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Post by Ace on Sept 5, 2006 11:45:11 GMT -5
I noticed a less cacophonous intro when I watched Corn Fed last night. I skipped Forged because I like it more and was doing something else and chose the episode I could concentrate on less. But I'd forgotten how spectacular Pierce looks in his blue jeans and was unable to tear my eyes from the screen. Luckily Mildred had that romance with the sheriff that allowed me to get some work done. Oh UGLY 80s unconstructed suits with big shoulder pads on Laura in the first office scene and what that evil banker was wearing. UGH. Why did anyone think looking like a huge rectangle was a good thing?
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Post by Lauryn on Sept 5, 2006 13:30:34 GMT -5
I noticed a less cacophonous intro when I watched Corn Fed last night. I skipped Forged because I like it more and was doing something else and chose the episode I could concentrate on less. But I'd forgotten how spectacular Pierce looks in his blue jeans and was unable to tear my eyes from the screen. Luckily Mildred had that romance with the sheriff that allowed me to get some work done. LOL! Who needs commercials? As for the SMA, the eyes have it. Steele in jeans in that episode is a highpoint for that particular wardrobe item. (Quel coincidence, I was watching Corn Fed last night, too.) In one of life's little ironies, they had a feature on public radio today about The Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD. I love this description of the CP from roadsideamerica.com: The Palace, with its mad mix of onion domes and minarets, looks like it was drop-kicked out of czarist Russia. It was originally built to show off the fertility of South Dakota soil - and it's remained on the job, standing in downtown Mitchell for over 75 years. A rival "grain palace" in Plankinton, 22 miles to the west, succumbed to the rigors of prairie weather decades ago. The Corn Palace, shrine to a superior foodstuff, has survived. Mitchell's Corn Palace is built out of reinforced concrete, not corn. Every spring, however, its exterior is completely covered with thousands of bushels of native South Dakota corn, grain and grasses that are arranged into large murals. Typical yearly themes are South Dakota Birds or A Salute To Agriculture; this past year's was Youth In Action. Locals take great pride in the Palace's "corn-septual art" and "ear-chitecture." Mitchell isn't called the Corn Capital of the World for nothing. The Corn Palace serves as a huge auditorium for touring celebrities (Lawrence Welk played here five times - a record), as a sports arena for the various Kernels teams, and as the locus of Corn Palace Week, the high water mark of Mitchell's yearly social calendar... www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/SDMITcorn.html **** Now, I ask you? How much more fun might they have had with "Corn Fed Steele" if they had filmed at "The Corn Palace"? And would Steele have driven Laura to near partner-cide with an endless stream of bad puns? Not that I'd ever encourage that sort of thing.
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Post by Ace on Sept 5, 2006 14:24:02 GMT -5
A veritable cornucopia of corny punning possibilities. This episode proves that Laura isn't human. Who cares about pigs, farmers and their mortgages and hay fever when you have Steele looking like that in this jeans! The man even made checked flannel look good. Any other red blooded human being would have been promising him any boat he wanted and dragging him off to a hayloft or twenty or would have just stayed in that cornfield. Ace
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Post by Lauryn on Sept 5, 2006 15:03:10 GMT -5
A veritable cornucopia of corny punning possibilities. This episode proves that Laura isn't human. Who cares about pigs, farmers and their mortgages and hay fever when you have Steele looking like that in this jeans! The man even made checked flannel look good. Any other red blooded human being would have been promising him any boat he wanted and dragging him off to a hayloft or twenty or would have just stayed in that cornfield. Ace Roll, roll, roll in da corn! <wink> This might be one time Laura would be content to walk three steps behind him, if only to admire the view! Speaking of attractions, Corn Palace, etc. someone (not me, heaven forfend!) could write a fun fanfic, call it Roadside Steele, centered around wacky bits of Americana. Imagine the hijinks that might ensue when Laura and Steele investigate the mysterious disappearance of The World's Largest Ball of Twine.
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Post by Myrtle Groggins on Sept 5, 2006 22:27:10 GMT -5
O-kay............ Corn, hay, jeans, large-padded suits - a very interesting take on the 4th season. I agree about the big shoulder pads and triangle shapes - ugh. Checked out several episodes of the 4th season and the opening credits change quite a bit, to the point of annoyance, really. OK, scratch my above choices and make Season Four my least favorite. I do like Season Three's opening, except that the music is very slow. I like the faster beat of the Second Season opener. Since remingtonstelee (edited to correct from accusing Lauryn - sorry) told us to chose sides, I think I have to go with Season Two, Season Three, Season One, Season Five (except for the first episode) and finally Season Four, and the first episode of the Fifth Season being dead last. They got a 0 in creativity for that one, obviously. (Oops! I mentioned the Fifth Season! ) Let's not forget that Season Two had a slight change, too. Until after Love Among The Steele, we had the kissing in the Abbey scene from Vintage, then after Love we had RS catching Laura when she's running and putting her against the tree from the Auburn episode. So are we supposed to chose which version of Season Two we prefer? I loved the Vintage kiss, but also love the tree scene. Please, please, don't make me chose. I just can't handle all this decisiveness. It's so against my nature.
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Post by Lauryn on Sept 5, 2006 23:47:25 GMT -5
I said that? That's not like me, LOL! When it comes to these things I side with Marilyn Monroe ("Ever notice how 'what the hell' is always the right decision?") The only hard and fast rule I've ever stuck by with RS is that Season One plus credits is surely the most fun, which is enough, in my book, to give it most favored season status. The rest is up for grabs.
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Post by Myrtle Groggins on Sept 6, 2006 0:50:28 GMT -5
I said that? That's not like me, LOL! When it comes to these things I side with Marilyn Monroe ("Ever notice how 'what the hell' is always the right decision?") The only hard and fast rule I've ever stuck by with RS is that Season One plus credits is surely the most fun, which is enough, in my book, to give it most favored season status. The rest is up for grabs. No, Lauryn, you didn't say it. My sincere apology for dragging you into this in that way. I should have made sure first before posting. I also need to spell your name properly, right? So sorry. It was remingtonstelee who told us to "pick a side". Again, I have more egg on my face. My fingers type faster than my brain can think. Yikes. Please excuse the old lady. I need to stop this and go to bed. My only excuse is that I'm getting older by the minute and the fingers are taking on a life of their own. Now isn't that a pretty picture?
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Post by Lauryn on Sept 6, 2006 1:35:23 GMT -5
No apology necessary. I just thought it was funny because I find it hard to draw lines in the sand when it comes to many things RS. Semi-favorite and non favorite episodes can even swap places when I'm in the mood to re-evaluate. Of course, there are instances where there's no need to second guess: (Why on earth did Steele wear that thing with the elbow patches in Steele of Approval"?)
I'd only get offended if you'd claimed I'd said something really indefensible like "I never knew how brilliant the show could be until I saw 'Steele in the Chips.' And Clay Platt is a hottie. Go for it, Laura! I'd do him in a millisecond."
Then we might have issues <wink>
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Post by steeleinc on Sept 6, 2006 10:58:32 GMT -5
I like his "Approval" jacket with the elbow patches.
Debra
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Post by Myrtle Groggins on Sept 7, 2006 18:55:12 GMT -5
Now them's fightin' words, for sure. You gave me a good laugh. I, too, have non-favorites that somehow seem to move up a rung on occasion. Some episodes that I didn't find interesting the first time or during the shocking PAX run are sometimes more interesting when I actually sit and watch every second of them. Then there are the bad plots that have wonderful scenes with Laura and Remington, so that moves the episode closer to the favored category, too.
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Post by sparklingblue on Sept 10, 2006 11:13:34 GMT -5
As for Corn Fed Steele: I have always thought of that episode as "Steele in jeans" and never really bothered to remember the title of it. Laura must have been suffering from something much more serious than her allergy to react to him as she did. This is off topic, but I very recently watched one of the Season 3 featurettes. Doris Roberts admitted that she (or Mildred, she leaves that one open, but I think I can guess the answer) had a terrible crush on Remington. That might also account for a lot of the romance interrupting Mildred did. ;D
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Post by Myrtle Groggins on Sept 11, 2006 2:00:37 GMT -5
I think she meant Mildred had a crush on him, but somehow I think it could be possible that Doris could have thought he was "the bee's knees", too.
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Post by Ace on Sept 11, 2006 4:17:42 GMT -5
Mildred had a crush on Steele (In Steele Knuckles her mouthed "when" is priceless ) and Doris seems to have one Pierce. When they were doing the Sexiest Man of the Year celebrity round-up a couple of years ago -- when asked her pick -- she said that was Pierce -- every year.
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Post by sparklingblue on Sept 16, 2006 16:38:55 GMT -5
Can't blame her for her good taste, eh? And she worked with the man for several years after all too.
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