Today, we look at the bizarre Out of This World episode where Evie turns herself into a teen boy so that she can date her lonely best friend, Lindsay.
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Was a surprisingly long-running TV series that was part of a unique syndication arrangement that NBC tried called “Prime Time Starts at 7:30” (I just wrote about the failure of that launch here). It was about a girl who discovered at age 13 that she was half-alien. She was given a communication device that would allow her to communicate with her alien father (who was back at his home planet) and she also learned that as she aged into adulthood, she would slowly gain more and more alien-derived abilities that were basically superpowers. When she turned 13, she gained the ability to freeze time, but as the show went on, her powers grew stronger and eventually she had the ability to more or less do anything.
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We saw this in the 1989 Season 3 episode, “Stevie/Evie, ” where Evie (Maureen Flannigan) feels bad that her best friend, Lindsay (Christina Nigra) was just dumped by her boyfriend. So Evie comes up with the idea of getting Lindsay to feel better about herself by using her powers to transform herself into a boy named Stevie that would ask Lindsay out and make her feel better about herself.
Honestly, the idea of Evie using her powers to become a boy is not a terrible idea. Obviously, it was fun to dress Flannigan up as a guy and have her try to pass as a guy. It’s obviously very much One Of The Guys and that’s fine, except this show didn’t put in ANY THOUGHT beyond that basic concept.
For instance, Stevie asks Lindsay to the school dance, the same dance that Evie was already attending with her boyfriend, Chris (Steve Burton). Obviously, the whole “two dates at once” routine is a classic sitcom trope, but there usually is some sort of plan to pull that off (that always fails). Here, Evie hasn’t taken anything into consideration.
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Plus, when she actually meets Lindsay, she obviously doesn’t want to get physical at all with her friend but, again, what was the point of transforming her into a boy that was interested in Lindsay if she was not even going to dance with her?
Basically, the show posed questions and scenarios that it obviously had no real interest in pursuing due to the boundaries of late 1980s syndicated sitcoms, but then…why do it at all?
“Stevie, ” after meeting Lindsay once and keeping her at arm’s length all night, then proposes marriage and Lindsay ACCEPTS! “Stevie” then has to make “his” life sound so unappetizing (“he” runs a lizard farm, for instance) that Lindsay breaks up with him.
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It was just so bizarrely ill-conceived as a plot. Like they had, “Evie becomes a boy” and that was as far as they plotted the episode out.
There was one decent recurring gag where Evie complains about how much money she had to spend on her date when she was “Stevie.”
Again, I totally get the constraints that the shoe was working under at the time, but even with them in mind, this was done really poorly.
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If anyone else has an idea for a future Remember to Forget, feel free to suggest other topics for future Pop Culture Theme Times to me at brian@.Images of the biggest planet in our solar system were released on Monday and showed stunning details of the gas giant, including its slim rings and Great Red Spot.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured new images of Jupiter. This image comes from the observatory’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), which has three specialized infrared filters that showcase details of the planet.NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Judy Schmidt
“We hadn’t really expected it to be this good, to be honest, ” Imke de Pater, a planetary astronomer and professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement published by NASA. “It’s really remarkable that we can see details on Jupiter together with its rings, tiny satellites, and even galaxies in one image, ” she said.
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In this wide-field view, Webb sees Jupiter with its faint rings, which are a million times fainter than the planet, and two tiny moons called Amalthea and Adrastea. NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Ricardo Hueso (UPV/EHU) and Judy Schmidt
Webb telescope’s near-infrared camera used three infrared filters to capture images that are invisible to the human eye. According to NASA researchers, the infrared filters show auroras extending to high altitudes over the planet’s northern and southern poles. Other infrared filters captured the more red colors of the auroras, showcasing the light reflected from clouds and hazes.
Heidi Hammel is a Webb interdisciplinary scientist for solar system observations as well as the vice president for science at AURA. Touching on the brightness and white spots and streaks captured in the images in NASA’s blog post of the latest photos, Hammel explained how they translate to the measurement of different altitudes.
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In this wide-field view, Webb sees Jupiter with its faint rings, which are a million times fainter than the planet, and two tiny moons called Amalthea and Adrastea. The fuzzy spots in the lower background are likely galaxies “photobombing” this Jovian view.NASA, ESA, CSA, Jupiter ERS Team; image processing by Ricardo Hueso (UPV/EHU) and Judy Schmidt.
“The brightness here indicates high altitude — so the Great Red Spot has high-altitude hazes, as does the equatorial region, ” Hammel explained. “The numerous bright white ‘spots’ and ‘streaks’ are likely very high-altitude cloud tops of condensed convective storms.”
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was developed by thousands of scientists over three decades. It was launched into space on Dec. 25, 2021 with the effort to explore the first stars, the formation of new galaxies, and potentially discover habitable planets.
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