Alan Rapp

Bob’s Burgers – The Dead Bo-ats Society

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  • Title: Bob’s Burgers – The Dead Bo-ats Society
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“The Dead Bo-ats Society” offers a Saturday morning adventure for Tina (Dan Mintz), Louise (Kristen Schaal), and Gene (Eugene Mirman) who explore a boat in a scrap yard out of town only to become trapped when the owner leaves and releases his guard dog. With time becoming an increasingly important factor, due to the bet they made with their parents that they would be back by 11, the trio end up having exactly the kind of crazy adventure they were waxing poetically about just that morning (albeit a more chaotic and dangerous one than they had planned).

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Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu #11

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In a bit of an introspective issue, Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu #11 takes a step back after recent events where the members of the Midnight Mission haves won but not without a cost of one of their own with the soul of the Mission being killed in the recent battle. As the group plans to celebrate their lost ally, and the birthday of Marc Spector, we weave through spending a few pages with each member of the group talking about both the Mission and Marc (on a birthday that also so happens to be celebrating the character’s 50 years in comics).

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Good Cop / Bad Cop – Peace in the Valley

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  • Title: Good Cop / Bad Cop – Peace in the Valley
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Good Cop / Bad Cop stars Leighton Meester as Lou Hickman, the lead detective on an underfunded small town police force run by her father (Clancy Brown) in desperate of help. In the opening episode, Lou’s brother Henry (Luke Cook), who left home after a dust up with his father years ago, is failing yet again to earn his detective badge in Seattle due to his woeful interpersonal skills. Killing two birds with one stone, Big Hank offers Henry a detective badge if he returns home and joins the force (which of course isn’t the kind of help Lou had in mind).

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Nobody

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  • Title: Nobody
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Falling into the same pattern of films such as First Blood, John Wick, The Equalizer, and Taken, Nobody offers the same advice that you should be very careful with who you pick a fight with. Bob Odenkirk stars an unassuming middle-aged family man who is woken out of his slumber by a break-in. Allowing the robbers to make off with a limited amount of cash, which only makes friends and neighbors think less of him, Hutch hits a breaking point that isn’t satisfied by tracking down the thieves. However, he is mollified by beating up a gang of thugs on-board his regular bus route that leads to an entirely new set of problems. Hutch’s wild night triggers a battle with Russian mobsters reveals his past as a covert agent working as an auditor and eliminating threats for the United States Government when no other outcomes were available.

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The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot

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  • Title: The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to another mystery involving the Three Investigators whose mantra of “We Investigate Everything” leads Jupiter Jones, Pete Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews on the trail of clues to finding a hidden treasure hidden in riddles taught to a set of parrots. The Three Investigators begin the case when looking for a single missing parrot, one who stutters (thus giving the novel its title) and is owned by a friend of Hector Sebastian (Alfred Hitchcock in the original printing).

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