Hurried out after that. Wanted to hit the Collingswood Farm Market quickly this morning, since I won't be able to make it next week. It was cold, cloudy, and gale-force windy, but that didn't stop the crowds. Cucumbers and peppers are gone, but I saw the first cauliflower, broccoli, and cranberries of the season. I bought cranberries, grapes, apples, Asian pears, and whole wheat bread, along with one of those super-soft pretzel rings for a snack.
Headed right home and into Monster High: The Movie on Paramount Plus. I go further into the first live-action film for this much-loved horror-based doll franchise at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
The movie ended just in time for me to rush off to work. Work was busy when I arrived. I had a hard time keeping up with the carts at first. It slowed down later in the day as the Phillies game began and dark clouds started rolling in. Once again, no trouble whatsoever.
Watched the Halloween episode of Jem on Tubi as I ate dinner. In "Trick or Techrat," Jem and the Holograms hold a benefit concert on Halloween to repair and pay the back taxes for a splendid old opera house. One of the girls from the orphanage they run wishes they wouldn't. She's easily scared by everything. She's the one, however, who eventually learns why the old man who owns the building is trying to push them away. The Misfits complain that they're being neglected and hold their own Halloween concert across the street, just to show they can.
Finished the night on YouTube with this week's Match Game Saturday Classics marathon. Greg Morris was one of the first African-Americans to have a prominent role in a major drama series - in this case as the man who created the tech used on Mission: Impossible. He started on Match Game in early 1974 and continued to appear occasionally through late 1978. His good-natured sense of humor and laid-back wit made him a nice contrast with some of the goofier or more frantic panelists. He even took a crack Gene made about him going to the "back of the bus" well. (He did, but Buzzr and GSN didn't. That episode is now banned from the airwaves, though thankfully someone was able to record it before GSN pulled it.)
He wore oversized bright greens sunglasses during the start of one 1978 episode. He was there in early 1974 to witness sweet contestant Marlena get so excited when she won money, she actually lost a shoe running to hug Morey Amsterdam. He joked with the others about Fannie's fluffy gray fur coat in 1976 and was around for the week with Price Is Right model Anitra Page in 1977 when pretty blonde Darlene kept winning money and flirting with Richard Dawson.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to honor the tech man of Mission: Impossible and Vega$ with this wild and wacky marathon!
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