2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! When cherished Aunt Tessa suffers a stroke, other members of the extended family must step up, adjust their expectations, and embrace the multi-ethnic family that makes them thankful in 1993's “Turkey. Lumpia. Haggis.”

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! The luchador Copper Helmsman must overcome the exotic charms of a snake-cult priestess to rescue an archaeological team in Cozumel. It's 1969's “The Copper Helmsman vs. the Snake Women (Capitán Bueno y el Peligro de Kukulkan).”

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! The spud is rediscovered growing roots in an Idaho reservoir. Hampered by the Department of Water Resources, the USDA (with the return of Greg Rogers) fights the invasive species in 1959's “the Great Famine Potato Blights Again.”

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A community college logic professor balances his academic pursuits with his side job as hitman. When he's paid to kill the beguiling classics professor, he must choose between truth and beauty in 1976's “Corollary to a Kill.”

Players and comic artists insist that all monsters, no matter how mindless or malevolent their stat block, will eventually become pets (or lovers!) Now slimes, kobolds, and mimics are passé. We must reach deeper into the the bestiary. Oswald Otyugh A Stroper named Cuddles Hook Horror Helen

It is well known that evil dwarves overestimate their capacity to scheme, and believe they are cleverer than the heroes, only to inevitably be outwitted by those heroes because aforesaid dwarves can't actually recognize traps. Psychologists have coined a phrase for this: the Cunning-Duergar Effect.

Thinking about the lesser-known creation of the mad wizard who made the Owlbear, the Chickenbadger.

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! When the train breaks down in a sleepy Midwest town, an unusual freight-hopping primate (Jane Martins) makes friends with the local mischievous child James. Together they save the town from a gas leak in “the Hobo Gorilla (1957).”

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Over three months, the Principality of Bloegenstein is founded, flourishes, declared a map error and erased from the records. Centuries later, the descendants remain loyal to their heritage in 1972’s “Bloegenstein is in Our Hearts.”

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! Sir Gary recruits Leeka, the only girl to escape Sorceresses Fran’s monstrous invasion. Together, they uncover a loophole of a prophecy and creatively subvert it to save the King and Kingdom in 1992’s “The Feinting Blade.”

Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! A bored car dealer shares an uncanny resemblance to an R&B legend. He's asked to cover for the singer for three weeks, but they both go on the run when the singer's past catches up with them. Enjoy 1979's “A Mile in My Blues.”

Noon on Baron Tikitrocious' Weekend Tikipeats! Hannah takes inspiration from her grandmother, a devotee of 1950s camp and practitioner of the cunning arts, to build confidence and catch the eye of budding artist Alexander. Grow in power and heart in 2007's “Kitsch's Cauldron.”

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! This comedy features a group of spring-break coeds trying to find fun and romance during the 1982 succession of Key West. Wacky, bikini-driven 1984 “Conch Getaway!” (Broadcast-safe format! Tiki-swear!)

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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! Clown Honkers Van Helsing's mission against the undead pits him against zombie ponies and their vampire groom at the midnight scholastic fair. The lunch-lady chances love and seltzer in “Honkers Van Helsing 2: 2Late 2Pony (2010).”

Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A young girl receives a demon-possessed horse from her Grandmother's estate. Will its unholy influence corrupt the innocent before the bastard son of the local priest can help? Ride out with a “Giddyup Mr. Legion (1976).”

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2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! The Selwa CosmoClean Appliance Co. must increase sales, so they stage a beauty pageant. Four attractive women from 'very different backgrounds' (all Caucasian) compete for cash and appliances to become “Miss Waffle Iron 1962.”

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! His mother is marrying a gentile, his sometimes-fling has his baby on the way, and the too-early death of his father may have sinister underpinnings. The theft he’s investigating is almost a distraction in 1977’s ”A Wise Man Sighs.”

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! A new deodorant additive and the reemergence of Cicada Brood IX leaves hundreds dead. An entomologist and a forensic chemist team up to debug the issue, save lives, and stop undershirt stains in 1979's “the Seventeen-Year Itch.”

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! The band is on stage and the screens behind them show pictures of thousands of people caught in the same emotion at each time. The band and the visuals alternate being monochromatic in 1978’s “The Petite Diversions Show Our Faces.”

I haven't had as much time to play in the past year, or to post about City of Heroes, but I've gotten a few characters to fifty and have a few more in progress I play when time allows. Entire thread available but the new ones start here.

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I almost changed from egg salad to deviled eggs because the eggs peeled suspiciously perfectly.

2PM on the Baron Tikitrocious' Midday Matinee! After her husband is killed, a homemaker (scream-queen Julia Strictland) may be the only non-slasher on the couples retreat. She turns the psychos on themselves with her new-found communication skills in 2001's “Camp Counseling.”

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Midnight on the Tikitrocious Moonlight Encore! A haughty “auteur” pisses off his associate producers too many times, and he’s hypnotized to believe he’s remaking a film masterpiece that never existed. It goes too far on both sides in 1991’s “A Curtis Bellweather Film.”