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"Mary, I'm becoming confused again, aren't I?" "Of course not." "Don't lie to me! Not you!" *** "Stop talking nonsense. I am telling you, you did not kill anyone." "Then how do you explain all this blood? WELL?"

Yes

Airplane and Airplane 2

It is not. But you correctly ID'd the author to the extent that you've seriously narrowed down the possibilities

The author of the standalone novel on which this series is based also wrote a series of novels in which it is revealed that all his standalone novels are, in fact, interconnected. This novel was adapted to a well-received movie decades before it was adapted into a pretty darn good tv series. It ran on cable, not broadcast tv. The premise really did lend itself to an episodic approach, though the original novel and movie didn't really get to exploit that. Producers predicted a seventh, final season, but they [and fans] were disappointed by fate: the network's decision to cancel after the sixth season finale, which ended on a cliffhanger that was never resolved. Sure, you could read the book or watch the original movie to get the original ending. But the artistic freedom to take the story to a different place than the foreordained ending was eliminated, sadly. On the bright side, World War III hasn't started. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Yes

To love another person is to see the face of God. *** For the wretched of the earth there is a flame that never dies -- even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise.

"Forbid me, now, to die. I'll obey. I will try. On this page I write my last confession. Read it well, when I at last am sleeping. It's the story of one who turned from hating- a man who only learmed to love when you were in his keeping."

Every line in Forrest Gump is a giveaway

A is, if I am not mistaken, Deal or No Deal. D is, if I am not mistaken, Tic Tac Dough. F is a desperate attempt to get someone to move the thread along. Also known as Fear Factor.

We all know it. We just don't want to be next

Final Fantasy

Youre up

Exercising This Has Gone On Long Enough prerogative, go ahead.

Ok. Deep breaths. Knowing no other clues: name a famous sitcom with the name of a city in the title.

The Adam and Ever story completely falls apart on any amount of inspection. 1. They don't know good and evil. How do they know it's wrong to sin? 2. If the snake is really Satan, then why does God respond to the snake's role by punishing snakes? 3. Whether God knew Adam would sin or not, why put the tree in the garden where he put man? Put the damn thing in Iceland, or Greenland, or Antarctica! 4. Let us make man in our image: God wasn't talking to himself using the royal We. He was talking to the other Gods of the Canaanite pantheon!

I'll get here, but if someone else gets here first, feel free.

Ok: "Not a lot of tv shows set in this city, which has two "major league" professional sports teams (three if you include soccer, which the rest of the world counts but we don't because we're snobs, and four if you count women's soccer)... "There are five series set in this very real city. The most famous is a sitcom and the city's name is part of the title." We can name five NYC series in our sleep. Boston, maybe not AS easy, but David E. Kelly alone has at least four, plus Cheers. So five, very quickly. Los Angeles? I think it goes without saying, more than five. This one ONLY HAS FIVE. One is a sitcom with that takes place "in" the city. I mean, in a specific place in the city, but still, in the city, which is part of the title. I genuinely thought that clue made it so easy that it would be unfair. I am all but certain the show has been a relatively recent answer to a game question (another reason I did not want to make this series the answer to THIS one. Two of the reality series feature Nick Lachey, former husband of Jessica Simpson. The third is one of the "female cops of" city genre. The drama/dramedy stars an Oscar-winning actress as a female character with a typically male name. The city is NOT part of that title.

Not at all. It is a straight analogy. You said "I do have a question about atheism in general. What is it really? I thought it was not believing in the existence of a god and/or any spiritual being? If that is the case, why the 'F God' to something that doesn't exist? All that really says is atheists do believe in God but hate his guts?" The direct answer to your question is "No, one does not have to accept the existence of a fictional character to despise him." But instead of a straight answer, I used an example. Any example of an annoying fictional character would do. Janice from Friends (Oh. My. Gawd). Jar Jar Binks. Allah. Moroni. Zeus. When an atheist says "F-God," it is not a tacit admission that we believe God exists. Rather, it is an indication that you have imbued this fictional character with traits that are frankly contemptible. A few years back I had a thread going called "Are you more moral than Yahweh." It looked at God's attributes and "morality" as described in the Bible and compared it to the values we hold in common today. It was not an admission that God exists and a finding that your morality is an actual improvement over his. Rather, it was a call to recognize that you don't consider him to be the arbiter of morality any more than I do. My way was just more fun. In short, no, the Steve Urkel comparison is not a strawman. It is a perfectly fine example of the principle that for some fictional characters, the fact that they are fictional is their only redeeming quality.

I don't have to believe in Steve Urkel to despise the character.

He played Marty Bowen twice?

The first is from The Paper. "It's showtime" was Beetlejuice

"Really? Well guess f-ing what? I don't really f-ing care. You wanna know f-ing why? Because I don't LIVE in the f-ing world! I luve in f-ing NEW YORK CITY! So GO F- YOURSELF!" *** "It's showtime!" *** "Alfred, let's go shopping."

When was the last time you hung garlic on your doorway to ward off vampires? When was the last time you genuinely feared you would get a visit from tge Krampus instead of Santa Claus because you were on the Naughty List? What horrors await you for rejecting Muhammad as Allah's final prophet, peace be upon him? We fear the hell posited by Christianity as much as you fear all those other fates. Which is to say, not at all. And while we may not all muster the disrespect for your beliefs to say "F-God," I will gladly say that based on how the Bible presents him, Yahweh's non-existence in reality is probably his only redeeming quality.

James Earl Jones And obligatory objection to the first misquote.