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Charlie’s Angels – Terror on Ward One

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Throwback Thursday takes us back to the tale of three beautiful former police officers turned private detectives working for a faceless boss known as Charlie. Jill (Farrah Fawcett) and Kelly (Jaclyn Smith) go undercover as student nurses at a hospital where several women have been attacked by an unknown assailant dressed in doctor’s scrubs. With Sabrina (Kate Jackson) undercover as a reporter interviewing staff and Bosley (David Doyle) as a patient, the Angels can keep tabs on their three leading suspects: a pill-popping surgeon (Jack Bannon), an ornery patient (Arch Johnson), and the ward’s resident gigolo (Robert Lipton).

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Scooby-Doo! – Foul Play in Funland

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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to Scooby Doo, Where Are You! for another mystery involving some meddling kids and their talking dog. While digging for clams outside a close amusement park, the gang’s interest is piqued when the park suddenly comes alive without warning and an unusual creature begins stalking the attractions. “Foul Play in Funland” is the rare episode of classic Scooby Doo, Where Are You! where there wasn’t a human orchestrating shenanigans or any kind of motive to do harm. The amusement park setting offers some fun moments, a few of which would find themselves into various Scooby Doo opening montages. What Shaggy (Casey Kasem) suspects must be an alien or ghost at different times in the episode is revealed to be a malfunctioning android named Charlie.

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Stargirl – Hourman and Dr. Mid-Nite

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Stargirl - Hourman and Dr. Mid-Nite television review

On Halloween, Courtney Whitmore (Brec Bassinger) gets two more recruits in “Hourman and Dr. Mid-Nite” as Beth Chapel (Anjelika Washington) sneaks into Courtney’s room and gets Dr. Mid-Nite‘s goggles to work and Courtney learns that the son of an original member of the JSA lives in town. Beth discovering Courtney and Yolanda‘s (Yvette Monreal) secret last week is immediately followed-up here. While Beth wasn’t chosen by Courtney, she proves her worth by identifying the brooding Rick (Cameron Gellman) as the son of Rex Tyler who we see murdered at the beginning of the episode in a flashback after stashing his son with a no-account brother. Pat (Luke Wilson) also sees a connection between the angry young man and the original Hourman leading him to discover just what Courtney has been up to the past two weeks.

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Young Justice – Nightmare Monkeys

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“Nightmare Monkeys” offers several revelations to the Young Justice team. The first comes at the end of the episode’s main story where Beast Boy (Greg Cipes) becomes lost in a pair of Goode VR Goggles designed to take over the minds of those it identifies as possessing a meta-human gene. Taking place within Garfield’s mind, the show’s writers have fun by inserting him into both the Hello, Megan! television show and version of Doom Patrol that was obviously styled after Teen Titans Go! (and even uses the show’s cast to voice the Doom Patrol characters rendered in Go‘s style). In another sequence, the episode also brings back Garfield’s pet monkey as either a Monkey God who prevented his mind from completely shutting down or some part of the character’s subconscious that recognized the danger and created false realities giving his friends time to save him.

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Rick and Morty – The Vat of Acid Episode

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Rick and Morty - The Vat of Acid Episode television review

Not that fans of the show need any further confirmation, but “The Vat of Acid Episode” certainly highlights was a ginormous prick Rick Sanchez (Justin Roiland) is. The entire episode centers around Rick inventing a device Morty (Roiland) has been constantly bugging him about, not as a favor to his grandson but as revenge for Morty slamming Rick’s (rather lame) plan in the episode’s opening that involves the pair hiding in a vat of fake acid from intergalactic gangsters to make it appear they have died. Along with Rick’s legendary dickishness, the other theme the episode plays on is introducing an in-depth, soul-crushing, plot thread for Morty that the show may or may not ever return to. For an episode based on a simple bit, this one really does have it all as events come full circle to reinforce Morty’s understanding of just what a bastard his grandfather truly is.

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