#Spader is all times so

[grahamdollton]

#well. this is all i could find in the highest quality i could find it in #i did what i could #tom verlaine voice This case is Closed.. .... .... #james spader #dream lover #my computer keeps messing with the speed on this every time i try moving the file so if it looks stupid just pretend it doesn't

[jimmyspades]

James Spader and his friend John F. Kennedy, Jr. at a party in New York City, December 1977

#ik these have been posted a million times I just wanted em all in one place he’s so cute 🫶 #little babyface #james spader #john f. kennedy jr. #* #1970s #ummm I could write a novel in these tags but #it’s so funny he is. exactly the same #of course you have perfect skin and your shirt unbuttoned 🙄

[itissadbutitsmy-artblog]

they have the ENTIRE guard wrapped around their finger no wonder they are so insufferable

uncle j: hey buddy what’s--

blaine: THROW SPADER IN THE RIVER DO IT DO IT NOW

wizard guard 1: spader? what’d he do? blaine: CUZ HE FUCKING PUSHED ME THATS-- uncle j: language

uncle j: but, blaine, we can’t just throw spader in the river because you’re mad at him--

wizard guard 2: we can’t? uncle j: NO?!

uncle j: DO YOU DO ANYTHING BLAINE TELLS YOU TO??

wizard guard 2: yeah wizard guard 3: pretty much

#j's extent of ability to take care of children is like 'dont let them curse i guess. i think thats bad.' #adventure time #distant lands #traditional #blaine #spader #wizard guards #uncle j #him too. he gets a special tag. i despise him (Affectionate) #did anyone see that video i saw with two kids and one almost knocks the other in the river and in retaliation he goes GUARDS!! GUARDS #that was so blainecore. i wish i could find it again #anyways i love drawing Blaine And Their Friends The Entire Wizard Guard Popuilation but all the guards and blaine are the Same Colors #SIGHS #also sorry. i forgot last time i posted a colored comic. they have piss diamonds. not red ones. smh. im in a really great headspace

[ace-of-spaders]

S5E01. Smokey Putnam

#the blacklist 5x01 #raymond reddington #james spader #elizabeth keen #megan boone #lizzington #my creations #my gifs #I know that this gifset has been done already a couple of times by other people #but Red and Liz are so cute here and I enjoyed this scene so thoroughly that I wanted to try my hand at gif-ing it nevertheless) #plus I wanted to make a coloring that was bright and vibrant enough for us to be able to see that Red's shirt is actually blue #and not almost-black like it looks in the episode itself #🙃😁 #(seriously what's up with the lightning and the brightness in this show? why is it so dark and gloomy all the time?) #(I mean I get it that they're probably going for the dark and gloomy atmosphere) #(but guys viewers actually wanna be able to SEE THINGS!) #on a sidenote: blue suits Red so well #😍💓🤗 #on the second sidenote: it is still criminal that this and the syrian embassy dance are the only times we saw them dance #😤😒😔

[im-a-doctor-not-a-priest]

just watched James Spader's Crash for the first time and oh my god. ohh my fugikn god. ough. ugh. hmmmmmmmm

#the movie of all time #it was so WEIRD #i love it #crash 1996 #james spader #david cronenberg #imma need like a week to fully process this movie

[running-in-the-dark]

okay so I was already going to watch house md again at some point... but since john larroquette is in an episode, maybe I'll do it sooner rather than later. I could just watch that episode. but. no 🤔

#yeah seeing that gif again and this time knowing that's him made me change my mind :') #I used to be so obsessed with this show (and hugh laurie) when it came out :') how could I just watch one episode #also I'm fairly certain I must have seen that episode too. I definitely saw the first few seasons and he's in season 3 #don't know how I'll feel about seeing him sick (probably baaad) but I'll get through it 😔 #I'm also going to start watching boston legal for him.... I would just skip to season 4 with that one BUT my husband used to looove this #show so. we'll just watch all of it together. he'll have a great time (he loves james spader) (I like him too just not as much) #personal

[eithernich]

#when will i stop staying awake for 30+ hours at a time i am surely causing irreparable damage to my brain #i say this like it's a choice the reality is i blink and whole days have passed when my dissociation is especially bad #i feel so far from everything it all feels wrong and unfamiliar then again that feeling itself is familiar #might put on that james spader audiobook on low volume (low enough volume that i don't start focusing on his voice and keeping myself awake #in the process......) #maybe that'll help maybe it'll make it worse #i have a habit when listening to it where i'll hear him say a certain thing and think i Have to write down a timestamp to go back #to it haha #and that would keep me awake #i almost started a fire earlier accidentally while testing out one of those big ol tv's from the aforementioned (like a month ago) moldy #house down the street #the second i switched the power on it started popping and zapping at me and i swear i smelled smoke so i panicked and unplugged #it and lugged it outside and now i'm paranoid that somehow a slowly burning internal fire will start while i am asleep and spread from the #porch to the house. i mean not Start but Continue. if there is one to continue somewhere in there....... #it's a solemn life i lead #i need to try to sleep now. so i can wake up #so on and so forth #i need to purchase a fire extinguisher.

[johannestevans]

the thing about watching these trashy cop shows and medical dramas, as i do, is that casting directors always pick people who look "creepy" to them to be like, serial killers or Obvious Abusers

except that to them like. "creepy" just means people who are effete, queer, or clocky

so it's like, here's some dude and look how scary he's being… look how scary and creepy and weird this guy is…

and don't get me wrong, there's the close cousin of this trope which is like, "this person has autism, and is therefore scary", and that's not what i mean

it'll just be some actor who like, no matter how much they're in a str8 role, they're dykey or faggy - jane lynch gets it, but like, lori petty is a great example - she ids as straight, but bc she's got really dykey gender vibes, other straight people are unsettled by her

and i really love lori petty, but she's almost always put into either super hypersexualised roles and/or lesbian roles that are all about like. how Weird and Gross she is when it's just that casting directors rely HUGELY on cues for stuff like gender nonconformity

and so they're like "Oh this woman is capital W Weird (meaning we think she does gender Wrong, whether that means she's a lesbian or transmasc or just clocky in some other way)" and rely on people's bigotry to inform response to the character

james spader gets it all the time, bc he's got OCD and ppl can tell to look at him bc of how he moves and holds his hands and his body - bc there's a delicacy to him, str8 ppl will read him as a bit fruity, at least in comparison to other cis men

to the point that apart from often being cast in very sexy bisexual roles, he's even played a trans man now! (good for him i love james spader this is NOT a critique)

and similarly watching these shows they'll put a guy who is honestly just, to me, a fucking milquetoast white guy - BUT. he is JUST gender nonconforming enough or JUST is like. clocky enough as queer or trans or otherwise being "off" what str8 people want and expect

and they'd never be able to put their fingers on what it is. they'd say "oh you know, he's just a little creepy / weird / off" etc, it's often not just neurodivergence, it's like, facial structure, the movements of the face, the voice, etc. maybe some of it is intersex stuff

but it's the same stuff that to me would be like "hm, maybe he's one of us, maybe he's an SA victim, etc", but i wouldn't know that unless i talked to them more? they're POTENTIAL clues. whereas cishets will be like, oh, this means this person is Evil. then... casting directors

#musings

[jimmyspades]

The season 4 premiere of Boston Legal is like psychological terrorism. Alan being begged to have a baby. Word salad. Sex in an elevator TWICE. Shirley/Denny moment that makes me sob. Infidelity. The arrival of Carl. Guys looking at each others’ dicks. Alan saying his penis has been a bad boy. Carl’s hair. One of the greatest guest appearances on the show by Craig muMs Grant. Alan calls himself fat. He wears a dress just for fun. Big dance number. I feel like I’m being hit with baseball bats the entire episode.

#‘what is this show about’ yes❤️ #boston legal #there’s great lighting in two different scene that makes his eyelashes look so blond and long #james is alan alan is james so of course he always looks like himself. but sometimes he looks so… him #yk what I mean. the smallest expression and it suddenly reminds me of crash of all things. or something he did in SLV or pretty in pink #idk why it’s so hard to explain. or it’s not but it sounds silly I don’t know. he’s just so strikingly handsome in vastly different ways #at different times in his life #movies are easy to compare of course jim is always doing little jim things in his 90 minute films #but alan is so fleshed out I’ve seen alan more than I’ve seen all the others combined except perhaps red #but I have the same feeling with red! they’re separate almost. it’s almost a shock when I see james spader in their eyes… #anyway um. season 4 already making me INSANE this time yay :)

[itissadbutitsmy-artblog]

spader: are you gonna have a wizard name when youre older? blaine: hm. i dunno. i can't THINK of one.

blaine: how about we give each other wizard names spader: ok on the count of three blaine: 1-- spader: 2-- blaine: 3--

spader: blaine the lame blaine: boots wizard

blaine: YOU ASSHOLE spader: ow! ow! hey!

blaine: SPADER THE HATER spader: STOOOOPPPPP THAT'S GOOD

#BOOTS WIZARD #its so funny to me. that half the adults have names like DIMENSION WIZARD or LIFE GIVING MAGUS #and the others have names. like RON JAMES or BUFO. sorta magicky names. weird names. #and then theres thesE THREE KIDS?? with the MOST NORMAL-ASS NAMES. #i guess spaders kinda unusual but not that weird. BLAINE?? LARRY? normal names. #cadebra is ok though. she has a magic name #sorry everyone for putting all these names in my tags even though theyre not in this image #adventure time #digital #blaine #spader #distant lands #'blaine the lame' lives rent free in my head btw id been snickering about that for like a year before i finally made a comic with it #(draws characters playing video games with these stupid wires lying around instead of learning to draw a controller) hehe

[apoptoses]

It is #Molloy Monday and I am here to remind you that Daniel is featured most from 1975-1985 aka the Sluttiest Era of Modern Male Fashion.

Coming in HOT we have the cut off short shorts and cropped t-shirt or mostly unbuttoned button down combo. Daniel visited some warm climates during the chase years so I invite you to picture him in the tiniest ripped jean shorts sweating over whether or not that auburn haired lady down the street is actually Armand!!

Or going into the 80s sometimes the tops were REALLY cropped and exposed midrift and back!! Like just picture Daniel fucking around on Night Island in this, wow wow!!

But even when the pants were long the t-shirts were TIGHT, maximum pec definition through the shirt was a must.

If he didn't wanna show that much skin? That was fine because turtlenecks where IN baby!! These are basically vampire lingerie imo, covering up the most succulent part of the neck but still leaving a hint exposed below the jaw?? Armand had to have been dying of thirst!!!

(Also when it says Armand came to pick Daniel up from jail in a lawyer's tweed suit? He wasn't wearing no modern cut, he'd have been rocking the big lapels because this was the 70s tyvm)

Also important to note was that the 70s were the era of glam rock and androgyny, so picking a silky button down that looks like a women's blouse? Totally okay for men, very in style so long as you leave the top buttons undone to expose maximum chest.

Btw velour? Was IN. This is the 1979 equivalent of a juicy couture tracksuit which Armand could have snuggled right into while they were living in London.

And while the 80s sees the rise of a looser fit, that doesn't mean the crop top died or that people weren't still rocking a more form fitted jean when they were feeling casual.

This photo is from NYC in 1983 and shows that tight t-shirts and short shorts were still very much alive, just styled a bit differently! A tight top and looser straight leg jeans, or short bottom and a flowy open top took the place of all fitted looks.

Or that the mostly unbuttoned button down went away- if anything in the 80s the buttons went even LOWER and more revealing. Paired with a boxy linen suit this is essential 80s Miami aka Night Island looks.

and yeah that's spader, leave me alone, he's peak 80s here

This sweater is loose but it's got the deep V neck and a sheer knit, perfect for the beach!!

And yeah this is Sapder AGAIN but note the half open shirt, leather jacket, and jeans that get tighter near the ankle!! Classic 80s, baggy but still sexy, A+.

I SWEAR this is the last time I'm gonna use and abuse him but peep the muscle tank with the DIY cut edges on the arm holes! V neck! 80s!!!

Basically the takeaway here is that if you're putting them in the 80s and having them rock something baggy and double denim, the look still featured a tight waistline and rolled sleeves or rolled ankles to tighten the jeans. It wasn't just baggy all over!!

Here's some random images from the entire era to finish off:

So next time you're working on fic or art instead of just tossing Daniel into a regular old t-shirt and jeans consider doing some slutty 70s and 80s looks instead 😌

#daniel molloy #vampire chronicles #devil's minion #armand/daniel #vc shitpost #oops another spader adjacent post NOT SORRY ABOUT IT #he has so many early 80s movies they're easy to harvest from okay #and he's got the ash blond hair and beseeching look down #ANYWAYS i demand more daniel in short shorts art and fic tyvm #vc headcanons #apoptoses originals

[darby-rowe]

ok girl idk if you’re into age gap. but likeeee…. 18/19 year old reader fresh out of the academy and 29/30 year old, politician!coryo 🤭 hes experienced and SEXAYYYYY😫hes rougher than reader has ever had before with her little academy boyfriends and he LIVES for it. “none of your little flings could fuck you like this, could they?” and “you like it like this, don’t you? pretty little slut” 😩😩😩 i’m giggling so hard

OK OK OK OK WOW THIS IS SO HOT I LOVE A GOOD AGE GAP YUUUMMMM. kinda unrelated but my favorite age gap relationship to insert myself into is with bruce banner bc oh my god young lab intern x certified dilf bruce banner oh my goddddjfkdktgm im drooling

BUT ANYWAYS OK I HAVE A THOUGHT. idk if anyone here has seen the movie Secretary (2002) but it’s one of my fave movies of all time FRRR. think of it as like fifty shades of grey but A MILLION TIMES BETTER. maggie gyllenhaal and james spader are in it and they’re both so hot in it. but now im imagining lawyer!coryo and secretary!reader in this dom/sub relationship where he spanks her while she reads his letters and makes her deliver his mail to her while crawling on all fours BITCCHHH IM BLUSHINGNGNGNGNGMGKGKG

but to anyone who’s planning on watching this movie pls read any content warnings bc it does contain graphic scenes and mentions of self harm!

#coriolanus snow x reader #coriolanus snow smut #darbyrowe.ask

[onmyo-jin]

i'm the farthest thing in the world from an egyptologist (though i'm teaching mythology next semester) but i've seen that damn movie so many times just bc of my terrible crush on james spader as daniel jackson. wu xie talking nerdy shit is the best. also, unfortunately, i am the most extremely basic of bitches, so: pingxie or heihua? up to you! AU of your choice, or canon! it's all good. and THANK YOU. <3

ohhh mythology course, that's so cool! I hope the teaching is going smoothly, and your students enjoy all the cool myths^^

It took a while BUT here you are: a heihua marriage arrangment, kind of, except not really:

A Match made in… well, Somewhere (2289 words) by Onmyo-Jin Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 盗墓笔记 - 南派三叔 | The Grave Robbers' Chronicles - Xu Lei, 终极笔记 | Ultimate Note (TV) Summary: There were few things worse than having to meet a matchmaker, Xiao Hua thought.

#jin answers #dmbj #tlt #tagged on ao3 with Ultimate Note bc that's who I was thinking of #but as always heihua is free real estate to pick and choose your favourites #heihua #xie yuchen #hei xiazi

[alyblacklist]

#Repost @alex__shimizu with @use.repost

・・・

My time on the Blacklist is over!! Tadashi has said goodbye @nbcblacklist 🥲

After 5 seasons couldn’t be more appreciative to have worked and learned so much from James Spader aka Raymond Reddington. Thank you for all you’ve done for me and I hope as you said to, “see you on the next project” 😊📺

Glad to have met all these wonderful actors and fantastic crew! Behind the scenes video of my last trip on the show will be released tomorrow!

#the blacklist #behind the scenes #james spader #raymond reddington #Tadashi #donald ressler #diego klattenhoff #harry lennix #harold cooper #anya banerjee #Siya Malik #teddy coluca #brimley #10.20

[olderthannetfic]

audience question: what books/movies would you give (or have given) your kids to become their formative media? i'm interested to see what makes the cut 👀

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I'd let them have access to my library. If it's a book, I'll let them figure out when they're ready to handle it.

(Works fine as long as you're a decent parent and answer questions that come up without being a weirdo about it and freaking them out so they never ask you anything again.)

For films and other things... hmm... it's tricky because all of the formative tings for me were the genre I'd call Weird Art Films About Weird Sex.

If my kid were shaping up to be that kind of weirdo at 14, maybe I'd leave some of these around, but I think it would be pretty intrusive to thrust them upon anybody outside of a film school seminar. Maybe Harold & Maude. My parents rented that when I was a tween. It made An Impression. It's rare for me to see something even two or three times, but Harold and Maude I've seen dozens.

I still think the opening to Harold and Maude is one of the best of any film:

You immediately know what kind of people both of these characters are and that this isn't going to be a simple comedy, dark or otherwise.

The first time I watched it, I knew nothing about the film and was surprised at both this and all of Harold's other antics. It's hilarious until it isn't. It's a movie about zest for life vs. wanting to die, and it walks an interesting line tonally. I remember rewatching it to show it to friends in college... and for the first time understanding that look Harold gets when he sees Maude's arm.

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There was definitely media I loved pre-puberty, but the things I remember are all like Nancy Drew.

I consumed vast quantities of mystery, and it's probably why I'm a mystery novelist today, but I don't remember anything specific that feels formative in other ways. I wouldn't try to stop a kid from reading trash. I remember how infuriating it was to have adults constantly trying to make me read something "better" than Nancy Drew. But I wouldn't specifically hand my kid those or any of the other formulaic junk series (Sweet Valley High et al.). They'll find whichever ones are popular at the time just fine.

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There's a very particular feeling of my brain lighting up that I remember mostly from my teen years. Those media made me quiver and have to pause the movie. I felt seen or maybe I felt too much to handle. That's the feeling I associate with formative media for me.

Here are the ones that instantly spring to mind even after all this time:

Velvet Goldmine - Music fan investigates the glam rockers of his youth, meditating on his sexual awakening and trying to solve the mystery of where one of them went. Ewan McGregor's tweet is the sequel. I will accept no other outcome.

Crash - James Spader at the peak of his beauty falls into the world of car crash fetishists who are dealing with the ennui of modern life and the alienation of the big city and technology by becoming perverts. Contains people going down on scars and tattoos, fetishy leg braces, and what teen me assumed was homoerotic subtext. (Spoiler: it was not subtext.)

Matador - A serial killer murders her victims like a bullfighter would; she stalks her favorite retired bullfighter who is also a serial killer. Antonio Banderas plays a dweeb like always in Spain. (The rest of Almodóvar's 80s and 90s movies were also favorites.)

Kissed - The fluffy necrophilia movie

The City of Lost Children - Less horny, but what is up with Miette and One's vibe? Visually a feast. Ten times the movie Amélie is. Sorry, not sorry.

Cemetery Man - Rupert Everett kills zombies in this bizarre Italian horror movie based on a comic book character drawn to look like Rupert Everett. My stepfather thought it looked like something I'd like and rented it for one of my birthday parties in high school. Around the time of the quasi necrophilia sex scene I realized 1. he'd chosen well and 2. he had clearly not read the back too carefully.

The Pillow Book - Japanese-Chinese novelist named after Sei Shonagon has a battle of literary wits with the publisher who blackmailed her father into sex with him. Involves a lot of calligraphy on naked men, including Ewan McGregor.

Sex, Lies & Videotape - Unfulfilled housewife has her world turned upside down when her shitty husband's college best friend comes to visit. This dude has become unable to be with women after a bad breakup and interviews and videotapes women discussing their masturbation habits for his own private use. Contains a famous and stupid quote about men falling in love with the people they sleep with and women becoming more and more attracted to the people they love, but the movie is far less gender normative than the character saying that.

Tesis - Uptight film student who pretends not to like violence decides to do a thesis on violence in Spanish media. Her advisor dies while watching a mysterious tape he got from somewhere. She steals it, finds out it's a snuff film, and investigates with the help of a creepy horror film nerd.

The best scene is when they're watching some violent shit she asked him for ("for her thesis") and she says "What kind of people watch this stuff?"

He answers: "You, for example."

That one I discovered when my roommate in Japan was watching it a couple of years after college. Many of these I saw in high school. That's the range where I remember things being particularly formative. Or maybe it's about what I'm open to at different points in my life: I think weird art films can still make me feel too much, but I don't always like that feeling, and I don't seek them out as much now.

Knife+Heart made me flash back to that era though. It's a neon-drenched period piece about a lesbian director of artsy gay male pornos investigating a serial killer targeting her actors. The sheer levels of meta insanity and horny murder scenes, my god!!!

Running through all of these are themes of ambiguous sexuality, often queer but also non-genitally-focused, massive quantities of voyeurism, meditations on what it means to be a fan, and a boatload of death=sex=death vibes.

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That's not quite what you asked, but basically, my own formative media isn't something I'd share with just anyone. If people want to watch necrophilia-filled art films of the 90s, I think they need to choose that for themselves.

I guess all that access to Beatrix Potter and watching basically no TV other than Mystery! or Masterpiece Theater (i.e. UK costume dramas catering to a teaboo market and co-funded by the US) during my early childhood had an effect. So did going to schools where we studied Asian American history and read Dragonwings.

None of those media stand out. I'd share them with my kid, but one example is as good as another. Knives Out delivers substantially the same experience as most of them. Watching whatever anime is hot now will be as good as watching the anime I liked when I was young.

[seriouslycromulent]

What I've Been Up To (Larroquette love)

A couple of weeks ago, I started watching a lot of films and TV shows centered around John Larroquette. This is not out of character, of course. If you've visited my blog before, you might know I spent a fair amount of time gushing over him in 2022 after I finally made my way through The Librarians series for the first time, and followed it with a re-watch of the original Night Court.

After that, I watched him in Boston Legal, only to get sucked into a vortex of awesomeness called James Spader. (What can I say? Like most nerds, I have an obsessive personality.)

I've since left that rabbit hole, and leapt into a few others throughout 2023. And now I'm back to gushing over JL.

Maybe it's the new Night Court TV series. Maybe it's the overwhelming increase in great fanfiction that I've come across recently. Maybe it's because the world seems to be constantly on fire and I need a salve to help soothe my psyche. Maybe it's a combo of all 3.

Either way, I'm still leaning in, and I just want to thank my fellow nerds for sharing sources and leads on where I can find more Larroquette goodness. I'm not blowing smoke here either. I truly appreciate this.

Not only because I'm slowly running out of things to watch, but because it's nice to know there are others out there who see what I see in him. You don't know how rare that is.

Anywho! Back to geeking out. Here is a rundown of films, TV shows and TV mini-series-esque things that I've watched starring JL in the past 4 weeks:

* Walter and Henry (watched on Tubi) It was ok. I didn't dislike it. I am a fan of James Coburn and it was nice to see John play a saxophone. I remember him mentioning that he played reed instruments in his musician days back in NOLA. So I'm going to assume that he didn't have to take lessons to sell those scenes.

* Some of the McBride film series (watched on trial version of UP Faith & Family streaming service) These weren't bad. Somewhat Hallmark-y, but I would actually like to see the rest of them, especially the ones JL directed. But about 4 or 5 of them aren't available for streaming, and those include the ones he directed. The ones I saw include - - McBride: Anybody Murder Marty? - McBride: Tune in for Murder - McBride: It's Murder, Madam - McBride: The Chameleon Murder - McBride: Murder Past Midnight

* Camera Store (watched on Tubi) I know JL said in an interview that he didn't like shooting this film, but I thought it was really thought-provoking. You can tell by the reviews on IMDB that some people didn't like the slow burn of the story. But for those of us who like day-in-the-life character pieces, it was very well done. One person described it as a modern-day Death of a Salesman. And I'd say that's pretty accurate. It's definitely not for everyone, but it's certainly worth a watch.

* The 10th Kingdom (watched on Amazon Prime) I think this miniseries was a big deal back when it came out in 2000, but I never saw it. I'm not sure why because I've always been a big fan of fantasy. However, now that I've seen it, I can't say I loved it all that much. So maybe that's why I didn't watch it back in the day. I think it had a great premise, and I loved how they wove a lot of different fairy tales into one big story that played out over 10 episodes (or five 90-min episodes on Amazon).

But I think I had trouble trying to figure out who the audience was supposed to be for this. I'm guessing they wanted it to be for the whole family, but some of the dialogue skewed far older at times and it left me wondering the rest of the series. Especially when it came to things on the topic of virginity, infidelity, and sexuality in general. It was just every now and then, the characters would say something that made me go, "What was the TV rating on this again?!" Also some of the scenes between JL and his daughter were incredibly dramatic, but very out-of-place with the rest of the series' tone. They were good scenes, but it's like it became a completely different series for like 20 minutes. But ... oh well. I'm glad I saw it and can now reference it in the future.

* Wedding Daze (watched on UP Faith & Family) Talk about Hallmark-y! Well, I think this one actually was a Hallmark movie to be fair. The subject matter definitely wasn't my cup of tea, but overall, the cast wasn't bad. Well ... JL, Karen Valentine, French Stewart, and the actors who played the daughters weren't bad. Everyone else was kinda ... m'eh. But it's not bad if you like these types of stories. Interestingly, one of the actors who played one of his daughters (Jaime Ray Newman) also played opposite him in one of the McBride films. It was the McBride: Murder Past Midnight one. In it, she actually came on to JL's character at one point in the story. I looked it up. She shot the Wedding Daze film first, so the McBride role came later. I'm sure that scene was interesting to shoot. All in all, I can't say I recommend Wedding Daze though.

* Chuck, ep. 202 and ep. 414 (watched on Amazon Prime) I've heard about these episodes for years, but I never took the time to check them out because I wasn't a big fan of Chuck. I basically gave up halfway through the 1st season. But for the love of JL, I made myself watch these 2 episodes where he guest starred as super spy Roan Montgomery. And what can I say? They weren't bad. I actually enjoyed them for the most part. It was also fun to see Lesley Ann Brandt playing another sexy badass. (Methinks, she's been typecast.) I also imagine John probably liked playing the scenes where he was tied up. To be fair, he probably enjoyed the whole thing. He looked like he was having fun pretty much the whole time. Still not a fan of the show though.

* Sanford and Son, ep. 505 (watched via a link provided by another fan) Having grown up on reruns of this show, I loved learning that JL was a part of it, even if it was early in his career and he probably has very little memory of it. After I watched it, I told my mom about it, and she said she remembered that episode after all these years. So that episode definitely had some staying power for a young actor, I think. I mean, how many actors can say they played a white version of Lamont Sanford? LOL! It was a funny episode that kind of gave you a behind-the-scenes look at what the TV soundstages of the 1970s used to look like. Plus, it had Robert Guillaume in it too. Thank you fellow JL fan for sharing it!

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OK. That's it for now. As I mentioned before, I don't have a lot left to watch that's available featuring our guy. Madhouse and Richie Rich are both on Tubi, but I saw those back in the '90s when they came out, and I don't really think they warrant a rewatch.

There are a lot of things in the shared folder I could enjoy, but I'd have to download them and I don't know if my computer memory can take it. Which sucks because I'd really like to watch Baa Baa Black Sheep. My mom remembers that show too. We'll see what I decide next.

I'm sure I'll land on something else before this obsession quietly gives way to another one in a month or so. Until then, watch this space face.

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