MONDAY MORNING DISPATCH (6/23/25)

1)  There’s an early episode of MOONLIGHTING (mid-1980’s TV show starring Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis) where David Addison (Willis) remarks to Maddie Hayes (Shepherd), “This is the chase.” The character says it just as the two of them start chasing after that episode’s bad guy.

There are other instances during that show when the characters “wink at the camera,” i.e. they acknowledge they’re on a TV show, without completing breaking the 4th wall.

THE SIMPSONS does it. Episodes of 30 ROCK have done it. RICK & MORTY walks a very fine line at doing it.

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MONDAY MORNING DISPATCH (4/14/25)

1)  This past week, the defense team for Bryan Kohberger was in court, trying to get all kinds of motions granted. You know who Bryan Kohberger is:

The dead-eyed Ph.D. student accused of murdering four Idaho college students.

Bryan has an airtight alibi. He was stargazing at the time of the murders.

And also, that knife that his Amazon account shows he purchased? He doesn’t know anything about it.

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