Spiritual AF

I picked up this box of cards in Doylestown with Kay back in September and I decided to start going through them and pulling out those that speak to me. This one was just what I needed this week.

Accept the good in your life and know you're a fucking delight.

Once you notice the good shit going on in your life, more good shit starts happening. It's like a magnet or a dung beetle. Fun fact: Once a dung beetle gets a little nub of poop, he runs around with it and more poop sticks to it and grows and grows. Goodness is like that.

Here's my list of ten good things that I've noticed lately:

•  Hitting Lena’s Water Ice a few towns from me multiple times this Summer and early Fall. With Jackson, with Wayne, and with Lauryn. On their closing for the season day I went with Lauryn in the afternoon and then a few hours later I was back there with Jackson. The teenage girls that work there have seen me and Jax so often that they know our order. The owner saw me with Lauryn and referred to me as a regular. It's my equivalent of Cheers; that feeling of going into a place and feeling like everyone knows your name. Plus they have the best water ice in the universe. Of that I am certain.

•  This time of year means new episodes and it's so wonderful to catch season two of Ludwig, plus new eps of Abbott Elementary and St. Denis Medical.

•  That Lucy is quite possibly thee sweetest, kindest girl in the world. I was hanging out with her last week for the whole day and mentioned something to her mother, in passing, about financial struggles. Lucy left the room and in a couple minutes returned with her Mrs. Potts bank and wallet and said I could have it. I mean, come on! How adorable is that?! (Note: I didn't take any, of course, but we organised her cash and counted $250 in cash only. That girl is rich!)

•  Calling up bestie Amy in a COBRA induced panic and asking, if I needed to, could she loan me eleven hundred bucks to cover December's payment and I'll give it back to her in late January. Ugh. Hitting up a friend for money feels so icky. I doubt I'll need to, but in order to calm down, I wanted her to back me up. She instantly replied, "Yes. Whatever you need." Immediate relief and my cortisol levels dropped down to normal. I'm seriously the luckiest girl in the world to have her in my life.

•  Getting a postcard from Amber. We kept in touch via Instagram but since I left there in February, it's been quiet on her end. Then out of the blue I pulled this postie out of my mailbox and felt the love.

Hello, dear one! Boy-o-boy

I have been meaning to

send you a little note

for ages! 5 months? More?

In any case I found a 

little torn paper w/your

address on it...and it felt

like "yep-now's the

perfect time to send

some ♡ LOVE ♡ from

Chicago. I know this

year has been a lot of

SHIT. But I hope 

you know you're awesome!

♡ Amber B.

• Having a new TV that allows me to watch a ton of streaming shows that normally I'd have to view on my lil' laptop. Widow’s Bay and Ludwig plus YouTube. Oh my gosh, I spent days going through all the interviews and videos I had saved. Lately it's Rick Beato's channel, some old Track Star interviews (although that channel seems kind of commercial-y and I've lost interest), and of course, loads of drumming vids and classic Dick Cavett Show eps. The interview with Cher and the one with Oscar Peterson were really good.

•  Making a mad dash to finish the books on my to-read-in-2026 list and (so far) thoroughly enjoying Hitch-22 and feeling like I'll be able to finish it this weekend and then start on A Woman in Berlin.

• Seeing Chagrin Falls late last month and feeling so grateful that I have been able to marvel at the falls that I loved as a child, watching The Gathering, but in real life.

• Using my fun CampSnap camera to take the above photos plus more and loving the raw, vintage feel to the finished photographs.

•  Daydreaming about maybe, finally, getting my place repainted and fixed up so I can actually have people over again and feel a sense of pride in my home. Fingers crossed!!

Accepting the good - having wonderful friends, even those I've never met in person, like Amber, plus great kids that enrich my life like nothing else and feeding my creativity by traveling and feeling loved and alive. Here's hoping that this acceptance and gratitude of the good things will lead to much, much more! Oh, and I absolutely am a fucking delight. No doubt.

Living the...

Life is really hard. Even as a fortunate, moderately healthy, reasonably employed person who has a safe place to live with food and friends and family, it is still hard. I started this post in July of 2024 and only got as far as six before I gave up and decided I'd finish this later. Every time it would appear under my Drafts, I would see it and think about completing it, then get stumped again. I try to be positive but sometimes everything feels like utter shit and anxiety strikes with the fear that it will never get better. There's no magical wand to wave and bring joy back into my life, or peace to this world, but regardless, here's how I'm living my best life:

Last Year (but still relevant!)

• using the Finch app to track all the little things I need to do for myself and making sure they get done

• keeping in touch with friends and family even if it's only over FaceTime or texting or by post

• Oatly Coffee ice cream

• anytime I get a chance to see Fred at Baldwin’s Book Barn, because he comes across as such a genuine and kind man

• going through all the stuff at my place - clothes, books, kitchen-ie things, beauty products, and everything in between - and passing them along to my fave people and donating the rest --- it feels good to let go of things and give them a new home

• having someone like Kay in my life, especially how well she knows me and can make me feel better with just a few words (from 27 September 2024)

The Right Now

• looking forward to returning to Ohio for a handful of days in October - I'll get to see Maureen, Autumn, and Chagrin Falls again!

• listening to a bunch of Mike Hammer audiobooks, all read by the inimitable Stacy Keach

• driving to MOM's in Bryn Mawr every weekend to get lunch, usually a Jammed Yam, and falling totally in love with Phineas' freezing cold AC 

• Finally, after two years, vacuuming all the dust-jackrabbits (they were like small tumbleweeds!) off my desk and giving it a good cleaning so that I can finally use it again. (At the moment I am working on colouring in cards that will be given to children in hospitals across the country. I wanna get a big, fatty stack of them together before I send them off.)

The "good life" begins when you stop wanting a better one.

Fave Ann Jillian Performances

May 11th can't roll around without me thinking back to when I was lucky enough to meet this beautiful creature in person in 1988. Here's a list of my top ten favourite performances from this grossly underrated and truly gifted woman.

The Ann Jillian Story

It's a Living

Little White Lies

Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC - singing "I'll Be Seeing You"

Mae West

Mr. Mom

Alice in Wonderland

Ann Jillian

Bob Hope's Birthday Spectacular in Paris  - singing "Autumn Leaves"

Gypsy

(photo kidnapped from moviemarket)

Boys In Books

Boys in books are just better! Mostly because they are made-up and can be the perfect person that doesn't really exist and is a total fantasy. These are my top ten list of boys (well, men) who are, in my personal opinion, better in books than anything you can find in the real world.

(one of many fab pencil holders for sale from LennyMud)

- Gabriel Oak "Far from the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy

- Doug MacRay "Prince of Thieves" by Chuck Hogan

- Ned Nickerson "Nancy Drew Mysteries" by Carolyn Keene/Mildred Wirt Benson

- Mike Hammer "Goliath Bone" and other Hammer detective novels by Mickey Spillane and (some) with Max Allan Collins

- Richard Collier "Bid Time Return" by Richard Matheson

- Fitzwilliam Darcy "Pride & Prejudice" by Jane Austen

- Colonel Brandon "Sense & Sensibility" by Jane Austen

- Phileas Fogg "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne

- Matthew Cuthbert "Anne of Green Gables" by L.M. Montgomery

- Father Damien Karras "The Exorcist" by William Peter Blatty

Alan Alda

The one celebrity that has remained a constant throughout my entire life has been Alan Alda; I’ve no memory of a time when I didn’t know him. As a kid it felt like M*A*S*H was on every weeknight in our house. My father really admired Alda's talent as an actor but more so as a writer of the many thought-provoking and brilliant episodes of the series. And let's not forget the absolutely perfect film, The Four Seasons. I, too, became instantly enamoured of this remarkably gifted man and began to think of him as the ideal fella. Tall, handsome, intelligent, funny, and someone you’d want to chat with and get to know. I love that he only has daughters and that he and his wife have had such a long-lasting and (seemingly) happy marriage. I do wish that Scientific American Frontiers was available streaming somewhere (there were a few I saw a while back on YouTube (I think) but I want them all!!!) because it's a fascinating series. The bottom line is Alan Alda is a wonderful human being, full stop.

(photos kidnapped from: biography - theguardian by Matt Licari/Invision/AP)

Top Ten Favourite Performances:

The Four Seasons

Same Time, Next Year

M*A*S*H

Manhattan Murder Mystery

And the Band Played On

Scientific American Frontiers

Everyone Says I Love You

Sweet Liberty

The Glass House

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed - audio recording of memoir, even though it's abridged!

BONUS: This lovely article by his grandson, Scott Alda Coffey.

BONUS 2: The Alda Clan

Elizabeth, Arlene, Alan, Eve, and Beatrice

Julie Andrews

I don't think I've ever met someone who didn't love this woman. She's the real deal - strikingly beautiful at all times, wildly successful, intelligent, beloved by all, marvelous sense of humour, brilliantly talented as a singer, actress, and author, possesses one of the world's most unique and captivating singing voices, and is a true artist in every sense. Here are my top ten favourite performances by Ms. Andrews:

The Tamarind Seed

Victor Victoria

Darling Lili

SOB

Unconditional Love

The Sound of Music

One Special Night

Mary Poppins

The Americanization of Emily

Thoroughly Modern Millie

(photograph of Ms. Andrews by Annie Leibovitz)

Happy 100th, Judy Garland!

(photo kidnapped from smokingissexy)

Judy Garland was a beautiful and complex woman who I borderline worshiped throughout my grade school and teenage years. I think I most identified with her sadness and how she covered it with smiles and humour. I always wished that she would have had a long, healthy, happy life, that she had been treated with kindness and respect by everyone. Although that was not to be, she leaves behind a tremendous legacy on film. These are my ten favourite:

In the Good Old Summertime

A Star is Born

The Wizard of Oz

I Could Go On Singing

A Child Is Waiting

Meet Me In St. Louis

Summer Stock

Judgment at Nuremberg

Easter Parade

Till the Clouds Roll By

Ray Liotta

This was a real shock. Bishop texted me this afternoon to let me know the news that Ray Liotta had passed away today. I immediately messaged Marina since she has had a longtime crush on him. We are getting together Saturday night and plan to celebrate Ray's life with LesbiVeggies grub and a marathon of our most cherished Ray Liotta films. 

Back when I first signed up for Instagram I followed only two celebs: Ray Liotta and Liv Tyler. Ray didn't post a lot but this was one that I saved and it endeared him to me even more.

Liotta has had so many truly great performances and here are ten of my personal faves:

• Corrina, Corrina - I remember seeing this in the theatre and just loving it. Not tons of chemistry between Ray and Whoopi but his character was so damn loveable and Tina Majorino was beyond adorable and turned in a heartbreakingly brilliant performance.

• Dominick and Eugene - I think I originally saw this movie when I was in high school in the very early 90s. It starred Ray Liotta, Tom Hulce, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Todd Graff. Tom Hulce was extraordinary in that scene where he is struck dumb by witnessing a horrific event. Even now, just thinking of it I get teary eyed. Oh and Ray was the frustrated brother who cares for Tom Hulce's Nicky. It was so good. I wish it was available on streaming. It's a gem of a film.

• Modern Family - Ray's little cameo where he's watering his lawn made me scream when I saw it was him. Such a surprise and absolutely hilarious.

• Shades of Blue

• Muppets Most Wanted

(I recorded the above off my TV purely to re-watch again and again because it's so, so funny!)

• Field of Dreams

• Cop Land

• Blow

• A Place Beyond the Pines

• Unlawful Entry

Honourable mention!: Operation Dumbo Drop 

And in closing, this is a clip from The Bonnie Hunt Show (Now this is a show that needs to be streaming somewhere. I mean, come on. Bonnie Hunt? She's wonderful.) that really shows what a laid back and warm man Ray Liotta was. Every time I watch it and it gets to this certain moment I get the chills. He was THAT good. 

(Bad things come in threes: First we lost Tony Fitzjohn then Ray and finally Andy Fletcher. So very sad that they are all no longer here.)

Books to Set the Valentine Mood

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson

Love Monster by Rachel Bright

The Highlander by Kerrigan Byrne

Dirty Pretty Things by Michael Faudet

Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve

I Explain a Few Things by Pablo Neruda

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

The Book of Love by KC Jones

Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin

Scents Memory

• Moth balls - They remind me of Nana Irma and every home she ever had. When I worked at Pier 1 something came in with moth balls and I stole one and kept it in my car until too many passengers complained. It's my number-one all time favourite smell in the entire world.

• Paper - A friend from youth said that my bedroom and then later, my homes, all smelled like paper. It must be all the books, journals, stationery, magazines, cards, letters, envelopes, and notepads I have. Whenever anyone asks what I'd take to a desert island I would always say unlimited paper and writing utensils.

• Basil - I love love love the smell of fresh basil. It is so good. If I'm in the market and see a basil plant I have to go over and suck up a big ole snort of its aroma. Reminds me of all the times I would go to Bertucci's with Mum and Terri, Donna, Ashlee, Wayne, and solo for pick up, and they would give a little plastic tub of extra basil shreds on the side. 

• Cynthia Sylvia Stout - This fresh and gorgeous shampoo smells absolutely out of this world. I fear for the day when Lush discontinues it... Always reminds me of my brothers and their love of all things beer.

• King of Misrule - Another scent tied to the peepod is this fabulous shower gel. It smells so fresh and fragrant and takes me back to that Christmas I spent in Dublin where I first discovered this at Lush on Henry Street.

• Cooking Spices - When I make a tray of roasted veggies (cauliflower, broccoli, bell peps, onion, mushrooms, & lil' tomates) I douse them with curry powder and cumin (plus salt and pepper). The best is if I go out later on and then when I come home - as soon as I open the door the lingering scent hits me. Makes me feel like a real grown up that knows how to cook, even though I really can't. (Second runner up to this smell is when I make home fries with garlic, basil, and oregano.)

• Coconut Cocoa Tea - This tea isn't much on flavour as it is on aroma. When I go to open the tea canister, I take a whiff and then with each sip I catch it all over again. It's subtle but oh-so-yummy! I introduced this to Kay when we went to Wing's Castle and she loves it as much as I do. Can't take a sip without travelling back in my mind to playing the Tim Tam Slam with her.

• Perfume - Rapture by Victoria Secret was worn originally by Kathleen in senior year of high school and I still have a couple bottles. Karen from Borders always wore Calvin Klein's Escape and I loved when she walked past and left a bit of it's fragrance clinging to the air. China Musk will always always always remind me of Wayne's mother Nancy, Mum's bestie who I completely adored my entire life. 

• Potato Chips - Two memories are tied to this - first, when opening a fresh bag of regular salted, no nonsense potato chips, that initial scent is exactly what Marina's farts smell like. It's uncanny. Second is the first bite and the smell of the single chip - that instantly reminds me of when my grandfather told us of the time he and his childhood friends picked up a barrel of potato chips that fell off the back of a cart. They skipped school, carried it to the woods and ate the entire thing. He never had another chip again.

• Cranberry Balsam - Years ago Pier 1 created the best candle in the universe and then, of course, discontinued it. And they wonder why they went bankrupt and had to close all their shops. People would come in to the store in November asking, "when will you be carrying the Cranberry Balsam candles?" It is still the best candle scent ever and I thankfully kept the room spray and still have a bit of potpourri left. Oh, and once the pillars burned down I hollowed them out a bit and burn unscented tealights in them. So I still have the remains to sniff from time to time.

The Good

This year is bad. Just pure awful. Like the smell of burnt popcorn, the weight of a dirty diaper in your hand, the sound of nails on a chalkboard, and the taste of orange juice when you were expecting milk. It's all of those things and more. More as in plus the death of a loved one combined with strokes, hospitalisation, a lingering cold, daily stress and job pressure, terminal illness, separation, divorce, mental health issues, abandonment, the sudden passing of a beloved pet, a favourite shop closing, great social unrest and injustice, political climate so horrific as to make one wanna barf, anger, inaction, brutal senseless murder, lynching, dictators, Republicans, and the usual: homelessness, famine, war, extreme poverty, greed, and hatred. Oh, and a global pandemic so bad that loved ones are left to die alone because only the sick are admitted to hospitals. The world right now is so full of rage and misery that it feels like an avalanche, leaving us crushed and without breath. That said, I want to try to find at least ten truly good things that happened for me so far this year.

• Reunited with my cousin Emily and her children in her lovely new home. This woman had a patch of years that were really bad and we all worried about her. She has come through, stronger than ever, and is raising her two fabulous children with a sense of calm that I have never seen before. It's hard to see who is the lucky one, Emily for having two such wonderful children, or Ana and Adam for being blessed with Emily for their mother.

• Discovering Toni Morrison in the documentary The Pieces I Am.

• Kathleen Hanna sang to me from her home's shower.

• Amber Brown sold me the last of her stash of felt cd cases.

• Wayne and Chrissy dating after secretly being in love with one another for close to a decade.

• David coming over and fixing my bathroom sink that's been broken for the past four and a half years as well as my closet's shelf that fell down three years ago.

• Getting a free trial to HBO so I can binge on wonderful documentaries.

• Discovering some really great 80s television like Spenser for Hire, In the Heat of the Night, Murder She Wrote, and of course, Voyagers!

• Falling in love with Brian Blessed via his marvelous memoir Absolute Pandemonium.

• As horrible as work has been these past four months, I try (not always successfully) to be thankful that I have a job that allows me to work from home full time, continue to pay my mortgage and credit cards and live my life.

Gena Rowlands

Ms. Rowlands is a helluva an actor who caught my eye back in high school when I saw her in Jim Jarmusch's Night on Earth. (God, what a fabulous film.) Every performance I've ever seen is solid and unbelievably moving. She is one of the finest and most gifted actors of all time and I just love her.

(photo by Chris Pizzello kidnapped from japantimes)

My top ten favourite films featuring Gena Rowlands:

Gloria
Playing By Heart
Night on Earth
A Woman Under the Influence
Unhook the Stars
The Skeleton Key
Tempest
Hope Floats
She's So Lovely Opening Night (retroactively added 21 August 2021)
The Notebook

bonus: the Rudolf Mestdagh documentary John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All

Ideal Gifts from a Valentine

• Van Cleef and Arpels Ring (only not with diamonds - maybe onyx and pink sapphires, emeralds, or garnets and in sterling silver - I really just like the novelty of the butterfly style, not the designer or the pricetag.)

• fun or interesting old books wrapped in brown paper tied with twine or a ribbon
• perfume - SJP Lovely or Tiffany
• Open Fire, Two Guitars by Johnny Mathis on vinyl in excellent condition (photo kidnapped from musicstack)

• a mix cd of new tunes or love songs
• cigar or pencil box filled with exciting odds 'n ends such as stickers, pins/brooches, cute thumbtacks, coloured buttons, vintage or homemade bookmarkers, old photos, cute erasers, vintage postcards, old keys, 1970s or 80s credit cards (I really want an old Visa or MasterCard where the whole front of the card is the company logo), matchbooks from random hotels or restaurants, cool stamps ripped off of an envelope, pencil sharpeners, movie and concert ticket stubbs, etc...
• a Votivo Red Currant candle

• mason jar of seashells and pebbles handpicked from the beach just for me
• Audrey Hepburn pin by Kate Gabrielle®

• a large donation made to one of my favourite charities (such as BUMBLEance, Shoah Foundation, Planned Parenthood, Smile Train, About-Face, or any of the other Low Budget Philanthropy faves!)

Happy Halloween 2019!

Here's a mish-mosh, hodge podge of last minute Halloweenie-ness! Starting with a photo of the girls and Farley that Ashlee texted me:

I got mail! Cards from Mum, Melissa, Renee, and Helen, who used an Elton John stamp!

And look! The 'scapes went all Halloweenie and check out Astrid Buttercup the kitty - she's a Bat-Cat! Adorbs. (In case you're curious, my pupper in Gardenscapes is named Scuttlebutt.)

And here's a list of the movies that I watched this month to stay in the holiday mood as I gorged myself on Halloween Oreo's.

Halloween (2018) - Eh. I liked the original and H20 way better, but the cage scene toward the end was pretty fantastic.

The Thing - Kurt Russell with a beard, Keith David (hubba hubba), Donald Moffat (love him!), Richard Masur (he's good in everything), creepy creatures and effects, scares a-plenty, eerie music, and cute and fluffy puppers. Does it get any better?!

28 Days Later - I hadn't seen this in years and had forgotten how really good it is. I still had to fast-forward through the scene where they are stuck in the underground tunnel - too intense for me! And that's with knowing that they'd get away. Oh, and Cillian Murphy's eyes are to die for.

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken - Saw this for the first time last year on Svengoolie and it's still so much fun to watch."Atta boy, Luther!"

The Burbs - This movie never, ever loses its ability to make me bust out laughing. The time around it was Queenie's little leap from grass to grass over the pavement. I swear I watched it at least ten times. 

The Canterville Ghost - Thank you, YouTube for having this Alyssa Milano and John Gielgud movie from my childhood. So much fun.

Mr. Boogedy - My whole family absolutely loved this movie and all these years later it is still fabulous. The cast is outstanding with Richard Masur (second appearance on this list!), Mimi Kennedy who delivers the best line in the film "Time to call a real-tor.", David Faustino (so young!), John Astin, and Kristy Swanson as the quintessential eye rolling 1980s teenager girl. I watched this for free on YouTube before Disney tore it down...the DVD set of Boogedy and Bride of Boogedy are crazy expensive (forty-eight bucks!) so I'm glad I caught it just in time.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - I used to wake up early on Saturday mornings as a kid and watch this Jeff Goldblum flick any time of year. It's still pretty good and has held up well!

The Crow - In my teens I had this film's poster hanging in my teenage bedroom. God, Brandon Lee was beautiful and what a performance. Also, The Crow, has one of the best soundtracks ever to come out of the 1990s.

Scream - Another film from the 90s with an all-star cast - Skeet Ulrich, Matthew Lillard, Drew Barrymore, Henry Winkler, Courtney Cox, Rose McGowan, Jamie Kennedy, and of course, Neve Campbell - a fun premise, good acting, the perfect amount of gore without completely turning the viewer off, and the memories of seeing this in the theatre with friends and later renting it from Blockbuster. We were obsessed with this movie!

Watcher in the Woods - I was on a ride down memory lane with so many favorite spooky films from my childhood and no list would be complete without this Bette Davis classic. I always liked scary movies that were fun. Nothing that gave me nightmares, just the chills when I watched and this one was one of the best of the 80s.

That's all for now. In closing, here's a vampire version of my avatar that was too cool for words.

My Fave Halloween Episodes

• Hart to Hart - Night Horrors
Jennifer and Jonathan go to a friends' housewarming at their new haunted house. Murder, mystery, and mayhem occur left and right but ends with the adorable couple "scaring" Max and Freeway with phony vampire teeth. One of my absolute all-time favourite episodes of the series.

(photo kidnapped from tvterrorshow)

• Marry Me - Scary Me
The first half of this series was non-stop laughs. Jake and Annie set their apartment up as a haunted house for the kids in the building and dress up as zombie Ricky and Lucy's. Classic.

• Modern Family - Open House of Horrors
Modern Family is known for having fun and inventive Halloween episodes, but for some reason, the one where Phil is trying to sell a house and trash talks the one Harry Potter kid stands out for me. I adore Phil.

(photo kidnapped from pinterest)

• Pushing Daisies - Girth
Halloween serves as a back drop for this episode that focuses on Olive's previous career as a horse jockey. Every single frame of this series is rich and lush and whimsical and when I watch it I am awash in a feeling of comfort and safety. No other series does this for me and that's why it's my favourite-favourite. (Hart to Hart and Rockford Files are tied for second place!)

(photo kidnapped from moonandtrees)

• Highway to Heaven - I Was a Middle Aged Werewolf
There is nothing that I do not love about this episode and it makes me laugh every single time I just think about it!

• Community - Epidemiology
The costumes in this episode were outstanding - fun and creative. Jeff was David Beckham, so he just wore a sharp suit, looked hot, and carried a soccer/foot ball, Rich (how handsome and wonderful is actor Greg Comer, I ask you) in a naner suit is adorable, Señor Chang as Peggy Fleming was clearly the most hilarious, Abed as the alien from Alien was all kinds of creepy cool, Annie was Little Red Riding Hood (of course) and Britta as a lame looking T-Rex. I still don't remember who Shirley was supposed to be. Miss Piggy? Glinda? A pretty princess? Regardless, the Stand-out was Dean Pelton as Lady Gaga, which brought down the house, as only he can do.

(photo kidnapped from denofgeek)

(photo kidnapped from reddit)

• Happy Endings - Spooky Endings
This show didn't have a single bad episode and the Halloween one was just fun. Alex is mistaken for a dude because her voice is all Demi Moore-husky from her cold, Brad and Jane are testing out the waters in suburbia, Dave goes as Austin Powers but forgets the bad teeth and everyone assumes he's Elton John. I'm still confused as to why and how Penny and Max pulled off that wacky Mama and baby outfit, which didn't last very long.

(photo kidnapped from popsugar)

• The Office - Halloween
Jim's "costume" as Three Hole Punch Jim was so lame and I totally loved it. Such a Jim thing to do.

• Stranger Things - Trick or Treat, Freak
The Ghostbusters costumes were so perfect and I love that Luke didn't wanna be Winston. Honestly, though, who wouldn't want to be Winston?! He was seriously the coolest of them all. I mean, he did say the film's final line.

(photo kidnapped from thehollywoodreporter)

• Parks and Recreation - Halloween Surprise
Jerry has a fart-attack. Honestly, that's all I remember from this episode that I have watched at least a half dozen times. I laughed so hard that I blocked out everything else but Jerry sliding down the wall, farting the whole way, clutching his chest in agony. Oh my god, so, so funny.