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Scooby-Doo! – A Tiki Scare is No Fair

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  • Title: Scooby Doo, Where Are You! – A Tiki Scare is No Fair
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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 on vacation in Hawaii (where they also brought the Mystery Machine suggesting they somehow drove it to Hawaii?), Mystery, Inc. takes a case involving a Witch Doctor (John Stephenson), the disappearance of several locals, and a giant statue of Hawaiian god Mano Tiki Tia come to life. In the end, the reason behind the Witch Doctor and statue are explained by crooks looking to scare away both locals and tourists in order to hide their pearl-poaching operation.

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Hit-Monkey – Run Monkey Run

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  • Title: Hit Monkey – Run Monkey Run
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Tired of dealing with Hit-Monkey, the Yakuza put a price on the monkey’s head that even makes his ghost sidekick blush. He’s also got to deal with the undead ghost assassin Yuki (Reiko Aylesworth) who arises to restore order to the streets of Tokyo and targets both Hit-Monkey and Bryce (Jason Sudeikis). With a ghost (who can harm them both) and host of assassins after them, there’s plenty of action in “Run Monkey Run.” Although Yuki comes to an understanding with the monkey, our protagonist has plenty of threats still coming after him as the Yakuza raise the price on the contract even higher.

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The Cleaning Lady – TNT

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  • Title: The Cleaning Lady – TNT
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Adapting the 2017 Argentinian television series La Chica Que Limpia for American audiences, the opening episode of The Cleaning Lady introduces Elodie Yung as Cambodian medical doctor Thony De La Rosa who, after witnessing a murder, gets pulled into a job as a cleaner by local mobster Arman Morales (Adan Canto) removing all evidence from a crime scene. “TNT” introduces multiple subplots such as Thony’s son struggling with a life-threatening immunodeficiency disorder, the antics of her less-reliable Filipino sister-in-law Fiona (Martha Millan), a teasing a possible relationship between Thony and Arman (who risks his life to save his cleaner). 

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Josie and the Pussycats

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  • Title: Josie and the Pussycats
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“Du Jour means seat belts.”

I’m still waiting for a Du Jour spinoff. Even 20 years after its release, 2001’s adaptation of the Archie Comics series and the Hanna-Barbera cartoon is simply a delight. A satirical take on pop culture and consumerism underneath a tale of a band’s meteoric rise to the top of the pop charts, Josie and the Pussycats was well before its time carving out a cult status in the years since its lukewarm reception in theaters.

Following the plane crash of the delightful boy band Du Jour (Donald Faison, Seth Green, Breckin Meyer, and Alexander Martin), who discover something unexpected when listening to their latest mix tracks, their manipulative promoter (Alan Cumming) seeks another band to hide subliminal messages within their music and so we meet the Pussycats: Josie (Rachael Leigh Cook), Melody (Tara Reid), and Val (Rosario Dawson).

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The Pretender – Ranger Jarod

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  • Title: The Pretender – Ranger Jarod
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to another episode featuring a man who can be anyone he wants to be. Jarod (Michael T. Weiss) joins a search group to find a missing college student in the middle of a national forest. This is one of the few examples of the series where Jarod impulsively leaps into action prior to doing a hefty amount of preparation and research, setting up an identity, and leaving clues for the Centre to follow. Despite evidence that the missing boy been injured and washed downstream, Jarod and another volunteer in the search, Nia (Elpidia Carrillo), continue searching the mountain where they discover a plane crash, drug money, and uncover a murder by another ranger (John Posey).

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