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September 16

Question about the old school show Married..._with_Children

Question about the old school show Married..._with_Children: Why did Al marry Peggy if he didn't love or want to have family with her? I'm baffled why they got married in the first place. Neptunekh2 (talk) 03:19, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Lust. He was once physically attracted to her, and occasionally still was during the show, like when she scraped bird poop off the lawn furniture. Quite the turn-on, apparently. Also, I'm not sure if they ever said explicitly that they had to get married when Kelly was conceived out of wedlock, but that was always my impression (and perhaps Al was threatened by some of Peggy's shotgun-wielding relatives from Wanker County). StuRat (talk) 03:23, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

2 other married with children questions

2 other married with children questions: why didn't they divorce each other at the end of the show? 2. What was the episode Al created a fake psychic hotline? Thanks! Neptunekh2 (talk) 03:31, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

You know, the header is meant to be a short clue about the topic of the question. Maybe half a dozen words, or fewer if possible. Not the entire question, word for word. Maybe something like More "Married with Children" questions. -- ♬ Jack of Oz ♬ ^{[your turn]} 03:44, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

For sure. I anchored the original, and then shortened it as per your suggestion. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:13, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

For question 1) There is absolutely no way we can provide references to answer that question. If anyone here tried to answer the first question, it would basically be everyone making stuff up, because you're asking about the motivations of fictional characters and why they didn't do something. It should be patently obvious that there's not likely to be any good answer for that question, other then all of us giving our opinions on why, and that's not really what this desk is for. For question 2) List of Married... with Children episodes has a brief synopsis of each episode. Using my browser's "find" function and the word "psychic", I found that the answer is Episode 124, which was #19 of the 6th season, titled "Psychic Avengers", and it first aired on March 1, 1992. --Jayron32 03:52, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Actually there is a good answer for #1: He really did love her. There was an episode where he was presented with the opportunity to cheat on her, but had to admit to himself, grudgingly, that he really did love her. Was it "He Ain't Much, But He's Mine (1989)" (Season 4, Episode 5) ? StuRat (talk) 04:08, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Good answer! Meanwhile... I may be remembering this totally wrong, but I think that at the time the last show was taped, they didn't know if they were going to be renewed or not, so they didn't make any kind of series finale as such. Even if they had, the dynamic of that weird family is what made it funny. Divorce would have imposed a "reality" on that show that didn't really fit. Not that they wouldn't have tried, had they known they were making their finale. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 04:11, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Top ten hits

To my surprise, top ten hit is a redlink. I'd like to create it as a redirect, but I know very little about contemporary music and don't know where to send it. What existing article is most relevant to it? Searching for "top ten hit" produced Top 40 and List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2011; I'm not sure whether it would be helpful to send people to Top 40, and if we have something that would easily be renamed to List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles (note the absence of a year), I'm not aware of it. I'm aware that "The reference desk does not answer requests for opinions", but this is different; I'm basically coming here because I couldn't think of a better place to request input on popular music. I'd go to the Village Pump for Entertainment if we had one :-) Nyttend (talk) 05:29, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Record chart and Hit parade seem to be two different articles about the same thing. Top 40 seems to be one article about two different things. I would suggest redirecting to Record chart. Sussexonian (talk) 23:07, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Taking one's eye out of its eyeball as a spying device

Hi everyone. I'm trying to list histories where someone pops his eye out of his eyeball to use it as a spying device. I found two : Eden, the main character of the 2008 movie Doomsday can do this : her eye is a minature drone that sends image to her watch ; the Other is Aughra, the witch in Dark Crystal, who watches with one eye in her hand. I've been suggested Bender, in Futurama doing this but I won't find in wich episodes (if someone knows...).
So the question is : anymore ideas ?
Thank you for the time you'll spend trying to remember that :-) Jean-no (talk) 07:14, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

I'm sure this was in one of the Red Dwarf episodes, where one of Kryten's eyes was used as a spare part. Hang on I'll check. --TammyMoet (talk) 10:36, 16 September 2012 (UTC) Red Dwarf Series V Episode 3, "Terrorform" is the one I'm thinking of. --TammyMoet (talk) 10:40, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. Funny, I think I have never heard of Red Dwarf ! Jean-no (talk) 13:03, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Mr Potato Head does it in Toy Story 2 (and possibly in the others in the series)--Jac16888 ^Talk 13:34, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

His wife does it in Toy Story 3, both intentionally and inadvertently (one of her eyes is accidentally left behind in Andy's room, and she gathers important information by means of it). Deor (talk) 00:37, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

There's also Steve Austin in the novel Cyborg, whose (blind) eye is a removable miniature spy camera, although when it was made for TV as The Six Million Dollar Man the eye had more functions and doesn't seem to have been removable. - Karenjc 17:54, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

I don't know what media you're limiting yourself to ("histories"?), but the character Glogo/Angel-Eye [1] from the webcomic Rice Boy [2] is able to do this too. -- 71.35.125.16 (talk) 20:47, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

The OP is probably not a native English speaker. The words history and story have the same origin and are the same word in many languages. Assume they meant "story". μηδείς (talk) 23:03, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

French is a good example, and the OP confesses to having been an admin on fr.wp. —Tamfang (talk) 03:40, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Possibly the Graeae. 75.41.109.190 (talk) 03:28, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

The stalker in Angel episode "I Fall to Pieces". —Tamfang (talk) 03:38, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Doesn't Alastor Moody do this? Nyttend (talk) 04:56, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

I found a rich source listing many of the above, plus a few more we didn't mention, here at tvtropes.org. - Karenjc 12:02, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

The main character in Brother from Another Planet — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.107.53.153 (talk) 17:11, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Blank picture file

Sorry this is confusing so I'm checking again. Back soon, Manytexts (talk) 12:11, 16 September 2012 (UTC) Okay, don't think I'm nuts after all. This is the puzzle:

In the article on the actor Paul Shenar the pic file link is blank. When clicked on it goes instead to Roberto Sosa's sig (he's a Honduran writer) & is also blank. The character link in the caption, Alexandro Sosa is a Scarface character & goes to the cast.

When I first saved this page, it appeared in giant form, but in the Shenar article is blank & on the Sosa picture file page it is too. Maybe this isn't such a problem but that's how I found it just now, and wonder what's going on with the blanks though the mis-linking would be okay to fix. Manytexts (talk) 12:17, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

The mystery image

I can understand your confusion about the "image" File:Sosa.jpg to the right. There are three issues at the same time: A deleted file, a file redirect, and a thumbnail (scale-down) failure. I have removed the infobox image in Paul Shenar.[3]. Before that the infobox [4] tried to display an image called Sosa.jpg. That file was deleted from the English Wikipedia in July.[5] If the English Wikipedia has no file by a name then a file with the same name at Wikimedia Commons will be displayed. Commons has a file redirect from commons:File:Sosa.jpg to commons:File:Roberto Sosa signature.jpg (which is unrelated to the deleted file). The Commons file page says "Redirected from File:Sosa.jpg", but this text is not displayed when the file page is viewed at the English Wikipedia. The redirect means that the article attempted to display commons:File:Roberto Sosa signature.jpg. The third issue is that this image cannot be rescaled by our software for some reason. It only displays correctly (at least for me) at the original version media:Roberto Sosa signature.jpg. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:03, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks heaps PrimeHunter, you are Sherlock Holmes to me. I guess it stands as is then. A mystery image. Manytexts (talk) 09:49, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Resolved

Song Name

What is the name of a song on the radio station 97.1 (or 92.7) that talked about meeting new people and had the word "miracle" in it? Sorry if I'm being a little vague, but I heard this song before and don't remember much of it. Thank you. Futurist110 (talk) 18:48, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

There are dozens of radio stations at that specific FM frequency, so without knowing which city you live in, there is absolutely no way anyone here could know what song you were hearing. Even if we knew which city, there is a very minimal chance that someone here at Wikipedia was listening to the same station you were at the same time and could recall that specific song. You'll have to give us more clues about the song itself, not where you heard it; things like the genre, instrumentation, specific words or phrases, gender of the singer, type of radio station you heard it on, etc. etc. Just telling us the frequency of the station is of no help to anyone trying to work with you. --Jayron32 18:54, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

User boxes on Futurist110's page indicates they're living in Los Angeles. This would mean that 97.1 probably refers to KAMP-FM, a top 40 radio station, and 92.7 refers to KLST-FM, an adult contemporary station, though the latter's slogan is "We Play Everything", so knowing the genre of the station (rather than the song itself) might not be all that much help. -- 71.35.125.16 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:14, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

You'd probably be as well to identify the radio station and contact them, they may have a playlist online for you to consult too. --TammyMoet (talk) 19:02, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

I've had fairly good success by just calling the station in question and asking the DJ. If there is a DJ... Dismas|^(talk) 18:01, 17 September 2012 (UTC)