Lights, camera, locked in the mall

[impy]

- Bold all of the following TV shows of which you've seen 3 or more episodes.
- Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode.
- Asterisk if you have at least one full season on tape or DVD
- If you want, add up to 3 additional shows, but keep the list in alphabetical order

30 Rock
Absolutely Fabulous
Ally McBeal
Amazing Race
America’s Next Top Model
Angel
Animaniacs
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
Are You Being Served?
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beauty and the Beast
Beverly Hills 90210
Bewitched
Big Love
Blackadder
Bonanza
Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boston Legal
Boston Public
Boy Meets World
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
*Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Caitlin’s Way
Carebears
Caroline in the City
Chappelle’s Show
Charlie’s Angels
*Charmed
Cheers
Clarissa Explains It All
Cold Case
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling (UK)
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dallas
Dancing with the Stars
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel
Dark Shadows
Dark Skies
Darkwing Duck
Daria
Davinci’s Inquest
*Dawson’s Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women [Also, entirely probable I've seen every episode, but I'm not looking it up to check for sure, k? I loves me some DW.]
*Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Dinosaurs
Diff’rent Strokes
Dirty Jobs
Doctor Who (1963)
Doctor Who (2005)
Doctor Who (2006)
Dragnet
Due South
Earth 2
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Flash Forward
Forever Knight
Fraggle Rock
Frasier
Freaks and Geeks
Friday Night Lights
Friends
Futurama
Get Smart
Ghostwriter
Gilligan's Island
*Gilmore Girls
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Greek
Green Wing
Grey’s Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gummi Bears
Gunsmoke
Hannah Montana
Happy Days
Hardcastle & McCormick
Hell's Kitchen
Heroes
Hey Dude
Highlander
Highlander: The Raven
Hogan’s Heroes
Hillstreet Blues
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
How I Met Your Mother
Hunter
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Instant Star
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
JAG
Jackass
Jeeves and Wooster
Jem
Joey
John Doe [I cried when this was cancelled. CRIED, damn you!]
Just Shoot Me
Keen Eddie
Knight Rider
LA Law
Land of the Lost (the new Nickelodeon version)
Laverne and Shirley
Law & Order
Law & Order: CI
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Lexx
Life on Mars
Life With Derek
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Mad About You [Am I the only person who does not love this show?]
Magnum PI
Malcolm in the Middle
Mama’s Family
The Man from U.N.C.L.E
Married... With Children
Melrose Place
MI:5
Miami Vice
Millennium
Miracles
Mission: Impossible
Monk
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My Life as a Dog
My Little Pony
My Name is Earl
My So-Called Life
Mysterious Ways
My Super Sweet 16
Mythbusters
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
News Radio
NCIS
Night Court
Nip/Tuck
North Shore
Numb3rs
NYPD Blue
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perry Mason
Phil of the Future
Picket Fences
Pokemon
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Psych
Punky Brewster
Pushing Daisies
QI
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (UK)
Red Dwarf
ReGenesis
Relic Hunter
Remington Steele
Rocco’s Modern Life
Rescue Me
Road Rules
Robotech
ROME
Roseanne
Roswell
Salute Your Shorts
Saturday Night Live
Saved by the Bell
Scarecrow and Mrs King
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Silver Spoons
Six Feet Under
Skins
Sliders
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South Park
Spaced
Spongebob Squarepants
Sports Night
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Strangers With Candy
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70’s Show
That’s So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
The Andy Griffith Show
The Apprentice
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Bionic Woman (the old one)
The Bionic Woman (the new one)
The Brady Bunch
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
*The Dresden Files [Fuck. You. Sci-Fi.]
The Famous Jett Jackson
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Invisible Man
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Lucy Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mighty Boosh
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Muppet Show
The Nanny
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Pretender
The Real World [Remember back when not everyone on TRL was super plastic!pretty and they didn't all hook up/drink all the time? Well, not drink til you thought everyone's liver would explode, anyway...]
The Sentinel
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Smurfs
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
3rd Rock from the Sun
Third Watch
Three’s Company
Top Gear
Torchwood
The Twilight Zone
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Two and A Half Men
Ugly Betty
Under the Umbrella Tree
Veronica Mars
The Vicar of Dibley
The Waltons
The West Wing
Weeds
Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace
Wings
Wiseguy
Without a Trace
*Wonderfalls
WKRP in Cincinnati
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
*Xena: Warrior Princess
You Can't Do That on Television


Some of those I could probably bold, but didn't, and I'm sure a few of them I could also say I've seen each episode, but I'm not 100% positive and I won't go looking it up.

So, show of hands: Who has ever wanted to be essentially locked in the mall overnight? Alright, who has actually been locked in the mall overnight? Anyone?

*looks and sees that her hand is raised for the second* What's this now? Oh, right. I spent Monday night at the fucking mall from 8pm until a little after 5:30am. Why? Because I stupidly told Cass I would help her set up her Calender Club location. I asked her, before I finally agreed, if she had an actual store, or if this was a kiosk deal. She told me it was a store, so I said cool, I'll be there. I didn't question this as CC has been both in the past. I get there a little after eight and finally find the damn Victoria's Secret and realize she's full of shit. This is a fucking kiosk. I'm fairly certain that if I run, I mightmightmight still catch Mom, but the odds are not in my favor as the Belk entrance was not necessarily the closest one.

So. I'm stuck. We fiddle around with the two giant sets of boxes, mostly with the stuff for actually setting the kiosk itself up. I realize really quickly a couple of things. It's really obvious why the mall won't let you set up your kiosk during mall hours. The amount of profanity hurled around that night was insane. It got to the point where you'd automatically shout, "For fuck's sake!" if something screwed up. And it would/did. Always. I also realize that there's a damn good reason I've always gotten that funny feeling I wouldn't particularly care for Shannon, and it has very little to do with the following phrase being uttered: "I hid you from the police, I'd say you owe me!" To her, I might add. I could not get past her horrible, horrible hair. You know how some people have really thin hair that you suspect wouldn't be so thin if they'd let it curl, but nooooooooo, they want straight hair, so it looks thin and stiff and an awful lot like a wig, and naturally they have bangs, and ohgod, the horror is too much for you?

Yeah. I'm superficial, but if nothing else, I can fall back on the jail thing, and her bossy ways that didn't really help much more than me standing there waiting for fifteen minutes as someone went for drinks while I waited by the door to let them back in. More people arrived and it split along gender lines. The girls set up the cash register/wrap area and the boys built everything else. It took that long to set up one tiny little cart, k? First there were a ton of boxes to be moved since half the stuff you needed to begin with was either in the middle of the pile or at the bottom. Then there was Cassandra's ongoing search for her cash register, which I found [yay me!] and... Yeah. It took forever. The boys set up the game section and so the girls swooped in to set up various sections of that. By then, Shannon had gone home to the kids, and Kiki had surfed through the mall on the cart. Good times, yes?

Well, Kiki and her sister Erin and I all came to the same conclusion. We'd dig through the pallets that were obviously games, and we'd each call out the contents of the boxes, and whomever had those on their sheet would claim the box. If it wasn't on one of the four sheets, it would be set aside for later. Like Bingo. We even sorted them as much as we could remember to do so, especially when it came to the monopoly sets. This is a simple enough concept, yes? I mean, Cass even gave us our sheets for our little however many feet section. But Cass wouldn't play along. She'd holler, "I think that's on one of these!" when we'd call out something she vaguely recognized. We'd tell her the plan, thinking maybe she missed the mental bonding that was so cool before. Nope, she just didn't want to join our little band of merry bingo playing fools. So we'd shout back, "It's going over here, then!" and promptly put it in our "not claimed" pile. :P If she claimed it as hers, we'd ask her to come get it, or occasionally haul it to her, especially as the night wore on. That was probably the most fun, although we decimated the games pack and at the end I had about three boxes to everyone else's fifteen or so. Later I found a bunch of mine were magically inserted into boxes that either didn't claim 'em, or were mixed in with the card games, which we'd shoved aside as they were their own slice of hell. By four AM, we'd just started to peek at the calenders. That's right. Fucking Calender Club and we hadn't touched the actual calenders. Around five, the last of the people left and it was just Cass, Matt, and moi. By then I was ready to kill because I'd been awake for 24 hours, and I'd forgotten my money at home, so I couldn't make a run to the vending machine every hour like everyone else, and Cass didn't mention that the bathrooms were just around the corner, and hey, water fountain, until about 4am. By then I was dying.

Random trivia. Somewhere after nine, maybe nine thirty, the music in the mall stops. At midnight the lights go out for ten to fifteen minutes.

Yeah, the 80's movies lied about what it's like at the mall overnight. There was an annoying ride that would giggle every ten minutes and it was creepy, especially with the lights out. I felt bad for the cleaning crew as they kept coming by us but we were nowhere near done. Apparently they didn't finish last night either.

Now we move onto the latest round of Pullip!Fab:

Why they're jumping from ten to three, I dunno, but I suspect it's to make my job here more difficult. In honor of this, I'll cut to the chase. I say Ekco, Noa Shay, and Daimaru. The only one I would bet money on is Ekco, and if she doesn't move on, I'd say someone needs to do some explaining. I gather Nikea is the favored in general, but I looked at the damn picture three times before I realized she had a necklace on. The first time I was distracted by the big Pullip forehead, the second by the lips/biting, and then finally, oh, yeah, a fuzzy necklace. Which isn't to say it's a bad picture, or that she's not loverly, just that if the point of this round was to highlight the shiny object, the picture should do so. And I think Daimaru's was super clever. And I figured out part of why I don't particularly like Yoshiko. The eyebrows. They remind me of this little keychain I gave my brother one year of Cartman. Angry eyebrows, bad. Cover them up, good. Anyway. Your bets?

mythosidhe pointed out one of the actual signs of the Apocalypse: Paris Hilton and Anthony Head in the same sentence, let alone same movie To say I will be there would be an understatement. How I hadn't heard of this before, I will never, ever know, but these things happen.

I need to shower and clean things up. Possibly indulge in a little Gossip Girl or Supernatural. I'm not sure which. Oh, and My Fake Wedding is really fucking difficult to read, but I will finish.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm going Shelby, Ecko and Nikea. But then I've already pegged Lovehaze for the win, so of course I have to choose her. I thought Diminity's picture quality was too low compared to the others.
Yeah, Yoshiko freaks me out.