Ser Pentrose

What upsets me most about those books and movies is that there is now more than a generation who do not associate the name "Twilight" with the work of Rod Serling.

There is no comparison. Twilight Sparkle has more sense (common AND horse) in her left rear hoof than may be found in the entirety of the Twilight book series.

Yeah, we reacted much the same way when they spoke of moving to Canada if the healthcare thing passed.

Yes, because Americans who flee to Canada because the US Federal Government is too liberal for their tastes are going to the wrong country.

I did like it when gay marriage was legalised all over the US and some people were like, "That's it. I'm moving to Canada," and the Canadians were like, "Uh..."

I'm not even from that continent!

Most of the reactions I saw were amusement, not freak-out.  People in general got the joke.
There's actually a group that shows up at area SFF cons in their own pseudo-military gear with a zombie-fighting theme who are actually a disaster-preparedness group.  They're quite nice and have some very informative brochures.

Maybe a series of "You're Always Covered" adds? 
"My house got stomped flat by a monster!"
"That was actually a tornado, but even if it was a monster you'd still be covered."

I can no longer consider shenanigans caused by misunderstood accidentally eavesdropped statements taken out of context as "Hijinks" due to their overuse by Three's Company.

When Voltaire brought it up, he said something like, "Well, Elliot is still alive, so plan B is still on the table."  To me, the "so" implies that plan B, aka plan CM, requires Elliot to be alive.
Oooh....that is an *evil* thought!  (This is the point where an old writing group of mine would have chimed in with a collective, "Yay, evil!" because we'd found that the best ideas were almost always evil ideas....)
In Elliot's case, the danger is definitely that he perhaps can't live with them.

How about Math v.s Greg cosplaying as Chun-Li?
I want to see Math's expression those first few seconds when his brain is trying to make sense of what he is seeing...
 

Speaking of good or bad parents, https://m.reddit.com/r/raisedbynarcissists/ might just lose you your faith in humanity.
Back (more) on topic, while not perfect, Ed Verres has not shown himself to be nearly as bad as it might get (he did relent on the TF Gun and Grace after realising just how much they meant to Tedd, after all).  And thanks to Noriko, he's been having to work it out on his own for much of it, something which I do not envy.

I'm impressed with Edward's fortitude. Being calm and rational in the face of such a dangerous adversary is admirable. He's certainly better at dealing with supernatural dangers than with parenting.

Held up by liability concerns.  If you think incompetent or drunk drivers are a problem, you don't even want to think about jetpack pilots.
 

So, in short, it was literally cheaper to buy cake than bread at the time, so the statement was not "let them deal with high prices by buying something even higher priced", as many modern people assume at first glance, but rather "let them use the next cheapest substitute".

Nah, it's not that bad. While a 60 kg (global average) person would wipe out Texas, I doubt Canada would feel a thing. An 80.7 kg person (average North American) could pretty much remove Spain and Portugal from the maps, but I'm confident that Romania would probably be fine. Lousy tourists.

At least they would be over very, very quickly. So would the problems of most everybody on the continental land mass you happened to be on at the time.

I read that the law in France at the time said that if a baker ran out of the cheapest bread, he HAD to sell a similar quantity of SOME sort of vaguely bread-like thing, that he actually had on hand, for the same price. So (assuming that is correct) if the peasants had no bread due to a shortage of bread-flour, but there was abundant cake-flour, the peasants would legitimately be eating cake.
On the other hand, if the peasants had no bread because economic conditions were bad enough that they couldn't afford cheap bread...

Fixed it for you.

Would they even have them?  The point of divergence after all is well before sports leagues are a thing.  We have enough trouble now with ambiguities about who can compete in gender or age brackets defined leagues, or what to do about artificial hormones vs. people who naturally have abnormal levels.  I've been half expecting some professional sport to implode under the stress of body modification technologies for a while now, add that sort of issue from the beginning and the para-religious "fair play" thing falls apart, and that's something that played a big role in early development of modern sport.
 

Damien was also narcissistic in the extreme and dumber than a sack of rocks. Even with what little I knew of him, I would consider him incapable of an acting job that would so convincingly portray a completely different person.

I never really considered A-Ha a boy band, more like a one hit wonder, at least in North America, and Duran Duran is a 2 man crew. I think actual "Boy Bands" started with New Kids on the Block, but precursors to them would have been groups like the Jackson Five, The Osmonds, The Monkees and possibly even The Beatles, they just weren't called "Boy Bands" back then.
Edit: Sorry, Duran Duran isn't a 2 man crew, though it has gone through several roster changes over the years.

I'm telling you: Google Dolphin...

This reminds me of all the old conundrums of how to prevent WWII. Any viable solution I could think of invariably involved preventing WW1 as well. To do that you needed to go further back... it got quite headachey.
I did find a much simpler way of preventing Hitler from getting into power, one that did not involve shooting him. All you needed to do was to look for him while he was still a painter, pretend to swoon over how magnificent his paintings were and buy them for enough money to set him comfortably up. If you wanted to make sure, surround him with admirers of his art. He'd be ensconced in the burgeoisie and live isolated from the poverty and want that originally lured him into politics. By the time the key years rolled about he would not have the apparatus he needed even if he changed his mind by then.

Yes it was, but that doesn't change the fact the "grok" wasn't from Star Trek, but from "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Back on topic here.
If other members of the US intelligence community (or any countries intelligence communities really) other than DGB knew about immortals and their ability to be any where and not be detected they would collectively crap a brick. Enough bricks to build a fairly large building, maybe even a pyramid the size of those in Giza. Of course getting an immortal to act as a spy for a group of humans might be tricky, but not impossible. Pandora might do it for the chaos it would cause. If as Pandora claims that the three letter agencies are willing to kill for Sarah's power, what would they do for the ability to be in first person real time fully undetectable?