The Television Show Test Thread

[Reply #600 on:]

Saget, faget!
He's on Entourage as well as a douchey guy, lols.

Speakin of Entourage:
"It's a vagina!"

Dexter's back too, great season opener, I like the alternate dad type opening sequence.

[Reply #601 on:]

I'm with Chay when it comes to the not-watching-many-sitcoms thing, but I watched "The Big Bang Theory" last night and was pleasantly surprised by how, like, not horrible I found it. It was actually pretty funny; maybe I'll try to catch it again next week (I have this really short attention span when it comes to most TV shows, in that I can't maintain a set schedule of "Okay, I watch these shows on Monday and these shows on Tuesday...", but a gal can dream).

[Reply #602 on:]

Also watching Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital. I saw the end of it aaaaages ago on TV and always vowed to watch it's entirety. Also, cause Evangeline Lilly was in it But it turns out she was only in one episode known only as "Benton's Girlfriend" and was uncredited...

It's pretty good, creepy and weird, but kind of good.

[Reply #603 on:]

Big Bang theory? Meeeeh.... it's not the worst thing ever, but I've watch a few eps and found it excelled only in it's blandness.

[Reply #604 on:]

It has its moments. I think it tricks 'nerds' into liking it because it has "geek jokes" in it, but really it has the same basic storylines as every other show/movie 'created'.

Just started watching How I Met Your Mother.

Where the hell have you been?! It was on just before Lost when it first started. I don't care if you people only watch shows on the internet, you should know when a great show is on. But yeah, if Barney wasn't part of the ensemble it would probably only be a good show instead of great.

[Reply #605 on:]

Stop watching Big Bang theory and buy the IT Crowd DVD boxset. It has geeky jokes and is generally amusing. Plus it also has Matt Berry AND Richard Ayoade.

And if you love that, Also get Garth Marenighs Darkplace. Now thats comedy.

[Reply #606 on:]

i have only seen one bit of darkplace, when the guy is talking about being trapped in glasgow overnight or something.
'twas awesome

[Reply #607 on:]

Anybody see David Letterman explain the extortion attempt made against him this week? Some CBS employee was trying to get $2 million out of him by threatening to expose affair(s) he'd had with staffers on The Late Show. Dave reported it and participated in a sting operation. The guy was arrested.

He confessed to the whole thing on the air, including the boning of more than one female subordinate on the show (turns out one of them was an intern in her early twenties!). I have never seen a person confess to something so embarrassing in such a dignified manner.

Hell of a thing to come up just a few months after he finally married Regina after 'dating' for like two-hundred years. Cruel for her, but I can't help but feel some guilty admiration for a sixty-something year old guy screwing around with young interns.

[Reply #608 on:]

I'm sure you'll be just as dignified when you expose all the twisted affairs and scandals you were involved in over the course of your life, when the time comes. For now - get cracking!

[Reply #609 on:]

Okay, okay... here it is. I slept with a blind women by impersonating her husband. Yes, it's despicable, but in my defense she was absolutely smokin'!

[Reply #610 on:]

It has its moments. I think it tricks 'nerds' into liking it because it has "geek jokes" in it, but really it has the same basic storylines as every other show/movie 'created'.

Just started watching How I Met Your Mother.

Where the hell have you been?! It was on just before Lost when it first started. I don't care if you people only watch shows on the internet, you should know when a great show is on. But yeah, if Barney wasn't part of the ensemble it would probably only be a good show instead of great.

Personally, I think that any good show could be made great by allowing Neil Patrick Harris to play a total sexual inversion of himself. It's double-hilarious because he's gay.

[Reply #611 on:]

I would just be happy if I could spend a day following him around, screw television.

I slept with a blind women woman

Fixt. Or did you really mean the plural form? I'd like to see you try!

[Reply #612 on:]

...It was late. Shh.

[Reply #613 on:]

Oh well. As long as she got what she came for.
That works in a dirty way somehow, I'm sure...

I've finished watching the 3 season of Black Books - what do I do now? What?!

[Reply #614 on:]

You get a Bill Bailey DVD and a Dylan Moran DVD and play them together and imagine they're talking to each other in a bookshop.

[Reply #615 on:]

HAH. Maybe I will, Milhouse. Maybe I will.
Actually I do have Dylan Moran stuff that I still haven't watched that someone put on my ipod and I keep forgetting about it. Don't have any Bill Bailey though.

[Reply #616 on:]

Then I recommend Part Troll.

[Reply #617 on:]

^
I second that reccomendation.

If not, Cosmic Jam simply for Insect Nation.

[Reply #618 on:]

wooo! Bones is back!

[Reply #619 on:]

Hmm...welcome back to Aussie TV, John Safran. That was...interesting.

[Reply #620 on:]

Modern Family: *thumbs up*

[Reply #621 on:]

It has Al Bundy in it.  How could it fail?



Other than that way.

[Reply #622 on:]

Heh, I was discussing Modern Family last night, I've only seen a bit of one episode, when the gay guys present their adopted kid to the Lion King soundtrack, lols

I'm adding it to my ShowRSS feed as soon as it comes back online (nooooo! )

Also, Californication is still great, plenty of boobs, Hank is now in a love square (not triangle!) with the college deans wife, his teaching assistant and one of his students, my hero.

And 30 Rock is back, yaaay! \/

[Reply #623 on:]

Speaking of shows on Showtime, Penn & Teller: Bullshit! is pretty funny.  Fewer boobs, but they're still there from time to time.

[Reply #624 on:]

It doesn't have Eva Amurri as a student by day, stripper by night though!

[Reply #625 on:]

Speaking of shows on Showtime, Penn & Teller: Bullshit! is pretty funny.  Fewer boobs, but they're still there from time to time.

I loved the one episode where they lampooned the bottled water industry by have a water "Sommelier" at a restaurant.  Just brilliant.

[Reply #626 on:]

Them messing with people presenting the "new recycling program" was my favorite.

And is it just me that's ready for october to be over so the channel formerly known as SciFi will go back to showing stuff that's actually ... enjoyable?

[Reply #627 on:]

About the only enjoyable program I saw on the SyFy channel was Warehouse 13. 

[Reply #628 on:]

I caught an episode of Community a few nights ago.  It was fairly entertaining.  The Batman-bits were hilarious, especially the voiceover near the end.

[Reply #629 on:]

Chevy Chase? Cute girl? I'm in!

[Reply #630 on:]

Sesame Street turns 40 today.

In celebration, here's something from my favorite monster.

[Reply #631 on:]

Heheh. Classic.

[Reply #632 on:]

Is he allowed to eat cookies again yet?

Aw man...can't find any "Classiic!" clips from Skithouse. But I did find this song from Tripod. I remember it being on one of the comedy festivals, I'm sure it was better with visual..

They don't really have many Skithouse clips online outside of Tripod songs.

[Reply #633 on:]

The Wire, 100 best quotes.

[Reply #634 on:]

I finished watching Primeval on DVD and frankly it can go rot.  The first two seasons were great, but the third was terrible.  I'm pretty much the only one here who watches the show, but I'll spoilerize it anyway.

Spoiler warning! Click to show/hide!

• They killed Cutter mid-season and replaced him with a more unlikeable red-haired guy.  Killing Steven off at the end of the second season was brilliant and gut-wrenching and really took the show up a notch, but Cutter's death, the death of the main character of the show, had as much dignity as a dog in a tutu.
• They got rid of Jenny early on, and, while I didn't like her as much as Claudia, I had just started getting used to her.
• Helen turned from mad scientist to supervillain almost immediately.  Her death was cool because it involved velociraptors, but somewhat cliche since she'd just delivered her "My evil plans and, by extension, I are unstoppable now!" speech to the hero.
• I'm down with Conner and Abby being stuck in the Cretaceous and Danny being stuck in the Pliocene, but they didn't really capitalize on the clone army cliffhanger from the previous season.
• Cutter's inexplicable insight into anomalies (he's a biologist, after all) got even more inexplicably insightful.  Given the limited data set he was working with, how he was able to work it into his modern art "map" that turns out to be right escapes comprehension.  Furthermore, how Conner (biology student) verifies it is correct by looking at an unlabeled hologram from the future is also never explained beyond it looking like Cutter's concertina of doom.
• Also, the Artifact is never explained before being destroyed.  I imagine the writers were saving some stuff for the next season, but this season gave us nothing.
• There were also causality paradoxes implied but never expounded upon by Helen, who first makes it sound like she wants to prevent the anomaly phenomenon until the next episode when she states she just wants to destroy humanity.
• What's the deal with everybody's hair?  Get a haircut, Cutter!  Stop getting Haircuts, Abby!