran?

Hsien-Ko: Nicole Oliver?

Lord Raptor / Zabel Zarock: Scott McNeil

Demitri Maximoff: Paul Dobson or Michael Donovan?

Morrigan Aensland: Siobhan Flynn

Lilith Aensland: Stephanie Sheh

Huitzil / Phobos: Ward Perry

From Dino Crisis:

Regina: Stephanie Morgenstern or Elysia Rotaru

From Final Fight:

Guy: Jason Miller

Mike Haggar: Matt Riedy, Jason Simpson, or Josh Petersdorf?

From Ghosts ‘n Goblins:

Arthur: Daniel Woren

Red Arremer Joker: Ian James Corlett?

From Klonoa:

Klonoa: Eric Stitt, Brianne Siddall, Tara Strong, Cassandra Lee Morris, or Colleen Clinkenbeard?

Guntz: Chuck Huber?

Joka: Dave Mallow?

From Mega Man Legends:

MegaMan Volnutt: Susan Roman or Maxey Whitehead?

Roll Caskett: Tracy Ryan?

Tron Bonne: Caroly Larson; failing that, Tara Platt

Servbots: Elizabeth Hanna or whoever voiced them in Marvel vs. Capcom 3?

MegaMan Juno: Jef Mallory?

From Resident Evil: Dead Aim:

Bruce McGivern: Raj Ramayya?

Fong Ling: Claire O’Connor?

From Soul Edge and Soulcalibur:

Heishiro Mitsurugi: Scott Keck, Ed Cunningham, or Ray Chase?

Taki: Desiree Goyette; failing that, Cynthia Holloway

From Street Fighter:

Chun-Li: Laura Bailey; failing that, Ashly Burch or Shannon Chan Kent

Cammy White: Caitlin Glass

Juni: Michelle Ruff

Juli: Elizabeth Maxwell

Ryu: Kyle Hebert

Ken Masters: Reuben Langdon

M. Bison / Vega / Dictator: Gerald C. Rivers

Akuma / Gouki: either Keith Burgess or Richard Epcar

Sakura Kasugano: Brittney Lee Harvey

Karin Kanzuki: Lauren Landa

Rose: Gina Grad

From Strider:

Strider Hiryu: TJ Storm? Marc Biagi? (Do we want to keep the Japanese accent?)

Grandmaster Meio: Eric Newsome or Adam Harrington?

Solo: Dave Rivas

Tong Pooh: Niki Kernow

From Tales of Destiny:

Stahn Aileron: Liam O’Brien?

Rutee Katrea: Erika Lenhart

Judas / Leon Magnus: Steve van Wormer

From Tekken:

Kazuya Mishima: Jordan Byrne

Heihachi Mishima: Jamieson Price

Jin Kazama: Brad Swaile

From The Tower of Druaga:

Gilgamesh: Charles Campbell?

Ishtar: Stephanie Young

Princess Ki/Kai: Leah Clark

Druaga: Chris Cason

Quox: Wendy Powell

From Wonder Momo:

Wonder Momo: Romi Dames?

From Xenosaga:

KOS-MOS: Bridget Hoffman; failing that, Luci Christian

Shion Uzuki: Lia Sargent; failing that, Stephanie Wittels

M.O.M.O: Sherry Lynn, Cristina Pucelli, or Brittney Karbowski

Allen Ridgeley: Dave Wittenberg; failing that, Blake Shepard

Introduced in Project X Zone

From .hack//:

Kite: Mona Marshall

BlackRose: Wendee Lee

Aura: Lia Sargent

From Cyberbots:

Princess Devilotte de Deathsatan IX: Tabitha St. Germain

From Darkstalkers:

Jedah Dohma: Travis Willingham or David Kaye?

From Dead Rising:

Frank West: TJ Rotolo

From Devil May Cry:

Dante: Reuben Langdon

Lady: Kari Wahlgren; failing that, Kate Higgins

From God Eater:

Soma Schicksal: Yuri Lowenthal or Crispin Freeman?

Alisa Ilinichina Amiella: Kate Higgins or Cherami Leigh?

Lindow Amamiya: Kyle Hebert

From Mega Man X:

X: Mark Gatha; failing that, Ted Sroka

Zero: Johnny Yong Bosch (sadly, Lucas Gilbertson has retired...)

Vile: Roger Rhodes

Iris: Michelle Gazepis?

From Resident Evil:

Chris Redfield: Roger Craig Smith; failing that, Joe Whyte

Jill Valentine: Patricia Ja Lee; failing that, Michelle Ruff

Nemesis: David Cockman

From Resonance of Fate:

Zephyr: Scott Menville

Leanne: Jessica DiCicco

Vashyron: Nolan North

From Sakura Wars:

Gemini Sunrise: Laura Bailey

Erica Fontaine: Caitlin Glass

Ichiro Ogami: Dave Wittenberg

Sakura Shinguuji: Wendee Lee

From Shining Force EXA:

Toma: Nick Tagas

Cyrille: Erin M. Cahill

Riemsianne La Vaes: Amy Provenzano

From Space Channel 5:

Ulala: Cherami Leigh (sadly, Apollo Smile is no longer voice-acting)

From Street Fighter:

Juri Han: Jessica Straus

Seth: Michael McConnohie

From Tales of Vesperia:

Yuri Lowell: Troy Baker; failing that, Grant George

Estellise Sidos “Estelle” Heurassein: Eden Riegel or Cherami Leigh?

Flynn Scifo: Sam Riegel

From Tekken:

Ling Xiaoyu: Carrie Keranen

Alisa Bosconovitch: Cristina Valenzuela; failing that, Michele Knotz

From Valkyria Chronicles:

Selvaria Bles: April Stewart or Carrie Keranen

From Xenosaga:

T-elos: see KOS-MOS

From Yumeria:

Neneko: Luci Christian or Brittney Karbowski?

Neito: Tiffany Salinas?

NOTE! Bruno Delinger (from Dynamite Cop AKA Die Hard Arcade) doesn’t have an official English voice, but if possible, I’d like to have Bruce Willis voice him; I mean, the character’s appearance seems to have been based on him.

Introduced in Project X Zone 2: Brave New World

From .hack//:

Haseo: Yuri Lowenthal; failing that, Andrew Francis

Azure Kite / Tri-Edge(?): see Kite

From Ace Attorney:

Phoenix Wright: Ben Judd, Sam Riegel, Trevor White, or Eric Vale?

Maya Fey: Lindsay Seidel or Abby Trott?

Miles Edgeworth: Seon King, Kyle Hebert, or Christopher Wehkamp?

From Darkstalkers:

Pyron: David Kaye

From Devil May Cry:

Vergil: Daniel Southworth

Nelo Angelo: David Keeley or Daniel Southworth?

From Fire Emblem:

Chrom: Matthew Mercer

Lucina: Laura Bailey

Tiki: Mela Lee

From God Eater:

Ciel Alencon: Cristina Valenzuela

Nana Kouzuki: Cassandra Lee Morris

From Mega Man X:

Sigma: Gerald Matthews or Chris Tergliafera?

From Nightshade:

Hibana: Karen Swenson

Kurohagane a (Alpha): Casey Robertson

From Resident Evil:

Leon Scott Kennedy: Paul Mercier; failing that, Matthew Mercer

Ada Wong: Megan Hollingshead or Sally Cahill?

From Resonance of Fate:

Cardinal Garigliano: Dave B. Mitchell

From Sakura Wars:

Ranmaru: Dorothy Fahn

Dokurobo: Paul St. Peter

From Shenmue:

Ryo Hazuki: Corey Marshall or Austin Tindle?

From Shinobi:

Hotsuma: Jordan Rosa

From Soulcalibur V:

Natsu: Kate Higgins?

From Space Channel 5:

Shadow: Tom Clarke Hill

From Streets of Rage:

Axel Stone: Joe Bianco and/or Oliver Raynal?

Robot Axel / Break: see Axel Stone

From Summon Night 3:

Aty: Melissa Gulden

From Tales of Vesperia:

Zagi: Roger Craig Smith

From Tekken:

Unknown (Jun Kazama): Edi Patterson?

From Xenoblade Chronicles:

Fiora: Carina Reeves

Metal Face / Mumkhar: Timothy Watson

From Yakuza:

Kazuma Kiryu: Darryl Kurylo

Goro Majima: Mark Hamill; failing that, Matthew Mercer

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fashionsizzleus · 5 years ago

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What to know about New York Fashion Week 2020 (September)? A review

This year's NYFW (New York Fashion Show) held in September did not reach the height of its predecessors. Still, it gifted us with a lot of beautiful designs and designers.

Every year, New York Fashion Week (NYFW) gives us some of the best collections, looks, and more. This year was no exception either. Despite all the restrictions, NYFW managed to do what it does best, inspire people. The event was held both virtually and live, however, the number of attendees was reduced significantly due to COVID protocols.

It was held between September 13 and September 17, each day filled with tons of events and entertainment. The overall fashion show reviews in New York for it were positive. A lot of brands and their owners attended the show, either in-person or digitally. These are:

ADEAM

Aknvas (new)

Anne Klein (new)

Badgley

Mischka

Bibhu Mohapatra

Bronx and Banco

C+ plus series

Chloe Gosselin

Chocheng

Christian Cowan

Cinq a Sept

Claudia Li

Christian Siriano

Concept Korea

Colleen Allen

Dur Doux (new)

Faith Connection

Frere (new)

Jason Wu

Jonathan Simkhai

Kim Shui

Lavie by CK

Libertine

Marina Moscone

Maxhose Africa

Monse

Nicole Miller

Oqliq

PHS

Private Policy

Proenza Schouler

Rasiavanessa

Rebecca Minkoff

RVNG Couture

Studio One Eighty Nine

Tadashi Shoji

Tanya Taylor

Tiffany Brown Designs

Veronica Beard

Victor Glemaud

Vivienne Hu

Eckhaus Latta

Imitation of Christ (new)

Oak & Acorn (new)

VenicW (new)

Duncan (new)

Wiederhoeft (new)

Wolk Morais (new)

Despite some big and some new names that appeared on the show, some big brands were missing. These designers instead chose to launch their collections digitally and privately. These are:

Tommy Hilfiger

Michael Kors

Marc Jacobs

Gabriela Hearst

Oscar de la Renta

Proenza Schouler

Tory Burch

Prabal Gurung

Jason Woo and Rebecca Minkoff hosted live shows in limited physical viewership. These were live streamed too, and thousands of people around the world watched models walk on the catwalk wearing those designs. A new platform was introduced earlier this year, Runway 360. This AR (Augmented Reality)/ VR (Virtual Reality) platform has features like 360-degree viewing capacity. Using this technology, designers can organize fashion shows, live streams, press conferences, etc. Brands, media personalities, and consumers can make use of this technical feature.

On 13th September, Harlem's Fashion show hosted the 13th Annual Style Awards. The main hosts of this event were Kimberly Goldson, Kristian Loren, and Rich Fresh. This was made publicly available on September 19th, with lots of behind-the-scene actions, and Q&A's. Designer of the Year award was awarded to Kerby jean-Raymond (from Pyer Moss).

Some other notable changes were also made, with a focus on gender-fluid and menswear designers. 10 of them were noticed during this event, which is a preview of the fashion industry's changing dynamics and preferences. These designers are mentioned below:

Apotts

Carter Young

David Hart

Future Lovers of Tomorrow

Ka Wa Key

Official Rebrand

Stan

Teddy Vonranson

Timo Weiland

Wataru Tominaga

Of course, the NYFW was not as grand as it could have been due to obvious reasons. But still, it received positive fashion show reviews in New York and the rest of the world. We have to take a look at this year's top looks and designs in the next article. Until then, take care and stay in the know.

#fashion show reviews in New York

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jbuffyangel · 6 years ago

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Entertainment Weekly Arrow Article

We never get any big articles of Arrow, so yeah I am posting the whole damn thing. There were some interesting little tidbits and of course discussion around Emily Bett Rickards’ exit. Is it wrong that I am low key pissed that of course Arrow gets the cover of EW after she leaves? Is it also wrong that while I’m happy Arrow is getting some attention, I’m annoyed it wasn’t an Olicity cover? Cuz that’s where I am at. (X)

How Arrow saved the TV superhero — and why it had to end

As 'Arrow' prepares for the end, Stephen Amell and the producers reflect on its origin story and preview the 'Crisis'-bound eighth and final season.

Stephen Amell is dreading the eighth and final season of Arrow, though you wouldn’t know it on this hot, sunny July day in Los Angeles. Wearing Green Arrow’s new suit, the CW star seems perfectly at ease as he strikes heroic pose after heroic pose on a dimly lit stage. But once he’s traded heavy verdant leather for a T-shirt, jeans, and baseball cap, his guard drops and the vulnerability starts to creep in as he contemplates Arrow’s last 10 episodes, which was set to begin production in Vancouver a week after the EW photoshoot took place and premieres Oct. 15.

“I’m very emotional and melancholy, but it’s time,” Amell — who is featured on the new cover of Entertainment Weekly — says as he takes a sip from a pint of Guinness. “I’m 38 years old, and I got this job when I was 30. I’d never had a job for more than a year. The fact that I’ve done this for the better part of a decade, and I’m not going to do it anymore, is a little frightening.”

Developed by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, and Andrew Kreisberg, Arrow debuted in the fall of 2012. The DC Comics series follows billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Amell), who, after years away, returned to now–Star City with one goal: to save his home-town as the hooded bow-and-arrow vigilante who would become known as Green Arrow (it would take him four seasons to assume the moniker). What began as a solo crusade eventually grew to include former soldier John Diggle (David Ramsey), quirky computer genius Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards), lawyer-turned-hero Laurel Lance/Black Canary (Katie Cassidy Rodgers), and the rest of Team Arrow. Together they’ve defended their city from a host of threats — dark archers, megalomaniacal magicians, and the occasional metahuman — while Lost-like flashbacks revealed what Oliver endured in the five years he was away, first shipwrecked and then honing his skills around the world to become someone else, something else.

The premiere gave The CW its most-watched series debut since 2009’s The Vampire Diaries. But before they launched Arrow, Berlanti and Guggenheim had to suffer through a failure: 2011’s Green Lantern, starring Ryan Reynolds. The duo co-wrote the script but lost creative control of the film, which flopped. So when Warner Bros. Television president Peter Roth approached them in late 2011 about developing a Green Arrow show, they were wary. After much deliberation, Berlanti and Guggenheim agreed, on the condition that they maintain control. Says Guggenheim, “As long as we succeed or fail on our own work, and not someone else’s work then maybe this is worth a shot.”

Their take on the Emerald Archer — who made his DC Comics debut in 1941 — was noteworthy from the beginning. Taking cues from films like The Dark Knight and The Bourne Identity and series like Homeland, the writers imagined a dark, gritty, and grounded show centered on a traumatized protagonist. “As we were breaking the story, we made very specific commitments to certain tonal things, such as ‘At the end of act 1, he has his hands around his mother’s throat.’ And, ‘At the end of act 2, he kills a man in cold blood to protect his secret,’ ” says Guggenheim.

A hero committing murder? That was practically unheard of then. Having Oliver suit up in a veritable superhero costume by the pilot’s climax was radical too. Sure, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was deep into Phase One when the producers were developing Arrow, but TV was traditionally more apprehensive about comic books. Smallvillefamously had a “no tights, no flights” rule and only introduced superhero costumes in the last years of its 10-season run, and there weren’t any masked avengers running around NBC’s Heroes or ABC’s No Ordinary Family, the latter produced by Berlanti (Let’s not even mention NBC’s The Cape, which was essentially dead on arrival and never did get its six seasons and a movie). But Arrow not only fully committed to the idea of someone dressing up like Robin Hood to fight crime with a bow and arrow, it introduced a second costumed rogue, the Huntress (Jessica De Gouw), in episode 7.

“It’s just comic book to the extreme and the fans seem to really love it,” says Batwomanshowrunner Caroline Dries, a former writer on Smallville. “They still maintain it very grounded, but it’s very different with everyone in costumes. The appetite for superheroes has changed in my mind in terms of like they just want the literal superhero [now].”

Not that the team wasn’t meticulous about creating Green Arrow’s cowl. “We had to have so many conversations to get it approved, but that’s why we got [Oscar winner] Colleen Atwood [Memoirs of a Geisha] at the time to [design] the suit,” says Berlanti. “We were determined to show we could do on TV what they were doing in the movies every six months.”

“It’s really easy to make a guy with a bow and arrow look silly. We sweated every detail,” says Guggenheim, who also recalls how much effort it took to perfect Oliver’s signature growl. “I actually flew up to Vancouver. On a rooftop during reshoots on [episode 4], Stephen and I went through a variety of different versions of, basically, ‘You have failed this city,’ with different amounts of how much growl he’s putting into his performance. [We] recorded all that, [I went] back to Los Angeles, and then sat with the post guys playing around with all the different amounts of modulation.”

That process took eons compared to the unbelievably easy time the team had casting Arrow’s title role. In fact, Amell was the first person to audition for the role. “It was Stephen’s intensity. He just made you believe he was that character,” says Guggenheim, recalling Amell’s audition. “We had crafted Oliver to be this mystery box character, and Stephen somehow managed to find this balance between being totally accessible in a way you would need a TV star to be, but he’s still an enigma.” After his first reading, Amell remembers being sent outside for a short time before being brought back into the room to read for a larger group: “I called [my manager], and I go, ‘I know this is not how it’s supposed to work, but I just got that job.’”

In the first season, the show’s chief concerns were maintaining both the “grounded and real” tone and the high quality of the stunts, and investing the audience in Oliver’s crusade. Beyond that, though, there wasn’t much of an over-arching plan, which allowed the show to naturally evolve — from introducing more DC characters, such as Deathstroke (Manu Bennett) and Roy Harper (Colton Haynes), sooner than they initially intended (the shot of Deathstroke’s mask in the pilot was meant as a harmless Easter egg), to promoting Emily Bett Rickards’ Felicity from a one-off character in the show’s third episode to a series regular in season 2 and eventually Oliver’s wife. Even the whole idea of a Team Arrow — which, over time, added Oliver’s sister Thea (Willa Holland), Rene Ramirez/Wild Dog (Rick Gonzalez) and Dinah Drake/Black Canary (Juliana Harkavy) — was the result of the writers allowing the best ideas to guide the story. “Greg used to say all the time, ‘You have a hit TV show until you don’t, so don’t save s—,’ ” says Amell.

Also not planned: Arrow spawning an entire shared universe. “We went on record a lot of times during the premiere of the pilot saying, ‘No superpowers, no time travel.’ But midway through season 1, Greg started to harbor a notion of doing the Flash,” says Guggenheim. “I’m a very big believer that it’s great to have a plan, but I think when it comes to creating a universe, the pitfall is that people try to run before they can walk. The key is, you build it show by show.” And so they did. First, they introduced The Flash star Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen in the two-part midseason finale of Arrow’s second season. From there, Supergirl took flight in 2015, then DC’s Legends of Tomorrow in 2016, and Batwoman is due this fall. “It’s like the hacking of the machete in the woods and then you look back and you’re like, ‘Oh, there’s a path,” says executive producer and Berlanti Productions president Sarah Schechter. But even though Arrowis the universe’s namesake, Amell doesn’t concern himself with the sibling series outside of the now-annual crossovers. “I never think about any of the other shows,” he says. “I want all of them to do great, but they’re not my responsibility. My responsibility is Arrow, and to make sure everyone from the cast to the crew are good.” His sentiments are seconded by Flash’s Gustin: “I don’t understand how he does it — his schedule that he maintains with working out, the conventions he goes to, the passion he has for it, and the love he shows towards fans. He’s always prepared. He cares more about that show being high quality than anybody else on the set.”

That said, the universe’s expansion precipitated what is widely considered to be Arrow’s best season, the fifth one. After focusing on magic in season 4, the show returned to its street-crime roots as part of “a concerted effort to play not just to our strengths but what made the shows unique,” Guggenheim says of balancing their four super-series in 2016. “Because Arrow was the longest-running Arrowverse show, we were able to do something that none of the other shows could do, which is have a villain who was basically born out of the events of season 1,” he explains of introducing Adrian Chase/Prometheus (Josh Segarra), whose criminal father was killed by Oliver. “That gave the season a resonance.”

It was midway through season 6 when Amell realized he was ready to hang up Oliver Queen’s hood. “It was just time to move on,” the actor says of pitching that Oliver leave the series at the end of season 7. “My daughter is turning six in October, and she goes to school in L.A., and my wife and I want to raise her [there].” Berlanti persuaded him to return for one final season, which the producers collectively decided would be the end. “We all felt in our gut it was the right time,” says Berlanti. Adds Schechter, “It’s such a privilege to be able to say when something’s ending as opposed to having something just ripped away.”

But there’s one integral cast member who won’t be around to see Arrow through its final season. This spring, fans were devastated to learn Rickards had filmed her final episode—bringing an end to Olicity. “They’re such opposites. I think that’s what draws everyone in a little bit,” showrunner Beth Schwartz says of Oliver and Felicity’s relationship. “You don’t see the [love story of] super intelligent woman and the sort of hunky, athletic man very often. She’s obviously a gorgeous woman but what he really loves is her brain.” For his part, Amell believes the success of both Felicity and Olicity lies completely with Rickards’ performance. “She’s supremely talented and awesome and carved out a space that no one anticipated. I don’t know that show works if we don’t randomly find her,” says Amell, adding that continuing the series without Team Arrow’s heart is “not great. Arrow, as you know it, has effectively ended. It’s a different show in season 8.” And he’s not exaggerating.

The final season finds Oliver working for the all-seeing extra-terrestrial the Monitor (LaMonica Garrett) and trying to save the entire multiverse from a cataclysmic event. “[We’re] taking the show on the road, really getting away from Star City. Oliver is going to be traveling the world, and we’re going to go to a lot of different places,” says Guggenheim. “Every time I see Oliver and the Monitor, it’s like, ‘Okay, we are very far from where we started.’ But again, that means the show has grown and evolved.” Adds Schwartz, “This is sort of his final test because it’s greater than Star City.” Along the way, he will head down memory lane, with actor Colin Donnell, who played Oliver’s best friend Tommy Merlyn in season 1, and Segarra’s Adrian Chase making appearances. “Episode 1 is an ode to season 1, and episode 2 is an ode to season 3,” teases Amell. “We’re playing our greatest hits.”

But season 8 is not just about building toward a satisfying series finale. “Everything relates to what’s going to happen in our crossover episode, which we’ve never done before,” says Schwartz. Spanning five hours and airing this winter, “Crisis on Infinite Earths” will be the biggest crossover yet and may see Oliver perish trying to save the multiverse from destruction, if the Monitor’s prophecy is to be believed. “Oliver [is told] he’s going to die, so each episode in the run-up to ‘Crisis’ has Oliver dealing with the various stages of grief that come with that discovery,” says Guggenheim. “So the theme really is coming to terms, acceptance.”

If there’s one person who has made his peace with Oliver’s fate, it’s Amell. “Because he’s a superhero with no superpowers, I always felt he should die — but he may also not die,” says Amell, who actually found out what the show’s final scene would be at EW’s cover shoot. “I cried as [Marc Guggenheim] was telling me. There are a lot of hurdles to get over to make that final scene.” Get this man some more Guinness!

#arrow #arrow season 8 #stephen amell #marc guggenheim #arrow interviews #oliver queen #olicity #emily bett rickards #felicity smoak #arrow spoilers #spoiler theoretical

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Stephen Amell is dreading the eighth and final season of Arrow, though you wouldn’t know it on this hot, sunny July day in Los Angeles. Wearing Green Arrow’s new suit, the CW star seems perfectly at ease as he strikes heroic pose after heroic pose on a dimly lit stage. But once he’s traded heavy verdant leather for a T-shirt, jeans, and baseball cap, his guard drops and the vulnerability starts to creep in as he contemplates Arrow’s last ten episodes, which was set to begin production in Vancouver a week after the EW photoshoot took place and premieres October 15.

“I’m very emotional and melancholy, but it’s time,” Amell—who is featured on the new cover of Entertainment Weekly—says as he takes a sip from a pint of Guinness. “I’m thirty-eight years old, and I got this job when I was thirty. I’d never had a job for more than a year. The fact that I’ve done this for the better part of a decade, and I’m not going to do it anymore, is a little frightening.”

Developed by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, and Andrew Kreisberg, Arrow debuted in the fall of 2012. The DC Comics series follows billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), who, after years away, returned to now–Star City with one goal: to save his hometown as the hooded bow-and-arrow vigilante who would become known as Green Arrow (it would take him four seasons to assume the moniker). What began as a solo crusade eventually grew to include former soldier John Diggle (David Ramsey), quirky computer genius Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards), lawyer-turned-hero Laurel Lance/Black Canary (Katie Cassidy-Rodgers), and the rest of Team Arrow. Together they’ve defended their city from a host of threats—dark archers, megalomaniacal magicians, and the occasional metahuman—while Lost-like flashbacks revealed what Oliver endured in the five years he was away, first shipwrecked and then honing his skills around the world to become someone else, something else.

The premiere gave the CW its most-watched series debut since 2009’s The Vampire Diaries. But before they launched Arrow, Berlanti and Guggenheim had to suffer through a failure: 2011’s Green Lantern, starring Ryan Reynolds. The duo co-wrote the script but lost creative control of the film, which flopped. So when Warner Bros. TV president Peter Roth approached them in late 2011 about developing a Green Arrow show, they were wary. After much deliberation, Berlanti and Guggenheim agreed, on the condition that they maintain control. Says Guggenheim, “As long as we succeed or fail on our own work, and not someone else’s work then maybe this is worth a shot.”

Their take on the Emerald Archer—who made his DC Comics debut in 1941—was noteworthy from the beginning. Taking cues from films like The Dark Knight and The Bourne Identity and series like Homeland, the writers imagined a dark, gritty, and grounded show centered on a traumatized protagonist. “As we were breaking the story, we made very specific commitments to certain tonal things, such as ‘At the end of act one, he has his hands around his mother’s throat.’ And, ‘At the end of act two, he kills a man in cold blood to protect his secret,’” says Guggenheim.

A hero committing murder? That was practically unheard of then. Having Oliver suit up in a veritable superhero costume by the pilot’s climax was radical too. Sure, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was deep into Phase One when the producers were developing Arrow, but TV was traditionally more apprehensive about comic books. Smallville famously had a “no tights, no flights” rule and only introduced superhero costumes in the last years of its ten-season run, and there weren’t any masked avengers running around NBC’s Heroes or ABC’s No Ordinary Family, the latter produced by Berlanti (let’s not even mention NBC’s The Cape, which was essentially dead on arrival and never did get its six seasons and a movie). But Arrow not only fully committed to the idea of someone dressing up like Robin Hood to fight crime with a bow and arrow, it introduced a second costumed rogue, the Huntress (Jessica De Gouw), in episode 7.

“It’s just comic book to the extreme and the fans seem to really love it,” says Batwoman showrunner Caroline Dries, a former writer on Smallville. “They still maintain it very grounded, but it’s very different with everyone in costumes. The appetite for superheroes has changed in my mind in terms of like they just want the literal superhero [now].”

In the first season, the show’s chief concerns were maintaining both the “grounded and real” tone and the high quality of the stunts, and investing the audience in Oliver’s crusade. Beyond that, though, there wasn’t much of an over-arching plan, which allowed the show to naturally evolve—from introducing more DC characters, such as Deathstroke (Manu Bennett) and Roy Harper (Colton Haynes), sooner than they initially intended (the shot of Deathstroke’s mask in the pilot was meant as a harmless Easter egg), to promoting Emily Bett Rickards’ Felicity from a one-off character in the show’s third episode to a series regular in season 2 and eventually Oliver’s wife. Even the whole idea of a Team Arrow—which, over time, added Oliver’s sister Thea (Willa Holland), Rene Ramirez/Wild Dog (Rick Gonzalez) and Dinah Drake/Black Canary (Juliana Harkavy)—was the result of the writers allowing the best ideas to guide the story. “Greg used to say all the time, ‘You have a hit TV show until you don’t, so don’t save s—,’” says Amell.

Also not planned: Arrow spawning an entire shared universe. “We went on record a lot of times during the premiere of the pilot saying, ‘No superpowers, no time travel.’ But midway through season 1, Greg started to harbor a notion of doing the Flash,” says Guggenheim. “I’m a very big believer that it’s great to have a plan, but I think when it comes to creating a universe, the pitfall is that people try to run before they can walk. The key is, you build it show by show.” And so they did. First, they introduced The Flash star Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen in the two-part midseason finale of Arrow’s second season. From there, Supergirl took flight in 2015, then DC’s Legends of Tomorrow in 2016, and Batwoman is due this fall. “It’s like the hacking of the machete in the woods and then you look back and you’re like, ‘Oh, there’s a path,” says executive producer and Berlanti Productions president Sarah Schechter. But even though Arrow is the universe’s namesake, Amell doesn’t concern himself with the sibling series outside of the now-annual crossovers. “I never think about any of the other shows,” he says. “I want all of them to do great, but they’re not my responsibility. My responsibility is Arrow, and to make sure everyone from the cast to the crew are good.” His sentiments are seconded by The Flash’s Gustin: “I don’t understand how he does it—his schedule that he maintains with working out, the conventions he goes to, the passion he has for it, and the love he shows towards fans. He’s always prepared. He cares more about that show being high quality than anybody else on the set.”

It was midway through season 6 when Amell realized he was ready to hang up Oliver Queen’s hood. “It was just time to move on,” the actor says of pitching that Oliver leave the series at the end of season 7. “My daughter is turning six in October, and she goes to school in LA, and my wife and I want to raise her [there].” Berlanti persuaded him to return for one final season, which the producers collectively decided would be the end. “We all felt in our gut it was the right time,” says Berlanti. Adds Schechter, “It’s such a privilege to be able to say when something’s ending as opposed to having something just ripped away.”

If there’s one person who has made his peace with Oliver’s fate, it’s Amell. “Because he’s a superhero with no superpowers, I always felt he should die—but he may also not die,” says Amell, who actually found out what the show’s final scene would be at EW’s cover shoot. “I cried as [Marc Guggenheim] was telling me. There are a lot of hurdles to get over to make that final scene.” Get this man some more Guinness!

#stephen amell #beth schwartz #marc guggenheim #greg berlanti #cast #s8 #interviews #news

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National Enquirer, January 7

Cover: Brave Olivia Newton-John Faces the End

Page 2: Bill Cosby getting paranoid and going bonkers in prison

Page 4: Ex-husband calls Mel B a lying, cheating bully who made teen nanny her sex toy

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Page 6: Model who inspired Manhattan claims Woody Allen seduced her when she was just 16

Page 7: Penny Marshall’s dying regrets -- abortion and feud with Cindy Williams

Page 8: Clint Eastwood’s lost love child found

Page 9: Chevy Chase spotted in a wheelchair in Australia after filming scenes for the Crocodile Dundee sequel since no one in America will work with him anymore

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Page 18: Meteorologist Jessica Starr took her own life due to hopeless agony after Lasik surgery

Page 20: Enquirer salutes heroes who made a difference

Page 21: Princess Diana’s longtime butler warns Meghan Markle that spending holidays with the British royals is like walking into a snake pit

Page 22: Merry Christmas from the royals

Page 23: Inside Meghan Markle’s private world

Page 24: Cover Story -- Olivia Newton-John hanging on to see daughter wed

Page 26: Ellen DeGeneres caving under pressure from Portia de Rossi to quit TV so they can have some much-deserved quality time as a couple, Matthew Perry says no to Friends reunion to save his life, Jennifer Lawrence lashes out against claim she slept with Harvey Weinstein

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( NICK ROBINSON, TWENTY, HE/HIS ) - That’s QUINLAN HAYES, I hear that the CLAIMED SON OF HERMES has been here for SIX years! I also hear that they’re DARING & WITTY but that they’re also IRRESPONSIBLE & OBNOXIOUS!

hey there demons !! it’s me ya girl, maeve !! i’m 20 years old and i never f*cking learned how to read !! introducing the piece of actual trash that is quinn

meet quinlan nolan hayes,

about:

he was born 20 years ago to a young college student by the name of colleen hayes and the god hermes. obviously, hermes didn’t stick around and that left colleen to raise quinlan by herself while also balancing school work. fortunately her parents helped out

life got easier for the little family after she graduated- her steady (she was a nurse) income allowed them to live a fairly stable life, albeit not in the best neighborhood.

his mother was often busy working, so quinlan had to learn to take care of himself at an early age. and he was pretty good at it, he could do his homework by himself, he could fix his dinner, patch up his cuts and bruises

when he was around the age of ten- everything in quinlan’s life started to change, he had always been on the smaller side but his mischievous ways and slippery hands hadn’t gone unnoticed by the older kids. and they saw a potential in him. so they took him under their wing.

it was here that quinlan’s penchant as a troublemaker truly shone- he learned to hustle people, he stole more frequently, he pick-pocketed, essentially he became a thief.

and he got away with it- for roughly three years. and then his life changed, his mother met the rich declan walsh at work and they quickly fell head over heels in love. and before quinlan knew it they were getting married and he was being whisked away to a new, lavish life style.

unfortunately this lifestyle didn’t take kindly to the kid from the rough neighborhood of town who settled arguments with his fists and stole from his neighbor’s for a few extra dollars.

his first run in with the law came when a neighbor called the cops because he was snooping through their garage. he was let off with a warning.

the second came a few months later, when he was caught robbing a conveince store. his father talked to the cops, he received a warning.

after the second strike- his parents made it very clear, if he was caught again he’d be kicked out of the house.

it happened a year later. out of fear of losing everything, he’d kept his head low, stayed out of trouble- turned his life around. and then his friend from his old neighborhood came knocking, said he had a plan, said he needed quinlan. and longing for the excitement, he said yes.

his parents arrived at the police station, his bags already packed. they paid his bail, and dropped him off at a shelter. he didn’t stay.

he spent a few weeks on the streets before a satyr found him and took him to camp half-blood where he’s been ever since.

he’s recently started communicating with his mother and while neither has made an effort to meet face to face, she has sent him a couple hundred dollars here or there and he appreciates it.

fun facts:

a couple of years ago quinlan ran for the position of cabin leader as a joke and much to his shock, he won. however he quickly found that he rather enjoys being in charge, he’s a pretty laid back leader, letting everyone take care of themselves.

over the years quinlan has built up a reputation as the guy you go to when you need to get something, no questions asked. no one is sure how he does it and he’s never offered any sort of explanation but he’s good at what he does.

this includes drugs, alcohol, fast food, pirated movies, false i.d.s

he’s adopted "Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.” as his motto, essentially he just wants to have a good time.

pinterest board: (x)

playlist: gives you hell - all-american rejects, morning in america - jon bellion, basket case - green day, no interruption - hoodie allen, young, wild & free - snoop dogg & wiz khalifa, tonight tonight - hot chelle rae

wanted connections:

best friend- his partner in crime, his other-half, the ron to his harry, the fred to his george, the cameron to his ferris, the charles to his jake, idek at his point.

frenemy- a friendly sort of competition / one-upsmanship going on, has been known to get out of hand

protege- someone that he’s taken under his wing, he’s showing them the world of being a thief, teaching them all of his tricks.

squad

exes

crushes

unrequited love- he’s desperate to get with them, they want nothing todo with him

one night stands/friends with benefits

i’m open to any suggestions!

#⤫ * — “ 𝗆𝗈𝗌𝗍 𝗅𝗂𝗄𝖾𝗅𝗒 𝗍𝗈 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝗀𝗂𝗏𝖾 𝖺 𝖿𝗎𝖼𝗄 // QUINLAN NOLAN HAYES ”#nectarintro

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Haven DVD Commentary: 2.11 - Business As Usual

There are two commentaries for this episode. Here are some notes on the first one:

Shawn Pillar: Executive Producer of Haven and Director for this episode Brian Millikin: Script Co-ordinator and writer (though not for this episode)

Topics covered include:

“The way we talked about this episode in the writer’s room as as part one of a two-part season finale.”

Shawn being delightfully enthusiastic about getting to direct a whole episode.

It’s a big episode because everything changed at the end of the last one with the Rev’s death. “Haven has been flipped upside down. Duke is now on the path to learning about himself.”

The stretch of road by the sea that we see the runners running along is somewhere they have shot at a lot, including for episode 13, the Christmas episode.

Shawn enjoying the aerial shots, because he is terrified of heights and he was in the helicopter shooting them.

Shawn enjoying directing Adam Copeland, “Edge” because he is “a very natural actor who just keeps getting better every episode.” And how it was fun to direct him because he’s a great performer and “comfortable in his own skin” and loved to be directed; he’s a director’s dream because did everything exactly as he was told. “Either you’re a really good actor, or I’’m a fantastic director … hopefully it’s both.”

Brian talks about when they were hiring him and all it really took to make the decision was when they watched his retirement (from wrestling) speech on YouTube.

This being an interesting episode for showing a bit more of how the Troubles (and fear of the Troubles) are affecting the town e.g. the bystanders watching the argument between Stu and Patrick. “The cat is getting out of the bag.” “We wanted to try and escalate the level of tension in the town following the Rev’s death,” and in a way that starts to pull at Audrey and Nathan. And how the episode gives us a better sense of Haven as a town.

Shawn talks about how Brian started with them as an intern after college, and was assistant to his father Michael Pillar. And after “years of toiling with us on our different shows; Greek and Deadzone and Wildfire, Scott Shepherd and Matt McGuiness and Sam and Jim,” took him under their wing and decided he should write an episode this season. He wrote an episode which Shawn directed. But “being the writers assistant in the room gives him an unique perspective on every episode and he becomes the guy who has to co-ordinate the scripts and type in changes and …. Type up all the notes and keep the writers organised. So in some ways, he knows where the bodies are buried more than anyone.” And Brian agrees that he probably does know the show better than anyone else.

Shawn talks about how one of the things he wanted to do in directing the episode was to have the camera moving. “I think it adds a lot of tension, and a lot of mood.” And he says that in this episode “basically every single shot is moving.” In some ways it shoots faster, and looks better than when you don’t move the camera. He adds that it’s “a little tougher to edit sometimes”. Brian says he loves it and that “you can always tell when Shawn Pillar has directed an episode,” from whichever series it is, and adds that it “brings a lot of energy.”

The talk about the importance of picking the right locations for each scene so that they flow together, and trying to anticipate what the DP is going to want to do with the lighting, and what the art department is going to want to do with the background etc.

Shawn refers to directing as “the most fun I’m allowed to have. Normally I’m fixing problems; this time I got to create my own problems and fix them myself.”

As we see Duke on the phone to Evi’s mum, Shawn talks about wanting to feature the whole boat set, and how there was originally much more to this conversation but they had to cut it. But they originally would have shown Duke on the phone in the distance walking back and forth across the set and would have shown more of the set because there’s a lot of it which we never get to see which is a shame, “because the sets are gorgeous”. So “let’s pretend we’re making a feature film” and shoot lots of wide shots rather than just relying on close ups all the time.

As we see Duke read ‘Crocker’ on the lid of his silver box, Brian talks about how they have been waiting all season to get back to this point. “We introduced this box back in episode four” and now seven episodes later they finally got to bring it back. And Shawn talks about how a lot of the set up they laid for the season got paid off in this episode, which spiked the arc of the story telling to the finale, which then itself sets them up for season three.

Shawn talks about the woman who plays Colleen Pierce; her name is Crystal Allen, he describes himself as “a huge fan” and says that she “was almost Evi.” She was one of the final three for that role. And he talks about one of the advantages of his role in relation to this episode is that he didn’t need to do any casting; he was able to use people he already knew and whose work he admired, including for both Colleen and Stu Pierce.

Brian talks about the evolution of ideas from a storytelling standpoint i.e. how the episode evolved in that the original idea was for something where it looks like a Troubled person is killing other Troubled people. And then we find out that it’s someone has framed a Troubled person as a weapon against all Troubled people. Originally there was going to be a group of people that had kidnapped Stu, and a race against time to get to him, but “based on some network notes” that was condensed, and that allowed them to get to some of the other things in the episode they wanted to get to; e.g. the plot line with Duke and Dwight, and Audrey and Lucy, and Audrey and Nathan’s interactions which “came to dominate the episode; in a good way.”

As we see Audrey and Nathan argue in the interview room after Nathan lets Patrick go, Shawn talks about liking this scene as the first time we’ve ever really seen Audrey and Nathan argue. And how it was a pleasure to get to direct that, and to be able to let them play with it, and how he pushed Emily and Lucas to fight and to be more intense, and then pulled them back for another version. And then they cut together the best moments from all of those different versions and that it worked out really well.

They both comment on the “return of the tandem bike” as we see Vince and Dave bringing more copies of the Herald. And Brian comments that he loves the TOWN GRIEVES newspaper headline. As Duke talks to the Teagues, Shawn comments that this is a good example of the value of staying in wide shots and medium shots for longer, because it shows of the town (of Lunenberg) in the background. And that it was nice to be able to do that because although they go to Lunenberg for Duke’s boat “rarely do we get to shoot in downtown Lunenberg”.

And then they comment on the divide that we see between Vince and Dave, and “seeing that they’re on two different sides of something that we don’t totally understand”. And what a great job the actors always do with these characters. “You can tell that they love each other and hate each other”. And about Vince and Dave as being brothers first and foremost, but then also enemies, and you “see that bubble up sometimes, that they have a differing agenda.”

And they agree that “Eric Balfour is always fantastic, and always finds ways to pull it off the page and make it a little bit funny, a little bit quirky.” “I think he makes everything better.”

They talk about how there are a lot of fathers and sons in this episode in terms of Nathan missing his father and living in his shadow, and Duke discovering things about his father, and also Duke and Dwight talking about their fathers. And Shawn continues, “And Vince, we may find in Season Three …” and then Brian interrupts him to compliment the camera work and we never get back to the point about Vince.

They talk about the Duke and Dwight fight sequence, noting that “Eric is a trained fighter” and obvious Adam came to Haven from wrestling, and so him and the fight co-ordinator were able to work with the actors to get their suggestions for it as well. He comments that they shot the scene really fast with a hand held, and mentions that the key that flies out from the box was CGI.

They note this is the first real fight they’ve done in Haven and that fight scenes can be tricky because they take a long time to shoot and there can be safety issues. Adam was injured in his previous career as a wrestler, so they wanted to be very careful not to ask him to do too much “Because a) I love the guy, and b) we definitely need him in work the next day”. Shawn also notes that “there was a stunt man ready to step in for Adam, but he didn’t quite match.” So they staged it in a way that Eric took the brunt of most of the hits.

Adam got smashed in the head with the candy glass, but they only had the budget for two or three of those, and Shawn was worried that Adam might get cut, so they shot everything else until they were happy and then did the glass smashing after. He adds that a lot of the choreography was more between the actors and the cameramen and that worked because the less rehearsed the fight is the more real it feels.

They both agree that they love the scene where Nathan and Audrey talk (argue) in the car, and Shawn adds that it was shot in two separate bits, because the wide shots were shot on location in Lunenberg and the closeups were shot a couple of weeks later in Chester, with fake backdrops outside the windows.

Brian talks about the shooting schedule, how they shot Duke’s phone conversation with Evi’s mother, and Duke and Dwight’s fight, and Duke and Dwights conversation, all in one day; one day in the boat to shoot all the inside boat scenes. They had a day in Lunenberg. A day on the boat outside.

They talk about how visible Duke’s boat is in Lunenberg and how you can just walk about and see it, and how they have both met fans there. And Shawn talks about meeting a couple of fans “I think they were English and they happened to be in town” and he invited them to come to set and they came to the boat and “we gave them headphones and let them listen to us filming”. [I am not jealous at all, oh no :/ Who are you, English Haven fans? I want to hear all about it!]

For the scene where Audrey and Nathan argue while Patrick is tied up on the other side of the room, they shot this in Lunenberg; inside the building that we see Patrick coming out of earlier. For the part where Audrey goes upstairs, they shot part of that ahead of time, because Emily was down at Comic Con, and then part of it (the parts with real fire) were done on the soundstage with a stunt person. So they didn’t have real fire in the actual building; there they shot with Emily and just smoke and CG fire, and then cut in with the stuntperson running through real fire. And the smoke we see coming out of the building from outside is the actual building they were in, with CG smoke. When Audrey kicks down the door to go into the room to find Stu, they “cheated” in that Emily kicked down the door and then actually came back into the same room they were already filming in. So basically when you can’t see Audrey’s face, that’s the stuntperson on the stage running through real fire, and where you can see Emily’s face, that’s her on location with CG fire added after.

As we see Duke and Dwight on Simon’s old boat, Shawn says “We cheated Duke’s actual boat in Lunenberg, as this other boat. Because, a boat’s a boat, you can’t really tell the difference.”

On small spaces like inside the boat where they couldn’t fit dolly track, they shot with handheld cameras to keep the movement and the energy up.

Brian talks about the initial reaction to the idea of Simon hiding stuff on his boat; “a lot of people thought that didn’t make any sense at all” that you could hide something on a boat that well. But Matt McGuinness (who co-wrote this episode) is himself a sailor and insisted on it and threw in all this boat terminology to convince them.

As Sal comes down the ladder, Shawn says, “I love this actor; he looks perfectly Haven. I’ve been saving him for a while to use and I finally selfishly had to put him in my episode.” He was originally brought in for a different part in another episode and it was felt he wasn’t right for that part, but “when we need a pirate, when we need a salty old dog” he would be perfect. He adds that the first time round the actor was playing it “a little too drunken, a little too piratey” so Shawn told him “just be yourself” and he was brilliant. There was a lot more to this scene that was quite funny between him and Eric, but it got cut for time.

They mention for the Stephen King fans that the name of the previous owner of the boat (Ray Fiegler) was a Stephen King reference. Brian adds that it’s his job to get in as many Stephen King references as he can, so when the script gets changed he just quietly puts them back in.

They note that the concept of the meeting of Troubled people was a little controversial among a lot of the writers and producers, the idea of the Troubled getting that organised, and this well known. But he says he thinks they pulled it off and it works. Shawn adds that it’s a natural escalation; if you’re going to keep things realistic, then the town is eventually going to notice at least some of what’s going on, and they’re going to start talking about it.

They add that was one of the challenges in working on Dead Zone; not making Johnny Smith too famous, so there they always kept people skeptics. But in this show they have to walk that same fine line where some people don’t believe in the Troubles, some people believe because they live it day to day, and then some people are scared of the Troubles/Troubled. Which Shawn adds “I think is symbolic of other social issues … and I think that’s one of the great things science fiction can do is take contemporary issues and put them … in a context that allows you to examine them in a different way.”

Brian asks Shawn about the shooting of Nathan and Audrey’s kiss and how they went about it, and Shawn says that his mom was on set for the shooting of this episode and they have this thing where they always show the pilot for a new show to his mom and “if she cries, then we know that it’s good.” So she is their test audience. And his mom was there on set for the blocking of this scene [which Google tells me means “working out the details of an actor's moves in relation to the camera”] and “she started crying during the blocking … and I was like ‘people, my mom is crying, this is a great scene’. And so that was hilarious and awesome and we knew it was going to be a great scene.”

Shawn adds that this is something that the two actors have been wanting to play for a long time “and I was honoured and privileged that I got to direct it, and it was really fun. They did a really good job.” And he remembers the cameramen being really enthusiastic about it as well during filming. And he says it was “really cathartic to finally shoot this scene.” And Brian agrees that “it’s so heartfelt.”

When Nathan starts to say something and then cuts himself off with a “never mind” Shawn says that there was no line there. There was something they had that they didn’t like and they cut it, and not knowing what to put in its place they used the “never mind” as something realistic that people do.

They note that at this point the episode turns, because the case of the week is ended and it becomes all about Audrey going to see Lucy and the fall out with Duke and “it’s a unique episode in that regard”.

They note that the important line in this scene is when Nathan says, “I hope you come back and tell me what they are,” because there is a sense that he could lose her. He knows she has a bigger role to play, though he doesn’t know what it is.

This was a difficult episode to get it to not be too long. A lot of times if something’s long you cut out the not-great stuff and find you’re too short, but with this one there was so much to they really wanted to include that it was difficult; “everything worked, everything was good, all the acting was good, it just looked beautiful, and it was such a fully packed script that it was really difficult” to cut it down to the right length.

As Audrey and Lucy are sat down to talk, they comment that the only issue was this scene was that it started raining, so that as we are looking at Lucy, it’s not raining; when we’re looking at Audrey it is raining in the background, “but hopefully nobody notices that.” That scene was shot in Chester; the production office is in the background. They’re just down the road from where they shot Duke on the phone by his car in the previous episode, and the soundstages are just up the street in the other direction.

They talk about Audrey (or her previous Lucy incarnation) as a living time capsule, a bag of evidence that Audrey left for herself; this warning that she left with Lucy a long time ago.

They talk about loving this episode for the fact that it is really significant in terms of the relationship between Audrey and Nathan, but then when Audrey learns about Simon Crocker being after Lucy, it also becomes really significant for the relationship between Audrey and Duke as well.

They talk about the shot were we look down on the Rouge with Dwight on deck as Duke finds the box, this one:

And then where the camera tracks down closer to them. “This was an incredible shot; one of the best shots we’ve ever done in the history of the series”. It was technically difficult to do because it was actually done on the boat, and with the right equipment it would be easy; but they did not have that type of crane, so it was really complicated (“a ballet dance”) to move down and keep the shot straight. “Our whole camera team really had a tough time pulling that off, but they nailed it and it looked pretty damn smooth. It looked like we had the most expensive equipment in the world and actually we didn’t.”

They talk a little as well about maximising efficiency by shooting multiple things from the same crane angle to save time.

They made two versions of the silver box; one was just a solid wooden thing that didn’t open, for when it was pulled sideways out of the can. They talk about how there was a lot of discussion for a long time about exactly what weapons were going to go in the box “we were emailing photos of weapons from Assassin’s Creed for months”.

The blood on Duke’s hand was CG effects added after; they didn’t have time to “mess around” with blood on the set. As Dwight flies across the Rouge, that was a stunt man and a crane pull that was anchored on a pole that is there that is actually used for fishing nets.

There were a couple of shots in this scene (shot on three cameras) where one of the other cameras was visible in the shot and they had to CG that out.

The scene of the meeting in the Herald at the end; when they were shooting this, Adam Copeland had a 104 degree fever.

There were also various comments throughout this about how everyone did a great job; writers, actors, cameramen, crew; in relation to the sets and the music. I didn’t write all the names down, but; everyone did a great job.

As ever there is always the possibility that I have got their voices muddled up at some point.

#haven syfy #haven dvd commentaries #2.11 - Business as usual #long post

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KIM MOVES OUT

S4;E20 ~ January 24, 1972

Directed by Coby Ruskin ~ Written by Bob Carroll Jr. and Madelyn Davis

Synopsis

Lucy is concerned when Kim is dating a bearded writer (Tim Matheson). Deciding she's tired of her mother's hovering, Kim moves into a nearby apartment above a garage. Of course, Lucy can't help being a ‘helicopter’ mother and visits her daughter at every opportunity.

Regular Cast

Lucille Ball (Lucy Carter), Gale Gordon (Harrison Otis Carter), Lucie Arnaz (Kim Carter)

Guest Cast

Tim Matheson (Peter Sullivan) began acting on screen when he was just 14 years old. He is probably best known as Eric Stratton in the 1978 film Animal House, although he also received two Emmy nominations for his work on “The West Wing” (1999-2006). Matheson first worked with Lucille Ball in the film Yours, Mine and Ours (1968, inset photo) where he played her step-son Mike. It was then that he also met his first wife, Jennifer Leak, who played Lucy's daughter Colleen in the film.

Peter's father is a doctor. He hopes to become a writer. He plays piano. In a fit of anger, Lucy calls him a “fuzzy-faced pencil pusher”!

This is one of two episodes where Kim's name is in the title, while Lucy's is not. This is part of the ill-fated attempt to spin the character off into her own series at the end of season 4.

The day this episode originally aired, actor James Cowan died at age 74. Cowan had appeared with Lucille Ball in The Fuller Brush Girl (1950) and Critic’s Choice (1963). He appeared on “The Lucy Show” in 1966 and as Mr. Gary in “Lucy the Crusader” (S3;E5, above) in 1970.

Lucy says that Kim wants to be a teacher and that Craig wants to be a musician. This is the third mention of Craig in the past three episodes, after 14 weeks of not hearing anything about him. This is also the first time we've heard that Kim's career path is to be a teacher.

Kim moves over the Thompson's garage next door to her mother!

For a housewarming gift, Uncle Harry brings Kim goldfish named Bertha and Sam.

Kim is hoping to be cast by Jack Foley in a college musical revue. Jack Foley (1891-1967) was the developer of many sound effects techniques used in film and TV. To this day, those who work in sound effects creation are called Foley Artists.

The zodiac poster that decorates Kim’s closet door was issued in July 1968 by Portal Publications. The artwork is by California artist Jane Oka (inset). Each astrological sign was also available as a separate poster. During her tenure at Portal, Oka also designed Kitchen Charts, Gourmet Guides, and Proverbs, many of which were made into calendars. Her work was seen decorating the bedroom walls on Lucille Ball’s favorite sitcom, “Three’s Company” and were also seen in the 1973 Woody Allen movie, Sleeper.

When Lucy opens Kim’s overstuffed closet to try to hide, the dress hanging in on the door is one worn by Kaye Ballard in “Lucy and Harry’s Italian Bombshell” (S4;E3) earlier in the season. There are also a few Saks Fifth Avenue hatboxes in storage. These would have been at home in the Ricardo closet in 1955, but seem out of place in the closet of a 20 year-old in 1972!

With her mother stuffed in the chimney hiding, Kim rehearses the song “I Got Love” with Peter playing the piano. The song was written by Gary Geld and Peter Udell for the Broadway musical Purlie (1970) and was introduced by Melba Moore. It was also the title of Moore's first solo album, on which it also appeared. In her DVD introduction to the episode, Lucie Arnaz remembers singing the song live on the set with just piano accompaniment.

Note: Tim Matheson did not actually play the piano. It was likely Marl Young who generally provided piano accompaniment, sometime on camera. Actually, if you listen closely, there is also a snare drum added in!

To teach Lucy a lesson and prolong her stay in the flue, Kim and Harry sing a few hours of old standards. First up is “Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me,” which was written by Con Conrad and Sidney Clare in 1921 and was covered by many artists.

Finally, Kim and Harry end their punitive jam session with "When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob Bob Bobbin’ Along).” The song was previously sung in “Lucy and Ethel Buy the Same Dress” (ILL S3;E3). The song’s title was mentioned (but not sung) in “Mertz and Kurtz” (ILL S4;E2). Written in 1926 by Harry Woods, the song was popularized by Al Jolson, with whom William Frawley (Fred Mertz) had a long-standing rivalry. That same year (1957) it was recorded by Doris Day, who, coincidentally, had a television show that followed “Here's Lucy” on CBS!

Kim tells Uncle Harry (within earshot of her mother, who is hiding in the fireplace) that she got a job offer to be a ‘bunny.’ Kim doesn't say the words ‘Playboy Bunny’ but that is what she is referring to. Bunnies were female staff members at the Playboy Clubs, which were in business between 1960 and 1988. Based on Hugh Hefner's Playboy magazine mascot, they wore abbreviated costumes that showed off their legs and cleavage while also featuring rabbit ears and a large fluffy tail. “Here's Lucy” has previously made reference to Playboy magazine (above), the bunny costume, and even top-less waitresses (which the Playboy bunnies were not!)

This episode is partially inspired by the very first episode of “The Lucy Show” “Lucy Waits Up For Chris” (TLS S1;E1), in which Lucy Carmichael waits up for her teenage daughter Chris after her first date with a boy named Tom, resulting in Lucy getting locked out of her own home!

Lucy Carmichael had trouble saying goodbye to her son Jerry in “Lucy and the Military Academy” (TLS S2;E10). Although Lucy thought it was best for him to go away to school, she found she missed him too much and he came home. Ironically, Jerry eventually was sent away to a military academy when the Carmichaels moved to California.

Although “The Lucy Show” featured an episode titled “Viv Moves Out” (TLS S2;E22) the title is the only thing these two episodes have in common. Lucy Carmichael rented out Viv's room to a singer and her drummer son (!) who rehearse loudly at all hours. The plot was necessitated when Vivian Vance wanted to work less due to her commute to Connecticut.

The first part of the episode featuring Lucy not knowing if Kim came home or stayed out all night, was inspired by “Don Juan and the Starlets” (ILL S4;E17) in which Lucy Ricardo thinks Ricky stayed out all night at a premiere. He has an alibi thanks to an efficient hotel maid.

FAST FORWARD

In 2006, the HBO series “Lucky Louie” also produced an episode titled “Kim Moves Out”, the series’ finale. In this case, however, the character of Kim is the lead’s wife, not daughter. Coincidentally, the cast also included a character named Lucy and an actress named Kim!

Ground Plan Goof! As usual with TV show apartments, the room above the Thompson's garage is unrealistically spacious. It also features a fireplace, something unlikely to be found in an over-the-garage flat. In addition, Kim's new place has a spinet piano, despite the fact that she doesn't play. Kim will also have a spinet piano in her apartment when she moves to Marina Del Rey in “Kim Finally Cuts You-Know-Whose Apron String” (S4;E24) at the end of the season.

What Color is Her Parachute? This is the first we hear about Kim wanting to be a teacher. In future episodes, she works as an administrative assistant in an entertainment agency.

“Kim Moves Out” rates 3 Paper Hearts out of 5

Some nice moments between mother and daughter, but not enough to merit a spin-off, despite the fact that Lucie Arnaz is talented and funny in her own right. She will get another chance at her own series in 1985, but that show, too, did not catch on with viewers and was cancelled after just six episodes.

#Here's Lucy #Kim Moves Out #Lucille Ball #Lucie Arnaz #Gale Gordon #Tim Matheson #Coby Ruskin #Bob Carroll Jr.#Madelyn Davis #James Cowan #Jack Foley #Purlie #I Got Love #Ma He's Making Eyes at Me #When the Red Red Robin #Playboy Bunny #1972 #CBS #TV

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6/10/19-PCW Political War on P-SPAN

PCW Returns! -Reaction and fallout from Trump’s huge announcement -FOX NEWS: Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity vs. MSNBC: Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews vs. CNN: Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon -The Sports Entertainment Coalition’s Mr. McMann introduces a new member -Seven Team Tag Team Elimination Match -Six Women Elimination Match -Executive Director Dawn McGill speaks/Joe Biden shows up. -The Dork Dynasty’s Final PCW Match -MAIN EVENT: Seven Man Elimination Match

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[ON SCREEN GRAPHIC: Blue background. The top of the Capitol Building occupies the left hand side of the television screen.

Centered in the middle of the screen: “P-SPAN. THE POLITICAL CHANNEL.”]

P-SPAN Announcer (off screen): The P-SPAN Network bring you long-form public affairs programming from the nation’s capital and are a public service of…

[ON SCREEN GRAPHIC: Logos of twenty three different cable and satellite television companies replace the Capitol Building and P-SPAN graphic.]

P-SPAN Announcer (v/o): …your television provider.

[ON SCREEN GRAPHIC: Returns to the blue background with the top of the Capitol Building occupying the left hand side of the television screen with “P-SPAN. THE POLITICAL CHANNEL.” centered in the middle of the screen.]

P-SPAN Announcer (v/o): P-SPAN. The Political Channel.

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Johnny Suave (voiceover): Last month, CEO of the Political Universe Donald Trump dropped one hell of a bombshell.

PCW CEO Donald Trump (R-NY)

REPLAY: 5/2/2019-Donald Trump’s Intergalactically Huge Announcement

Trump behind the podium.

Donald Trump: Thank you. Okay. The reason I’m talking to you today is there’s been some questions about why the Red Brand and Blue Brand have gone dark and cancelled shows and why PCW has run replays of shows from ten years ago over the past two weeks. Short and to the point, the current method of doing business with three brands isn’t working. So, it’s time to make a change.

…

Trump reaches under the podium and pulls out an Infinity Gauntlet (the same one featured in the Avengers movie). He places said Infinity Gauntlet on his right hand. Trump raises his hand in the air.

Then he attaches a red stone to the gauntlet. Then he snaps his fingers.

Donald Trump: The Red Brand is no more.

The press- except for most of the Fox News contingent – let out a loud cheer.

Trump then attaches a blue stone to the gauntlet. Again, he snaps his fingers.

Donald Trump: Blue Brand. No more.

The press- except for most of the Fox News contingent – groan.

…

Trump attaches a white and black stone with PCW on it on to the gauntlet. But he doesn’t snap his fingers.

Donald Trump: I made PCW owner Dawn McGill a generous offer for PCW that sets her up for life. She accepted. So what does that mean? McGill’s investment in trying to keep PCW alive just paid off for her in a big, big way. The Red and Blue Brand will consolidate under PCW. So, who will lead PCW going forward?

Out walks Dawn McGill followed by PCW Hall of Famers “No Frills’ Chris Escondido and Justin Sufferable. McGill shakes Trump’s hand as does Escondido and Sufferable.

Johnny Suave (v/o): But what you didn’t see was this…

REPLAY: 5/2/2019-Trump’s Speech

Trump is taking questions from the press. There’s a disturbance.

Male Voice: GET THAT GAUNTLET! THE FATE OF THE POLITICAL UNIVERSE DEPENDS ON IT!

Suddenly, Captain America (aka Chris Evans dressed in costume), Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.- in costume), and Captain Marvel (Brie Larson- you guessed it, in costume) rush towards Trump and his Infinity Gauntlet that’s made the Red Brand and Blue Brand specific shows disappear.

But before they can reach him: -Escondido kicks Evans in the balls and then power slams him. -Sufferable chops Downey Jr and drives him to the floor with the Lou Thesz press. -McGill stops Larson in her tracks with a Spinning Heel kick and then follows with the McGill Bomb (sit-out powerbomb).

Johnny Suave (v/o): So, what happens next? PCW Extreme Political TV returns with a special two hour show.

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PCW Political War on P-SPAN Special Monday June 10th, 2019 Taped Saturday June 8th, 2019 Joseph Gentile Center Chicago, IL

Announcers: ‘The Voice of PCW’ Johnny Suave AGE: 50 / HT: 5’ 11” WT: 195 HOME: Philadelphia, PA HAIR: Brown / STYLE: Like Ronnie Dunn / FACE: Goatee DRESS: Brown suit without tie

Colleen Crowder ‘Low Level New York Times Reporter Trying to Make a Name for Herself’ AGE: 28 / HT: 5’ 5” WT: 142 HOME: New York City, NY HAIR: Black / STYLE: Curly / FACE: Narrow face with rounded jaw, turned-up nose, faint freckles, and thin lips. Bulging blue eyes, thin eyebrows. DRESS: Black pants suit

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Crowd: PCW!…PCW!…PCW!…

The camera pans all over the Joseph Gentile Center as PCW is on the air!

Spotlights move back and forth through the crowd.

Johnny Suave and Colleen Crowder stand in the ring.

Suave is his usual excitable self.

Johnny Suave: HELLO CHICAGO! Welcome to PCW Extreme Political TV and welcome everyone to the new era of PCW.

Crowder on the other hand…

Colleen Crowder: I can’t believe this happened. Donald Trump has abused his authority once again and even worse, he put Dawn McGill of all people in charge?

Johnny Suave: Well, seeing as PCW was profitable, spending money within their means, and growing an audience may have had something to do with it.

Colleen Crowder: Trump is giving McGill preferential treatment.

Johnny Suave: I’m sure this clip explains why Dawn McGill was put in charge.

FINANCIAL GURU DAVE RAMSEY TALKS WITH: Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

Ramsey talks to the group about getting out of debt.

Ramsey describes in depth the steps needed in order to not only balance the budget but also pay off the national debt.

Pelosi, Schumer, McCarthy, and McConnell all return vacant stares.

Nancy Pelosi: Why can’t we just print more money?

Chuck Schumer: Or raise taxes.

Nancy Pelosi: Right. Or raise taxes.

Ramsey slaps his forehead. Then he shakes his head.

Colleen Crowder: See?

Johnny Suave: If Colleen Crowder’s reaction was ridiculously predictable…

Colleen Crowder: Hey!

Johnny Suave: …the reaction of Jerry Nadler’s (D-NY) Oversight committee to Trump deleting the Red and Blue Brand shows.

Cut to:

NADLER COMMITTEE OVERREACTION Lots of screaming, wailing, and gnashing of teeth.

Random Voice: IT’S THE APOCOLYPSE!

Jerry Nadler (D-NY) -chairman of the PCW Oversight Committee -arch-foe of PCW CEO Donald Trump

Nadler pounds his gavel and shouts “I WILL HAVE OVERSIGHT!” over and over and but it comes out like…

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Cut back to Suave and Crowder.

Johnny Suave: Of course, the American Patriots have their concerns too.

REPUBLICANS OVERREACTION We see several Republicans musing aloud whether or not this is going to be good for business. And then there’s…

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Cut back to Suave and Crowder:

Suave runs down tonight’s show: -Fox News vs. CNN vs. MSNBC in a tag match -First Round Tag Team Consolidation Match -First Round Women’s Consolidation Match -First Round PCW Title Consolidation Match -Plus, the Dork Dynasty makes their final PCW appearance tonight.

Johnny Suave: Also, Dawn McGill WILL be here and go over tonight’s matches.

Colleen Crowder (unenthusiastically): Yeah.

Johnny Suave: And we will have our first match of the night right after this.

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PCW ON THE ROAD June 15th – Hale Arena / Kansas City, MO June 21st – North Iowa Events Center / Mason City, IA June 22nd – Knapp Center / Des Moines, IA June 23rd – Tyson Events Center / Sioux City, IA June 30th – Indiana Farmer’s Coliseum / Indianapolis, IN July 4th – Chisholm Trail Coliseum / Enid, OK July 7th – Athletics-Recreation Center / Valparaiso, IN July 8th – Allen County War Memorial Coliseum / Fort Wayne, IN

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The Guild of Low Level Reporters Trying to Make a Name for Themselves (Sharon Johns of CNN, Dan Miller of the Washington Post) join Suave and Colleen at the broadcast table for the first match of the night.

MATCH ONE-FOX NEWS: Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity vs. MSNBC: Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews vs. CNN: Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon The match barely gets under way when there’s a disturbance in the force. That ‘force’ is Mollie Hemingway, columnist for The Federalist and Fox News contributor, who comes flying down the aisle with a steel folding chair.

Johnny Suave: Mollie Hemingway is coming to the ring with a steel folding chair. I wonder what she has in mind.

We find out right away when Matthews waddles over to cut her off and…

*WHACK* Down goes Matthews.

*WHACK* Down goes Lemon.

Maddow races over.

*WHACK* Down goes Maddow.

Then Cuomo.

*WHACK* Down goes Cuomo.

Suave is stunned. Crowder goes nuts. She calls for help…which she gets but…

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell races down, face beet red and he’s really pissed off.

*WHACK* Down goes O’Donnell.

Then it’s CNN’s Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter. He’s righteously indignant over Hemingway’s attack. Stelter goes up to her and wags his finger at him.

*WHACK* Down goes Stelter. *WHACK* She gives him another chairshot.

Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity turn to each other.

Sean Hannity: Should we do something about this?

Tucker Carlson: Are you kidding me? Hell no.

The crowd can’t believe what’s going on. But wait, there’s more…

The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman sprints down. Colleen Crowder cheers as Haberman goes after Hemingway. Then…

*WHACK* Haberman staggers back. *WHACK* Down goes Haberman.

Crowder becomes sad. Miller jumps up when Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post runs down to the ring.

*WHACK* Down goes Rubin.

Miller sits back down. Next, Jim Acosta of CNN. Sharon Johns excitedly stands up as Acosta demands that a single, solitary spotlight be shown on him and him only.

*WHACK* Down goes Acosta. *WHACK* *WHACK* *WHACK*

Colleen Crowder: Okay. Is this all really necessary?

Johnny Suave: Jim Acosta enjoys the limelight. He should be fine with this.

Hemingway drags Maddow and Cuomo to the middle of the ring. She covers and shouts at the referee to make the cover. He does.

WINNER: Mollie Hemingway @ 5:17

Hemingway drops the chair. A close of up the chair shows it is bent all to hell.

Crowder is livid.

Johnny Suave: You’re just mad because Mollie Hemingway just cleaned the clock of the alleged mainstream media- which she’s been pretty much doing for the past three years.

BACKSTAGE WITH THE SEC Corporate Sports(entertainment) Programming Nation reporters Reese Anderson and Rebecca Morris are on hand for a big announcement.

Sports Entertainment Coalition MGR: ‘Sports Entertainment Genius’ Mr. McMann ALIGN: 90% Heel MGR #2: ‘Mouthpiece of the SEC’ Phil Finebaum ALIGN: 95% Heel

With the CSPN cameras running, ‘Sports Entertainment Genius’ Mr. McMann, ‘SEC Mouthpiece’ Phil Finebaum, and CSPN CEO Mark Splitter walk out with the current Women’s Champion of the Political Universe Christa Carmondy.

Christa Carmondy AGE: 29 / HT: 5′ 9″ WT: 150 / HOME: St. Louis, MO STYLE: All-Around-Technical / FIN: Mean Girl Crush

Johnny Suave: McMann is lucky just to be here.

REPLAY: Donald Trump’s Big Announcement

Trump fires McMann as Executive Director of the Red and Blue Brand shows.

Dawn McGill rehires McMann as a personality/leader of the SEC.

McMann introduces Christa as the newest member of the Sports Entertainment Coalition.

Mr. McMann: The SEC is the gold standard in Political Championship Wrestling because more people care about sports than they do politics. Only the best of the best get invited into the SEC. Miller and Williams will tear the tag team division apart. Christa Carmondy’s high level of wrestling skill will elevate her past the rest of the women in PCW.

Christa Carmondy: Christa Carmondy is better than every single woman wrestling later on tonight. Christa Carmondy is a better wrestler than the PCW paper champion Yosemite Samantha. The SEC is better than any other faction in this company and they will make sure the nipping poodles don’t come near me.

Johnny Suave: And apparently Christa Carmondy likes to refer to herself in the third person.

Phil Finebaum gets the last word- as usual.

Phil Finebaum: The SEC does not rebuild. The SEC reloads. People wash out of the SEC. Miller, Williams, Carmondy, and ‘Redneck’ Bill Dickinson are major upgrades. The SEC is stronger than ever. My faction is better than your faction.

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MATCH TWO-TAG TEAM MATCH PCW Ring Announcer Kimber Marshall announces the eight teams. –Jill Berg Enterprises: Kirk Walstreit and P.M.C. Banks –The Bi-Partisan Dream Team: RINO and Blue Dog D –Weapons of Mass Destruction: A. Tom Bomb and Hy Drogen Bomb (American Patriots) –The Young Jerks: Zenk Cryger and James Idahola –The Sports Entertainment Corporation: ‘Dastardly’ Dave Miller and ‘Dangerous Dan Williams –Truckin’ Average Company: Ken Worth-American Trucker and Brad Company –The Green World Order: GreenPete and PeaceNick

The winner to face Union Jack and James the Auto Worker from the Progressive Alliance and PCW Tag Team Champions Rah and Halitosis in two weeks.

The Bi-Partisan Dream Team, The Young Jerks, The Green World Order, and Truckin’ Average Company start in a four corners match. After the first three eliminations, a team will come down to take the place of the eliminated tag team.

The Bi-Partisan Dream Team are the first to go because, of course, Bi-Partisanship is not a popular currency at the moment.

Bipartisan Dream Team eliminated at 4:12 / Jill Berg Enterprises enters.

Walstreit and Banks clean house. The Young Jerks are the next to go.

The Young Jerks eliminated at 6:09 / Weapons of Mass Destruction enters.

A-Bomb and H-Bomb go crazy hitting Atomic and Hydrogen Powerbombs on everything in sight. The GWO succumb to the onslaught.

The Green World Order eliminated at 8:35 / The Sports Entertainment Coalition enters.

Down to the final four.

The SEC and WMD engage in a wild brawl. Walstreit and Banks of JBE take care of Ken Worth-American Trucker and Truckin’ Average Company is the next to go.

Truckin’ Average Company eliminated at 11:09

Miller and Williams (SEC) win the hoss battle and eliminate WMD.

Weapons of Mass Destruction eliminated at 14:41

Jill Berg Enterprises: Kirk Walstreit and P.M.C. Banks vs. The Sports Entertainment Coalition: ‘Dastardly’ Dave Miller and ‘Dangerous’ Dan Williams remain.

Miller and Williams attack Walstreit and Banks. Brief brawl between the two teams goes in favor of the SEC.

Miller lifts Banks in the air and hits the Southern Cross. He lays in the boots on Banks.

Williams locks in the Devil’s Triangle on Walstreit with the clear intent of choking him out.

Outside the ring, Gordon Guyko is screaming at the referee to stop this. Finally Melissa climbs into the ring, takes off one of her heels, and whaps Miller in the head.

Bad move.

Miller grabs her by the hair. Lift. Southern Cross.

Walstreit taps out but the referee does not see it. He’s busy trying to rescue Melissa from Dave Miller. Banks breaks up the submission hold which infuriates Williams. He corners Banks and is about to inflict bodily harm on him. Walstreit comes in from behind and slaps on the sleeper hold.

Now it’s Williams in big trouble. ‘Sports Entertainment Genius’ Mr. McMann jumps onto the apron and claims Walstreit is choking his wrestler. The referee manages to pull Miller away from Melissa and sees Walstreit’s submission hold. Miller goes to make the save. Banks intercepts him and the two roll under the bottom rope and off the apron to the floor.

Walstreit releases the sleeper, spins Williams around, lifts him into the air, and spikes him with the Stock Market Plunge. Cover. One. Two. Three.

WINNER: Jill Berg Enterprises: Kirk Walstreit and P.M.C. Banks @ 21:08

SEC INTERVIEW IN THE RING Corporate Sports(entertainment) Programming Nation reporters Reese Anderson and Rebecca Morris introduce ‘Sports Entertainment Genius’ Mr. McMann, SEC Mouthpiece Phil Finebaum, and CSPN CEO Mark Splitter in the ring.

Mr. McMann: The SEC is the gold standard in Missouri Valley Wrestling. Only the best of the best are invited into the SEC. Miller and Williams losing tonight due to poor refereeing is unfair- unfair to us and unfair to our fans. They would have torn apart Union Jack and James the Auto Worker from the Progressive Alliance and PCW Tag Team Champions Rah and Halitosis.

Morris asks about the rebuild of the SEC.

Finebaum jumps in on that one.

Phil Finebaum: With all due respect Rebecca, the SEC does not rebuild. The SEC reloads. As Mr. McMann said, some washed out of the SEC. They couldn’t make the grade. Miller, Williams, Carmondy, and ‘Redneck’ Bill Dickinson are major upgrades. The SEC is stronger than ever. My faction is better than your faction.

Finebaum pauses…

Phil Finebaum: And Jim Harbaugh still sucks.

CSPN CEO Mark Splitter chimes in.

Mark Splitter: CSPN is the worldwide corporate forerunner in sports entertainment. We partnered with the SEC because sports entertainment is in our DNA and Mr. McMann epitomizes sports entertainment. CSPN is pleased to see that the SEC has rebounded from their recent issues. Once ‘Redneck’ Bill Dickinson wins the PCW Title, the SEC will regain their rightful place at the top of the PCW mountain. CSPN will be there to document it every step of the way and bring it to you, our fans.

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MATCH THREE-WOMEN’S MATCH Kimber Marshall is back out to introduce the wrestlers for the Women’s Match. –Jill Berg (Jill Berg Enterprises) –‘Former Hooters’ Waitress’ C.J. Lewis –Codee Pink (Progressive Alliance) –‘Queen of the Trailer Park’ Lani Harlot –‘Canadian Cyborg’ Sheline Carrigan (Progressive Alliance) –‘Texas Cowgirl’ Haley Dallas (Main Street USA)

The winner to face the SEC’s Christa Carmondy and PCW Women’s Champion Yosemite Samantha in two weeks.

All six women in the ring.

Berg snaps off several spinning heel kicks to start the match. Then she runs into the ‘Canadian Cyborg’ Sheline Carrigan. Carrigan nearly drives Berg through the ring with a vicious powerbomb and then finishes her off with the Canadian Destroyer. Carrigan deposits Berg over the top rope.

Jill Berg eliminated at 3:02

Harlot and Codee Pink brawl on one side. Haley Dallas and C.J. Lewis on the other. Codee Pink gets a little outside assistance from Emily S. List and blinds Harlot with a Glitter Bomb. She goes to dump the Queen of the Trailer Park out. But Carrigan comes up from behind and clotheslines Codee Pink over the top rope to the floor.

Codee Pink eliminated at 5:32

Carrigan then tosses Harlot out too.

Lani Harlot eliminated at 5:54

Lewis, Carrigan, and Dallas left.

Dallas Texas Lariats Lewis up and out of the ring.

C.J. Lewis eliminated at 7:18

Down to Carrigan vs. Dallas. The Texas Cowgirl tries to keep Carrigan at arm’s length. But the Canadian Cyborg powers her way in and finishes the job at the ten minute mark.

WINNER: ‘Canadian Cyborg’ Sheline Carrigan @ 10:01

Sheline Carrigan ‘The Canadian Cyborg’ HT: 6’0″ WT: 145 / HOME: Vilbank, SK STYLE: Power-Technical / FIN: Canadian Destroyer

‘Canadian Cyborg’ Sheline Carrigan is joined by her manager Coach E.J. Flack.

Coach E.J. Flack

E.J. points to the insignia on his jacket.

E.J. Flack: Ladies and gentlemen. My name is E.J. Flack and I am not here to change traditions. I am not here to pursue an agenda. I am here in Political Championship Wrestling because it is a challenge. And I eat challenges for breakfast. That’s why I’m here. And that’s why I am managing the next PCW Women’s champion. Sometimes in life, you have to face the big monster thingy. Sometimes in life, you have to take on something that’s bigger than you even if its huge tusks can shred you to bits in seconds…even if its jagged teeth can tear through you like a hot knife through warm butter. Sometimes when you’re climbing life’s mountain and come up against insurmountable odds, you have to…

Flack pauses for dramatic effect.

E.J. Flack: …Narfle the Garthok! Sheline Carrigan will do whatever it takes to get back to the top. We’ll wait our turn for now. But let me be clear. Carrigan’s coming for the Women’s title…sooner or late-

Suddenly, Carrigan gets blasted from behind by a steel folding chair.

Johnny Suave: IT’S KATHRYN RANDALL COLLINS! KRC IS BACK!

Kathryn Randall Collins “KRC” HT: 5′ 11″ WT: 145 / HOME: Ft. Myers, FL STYLE: Technical / FIN: Gogoplata

KRC is also in the best shape of her life. She knocks Carrigan silly with the chair shots and then takes out Flack as well.

Kathryn Randall Collins: Carrigan. Christa Carmondy and PCW Women’s Champion Yosemite Samantha! You’re all on notice. I’m back and I’m going to help bring the Progressive Alliance wage war against those who wage war against women. KRC is back folks. Deal with it.

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DAWN McGILL SPEAKS Dawn comes out to address the fans and the wrestlers. She’s not dressed up all formal like she was at the Trump announcement. Tonight, it’s jeans, white button down shirt, flats.

Dawn McGill AGE: 37 / HT: 6’ 0″ WT: 145 / HOME: Dallas, TX HAIR: Blonde / STYLE: Rachael Taylor-ish

Dawn McGill: Welcome everyone.

But before she can get down to business…

In the Conservative Inc. section, the American Patriots/Never Trumpers/country club set (Bill Kristol. Charlie Sykes. Jonah Goldberg. David French. Tom Nichols. David Reaboi. Jennifer Rubin. David Brooks. Mitt Romney (UT-American Patriots), Rick Wilson, and S.E. Cupp are arguing once again with the Deplorables’s section right next to them.

In the Deplorables’s section: ‘Red Solo Cup’ Ray McAvay, ‘Prairie Populist’ William Daniels Bryan, McAvay’s wife and one half of the famed West Texas Adult Entertainment duo Dark and Stormy, Stacee (Dark) Perry. Paige ‘Stormy’ Reynolds is also there along with Bert the Janitor.

Also with them, General DeBauchery- who looks like a bizarre combination of the AWA’s Colonel DeBeers and Lt. Aldo from Inglorious Basterds, sporting a black captain’s hat right out of World War II, smoking a cigar and grinning obnoxiously, Al Cahall- sporting six pack abs…oh…that’s a six pack in front of his abs.

Bill Kristol, wearing a captain’s hat and uniform as if he’s about to go sailing on a boat, shouts at General DeBauchery.

Bill Kristol: YOU PEOPLE DON’T BELONG! WE WILL SAVE THE REPUBLICANS FROM YOU AND TRUMP BY ACTING LIKE DEMOCRATS.

Kristol isn’t the only one unhappy.

From the left, Professor McCarthy brings his Flock out to the stage to express their anger over the consolidation of all three shows into PCW.

Professor McCarthy: I vowed never to set foot in red state, flyover country ever again. Since this merger has been unfairly forced upon us, we have no choice but to shout anyone and everyone down who doesn’t adhere to the good book.

Professor McCarthy waves his ‘good book’ in the air.

The Flock- Green World Order (Peta from PETA, GreenPete, ‘Extreme Vegan’ Brock Cole Lee, and PeaceNick, the Young Jerks (Zenk Cryger, James Idahola, and Anna- the foul-mouthed sidekick), the Deep State (One and Two), Emily S. List, and Codee Pink also share Professor McCarthy’s revulsion towards red state, flyover country.

Professor McCarthy: Make our words. We will not be silenced. We will be the ones doing the silencing.

McGill reclaims her time. She sticks a couple fingers in her mouth and whistles into the microphone.

Dawn McGill: Hey-ya. Executive director here. SHUT UP!

The noise quiets down.

Dawn McGill: Professor McCarthy. We’ve been through this before. There’ll be no silencing of anyone. We’ve tried it your way (she points at McCarthy) and we’ve tried it their way (she points at Conservative, Inc.). It’s pretty damn clear to me that neither of you guys care about anything other than furthering your agendas at the expense of the people. You both suck. That’s why I’ve been put in charge after the consolidation. That is why as far as I’m concerned- PCW is now a political correctness-FREE zone!

The crowd rises up and cheers McGill.

One wrestler speaks up and wants to know why she was dressed so ‘corporate’ during Trump’s announcement?

Dawn McGill: I can answer that in one word. Respect.

Wrestler: Respect?

Dawn McGill: Yes. Respect. Donald Trump asked me to wear something business-like to the announcement so I did. Why? It’s about respect for the office. I don’t care who it is…George W. Bush, Barack Obama, or Donald Trump, no matter who in charge, I respect the office. Does that answer your question?

The wrestler nods in the affirmative.

Dawn McGill: I just want to add I’ve been fortunate that all the hard work over the years has paid off and I’d like to give something back to PCW. That’s why I accepted the Executive Director job to lead PCW forward.

McGill expresses her appreciation for everyone’s patience as she tries to incorporate three shows into one.

The Ultimate Social Justice Warrior (Progressive Alliance) raises an objection.

Dawn McGill: Go ahead.

Ultimate Social Justice Warrior: I demand that my upcoming match be wrestled under California’s Ninth Circuit Appeals Court Rules. If my demand isn’t met, I will walk out.

Dawn McGill: Okay. ‘Extreme Vegan’ Brock Cole Lee of the Green World Order will replace the Ultimate Social Justice Warrior in the match.

That pisses off the USJW.

Ultimate Social Justice Warrior: Wait! You can’t do that! By not giving in to my demand, you’re preventing me from having a chance to compete in the match.

McGill waves at him.

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Johnny Suave: Wait a minute. First he says if McGill doesn’t agree to his rules that he’s walking out. She doesn’t agree. He walks out. And now she’s the bad person preventing him from being in the match?

Colleen Crowder: Makes sense to me.

Johnny Suave: It would.

Joe Biden’s voice: Perhaps I can be of assistance.

Joe Biden (D-DE) Former Aide de Camp to former PCW CEO Barack Obama (D-IL) The twenty-second candidate to declare for the 2020 race.

Biden strolls out to the ring and stands behind McGill.

Joe Biden: If I become the next CEO of the Political Universe in 2020, I plan on taking a more ‘hands-on’ approach than Donald Trump has.

As he talks, Biden puts his hands on McGill’s shoulders- much to her surprise…and annoyance.

Joe Biden: Not to say that Ms. McGill-

Dawn McGill (pointedly): Miss!

Joe Biden: …has done a bad job of running PCW…

Biden rubs McGill’s shoulders.

Joe Biden: …but we need a different approach than the one offered by Donald Trump. I plan on bringing a new vision to bring us closer together…

His hands start moving down- much to McGill’s alarm. She finally turns around and whispers something in Biden’s ear.

Joe Biden: …huh?

McGill continues to whisper something to Biden.

Joe Biden: If I don’t stop doing that you’re going to do what?

McGill rolls her eyes and explains to him again what the problem is and what will happen if he doesn’t stop.

Joe Biden: I’m sorry but that seems physically impossible to do- to yourself.

Dawn McGill: How bad do you want to find out?

Biden wisely removes said hands from McGill’s person.

MATCH FOUR-THE DORK DYNASTY’S FINAL APPEARANCE-The Dork Dynasty: Sheldon and Leonard Robertson vs. The Goatbusters: Peter Jenkman and Ray Scantz with Ergon Kimber Marshall comes out to do the in-ring introductions.

“Theme from the Big Bang Theory”- Barenaked Ladies

The Dork Dynasty Leonard Robertson – Nerdy master’s students and duck call, decoy fabricators. AGE: 36 / HT: 5′ 10″ WT: 180 / HOME: Pasadena, CA ALIGN: 59% Face / STYLE: Scientific FIN: Big Bang death-Blast THEME SONG: Valet: Penny Sheldon Robertson – Nerdy master’s students and duck call, decoy fabricators. AGE: 32 / HT: 6′ 4″ WT: 195 / HOME: Pasadena, CA ALIGN: 60% Heel / STYLE: Hardcore-Scientific / FIN: Big Bang death-Blast Valet: Amy

Kimber Marshall: And their opponents…

*Spooky music begins followed by a funky beat*

(sung to ‘Ghostbusters’) If there’s something grazing In your neighborhood Who you gonna call (Goatbusters) If you see a herd And it don’t look good Who you gonna call (Goatbusters)

I ain’t afraid of no Goat I ain’t afraid of no Goat

If you’re seeing horns Running through your yard Who can you call (Goatbusters) If you have a goat Sleeping in your bed Oh, who you gonna call (Goatbusters)

I ain’t afraid of no Goat I ain’t afraid of no Goat

Who you gonna call (Goatbusters) If you’re all alone Pick up the phone And call (Goatbusters)

I ain’t afraid of no Goat I hear it likes the girls I ain’t afraid of no Goat Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Who you gonna call (Goatbusters) If you’ve had a dose Of a freaky Goat Maybe you’d better call (Goatbusters)

Let me tell you something Bustin’ makes me feel good

I ain’t afraid of no Goat I ain’t afraid of no Goat

The Goatbusters walk out. Peter Jenkman and Ray Scantz followed by Ergon walk down to the ring.

Background? It’s been well known that the Dorks were going to call it career in May and that day has come for the nerdy master’s students and duck call, decoy fabricators. The Goatbusters gets the call to be the Dork’s final opponent.

What Happened/Finisher? The Dorks actually get along with each other. They run through the hits and hit the Big Bang Deathblast on Scantz to score the win.

WINNER: The Dork Dynasty @ 10:58

Aftermath? Leonard cries after the match.

Sheldon tells the crowd ‘well of course you’re going to miss us.’

And Penny announces she’s pregnant.

Leonard Robertson: Whhhat?

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A GAME OF THRONES MOMENT-DEMOCRATS/PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE PCW Executive Director Dawn McGill is speaking with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

The backdrop is: a burned out part of a formerly grand castle called the Red Keep. An Iron Throne remains behind them- made from the swords of his vanquished enemies, fused by dragonfire, a physical seat of office as well as a metonym for the monarchy of Westeros.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: It’s not easy to see something that’s never been before…a good world.

Dawn McGill: How do you know? How do you know it will be good?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Because we know what is good.

Dawn McGill: What about everyone else? All the other people who think they know what’s good?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: If we have our way, they don’t get to choose.

Dawn McGill: I see…

McGill reaches back and grips the Singapore cane she carries with her…

Cut back to the broadcast desk. Crowder (again) is not happy.

Colleen Crowder: That is not a fair and accurate representation of the Progressive Alliance’s views.

Johnny Suave: I don’t know. I think that’s pretty spot on. Hold on. There’s more. There’s the other side of the coin.

A GAME OF THRONES MOMENT-REPUBLICANS/AMERICAN PATRIOTS ‘Red Solo Cup’ Ray McAvay is speaking to Conservative, Inc. and trying to calm things down as tensions continue to be high between them and McAvay’s Deplorables.

Ray McAvay: Why just you? Why should the rich and well-connected people get to override the will of the people?

McAvay walks forward.

Ray McAvay: We had a vote. The status quo and the ruling elites lost. Maybe the decision about what’s best for everyone should be left to…everyone.

Conservative, Inc., all exhibiting facial expressions that make them appear to be constipated, try to digest what McAvay has just proposed.

Then one begins to laugh.

Then another.

And another.

Bill Kristol: Maybe we should give dogs the right to vote as well.

More laughter.

McAvay rolls his eyes.

Jennifer Rubin: I’ll ask my neighbor’s horse.

More laughter…howls of derision.

McAvay touches his nose. Bert the Janitor tosses him the Big Bertha Driver. And then…

Cut back to the broadcast desk. Crowder is happier.

Colleen Crowder: Okay. That makes more sense.

Johnny Suave: They both make sense. Main event right after this.

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Johnny Suave: Let’s go to Kimber Marshall in the ring for tonight’s main event.

MAIN EVENT-MEN’S MATCH Kimber Marshall is back out to introduce the contestant in tonight’s main event. –‘Charlie Wrestling’ Charlie Blackwell (Main Street USA) –Average Joe (Truckin’ Average Company) –‘Mr. Hollywood’ Kevin Daniels (Progressive Alliance) –‘Starz N. Stripes’ Kevin Scott –‘Redneck’ Bill Dickinson (Sports Entertainment Coalition) –‘Prairie Populist’ William Daniels Bryan (Deplorables) –‘Extreme Vegan’ Brock Cole Lee (Green World Order)

The winner to face ‘Red Solo Cup’ Ray McAvay of the Deplorables and PCW Champion ‘Anti-Hollywood’ Stone Chism.

Seven men in the ring. One will advance on. Who will it be?

Well, we know who one of them won’t be. ‘Redneck’ Bill Dickinson immobilizes Average Joe with a powerbomb and then tosses him over the top rope for the first elimination.

Average Joe eliminated at 2:30

Dickinson chases down ‘Extreme Vegan’ Brock Cole Lee next and dispatches him over the top rope the hard way to the floor.

‘Extreme Vegan’ Brock Cole Lee eliminated at 3:52

Colleen Crowder: That’s not right! I demand to voice my complaint about Brock Cole Lee’s unjust elimination. This proves that PCW referees aren’t interested in any sort of justice. He should disqualify Dickinson right away.

Johnny Suave: Don’t put yourself in a position to get eliminated then. We’re down to five.

Kevin Daniels takes off across the ring and tries to hit Dickinson with a high crossbody. Dickinson ducks under and back body drops Daniels over the top rope- Daniels lands on top of Brock Cole Lee.

‘Mr. Hollywood’ Kevin Daniels eliminated at 4:15

Blackwell, Bryan, and Scott all look over at Dickinson like a pack of wolves scouting out their next meal. Dickinson suddenly realizes that his place in the match could now be in jeopardy- despite his huge weight advantage. He decides to try to escape under the top rope but Scott and Bryan pull him back in. Blackwell and Scott hit a double-team vertical suplex on Dickinson. Bryan crane kicks Dickinson onto an ethereal plane. Then all three neatly deposit him over the top rope for the elimination.

‘Redneck’ Bill Dickinson eliminated at 6:20

Down to three: Charlie Blackwell, William Daniels Bryan, and Kevin Scott. Everyone shows off their technical prowess with lots of early chain wrestling and reversals. Scott looked for openings to slap on his American Stars and Fujiwara Arm Bar while Bryan looked to hit another crane kick at the first earliest chance. Wrestling chess match. Blackwell held the upper hand in the early going. Scott rallied back in the middle part. Scott tried to slap on the American Stars and Fujiwara Arm Bar on Bryan close to the ropes. Bryan grabbed the ropes with his free hand and referee Ron Martin called for a break.

Scott broke the hold. Bryan popped back up and Blackwell slammed Scott into the corner turnbuckle. Scott staggered forward. Bryan lifted him up into a vertical position and planted him with a vertical suplex. Blackwell and Bryan then whipped Scott up and over the top rope.

‘Starz N. Stripes’ Kevin Scott eliminated at 10:15

Bryan matched Blackwell move for move. Both guys went for their finishers early and avoided each other’s submission moves. Then Blackwell and Bryan both whiffed on dropkicks and kipped back up for the respectful staredown. Blackwell probably held a slight edge in the early going as WDB still has a little ring rust to shake off. But the longer the match went on, the more Bryan settled in.

Bryan’s stamina began to fail him at the seventeen minute mark and allowed Blackwell to begin to string together moves. While the Deplorables did their best to try to keep Bryan going, Blackwell started to set up the Prairie Populist for the end.

After grounding Bryan in the middle of the ring, Blackwell slapped on the Katahajime and choked the remaining energy out of him. Blackwell then sent Bryan up and over and emerged as the winner.

William Daniels Bryan eliminated

WINNER: ‘Charlie Wrestling’ Charlie Blackwell @ 18:56

Aftermath? Post-match staredown between both men. Finally, Charlie offered a hand. Bryan paused and thought about it for nearly a minute. Then he shook Blackwell’s hand and raised the winner’s arm in victory.

Johnny Suave: WDB is about ninety-five percent back. The problem is, as Rick pointed out earlier, Charlie Blackwell is running at about one hundred and twenty-five percent of where he was two years ago. I thought Bryan looked much better. Blackwell and Bryan slowly ramped up the tempo to build to something better later on- but that played right into Blackwell’s hands. Bryan ran out of gas late. Blackwell is just at a different level right now and he retains the title. Colleen?

Colleen rolls her eyes and just looks back at him with contempt and distain.

Suave previews the next edition of PCW Political War on P-SPAN…

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Thoughts on Iron Fist

I finished the show last weekend, I’ve had a chance to digest everything now and... I like it.

As I suspected, the criticism was very much blown out of proportion. Critics were coming at this show with an obvious SJW agenda and were determined to hate it without giving it much of a chance (or any chance in some cases). But if you watch it with an unbiased attitude, a lot of the criticisms really don’t hold up. Is it perfect? No. But overall, I enjoyed it quite a bit.

One of the big issues critics were bashing it on was that Danny has no idea of how crazy he comes off to other people. And at face value, I can see why you might think that, but the issue comes from when you ONLY take it at face value and don’t consider the reasoning behind it.

The whole idea is that Danny is approaching everything from the mindset of a 10-year-old because that's the age he was when his plane crashed. He's seeing things in very simplistic, right-and-wrong, black-and-white terms because he was ripped away from his whole life when he was just a kid. He doesn't know how the real world works anymore, he doesn't understand how complicated a lot of things can be. He's supposed to have this childlike innocence and naiveté about a lot of things. It's something he has to grow out of. And later on in the season, he does acknowledge that he's been too trusting and kind of gullible at times; this is a learning experience he has to go through. It's called a character arc.

The "white savior" thing is a bunch of bullshit. The biggest badass on the whole show is Colleen Wing, an Asian woman who is routinely beating the shit out of guys, in many cases, two or three at a time. This woman does not need saving and Danny is not portrayed as any kind of racist savior for the Asian people or whatever. So let's just table that right now. More often than not, Colleen is insisting that Danny needs her help and we see a lot more of that than him bailing out other people.

Something else a lot of people have brought up is that Danny doesn't really think things through when he should. He's very headstrong and has a habit of throwing himself into danger without a plan. This is something Colleen and Claire call him on a couple of times, so it's not like on the Flash where Barry Allen is constantly doing incredibly stupid things and then that stupidity is completely ignored. In Danny’s case, this is acknowledged as a character flaw. He's a little desperate to prove himself as the Iron Fist, but he doesn't really know how because his training was incomplete, so his go-to plan is to simply follow the doctrine that’s been beaten into him for 15 years, which is "DESTROY THE HAND. HAND = BAD." Again, later on, he starts to understand that things are more complicated than this.

Now some of the things that ARE issues with Iron Fist. The pacing in the first half of the season is slow, yes. It's takes its' time getting out of the gate. But guess what -- so did Jessica Jones and so did Luke Cage. Personally, I didn't find this to be any more of a problem than it was on those shows, (and it was actually much less of a problem at times IMO) but I can see why some viewers might get impatient with it.

Also, it couldn’t seem to settle on one definitive Big Bad. The overarching villain is the Hand, but the show kind of oscillates between three primary bad guys and it probably takes a little too long to introduce them. As a result, we don’t get as much focus on certain villains that maybe we should have and I think the story would have benefitted from having a tighter focus on that.

Daredevil and Jessica Jones definitely benefitted from having the whole season focused on the fight against the Kingpin or the fight against Killgrave. With Iron Fist, he's fighting a leader of the Hand and then another leader of the Hand and also this other guy who’s in league with the Hand, and I feel like it was too many villains. Just doing one or two for now may have worked better.

Is the finale a little underwhelming? Yeah. It is NOT however, the worst finale of the Marvel Netflix shows. That honor goes to Luke Cage, who spent his finale having a not-very-good fight with a man in an unintentionally hilarious, cheap-looking armored suit while guys on the side of the street cracked ‘Yo Momma’ jokes and then resolved the climax half an hour too early. The Iron Fist finale may not have been perfect, but it was certainly better than that was.

Something that does need to be addressed is K’un Lun. There’s a lot of talking about it throughout the season, about what went on there, what kind of place it is, what Danny's training was like, but we never really get to see it. This would have really benefitted from some flashbacks to the city, the people there and what Danny went through. The brief flashbacks we do get don't show much at all. All we get to see of Danny’s training is a brief clip of him getting whacked with sticks, so there's an awful lot of telling and not much showing. Maybe they didn't have the budget to show more, but in the future, this is something I think they need to work on because they build this place up so much and then they never really show it. THAT'S a legitimate issue.

The acting is fine. Critics are being too hard on Finn Jones IMO, he does a good job. There were a few clunky bits of dialogue here and there that didn’t do him any favors, but that was more a fault of the writing. Claire is great as usual. Colleen is fucking awesome, one of my new favorite characters. I loved every second she was on the screen and the burgeoning relationship between her and Danny is actually really sweet.

The action I think is solid. Critics were bitching about how it was "too choreographed" or whatever -- IMO, you could say that about ONE sequence in the show. It's a scene in the dojo in one of the early episodes where Danny and Colleen do some impromptu sparring. There it did look a little bit choreographed to me. All the other action scenes were fine; I wouldn’t say it was any worse than stuff I’ve seen in other action-related series. Yeah, they saved the best stuff for the back half of the season, but overall, I got my fill and I was satisfied with the fights in this show. Daredevil is still the undisputed champ in that regard, but that doesn't mean the action in Iron Fist is BAD; it's not. And it certainly has the action sequences in Jessica Jones and Luke Cage beat easily.

So overall, I would call Iron Fist a flawed, but still enjoyable and good series, which is pretty much my opinion on Jessica Jones and Luke Cage as well.

Sorry to disappoint all the left-leaning, liberal SJWs out there who wanted the show to be complete garbage, so they’d have something to be outraged about, but they should probably find a target that actually deserves their vitriol.

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Second chances are a good opportunity to show the world that you’re not as much of a screw up as people think, but should everyone be given the benefit of the doubt? If you cheat on your partner or lie to your parents, it breaks trust, and it may be difficult for them to forgive you. There’s a good chance they will, though, if you show that you’re willing to put in the work to be a better person. For those whose offenses are more sinister, like, let’s say, beating elderly people to death or torturing children, we may need to reevaluate how the prison system measures remorse. We’d like to think that while criminals are locked up behind bars, they’re being treated and rehabilitated. Unfortunately, many felons just learn how to be better criminals while doing their time, and by the time their release comes, they’re worse than before. Instead of getting a person thrilled about a chance at a fresh start, there’s a monster excited about being outside of those prison walls where humans can once again be preyed on. The next time you think that the most callous-hearted murderers who are imprisoned will never see the light of day again, remember the names and stories of these killers. No one is safe.

#1 Graeme Burton Waited Six Months After Leaving Prison To Murder Again

There’s nothing wrong with doing a little pre-gaming before heading out to a nightclub, but Graeme Burton took things a little too far. A friend said that they watched Graeme take multiple drugs, including LSD, and down tequila shots before heading out to the Wellington nightclub in New Zealand back in 1992. Once he arrived, security wouldn’t let him in, and that enraged the inebriated man. He took out his anger and revenge on a lighting technician at the club, Neville Anderson, who happened to be standing outside. Graeme stabbed him to death. He was given a life sentence for the murder, but in 2006, he was paroled and back on the streets. It was only a few weeks later that Graeme stocked up an arsenal of weapons that included guns, various knives, and a crossbow. For six months, he was scoring meth and beating up drug dealers, but one fateful day in January of 2007, Graeme shot and killed 26-year-old Karl Kuchenbecker, who was out hiking. This led to a shootout with police that ended with his arrest. He was once again sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for 26 years.

#2 Ian McLoughlin Was Given A One-Day Release And Used His Time To Kill Again

Talk about being a repeat offender! Ian McLoughlin experienced his first stint in prison when he was sentenced to 10 years after killing 49-year-old Len Delgatty by smashing him over the head with a hammer. That was back in 1984. By 1992, he was out of jail and ready to murder again. Ian killed 55-year-old Peter Halls, and for that crime, he was put away for life — or so everyone thought. Twenty-one years later, Ian earned enough trust with his prison that he was let out on a day release. He used that opportunity to commit more crimes. Francis Cory-Wright, 87, was enjoying his wealthy lifestyle now that he was out of prison. The convicted pedophile was once jailed for sexually abusing a little boy. He and Ian met behind bars. Ian visited Francis’s home, intending to rob him, but things took a turn when Francis screamed for help. A neighbor, Graham Buck, rushed over to help Francis but instead met the killer face-to-face. The two struggled, and Ian won the fight when he slashed Graham’s throat. He was thrown back in prison and will remain there for 40 years.

#3 Andrew Dawson Was The Devil Who Named Himself The ‘Angel Of Mercy’

Another person given a life sentence who was ultimately released is a man named Andrew Dawson. In 1981, he admitted to murdering a 91-year-old man and was convicted to a life term, but officials believed that he had been rehabilitated and ready to enter society once again. That would prove to be a terrible mistake. In July of 2010, Andrew had only been living in his apartment for just a few weeks. A neighborly thing to do would be to, maybe, introduce yourself to the people living next door, but instead, Andrew decided to kill them. John David Matthews was 66 years old when he was found stabbed to death 18 times in his apartment. Five days later, 58-year-old Paul Hancock’s dead body was found in his home in the same building. He had 22 stab wounds. Andrew became a person of interest, and when they searched his apartment, they found his journal, where he confessed to one of the murders and called himself “the Angel of Mercy.” He told police that he had gained access to his victims’ homes by pretending to need to use their washing machines. Andrew also said he had an insatiable urge to kill and showed no remorse. He was thrown back in prison for another life term.

#4 Timothy Buss Is The Child Killer Who Should Never Roam The Streets Again

Little Christopher Meyer had a smile that could light up a room, but his life was snuffed out by Timothy Buss, a killer who was paroled out of prison in 1993. Timothy was previously serving a 25-year sentence that began in 1981, but someone, somewhere, thought that he was no longer a threat to society. The community of Bradley, Illinois was shaken to its core when five-year-old Tara Huffman was sexually abused and murdered. The girl’s loved ones thought that Timothy would at least stay in prison for his entire term, but 12 years later, he was free to kill again. This time, 10-year-old Christopher from Walla Walla, Washington was his victim of choice. The boy was stabbed over 50 times, sexually mutilated, and buried in a shallow grave in a local park. Timothy was initially sentenced to death, but it was later commuted to life in prison.

#5 Kenneth McDuff Was A Cruel Murderer Who Tortured His Victims

Robert Brand, 17, his 16-year-old girlfriend, Edna Sullivan, and his 15-year-old cousin, Mark Sullivan, were just three teens hanging out late at night in the parking lot of a baseball field. They weren’t trying to get into any trouble, but unfortunately for them, trouble came knocking in 1966. Kenneth McDuff and his friend Roy Dale Green were driving around town because Kenneth said he wanted a girl. The pair saw the teens standing next to a car, and, when Kenneth saw Edna, he immediately knew she was whom he wanted. The teenagers were forced into the trunk of their car and taken to a field where Robert and Mark were shot. Edna was repeatedly raped by Kenneth and Roy before Kenneth choked her with a broomstick and dumped her body in nearby bushes. Kenneth was given three life sentences, but his lawyers fought the good fight and got him paroled in 1989. Police say it only took three days for him to begin killing again. Sarafina Parker, Brenda Thompson, Regenia DeAnne Moore, Cynthia Renee Gonzalez, Colleen Reed, Valencia Joshua, and Melissa Northrup were all future victims of Kenneth. Many were prostitutes; some were gruesomely tortured. Kenneth died by lethal injection in 1998.

#6 Arthur Bomar’s Final Crime Landed Him On Death Row

Road rage turned into murder after Arthur Bomar got into an argument with a man over a parking space. He was jailed for 11 years and paroled in 1990, promising to never kill again. Let’s just say he lied. Months after his release, Arthur was arrested for yanking a woman from her car and assaulting her. A few years later, he got into a fight outside of a bar and was convicted of assault. Those crimes were violations of his parole, but the parole board let Arthur slip between the cracks. By the time 1996 rolled around, Arthur’s bad behavior was worsening. That year, a 22-year-old lacrosse player named Aimee Willard went missing on her way home after hanging out with friends. When police found her car on the side of the road, the door was open, it was still running, and the lights were still on. Her body was found 17 miles away. She was raped and with a tire iron beaten to death. Evidence, including DNA, matched Arthur’s, and he was convicted of her murder. He currently sits on Pennsylvania’s death row.

#7 Howard Allen Robbed And Killed Three Elderly Women In many cultures, the elderly are cared for and protected by their families and communities, but Howard Allen has little concern for those who’ve lived out long lives. Opal Cooper made it to the ripe age of 85 years old in 1974 when Howard Allen broke into her house to rob her. Instead of just running off with her valuables, Howard beat her to death. He was convicted of manslaughter and was thrown in prison with a sentence of 2 to 21 years. Howard was paroled in 1984, and, for three years, he seemed to be on his best behavior. In 1987, he had the devilish itch to go back to his bad boy ways, and, in that year alone, he was tied to 12 robberies and assaults — all against the elderly. In May, he attacked a 73-year-old who survived her injuries. Two days later, he beat an 87-year-old to death. That June, he robbed the house of an elderly man and then set his home on fire. A month after that, a 73-year-old woman was murdered in her home. Howard killed her with knives and a toaster. The following year, Howard received 88 years for the assaults and was sentenced to death row for the last murder.

#8 Paul Brumfitt Was Deemed To Have A “Psychopathic Disorder”

Couples in relationships are bound to get into a fight where they say or do something they regret, but Paul Brumfitt absolutely let his anger get the best of him. In 1975, when he was 24, Paul was dating a 16-year-old girl, and after the two got into a heated argument, Paul went off the rails. In the next week, Paul would go on to beat a 59-year-old shopkeeper to death and strangle a 40-year-old bus driver. In 1980, he was convicted and sentenced to three life terms, but in 1994, he was paroled and given a second chance at freedom. He blew it. Paul’s reintroduction to society took a murderous turn when, in 1999, he, in his home, killed Marcella Ann Davis, a 19-year-old single mother and prostitute. He tried to get rid of the body by setting her on fire in a scrapyard. Weeks later, he raped another prostitute twice at knifepoint. Paul was once again sent to prison for life. Hopefully, this time, he’ll stay there.

#9 Jimmy Lee Gray Did Unspeakably Horrific Things To A Toddler

Teenage relationships can be volatile, but they aren’t supposed to end in murder. When Jimmy Lee Gray was just 18 years old in 1968, he killed his 16-year-old girlfriend by slitting her throat. For his heinous crime, Jimmy was supposed to spend 20 years in prison, but just six years later, he was paroled. Those who thought Jimmy had used his time behind bars to change his life for the better obviously didn’t know the man well. Jimmy managed to keep his nose clean, so to speak, that is, until he saw three-year-old toddler Deressa Jean Seales. The sick, twisted man kidnapped the little girl and then took her to the woods where he did unspeakable things to her. He raped her. He sodomized her. Then, he attempted to drown her in a creek. As he walked away, he heard her making noises in the water as she was face down, trying to breathe. That’s when he turned around and finished the job by stomping on the back of her neck, breaking it. Jimmy’s death would be a torturous and painful one, too. While he was in the gas chamber, his executioner was drunk and botched the procedure. His head wasn’t secured, so as he took in the toxic gas, he began thrashing around. Jimmy repeatedly banged his head against an iron pole connected to his chair until he lost consciousness.

#10 Timothy McKinney’s Out-Of-Control Anger Almost Took Another Life

Police officer Don Williams was working a night job as a security guard at Crumpy’s Comedy Club in Memphis, Tennessee. On Christmas Day evening in 1997, Williams was working his shift when he got into an altercation with Timothy McKinney. The verbal argument turned deadly after Timothy left the club, went to his girlfriend’s house to get his gun, and returned to shoot and kill the officer. Timothy tried his best to convince a jury that he wasn’t the one who had pulled the trigger, but his pleas fell on deaf ears. He was sentenced to death, but his new attorneys were able to get him a new trial because his initial defense counsel was thought to be ineffective. He went through two retrials where both juries were hung, so Timothy eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to time served. He was back on the streets in 2013. Timothy was only on the streets for a little over a year when he was involved in another deadly shooting. While arguing with a man, Timothy pulled out a gun and opened fire. He didn’t shoot his intended victim but instead hit a 14-year-old boy nearby. He was convicted of attempted second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Timothy didn’t technically kill again, but he came awfully close.

#11 David Edward Maust Killed Five Teenagers And Brutally Assaulted Others

Serial killer David Edward Maust had an affinity for young boys. From an early age, his family could tell there was something a little off about David, and, at the age of nine, he was institutionalized and later sent to a children’s home. As a young adult, he got a job but was later fired after crashing the company truck. He tried going home to mom, but she didn’t want him in her house because she feared him. She instead took him to an Army recruiter. David was stationed overseas in Germany when he killed a 13-year-old boy in 1974. He said it was an accident and was sentenced to four years. When the time came around for David to be released in 1977, he asked to stay in jail, but they let him go. Two years later, he stabbed a friend, but that friend survived the attack. In 1981, David wanted to find a boy who, years prior, molested him at the children’s home he once lived in. He couldn’t find him but did come across 15-year-old Donald Jones and drowned him. Months later, he stabbed a 14-year-old boy. David was once again in jail, and in 1999, he was somehow deemed fit to be released. He would go on to kill three more teens by 2003, encasing them in concrete and wrapping them in plastic. In 2006, he committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell with a bed sheet.

#12 Steven Pratt Was Free For Two Days Before He Killed His Mother Don’t let that sad face shedding those tears fool you. Steve Pratt is a killer, and one of his victims was his own mother. As a teenager, Pratt was close to his neighbor, Michael Anderson, whom he looked up to as a father figure. One day in 1984 when Steven was 15-years-old, the teen was hanging out with friends in the hallway of his apartment building, smoking marijuana. Michael peeked out of his apartment and told the group to take their fun somewhere else, but instead of leaving, Steven taunted him with a marijuana pipe. Michael tried to grab it, and as he tried wrestling it out of Steven’s hands, he hit the boy in his face. Steven left, but that didn’t mean the fight was over. He returned hours later, knocked on Michael’s door, and shot him dead. Steven was tried as an adult and served 30 years in prison before he was released. His family had a welcome home party for him and were excited to have him back in the fold, especially his mother. The killer was only free for two days when he got into an argument with his mom and beat her to death. He later cried to a judge that he was guilty and didn’t want a trial. He was sentenced to another 25 years in prison.

#13 John Lawrence Miller Was Surprisingly Released From Prison After Killing A 22-Month-Old

Another teenage killer on our list is John Lawrence Miller who, at 15-years-old, got his first taste of taking someone’s life. His parents sent him to a reform school, but when he had a day off to go home for a visit, he snuck out in the evening and went looking for trouble. In 1957, John heartlessly beat 22-month-old Laura Wetzel, a neighbor, to death while she was sleeping in her crib. He said he wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone and claimed he was sorry. He was tossed in jail and sentenced to life, but after 17 years, the State of California thought he was recovered from his wicked ways. He returned to his parents’ house in Long Beach, California, and things were pretty rocky from the start. Two months after being let out of prison, the police received a call from one of the Millers’ neighbors. John’s father, barely clinging to life, told the neighbor that his son had shot him and his wife. The couple died before police arrived. Michael was immediately arrested, and in 1976, was once again sentenced to life. He’s remained in prison ever since.

#14 Psychiatrists Called Him A “Schizoid Psychopath,” But He Was Paroled Anyway

If this face is a familiar one, it’s likely because you’ve probably seen one of his many features or interviews on television. Arthur Shawcross looks like he’s just a white beard away from being Santa’s double, but don’t be mistaken; this man is a villain. Arthur was sexually aroused by starting fires, so when he and his second wife moved to New York City, he developed a penchant for arson. He eventually got pinched for these crimes and was given five years, but after 22 months, he was released. That’s when his crimes turned violent. Arthur raped and killed a 10-year-old boy in 1972, and months later, he did the same to an eight-year-old girl. He was arrested the following month but was able to plea to a lesser charge if he would tell detectives where he had dumped the boy’s body. You’d think prison officials would want Arthur to serve out his 25-year sentence in full, but instead, they claimed he was no longer a danger to society and set him free after 12 years in 1987. His second string of murders started the following year until 1989. Arthur murdered an additional 12 women, mostly prostitutes, and even mutilated one. He also claimed he had indulged in cannibalism. He was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. In 2008, he died of a heart attack while in prison.

#15 Dwaine Little Raised Big Suspicions After Being Paroled Convicted of raping and murdering a 16-year-old girl in 1964, Dwaine Little received a life sentence in 1966. However, the state of Oregon granted him parole in 1974. In Fall of that same year, the Cowden family — Richard; his wife Belinda; and their two small children, 5-year-old David and 5-month-old Melissa — disappeared from their campsite. For seven months, no one knew what had happened to them until their skeletal remains were found miles from where they were last seen on the day they had disappeared. An elderly couple gave an accurate description of Dwaine’s truck and said the bed was full of people. Dwaine became a suspect after he was spotted pumping gas close to the crime scene. He never confessed nor was charged with these murders. He was, however, convicted of raping and attempting to murder another woman. This obviously violated his parole, and for that, he was put back in an Oregon prison for the rest of his life. The Cowden Family Murders remain an unsolved open case.

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