#donny thompson

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“The Dying Song (Time to Sing)” by Slipknot❤️🤘

One of my favorites from their new album The End, So Far🖤

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Creed 3 was Better than I thought

Adonis is back in the ring but this time for different reasons. Fans of Creed 1 and 2 know that after Creed 2 Adonis retired to spend time with his family. Now Adonis feels forced back into the ring to finish what he has started. What I liked If you like Rocky movies you will like this movie. Personally, I liked how the movie was short and straight to the point. It didn’t waste time on…

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Hiya Indie!! A questiom for Indie TMNT that occured to me outta nowhere... what kind of voices do you think they would have? Like, I noticed every iteration have very different "sounds" to all the turtles, so I was wondering!! Any specific VAs in mind, or just general ideas?

I love your art btw!!! Your comic composition and art style are great!!! ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡

I actually answered a similar question awhile back! Link here

Though, a few of my ideas have changed since then so here’s the new set:

Leonardo: Mark Whitten

Raphael: Clifford Chaplin

Donatello: Josh Brener or Adam McArthur

Michelangelo: Robbie Daymon

Master Splinter: Greg Baldwin

April O’Neil: Ashley Johnson

Casey Jones: Marc Thompson or Jason Ritter

The Shredder: Eric Bauza

Karai: Mae Whitman

These are just samples from various characters these people have voiced before to help give you an idea of what they sound like in my head, so I imagine they would have a different performance playing these characters.

Leonardo talks more naturally than Rengoku, Raph has a light Brooklyn accent, Mikey talks like a surfer dude, April sounds less like a child and more like a woman(kinda like 03 April), and Karai is a little more serious sounding.

In the cases where I put two voices it’s because I like both, so Donnie in my head sounds like a mix of both of the voice actors I chose, as in like a combination of their speech patterns and mannerisms.

Though in the case of Casey Jones, I do like both of the voice actor’s voices, but I have a major bias towards Casey Jones having a heavy Brooklyn accent much like 03 Casey.

I’ll probably change my mind again, but for now this is what I’m happy with! Many of these choices were actually suggested by BasketballCam2 on Deviant Art, so credit to them for finding these!

Good question! :]

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CLOSED! Preliminary Hot Vintage TV Men List

Alright folks! We have one week left on submissions for the Hot Vintage TV Men's Bracket! As promised here is a list of all the Hot Vintage TV Men who have been submitted and passed our preliminary eligibility checks. There are a handful of guys on this list and one or two not on it that we are currently still debating on so reminder that this list is not final and subject to change.

Currently we have 231 Hot Vintage TV Men!

Also in advance of the competition I'd like to remind anyone submitting propaganda for someone that starred in a show that aired only partially during our timeframe or was under 18 for a part of a shows filming, to please make sure you are only submitting propaganda that is from within our timeframe and when the actor was 18 years or older. This is also just good to keep in mind in general as several people submitted actors for shows that aren't eligible for our tournament either because it was outside our time period or in one case the actor was underaged for the entirety of the show (though many were eligible for other shows they were submitted for). We do our best to screen for these things but sometimes it's hard to tell or it’s a show we don't personally know well enough so we appreciate help from y'all letting us know if you do catch anything.

List below the cut

Preliminary Hot Vintage TV Men List

Dick Van Dyke

Alan Alda

Hugh Laurie

Peter Falk

Adam West

Donnie Wahlberg

Kevin McDonald

Scott Thompson

David Duchovny

Henry Winkler

Leonard Nimoy

Scott Bakula

James Garner

Tom Selleck

Dave Foley

John Astin

Joe Lando

Patrick Troughton

William Shatner

DeForest Kelley

Michael Ontkean

Russell Johnson

Kyle MacLachlan

Bruce McCulloch

William Hopper

George Clooney

Jeffrey Combs

Michael Horse

Mark McKinney

Jensen Ackles

Alejandro Rey

Mitch Pileggi

David Cassidy

Jeremy Brett

Anthony Head

George Takei

David Selby

Rod Serling

Paul Gross

Desi Arnaz

Tom Baker

Richard Dean Anderson

David Keith McCallum

Richard Chamberlain

Charles Shaughnessy

David James Elliot

Vincent Van Patten

Darren E. Burrows

David Hyde Pierce

Randolph Mantooth

Ricardo Montalban

Gene Anthony Ray

William Hartnell

Patrick McGoohan

René Auberjonois

Alexander Siddig

Reece Shearsmith

Michael T. Weiss

William Shockley

Spencer Rochfort

Danny John-Jules

David Hasselhoff

Conner Trinneer

Patrick Stewart

Jonathan Frakes

Paolo Montalban

Scott Patterson

Armin Shimerman

Anthony Andrews

David Schwimmer

Blair Underwood

Sylvester McCoy

Andrew Robinson

Pierce Brosnan

Thorsten Kaye

Anthony Starke

Darren McGavin

Clint Eastwood

Joseph Marcell

Michael Vartan

Richard Ayoade

George Maharis

Michael J. Fox

Dwayne Hickman

John de Lancie

Andre Braugher

Robert Carlyle

Dean Stockwell

Matthew Perry

Robert Fuller

Michael Hurst

Dana Ashbrook

Jonathan Frid

Dirk Benedict

Martin Milner

Demond Wilson

Robert Conrad

Telly Savalas

Peter Davison

Michael Praed

Jason Bateman

David Tennant

Brian Blessed

Miguel Ferrer

Micky Dolenz

Wayne Rogers

Mike Farrell

Michael Dorn

Cesar Romero

Eddie Albert

Nate Richert

Nicholas Lea

Brent Spiner

Dick Gautier

John Corbett

Jeremy Irons

David Suchet

Raymond Burr

LeVar Burton

David Wenham

Clint Walker

Larry Hagman

John Goodman

Matt LeBlanc

Tom Smothers

Erik Estrada

Jeremy Sisto

Colm Meaney

Stephen Fry

Ted Bessell

Ron Perlman

Luke Halpin

Ted Cassidy

Kevin Sorbo

John Cleese

Colin Firth

Colin Baker

Fred Rogers

Ben Browder

Keir Dullea

Randy Boone

Kent McCord

Jimmy Smits

Mark Lenard

Jon Pertwee

Fred Grandy

Mark Hamill

Ted Danson

Adam Brody

Noah Wiley

Eric Close

Lee Majors

Jamie Farr

Tony Danza

Kabir Bedi

Seth Green

Rik Mayall

Hal Linden

Diego Luna

Peter Tork

Sean Bean

Sam Neill

Eric Idle

Ted Lange

John Shea

Ron Glass

Tony Dow

Mr. T

John Hurt

Avery Brooks 

Billy Dee Williams 

James Marsters 

Robert Vaughn 

Kevin Smith 

Davy Jones 

Luke Perry 

Robert Duncan McNeill 

Simon MacCorkindale 

Keith Hamilton Cobb 

Chad Michael Murray 

James Earl Jones 

Bruce Boxleitner 

Timothy Olyphant 

Andreas Katsulas 

Valentine Pelka 

Peter Wingfield 

Sebastian Cabot 

Michael Nesmith 

Timothy Dalton 

Michael Shanks 

Joshua Jackson 

Michael O’Hare 

Robert Beltran 

Simon Williams 

Paul Johannson 

Daniel Dae Kim 

David Boreanaz 

Boris Karloff 

Robert Wagner 

Brandon Quinn  

Walter Koenig 

Richard Hatch 

Christian Kane  

Francis Capra  

Nathan Fillion 

John Forsythe 

Patrick Duffy 

Tony Shalhoub 

Ioan Gruffudd 

Garrett Wang  

Joe Flanigan  

Rider Strong  

Michael Tylo 

Bruce Willis 

Skeet Ulrich  

Jeff Conaway 

Paul McGann 

Scott Cohen 

Mario Lopez  

Martin Kove 

John Stamos 

Judd Hirsch 

Johnny Depp 

Tom Welling 

Matt Bomer 

Grant show 

David Soul  

Bob Crane  

Tim Russ 

Rob Lowe 

Neil Patrick Harris 

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First Floor: 001: Silas Rivers & Sienna Johnson 002: Illiana Fuentes & Kyle Hale 003: Emersyn Michaels & Flynn Gilbert 004: Luke Myers & Emma Eklund 005: Pogue O'Connor & Elena Dawson 006: Leighton Whitlock & Elliot Booker 007: Maverick Anderson & Ocean Simmons 008: Max Turner & Nova Rockwell 009: Klaus Richards & Marc Hall 010: Sloane Ross & Marisol Monroe 011: Anastasia Hill & Lucas Roden

Second Floor: 001: Aurora Thompson & Chase Knight 002: Lana & Noah Rodgers 003: Teddy Wintson & Melody Hastings 004: Theodora Murphy & Georgina Russell 005: Jeremy Fellows & Katerina Lopez 006: Paco Florez & Ivy Fitzgerald 007: Alejandro Fuentes & Nicole Balliol 008: Brooke Barlow & TJ Cohen 009: Elijah Cavannaugh & Serena Bennett 010: Kirby Sinclair & Kennedy Simpson 011: Brittany Miller & Austin Barnes

Third Floor: 001: Logan Slater & Atlas Quinn 002: Olivia Bardot & Petra Cromwell 003: Freya Smith & Killian Quinn 004: Damon Henderson & Kinsley Argent 005: Mila Monroe & Tanner Sommers 006: Tyler Dupont & Autumn Hawthorne 007: Beau Williams & Arrow Ellington 008: Emmett Hills 009: Savannah Cooper & Paris Astor 010: Archibald Deaton x Eric Rose 011: Donny Keller & Delcan Mitchell

Fourth Floor: 001: Bradley Callan & Lucia Rossi 002: Cyrus Thompson & Jared Madden 003: Caleb Peace & Jasmine Harris 004: Valentina Lopez & Bonnie Brook 005: Alexa White & Wyatt Baker 006: Callopie Adams & Jayce King 007: Lydia Brown & Vincent Baxer 008: Shane Nichols & Devin Carter 009: Jax King & Juliette Maddox 010: Mariana Florez & Kiara Langford 011: Rosalie Collins & Jack Sterling

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The songs that fit each silly the best from their respective playlists because I’ve been brainrotting over some of these songs so much recently (Raph, Casey and April barely have any songs IM SO SORRY ILL FIND MORE FOR THEM SOON- whenever I get a song rec it’s almost always for Leo or Donnie I was just lucky to find a decent amount of Mikey songs on my own cbsjcbjshcjd-)

You can guess why they fit them but I won’t tell you if you’re right fbsjbcjshck

Leo:

Streaks (ANIMA!), PIN-EYE (Jhariah), Oh No! (MARINA), Memento Mori (Will Wood), Passing Through (Kaden Mackay), Everything I Ever Thought I Knew (Zachery Levi), What The World Needs (Ride The Cyclone), A Sadness Runs Through Him (The Hoosiers), Goddamn Staying Power (Mother Mother), Explode! (Mother Mother), End Of Me (Mother Mother, specifically first verse and chorus), despair (leo.), She Used To Be Mine (Sara Bareilles), Top Of My School (Katherine Lynn-Rose), I/Me/Myself (Will Wood), Days (Mother Mother), Magic (MILGRAM)

THERES TOO MANY THAT FIT HIM PERFECTLY ISTG 😭😭😭 There’s so many others on his playlist (he has almost the entire Grief Chapter Album, same with Mikey) but these are the ones I feel fit him the best

Out of all of these I would say Passing Through, Streaks or PIN-EYE are his theme song but bro has way too many choices

Raph:

Maybe It’s My Fault (WILLOW), So Big/So Small (Rachel Bay Jones), I Really F**led It Up (girli), I’d Give Anything (Mandy Moore), Meteor Shower (Cavetown)

I wasn’t lying when I said there wasn’t a lot of Raph songs it’s bad fr 💀💀💀 ILL FIND HIM MORE EVENTUALLY

His theme song is 100% Maybe It’s My Fault, it was my top played song on Spotify last year because I was literally brainrotting over it for him for MONTHS. Bro feels so guilty 24/7/365 and none of it was even his fault.

Mikey:

God’s Plan (Mother Mother), End of Me (Mother Mother, specifically second verse and chorus), Nobody Escapes (Mother Mother), Normalise (Mother Mother), Wrecking Ball (Mother Mother), Sunsets (Jhariah), Art Is Dead (Bo Burnham), Look Who’s Inside Again (Bo Burnham), Love, Me Normally (Will Wood), Sweet Hibiscus Tea (Penelope Scott), Mirror Man (Jack Stauber), 2econd 2ight 2eer (Will Wood)

Mirror Man has basically been his theme song since I started writing Reticent but God’s Plan, Nobody Escapes, Art Is Dead and the end of Love, Me Normally fit him SO INSANELY WELL (especially God’s Plan and Nobody Escapes I have been listening to those constantly since they released partially because I was about to go see Mother Mother but also because I was brainrotting over them for Ret Mikey SO HARD)

If I had to pick one it would probably still be Mirror Man but God’s Plan is SO close to overtaking it

Donnie:

Outliars and Hyppocrates (Will Wood), Rät (Penelope Scott), Partner In Crime (Madilyn Mei), Interlude:I’m Not Angry Anymore (Paramore), Boys Will Be Bugs (Cavetown), dumb dumb (mazie), brutal (Olivia Rodrigo), Rule #4 - Fish in a Birdcage (Fish in a Birdcage), Waiting in the Wings (both of and reprise, Eden Espinosa), Sparkbird (Sparkbird), Laplace’s Angel (Will Wood), BlackBoxWarrior - OKULTRA (Will Wood), I Can’t Handle Change (Roar), What’s Wrong With Me? (Ashley Park), Run Rabbit Run (The Hoosiers), Magic (MILGRAM)

Most of these fit Season 2 Part 1 Donnie in particular so I’ve been having a hard time picking a specific one as his theme song but I think Boys Will Be Bugs would fit pretty well

April:

Hayloft II (Mother Mother), Lew’s Lullaby (Ritt Momney), Cut The String (Mother Mother), Feel Better (Penelope Scott), Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You (Anna Kendrick, Jeremy Jordan), Meteor Shower (Cavetown), Anybody Have A Map? (Rachel Bay Jones, Jennifer Laura Thompson)

April has the same issue as Donnie where a lot of her songs are more specific moments rather than her as a whole, but it’s worse for her since she has way less songs than he does dbskcbkshc- Cut The String is probably the one that would fit the best as a theme song though since even though it is meant to be for a specific moment she does have a tendency to run away from her problems instead of solving them

Also side-note, I do have an unfinished April animatic to Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You because my The Last Five Years hyperfixation came back shskvcjsgfjd- I’m unsure if I’ll finish it cause it’s pretty old now but even if I don’t finish it I’ll still post the WIP!

Casey:

Little Big Boy (Madds Buckley), Bring It On (MILGRAM), Good Kid (Chris McCarrell), Sunsets (Jhariah), Meteor Shower (Cavetown), YELLOW (Yoh kamiyama), Dead Mom (Sophia Anne Caruso)

Him and April have the same amount of songs that fit them the best out of their playlists omigosh twinsiesssss dbskcbskhcjd

His theme song is Little Big Boy absolutely 200% it fits him so perfectly I love it so much for him

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Acidic ~ Slipknot 💜🎶

Forever a maggot🤘🛐

“I’M NOT A GOD LIKE YOU!” 🎤

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Flash Thompson president???

(HEAVY, LONG-SUFFERING SIGH)

So, starting in Venom (2018) #25, Eddie, Dylan, and the Venom Symbiote are pursued into an alternate universe by Virus (Mac Gargan) after the Maker (Ultimate!Reed Richards) was doing some fuckery with trying to get Earth-1610 back.

Maybe one of my friends who doesn't completely loathe the Cates run (@guessimabasicnerdgirlnow maybe you can help with this?) can give some better insight, but yes, there's a universe where Flash Thompson became president.

When Eddie is approached by this universe's Agent Venom in #26, he immediately assumes it's Flash...

Surprise! It's your ex. But not really your ex.

Anyways. (cracks knuckles) I've never really been quiet about how much I loathe this arc, for a very large variety of reasons, but this is just... laughable. Let's take a look at that specific dialogue bit.

First of all, why would Flash go into politics. Second of all, "Eugene" is functionally a dead name for him, but I wouldn't expect Donny Cates to understand that, because as a writer he had pretty much zero deeper understanding of Flash's character. And thirdly, president? PRESIDENT? Okay, now you're just fucking with me.

#27 gives a little bit more information on Flash's role on this world, but I'm not sure that Flash and Anne had any kind of like, rapport, which is too bad, because that would be really funny.

There's also a joke about exes there, but I suppose I might need to make that one in a fic or something, haha.

If any of my friends who actually enjoyed this arc want to add on, please do, because I put myself through pain getting these panels. And I am not going to summarize the whole Codex thing. 💖

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Ohmygod😭😭😭😭 I read a wiki of a killer in d*ad by d*ylight and ohmygod😭😭😭😭 I am so enamored by him! It's like he was made for me. This is going to be a dumb long post bc I just wanna copy and paste some sections from his lore that stood out to me. It's all under the cut. At the end I talk a little about it, but I need to put my thoughts together in a more put-together way. This will do for now.

Oh and trigger warnings for gore and violence.

In the sweltering barn, he stares at the blood dripping from his hammer, feeling as though he were in a dream. Strange. Weird. Unhinged. No. Not a dream. More like... like he's living in a TV show... watching himself from a distance. Slaughtered cows thick and wet all around him. Seven or eight of them writhing helplessly in warm, coagulating blood. Heads cracked open. Brain and gore spilling out. Flies buzzing around him, buzzing in his face, buzzing in his ears, telling him this slaughter is who he is. This senseless slaughter is his worth... his only worth.

The flies circle his face and laugh at him. The high-pitched whining returns. "The pigs got names and you didn't! Duke and Donny." He swats at the flies. Pa nudges him. "Come on, Boy, show'em you can do more with that hammer!" Boy... That's what Pa calls him. Boy... That's what Ma calls him. They think he's too dumb to know he doesn't have a name. A real name. He knows. All his life he knew. He knew and imagined himself as Max... Max Thompson. Imagined his Pa was so proud of him that he gave him his name. How he dreamed to have his father's name... how he dreamed... Pa shoves him.

Ma sobs on the ground with a mouth full of cracked teeth. Boy lifts her with one arm and a flood of inarticulate words rush out of his mouth. Words he only understands. Words the TV taught him. He wants to know his name, his real name, and she just stares at him, confused, lost, desperate. She gurgles blood and chips of tooth slip down the side of her face as she begs for her life. Even if she understood what he was saying she could tell him nothing. "My name! My name! What's my name!" Boy slams his Ma against the ground again and again.

"Why? Why did you hate me? What did I do to make you both hate me so much?" Her face is both beautiful and hideous at the same time. Evil veiled by beauty. He hugs her, harder and harder, wishing everything would have been different, wishing he were one of those damn pigs. They spoiled them with love, affection and time — all that time they spent with Duke and Donny while he groveled nameless and alone in a dungeon built just for him. He tries to lift her, but slips in a pool of her blood. She struggles in his embrace. Every time he asks the question he squeezes her tighter and tighter. "My name... What's my name?" Her struggles cease and she jerks spasmodically.

Boy moves to the side to let him pass and stares at his good work. Stares at the gore dripping from his skull like putty. Watches him stagger left and right in the moonlight. If he were a cow, he'd end his suffering. But he's not a cow. He's something else. Something vile and corrupt. Boy watches him disappear in the shadows. He stares at the darkness until he hears a thud. A strange feeling fills his heart and he... laughs. It feels good to fight back and show them his worth — his real worth.

These deputies seem angrier than the last. He's not sure if it's because he felled their friends or if he ended their cleaning racket with his Pa. Maybe both. He just gets the sense if they catch him they'll make him suffer and squeal like a pig. Those pigs. Those damn pigs they loved so much. Why did they have to love them so much and him so little. Had they treated him like those pigs he would have been happy. He would have been happy and he would have been something else. He would have been a hero like that boy who wore a cape and helped the world all because of how his Ma and Pa raised him.

I don't have anything concise to say, but I love how much being loved by parents and the importance of a name is highlighted throughout all of Max's lore. If his parents had shown him even an ounce of kindness, things could have turned out different. He even goes as far to say that if his parents had treated him as they treated their prized pigs, things would be different.

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Creed III Final Trailer

Adonis “Donnie” Creed finds out that “there’s no enemy like the past” when his good friend Damian “Dame” Anderson gets out of prison.

Creed III is directed by Michael B. Jordan from a screenplay by Keenan Coogler and Zach Baylin. The story is by Ryan Coogler, Keenan Coogler, and Zach Baylin. The film stars Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson, Jonathan Majors, and Florian Munteanu.

Creed III hits theaters on March 3, 2023.

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Hot Vintage TV Men's Bracket - Full List

Sorry for the delay, it took us longer than expected to finalize the list. We are currently working on finishing and finalizing the bracket for round 1. For now enjoy the list of everyone in the tournament and we'll be back on Thursday evening to kick off round 1!

Boris Karloff

Clint Walker

Desi Arnaz

Claude Rains

James Arness 

James Garner 

William Hopper 

Adam West

Alejandro Rey

Bob Crane

Cesar Romero 

David McCallum

David Selby 

Davy Jones

DeForest Kelley

Dick Gautier 

Dick Van Dyke 

Dwayne Hickman 

Eddie Albert 

George Maharis

George Takei 

John Astin 

Jonathan Frid 

Larry Hagman 

Leonard Nimoy 

Mark Lenard 

Martin Milner 

Michael Nesmith

Micky Dolenz 

Patrick McGoohan

Patrick Troughton 

Peter Tork 

Randy Boone 

Raymond Burr 

Richard Chamberlain 

Robert Conrad

Robert Fuller 

Robert Vaughn 

Rod Serling 

Russell Johnson 

Ted Bessell 

Ted Cassidy

Tom Smothers

Walter Koenig 

William Hartnell 

William Shatner 

Alan Alda 

Brian Blessed

Darren McGavin

David Cassidy

David Soul

Dean Butler

Demond Wilson 

Derek Jacobi 

Eric Idle

Erik Estrada 

Fred Grandy 

Fred Rogers 

Hal Linden

Henry Winkler

Jamie Farr 

John Cleese

John Hurt

Jon Pertwee 

Judd Hirsch 

Kabir Bedi

Kent McCord 

Lee Majors 

Michael Landon 

Michael Palin

Mike Farrell 

Peter Falk

Randolph Mantooth

Richard Hatch

Ricardo Montalban 

Robert Wagner 

Rock Hudson

Simon Williams

Telly Savalas

Terry Jones 

Tom Baker 

Wayne Rogers 

Anthony Andrews

Bruce Boxleitner

Bruce McCulloch 

Colin Baker 

Dave Foley 

David Hasselhoff

Dirk Benedict

Gene Anthony Ray

Gerald McRaney 

Hugh Laurie 

Jameson Parker

Jeremy Brett

Jimmy Smits 

John Forsythe 

John Stamos 

Johnny Depp 

Kevin McDonald 

Mark McKinney 

Martin Kove

Michael J. Fox

Michael Praed

Mr. T

Patrick Duffy 

Peter Davison 

Richard Dean Anderson

Rik Mayall 

Rowan Atkinson 

Sam Neill

Scott Thompson 

Simon MacCorkindale 

Stephen Fry 

Sylvester McCoy 

Ted Lange 

Tom Selleck 

Tony Danza 

Alexander Siddig 

Andre Braugher

Andreas Katsulas 

Andrew Robinson 

Anthony Head 

Anthony Starke

Armin Shimerman 

Avery Brooks 

Brad Dourif 

Brent Spiner 

Bruce Campbell 

Charles Shaughnessy 

Colm Meaney 

Craig Charles 

Dana Ashbrook 

Danny John-Jules 

Darren E. Burrows

David Duchovny

David Hyde Pierce

David Schwimmer 

David Suchet 

David Wenham 

Dean Stockwell 

Garrett Wang 

Gary Cole 

Grant Show

James Earl Jones

James Marsters 

Jeff Conaway 

Jeffrey Combs 

John Corbett 

John de Lancie 

John Goodman

John Shea 

Jonathan Frakes

Joseph Marcell 

Kevin Smith 

Kevin Sorbo 

Kyle MacLachlan 

LeVar Burton 

Luke Perry

Marc Alaimo 

Mark-Paul Gosselaar 

Matt LeBlanc

Matthew Perry

Michael Dorn 

Michael Horse 

Michael Hurst

Michael O’Hare 

Michael Ontkean 

Michael Tylo

Miguel Ferrer 

Mitch Pileggi 

Nate Richert 

Nicholas Lea 

Noah Wyle

Paolo Montalban

Patrick Stewart 

Paul Gross

Paul Johansson 

Paul McGann 

Peter Wingfield 

René Auberjonois 

Robert Beltran

Robert Carlyle

Robert Duncan McNeill

Ron Perlman

Scott Bakula 

Seth Green 

Spencer Rochfort

Stephen Nichols 

Ted Danson 

Ted Raimi

Thorsten Kaye 

Tim Daly

Timothy Dalton

Tim Russ 

Valentine Pelka

William Shockley

Ben Browder 

Brandon Quinn

Brian Krause

Chad Michael Murray 

Christian Kane 

Conner Trinneer 

Daniel Dae Kim 

David Boreanaz

David Tennant 

Donnie Wahlberg

Eric Close

Ioan Gruffudd

Jensen Ackles 

Jeremy Sisto 

Joe Lando

Joshua Jackson

Keith Hamilton Cobb

Michael Shanks 

Nathan Fillion 

Neil Patrick Harris

Reece Shearsmith 

Richard Ayoade

Rob Lowe

Ron Glass

Scott Cohen

Skeet Ulrich

Tom Welling

Tony Shalhoub 

Billy Dee Williams 

Bruce Willis 

Clint Eastwood 

Colin Firth 

George Clooney 

Jeremy Irons 

Paul Michael Glaser

Pierce Brosnan

Sean Bean

Blair Underwood

David James Elliot 

Michael Vartan 

Michael T. Weiss 

Scott Patterson 

Sebastian Cabot

Luke Halpin

Adam Brody

Jason Bateman 

Matt Bomer 

Timothy Olyphant 

Woody Harrelson

Richard Biggs

Robin Williams

Will Smith

John Schneider

Milo Ventimiglia

Bobby Troup

Bobby Sherman

Chad Everett

Casey Biggs

Jason Priestley

Don Adams

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Hello, I was checking out your blog and saw that Michiel Huisman fc will be perfect for a WC. What connection will be best for and also wanted to ask if your members have any connections not posted that he will fit. Thanks

We'd love to see him! Some options could include:

A former client for Isla Ricci

Gabi Perez-Jackson's college bestie/former flame

An old baseball friend of Charlie Davis

Someone that works at Davis Farms or Davis Sports

An ex of Donny Morgan who could also be an old marine buddy

An acting friend of Max Diaz

A friend or former co-worker for Fredrick Sullivan

An employee at the aquarium

A family member of Waverly Erickson

A nephew of Nancy Thompson

If any of our members have more suggestions, please react!

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Ireland Roommate List

Under the cut you'll find out your roommates for the Ireland trip!

First Floor, West Wing: W-101: Ivy Fitzgerald & Nicole Balliol W-102: Elijah Cavannaugh & Teddy Wintson W-103: Paco Florez & TJ Cohen W-104: Alejandro Fuentes & Melody Hastings W-105: Anastasia Hill & Lucas Roden W-106: Lana & Noah Rodgers W-107: Kirby Sinclair & Serena Bennett W-108: Brittany Miller & Brooke Barlow W-109: Austin Barnes & Kennedy Simpson W-110: Jeremy Flows & Georgina Russell

First Floor, East Wing: E-101: Valentina Lopez & Jax King E-102: Vincet Baxter & Kiara Langford E-103: Shane Nichols & Lydia Brown E-104: Rosalie Collins & Bonnie Brook E-105: Donny Keller & Mariana Florez E-106: Lucia Rossi & Jayce King E-107: Alexa White & Wyatt Baker E-108: Devin Carter & Jack Sterling E-109: Jasmine Harris & Declan Mitchell E-110: Caleb Peace & Juliette Maddox E-111: Cyrus Thompson

Second Floor, West Wing: W-201: Pogue O'Connor & Ocean Simmons W-202: Nova Rockwell & Klaus Richards W-203: Emersyn Michaels & Flynn Gilbert W-204: Maverick Anderson & Elena Dawson W-205: Leighton Whitlock & Kyle Hale W-206: Marisol Monroe & Luke Myers W-207: Marc Hall & Sloane Ross W-208: Aurora Thompson & Chase Knight W-209: Emma Eklund & Elliot Booker W-210: Max Turner & Illiana Fuentes

Second Floor, East Wing: E-201: Arrow Ellington & Thomas Ramsey E-202: Archibald Deaton & Autumn Hawthorne E-203: Logan Slater & Tanner Sommers E-204: Eric Rose & Atlas Quinn E-205: Silas Rivers & Petra Cromwell E-206: Sienna Johnson & Paris Astor E-207: Tyler Dupont & Mila Monroe E-208: Emmett Hills & Kinsley Argent E-209: Beau Williams & Freya Smith E-210: Killian Quinn & Damon Henderson

[purpleknight9k]

And now, because my mom’s not here and nobody can stop me, how Donnie brushes his teeth.

One quadrant at a time, first with a regular toothbrush, and then all over again with a soft-bristle dinosaur-shaped kiddie toothbrush.

Using the song “Doctor Doctor” by the Thompson Twins as a timer.

Forgetting what he’s doing, and bopping his head to the beat while he looks at his phone with one hand and half-heartedly brushes with the other hand.

One time he got bored and went to lay down and look at his phone while still brushing his teeth.

He fell asleep.

Toothpaste everywhere.

(From a conversation with @greentowerarts )

[turtlethon]

“Raphael Versus the Volcano”

Season 5, Episode 11 First US Airdate: October 5, 1991

Raphael mistakenly believes he only has 24 hours left to live.

Season five of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles continues with “Raphael Versus the Volcano”. This is the first episode of the series written by Carole Mendelsohn, spouse of TMNT’s Story Editor Jack Mendelsohn.

In his workshop, Donatello applies the finishing touches to his latest invention, a Healthometer. He outlines to Splinter how the contraption can identify the current physical status of anyone who uses it, providing an indicator of their well-being on a scale ranging from “A-1 SPECIMEN” to “ADIOS, AMIGO”. Supposedly the machine’s accuracy is as good as an actual medical exam, “and a whole lot less embarrassing”. Splinter is impressed, but cautions his student that no machine can take the place of a trusted physician; Donnie counters that he’s working to change that.

At Channel 6, a heavier-looking than usual Burne Thompson hands out assignments. Vernon is tasked with travelling to the island of Poppalua, where the famous “Toppa-Poppalua” volcano is about to erupt. April is given the job of reporting from the Botanical Gardens, where a new species of lily has been found by well-known botanist Wilhelm Vanilli. April and Vernon are both unhappy about their assignments, each feeling they’d be more suited to the other job. Burne, being a garbage human being with terrible judgment, tells his employees that he’s paying them to work, not to be happy, and angrily orders them to hop to it.

Leonardo, Michaelangelo and Raphael are playing some strange video game where a biplane fires laser beams at a little guy – I'm not sure how this is a three-player operation – when Splinter yanks the power cord, declaring that recreation time is over. He extols the virtues of having both a healthy mind and a healthy body, and asks his students to each get a reading from the Healthometer. As with Donatello, Leonardo turns out to be in optimal condition. To my astonishment, even Michaelangelo somehow gets a perfect reading. Raphael is extremely reluctant to participate, declaring that if something is wrong with him, he’d rather not know about it. Finally giving in, he places his finger in the machine and gets the worst possible reading, suggesting that physically he’s on the way out; in fact, the Healthometer's readings are so ominous that the mechanical arrow showing the readout pops off. Donnie is baffled as to how this could be, and before he can have Raph try again, the invention explodes.

At the Botanical Gardens, April bemoans being stuck covering a dull story about flowers while Vernon is seeing action reporting on the imminent eruption of the volcano. It seems like this was supposed to finally be a chance for our favourite cameraman Stan to get a proper line of dialogue, his first go-around being way back in “The Turtle Terminator” when MW Dublin managed to have his words come out of Vernon’s mouth. Someone in the recording sessions clearly half-remembered he had a vaguely rural voice as we hear it consoling April here; the problem is the animators didn’t get the memo, and draw an entirely new cameraman instead. Denied!

April is greeted by LaVerne Portside, Chairperson of the Flower Lover Society, and can barely disguise her contempt for the organisation’s ceremony. Meanwhile Vernon arrives with his own camera on Poppalua and films his report. The volcano is approaching the point of eruption as he speaks, with a stray blast of lava destroying his umbrella.

Back at the Botanical Gardens, April grumbles as a ceremony unfolds. LaVerne announces to a small but appreciative crowd that the new lily will be named “the Lady LaVerne Lily”. This draws the ire of a diminutive bald man who turns out to be Professor Wilhelm Vanilli. He angrily declares that he was the one who spent years cultivating this new flower and expects to get the credit for it. Laverne explains that the name “Willy Vanilli lily” simply sounds too silly. Furious, the well-dressed dandy storms off, vowing revenge on the whole world.

A downtrodden, sulking Raphael wanders around the sewers, grousing about the reading from Donatello’s invention. Hypochondria begins to set in as he mistakes drops of water that land on him from an overhead pipe for a cold sweat, and steam from a vent beneath his feet for the first signs of a fever. Now convinced he’s rapidly becoming unwell, Raph stumbles back in the direction of the Lair.

In what must be the funniest scene of the season thus far, Raphael stands outside the kitchen and happens to catch part of a conversation between Michaelangelo and Donatello. The pizza oven is on its way out, and Mikey is inconsolable, weeping as Donnie suggests the amount of time left will be twenty-four hours. (This is the most confusing part of the exchange – why would a failing oven work for approximately one more day? Does he mean it’ll take that long to get the parts he needs to fix it?) Not having the whole picture, Raphael assumes the conversation was about him, and wanders off to figure out how best to spend his last day on Earth.

Heading to the surface, Raphael decides that if he’s about to die anyway, he has nothing left to lose, and should spend his remaining time helping as many people as possible. To find the appropriate attire for his new role, he visits an all-night costume store, where he picks up a discounted superhero outfit.

In the Lair, Donatello finishes re-assembling the Healthometer. Now convinced that he’s identified the issue that led to Raphael’s poor reading, he heads off to tell him, instead encountering Leonardo. Both are mid-conversation when Michaelangelo walks in, clutching a note from Raph that to our eyes is visually indecipherable. Helpfully, Mikey decodes the message for us: “I’ve decided to devote what’s left of my short life to do-gooding. Goodbye awesome foursome, hello fearsome threesome!” The trio wonder where their friend could have ended up. Michaelangelo picks up one of Raphael’s distinctive red bands, and suggests that wherever he is, “he’s practically naked!”

Wilhelm Vanilli continues to gripe about his snub to nobody in particular as he pours the contents of a test tube into a cannister. Testing out his formula, he sprays all the plants surrounding him, which die within a matter of seconds. Satisfied with this outcome, he prepares to enact the next stage of his plan for revenge.

Raphael wanders the streets in a green hat and cape with red tunic as he happens to witness a crime unfolding at an unconventional looking bank. He quizzes “Sarge” - the same cop who April addressed as “Chief” that was oblivious to an entirely different bank robbery in “Michelangelo Meets Mondo Gecko” - and learns that some gunmen are holding the employees of the bank hostage. Charging in, Raph shows no fear as the generic criminals fire their laser guns at him. Our hero uses a sai to drop a light fixture on top of the villains. Astonished by this new do-gooder's effectiveness, Sarge asks his name. Raphael responds that he’s “The Green Defender”, backflipping his way out of the bank.

April rolls up in the news van and asks the Sergeant to recount the events that just unfolded for the viewers at home. This leads to a drawn-out bit about how the mysterious hero’s name isn’t The Green Defender, it’s The Green Defender. Donatello checks in via Turtlecom, and learns of what just happened, providing the Turtles with a lead on Raph’s location.

In the Turtlethon entry for “Muckman Messes Up”, I mentioned how odd it was to see the un-named Channel 6 news anchor – who I’ve taken to calling Walter Cronk-like – out and about filming news reports instead of behind a desk. Today he’s at it again, reporting in front of some trippy-looking curving tower blocks about a kitten that’s stuck on the ledge of a historic building’s thirtieth floor. The reporter speculates that only some “self-destructive idiot” could possibly save the feline, and right on cue, The Green Defender arrives. Raphael scales the building, swooping in with a grappling hook to catch the animal before safely landing back on the ground. After again making a point to remind everyone what his new moniker is, the heroic Turtle makes his exit.

April again arrives on the scene moments after the event in her van, this time with the Turtles as her passengers. What happens next raises a lot of questions, as she addresses “Walter” by declaring that she’s from Channel 6, the inference being that he isn’t.  He responds that as usual, April is “a day late and a dollar short”. Is he supposed to work for a rival station now? Did he get fired after his expose of the Turtles raiding the lab turned out to be unfounded in his last appearance? If so, he should probably remove that “6” badge he’s still wearing. (The mostly likely explanation is the animators needed a news guy and pulled him out of the model sheet pack, thinking he could pass for someone from a competing channel despite every prior episode contradicting this.)

Via a hand-held video link Vernon checks in with Burne, who’s furious that the volcano hasn’t erupted yet. In a move that’s low even for him, the news boss demands that his reporter find a way to speed things up; when Vernon suggests it might require “human sacrifice”, Burne angrily hisses “well what are you waiting for?” I would remind you that this isn’t even the first time something like this has happened, and that when the prospect of April filming while a skyscraper collapsed last season was discussed, he thought it would be fantastic for ratings. Burne Thompson is truly a despicable man.

Toppa-Poppalua finally begins to erupt, with Burne demanding that his employee get to work filming the event. Rightly seeing that his life is in danger, Vernon flees the scene, leaving a livid Burne to vow he’ll punish the reporter for his “insubordination”. Vernon is not a nice guy, but even he doesn’t deserve to be treated like this.

Back in New York, a dynamite factory becomes the site of a major fire, thought to be due to the ill-advised decision to hold the firm’s annual barbecue party there. A Fire Chief warns Raphael to keep his distance as over a ton of explosives are stored in the building. Nevertheless, Raph charges in, ready to perform his next benevolent act as The Green Defender.

April is still driving around when she receives a video call from Burne informing her of the news. (Oddly, for all the venom the station boss has been dispensing in this episode, he doesn’t seem fazed by the Turtles being in the van and joining the conversation.) By the time the group arrive at the location, they learn that The Green Defender has long since dealt with the situation, and subsequently left again.

Wilhelm Vanilli is seen flying to Poppalua in his own personal helicopter, adorned with a dollar sign on the side because... he’s a rich guy I guess, though we haven’t really seen anything to indicate that up to this point beyond the fact that he wears a fancy suit. He re-iterates his grudge again for the benefit of any viewers at home who may have forgotten what he’s up to, before making a point of dropping the cannister containing his special formula into the volcano. Vanilli declares that when Toppa-Poppalua erupts, the people of the world “won’t be able to say it with flowers any more”.

Vernon is having another go at filming the unfolding events when Vanilli touches down, emerging from his helicopter and grabbing the microphone out of the reporter’s hand. He declares that when the volcano blows, the poison gas will spread across the entire world, killing plant life everywhere. Raphael sees these events on – yes – a TV in the window of an electronics store with the sound up that he just happens to be passing by. When Vernon speculates that anyone willing to step in and fish the cannister out of the volcano would be staring death in the face, the forlorn Turtle realises this is a job for The Green Defender.

April returns to the offices of Channel 6, where she winds up getting assigned to cover the volcano story after all, on the basis that Vernon can’t handle it. Huh? We just saw that, against all odds and common sense, he was still broadcasting! April is thrilled at the prospect of seeing some action, but is told that “this counts as [her] vacation”, because apparently Burne just hasn’t been nasty enough today.

The Turtles head into the hangar where the Turtle Blimp is stored – the first time I believe that we’ve actually seen this area of the Lair in the series – and find their vehicle is no longer there. Instead, Raphael has left a note, which this time is legible: “I’m off to save the world’s vegetation. If I don’t return you’ll find the blimp on the island of Poppalua. This is my very last final note.” The team learn that April is also heading for the island, and ask to travel there with her.

The group arrive on the island in the Channel 6 news copter and use the Turtle Blimp to lower Donatello into the volcano via a rope, where he finds Raphael. Donnie explains that his Healthometer was faulty the entire time, which leads Raph to realise the predicament he’s wound up in right as the ridge beneath him crumbles. A grappling hook deployed by Michaelangelo narrowly prevents Raphael from winding up in the lava, and the Turtles, having retrieved Vanilli’s cannister, make a quick escape before a giant blast of lava fires out of the volcano.

We wrap up today’s adventure in the Lair, where the Turtles watch April report on today’s events. We see footage of Professor Vanilli running from the lava – it's not clear why, surely he could have just gotten in his helicopter and left – before he happens to run into the Police Sergeant from earlier. Splinter asks Raphael if he’s learned not to jump to conclusions. Raph quips that he’s learned not to jump into volcanoes, before Donatello wheels in the Healthometer for him to destroy.

“Raphael Versus the Volcano” is one of the strongest episodes of TMNT I’ve seen from a comedic perspective in some time. When the show entered its fourth season, I speculated that the humour on Turtles was benefitting from the change to living in a post-Simpsons world, where the bar for writing in animation had been raised and everyone else in the industry had to produce more compelling television as a result. Truthfully the show has never quite managed to reach that level, but this is as close as we’ve gotten, with some biting one-liners and genuinely funny character interactions.

On the action-adventure side of things, this episode is a true oddity, introducing a villain who really is just some weird little fellow with a grudge about not having a flower named after him, then having him not do an awful lot throughout beyond re-iterating that he wants revenge. Most of the excitement in this story is derived from Raphael’s reckless behaviour as The Green Defender. I can’t remember another episode of the series where a villain debuted and was captured without having any direct interaction with any of the Turtles at all. Willhelm Vanilli might not be the most thrilling enemy to appear in the series, but Rob Paulsen at least provides some sparkling voice acting to bring some entertainment value to the character.

For the benefit of anyone reading who wasn’t around when TMNT ‘87 was originally broadcast, I should probably point out that this episode’s title and the most basic elements of its premise are a play on the mildly successful but now largely forgotten 1990 Tom Hanks film Joe Versus the Volcano, about a man who’s led to believe he’s terminally ill and agrees to be offered as a sacrifice to a volcano in the South Pacific in order to appease an island’s superstitious natives. Similarly, this episode’s villain’s name is a play on the briefly popular but ultimately disgraced musical duo Milli Vanilli. So much of the culture of that era is just dust in the wind now, yet the Turtles themselves live on. We’ll re-join them next time as we continue to explore season five with our now-annual Baxter Stockman episode, “Landlord of the Flies”.