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Jen Zug's avatar

TAGS is such a great show, and I love it when stuff like that becomes part of the family lore. I still tell my kids/young adults, “Have fun storming the castle!” every time they leave.

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Andrew Knott's avatar

Love it!

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Liz Alterman's avatar

Hilarious! That Sophia's sister doesn't even go to that school is what really got me!

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Andrew Knott's avatar

I definitely didn’t see it coming

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Liz Alterman's avatar

They brought in a ringer! So far my only sitcom-to-real-life moment has been getting hit in the nose with a football and recreating Marcia Brady's "Oh my nose!" episode. Yours is much better!

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Andrew Knott's avatar

Another classic! (But sorry about your nose that sounds really painful.)

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Andrew Knott's avatar

Also, guess you didn’t see it coming either (sorry)

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Chris Stanton's avatar

A lifelong dream achieved! I remember what a TAGS fan you are from our discussion of citizens arrests, so I understand the significance of this.

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Andrew Knott's avatar

I knew you’d understand the significance. Still practically levitating over here.

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Henny Hiemenz's avatar

“The best jokes are the ones you have to explain” 🤣 Dads everywhere are nodding their heads in agreement on this one.

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Kathy Lu's avatar

As usual, I love the sense of humor in your writing. Our kids only just introduced us to the show called "Is It Cake," so the cake line was especially timely. P.S. I'm so curious to know how your son landed on viola? Stringed instruments have been a hot topic of conversation here. P.P.S. Re: a long-ago post you shared, we finally refinished a wooden thing over Thanksgiving!

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Andrew Knott's avatar

Thanks! Mine have been watching the cake show as well. They have the orchestra club at my son's school and he signed up because he likes signing up for pretty much everything. Mostly the kids got to choose between violin or viola (with like one bass and cello) and he did viola since it was a little different and most everyone else wanted to do violin. Glad you have entered your wood working era!

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Kathy Lu's avatar

"Era" might be generous. We had a wood filler step which ended up being a little disastrous (it didn't actually take on the color of the stain at the next step as advertised). Even more stressful to me, we ended up with a small bucket of toxic paint sludge/brush water which is reducing/evaporating very slowly while I figure out how to handle it.

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Andrew Knott's avatar

Our wood working era lasted about a day and a half so I think you have us beat!

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David Stanley's avatar

I love TAGS. My wife, um, does not. And yet, nearly 25 years later, we are still married.

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Andrew Knott's avatar

Kudos to both of you for persevering!

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Joseph Vess's avatar

A GLASS jug! Your family must have been rich :) The episode quoted most often at my house is Mountain Wedding--the Robert E. Lee natural bridge, "just let that thumb hang," fish muddle, the best rock-thrower in the county, the lady sheriff...

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Andrew Knott's avatar

Haha! Yes, that's yet another classic!

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David Perlmutter's avatar

The greatest TV shows of the past never lose their appeal....

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