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itisa-profoundbond-sarandom · 3 years

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Destiel, Buddie: the great love patterns and one failure.

I'm going to highlight the patterns of baiting and good storytelling. Chim sounds like the Sam to Dean!Buck. Cas!Eddie and Claire/Jack!Chris.

WARNING: not a negative post, this is from a destielshipper!POV looking to something so beautiful like 9-1-1.

As someone pointed out: if Eddie was a girl they would've already get laid. Same thing with Dean if Cas was a girl.

(my gifs)

We know Dean and Buck like to get laid with many girls...and have some homo-joke-scenes with guys.

Dean Winchester being a disaster bi (since S1)

(+ Josh and roomate!Albert - I know someone ships it xD) What I really enjoyed with Buck/Abby is the meaning of the storyline. D (who likes older women also) and B always get the part of having fun, and when it comes to express their feelings, not all their crushes understand their soul and they don't always admit those with themselves.

Abby: I think I was afraid that If I came back, I would become that person again. Because I missed you. I wanted to see you. But I didn’t trust myself.

Buck: Because being there, being with me, you might lose yourself again?

Shannon: I can’t fail him again, or you and I won’t. I’m still learning how to be someone’s mother and after that maybe I can be someone’s wife.

Eddie [to Bobby]: [...] she wanted a divorce. And I’m still mad. How stupid is that? I’m agry at a dead person and at myself because I forgave her for everything, and that wasn’t enough. I wasn’t enough.

Buck [to Maddie]: You’re never the one getting left behind. You’re the one who leaves. You don’t know what’s like to watch someone you love walk away.

Dean [to Lisa]: When I do picture myself happy...it’s with you.

Lisa: You've got so much buried in there, and you push it down, and you push it down. Do you honestly think that you can go through life like that and not freak out? Just, what, drink half a fifth a night and you're good? Dean: You knew what you signed up for.

Lisa: Yeah. But I didn't expect Sam to come back. And I'm glad he's okay. I am. But the minute he walked through that door, I knew. It was over. You two have the most unhealthy, tangled-up, crazy thing I've ever seen. And as long as he's in your life, you're never gonna be happy. That came out so much harsher than I meant. Dean: It's not your fault.

Who does understand them? The best friend. Cas and Eddie are the best friends to who they talk to, they can feel judged by but it doesn't really matter (or it DOES); they trust each other and feel safe.

you gave up an entire army for one guy (dean)

thank you, for not giving up

stupid for the right reasons

maybe you could’ve come at it a little differently

The Abby-phase was very important 'cause B wanted to stop to think about just the sex part and really connect with the person, doin' romantic stuff, even VDay; feelings were in the game.

(He literally asked to the firetruck!girl to see her again...but she said no. Ali? She acted like a Lisa.)

B really tried to find someone and always felt left behind. D had two important relationships, one with Cassie (yeah, that's fun) and I liked her -but he couldn't have a black girlfriend, right(?). Always felt left behind, by his father, by his brother, his mother’ memories were a lie.

When we first see Cassie, they didn’t see each other in a very long time and they get a reunion during a case.

Much like Eddie and Shannon.

(not saying also this...but....this)

Lisa and the weird-and-bad-written-originally story with Amara...who knew Dean bc of his 'dark' side. (Amara has found Cas and Dean’s profound connection and Dean was scared by her darkness connected to his anger and loniless).

At one point Amara will find Dean thanks to Cas's heart just my reply to go fast (while Cas was possessed by Lucifer- an annoying bitch who is used as a destiel bait)

We know Buck for his autodiagnosed sex addiction with women and Eddie as a married man with a son and wife not in the picture...and the episode- I'm so sorry, but the beginning of S2 with Buddie can't be described as two hets - there are tropes.

We start to fall for them and Chim with Maddie, wait- Sam!Chim and Eileen!Maddie.

Sam and Eileen’ first episode is basically a blind date on a hunt. They flirt and make a badass duo, she's deaf and super sassy and they're so sweet together. Many start to ship it asap.

I cried with Madney asap.

What does Maddie do since Buck start talking about Chris and Eddie? Yeah.

What does happen in Fanfiction with Sam (he’s a Maddie here) and when Saileen comes back on S15?

Bros shipping their bros with their best friends, mirroring them.

Madney have Buddie patterns.

Saileen is presented as a Het!Destiel parallel...and they can kiss.

Sam asks Dean if he could start thinking about settle down with someone who understand the life, another hunter. Eileen is a hunter. Cas is an angel - the one who raised him from perdition and got lost for his beautiful soul/hunter.

I LOVE that Eddie can be just a friend to Lena and Marjan, basically (I hope not to see this ruined in the future).

Now, over the line: Dean has a mother figure in Bobby!Jody and Jody is shipped with Athena!Donna (also good friend to Dean) and he's got a sister figure in Hen!Charlie.

[Jody, Charlie]

(Jody and Donna have many daugthers figures and a spin-off who hasn't been picked bc too many poc girls, queer girls and two not young women with perfect bodies.)

Bobby!Jody helped him with his mother-plot-fiasco (that was really bad) and I loved Mary before s12.

[I'm having fun thinking about this connections, leave me alone if it'ss just a great big illusion]

I forgive you / of course I forgive you

personal space / personal space

Destiel, uncle!Sam and Jack

Destiel, uncle!Sam and Claire

*love is in the air*

oh and beside the MurphyPatterns (Klaine, Bryan&David) we do have the KripkePatterns also (Timeless, The Boys 2 3 )

One of the most loud BI!Dean eps

I’m ready for some domestic Buddie and Madney

Eileen and Cas back from the dead

Just to make you all laugh after this big movie, remember the chars:

what a destiel scene always looks like

THE END:

Yes, C*W and Fox aren’t the same, and yes producers can make the difference. all SPN writers WEREN’T the problem, directors neither, not to mention the actors.

C*W thrived on Destiel for 12 years, building a very good story that could’ve show two men accepting the love they deserved....but they failed, erasing every other (lgbtq, poc, disable) characters.

Fox doesn’t need more viewers but they WILL gain more of them showing Buddie because representation of a M/M ship with BI/PAN (I see Pan!Eddie) it’s a huge thing for TV and it matters. I always see gay love not many other possibilities, with Murphy mostly, he can make the change again.

A reminder to what C*W did

#destiel #buddie #I just want my couples to be happy

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peggy-faces · 6 years

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Mad Men rewatch: season 1, episode 4: New Amsterdam

We don’t get much of Don in this episode. We don’t get much of Roger, barely anything of Peggy(who appears for 20 seconds but has no lines) and Joan doesn’t appear at all. This is mainly a Pete and kinda Betty episode, which is why the Google Doc I’m typing this onto now is called the Pete Campbell variety hour.

We finally get to meet Mrs Pete Campbell. Trudy comes by Pete’s office to whisk him away to show him an apartment she wants to buy, but not before Peggy can come by and get a full view of Pete and Trudy being happy newlyweds.

Trudy wants to buy a two bedroom, 1500 square foot apartment on the Upper East Side. Unfortunately Pete only(!) makes $35 000($300 000 in today’s money) a year and the cost of the apartment is $30 000($250 00). Actually a steal considering an apartment like that on the Upper East Side would be around $3 million today.

But Pete wants to make Trudy happy so he decides to go to his old money parents for help. Unfortunately Daddy Campbell does not approve of Pete’s chosen profession (or anything about Pete really) and refuses to shell out for the apartment. Good thing Trudy’s parents are rich and are willing to help out, albeit at the cost of Pete’s fragile ego.

Meanwhile Sterling Cooper is dealing with the president(???) of Bethlehem Steel, who claims to be a real salt of the earth small town guy who dislikes New York. Pete, upset by his talk with his parents, ruins Don’s pitch meeting. So Pete and Kenny take Steel Guy out on the town for drinks and bring along a couple of escorts. Turns out this dude isn’t as squeaky clean as he let on.

We are still in the weird portion of the show where Pete aspires to be in the creative department so he tries to pitch his own idea to Steely Dan. Don does not take kindly to this attempt to encroach on his territory so he straight up fires Pete. Unfortunately for Don(and Roger) Pete comes from a long line of Rich New York People and they are forced to keep him on or people will talk. The Gilded Age strikes again.

While out walking Don’s existential crisis dog, Betty sees Helen Bishop’s ex-husband banging on the door of her house. Betty refuses to let him use her phone, and later Helen visits Betty to thank her and spill the beans about her marriage. A few days later, Helen asks Betty to watch Glen and the baby we never see while she goes out to campaign for Kennedy.

And here’s where we get to learn a bit more about our friend Glen Bishop. Glen likes playing piano, doing the ironing and The Real McCoys. He also likes watching women pee. And he really, really likes Betty’s hair. So much so that he asks for a piece of it. And oh. Betty, girl, why?

Random observations

“Direct marketing? I invented that! Turns out it already existed, but I arrived at it independently.” may be the greatest line in television history.

Contents of Helen’s bathroom drawer: cigarettes, a matchbook, make up, something I assume is an electric razor, a bottle of pills, and a birth control pill case.

What is it with Don’s wives and spaghetti?

Betty doesn’t know who “they’re” voting for, but Don has said that he doesn’t vote.

I love Sal’s sassiness. “WPA was a very respected style.... 20 years ago.” “Looks like you picked the wrong time to buy an apartment.”

Audio commentary

This episode only has one commentary track and yet again (ugh) it’s one with two audio tracks spliced together. Vincent Kartheiser and Alison Brie(who do theirs together) and Lisa Albert the director(who does hers separately).

Kartheiser was so proud of his door with his(Pete’s) name on it that he took Brie over to see it after the table read.

They shot the scene where Pete and Trudy are looking around the apartment very late at night and had to rush it because Kartheiser was late to a party.

The actor who played Pete’s dad was killed in an avalanche shortly after filming. He had lots of ideas for what he should be doing in this scene like stringing a fishing rod and polishing golf clubs, but Weiner, who is notoriously uptight about actors sticking to the script, insisted on him just sitting in his chair with a glass of scotch.

Pete and Trudy’s bedroom was literally just two walls and a bed.

Kartheiser enjoys making fun of Brie’s “Trudy voice” but Brie claims she bases her voice off of his “Pete voice”.

Albert says only the actors who smoked in real life smoked in the show, even though they used fake cigarettes, because you could easily tell.

Albert says she resisted the Betty/Glen storyline because it was creepy. The women who worked on the show thought that it was unrealistic that Betty would cut a lock of her hair off and give it to Glen, but apparently Matthew Weiner justified it by saying that Betty and Glen were “contemporaries” because Betty was so “childlike”. ??? Okay, Weiner.

That final shot is an old shot of New York from the 1960s that they edited in.

Joan doesn’t even appear in this episode and Peggy only shows up for literally 20 seconds and doesn’t even have any lines. I like this episode a lot but a Joan-less and almost Peggy-less episode means that I have to knock a few points off. Sorry but I don’t make the rules. Six locks of hair out of ten.

#tupf mad men rewatch #slightly early this week

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wiedzmina-blog · 7 years

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Norwegian / old norse names and places

Every now and then I come across a book, movie, TV-series, fanfic, game or whatever, that mention a fictional "Norwegian" or "norse" place or person, and it just sounds so wrong it makes me either cringe or ROFL. Really. I still haven't recovered from the 1995 X-files episode, "Død Kalm", which took us to the port of "Tildeskan" where we met "Henry Trondheim", "Halverson" and "Olafsson". Hopefully this list will keep others from being that “creative” with names. :)

Common names for places, towns and villages in Norway

These names are very generic and suitable for a place, village or town anywhere (and pretty much any time) in Norway. Mix and match prefixes with suffixes for diversity. Bonus: All of these can also be used as surnames. Name (meaning) - usage

Nes (headland, cape, ness) - Standalone Bø (fenced-in field on a farm) - Standalone Fjell (mountain) - Standalone or prefix/suffix: Fjell- / -fjell Haug (small hill / large mound) - Standalone or prefix/suffix: Haug- / -haug Vik, Viken, Vika (inlet, the inlet, the inlet) - Standalone or prefix/suffix: Vik- / -viken / -vika Ås, Åsen (hill, the hill (larger than "Bakken")) - Standalone or prefix/suffix: Dal, Dalen (valley, the valley) - Standalone or prefix/suffix: Berg (small mountain) - Standalone or prefix/suffix: Berg(s)- / -berg Sand (sand) - Standalone or prefix/suffix: Sand- / -sand Strand (beach) - Standalone or prefix/suffix: Strand- / -strand Li (hill) - Standalone or prefix/suffix: Li- / -li Gran (spruce) - Standalone or prefix: Gran- Bratt (steep) - prefix only: Bratt- Myr (bog, mire) - prefix only: Myr- Neset, Nesset (the headland, the cape, the ness) - Standalone or suffix: -neset / -nesset Odden (foreland, headland) - Standalone or suffix: -odden Våg (cove, bay) - Standalone or suffix: -våg Lund (grove) - Standalone or suffix: -lund Sund (sound, strait) - Standalone or suffix: -sund Skog (forest) prefix/suffix: Skog- / -skog Øy (island) prefix/suffix: Øy- / -øy øya (the island) - suffix only: -øya bakken (the hill) - suffix only: -bakken gard / gård / gården (farm / farm / the farm) - suffix only: -gard / -gård / -gården elv, -elva (river, the river) suffix only: -elv / -elva stad (old word for town/place) suffix only: -stad vannet (the lake) - suffix only: -vannet

Common words that can be used as prefix to any of the suffixes above Svart- (black) Lille- (little/small) Sol- (sun) Brei-/Bred- (wide) Stor- (big) Lang- (long)

Common Norwegian surnames (contemporary)

Heredatory surnames didn't become mandatory in Norway until 1923. Many took the name from the farm or place they lived, or just changed their primary patronyms into hereditary patronyms. Example: Helgessønn/Helgesdatter (son of Helge / daughter of Helge) became Helgesen.

Alm Andersen Anderssen Antonsen Aspelund Bakke Bakken Bang Berg Bjerkan Bråthen Christensen Corneliussen Dahl Dahlberg Danielsen Dyrnes Dørum Eide Ellingsen Erdal Eriksen Falch Fredriksen Foss Fure Fylling Gabrielsen Gran Grønning Halvorsen Hansen Hanssen Hay Hoff Holm Holt Husby Isaksen Iversen Jacobsen Jensen Jenssen Johansen Karlsen Klausen Konradsen Kristensen Kristiansen Larsen Larssen Lie Lien Lund Løvold Magnussen Meyer Mikalsen Mo Moen Myhre Myklebust Mørk Ness Nilsen Olavsen Olsen Paulsen Pettersen Prestegård Rasmussen Riise Rogstad Ruud Simonsen Solbakken Solli Stokke Strøm Sund Svendsen Thorvaldsen Torp Thune Tønnesen Ueland Ulven Urdal Vik Vinje Wahl Wik Wilhelmsen Zakariassen Ødegård Årseth Årvik Ås, Aas Åsen, Aasen

Common Norwegian names -- 1980 - present

Men

Anders André Andreas Are Arne Atle Bjørn Cato Chris Christian, Kristian Christoffer, Kristoffer Daniel David Dennis Elias Emil Espen Erik, Eric Eirik Fredrik Filip Geir Harald Helge Hans Henning Håkon, Haakon Håvard Isak Jan Joachim Johan Johannes John, Jon Johnny Jonas Jonathan Kim Kristian, Christian Kristoffer, Christoffer Lars Lucas, Lukas Mads, Mats Magnus Martin Michael, Mikael Morten Niklas Nils Odin Ole Ove Paul Per Peter, Petter Preben Pål Richard, Rikard Roger Sebastian Simen Simon Sindre Sondre Stian Terje Thomas Thor, Tor Thore, Tore Vegard Werner William Øystein Åge Åsmund

Women

Andrea Ane, Anne Anette, Annette Annika, Anniken Astrid Bente Camilla Carina Cathrine Celine Charlotte Christin, Kristin Christina, Kristina Christine, Kristine Elin, Eline Elise Elisabeth Emilie Eva Frida Grete, Grethe Hanne Hege Heidi Helene Hilde Ida Ine Ingrid Ingvill, Ingvild Isabel, Isabell, Isabelle Iselin Jannicke Janine Jeanette Jennie, Jenny Julia, Julie Karoline (Kine) Katrin, Katrine Kristin, Christin Lea, Leah Lena, Lene Linda Line Linn Linnea Lise, Lisa Liv, Live Mai, May Maja Malin Margrete, Margrethe Mari, Maria, Marie Mariann, Marianne Marte, Marthe Mette Monica Nina Nora Oda Pia Ragnhild Randi Rikke Sara, Sarah Silje Siv Stina, Stine Susann, Susanne Tanja Tina, Tine Tiril Tone Trine Vilde Vera Veronica Wenche Åse Åshild

Common Norwegian names - 1800 - 1980

Men Aksel Albert Anders Andreas Anker Ansgar Arne Arnt Arve Asle Atle Birger Bård Charles Edmund Edvard Egon Erling Even Fred Fredrik Frode Geir Georg Gunnar Gunvald Gustav Harald Helge Hilmar Håkon, Haakon Ivar Ingvar Jens Jesper Jørgen Joakim Karl Karsten, Karstein Kjell Klaus Kolbein Kolbjørn Kristian Kåre Lars Lavrans Leif Lossius Ludvig Magne Magnus Nikolai Nils Odd Oddvar Odin Ola Olai Olaf Olav Ole Omar Oscar, Oskar Peder Per Petter Philip, Phillip Pål Ragnar Rikard Roald Roar (also Hroar) Rolf Rune Sigurd Sigvard, Sigvart Simon Svein Sverre Tarjei Terje Toralf, Thoralf Torbjørn, Thorbjørn Torleif, Thorleif Torstein, Thorstein Torvald, Thorvald Trond Ulf Ulrik Valdemar Wilhelm Willy Åge

Women

Albertine Alice, Alise Alma Anita Anna Annbjørg Asbjørg Astrid Aud Bente Berit Birgit Birgitte Bjørg Bjørgun Bodil Borghild Dagny Dagrun Edel Ella Ellen Elsa Fredrikke Frida Gerd Gjertrud Gunhild Gyda Hanna, Hannah Helga Henny Herdis Hilda Hilde Hjørdis Ingeborg Inger Irene Johanna, Johanne Jorun, Jorunn Josefine Judith Kari Karin Kirsten Kitty Kjersti Laila Lilli, Lilly Lisa, Lise Liv Lovise Mathilde Margaret Marit Martha Molly Nanna Oddrun Oddveig Olga Ragna Ragnhild Rigmor Sara Signe Sissel Solbjørg Solveig Solvår Svanhild Sylvi Sølvi Tora Torhild, Toril, Torill Torun, Torunn Tove Valborg Ylva Åse Åshild

Names usage Double names, like Ragnhild Johanne or Ole Martin are common in Norway. Just keep them as two names and don't use "-", and you'll be safe, even if it ends up a tongue twister. Using only one of two given names is also common practice.

In Norway everyone is on a first name basis. Students call teachers and other kids' parents by their first name, workers call their boss by their first name, we call our Prime Minister by her first name (journalists will use her title when speaking to her though). Some senior citizens still use surnames and titles when speaking of or to people their own age.

There are some exceptions. For example, a doctor may be referred to as Dr. Lastname when we speak of them, but first name is used when speaking to them. A priest is "the priest" when speaking of him/her and their first name is used when spaking to them. In the millitary only surnames (and ranks) are used. If you meet Harald, the King of Norway, in an official setting you will refer to him as "Kongen" (the king). If you run into him at the gas station, or while hiking, he is "Harald".

If you don't know someone's name it is okay to use their title, or just say "you".

Names for pets (contemporary)

Dogs Laika (f) Bamse (m) (bear) Tinka (f) Loke/Loki (m) + characters from TV/film/books...

Cats Melis (m/f) (powdered sugar) Mango (m/f) (mango) Pus (f) (kitty) Mons (m) (tomcat) Nala (f) Pusur (m) (Garfield) Felix (m) Simba (m) + characters from TV/film/books...

Horses Pajazz (m) Mulan (f) Balder (m) - cold blood Kompis (m) (pal) Freya (f) - cold blood + characters from TV/film/books...

Rabbits Trampe (m) (Thumper) Trulte (f) + characters from TV/film/books...

Cows (yes, I am serious) Dagros Rosa Mira Luna Sara + characters from TV/film - Disney is popular, as are the Kardashians :)

Road and street names

Storgata (usually the main street) Kongens gate (the king's street) Dronningens gate (the queen's street) Jernbanegata (railroad street) Jernbaneveien (railroad road) Sjøgata (ocean street) Sjøveien, Sjøvegen (ocean road) Skolegata (school street) Torvgata (plaza street) Industrigata (industrial street) Industriveien (industrial road)

Prefixes Blåbær- (blueberry) Bringebær- (raspberry) Bjørke- (birch) Aspe- (asp) Kastanje- (chestnut) Solsikke- (sun flower) Blåklokke- (blue bell) Nype- (rosehip) Kirke- (church) Park- (park)

Suffixes -veien, -vegen (the road) -stien (the path)

Other Torvet (the plaza) - standalone or suffix: -torvet Havna (the port) - standalone or suffix: -havna Kaia (the port) - standalone or suffix: -kaia

Safe solution: use a first name or surname as prefix.

Old norse

Men’s names Agnarr (Agnar) Alfr (Alf) Ámundi (Amund) Ánarr Árngrimr (Arngrim) Askr (Ask) Auðun (Audun) Baldr (Balder) Beinir Bjørn Burr Borkr Dagfinnr (Dagfinn) Davið (David) Drengr Durinn Einarr (Einar) Eirikr (Eirik) Eivindr (Eivind) Erlingr (Erling) Fafnir Flóki Freyr (Frey) Fuldarr Galinn Gautarr (Gaute) Gegnir Geirr (Geir) Glóinn Grímarr (Grimar) Hafli Hakon Hallsteinn (Hallstein) Haraldr (Harald) Haukr (Hauk) Heðinn (Hedin, Hedinn) Helgi (Helge) Hrafn, Hrafni (Ravn) Hrafnkell (Ravnkjell) Iarl (Jarl) Ingolfr (Ingolf) Iuar (Ivar) Jafnhárr Jón Jóngeirr Kál Kiaran Klaus Knútr (Knut) Kolgrimr (Kolgrim) Kolr (Kol) Leifr (Leif) Loki Lyngvi Magnus Mikjáll (Mikal, Mikkel) Mór Morði Nesbjørn Nokkvi Oddr (Odd) Oddbjørn Oðin (Odin) Olafr (Olaf) Ormr (Orm) Otr Ouden Pálni Pedr Ragnarr (Ragnar) Ragnvaldr (Ragnvald) Randr (Rand) Róaldr (Roald) Rólfr (Rolf) Salvi Sigarr (Sigar) Sigbjørn Sigurðr (Sigurd) Skarpe Snorri (Snorre) Steinn (Stein) Sveinn (Svein) Teitr Þor (Thor/Tor) Þórbjørn (Thorbjørn/Torbjørn) Þorsteinn (Thorstein/Torstein) Tryggr (Trygg) Týr Ulfár Ulfheðinn (Ulvhedin) Ulfr (Ulf) Vakr Vani Veigr Viðarr (Vidar) Yngvarr (Yngvar) Æsi

Women's names

Anna Arnfriðr (Arnfrid) Ása Bera Bergdís (Bergdis) Biørg (Bjørg) Cecilia Cecilie Christina Dagný (Dagny) Dagrún (Dagrun) Dís Dísa Edda Elin Ellisif (Ellisiv) Freyja (Freya) Friða (Frida) Frigg Gerðr (Gerd) Gertrud Grima Gyða (Gyda) Hadda Hallbéra Hallkatla Herdís (Herdis) Hildigunnr (Hildegunn) Huld Hvít Ida Iðunn (Idun, Idunn) Ingríðr (Ingrid) Johanna Jórunn (Jorun, Jorunn) Juliana Katla Katrine Kristín (Kristin) Leikný (Leikny) Lif (Liv) Magnhildr (Magnhild) Mjøll Myrgiol Nál Nanna Nótt Oda Oddný (Oddny) Ólaug (Olaug) Rafnhildr (Ragnhild) Rán Rannveíg Ríkví (Rikvi, Rikke) Rúna (Runa) Roskva Sága (Saga) Sif (Siv) Sigriðr (Sigrid) Skaði (Skadi) Skuld Svana Sýn Solveig Tekla Tóra (Tora) Trana Ulfhildr (Ulfhild) Una Urðr (Urd) Valborg Vigdís (Viigdis) Vírún Yngvildr (Ingvill, Ingvild) Yrsa

Bynames Bynames, or nicknames, could be neutral, praising or condescending. Usually bynames described a person's

body, bodyparts, bodily features

age

kinship and descent

territorial origin

knowledge, belief, spirituality

clothing, armour

occupation, social position

nature

Examples: Eirik Blodøks (Eirik Blood-Axe), Gammel-Anna (old Anna), Halte-Ása (limping Ása). I suggest that you stick with English for bynames, or use (relatively) modern language if you are writing in Norwegian.

Surnames

Surnames weren't really a thing until 1923 when they became mandatory. Before 1923 patronyms (son/daughter of) were used, and the name of the farm you lived on was often added as an address.

For instance: Helgi Eiriksøn (Helgi, son of Eirik), who lived at the farm called Vollr (grass field), would be called Helgi Eiriksøn Vollr. If he moved to the farm called Haugr his name would change to Helgi Eiriksøn Haugr.

Patronyms

Men: Use father's first name and add -sen /-son /-sønn Women: Use father's first name and add -dotter / -dottir / -datter

Farm names

Farm names were usually relevant and derived from either the location, a nearby landmark, nature or from occupation. I suggest you stick with the modern forms for farm names.

Old Norse (meaning) - modern Bekkr (stream) - Bekk, Bekken Dalr (valley) - Dal, Dahl Horn (horn) - Horn Vollr (field) - Vold, Volden Lundr (grove) - Lund

The list of common names for places/villages/towns is still valid, although the spelling is modern. Just keep it simple and make "clever" combos based on meaning.

#norwegian names #norse names #writing tips

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kattra · 4 years

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What I’m Reading

BOOKS OF AUGUST Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy edited by Amerie (SS) ** Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History by Sam Maggs (NF) The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus* ** One of Us is Next by Karen M. McManus Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher (NF) The Diviners by Libba Bray Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo ** I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman Planting Gardens in Graves III by r.h. Sin (P) The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert ** The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling ** Again, But Better by Christine Riccio ** This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone ** Tales From High Hallack Volume One by Andre Norton (SS) The Sacrifice Box by Martin J. Stewart The Treachery of Beautiful Things by Ruth Frances Long Magdalene by Marie Howe (P) ** Dragons of Spring Dawning by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman Tales From High Hallack Volume Two by Andre Norton (SS) The Night Country by Melissa Albert **

Graphic Novels: Fence Vol.1-4 by C.S. Pacat & Johanna the Mad ** Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell & Faith Erin Hicks **

(121 books read / 150 books goal)

currently reading: She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor (NF) The Kingdom of Ordinary Time by Marie Howe (P) The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt (SS) Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez (NF) The Serpent Mage by Greg Bear Network Effect by Martha Wells Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray

* - re-read // ** - 4+ star-rating on my goodreads (recommended) GN - graphic novel // NF - non-fiction // P - poetry SS - short story collection // AB - audiobook

TBR: Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali A Matter of Magic by Patricia C. Wrede Pandemic by Robin Cook Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean (NF) Are You Listening? by Tillie Walen (GN)

WHAT ARE YOU READING? :D

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jondalars · 6 years

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movies, tv shows, and books of 2018

((as before, * is a rewatch/reread; currently watching; can’t get through))

Muppets Most Wanted (2014)

Hanna (2011)

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Sex, lies and double-sided sticky tape! As it marks 60 years, the secret history of Blue Peter – by its star presenters

Peter Purves on his office romance. Valerie Singleton on THAT lesbian myth. Konnie Huq on the fake phone-in scandal. Blue Peter presenters past and present lift the lid on a scandalous 60 years

Valerie Singleton, the Blue Peter legend, has a wicked glint in her eye. ‘I’m always chatting to nice men in bars thinking, “I’m getting on rather well here.” Then they suddenly go, “I have to tell you, I was so in love with you when I was five.” It’s an absolute killer.’

It’s great to hear she’s still out there enjoying herself but it’s also disconcerting to hear Singleton talk like this, because the 81-year-old is the queen of Blue Peter, the BBC’s longest-running and most wholesome children’s programme, which celebrates its 60th birthday this month. But when Blue Peter presenters young and old get together to look back at the show’s history and discuss whether it’s still relevant, the gossip flies, the triumphs are recalled, scandals are revisited and myths are busted.

A Blue Peter reunion. A ‘blue Peter’ is a flag flown by ships leaving port, and was chosen for the programme’s name because children were being taken on a voyage of discovery

‘Kids of the right age with the right mentality still love it,’ says Konnie Huq, host from 1997 to 2008. ‘As long as there are fun, intelligent, curious-to-learn kids – which there always will be – then there’s a place for Blue Peter.’

From 15 minutes about trains… to TV gold

The programme began in 1958 with actor Christopher Trace (a stand-in for Charlton Heston in Ben Hur) and Leila Williams, 1957’s Miss Great Britain. The format was simple: the pair played with trains and dolls in a studio. A ‘blue Peter’ is a flag flown by ships leaving port, and was chosen for the programme’s name because children were being taken on a voyage of discovery.

The young actor Valerie Singleton, who graduated from Rada with Albert Finney and Peter O’Toole, was not keen on the idea when she was invited to audition. ‘I bumped into Christopher Trace and he said they were looking for a girl on Blue Peter, which he described as a 15-minute programme once a week about trains. I thought: “That sounds dull”.’

Singleton auditioned anyway, but didn’t get the part. ‘Anita West got it because apparently they fancied her more than me, which was infuriating. She was blonde and rather sexy. Then six months later, she fell out with them and I got the job.’ (West has said she resigned because she was getting divorced: ‘In the Sixties, divorce wasn’t very accepted and I didn’t want my personal life to drag the show into disrepute.’)

Biddy Baxter, who had worked on radio’s Listen With Mother, took over as producer, then editor, beginning a 23-year reign that made the show a legend. By 1964, it had gained a second weekly slot, and Singleton had to choose between Blue Peter and her more lucrative work as a continuity announcer. ‘I chose Blue Peter. My parents were horrified. They said, “You’ve got this jolly sensible job, what’s this Blue Peter thing?”’ But she became a vital part of the classic line-up when the daredevil John Noakes arrived in 1965. The former RAF aircraft fitter had been acting in television dramas. His fellow actor Peter Purves followed in 1967, having been one of Doctor Who’s earliest companions.

‘I was thrilled, because I was broke,’ says Purves now. ‘I did Doctor Who for a year and I was well known when I left, but it was nearly 18 months before I started Blue Peter. I didn’t have a lot of work in between.’

Suddenly Purves was famous again. ‘There would be no point taking my children somewhere we’d publicised on the show. We went to an event in Coniston, and I got recognised in the car park. We never got out of the car park.

‘But it was the best job in television. The worst paid, but the best. When I joined, my starting fee was based on my fee for Doctor Who, so it was 35 guineas. John Noakes was paid five guineas more than me. Valerie was on five guineas more than John.’ So Blue Peter was ahead of its time, paying its female presenter the most.

The trio were together for one of the most memorable events in the history of children’s TV, when Lulu the elephant came on the show in 1969. She urinated and defecated on the studio floor and sent her keeper flying, while the hosts slipped about in the mess.

‘Valerie was gamely trying to continue and keep the show on the air,’ says Purves. ‘John was having fun. I just laughed through most of it. It’s fabulous TV.’

Everyone thinks that scene was chaos because it was live, but it was prerecorded. ‘We didn’t usually prerecord the show, but we were all flying to Sri Lanka the next day for a Blue Peter assignment,’ says Purves. ‘It was put out without any editing, exactly as it had happened. I don’t give Biddy Baxter a lot of praise, but I give her praise for that.’

They had a tricky relationship, he says. Baxter kept strict control over her young presenters, told them off when they fell short of her high standards and did not want them anywhere near the production office, unlike today. ‘She was a very difficult woman but a great editor,’ he says. ‘The show succeeded because of Biddy. She kept a very firm rein on it. She treated us like kids.’

The truth about that lesbian rumour…

Baxter couldn’t control what they did off screen though – and as Purves has admitted, he was instantly attracted to his co-star: ‘I went weak at the knees the first time I saw Valerie. I fancied her like mad.’

Singleton revealed in 2008 that they’d had a one-night stand while filming on location. ‘We’d had a few glasses of wine at our hotel, and one thing led to another,’ she said. ‘It was one of those impulsive, enjoyable experiences but more a friendship thing than anything else. Sleeping with people you work with is generally not advisable, so we didn’t want to pursue it. There was always an unspoken acknowledgement that something rather nice had happened.’ She also revealed that she had become pregnant – not by Purves – soon after joining Blue Peter and had an abortion when it was still illegal. ‘I’ve just never felt maternal. And I never remotely considered that the children I met on Blue Peter were a replacement for not having my own.’

Purves has been married twice, the first time to scriptwriter Gilly Fraser. They have two grown-up children, Matthew and Lisa. He met his second wife, the actor Kathryn Evans, when they were in pantomime together and they have been married since 1982.

Janet Ellis, Helen Skelton and Konnie Huq. The show was – and is – aimed at children aged between six and 15

Singleton had a long-term relationship with the DJ Pete Murray, until he broke off their engagement. She later lost a partner to the IRA, when 24-year-old journalist Philip Geddes was killed by a bomb outside Harrods in 1983. She said in 2008: ‘My big personal regret is not having sustained a deep relationship and, maybe if I’d achieved that, I might have wanted children. I seem to have crammed most of my men into the early part of my life, and then there were great deserts of nobody at all except flings.’

What made her decide to be so candid? ‘I was fed up with everybody thinking I was gay. So I thought, it’s time I put the record straight. I was fed up with looking at Wikipedia and finding I’ve lived with Joan Armatrading when I’ve only met the bloody woman twice. Ridiculous.’

She’s talking about a notorious rumour that began in 1978, when Singleton interviewed the singer-songwriter for a current-affairs show. They were said to have begun a three-year affair, at a time when there were hardly any openly lesbian public figures.

So Singleton set out to quash the rumours with a piece in The Mail on Sunday revealing that she had actually slept with a member of Joan’s band, who was a man. This did not go down well with the self-appointed guardian of Blue Peter’s purity, Biddy Baxter, even though both women had long since left the show.

Right: the Blue Peter line-up in 1971, from left: Peter Purves (with Petra), Valerie Singleton (with Jason) and John Noakes (with Shep)

‘Biddy has never sent me a Christmas card since then, to which I would say: ‘Did you spend 30 years being accused [of being gay]?’ Everybody goes, “Oh, she’s gay isn’t she?” No she’s not. Anything but.’

Did the rumours harm her love life? ‘How do I know? It might have done. How many people thought, “It’s not worth asking her out?”’ Even now, Singleton wishes Armatrading would say something. ‘She must’ve heard of it. Why doesn’t she stand up and say it’s absolute rubbish?’

The action hero who set the bar for stunts

The third member of the classic Blue Peter line-up was John Noakes, the daredevil Yorkshireman with a broad accent and matey attitude, who was the show’s longest-running and probably best-loved presenter. Noakes joined in 1965 and left in 1978, taking his faithful Blue Peter dog Shep with him to other popular shows such as Go With Noakes before retirement.

‘I felt we were telepathic together. I loved that man,’ says Purves. ‘He was a great friend and I miss him very much.’ Noakes died aged 83 in his adopted home of Majorca last year after suffering from Alzheimer’s. Having been such an enthusiastic and engaging man, his decline was very hard for friends and family to take, says Purves. ‘It was horrible. I remember his son saying to me that towards the end it wasn’t Johnny. It developed over a time. He was always a little bit scatty, so you might not have spotted the dementia coming in. Alzheimer’s is so cruel.’

But Noakes will always be remembered for daring stunts like skydiving with the Red Devils and crashing on the Cresta Run. He paved the way for the amazing feats of subsequent presenters, most notably Helen Skelton, who kayaked the Amazon and walked a tightrope between chimneys at Battersea Power Station.

Noakes’ finest – and maddest – moment was climbing Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square without any kind of safety harness in 1977. ‘That was the tops,’ says Purves. ‘Absolutely unbeatable.’

Even now, it is an eye-watering piece of footage, as Noakes climbs the 180ft column using only ladders tied on with ropes, including one that goes backwards at the overhang of the plinth. Noakes hauls himself over the void and still somehow remains cheery.

All of which goes to show Blue Peter was a lot racier and more thrilling than its reputation at the time, when there was a great rivalry with the funkier Magpie on ITV. Magpie presenter Mick Robertson looked like an off-duty rock star, Susan Stranks and Jenny Hanley were hippie chicks less aloof than Singelton. The shows came to stand for two sides in a cultural war – the flashy, ambitious world of commercial television and the fuddy-duddy BBC. ‘I know we were rather straight,’ says Singleton. You were either a Magpie kid or your parents would only let you watch Blue Peter, it was said. But the shows were more similar than people realised and the rivalry was real. ‘Sometimes we were fighting for items. We would watch them and think, “Damn, we were going to do that!” Maybe Magpie thought the same thing.’

But during Baxter’s tenure, Blue Peter did innovate, introducing pets and gardens that could be cared for by viewers who didn’t have any of their own. Petra the eight-week-old mongrel puppy was the first Blue Peter pet, arriving in 1962. Petra brought the first whiff of scandal, when she died after just one appearance but was replaced without viewers being told. ‘It wasn’t appropriate to cause them that distress,’ said Baxter later. ‘It wasn’t noticed and I am convinced we did exactly the right thing.’

Champions of the TV charity appeal

The show was – and is – aimed at children aged between six and 15, but it didn’t spare them the realities of life and taught them to care for the less fortunate. The first appeal was in 1962 in aid of the homeless, when viewers were asked to collect postage stamps. Forty-eight more followed over the years, raising the equivalent of £100 million (with bring-and-buy sales bringing in another £57 million) for good causes.

‘Nobody was doing appeals before Blue Peter,’ says Konnie Huq, a later presenter. ‘Comic Relief, Sport Relief, Children In Need, they all followed.’

The Blue Peter badge was an early and very successful experiment in audience interaction, introduced because Baxter had written to Enid Blyton twice as a child and got the same standard reply both times, as she once told Desert Island Discs: ‘I remember bursting into tears and going to my mother and saying: ‘She doesn’t remember me.’”

Incredibly, the number of letters to Blue Peter has soared again in recent years, from 40,000 in 2011 to a staggering 106,303 last year. Current presenters Lindsey Russell and Radzi Chinyanganya say that’s because children still want authentic responses in a digital age. ‘Interactive normally means you tap buttons and images appear on a screen, but this is physical interaction. You may receive a Blue Peter badge. It costs you the price of a stamp.’

He has a strong emotional connection to the show because of what it did for him as a child, when his home life was in turmoil. ‘Blue Peter was just always there.’ Chinyanganya was a superfan who managed to get hold of the same kind of BBC mug the presenters used. He wrote in at the age of ten to say he sat there drinking his tea from it at the same time as they did on the telly. ‘I felt for the badge before I opened the reply. I’m a working-class boy from Wolverhampton, whose parents were splitting up at the time. Life wasn’t great. But that badge let me know: “You matter”.’

The line-up of presenters was stable for many years, but by the late Seventies the team began a revamp. The actor Peter Duncan was meant to replace Noakes, but turned Blue Peter down, fearing it would ruin his career – he had been part of the company at the National Theatre for two years and appeared in Space 1999.

He eventually joined in 1980 and became the next daredevil by running a marathon and cleaning Big Ben without a safety harness. But he was soon involved in scandal, when a newspaper claimed he had appeared naked in a porn film. The Lifetaker was not actually pornographic at all, but the myth was born. These days he finds it amusing. ‘I’ve always enjoyed the mythology,’ he says. ‘It’s quite funny that you’d have a Blue Peter presenter who’s supposedly a porn star. The dinner party jokes are quite fun: “Would you like a copy of the film?”’

Duncan reveals that he threatened to walk out on Blue Peter because the producers wouldn’t show his wife, Lucy’s breasts. ‘The thing I enjoyed most was the show following my eldest daughter’s first year, when I was a dad for the first time. But I nearly quit over breast-feeding, and thought about pulling my wife from the show. In the Eighties there was a feeling of, “No, we can’t show that.” I said, “Well, I’m sorry, that’s what we do.”’ Duncan won. ‘My wife is now a midwife, and my daughter, now aged 31, has got recordings of the show.’

Duncan was with Blue Peter from 1980 to 1986 with a one-year break in the middle, before making documentaries and eventually leading the worldwide Scouting movement as Chief Scout. He was part of Blue Peter’s second golden age in the Eighties with fellow presenters Sarah Greene and Simon Groom – most famous for introducing an item on the restored doors at Durham Cathedral and slipping in the phrase: ‘What a beautiful pair of knockers.’ That went right over the head of the core audience of young children but became part of Blue Peter legend.

Janet Ellis also joined during this time, when Blue Peter had an audience approaching eight million. Ellis had a child, Sophie, who appeared on the show as a four-year-old – and then again many years later as the pop star Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Her worst moment involved a cat fight, literally. ‘We reunited a family of cats from a litter live on air and they did not have any feeling of affection. They went for each other like anything. The poor woman who had homed the mother had a gouge out of her.’

Ellis is clearly delighted to be among former presenters again, as she watches Chinyanganya chat with Singleton at our photo-shoot in London. ‘I became friends with everybody I worked with. I was especially close to Caron.’ Caron Keating, presenter Gloria Hunniford’s daughter, joined the show from 1986 to 1990, but died of breast cancer in 1997 aged 41.

Valerie Singleton wearing a space suit for feature on Blue Peter TV programme about women astronauts

How does Ellis feel about the oft-repeated accusation that Blue Peter is too middle class? ‘I am a middle-class person but I don’t think it’s a middle-class programme. If you scrapped it now, someone would say in a week’s time, “Let’s have a programme for kids”, and the content would look like that. There was never a suggestion that I needed to be middle class to represent Blue Peter. I don’t think it had an agenda to do anything other than what the viewers suggested to it.’

Nor was she sacked in 1987 for being an unmarried mother when she became pregnant again, she says – despite rumours to the contrary. ‘I always found that weird, because I was so obviously pregnant on the programme,’ she says. ‘I left at the end of July, and had a baby in August, so you couldn’t have disguised it. My last programme was a surprise visit from the RAF Falcons [with whom she had jumped 20,000 feet and set a European record for a woman]. They released this safety net and all these nappies fell out.’

Ellis does say there was a strong expectation that presenters would live a moral life away from the show. ‘You can’t be unaware of the fact that you are an ambassador for the programme when you’re on duty. People would have killed you to get the job, so if you can’t do it properly, then don’t do it.’

Bacon sacked and fake phone-ins…

That moral code kicked in when Richard Bacon was sacked in 1998 for taking cocaine, just after the show had celebrated its 40th birthday. ‘I have been stupid and regret making a silly mistake experimenting with drugs,’ the 22-year-old told a newspaper, but his contract was terminated.

Lorraine Heggessey, the head of BBC children’s programmes, famously appeared on television before the show to tell viewers: ‘I believe that Richard has not only let himself and the team on Blue Peter down, but he has also let all of you down very badly.’

Helen Skelton, who joined as a presenter in 2008, was then a viewer of 15. She says Blue Peter has to have standards. ‘There still is an association of what a Blue Peter presenter should be and represents. I’ve got kids. I love that brand. I love what that badge means. And I think anybody who’s looking to be on that show should be good.’

Konnie Huq was on the show when the Bacon scandal broke, having joined the previous year. She was surprised at what happened, given the probing questions the producers had asked before giving her the job. ‘If I had said to them, “Well, I’ve snorted cocaine, got on tables in nightclubs on many occasion and I’ve got photos from when I was a stripper”, then I’m pretty sure I would not have got the job.’ She hadn’t done any of those things though. ‘I don’t drink, I’m a really good girl, so there are no skeletons in my closet. I’m totally boring. They got a dream candidate.’

One question did get her worried. ‘I did temping at Q magazine and I remember being at their party with people like Rod Stewart. Somehow we ended up in a hotel suite. There’s all sorts of things going on in those environments. I’m the good girl. But then people are taking photos and stuff. Blue Peter asked me, “Are there any photos that might surface?” I’ve never done illegal substances, but it does make you think about when you’ve been in the company of people who have. It’s like when you’re driving and you see the cops are behind you and you feel guilty even if you’re not.’

She clearly felt some sympathy with Bacon, because they started dating four years later. She was still on the show at that time but he had gone on to host programmes for BBC Radio 5 and ITV. They were reportedly together for six years before a mutual parting. Huq now plays down the scandal: ‘It didn’t really change things. Blue Peter will just bounce back and keep going.’ It didn’t do Bacon much harm either. He has broken America in recent years with a National Geographic series called Explorer that began with a walk with Barack Obama. He spent 12 days in a coma this summer after going down with pneumonia but declared his recovery by tweeting: ‘I am alive.’

However, in 2007 Huq had to apologise for one of the show’s big lies, when the production team faked the results of a live charity phone-in competition. Nearly 14,000 calls were made but a ‘technical failure’ meant that the producers couldn’t access the callers’ details. A girl visiting the studio was asked to pretend to be the competition winner.

The BBC was fined an unprecedented £50,000 by Ofcom over the affair and it was castigated for making a young studio visitor ‘complicit’ in the deception.

Huq left the following year after beating Singleton to become the longest-serving female presenter. She married the writer Charlie Brooker in 2010: ‘I’d still be doing Blue Peter now if I had my way, but you’ve got to let others have a piece of the pie,’ she says. ‘It’s the ultimate job.’

Skelton says that as a devoted fan growing up in rural Cumbria she loved the show’s upbeat attitude. ‘I know some people go, “Oh, it’s all a bit giddy”, but positivity breeds positivity. Blue Peter was a smiley, happy place and you went around the world with them. I didn’t take a holiday for years because I didn’t want to miss out. You take a day off and someone else is off to meet the Queen or fly with the Red Arrows.’

She also took the challenges to another level, becoming only the second woman ever to finish a 78-mile ultra-marathon in Namibia in 2009. ‘I was lying behind a bush, hallucinating, freaking out, seeing seals that weren’t there. I’d been running for 12 hours. But I thought of all the letters from kids saying, “You’re going to win it”. I didn’t want to come back on the show and go, “I didn’t do it”. As if you want to be the person who turns round and tells the kid the tooth fairy’s not real! You want to tell them anything’s possible. And that’s what makes you do it.’

The mystery of the missing viewers

Skelton entered the Guinness Book Of Records after kayaking all 2,010 miles of the Amazon and became the first person to reach the South Pole on a bicycle. She left after five years in 2013, and has gone on to appear on Strictly Come Dancing and Countryfile, by which time Blue Peter had switched to CBBC, and many people were predicting its end. The average audience began to fall below 400,000 and reached a nadir with an episode that was repeated at 2.30pm on June 13 last year, when the Broadcasters Audience Research Board gave it an audience of zero.

The BBC responded by stressing that the episode had been watched by 252,000 people across all its broadcasts as well as 39,000 times on iPlayer. Others pointed out that the repeat was on at a time when most children would have been at school.

But it is Peter Purves who puts up the most robust defence. ‘It’s absolute nonsense – you can’t compare the eras. People don’t watch TV in the same way now. Blue Peter is huge. The best thing that’s happened to Blue Peter in a changing world is that it went on CBBC. Now you’ve got it on a channel that is devoted to people who want to watch the show.’

The 37th and most recent presenter is Radzi Chinyanganya, who ambushed a presenter to get noticed. ‘I went to the BBC Television Centre with my showreel but they said, “We can’t take unsolicited material.” I thought, “What am I going to do?” Then Andy Akinwolere [who had just announced he was leaving the show] walks past. I thought, I’m going to have to do this, so I went up to him. He said, “That’s a showreel isn’t it? Do you want me to take it to the editor?” He very graciously did that.’ He didn’t get the job but he did get to work as an intern at the BBC. Then, after a stint on CBBC show Wild, in 2013 Blue Peter producers offered him the job he had always dreamed of. ‘I’m not an emotional guy but I cried when they told me that. Cheryl the commissioner said, “I think we should leave it there.” I couldn’t form a sentence. It was the accumulation of all that hope, all of that frustration, all of that dreaming that you think might be futile.’

His job is to represent the children who watch, he says. ‘When Blue Peter’s at its best, we are the viewer. If I’m talking to WrestleMania wrestlers, I’m going to ask them questions I think you want to know. “What’s it like to get slammed on the mat? What’s it like to hear the crowd respond to your name?” And I will be as excited as the viewer.’

Chinyanganya grins when the legendary Valerie Singleton appears in the doorway and starts chatting away about the perils of live presenting. ‘I love it when things go wrong,’ she says at the end of a day of laughter and revelations. ‘The secret is not to be embarrassed. You just keep going.’

And they shoot each other a look that says: ‘Just like Blue Peter…’

Blue Peter celebrates its 60th birthday with a live one hour special on CBBC on October 16 at 5pm, then continues every Thursday on CBBC at 5.30pm

How John Noakes kept a stash of badges in his car to bribe traffic wardens… and other tantalising facts

1 Blue Peter first aired on October 16,1958 with Christopher Trace and Leila Williams.

2 There have been 11 versions of the theme tune, Barnacle Bill. The latest is by composers Banks & Wag.

3 The Blue Peter badge was launched on 17 June 1963. There are eight types, the highest being Gold (the Queen received hers in 2001). John Noakes once admitted he kept some starter-level blue badges in the glovebox of his car as potential bribery for parking wardens.

John Noakes’ five-mile freefall with the Red Devils earned him a civilian world record in 1973

Blue Peter cat Willow, left, a beautiful but vicious Burmese cat that was the only animal to be sacked from the show. Right: In 1977, the intrepid John Noakes executed one of his most famous and dangerous stunts – climbing Nelson’s Column

Children who appeared on the show and went on to become famous include Formula 1 ace Lewis Hamilton

Blue Peter first aired on October 16,1958 with Christopher Trace and Leila Williams

The most popular Blue Peter ‘make’ was Thunderbirds’ Tracy Island. The show which received 100,000 requests for the factsheet in 1993

4 There have been nine Blue Peter dogs, five tortoises, two parrots and nine cats, including Willow, above, a beautiful but vicious Burmese cat that was the only animal to be sacked from the show.

5 In 1977, the intrepid John Noakes executed one of his most famous and dangerous stunts – climbing Nelson’s Column without any safety equipment. At one point he was hanging from a ladder with nothing beneath him. On reaching the top, he puffed out his cheeks and said: ‘Oh, it’s a long way up really, isn’t it?’ His plucky cameraman had to go up first to film Noakes’ ascent.

6 Children who appeared on the show and went on to become famous include Formula 1 ace Lewis Hamilton, pop star James Blunt (then James Blount) and actor Jude Law.

There have been some memorable mishaps on the show: Lulu the incontinent elephant peed and pooed her way around the studio in 1969

7 Many Blue Peter presenters are also record-breakers: in 2010, Helen Skelton broke the Guinness World Record for longest solo journey by kayak; John Noakes’ five-mile freefall with the Red Devils (top) earned him a civilian world record in 1973; and in 2002 Matt Baker earned his place in the record books with the highest tandem hang-glide behind a microlight, at 11,000ft.

8 There have been some memorable mishaps on the show: Lulu the incontinent elephant peed and pooed her way around the studio in 1969 (above) and Andy Akinwolere dropped the star off the top of the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree in 2008.

9 Blue Peter appeals have raised more than £100 million since 1962. Funds raised have bought two guide dogs, 25 lifeboats, eight flats for homeless people, 32 ponies, 57 lorries, three caravans, two day centres, six bungalows, 12 houses in Romania, three schools and 8,350 toilets.

10 The most popular Blue Peter ‘make’ was Thunderbirds’ Tracy Island (above). The show which received 100,000 requests for the factsheet in 1993.

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Collections to Covet

Roundup

by Lucy Feagins, Editor

The Brisbane home of Kylie Johnson. The kitchen displays some of Kylie’s extensive ceramics collection. Photo – Eve Wilson, production – Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

A sweet collection of vintage tins displayed above the mantle in the Enmore home of artist Renata Waterfall. Photo – Nikki To for The Design Files, production – Lucy Feagins.

The South Melbourne home of Greg Irvine takes collecting to new heights! Greg’s master bedroom showcases his impressive collection of Victorian plates. Photo – Eve Wilson, production – Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

The mid-century Melbourne home of Martin and Louise McIntosh. Pictured above is their front/record room, with the couple’s extensive collection of mid century inspired artwork and vintage memorabilia, including an early 1960’s original MAD magazine illustration, a 1953 abstract by Danish artist Mogens Lohmann, an original 1967 Men’s Adventure Surfing cover illustration, contemporary self portrait in top right by US artist Charles Schneider, and George Nelson Eye clock. Photo – Eve Wilson, production – Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

Inside Jo Dabrowski and Andrew Fisher‘s Californian Bungalow, in Melbourne’s inner west. Their dining room wall featured an array of illustrated plates collected by Jo. Photo – Anette O’Brien. Production – Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

Also displayed in inside Greg Irvine‘s home is his remarkable collection of antique tortoiseshell haircombs. Photo – Eve Wilson, production – Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

The Albert Park home of Lynn and Geoff Clay. The dining area features vintage artwork collected by the couple from overseas and local markets, including the Camberwell market and Glen Waverley Antique market. Photo – Annette O’Brien. Production – Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

The Brisbane home of stylist and photographer Kara Rosenlund and Timothy O. Above – kitchen. ‘Our kitchen is filled to the brim with old, loved, weathered and worn utensils and crockery,’ explains Kara. Photo – Eve Wilson. Production – Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

More from the incredible home of Greg Irvine. The kitchen showcases his exhaustive collection of Victorian dinnerware, enamel teapots and canisters. Photo – Eve Wilson, production – Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.

The Perth home of Andy and Lisa Montgomery. Their Vespa GS 150 (1959), Vespa GS 160 (1962) and Lambretta T 175 Series 2 (1959) are among the collectors’ most prized possessions. Photo – Jack Lovel. Styling – Anna Flanders.

In these days of small-space living and Marie Kondos-inspired ‘decluttering’, there’s a rebellious joy to be found in collecting. An artfully displayed collection can be the most spectacular centrepiece in any home – the key is not so much what you collect, but how you choose to display it.

When it comes to collector’s homes, we can’t look past the truly remarkable South Melbourne abode of artist Greg Irvine – one of the most memorable spaces we’ve ever set foot in!

Greg’s many collections are displayed in tightly curated, orderly arrangements. Take these cues from Greg for successful collecting :

1. Collections should be themed at point of purchase.

If you can’t see a home for an item when shopping, don’t buy it.

2. A collection should be consistent.

Unrelated objects can look untidy and cluttered. A safe bet is to choose all one type of object, or all one colour/material.

3. Collections are to be seen, not archived.

There is no point in hiding your treasured pieces away; the enjoyment is in the viewing and admiration of each item, and recalling the stories they tell. As Greg says, ‘If you can’t display it, don’t own it!’

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Hyperallergic: Art Movements

John Sloan, “The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire” (for New York Call, March 27, 1911), charcoal, ink, and gouache on board, sheet: 18 7/16 x 14 11/16 inches, Delaware Art Museum, gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1991 (© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)

Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world. Subscribe to receive these posts as a weekly newsletter.

Theresa May wore a bracelet emblazoned with images of Frida Kahlo at the Conservative Party conference. The prime minister’s keynote speech was widely panned as a disaster; May had to be handed a lozenge after struggling with a cough, two letters from a party slogan fell off the wall behind her, and a prankster managed to evade security and interrupt the speech. “Can I just point out that Theresa May is wearing a bracelet of Frida Kahlo, a member of the Communist party who LITERALLY DATED TROTSKY,” tweeted Guardian writer Hannah Jane Parkinson. Musicians Florence Welch and Calvin Harris later took to Twitter to complain about the use of their music at the conference.

Beginning November 1, small groups of tourists will be permitted to climb to the fifth and highest level of the Colosseum in Rome.

Performance artist Deborah de Robertis was charged with exhibitionism and assault following an incident in which she exposed her genitals in front of the Mona Lisa at the Louvre. De Robertis stated that her performance — during which she shouted “Mona Lisa, my pussy, my copyright” — was a tribute to a work by Valie Export.

St Hugh’s, the Oxford University college where Aung San Suu Kyi studied PPE (philosophy, politics and economics), removed her portrait from display following widespread condemnation of her response to the Rohingya crisis. On Wednesday, Oxford city council voted unanimously to strip the Myanmar leader of the Freedom of the City of Oxford.

A small painting by Renoir, “Portrait of a Young Girl with Blond Hair,” was stolen from an auction house near Paris a day before it was due to be sold.

An American Journey: The Art of John Sloan, the first full-career retrospective of the artist’s work to be staged, will open on October 21 at the Delaware Art Museum. A founder of the Ashcan School, Sloan is best known for his street scenes of New York City.

A reel from the Lumière Collection at the George Eastman Museum

The George Eastman Museum acquired and restored a rare collection of 18 films by the Lumière brothers. The nitrate reels, consisting of seven 35mm negatives and eleven 35mm positive prints, have been dated to approximately between 1896 and 1903.

The heirs of Jewish museum director Curt Glaser are to receive compensation for an artwork he was forced to auction in order to flee Nazi Germany in 1933. The current owners of Bartholomäus Spranger’s “Mercury Carriers Psyche to Mount Olympus” (ca 1576) have agreed to give Glaser’s heirs a cut of the proceeds after the work is sold at Christie’s on December 7.

A man wielding a screwdriver attacked a painting by Adolf Hitler in Salò, Italy, where it is included in an exhibition titled Museum of Madness, from Goya to Bacon. The painting was not significantly damaged.

The Friends of Notre-Dame de Paris foundation was established to raise funds for the complete renovation of the cathedral. An estimated $40 million is required in order to carry out the most urgent repairs.

The Whitney Museum of American Art unveiled David Hammons‘s proposal for a public artwork situated in Hudson River Park.

Conservators working on Mary Rose were forced to shore up the wreck with scaffolding after observing that the ship had begun collapsing on itself.

The Victoria & Albert Museum’s David Bowie exhibition will make the last stop of its international tour at the Brooklyn Museum. The show is scheduled to open on March 2, 2018.

Marine archaeologists recovered a bronze arm from an ancient shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera.

Archaeologists working in southern Egypt discovered what is thought to be one of the earliest known pet cemeteries.

Marina Abramović collaborated with luxury dessert brand Kreëmart to produce a macaron that embodies her identity “in the form of taste.”

Transactions

Audrey Flack, “World War II (Vanitas)” (1976–77), oil over acrylic on canvas, 96 x 96 in, museum purchase (courtesy PAFA)

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts announced 28 new acquisitions, including works by Audrey Flack, Sonya Clark, Linda Kramer, and Mickalene Thomas.

David Geffen pledged to donate $150 million to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the largest single cash gift from an individual in the museum’s history.

Sutton Hoo, one of the UK’s most important archaeological sites, was awarded a £1.8 million (~$2.36 million) National Lottery grant [via email announcement].

A rare Ru guanyao brush washer was sold to an anonymous buyer at Sotheby’s for $37.7 million, a record for a Chinese ceramic.

The Davis Museum at Wellesley College acquired 14 paintings from Ria Brodell’s Butch Heroes (2010–12), a series celebrating the lives of trans men throughout history.

Emory University acquired the so-called “Joan Anderson Letter,” an 18-page letter sent to Jack Kerouac by Neal Cassidy. Kerouac credited the letter’s spontaneous prose style as a direct inspiration for his 1957 novel On the Road.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded $375,000 to the Museum of the Moving Image. The grant will be used to fund the long-term preservation of born-digital objects.

The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation gave a $250,000 gift to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

The Tate acquired works by Dorothy Iannone, Mary Beth Edelson, Hannah Black, and Lawrence Abu Hamdan through the 2017 Frieze Tate Fund.

Dorothy Iannone, “Wiggle Your Ass For Me” (1970), acrylic on canvas, mounted on canvas, 1900 x 1500 mm, from Air de Paris, Paris

Transitions

The $500 million renovation plan for Lincoln Center was scrapped according to The New York Times.

Julia Gonnella was appointed director of Qatar’s Museum of Islamic Art.

Susanne Pfeffer was appointed director of the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main.

Paul L. Whalen was appointed president of the Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation [via email announcement].

Cleveland T. Johnson was appointed executive director of the Morris Museum.

Hadeel Ibrahim was elected to the governing board of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.

The Museum of Modern Art promoted Ana Janevski to a new post as curator of its Performance and Media Art department.

Emily Liebert was appointed associate curator of contemporary art at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Gilbert & George announced plans to convert a 6,000-square-foot former brewery near Brick Lane, London into a foundation to show their work.

The 8th Floor extended its hours to include Saturdays from 11am to 6pm.

The LEGO House opened in Billund, Denmark.

Accolades

Anh Do, “JC” (2017), oil on linen with unicorn hologram, dead insects found in garden and other mixed media, 240 x 200 cm (© the artist; photo by Mim Stirling, AGNSW)

Anh Do’s portrait of Indigenous actor Jack Charles was awarded the 2017 Archibald prize people’s choice award.

Lawrence Abu Hamdan was awarded the 2018 Abraaj Group Art Prize.

Lauri Stallings was awarded the 2017 Hudgens Prize.

Lis Rhodes was awarded the 2017 Freelands Award.

The Royal Institute of British Architects awarded its 2018 Royal Gold Medal to Neave Brown.

The Rose Art Museum awarded Tony Lewis its Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Award.

The Ford Foundation announced the recipients of its Art of Change fellowships.

MAXXI announced the finalists for its MAXXI Bulgari Prize: Talia Chetrit, Invernomuto (Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi), and Diego Marcon.

Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Obituaries

Vern Blosum, “Rescued” (2015), oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in (courtesy ESSEX STREET, New York)

Vern Blosum (1936–2017), artist. Best known for his works mocking Pop art.

CeDell Davis (1926–2017), blues guitarist and singer.

Arthur Janov (1924–2017), psychotherapist. Best known as the creator of primal therapy.

Reggie Lavong (1933–2017), radio DJ.

Donald Mitchell (1925–2017), musicologist and publisher. Founder of Faber Music.

S.I. Newhouse Jr. (1927–2017), owner of Condé Nast.

Tom Paley (1928–2017), singer and musician. Pioneer of the 195os American Folk revival.

Tom Petty (1950–2017), singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

Valton Tyler (1944–2017), artist.

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#Training: Story Arcs and Scene Writing for Television Drama, October 9th

Three time Emmy award winner Lisa Albert and Story Consultant Mary Kate O’Flanagan, will break down episodes written by Lisa Albert for two acclaimed series: Mad Men and Halt and Catch Fire.

The aim of the course is to give screenwriters and development personnel an opportunity to hone their understanding of the structure of television drama and of scene writing. As it is aimed at experienced…

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Tiptoeing through the “Monster” guest cast

Alicia Coppola as FBI Special Agent Lisa Rand Appeared in "Little Angels", "Rage" and "The Seventh Child".

Rob Nagle as Albert Barrington Nagle played Dr. Tom Frost on Dawson's Creek and Jeffrey Powell on Eli Stone. Was Wayne Usher in the "Playing with Fire" NCIS episode in season nine.

Guest role include The West Wing, The Guardian, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Everwood, Without a Trace, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The Middleman, Cold Case, Lincoln Heights, Mad Men, The Young and the Restless, Harry's Law, After the Bee, Major Crimes, Castle, Touch, Mistresses, Criminal Minds, I Didn't Do It, CSI, Grey's Anatomy, Dirty Talk, The Librarians and Modern Family.

Laura Kai Chen as Mandy Huang Currently playing Melinda Trask on Days of Our Lives. Was Dr. Sanada in several episodes of Law & Order: SVU in the mid 2000's. Guest roles include One Life to Life Boston Legal, Law & Order, Numb3rs, Dirt, Harry's Law, Dallas (2013), Bones , Instant Mom, Royal Pains, Castle, Togetherness and Hawaii Five-0.

Natalia Castellanos as ATF Special Agent Cha’risa Swan Appeared in episodes of CSI: NY, The Forgotten, Workshop, The Closer, Awkward, Prime Suspect (US), Touch, Criminal Minds Beyond Borders, Secrets & Lies and Shooter. Christopher Rivas as ATF Special Agent Elliott Ross Was Ramone Cervantes in Mi Casa Mi Casa and appeared in episodes of Shameless, Rizzoli & Isles, 2 Broke Girls, Rosewood, Grey's Anatomy, SEAL Team and For the People.

Lamont Thompson as Spencer Williams Was Greg Hoades in The OC, Agent Manners in season eight of 24 and Andre on Mike & Molly.

Guest roles include Renegade, Frasier, Star Trek: Enterprise, Roswell, In-Laws, Everwood, Lizzie McGuire, Still Standing, CSI, Malcolm in the Middle, Huff, Bones, ER, Two and a Half Men, Hidden Palms, Boston Legal, Desperate Housewives, Sons of Tucson, CSI: Miami, Better With You, Southland, Rizzoli & Isles, Mom, Animal Kingdom, Girl Meets World and law enforcement characters in both Days of Our Lives and The Young and The Restless.

Played Major Spain in JAG's "The One that Got Away" in season nine and Lt. Sommers in NCIS's season two's "Bikini Wax" episode.

Tobias Jelinek as Robert “Bobby” Griffin Guest starred in Southland, The Young and the Restless, Shameless, The Mindy Project, The Originals, Major Crimes, Atlanta, MacGyver and Baskets. Was Bodie Whitman in the "Off the Grid" episode of NCIS in season 14.

Played the Lead Agent in the first season of Stranger Things and Boots this season in Arrow.

Dutch Johnson as Thomas Jones Was in episodes of Heroes, General Hospital, Broad City, Lethal Weapon, Life In Pieces, Notorious, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Major Crimes and American Crime Story.

Josell Mariano as Buyer#1 Appeared in a number of short films as well as episodes of Kingdom and Simi Valley.

Michael Broderick as Cole Bingham Played Commander James Shelty in the season 14 "Nonstop" episode of NCIS.

Guest roles in episodes of Bones, Invasion, 24, Jericho, The Unit, The Crusader, Universal Dead, The Mentalist, Criminal Minds, Touch, Extant, Jane the Virgin, Justified, Murder in the First, American Crime Story, Mistresses and Power.

Kerrie Blaisdell as Cindy Ferguson Was in episodes of Judging Amy and Law & Order.

Matt Kelly as Justin Tucker Was Romero in Everybody I Love is Dead and had guest roles in episodes of iCarly, Suburgatory and Henry Danger.

Andy Marques as Navy Lieutenant Commander Timothy Weir Appeared in a number of short films.

Written by: Adam George Key and Frank Military

This is Adam George Key's first script for the series. He has been a writer's assistant since season two. Key wrote a web series Hollow Walls and the short film "Love Is".

Frank Military wrote/co-wrote “Little Angels” (with Agent Rand), “Deliverance”, “Lockup”, “The Job”, “Greed”, “Betrayal”, “Crimeleon”, “Vengeance”, “Out of the Past” Part One, “Rude Awakenings” Part Two, “Descent”, “Ascension”, “Allegiance”, “Spoils of War” (which he directed), “Black Budget”, SEAL Hunter”, “Rage” (which he directed and also featured Agent Rand), “Unspoken”, “Unlocked Mind”, “Revenge Deferred”, “The Seventh Child” (with Agent Rand), “Crazy Train”, "Uncaged" (which he directed) and "The Silo". Always such light-hearted and delightful hours.

Directed by: Dennis Smith directed “Fame”, “Standoff”, “Rocket Man”, “Cyberthreat”, “Exit Strategy”, “Patriot Acts”, “Out of the Past” part one (written by Frank Military), "The Livelong Day”, Between the Lines”, “Deep Trouble” part two, “Black Budget” (written by Military), “Black Wind”, “Blame it On Rio”, “Defectors”, “Matryoshka” part one, “Granger, O”, “The Queen's Gambit”, “Hot Water", "From Havana With Love" and "Plain Sight".

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“The Summer Man”

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directed by Phil Abraham

#Mad Men #Matthew Weiner #John Hamm #Elisabeth Moss #January Jones #Christina Hendricks #Cara Buono #Jay R. Ferguson #Aaron Staton #Rich Sommer #Matt Long #my edit

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The Simpsons Season 5 Ranked

22. Lady Bouviers’ Lover

Maybe having Grandpa falling for Marge’s Mom wasn't the greatest idea for an episode, its really not bad, just forgettable and it does the best it can with its premise, the premise just sucks.

21. The Last Temptation of Homer

I don't know what it is but this episode has always left me cold, I guess it comes down to how quickly Homer goes from just having a crush on a co-worker to seriously considering having an affair with her, it just seems like too much, and doesn’t make Homer very sympathetic in that moment even if he does the right thing at the end.

20. Barts Inner Child

Overall pretty good, but by far the best moment is the scene that has the two best guest stars in the history of the show: Albert Brooks and Phil Hartman.

19. The Boy Who Knew Too Much

Not a perfect episode, but every scene with Principal Skinner is great.

18. Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy

I actually really like this episode, the problem is as I have said before, during the golden years theres just too much good you have to rank some very good episodes way too low.

17. Homer Goes to College

Kind of a weird episode, and maybe it doesn’t explore its idea as well as it could have, its still a very funny idea and as a result a funny episode.

16. Bart Gets an Elephant

The precise moment where you could no longer call this show a realistic look at a dysfunctional American family, I mean its still great, but this would never happen in the first couple seasons.

15. Homer and Apu

One of the first episodes that explores a character outside the main family, opening the door for many, many, many future stories.

14. Burns Heir

When I was a kid, I always wondered why Bart chose his family over, unimaginable wealth, maybe that says something about my morals. Its a very fun episode beside this.

13. Scenes of a Successful Marriage

A much better Marge/ Homer episode than The Last Temptation of Homer, it really breaks down the core of their relationship, and that is as depressing as it should be.

12. Bart gets Famous

A hint at the meta deconstruction that the show would later explore in future seasons, where the show is already addressing its longevity, which is interesting looking back from season 28.

11. Marge on the Lamb

A Thema and Louise parody, that has far and away the best C-plot in any episode, where Lionel Hutz has about 1:30 minutes of screen time, and it is all gold.

10. Homer the Vigilante

Another very joke heavy episode, and as the best of these type of episodes have to be, this is very funny, with a great parody of Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

9. Treehouse of Horror IV

While not quite as good as V, but it does include maybe my favorite Treehouse of Horror Segment: Homer and the Devil.

8. Boy Scoutz ‘n the Hood

Very solid episode from beginning to end, its very funny, has a great sense of adventure (I enjoy stories of people lost at sea, I don't know why) and a really great song, which puts it up a few spots in this list.

7. $pringfield

Besides being just one of the most purely enjoyable episodes of the season, the subplot of Marge becoming a gambling addict and the family falling apart without her around is a great emotional core, that impressively blends very well with the zaniness that is going on.

6. Sweet Seymour’s Baadasssss Song

Like Homer and Apu before it, this is an episode which, further develops a side character who was previously rather one note into someone with a backstory and an emotional core.

5. Homer Loves Flanders

Another hint at the deconstruction that seasons 7 & 8 would explore. Here they show a world where Homer and Flanders are friends, but they show understands that the world cannot exists this way and solve this problem in a very tongue-in-cheek manner.

4. Deep Space Homer

A classic, compatible to Mr. Plow in its legacy and its themes: Homer gets a new job and ends up having to compete with Barney. Plus the first appearance of the inanimate carbon rod!

3. Cape Feare

Many would consider this the greatest episode in the shows history, and its difficult to argue against that, its nearly perfect in its structure, comedy, parody and thriller aspects. But again this is my completely subjective list and I prefer the two above it.

2. Homers Barbershop Quartet

I love The Beatles, they are my favorite band, and like most die-hard Beatles fans I studied those 7 years of those mens lives to an obsessive extent, so of course I love this parody of that story by my favorite show of all time. One things thats interesting, is I saw this episode way before I had any interest of The Beatles so it was a gradual developing love once I finally understood the references and jokes that are throughout the episode.

1. Rosebud

Like the episode previously listed, I didn't truly fall in love with this episode until I saw and also fell in love with Citizen Kane, while I don't think you need to have seen Citizen Kane to enjoy this episode, I think it is a large benefit in the appreciation you can have for the attention to detail that was put in, and the skill in retelling the story of the greatest film of all time in 22 minutes, and have it be funny and have all the shows characters act within character for the entirety of the story, I’m sorry but if thats not an example of high art I don't know what is.

Overall Rankings:

1. RoseBud

2. Last Exit to Springfield

3. Homer at the Bat

4. Homer’s Barbershop Quartet

5. Cape Feare

6. Marge vs. the Monorail

7. Flaming Moe’s

8. Lisa’s Substitute

9. I Married Marge  

10. Krusty Gets Kancelled

11. Deep Space Homer

12. Mr. Plow

13. The Way We Was

14. Bart the Murderer

15. Homer the Heretic

16. Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk  

17. Kamp Krusty

18. Homer Loves Flanders

19. Sweet Seymour’s Baadasssss Song

20. Bart Gets an F

21. I Love Lisa

22. $pringfield

23. Whacking Day

24. Saturdays of Thunder

25. Boy Scoutz ‘n the Hood

26. Treehouse of Horror IV

27. Black Widower

28. Lisa’s First Word

29. Stark Raving Dad

30. Separate Vocations

31. Lisa the Greek  

32. Homer the Vigilante

33. Marge on the Lamb

34. Treehouse of Horror III

35. Bart gets Famous

36. Scenes of a Successful Marriage

37. Burns Heir

38. Homer and Apu

39. Bart Gets an Elephant

40. Duffless

41. Homer Goes to College

42. One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish  

43. Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie

44. A Streetcar Named Marge

45. Treehouse of Horror

46. Treehouse of Horror II

47. Lisa the Beauty Queen

48. Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy

49. Like Father Like Clown

50. Radio Bart  

51. The Boy Who Knew Too Much

52. Blood Feud

 53. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou

54. Homer’s Triple Bypass

55. Homer Defined  

56. Brush With Greatness

57. Bart the Lover  

58. Three Men and a Comic Book  

59. Simpson and Delilah

60. The Last Temptation of Homer

61. Selma’s Choice

62. Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes?

63. Lisa’s Pony 

64. Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes On Every Fish  

65. Old Money

66. Lady Bouviers’ Lover

67. Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington  

68. Brother from the Same Planet

69. The Front

70. Dead Putting Society 

71. Bart the Daredevil

72. Colonel Homer 

73.Marge Gets a Job

74. Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment

75. New Kid on the Block

76. Marge in Chains

77. When Flanders Failed

78. Bart’s Friend falls in Love 

79. Itchy and Scratchy and Marge

80. The Otto Show 

81. Bart Gets Hit by a Car

82. Dog of Death 

83. Bart vs. Thanksgiving  

84. Principal Charming 

85. Moaning Lisa 

86. The War of the Simpsons 

87. Krusty Gets Busted  

88. Bart the General 

89. Bart’s Dog Gets an ‘F’ 

90. Dancin’ Homer 

91. The Telltale Head 

92. The Call of the Simpsons 

93. The Simpsons Roasting on an Open Flame 

94. Life on the Fast Lane 

95. Bart the Genius  

96. So its Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show

97. The Crapes of Wrath 

98. Some Enchanted Evening 

99. There’s No Disgrace Like Home 

100. Homer’s Night Out 

101. Homer’s Odyssey

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