Eventually, Butch breaks free and knocks out the Gimp, effectively hanging him since he’d been strung up.
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Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
6 Mar. 2026
Members of the Orange County Amateur Radio Club spent the weekend camped out on a Huntington Beach middle school soccer field, practicing various ways the ham radio operators will help in an earthquake, fire or other disaster that knocks out communications.
There are moments when Lily feels lost and anxious, and another scene where a panicked sheep knocks over furniture, although that is played for laughs.
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Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
8 May 2026
But as much as the ratings monopoly has taken its share of knocks over the decades, it has never been supplanted as the anchor of the $70 billion-plus TV ad business.
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