Farewell, Alex Dunphy (Fennerman?). Thank you for being you.

Farewell, Alex Dunphy (Fennerman?).  Thank you for being you.
Farewell, Alex Dunphy (Fennerman?). Thank you for being you.

Monday, September 19, 2016

"Oh, My God, What's Wrong With My Head?" (First Impressions - "A Stereotypical Day" - Season 8, Episode 2)

Well, there's still no press release out for this episode, but I did find some photos for it from ABC's press website.  You'll have to scroll down a little to get to them, and you can click on them to see them larger (I'm surprised they let an unlogged person do this - much of this site is accessible only to members of the media).

(NOTE: Those who read/reread this posting a few weeks from now may not be able to find them - I'll post a more permanent link when/if I find one).

As you'll eventually see, there are photos of Alex in a bathrobe and others with her wearing a medical mask.  So it looks like this will be the episode where she contracts mononucleosis.  Whether it's a one episode story or it gets extended a bit remains to be seen.  Not to mention there's little clue of the gravity of her story, or how much focus it gets.


If there's ever a press release issued for this one I'll post it ASAP.  I'm wondering though if they'll skip that one and go right to "Blindsided".

Oh, and by the way I have to work next Wednesday night, so I won't get to see this one until later that evening (no worries this week for the opener, as I'm on vacation).

In other news:

Two new episode titles have been released:  The 5th episode is the bi-annual Halloween episode ("Halloween 4: The Revenge of Rod Skyhook"), and the 6th episode's title is "Grab It".  That's a bit weird scheduling-wise, since the 5th episode as of now is expected to air on October 19th, or a week earlier than you would think they'd air a Halloween episode.  So either there's probably going to be a switch, or there will be an early re-run (an early hint of another shortened 22 episode season?) which would push it back to the 26th.

Alex has yet to really have a Halloween story (I don't count her getting stuffed into a cage as a "story")  - maybe she's due?  On the other hand, "Grab It" is another "no idea if/how Alex would fit into it" title.

On the Emmy red carpet shows last night, Ariel used the words "heavy story lines" to describe why she wasn't able to fit a college workload into her show schedule and thus had to defer entering UCLA.  So, maybe there's more hope for a couple of big, game changing stories for Alex after all?

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