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Pokémon AU family List

(will give more info if needed)

Red Miyagawa and Blue Oak (Married)

Akane, Willow, Ichiro, Kaede & Samuel "Sammy" Miyagawa-Oak

Ash Ketchum and Misty (Married)

Kyla, Caspian & Marilla Ketchum

Brock Harrison and Lucy (Separated)

Thomas, Wade" and Terra" Harrison

Brock and Rebecca (Fling)

Amethyst "Amy" Harrison

Brock and Liliana (Married)

Maria'’’, Sophia’’’ & Macy’’’ Harrison

Leaf Greene and Kris (Married)

Jade", Ivy" & Lin Greene

Trace Herrings and Chase (Married)

Kyrie, Allen & Angelina Herring

Janine Hayashi and Elaine (Married)

Haru, Kenji, Makoto" & Haruna" Hayashi

Goh Yamashita and Horace (Married)

Fumiko, Azumi, Daichi", Jiro" and Hiro Yamashita

Chloe Cerise (Single)

Lucy Cerise

Gary Oak and Domino (Fling)

Juniper Oak

Gary Oak and Zinnia (Not together anymore)

Ivy Oak

Gary Oak and Edric Ross (Married)

Samantha, Darron and Kathrine Oak

Ritchie Berry and Damian (Not together anymore)

Lexie Berry

Ritchie Berry and Derick (Married)

Alex and Daniel

Lt. Adam Surge and Violet

Nixie, Gale and Bolt Surge

Erika Kayano and Darcy (Divorced)

Fiona Kayano

Sabrina And Will Tanaka (Married)

Emiko Tanaka

Lorelei Landa And Winona (Married)

Breena, Maya, Zephyr, Neil & Claire Landa

Bruno Grayson (Single)

Casey and Mason Grayson

James De Rossi and Jessie (Married)

Jamie, Julia, Jackie and Jasper De Rossi

Butch and Daisy Oak (Married)

Rosie and Paisley Oak

Tracey Sketchit and Daisy (Married)

Heather, Holly and Wyatt Sketchit

Ethan Asahi and Sliver (Married)

Scarlett, Riku, Sumire, Haruki, Ryuki, Sierra, Ember, Talia and Gale Asahi

Elio Sunna and Lyra (Married)

Lyre, Leilani, Oliver & Kai Sunna

Lance Blackthorn and Hanako (Married, Hanako is dead)

Luna Blackthorn

Morty Ellis and Falkner (Married)

Raven, Robin and Elliot Ellis

Bugsy Withers and Whitney (Married)

Beckett Withers

Jasmine Tachibana and Solidad (Married)

Rosianna and Ross Kernel

Clair Blackthorn (Single)

Ryu Blackthorn

Karen Lee (Single)

Connie Lee

Cyrus Caddel and Saturn (Not together anymore)

Portia Caddel

Archer Lawrence and Saturn (Married)

Aries, Polaris and Rhea Lawrence

Archer Lawrence and Proton Richter (Not together anymore)

Artemis Richter

Proton Richter and Domino (Not together anymore)

Juno Richter

Professor Elm and his wife (Married)

Cedar Elm

Eusine Smith (Single)

Serenity Smith

Khoury Matthews and Casey (Divorced)

Alice Matthews

Liza Rose and Zinnia (Separated)

Maeve Rose

Brad van darn and Fantina Albret (Married)

Elizabeth Albret

Pierce Elrod and Wendy (Affair)

Freya Elrod

Attila Sharp and Hun (Married)

Demeter, Calypso and Helios Sharp

Brendan Birch and May (Married)

Madison and Henry Birch

Max and Tory Lund (Married)

Alice and Aiden Lund

Wally Harrell and Lisia (Married)

Hayden and Maybelle Harrell

Drew Campbell and Brianna (Married)

Autumn and Summer Campbell

Harley Gray and Nando (Separated)

Marianna Gray

Harley Gray and Juan Richelieu (One night stand)

Francis and Mary Richelieu

Paris Mercia And Solidad (Divorced)

Dena and Jackson Mercia

Wallace and Steven Stone (Married)

Elaine and Petra Stone

Brawly Rush and Roxanne (Married)

Mia and Alexander Rush

Sidney Parker and Flannery (Married)

Flare Parker

Korrina Derand and Phoebe (Married)

Jenna, Gracie & Erwin Derand

Looker Spade and Anabel (Married)

Layla, Helena and Edward Spade

Nando and Tucker Conners (Affair)

Grace Conners

Maxie Embers and Archie (Together)

Kyna, Hector and Darren Embers

Glacia And Ervin Sawyer (Divorced)

Elsa Sawyer

Shelly Waller and Courtney (Married)

Mira Waller

Dana Desmond and Zinnia (One night stand)

Lydia Desmond

Barry Tsumura and Lucas (Married)

Tsutsuji and Hiroko Tsumura

Dawn Berlitz and Zoey

Aurora, Weiss, Gwendolyn and Ronan Berlitz

Paul Norwood and Ursula Lovett (Divorced)

Meaghan and Sasha Norwood

Paul Norwood and Miette (Married)

Anthony and Briar Norwood

Cynthia Reiss and Diantha (Married)

Genevieve and Mariane Reiss

Roark Blair and Riley (Married)

Thea, Rhea, Noah and Lapis Blair

Gardenia Fujimura and Cheryl (Married)

Ayaka Fujimura

Maylene Olsen and Candice (Married)

Noelle & Hayley Olsen

Flint Russel and Volkner (Married)

Dustin and Sophia Russel

Lucian Garnier and Aaron (Married)

Rachael Garnier

Thorton Rhodes and Marley (Married)

Lelia and Luis Rhodes

Hunter J and Mars Seymour (Together, Hunter J is dead)

Pluto Seymour

Buck Russel and Mira (Married)

Blake Russel

Reggie Norwood and Zero (Not together anymore)

Dina Norwood

Reggie Norwood and Lena (Married)

Ezra and Stella Norwood

Kenny Hudson and Leona (Married)

Carmen Hudson

Sho Jonas and Autumn (Married)

Weiss, Lily and Mint Jonas

Tonio Hvam and Alice

Anisa and Dale Hvam

Baron Alberto and Queen Ilene (Fling)

Amaris De Rota

Baron Alberto and Lilith (Married)

Mercia. Jewel and Josephine De Alamos

Grimsley Millard and Zero (Not together anymore)

Crispian and Demi Millard

Lysandre Allard and Zero (TBD)

Vesper & Zeke Allard

Zero and Baraz Laurier (One night stand)

Arleth Laurier

Kevin Mythos and Sheena (Married)

Kyra and Roland Mythos

Sorrel Hart and Verity (Married)

Luna Hart

Verity and Cross West (Separated)

Austin West

Hilbert and Natural Harmonia Gropius (Married)

Aria, Mercy and Euphemia Harmonia (Euphemia is adopted)

Chili Gardener and Hilda (Married)

Cassandra Gardener

Chili Gardener and Burgundy (Divorced)

Millicent “Millie” Gardener

Cilan Gardener and Clemont Alarie (Married)

Adrien and Audrey Gardener

Cilan Gardener and Alain Sycamore (Married)

Cecilia Gardener

Clemont Alarie and Alain Sycamore (Married)

Ciel Alarie

Cress Gardener and Calem Xavier (Married)

Lyne and Nathan Xavier-Gardener

Lenora Abrams and Hawes (Married)

Verdona and Vincent Abrams

Serena Castillon and Shauna (Married)

Elodie Castillon

Lysandre Allard and Malva Aubert (Not together anymore)

Alexis and Bastion Aubert

Wikstrom and Siebold Blanchet (Separated)

Lucienne Blanchet

Lysandre Allard and Bellatrix (Divorced)

Cédric Allard

Lysandre Allard and Alain Sycamore (Not together)

Irene Sycamore

Lysandre Allard and Baraz Laurier (Not together)

Ausra Laurier

Lysandre Allard and Professor Augustine Sycamore (Not together anymore)

Sylvie Sycamore

Ghetsis Harmonia Gropius x Colress Keene (Not together anymore)

Euphemia Harmonia (Adopted by Hilbert and N)

Butch Cathcart x Cassidy

Mitch and Mera Cathcart

Todd Snap x Julie (Married)

James, Jamie & Madison Snap

Lysandre Allard x Concordia Harmonia

Moira Harmonia

Hugh Maes x Nate

Violet & Blake Maes

Rosa Weiss x Roxie

Patricia “ Patty “, Eliza’’ & Edric’’ Weiss

Iris x Benga Eales

Iona & Rex Eales

Cheren Griffith x Bianca

April, Cornelia, Corwin, Darrell & Luna Griffith

Rudy Gate x Trip

Davena & Bruno Gate

Stephan Tayler x Heidi

Max, Sophie & Kelly Tayler

Georgia Morgan

Gregory Morgan

Elesa Melbourne x Skyla

Skyler, Taran, Audra & Vetra

Brycen x Burgh Kersey

Lorraine, Colleen, Terrence, Travis Kersey

Marlon Raine x Kelly

Ariel and Clyde Raine

Caitlin Everett x Shauntal

Emaline’’, Emilio’’, Farrell & Atlas Everett

Newton Graceland

Lawton and Martha Graceland

Lysandre Allard x Celosia ( TBD)

Sarah Allard

Rei Eto x Yui (Married)

Akiko Eto

Akari Berlitz x Junko (Married)

Yuri and Yumi Berlitz

Volo Reiss

Verna Reiss

Adaman Hishikawa x Hayami (Married)

Akemi, Haru and Honoka Hishikawa

Mai Okumura x Jiro (Married)

Fujitsu and Kenzo Okumura

Arezu Akamine x Kimiko (Married)

Ezume Akamine

Iscan x Palina Magnolia (Married)

Rosianna Magnolia

Irida x Fredrick Castillon (Married)

Akane Castillon

Professor Laventon x his wife (Married)

Maria Laventon

Cyllene Caddel x Daichi (Married, Daichi is dead)

Cora Caddel

Melli x Ingo Collett

Tokiko’’, Tomiko’’, Kenji’’, Kentaro’’ & Etsuko Collett

Tucker x Avery Hackney

Arthur Hackney

Shielbert x Avery Hackney

Cordelia Hackney

Giovanni Forte x Rena

Giana Forte

Lily Lynde x Hannah

Tulip & Roland Lynde

Lara Laramie

Michael Laramie

Regina Mills x Jeremy

Garrett, Kaylie & James Mills

Valerie Bristol x Evelyn Desmond

Daphnis, Alette, Elros & Aine Bristol

Florian Villatoro x Kieran

Valeria Villatoro

Luna Blackthorn x Yellow

Tea Blackthorn

Aria Daviau

Daphné Daviau

Professor Samuel Oak x Elisa

Willow Oak

Celio x Lanette Bailey Lindsey, Booker & Ashton Bailey

Forrest Harrison x Maizie Oscar & Carl Harrison

Quillon Mittelman x Petrel Amber Mittelman

Quillon Mittelman x Danika Allegra & Marcus Mittelman

Morgan Desmond x Bridgette Bailey Marsha Desmond

Sordward x Sonia Emily, Mary, Lawrence, Annabelle and Garrett Magnolia

Lizabeth Blair x Christie

Marina & Danny Blair

(Will update more later)

#pkmn fankids #Lists #Families

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captainlordauditor · 5 years

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dog-of-ulthar replied to your post “have you heard about the BOYS with the NEWS? they got names that...”

-shoving Blind Lemming Chiffon behind a chair- I don't know what you're talking about

Today my sister told me that she thought Bugsy was just a regular ol yiddish name. “You know, like the mobster, Bugsy Malone!”

Needless to say, I found this hilarious.

#dog-of-ulthar #dendarii.orig #dendarii.txt #11th #January #2019 #January 11th 2019 #our bugsy is not a filker but he is a connie so it counts #replies

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soitsashowpodcast · 4 years

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ep. 77: Bada bing! All over his nice Ivy League suit. (The Godfather)

Bada bing! Is this the most-referenced piece of pop culture on Gilmore Girls? While we’re focusing on one reference in the only Emmy-winning episode of our favorite show, we can’t ignore how many times The Godfather has gotten a shout-out. What did the real mafia think of this movie? Why did it have so much Oscar controversy? And how do the Corleones compare to the Gilmores? We complete the Holy Film Trio by covering this classic, its history, and a bunch of other pop culture picks that reference it until we run out of quotes just like Lorelai.

Other pop culture we ref: Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Misery, Mommie Dearest, The Outsiders, Errol Flynn, Claude Monet, You’ve Got Mail, Frank Sinatra, Zootopia, Modern Family, Tuck Everlasting, Parks & Recreation, The Rainmaker, Avengers: Endgame, The Irishman

LISTEN TO THE EP

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And here are handy links if you want to listen to our episodes about the other movies in the Holy Film Trio:

ep. 16: I screwed up their big Citizen Kane plans

ep. 19: Louis, I think this is the beginning of a wonderful friendship (Casablanca)

EVERY EPISODE OF GILMORE GIRLS WE COULD FIND THAT REFERENCES THE GODFATHER

117 - “Hey, it sleeps with the fishes.”

205 - “But what if he turns out to be Fredo?”

210 - “We were supposed to watch a lot of movies and make fun of Godfather III.”

214 - “Whack you with a cannoli? Oh, because he left the gun and took the cannoli.”

216 - “it’s in the Luca Brasi-mobile out front.”

302 - “Saying yes to this lunch with my mother is like saying, ‘Sounds fun!’ to a ride with Clemenza.”

311 - “We’ll have it in an Italian restaurant. You’ll get up, go to the bathroom, and come out shooting, and then I’ll send you to Italy.”

401 - “We'll do Godfather I through "Monday, Tuesday, Thursday," and a quick Sofia dying.”

404 - “You have to learn to separate the personal from the business.”

406 - “Every family has a Fredo.”

407 - “Bada-bing! All over his nice Ivy League suit.”

509 - “This is the fish on the doorstep. It's the horse head in the bed. It's the ‘either your signature or your brains are going to be on the contract.’”

517 - “At least I didn't ask you for a favor on this, the day of our daughter's wedding.”

602 - “I'm gonna be like Michael Corleone dealing with that slimy brother-in-law of his.”

604 - “Godmother, huh? Did you make her an offer she couldn't refuse?”

605 - “I know, but this is business. It's not personal.”

606 - “You know the old saying: Cross the Don in the morning, sleep with the fishes in the afternoon.”

610 - “Godfather it up for me.”

621 - “Did you get Clemenza to hide a gun in the bathroom first?”

718 - “He’s basically the Mayor of Stars Hollow and Don Corleone all wrapped up into one.”

AYITL: Summer - “My wife is crying upstairs. I can hear cars coming in the house. Consigliere of mine, I think it's time you tell your Don what everyone seems to know.”AYITL: Fall - “I just upped and pulled a Bugsy Siegel and made 'em an offer they couldn't refuse.”

MORE ABOUT THE GODFATHER

"101 Greatest Screenplays: The Godfather,” WGA.org

TCM entry

New York Times review (1972)

Connie Chung interviews Marlon Brando (1989)

Roger Ebert review (1997)

MORE ABOUT THE GODFATHER IN POP CULTURE

The Godfather therapy on SNL (1976)

Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks discuss what the deal is with men and The Godfather in You’ve Got Mail (1998)

Barack Obama does his impression of Marlon Brando in The Godfather (2008)

Modern Family spoofs The Godfather (2013)

Zootopia spoofs The Godfather (2016)

#The Godfather #Gilmore Girls #Rory Gilmore #Alexis Bledel #Al Pacino #Marlon Brando #Francis Ford Coppola #Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life #Gilmore Girls Revival

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devilsknotrp · 5 years

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Congratulations, Ruby! You have been accepted for the role of Connie Romano (FC: Natasha Liu Bordizzo). My God, you understand Connie perfectly. Everything, from your writing sample to your headcanons, fundamentally demonstrated how much thought you’d put into her and how she will relate to the other characters in play. I think you emphasised her softness - and though it would have been too easy to make her too gentle, you struck just the right balance between her sensitivity for others and her quiet resolve. Connie might be uncertain, but she’s not always a pushover. You also dealt with the theme of peer pressure really well. We’d love to see her continue to struggle with that as the group develops, especially because, at some point, she will have to make a choice... Altogether a wonderful application. Please have a look at this page prior to sending in your account.

OUT OF CHARACTER

Name: Ruby Age: 19 Pronouns: She/her Timezone: NZST Activity estimation: I’m enrolled full-time in university so my workload fluctuates week-to-week. I don’t like to really estimate activity because I can’t make promises that it will always remain the same. But I do strive to be active to some extent at least once a day. Triggers: [Redacted]

IN CHARACTER

Name: Connie Denise Romano constancy // devoted to Bacchus // from Rome Age (DD/MM/YYY): 20th of July 1978. CANCER sun, AQUARIUS moon, SCORPIO rising, VIRGO venus. Gender: Cis female Pronouns: She/her Sexuality: Bisexual. Connie has uncomplicated feelings about her sexuality. It has always just been something that has existed within her, devoid of complication, unlike much else of her psyche; she is constantly plagued by complicated feelings about everything else. But she has always known she’s had crushes on girls and on boys. It’s not something she’s ever come out and said to anyone, but she thinks she’d be at peace with it if it came out, or if she dated a girl. It doesn’t seem like a secret that needs to be hidden, but she hides it anyway. She hides a lot of things.

Occupation: High School Senior; aspiring NYU theatre applicant – eventually she wants to be a theatre actress, possibly film but she has no real overwhelming desire for the need to be seen like that. She definitely wants to venture into filmmaking and screenwriting; she has hoards over unfinished manuscripts stuffed in her drawers, most are roles she writes for herself.

Connection to Victim: Brian Goode had always been a bright kid. Connie remembers him in snippets: riding his bike down the street, or down at the arcade, or talking with David. That’s the real thread of connection she has to Brian. David. Connie has always liked David. He’s always kind and she sits next to him in a few of the classes they share together. She had only seen him as a sort-of-maybe friend until he asked her out. Taken by surprise, she had awkwardly turned him down, fumbling her way through an excuse. Connie had still felt too new then, too hurt by everything that had gone down, and David was sweet; she wasn’t ready for sweet. But then it was like he was everywhere, and now she can’t help but look for him in every crowd, or think about what he might say about something. It’s only a small crush, but it makes her feel young and alive and a little shy. Now she feels like they share something. There are moments since Brian’s disappeared that she’s thought about telling David she understands, but that would mean opening up about the gruesome crime, and that’s the secret she holds closest to her chest. Instead, she bakes cookies for his family and has spent time trying to be there for him. As a friend. But she can’t shake the feeling that Brian’s disappearance is connected to her own family’s murder. She’s terrified of what it all means, and she’s determined to help discover what really happened.

Alibi: What were they doing the afternoon Brian Goode disappeared?

Connie had been in the theatre room when Brian Goode disappeared.

“What were you doing?”

“I was practicing my monologue. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte.”

Pause. “It’s Catherine’s bit. You know, I wouldn’t be you for a kingdom!”

“Was anyone else there?”

“It was just me.”

“And what time did you arrive? Did anybody see you? When did you leave? Can anyone confirm that you were there?”

“I must have gotten there at around 2? I’m not sure, sorry. I think I got home around 8? My brother saw me. Em. He was there when I got home. I don’t know if anyone else saw me,” Connie shrugs, “maybe a teacher? I’m sure someone would have been working.”

Connie had been on a bus back from Sioux Falls. Two days earlier she had lied to Emilio and told him she was going to be staying at a friend’s house, throwing out Kelly Shah’s name. Then she hopped on a bus and headed back to her hometown. In the mail she had received a curious post-card, a simple I’m so sorry, baby in sloppy handwriting she could only guess was her mothers. Her bones trembling she had made the snap decision to go back to Sioux Falls. It had her grandma’s old address scribbled as the return address. Her mom must want her to come home. And Connie needed answers, security, her mom.

But Sioux Falls didn’t provide any answers; just dead-ends. Her mom wasn’t there and all that lingered was an air of misery. She walked around the block she grew up and bought a milkshake from Bugsy’s and cried behind her school’s old shed. It felt like a million years ago that she had lived there. And it felt like just yesterday her parents had been brutally slaughtered.

She had gotten on the first bus back to Devil’s Knot after that. She was never going to know what had happened to her parents. She was never going to know where her mom went. She was never going to fully belong to this world. But she could go home and laugh until her stomach hurt with Em.

Her bus had pulled up in Devil’s Knot at around 6PM. When had Brian gone missing again? Connie hadn’t gone home straight away. She got off the bus and headed out to “The Clearing” – she had been to countless parties there, fooled around with boys she wasn’t interested in, spent hours practicing her scripts. The creepiness that lived there felt safe to her, somehow. It felt like a loose connection to her own trauma. She couldn’t visit the site her parents had been murdered at, but she could find solace in the space another gruesome crime had taken place. She was a little entranced by the mystery of the case, wanting desperately to be able to bury herself in the facts and knowledge of the Silverman legend since she couldn’t know the details of her own.

Connie didn’t spend long there. She sat on one of the couches and cried until she felt okay enough to clip on her happy, cheerful, popular girl façade and she went home. All the lights were off by the time she returned to their little suburban home. Em tried. But sometimes Connie just wanted to scream out at the absurdity of trying to build a life while they ignored their past. He wasn’t home. He didn’t see her coming in. But it didn’t matter, he’d protect her.

Connie doesn’t know why she lies but she can’t take it back once it’s out of her mouth. Maybe it’s to protect her mom, or maybe it’s to protect her past, or maybe it is to protect herself. Wouldn’t people see her differently if they knew the truth of where she had come from? Couldn’t they suspect her? She knew how mass hysteria worked. She was an intelligent girl.

Faceclaim: Natasha Liu Bordizzo

WRITING SAMPLE

Connie’s got her legs splayed out on the floor of the drama room. Her knee jutted out at an awkward angle, her thigh starting to cramp. Fingers raking through sheets upon sheets of discarded scripts. All the words are blurring together. Either she can’t concentrate or she’s started to cry. Connie feels so detached from her body that she couldn’t tell you which one it is.

It makes her feel a little sick, being squashed up in this room. It used to be her sanctuary. If Devil’s Knot was starting to overwhelm her, the past sneaking up in her mind, her friends starting to drive her stir-crazy – she could always escape here. An easy lie tossed over her shoulder, ‘You know I have to practice!’ and then she’d indulge herself in reading scripts, curled up in the disgusting bacteria-ridden green couch in the corner. The room was nearly always empty, save for a few other theatre kids who’d come and go from time-to-time. But Connie had started to learn the hours in which they came and went, always aiming to be there by herself. From 11am to 1PM was usually a safe bet if she wanted some time for herself.

But now she’s sitting on the cold floor and her stomach is doing somersaults. She’s almost certain she’s going to be sick soon. Her breakfast making its way back up. She can’t stop thinking about Brian. That cute little kid just gone. His name on the tip of everyone’s tongues, the stifling silence around his disappearance, the haunted clutch-hold his presence has had on this town. Connie knows all the rumours about the past tragedies, she had studied up on the Silverman case as best as she could before arriving, and then the gaps had been filled in by eager classmates ready to divulge all the sick, twisted mysteries Devil’s Knot had to cough up.

She sees her Dad’s mangled body. Her stepmom’s headstone. Her mom’s own vanishing from her life. Connie knows all about tragedies and mysteries and satanic ritual cult bullshit. Part of her feels like a bad luck magnet. She’s been reading the same line on the script Mrs Rubens had written for her for half-an-hour. Fed up, she crumples it up in her hand and throws it across the room. Some days she wishes it was acceptable to screech until her lungs hurt. Connie has this sudden overwhelming desire to douse herself in gasoline and sink under water. To throw her body across the room and see how it lands. But instead she presses her lips together and lifts her body up off of the ground. Does a quick stretch to release the tension building in her muscles and fetches the screwed up piece of paper from across the other side of the room.

She just hopes Brian isn’t suffering. She wonders if it would be better if he was found dead or alive. Is he being tortured? She’s read all the books on satanic cults. She’s not sure if she believes in any of what they say – the sex orgies and torture and animal sacrifices. It was all started from puritanical religious ideologies. But part of her does wonder. She wasn’t allowed to see the case files from her parents murder but she knows it was something satanic. Connie shakes her head in an effort to rid her head of the thoughts, threading her fingers through her hair and brushing out any knots that have gathered. Shut up, brain! She wants to yell. It’s always going too fast for her liking. Her brain is still stuck on Brian as she goes to twist open the door to leave. He was such a sweet kid, and even if he wasn’t, no-one deserves to go missing. It’s horrific.

She checks the time on one of the clocks hanging up on the wall before she leaves. If she hurries she might catch some of her crowd still at Patsy’s Diner. She doubts she could keep any food down, but they’re all expecting her. Connie doesn’t know if she can handle having to talk about the case like it’s an enthralling gossip fest tonight, sometimes she wonders if her friends have any hearts at all or if they’re all made of ice. But she plasters on a bright mega-watt, charming smile and works herself into a happy state of mind.

It’s easy to pretend. But she wonders how long she has left until she falls apart at the seams she’s meticulously stitched herself together with. It’s starting to feel like any minute this wild wolf within her will be unleashed. The days are become longer, more tightly coiled around her, and there’s still no sign of a missing child. It’s not normal. Connie isn’t sure how to act like everything can still be the same when something so sinister has taken place…again. In this town, in her life.

She pulls a piece of gum out of her bag, a simple black square shoulder bag she’d picked up as a treat for herself last week, before all this chaos had been unleashed. Carefully she unwraps the mint flavoured piece of gum and pops it in her mouth, throwing the wrapper away in the nearest bin. The act of chewing soothes her nerves, the pop of flavour giving her something more interesting to taste than the rising vomit trying to push itself out of her.

ANYTHING ELSE?

NOTE: Since a lot of Connie’s life is entwined with Emilio’s, I’ve taken a lot of liberties in imagining what her childhood and present day living situation etc. looks like! This would be fleshed out better in conjunction with Emilio’s player & story, obviously, if I was accepted.

BIOGRAPHY.

BEFORE.

Connie Denise Romano was born on the twentieth of July, 1978, as the clock struck a quarter past three in the afternoon, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Her parents were on the brink of a divorce, Grease was still on top of the charts and the stage had been set for her arrival.

Her birth mom was a loose cannon, a firecracker, a live-wire. Connie remembers being enamoured by her, wide-eyed, watching her mom flit around their living room in her dressing gown, belting out Call Me by Blondie, drenched head to toe from the rain outside. But she also remembers the screams in the middle of the night, the long periods of time where she’d disappear for, the terse fights between her parents in their living room at one in the morning. By the time Connie was six her mom, Annie, had left for good.

Emilio will never understand that part of her: the sliver of Annie that lives underneath her skin, that aches to come crawling out on the middle of the stage, the screeched monologues where she shuts her eyes and channels the energy of the woman who’s DNA runs through her. Emilio’s mom is lovely, he’ll never wonder if she was responsible for the murders. It haunts her at night sometimes, a bubbling question mark underneath the surface of her skin. Her memories are clipped, dream-like, half the time she wonders if Annie wasn’t even half the nightmare she remembers her to be; sometimes she’s curious if she was worse, and sometimes she swears these bursts of anger that flare up within her are from her.

It was just Connie and her dad for a while then. He was her best friend, her confidant, her hero who could do no wrong. He tried to teach her to be fierce and resilient in the face of danger, strong and confident and sure of herself, but that’s just not the kind of kid she was. Connie was shy, she was bright and personable around the right people, but she always fit in better at the adult table than the kids table. Clinging to her Dad’s leg at parties, mumbling her name when asked, declining the offer of a birthday party. He enrolled her in drama classes to help ease her out of her shell, or maybe, because he was scared she had that same pent up energy bubbling under her and he wanted her to have a healthy outlet to channel it into. It didn’t matter, she fell into the role of theatre like she was born for the stage.

He remarried when she was ten. Connie had craved a mom so badly, she had spent every night praying at the altar of her bed to stars for one. This intense, sensitive desire that ran through her to be loved. Julia was kind and she took her shopping and they had movie dates, just the two of them, together on the weekends but Connie could still sense the distance. Julia was marrying her Dad, not her. She liked being an easy kid, knew even then how to shut up and play the right part. She went along with being tolerated and not loved. It was an easy role to play.

Her journey into adolescence was rocky. Connie didn’t know how to fit in at first. Her mind has always jumped miles ahead, inquisitive and adept at reading her own emotions. She struggled through middle-school, teetering on the edge of a million different friend groups, playing the shy girl, the weird girl, the outcast girl, the friendly girl, the popular girl; she kind of knew everyone, and no-one ever really knew her. It wasn’t the way she preferred it, her bones ached for settlement but all she could find was restlessness.

In her first year of high school she had no-one. She struggled to make friends in Sioux Falls. The same people she had known her entire life flitted in and out of her life like revolving figures in a play, she reached out to grasp them and they all just slipped away. Her friendships grew away from her, their common interests and shared histories fading into oblivion to make room for those awkward silences of knowing there’s no mutual understanding left anymore. It had left her sad, but Connie always moved on from everything without pushing it, a smile on her face. It was all for her to digest silently, not in a fit of rage.

She made friends in her sophomore year: a bad crowd, her dad had called them. It had been her rebellious stage. Connie had quietly embarked on a journey of destroying herself for fun. It was the year she began to detest everything inside of her. Her insides recoiled and she couldn’t stand to look at herself in the mirror. Every morning she woke up fatigued and nauseous with the thought of having to exist in the world. She had met Peter in one of her drama classes. He was older, and he smoked, and his friends liked to go out to the woods late at night. He kissed her and she felt like she was permanent, her feet stuck firmly on the ground. Then he’d go days without calling her and she’d let herself go stir crazy inside her own brain. They never got up to anything wild. It was never that sort of rebellious phase. Connie would just hang out past her curfew with them, smoking cigarettes she hated the taste of, laughing along when the boys wrestled on the ground.

But by junior year they were gone and she was stuck with herself again. And then her world got shifted upside down.

DURING.

They are hazy memories she can’t quite recollect. A bad dream she tends to forget about. Connie liked to buy the cover-up of a random attack. It goes down better for her. Peter had called her afterwards, to ask if it was satanic, he talked her ear off about the occult. Connie didn’t care. She pushed the event to the back of her brain and reworked herself into a new woman. This would not define her. It would not become her. It is always on her mind.

Police officers. Lawyers. Social workers. God, the fucking social workers. Connie remembers them all in bits and pieces, like watching a film she’s only half interested in. The open mouths, the silent words, the folded up case files she couldn’t look at. The funeral. The faux sympathies from her classmates. The rancid vomit she would throw up every night.

Emilio filed for custody of her and they moved to Devil’s Knot to start a new life.

Connie made herself a list of rules before leaving: no-one was going to know about what had happened, she was going to find herself with a group of friends, she was going to stop thinking about her missing mom and her dead dad, she was going to stop hurting herself for fun. Her life was going to become easy, despite everything.

AFTER.

Emilio is all she has left. He’s quickly turned into her best friend, the only person in the world she thinks she trusts, but it still makes her stomach twist and turn when she remembers he’s responsible for her. He’s overprotective sometimes, and she’s gotten good at lying to even him. It just doesn’t feel like this is her life sometimes.

It would have been easy to fade into the background. Connie has been doing it her whole life. She’s too quiet, sometimes, and her head is always racing too far ahead. She’s always caught up in her own little world. Entering Devil’s Knot she thought she’d immediately fall in with the outcasts. That’s where she belongs, right? But instead she was easily swept up by the most popular kids in school. She doesn’t know how it happened. One minute she was nervously getting ready for her first day, freaking out, and the next she was being pulled along by Kelly Shah.

It had been nice at first, to belong somewhere. There are moments she genuinely appreciates her friends. Then there are moments she feels like such an imposter it makes her want to scream. They don’t know the first thing about her and Connie doesn’t see the point in putting on appearances, it’s starting to wear her down. All she wanted was to live a normal, boring life. But she’s starting to see it’s going to be very hard to achieve that.

Especially with Brian now missing. It feels like only the start of something deeply sinister.

HEADCANNONS.

i. Connie’s wardrobe consists of lots of turtlenecks, solid colours, lilac cardigans, lots of miniskirts, chunky boots that hit right under the knee, navy track pants with stripes down the side, lots of sweater vests, mood rings, flower and butterfly charms and hair-clips, empire waist dresses, low heels, plaid patterns, her favourite cream and baby pink floral long skirt, cropped chunky cable knit sweaters, floral patterns. Her main colour combinations are: black, lilac, peach, navy and red.

ii. Her top artists of the year have to be Alanis Morissette, Goo Goo Dolls, The Smashing Pumpkins, TLC, Oasis, No Doubt, Aaliyah, Hole, Jewel, Bikini Kill, Madonna, Fiona Apple, Modest Mouse, Bjork and Belle and Sebastian.

iii. Connie is a major fan of The X Files. The week Brian Goode went missing was the first episode she had missed since her dad’s death.

iv. Her other staple favourite shows are: Seinfeld, the newly airing Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Beverly Hills, 90210 (she’s a secret Brenda Walsh fan; like she just gets it), Party of Five, The Nanny, Melrose Place and My So Called Life.

v. Connie had been a feverish reader in her youth, devouring all the books she could get her hands on. Her dad had said her mom used to love to read. It had bought her closer to her somehow. But then she hit fourteen and couldn’t stand the sight of words. It’s only after her dad’s death that she’s been getting back into reading again.

vi. Connie hated hiking before her parents died. Now it’s one of her favourite secret hobbies.

vii. She loves to bake.

viii. She had been obsessed with the O.J. Simpson case the year before.

ix. She had bought all the Satanic ritual books she could grab her hands on right after the murder. Everyone wanted to shield her from the truth but she needed to know. Nobody would tell her anything so she had to find out for herself.

x. There is something about ‘The West Memphis Three’ that unsettles her. She has to look away every-time they’re brought up.

xi. She’s a social drinker but a secret smoker. It’s only habitual, a stress-reliever, the only tie she has left to Peter and his crowd. Em has no idea.

xii. Her day-to-day life has been very boring lately: school, theatre practice, listening to what everyone else is doing and going along with the crowd.

EXPANDED CONNECTIONS.

i. EMILIO: It’s funny how quickly tragedy can bond you. Connie has always looked up to Em. He’s her big brother, how could she not? They were as close as they could be, considering the age gap and the intervals of missing time between visits. He was still her big brother and she still wanted him to like her and he still annoyed her constantly. But now he’s all she has left in this world. Her very best friend. Her guardian, now responsible for her well-being. It’s like walking a tight-rope with him sometimes. She loves him and she hates him all in the same breathe, and then she feels bad when she knows he’s just doing the best he can.

ii. HEATHER: Heather is unlike anyone Connie has ever met before. There is just something about them that draws Connie in. It’s electric. Their determination, drive, commitment…Connie envies and admires all of it. She thinks the world of them. The brightest part of her day is when they have debate or are studying together or Connie catches her eye from across the room. There’s just something about them that makes Connie glow warm and happy, inspires her to strive to be a better person.

iii. ELIAS: Connie immediately felt a connection to Elias as soon as she met him. He seems to be the only like-minded person in this town to her sometimes. He’s her trusted confidante when it comes to the arts. Some of the rumours about him have limited her from being able to develop a deeper friendship with him the way she wants, her group would just never allow it, but she always feels at peace in his presence and wishes she could just ditch her friends some days and hang out with Elias.

iv. DAVID: He hadn’t really made her radar, other than he was nice and new like she was, and they sat in the same classes together. But then he asked her out, and she turned him down, and now she can’t get him out of her mind. It’s only a small crush, not anything near what she feels for Heather, but it’s there all the same: blossoming in her chest. Since he’s asked her out, she feels like they’ve grown into better friends, and now with Brian missing…well, she’s been spending a lot more time with him.

v. KELLY: Kelly is probably the closest thing she has to a best friend here in Devil’s Knot. Connie both loves and loathes her. There are times where she swears it’s just the two of them against the world, a genuine, real friendship. And then Kelly goes and does something that completely makes Connie pause and wonder who the fuck this girl is. But at the end of the day, her arm is gonna be slung around hers, and they’re gonna giggle at the back of class together, and go shopping together, and Connie is gonna spend her weekends curled up in Kelly’s bed. There’s so much pressure that comes with being friends with Kelly Shah. It always feels like too much sometimes, like Connie is gonna mess up and get kicked out of town.

vi. HOMER, SAM: As much as Connie feels uncomfortable by being in the same group as the popular kids – there comes an immense amount of pressure and responsibility and anxiety with the job – she genuinely does like both Homer and Sam, even if sometimes she feels not good enough in the group or she questions what they’re doing, she thinks the two of them have good hearts and she finds her friendship with the two of them mostly an easy ride.

vii. MILTON: Connie secretly hates Milton. She can’t stand him. He makes her blood boil and rise and she has to bite her tongue every time he speaks. She doesn’t understand why Kelly is still with him at all.

PLOT POINTS.

I’d love to see Connie somehow get tied up in the Chapter business through Em; I don’t see her being truly a part of it, but I think it could be fun to explore maybe her opposition to it and how that affects her relationship with Emilio.

An exploration of the Sioux Falls drama and how that ties into Devil’s Knot’s mystery, if it does at all.

Her complicated relationship with her birth mother – possibly going to see Karen Shah to deal with it or going to see Karen Shah regardless, actually. I’d also love to see Connie trying to find a mother figure through some of the other women in town. It’s something that she’s always desperately been searching for.

I can definitely see her getting involved and trying to figure out what happened to Brian since her own past is still a mystery. It’s going to be easier for her to try and get the truth out of a situation she’s removed from while still feeling like she’s gaining peace of mind from her own trauma. I can see this leading her to work with the younger kids or some of the past generation that was involved in the Silverman case.

I’d also really love to see some sort of connection to Pete Silverman. I think they’d both be characters who carry a lot of guilt. Pete, for his past. And Connie, for the past she’s hiding. Somehow they’re very different but feel similar.

I’d also love for her to get involved in Brian’s disappearance through her lie about her alibi – did someone see her on that bus? Did someone see her out in the clearing? Does someone know about Sioux Falls? I’d love for her past and her lies to come unravelling.

I think a lot of constant themes have popped up in this app with Connie – her past, her commitment to theatre and the arts, her sense of being lost and not belonging, curiosity / avoidance about satanic rituals, her need to belong somewhere, guilt / regret / avoidance / overthinking, her ties to her different family relationships, the friendships she’s made here – I think these are all important parts of her that will be explored in various different ways and plots. I think my overarching goal for Connie as a singular person, not involved within the mystery, would be for her to find a true sense of belonging and confidence rather than playing the role of whoever is wanted from who in that moment. Connie needs to discover who she is.

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BOB HOPE'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH LUCY

September 23, 1989

Produced & Directed by Ellen Brown

Written by Robert L. Mills, Martha Bolton, Jeffrey Barron

Lucille Ball (Archival Footage) was born on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. She began her screen career in 1933 and was known in Hollywood as ‘Queen of the B’s’ due to her many appearances in ‘B’ movies. With Richard Denning, she starred in a radio program titled “My Favorite Husband” which eventually led to the creation of “I Love Lucy,” a television situation comedy in which she co-starred with her real-life husband, Latin bandleader Desi Arnaz. The program was phenomenally successful, allowing the couple to purchase what was once RKO Studios, re-naming it Desilu. When the show ended in 1960 (in an hour-long format known as “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour”) so did Lucy and Desi’s marriage. In 1962, hoping to keep Desilu financially solvent, Lucy returned to the sitcom format with “The Lucy Show,” which lasted six seasons. She followed that with a similar sitcom “Here’s Lucy” co-starring with her real-life children, Lucie and Desi Jr., as well as Gale Gordon, who had joined the cast of “The Lucy Show” during season two. Before her death in April 1989, Lucy made one more attempt at a sitcom with “Life With Lucy,” also with Gordon, which was not a success and was canceled after just 13 episodes.

TRIBUTES BY

Bob Hope (Himself, Host) was born Lesley Townes Hope in England in 1903. During his extensive career in virtually all forms of media he received five honorary Academy Awards. In 1945 Desi Arnaz was the orchestra leader on Bob Hope’s radio show. Ball and Hope did four films together. He appeared as himself on the season 6 opener of “I Love Lucy.” He did a brief cameo in a 1964 episode of “The Lucy Show.” When Lucille Ball moved to NBC in 1980, Hope appeared on her welcome special. He died in 2003 at age 100.

George Burns (Himself) was born Nathan Birnbaum in New York City in January 1896. He married Gracie Allen in 1926 and the two formed an act (Burns and Allen) that toured in vaudeville. They had their own hit show “The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show” first on radio then on CBS TV from 1950 to 1958, airing concurrently with “I Love Lucy.” He appeared as himself on “The Lucy Show” (S5;E1) in 1966 as well as doing a cameo on “Lucy and Jack Benny's Biography” (HL S3;E11) in 1970. After Allen’s death in 1964, Burns reinvented himself as a solo act. In 1976 he won an Oscar for playing one of The Sunshine Boys. He was also known for playing the title role in Oh, God! (1978) and its 1984 sequel Oh, God! You Devil. Burns and Ball appeared on many TV variety and award shows together. He died at the age of 100.

Danny Thomas (Himself) was born Amos Muzyad Yakhoob Kairouz in 1912. His screen career began in 1947 but he was most famous for appearing on television in the long-running show “Make Room for Daddy” (1953-64), which was shot at Desilu Studios. When the series moved from ABC to CBS in 1957, Thomas and the cast starred in a rare TV cross-over with “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” titled “Lucy Makes Room for Danny.” In return, Lucy and Desi turned up on Thomas’s show. Fifteen years later, Lucy and Danny did yet another cross-over when Lucy Carter of “Here’s Lucy” appeared on “Make Room for Granddaddy.” In addition, Thomas also played an aging artist on a 1973 episode of “Here’s Lucy.” Thomas is fondly remembered for founding St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He is also father to actress Marlo Thomas. He died in 1999.

Betty White (Herself) was born in 1922 and has the longest career of any female entertainer. She is probably best known as Rose Nylund on “The Golden Girls” and Sue Ann Nivens on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Although White and Ball never acted together, the two appeared several times on “Password,” one of Lucy's favorite game shows. It was originally hosted by White's husband, Alan Ludden. She last shared the “Password” panel with Lucy in November 1988, just six months before Ball's death.

Kirk Cameron (Himself) was the star of ABC's hit show “Growing Pains.” He appeared with Lucille Ball on three other Bob Hope specials from 1986 to 1988.

Les Brown and His Band of Renown (Orchestra) were the musical guests on the 1956 “The Bob Hope Chevy Show” that satirized “I Love Lucy” with Hope playing Ricky Ricardo.

John Harlan (Announcer)

ARCHIVE FOOTAGE

Doris Singleton (as Doris from “The Bob Hope Christmas Special” ~ December 9, 1973)

Gary Morton (as Himself from “The Bob Hope Christmas Special” ~ December 9, 1973)

Bobby Jellison (as a Gangster from “The Bob Hope Show” ~September 24, 1962)

Desi Arnaz (as Fred Mertz from “The Bob Hope Chevy Show” ~ October 6, 1956)

Vivian Vance (as Ethel Mertz from “The Bob Hope Chevy Show” ~ October 6, 1956)

William Frawley (as Captain Blystone from “The Bob Hope Chevy Show” ~ October 6, 1956)

Vitto Scotti (as Carlo from The Facts of Life)

Peter Leeds (as Thompson from The Facts of Life)

Joe Ploski (as Man at Drive-In from The Facts of Life)

Mary Jane Saunders (as Martha Jane Smith from Sorrowful Jones)

This special aired on a Saturday evening at 10pm, traditionally a difficult time for television programs. Luckily, its lead-in was the season 5 premiere of the phenomenally successful “The Golden Girls” (also featuring Betty White) which led the evening with a 23.5 share. “Bob Hope's Love Affair With Lucy” came in second, with a respectable 19.3. It was up against College Football on ABC. Because the special was 90 minutes and started on the half hour, its competition on CBS was the last half hour of “Tour of Duty” (season 3 premiere) and the series premiere of “Saturday Night With Connie Chung.”

Because this special aired on NBC, no scenes from any of Lucille Ball's CBS sitcoms (or “Life with Lucy” on ABC) were included. Kirk Cameron was an ABC star, but worked on several of Hope's NBC specials. Although Betty White never acted with Lucille Ball, the pair enjoyed an off-stage friendship. White also was a perfect tie-in to keep “The Golden Girls” fans tuned after the sitcom's season opener. Although Burns and Thomas both worked on screen with Lucy, no clips of their collaborations were used. Also conspicuously missing is Gale Gordon, who was part of Lucille Ball's career since her days on radio.

[For more information about the clips, click on the hyperlinks, where available.]

BOB HOPE

The special opens with a montage of clips of Lucille Ball's entrances on Bob Hope's specials, underscored by the “I Love Lucy Theme.” After a quick commercial break, Bob Hope enters to the sounds of his theme song “Thanks for the Memory.”

Hope: “Lucy handled the media and television like she handled everything else, with grace and style and a richness of color that didn't need any help from the peacock.”

The ‘peacock’ Hope is referring to is the NBC logo. Lucille Ball left CBS for NBC in 1980, but the move resulted in only one TV special (“Lucy Moves To NBC”), one failed pilot (“Bungle Abbey”) and multiple appearances on Bob Hope's specials.

The first clip in the 90-minute tribute is from “The Bob Hope Christmas Special” (December 9, 1973). Ball and Hope play themselves in a sketch about a misunderstanding surrounding an expensive ring he's bought for his wife, but sent to Lucy's home for safe keeping. Naturally, Lucy thinks it's for her. The clip features appearances by long-time Lucy character actress Doris Singleton and Lucy's husband Gary Morton.

DANNY THOMAS

Danny Thomas calls Lucy his 'landlady' because “Make Room for Daddy” was shot at Desilu Studios. He tells a funny anecdote from when Ball appeared on his short-lived sitcom “The Practice” in 1976.

Thomas: “When I worked on her show, she did most of the directing. And when she did my show... she did most of the directing.”

Thomas talks about of their working relationship. He says that despite their great friendship, Lucy would not divulge her age, even to him.

In a voice over, Bob Hope introduces a black and white clip of a sketch from “The Bob Hope Show” (October 24, 1962). In it Lucy plays a District Attorney and Bob a gangster named Bugsy Hope. The 1962 clip edits out a bit that was frighteningly prescient. A spray of gunfire comes through the window and Lucy remarks “Just what I wanted, a Jackie Kennedy hairdo.” Considering the tragic events of November 1963, this clearly could not be aired in 1989. Another change involves music royalties: in the original, Lucy makes her entrance into Bugsy's flat to the tune of David Rose's “The Stripper” (released in 1962) but in 1989 it is replace by a similar sounding piece of music.

Bugsy Hope: “I don't usually go for flatfeet, but the rest of you kind of makes up for it.” DA Lucy: “I don't usually go for hoods, but you could use one.”

In the sketch, Hope makes Lucy laugh and drop character several times, a rarity for Ball.

KIRK CAMERON

Kirk Cameron (who had just turned 18) says that the first time he met Lucille Ball on a May 1987 Bob Hope show at an Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina. On a subsequent Hope special, Lucy needed a stand-in to take a pie in the face and chose Cameron. He was unsure if it was an honor or payback for making her wait outside her dressing room to meet him the year before.

Cameron: “I think that I speak for a lot of people my age when I say that I love Lucy.”

The next clip is the satire of “I Love Lucy” featuring the entire original cast (plus Hope and Tommy the trained seal). In “The Bob Hope Chevy Show” (October 6, 1956), Hope introduces the sketch as himself wondering what it would be like if he had married Lucy instead of Desi. It is presented in its original black and white, although it was later colorized for a video release. Not coincidentally, five days earlier the sixth and final season of “I Love Lucy” began airing with “Lucy and Bob Hope” (S6;E1).

GEORGE BURNS

George Burns affectionately recalls how Lucy was in show business 24 hours a day. He says that he was married to a comedienne (Gracie Fields) but she couldn’t have been more different than Lucy.

Burns: “Lucy was all of show business wrapped up in this charming lady.”

He remembers an appearance with Lucy when they sang “Lazy” by Irving Berlin. He sings a few bars. Burns says that he's booked to play the Palladium in London when he turns 100. Although he did live to 100, his health declined at age 98 and this booking never came to pass.

Bob's voice over introduces a couple of scenes from The Facts of Life, a black and white film that Hope and Ball did for United Artists in 1960. In the scene Larry (Hope) and Kitty (Lucy) are on a fishing boat remembering old times when they realized they went to the same high school together. In the second clip, Kitty and Larry realize they can't play cards without their glasses, but they can't kiss with them on either. Finally, Larry and Kitty are kissing at the drive-in when they are spotted by the local dry cleaner. Lucy had just finished playing Lucy Ricardo, with the final episode of “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” airing in April 1960.

BETTY WHITE

To the accompaniment of “Thank You for Being a Friend” Golden Girl Betty White is introduced. She lists three-word TV titles of the '50s, “Our Miss Brooks,” “I Married Joan,” “Life with Elizabeth,” “Father Knows Best,” and “I Love Lucy.” White remembers that she shot her second series “Date With the Angels” at Desilu Studios and that is where she first met Lucy.

White: “I can still see her. Tall and built and she had a navy blue dress on with white polka dots and this hair that made it look like her head was on fire.”

White credits Lucille Ball with filming comedy using the three camera system and a studio audience. White's mother Tess and Lucy's mother Dede were great friends. Betty recalls the last time she saw Lucy, a week before she went into the hospital. She says she can still recall Lucy's deep and abundant laughter that night. White let's the audience know that they shoot “The Golden Girls” at the old Desilu lot.

Bob's voice introduces a clip from the film Fancy Pants (1950) with Bob Hope as Humphrey the butler and Lucy as Agatha, the daughter of the man he works for. This movie was made just before Lucille Ball got pregnant with her daughter Lucie, and before “I Love Lucy” was in development. At the time, Ball was starring on radio in “My Favorite Husband.”

Next is a dramatic scene from Sorrowful Jones, a film Hope and Ball did in 1949. Ball played Gladys and Hope was Sorrowful (aka Humphrey).

A clip from “Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC” (May 16, 1988) has Lucy singing “Comedy Ain't No Joke” by Cy Coleman and James Lipton.

This leads directly into Lucy as Sophie Tucker singing “Some of These Days” from “Bob Hope's All Star Comedy Tribute to Vaudeville” (May 25, 1977).

Lucy and Bob sing “I Remember It Well” by Frederick Loewe from “Bob Hope's High-Flying Birthday Extravaganza” (May 25, 1987). The song (originally from the film Gigi) has special lyrics with references to their legendary partnership including Fancy Pants and Facts of Life.

Finally, a clip of Lucy and Bob's last appearance together at the 61st Annual Academy Awards telecast (March 29, 1989). This was also Lucille Ball’s last public appearance.

In his final remarks, Hope works in mentions of two of Lucy's most memorable comedy bits from “I Love Lucy”: “Hollywood at Last!” (S4;E16) and “Lucy's Italian Movie” (S5;E23).

Hope: “Whether her nose caught fire or she was stomping grapes, Lucy got us all to laugh. Thanks Lucille, for making life a ball.”

The closing credits appear over stills of Lucy and Bob on TV, some of which were not included in the special.

This Date in Lucy History – September 23rd

“Mod, Mod Lucy” (HL S1;E1) – September 23, 1974

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Cloud’s list of LGBT+ headcanons, as of 2017

(Warning; its really long)

Includes, but not limited to…

Dangan Ronpa

-Makoto Naegi-Demisexual Panromantic

-Byakuya Togami-Placiosexual Reciproromantic (Genderfluid)

-Kiyotaka Ishimaru-Bi (Prefers men) (Trans man)

-Leon Kuwata-Polysexual (Genderfluid)

-Mondo Owada-Bi (Trans man)

-Kyoko Kirigiri-Pansexual Abroromantic (Demigirl)

-Aoi Asahina-Cupiosexual Lesbian

-Toko Fukawa-Abrosexual Quoiromantic (Juxera/Non Binary)

-Genocider Syo-Bi

-Sakura Oogami-Demisexual Panromantic

-Celestia Ludenberg-Polysexual (Genderflux)

-Mukuro Ikusaba-Pan (Genderfluid)

-Chihiro Fujisaki-Pan (Trans boy)

-Hajime Hinata-Bi (Demiboy)

-Nagito Komaeda-Pan (Bigender)

-Gundam Tanaka-Demi (Trans man)

-Kazuichi Souda-Abro (Polygender)

-Teruteru Hanamura-Pan

-Akane Owari-Abrosexual Greyromantic

-Chiaki Nanami-Asexual Panromantic

-Sonia Nevermind-Bi

-Mikan Tsumiki-Requies

-Mahiru Koizumi-Greysexual Demiromantic (preference for girls)

-Peko Pekoyama-Bisexual Demiromantic

-Ibuki Mioda-Pan

-Yuta Asahina-Asexual Biromantic

-Hiroko Hagakure-Placiosexual Panromantic

-Taichi Fujisaki-Fraysexual Lithromantic

Chiyoko Fujisaki-Bi

-Masaru Daimon-Bi

Jataro Kemuri-Pan (Genderfluid)

Nagisa Shingetsu-Polysexual Demiromantic (Non Binary)

Monaka-Cupiosexual Demiromantic

-Kyosuke Munakata-Bi

-Juzo Sakakura-Gay

-Chisa Yukizome-Akoisexual panromantic

-Seiko Kimura-Reciprosexual Lesbian

-Miaya Gekougahara-Autochorissexual Placioromantic (Trans woman)

-Suichii Saihara-Bi

-Kaito Momota-Gay (Trans man)

-Tenko Chabashira-Sapphic

-Kirumi Toujo-Aro/Ace (Non Binary)

-Gonta Gakuhara-Pan

Pokemon (Human characters)

-Red (In game)-Pan

-Green/Blue/Gary Oak-Bi

-Misty-Pan

-Erica-Asexual Lesbian (Trans woman)

-Sabrina-Bisexual Demiromantic (Juxera)

-Bill-Gay

-Janine-Bi

-Koga-Aroflux

-Daisy-Lesbian (Trans woman)

-Lance-Bi

-Silver-Bi

-Falkner-Pan

-Bugsy-Gay

-Morty-Bi

-Eusine-Gay

-Clair-Abro

-Will-Frayromantic (Agender)

-Karen-Placio

-Dahlia-Quoiromantic Lesbian

-Ariana-Bi

-Archie-Bi

-Maxie-Gay (Trans man)

-Wally-Apothisexual Cupioromantic

-Matt-Gay

-Shelly-Bi

-Courtney-Ply (Demigirl)

-Tabitha-Arovague

-Roxannne-Greysexual

-Flannery-Lesbian

-Tate-Asexual (Solarian)

-Liza-Aromantic (Lunarian)

-Steven Stone-Bi

-Wallace-Gay

-Aster-Bi

-Zinnia-Pan

-Cynthia-Bi

-Cyrus-Apothisexual

-Gardenia-Asexual Cupioromantic

-Roark-Polygender

-Fantina-Lesbian (Genderqueer)

-Candice-Bi

-Mars-Bi

-Jupiter-Pan

-Saturn-Bisexual Aromantic

-Lucien-Akoisexual Demiromantic (Non Binary)

-Cheren-Bi

-Bianca-Placiosexual Lesbian

-Aurea Juniper-Bisexual Cupioromantic

-N Harmonia-Reciprosexual Panromantic (Genderfluid)

-Anthea-Bi

-Concordia-Pan

-Chili-Gay

-Cress-Trigender

-Elesa-Bi

-Skyla-Greysexual

-Roxie-Bi (Trans girl)

-Iris-Pan

-Shauntel-Bi

-Caitlin-Lesbian (Lunarian)

-Colress-Aro/Ace (Stellarian)

-Augustine Sycamore-Bi

-Lysandre-Abro

-Malva-Bisexual Quoiromantic

-Bryony-Bi

-Mable-Pan

-Shauna-Pan

-Korrina-Recipro

-Clemont-Akoisexual Reciproromantic

-Valerie-Bi

-Olympia-Lesbian

-Siebold-Asexual

-Drasna-Frayromantic

-Emma-Stellarian

Alexa-Lesbian (Demigirl)

-That one Beauty trainer from the Battle Mansion (Trans woman)

-AZ-Requies

-Professor Burnet-Reciprosexual Demiromantic

-Hau-Pan

-Gladion-Bi (Solarian)

-Lillie-Lesbian

-Ilima-Bi (Non Binary)

-Lana-Bi

-Mallow-Lesbian (Trans girl)

-Kiawe-Ply

-Acerola-Cupio

-Mina-Demi

-Olivia-Lesbian

-Hapu-Lesbian

-Kahili-Bi

-Plumeria-Greyromantic

-Faba-Gay

-Wicke-Lesbian

-Lusamine-Demisexual Nebularomantic (Lunarian)

-Dulse-Quoisexual

-Zossie-Greyromantic

-Soliera-Asexual

-Phyco-Lithro

-Jessie-Pan

-James-Bi (Genderfluid)

-Butch-Ply

-Cassidy-Bi

-Delia Ketchum-Bi

-Annie-Lesbian

-Oakley-Lesbian

-Hun-Gendervoid

-Harley-Gay

-Dawn-Pan

-Zoey-Lesbian

-Hunter J-Aro/Ace

-Nando-Polygender

-Burgundy-Acevague Lesbian

-Georgia-Lesbian

-Aldith-Bi

-Serena-Lesbian

-Miette-Bi

Steven Universe (Following the idea that genderless is cis for gems)

-Steven Universe-Asexual Panromantic

-Rose Quartz-Pan (Trans woman)

-Pearl-Bi (Prefers girls and nbs)

-Garnet-Aro/Ace

-Amethyst-Ply (Genderflux)

-Ruby-Lesbian

-Sapphire-Demi

-Peridot-Demi

-Lapis Lazuli-Fraysexual

-Jasper-Requiessexual Cupioromantic

-Bismuth-Lesbian

-Centipeedle-Asexual Demiromantic

-Doc-Abro

-Eyeball-Lesbian

-Army-Asexual

-Navy-Pan

-Leggy-Questioning

-Holly Blue Agate-Lithro

-Skinny Jasper-Bi

-Carnelian-Ply

-The rest of the Famethyst-Ranges from lesbian to pan depending on the amethyst

-The Topazes-Lesbians

-Aquamarine-Bi

-Hessonite-Lesbian

-Squaridot-Lithro

-Emerald-Queer

-Blue Zircon-Recipro

-Yellow Zircon-Placio

-Flourite-Pan

-Rutile-Demi

-Rhodenite-Lesbian

-Padparascha Sapphire-Nebularomantic

-Yellow Pearl-Asexual Panromantic

-Blue Pearl-Asexual Lesbian

-Yellow Diamond-Autochoris

-Blue Diamond-Requiesromantic

-Opal-Ply (Genderflux)

-Sugilite-Bi

-Alexandrite-Aromantic

-Stevonnie-Apothisexual (Bigender)

-Malachite-Aro/Ace

-Rainbow Quartz-Ply (Demigirl)

-Sardonyx-Lesbian

-Smoky Quartz-Pan (Genderqueer)

-Connie Mahaswaran-Demi

-Lars Barriga-Abro (Trans man)

-Sadie Miller-Bi

-Jenna-Asexual

-Kiki-Pan

-Sour Cream-Pan

-Vildalia-Bi

-Mystery Girl-Lesbian

Warrior Cats

-Thunderstar-Pan

-Owleyes-Gay

-Firstar-Pan

-Greystripe-Bi

-Bluestar-Bi

-Snowfur-Demi

-Sunstar-Gay

-Featherwhisker-Gay

-Rosetail-Demisexual Biromantic

-Whitestorm-Abro

-Lionheart-Gay

-Longtail-Bi

-Mousefur-Aro/Ace (Canon)

-Darkstripe-Gay

-Dappletail-Bi

-Brightheart-Demi

-Leopardfoot-Ply

-Squirrelflight-Demiromantic

-Leafpool-Bi

-Cinderheart-Bi

-Lionblaze-Gay

-Jayfeather-Gay Aromantic

-Hollyleaf-Asexual Lesbian

-Ivypool-Aceflux Lesbian

-Blossomfall-Quoisexual Lesbian

-Briarlight-Lesbian

-Rosetail-Pan

-Lilyheart-Cupiosexual Biromantic

-Hazeltail-Frayromantic

-Spottedleaf-Lesbian

-Shadowstar-Asexual Cupioromantic

-Blackstar-Bi

-Russetfur-Greyromantic

-Littlecloud-Greyromantic

-Runningnose-Gay

-Yellowfang-Ply

-Tawnypelt-Bi

-Ceaderstar-Gay

-Dovewing-Pan

-Flowerstar-Pan

-Mossfire-Lesbian

-Hollyflower-Apothisexual Greyromantic

-Ivytail-Aroflux

-Kinkfur-Pan

-Crowfrost-Aceflux

-Flametail-Gay

-Newtspeck-Ply

-Silverflame-Pan

-Crowtail-Lesbian

-Foxheart-Akoisexual

-Riverstar-Gay

-Mistystar-Bi

-Stonefur-Bi

-Leopardstar-Bi

-Mothwing-Lesbian

-Willowshine-Lesbian

-Feathertail-Bi

-Emberstar-Ply

-Softwing-Aro/Ace Lesbian

-Whitefang-Lithromantic

-Oakheart-Demisexual

-Echomist-Quoiromantic

-Mosspelt-Demi

-Beetlewhisker-Arovague

-Reedwhisker-Aro/Ace

-Ottersplash-Recipro

-Hollowflight-Placio

-Minnowtail-Pan

-Windstar-Placio

-Tallstar-Gay (Canon)

-Onestar-Bi

-Greywing the Wise-Abro

-Nightcloud-Bi

-Breezepelt-Pan

-Harestar-Gay

-Heathertail-Pan

-Whitetail-Cupio

-Ashfoot-Abro

-Cloversplash-Pan

-Sunstrike-Cupio

-Deadfoot-Lithro

-Heatherstar-Aromantic

-Leafstar-Bi

-Echosong-Lesbian

-Clovertail-Pan

-Frecklewish-Lesbian

-Cherrytail-Abro

-Sharpclaw-Aceflux

-Honeyleaf-Cupioromantic

-Petalfall-Ply

-Bouncefire-Aroflux

-Tinycloud-Ply

-Mintfur-Asexual

-Dew Petal-Greyromantic

-Stormheart-Greysexual

-Firefern-Apothi

-Billystorm-Demi

-Mousefang-Aromantic

-Lichenfur-Lesbian

-Jake-Bi

-Ravenpaw-Gay (Canon)

-Barley-Gay

-Scourge-Pansexual Frayromantic

-Half Moon-Demiromantic

-Violet-Bi

-Brick-Ply

-Star Flower-Nebularomantic

-Tess-Lesbian

-Jingo-Aro/Ace

-Pixie-Lesbian

-Mapleshade-Akoisexual Quoiromantic

-Stormfur-Demi

-Brook-Pan

-Splash-Bi

-Stoneteller/Crag-Fraysexual

-Petal-Pan

-Bumble-Abro

-Twist-Pan

-Princess-Placio

-Sol-Bi

My Little Pony; Friendship is Magic

-Twilight Sparkle-Lesbian

-Pinkie Pie-Cupiosexual Panromantic

-Applejack-Asexual Lesbian

-Fluttershy-Aro/Ace

-Ranbow Dash-Lesbian

-Rarity-Bi

-Starlight Glimmer-Demiromantic

-Spike-Lithromantic

-Princess Celestia-Pan

-Princess Luna-Asexual Lesbian

-Sunset Shimmer-Asexual Biromantic

-Trixie Lulamoon-Demiromantic

-Gilda-Lesbian

-Queen Novo-Nebulasexual Lesbian

-Princess Skystar-Lesbian

-Lyra-Lesbian

-Bon Bon-Lesbian

-Captian Celaeno-Frayromantic

-Colouratura-Aceflux

-Ditzy Doo-Demi

-Zecora-Placio

-Grubber-Aromantic

-Tempest Shadow-Quoiromantic

-Queen Chrysilis-Aro/Ace

-Apple Bloom-Lesbian

-Sweetie Belle-Lesbian

-Scootaloo-Lesbian

-Babs Seed-Lesbian

-Diamond Tiara-Lesbian

-Silver Spoon-Demiromantic Lesbian

-Fleur-de-Lis-Requiesromantic

-Scootaloo’s Aunts, Lofty and Holiday-Lesbians (Canon)

Disney

-Elsa-Asexual Lesbian

-Jack Kelly-Bi

-Maui-Demiboy

-Moana-Aro/Ace Lesbian

-Merida-Aro/Ace

-Laila-Greyromantic

-Marluxia-Aceflux

-Li Shang-Bi

-Nick Wilde-Gay

-Judy Hopps-Reciproromantic

-Benjamin Clawhauser-Gay

-Charlotte “Lottie” La Bouff-Pan

-Tiana-Bi

-Gideon Grey-Gay

-Chief Bogo-Pan

-Timon-Gay

-Pumbaa-Gay

-Nala-Bi

-Kiara-Bi

-Vitani-Lesbian

-Tiifu-Lesbian (Trans girl)

-Zuri-Abro

-Fuli-Lesbian

-Jasiri-Pan

-Zira-Lesbian

-Riley Anderson-Questioning (Genderfluid)

-Luke Skywalker-Gay

-Han Solo-Bi

-Leia Organa-Asexual

-Rey-Demi

-Finn-Bi

-Poe Dameron-Gay

-Holdo-Lesbian

-Jessica Rabbit-Asexual

-Rose Tico-Pan

-LeFou-Gay (Both versions) (Canon)

-Pocahontas-Demiromantic

Overwatch

-Lena Oxton/Tracer-Lesbian (Canon)

-Amelie Lacroix/Widowmaker-Pan

-Jesse McCree-Gay

-Olivia Colomar/Sombra-Bi (Canon)

-Angela Ziegler/Mercy-Bi

-Fareeah Amari/Pharrah-Lesbian

-Satya Vaswani/Symmetra-Lesbian

-Mei-Ling Zhou-Nomaromantic

-Moira O’Deorian-Lesbian

-Alexsandra Zaryanova-Lesbian

-Jamison Fawkes/Junkrat-Gay

-Mako Rutledge/Roadhog-Gay

-Jack Morrison/Soilder 76-Gay

-Gabriel Reyes/Reaper-Gay

-Ana Amari-Polyromantic

Misc.

-Rouge the bat (Lesbian)

-Taako Taaco (The Adventure Zone) (Gay) (Canon)

-Lup (The Adventure Zone) (Bi) (Canon Trans woman)

-Barry Bluejeans (The Adventure Zone) (Bi)

-Sloane (The Adventure Zone) (Lesbian) (Lesbian) (Canon)

-Hurly (The Adventure Zone) (Lesbian) (Canon)

-Carry Fangbattle (The Adventure Zone) (Lesbian)

-Killian (The Adventure Zone) (Lesbian)

-Kravitz (The Adventure Zone) (Gay)

-Magic Brian (The Adventure Zone) (Pan)

-Merle Highchurch (The Adventure Zone) (Pan)

-Lucretia (The Adventure Zone) (Aromantic)

-Zelda (Legend of Zelda series) (Ranges from lesbian to pan depending on the game)

-Alphys (Undertale) (Bi)

-Undyne (Undertale) (Lesbian)

-Mettaton (Undertale) (Aro/Ace and Pan) (Bigender)

-Napstablook (Undertale) (Non binary)

-Frisk (Undertale) (Non binary)

-Chara (Undertale) (Agender)

-Jughead Jones (Archie Comics) (Aro/Ace) (Canon)

-Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece) (Aro/Ace) (Canon)

-Chica (FNaF) (Sapphic)

-Toy Bonnie (FNaF) (Trans boy)

-Toy Chica (FNaF) (Demigirl)

-The Mangle (FNaF) (Aromantic) (Agender)

-SpringBonnie (FNaF) (Non binary)

-Ballora (FNaF) (Lesbian)

-Funtime Foxy (FNaF) (Sapphic) (Genderflux)

-Vaati (Legend of Zelda) (Asexual Panromantic) (Bigender)

-Hanji/Hange Zoe-Genderfluid

-Todd Chavez (BoJack Horseman) (Asexual) (Canon)

-Reno (Final Fantasy VII) (Bi)

-Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy VII) (Pan)

Tifa Lockhart (Final Fantasy VII) (Abro)

-Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII) (Gay) (Trans man)

-Yazoo (Final Fantasy VII; Advent Children) (Demi) (Agender)

-Kadaj (Final Fantasy VII; Advent Children) (Asexual) (Non binary)

-Ryou Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh!) (Bi)

-Marik Ishtar (Yu-Gi-Oh!) (Gay)

-Seto Kaiba (Yu-Gi-Oh!) (Gay)

-Yuri (Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V) (Gay)

-Victor Nikiforov (Yuri! On Ice) (Ply)

-Yuri Katsuki (Yuri! On Ice) (Asexual Demiromantic)

-Lust (FullMetal Alchemist) (Bi)

-Envy (Fullmetal Alchemist) (Quoiromantic) (Agender)

-Veronica Sawyer (Heathers, both movie and musical) (Bi)

-Anna Sasaki (When Marnie Was There) (Lesbian)

-Mumble (Happy Feet) (Cupio)

-Val Small (Dream Daddy) (Asexual Lesbian)

-Robert Small (Dream Daddy) (Bi)

-Hugo Vega (Dream Daddy) (Gay)

-Damian Bloodmarch (Dream Daddy) (Pan) (Canon Trans Man)

-Mat Sella (Dream Daddy) (Demi)

-Craig Cahn (Dream Daddy) (Ply)

-Brian Harding (Dream Daddy) (Bi)

-Joseph Christiansen (Dream Daddy) (Bi)

-Mary Christiansen (Dream Daddy) (Greyromantic)

-Lucien Bloodmarch (Dream Daddy) (Gay)

-Ernest Vega (Dream Daddy) (Abro)

-Amanda (Dream Daddy) (Pan)

-Joaquin Mondragon (The Book of Life) (Bi) (Trans man)

-Manolo Sanchez (The Book of Life) (Pan)

-Maria Posada Sanchez (The Book of Life) (Asexual Biromantic)

-Cala Maria (Cuphead) (Bi)

-Hilda Berg (Cuphead) (Lesbian)

-Bayonetta (Bayonetta) (Lesbian)

-Jeanne (Bayonetta) (Lesbian)

-Hermy (Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer) (Gay)

-Clarice (Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer) (Bi)

-Rudolph (Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer) (Lesbian) (Trans girl)

#Cloud's headcanons #lgbt+ headcanons

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