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= September 28 =

Network TV Air Dates of Movies
Is there any way I can learn the network TV air dates of certain films? I can't seem to find any on individual film pages or on IMDB. 173.220.43.86 (talk) 11:40, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Do you mean the first time a movie appeared on a network? Or every appearance? Like, for example, a network airing The Ten Commandments every year around Easter. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 11:55, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
 * And do you mean true networks (such as CBS) or are you including cable channels (like TBS). Heck, I'm just going with American examples because that's what I know, but I don't know if you are from the US or are even interested in US related answers. Also, are you asking about broadcasts by the network, which would be carried by basically every local affiliate, or are you including broadcasts by a single affiliate during some part of their broadcast day that does not carry the national feed? --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 14:37, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Geolocates to the New York City area. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:03, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
 * imdb has US TV air days for some films, generally older ones. Here is an example https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030850/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv --TrogWoolley (talk) 13:00, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Chandler Bing glasses
What was the first episode of Friends where Chandler Bing wore glasses? (78.19.153.116 (talk) 16:08, 28 September 2022 (UTC))


 * Alas, there appears to be no episode titled “The One Where Chandler Wears Glasses”. —Tamfang (talk) 01:55, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I doubt you'll find a reference for that. You'd be better off asking on a fan site. Shantavira|feed me 09:48, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I think you're underestimating the popularity of Friends. According to various gossip sites, it was season 7 [//www.marieclaire.co.uk/entertainment/tv-and-film/friends-chandler-bing-glasses-639732] [//www.thelist.com/435353/this-is-why-chandler-wore-glasses-on-friends/] [//www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/a9597755/friends-chandler-bing-thing-you-never-noticed-glasses/]. Some of those quote Quora which is sort of ironic since if you look at this Quora thread [//www.quora.com/Why-did-Chandler-Bing-begin-wearing-glasses-in-Season-7], there's actually someone who says he wore glasses albeit with fake lenses in The One That Could Have Been which is a two part season 6 episode. I don't know if they missed this or excluded that episode, as explained in our article and this Screenrant [//screenrant.com/friends-season-7-chandler-matthew-perry-glasses-reason/] article and this Looper one [//www.looper.com/423870/the-real-reason-chandler-started-wearing-glasses-on-friends/], that two part episode was an alternative reality. If by Chandler Bing the OP means any version of the Chandler Bing character in Friends, the answer is either S06E15 or S06E16 (I suspect it was in the first episode but none those sources specifically clarified this that I noticed).  OTOH, if by Chandler Bing the OP means the version of character we saw through most of the series until the end, then since this wasn't the same version we're back to season 7. Fortunately the Screenrant and Looper articles also clarify something which none of the other sources (and even Quora that I noticed) does namely which was the first episode in season 7 where Chandler appeared with glasses saying it was “The One With Phoebe’s Cookies” which is S07E03.  Note that I am assuming we're going by the accepted episode order which follows the broadcast order. Since it looks like, as with a lot of shows, episodes were not always produced entirely in the same order, it's possible this isn't the first episode produced. Assuming the production code reveals the production order, then both episode 4 and 5 were produced first so if you're actually interested in the first episode produced you'd need to check of Chandler wore glasses in either of them. But that's getting into technicalities that I don't care to research further especially since I find it weird to exclude the season 6 two parter because it's an alternate reality but then want to follow production order since AFAIK unlike with some shows the standard episode order tends to be the accepted chronological order. However I suspect whether S07E04 and S07E05 had Chandler in glasses is probably discussed somewhere.  Nil Einne (talk) 11:29, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I love the refdesk. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:42, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

1990s computer games
We got our first computer in 1993 when I was about 10 years old and I am wondering if anyone knows the names of these two video games. They came pre-installed on the machine and for years I only have a memory of them but not of what they were called. THE FIRST GAME - Reminded me of a very primitive version of Stonekeep, but was not made by the same company. It starts with this first person character told by his uncle to go find a cow which has run away or something like that. There was a cave with weapons and that's about as far as I ever got. It was hard to find the cow and if you went back to the Uncle before then and tried to talk to him, the game had you punch him, you had a fight, the game was over. I remember this game was hard-wired into the machine itself and not installed from a disk, etc. THE SECOND GAME: More advanced, you were on some sort of quest and had a "haversack" which later in the game gets stolen by the main villain who lives on an island. The game had various puzzles and at one point you had to get a boat and go to the island where the villain was. There was an evil bug who said he would "sting you and give you spots". One of the puzzles you put a log on a snake, or vice versa, to solve the puzzle. Those are the games...anyone have any ideas?. -KTcup82 (talk) 21:32, 28 September 2022 (UTC)