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Attempting to conjure some courage, Mitch tracks down a reclusive "chemist" in Mexico; Cissy heads up a citywide search team; Bill loses his feathered medium; Palaka's good-luck gift to Freddy ends up with Barry.
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Re: Episode 9: His Visit: Day Eight
Jan 27, 2008 2:11 PM
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i am so pissed about the cancellation of this show. It is the one HBO series that i actually watched and enjoyed. I am not a big TV person but this is the one series i have ever watched weekly and planned on continuing to watch weekly. The cancellation is a big joke and half of the other shows are not even nearly as good as john from cincinnati was and do not deserve to be aired. Flight of the Concords? are you kidding me that show is terrible. John from Cincinnati invokes individuals to use critical thinking skills. The show leaves individuals wondering what will happen next and allows them to configure their own ideas on the show. It is like a good book, i good book keeps the reader guessing unlike every other show that lays everything out in chronilogical order without any interaction of thought whatsoever. I now strongly dislike HBO and will most likely cancel my subscription to the program entirely. and on top of cancelling the show, you can not even find the series at any local walmart or blockbuster, that is just rediculous. Thanks a lot now i can not even purchase the series for myself cause i certainly will not purchase it from HBO, who cancelled the show.
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Re: Episode 9: His Visit: Day Eight
Jan 10, 2008 10:45 AM
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And Bill can direct traffic!
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Re: Episode 9: His Visit: Day Eight
Jan 10, 2008 3:29 AM
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Wow. Once again, Ecc, you have given me new ways to look at JFC.
It is interesting to see that not only Bill, but all of the characters have come to revolve around Shaun - a figure of youth, innocence and potential. What would become of them in his absence?
America, in our war against terrorism or for control of oil, (whatever) has lost it youth and innocence - perhaps like never before. What will we do? What will become of our potential?
Will we attempt to eradicate the towel heads?
And if somehow, that youth and innocence could be regained, what would we do? I suspect we might start by having a parade! 
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Re: Episode 9: His Visit: Day Eight
Jan 7, 2008 3:24 PM
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Bill: I put him in against a whole different weight class, they wipe him from the face of the earth. Christ! Shaun is gone and Zip is gone on my watch, do you understand? And that?s the sum and substance of it from here on in. Stand watch and fail and stand watch and fail and lose ?em all one after another!
What I didn't notice the first few times I saw this scene was Bill's use of "all" in the above quote. He begins by talking about Shaun being gone and Zippy being gone, despite his very best efforts, but concludes by saying, "Stand watch, and fail, stand watch, and fail, and loose them all one after another."
It occurs to me that Bill is thinking about Lois as well, his grief over the loss of his wife figuring in to the pain he now feels over the missing Shaun and the missing Zippy.
One of the touching stories told throughout this series was that of Bill's struggle to find a way to live. Lois and he had no children. They meant everything to one another. She dies after what was apparently a long illness during which he cared for her in that room upstairs. His job could not sustain him following Lois' death because of mandatory retirement. He is lost in that house, unable emotionally to climb those stairs and enter that room. He cares for those birds. He pesters his police buddies with his crackpot obsessiveness concerning his former place of employ. Being an uncle of sorts to young Shaun brings him some comfort, but that cannot last because as Shaun gets older, Shaun will soon be gone.
Somehow, Bill is going to have to find a way to live. The answer seems to lie for him in finding ways of being helpful and of service to others.
What a beautiful series.
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Nov 11, 2007 6:25 PM
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I watched again last night, too. I was struck at how Butchie had the deepest faith, the most acceptance, as evidenced by the way he comforted Kai in their rationalizing hug (if he can't dump out he can't be an asshole), and then, at the end, just paddled out on his board watching and waiting, knowing that John had taken Shaun somewhere, well, out of this world.
What a great, great show. Nothing else compares. *sigh*
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Nov 11, 2007 4:21 AM
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Brig, it is, indeed. It's good to feel so good. It's good to think. What a mess HBO has made of things, and I am thinking they know that. Now.
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Re: Episode 9: His Visit: Day Eight
Nov 10, 2007 8:55 PM
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Yeah, I just watched it again . It's so uplifting.
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Re: Episode 9: His Visit: Day Eight
Nov 10, 2007 8:48 PM
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What a great freaking show this is.
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Re: Episode 9: His Visit: Day Eight
Nov 10, 2007 7:05 PM
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This episode is on HBO2 tonight at 8 PM Eastern... I know what I'm doing 
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Re: Episode 9: His Visit: Day Eight
Oct 3, 2007 12:25 PM
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IMPORTANT NEWS:
I took a chance and emailed someone who worked closely on JFC. This person did respond by phone this afternoon but asked that I do not disclose their name.
I now know that there IS a chance that JFC could become an internet type show or podcast. But we have to show that we have the numbers to support our request.
I was given this specific suggestion:
"On jmonad's youtube profile he has only 147 subscribers (friends)! So IF there were to be a new video added ONLY 147 would be informed of the release."
We need to get lots and lots of people to JOIN YOUTUBE and subscribe to the jmonad page, as well as all the other character video's, i.e., Dickstein, Mitch Yost, Shaun Yost, etc..
WE DO HAVE HBO's ATTENTION... and YES the threads are being read!
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Re: Episode 9: His Visit: Day Eight
Oct 1, 2007 6:09 PM
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I'm with you OMM1. The very day that Curb Your Enthusiasm ends is the day that I am finished with HBO.(Unless,of course, they manage to bring back JFC)
I was also a huge fan of Carnivale and have yet to get over the horrible montage(with VO) ending that they crapped on us in the final episode. The ending episode of JFC was far worse. Linc on a megaphone summing up the plot at a pep rally while all of the characters look on is an absolute disgrace and insults the intelligence of the show's audience. At least Carnivale had SOME closure in it's final moments. JFC's ending was a complete and utter artistic failure, a slap in the face to those of us who invested 10 weeks into this otherwise AWESOME show. Shame on HBO.
Here is a tip for the goons at HBO who red-light and green-light the shows which make air. If you are not sure about a show surviving into a second season...demand that the creators/writers come up with an ending that provides closure for the audience, even if it means shooting alternate endings. The endings to both Carnivale and JFC were a total disgrace.
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Re: Episode 9: His Visit: Day Eight
Sep 26, 2007 5:43 PM
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HELP OUT HERE:
Please DIGG http://www.SaveJFC.net NOW
If you haven't already done so, please go the the site and hit the Digg button and follow the instructions (if any). If we get 50+ hits within 24 hours we get on the Digg frontpage and on their feed which will get us exposed to even more people.
And I'm really busy today or I would do this myself... I just got the new SaveJFC.net newsletter/mailing list sent and now I have to work on the video. If you read this please post this digg request on other threads, your websites or email your friends and ask them to help.
Very gratefully yours,
Trishah
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Re: Episode 9: His Visit: Day Eight
Sep 16, 2007 10:25 PM
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Here's an idea...If you are as angry as I am about the cancellation of John From Cincinnati send HBO a message and cancel your service. I am a huge fan of Curb Your Enthusiasm so I won't be cancelling right away but, mark my words, in 9 weeks when CYE is over, I am done with HBO...FOREVER. The loss of CARNIVALE almost sent me over the edge a few years back but the loss of JFC is too much to bear. What really makes me angry is that the final episodes of BOTH of these series were obviously written with the knowledge that the series was to be cancelled and I found the payoff of these final episodes to be appalling. To invest 9 weeks of my life in JFC and have the final episode involve a pep rally where a major character wraps up the plot on a megaphone pisses me off to no end.
How HBO sees fit to bring back garbage like Taxicab Confessions and shows about real life whorehouses, season after season, is a mystery that I am no longer willing to subsidize. John From Cincinnati fans UNITE! Vote with your wallets and cancel HBO. After Curb Your Enthusiasm ends, the programming is all crap anyway.
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Sep 14, 2007 10:37 AM
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> I wonder why Bill left Zippy in Freddy's car when he
> was sleeping in his?
Maybe Zippy told him to leave him in Freddy's car.
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Re: Episode 9: His Visit: Day Eight
Sep 6, 2007 7:57 AM
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bump 2.0
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