The ominbus when-the-frak-does-it-start-again TV thread

Yeah, so now I'm seriously anti-anti-anti-anti-mellow about new seasons of TV shows. I'll even include some ones still-on-the-radar-but-not-that-much-care.

THIS IS AN OFFICIAL THREAD ABOUT REAL STUFF SO DON'T FUCK UP!!!!!

Robot Chicken
Bob's Burgers
American Dad
Family Guy
Californication
Elementary! (yeah, I know, Lucy Liu [sp] sux, but I like Johnny Miller)

Probably missing a bunch of stuff, so fill in the blanks.

DO EEET!!!! GET TO ZE CHOPPPER! RUN!!!!!!!!!!!

ETA

how could I forget?

Bates Motel!

ETTA

and, for good measure, why not, since this is an info thread,
that......show...."Mad Men" (geez, that's still on? I guess it's an English thing Pretty sure it's a summer show.)

ETTTA

I guess it's Jonny Lee Miller, well, whatever. He'll always be Mr. Jolie to me, also that little dude in that TV about the Dexter.

Amazing Race starts tomorrow. My family likes that a lot.

My kid and I will be happy when baseball is back on TV.

That's still on (actually, could probably say that about baseball, but that's another paragraph)?

Jesus, I'm surprised at the longevity of some of these. I guess I saw *Amazing Race* back when we had our little front room set up for TV, like 10 years ago?

Kind of amusing, both the passage of time, and, objectively, the show was kind of fun.

You know, since I took this little portable TV out of my office (yeah, well, after a year or so in a new place, it comes time to decide "are my feet going on this part of the desk or on the floor like a plebe?" ... might have something to do with my recent back problems....), two years ago, I haven't seen a single MLB game on TV.

And now, since moving, what, like 4 years ago, i guess, into my condo as a resident-who-has-to-cover-bullshit-hoa-fees-&%^@(&#&-and-witness-the-squandering-by-the-inept-board, from a much smaller studio apartment, I haven't even got my system of antennae all that figured out for my tuner/receiver.

can you fucking imagine? That's like two solid seasons, no baseball. And, overlap with the tennis season, which I also fucking love. I follow neither closely, about as much as hockey, which I also love, but enough to appreciate the games and follow them.

What should be a year-round of plenty -- double-threat baseball and tennis in spring through late summer, and hockey in the winter -- is basically a seasons of sadness. To be fair, I have never bought cable TV in my life, and I think NHL is really stingy about any network TV fights games, even on basic cable. But when I was a bit more flush, it was worth it to go pass a few hours to check out the Sabres or one of the lesser teams in some bar.

well, tbh, I'm not that much a hockey fan, I just don't care to watch football or B-ball (in the latter, c'mon, I want it like the old days I missed in the 1970s because I was too young and my folks didn't have a fancy setup and my pops didn't give a shit, so maybe just trying to catch up on what I missed, but it's not the same for me on a small TV. Live B-Ball, though, that's a nice thing, but not the same thing as really following, and it's not really a radio sport, although an older buddy who came up in the 1960s as a young adult said there was an experimental phase when they tried it out.)

Naw, besides, is John Miller still calling play-by-play from SF? That's the guy I'd listen to on radio every day calling a ball game. Oh well. Maybe this will be the year I can see what I missed in baseball -- some scandals, I gather, and even though I haven't heard shit, I'm just guessing there's a bunch of new blood in the big tennis majors. TBH I just want to watch Sharapova play. From behind. Christ, so fucking what? Yeah, well, she's a great athlete with a lot of heart, and it's kind of a work of art to watch someone deliver and move like an artist.

Finished watching *House of Cards* season 2 this morning before getting streetside.

Pretty engaging. I saw Michael Park's name way down on the final episodes' credits -- don't remember seeing him at all. Maybe the guy who was in *Then Came Bronson* (awesome show) was actually Michael ParkS. Well, you snooze you lose I guess.

Kristen Connolly was in some of those. And the guy from the *Dawn of the Dead* remake was that sleazy fixer -- chief of staff or something like that to the

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veep

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But whoever wrote the dialogue for the last two episodes should probably be got with a firehose. Sounds like some high school or college student's idea of "dramatic" speeches. Makes me sick, sick I tell you. Not that I would ever criticize anyone or anything deliberately.

I'm wondering if the character Jackie Sharp was supposed to be a riff on Becky Sharpe (sp?) from *Vanity Fair* -- doesn't make too much sense, but more than all those "great men of history" names they gave people on *Lost*.

Can't wait for *Californication* and *Bates Motel* to start again. And, of course, *Robot Chicken*, the finest ten-minute comedy animated show in the whole world.

ETA that spoiler-box thingy is the balls AND the tits. Great!

I'm enjoying HBO's True Detective. The episodes can be a little slow but they are really well done and keep getting better.

I'm happy the Olympics are over so my silly sitcoms are back. I watch How I Met Your Mother, final season and it has run its course but still entertaining at times. Community is made of awesome and will hopefully some how find a larger audience but this show is on the cut bubble every year. Big Bang Theory which is doing great but is having an uneven year to me. It is rounded out with The Crazy Ones or Mork & Buffy as I like to call it. Mostly good if a little frantic at times. SMG is pretty good at comedy.

I've seen that *How I Met yr Mother* a few times.

Pretty funny -- I mean, look who they got acting in it. You got your *Freaks and Geeks* your *Doogie Howser/Harold and Kumar* your *Buffy/Angel*.

Still not sure what the premise is, besides "Listen up, kids, let me tell you a story..." Kind of still doesn't make that much sense to me. Probably have to, like, you know, actually watch the show more than a handful of times to get it, but who has the time anymore? ;)

Cute show. Might be a good one to pick up on disc when it's all winded down.

Archer has begun its latest season over on FX. Crazy, raunchy, very funny animated spy spoof.

I still record every new episode of Supernatural, but somehow I never feel like watching it.

What's that about?

I'm the same way with some PBS documentaries. I see it listed in the program schedule, think, "Oh, that sounds interesting," and record it... and then never quite get around to watching it! Eventually I delete it with a vague feeling of guilt.

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Originally posted by Elendil's Heir

I'm the same way with some PBS documentaries. I see it listed in the program schedule, think, "Oh, that sounds interesting," and record it... and then never quite get around to watching it! Eventually I delete it with a vague feeling of guilt.

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I do that with some old movies. I recorded the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from 1941 starring Spencer Tracy but never got around to watching it and then deleted it. There are a few dozen other films that has happened with.

SMG is in a new show? I watched pretty religiously *Ringers* (I think it was called...pretty sure. It was a while ago and then kind of stopped watching after two seasons I think). She's easy on the eyes. That is the depth of my insight into her craft.

Oh yeah, so here's the news:

*Californication* April 13th. Yeah, it's a little played out after how many seasons, but I like Pamela Adlon and Evan Handler is good, and Deirdre-from-*Ronin* is great (something McElhone, IIRC). Kind of tiresome every male character is like ZOMG she's the perfect and best person ever! But she might be, who knows.

*Bates Motel* March 3rd. Woohoo! You know, Olivia Hussey may have been startling and arresting and all that in *Psycho III* (I think that was the one), but this new Norma Bates gives even teen naked Juliet a run for the business.

And I forgot until when I was doing some "research" on Melanie Lynskey that that kid Jimmi Simpson was in kind of a weird little subplot of that *House/Cards* -- huh. I didn't know he was like a real actor-man. Whatever, but always good to keep an eye on the *Sunny/Philadelphia* kids.

ATTENTION IMPORTANT READ NOW

Oh, maybe not.

So it looks like the two other shows I like I overlooked (don't know how/why), *It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia* and *The League* are back sometime this year, but probably way later, like in the fall or whatever.

Well, *Philadelphia* kind of seemed a little flat the past two seasons or so. But Devito's "Frank" totally stole that "wine in an empty soda can" thing from me. I was doing it before it was cool. Ten years it will have been on? Shit, that's a long-ass time.

And I was so pleased that *The League* killed off that Raffi/Rafi kid...not that funny. Then they brought him back or whatever. Boo. They should probably tone down that long-haired douchebag's character a bit too. It's funny enough without all the antics.

Yes, I tried and failed to watch the chick's movie (Katie Aselton IIRC) movie about....something about marital infidelity. But failed miserably.

I can't get into Sunny. If I want to watch horrible people doing horrible things, I just have to go to work.

I gather there's going to be a new season of "Heroes of Cosplay". I would like to see that. I've no interest in cosplay or fandom in general myself, but the dedication those guys show is kind of awesome.

Sigh...I miss Zuul, who, IIRC was a pretty serious cosplayer.

I love Danny Devito. But I hate Sunny in Philly. The show does not work for me on any level. Hell I gave up on Seinfeld part way through the series as the characters were unlikable. So no chance for Sunny.

TNP thinks cosplay is beyond retarded, and would only go to a comicCon if arson were legalized.

This poster agrees, and also thinks you two are beyond weak for hating on *Sunny/Philadelphia*. I don't think the gang really do too much bad stuff, they're just morons.

Heh, "hating" is a bit strong, I just have things I'd rather do with my time.

But still, I'd rather see Yaya Han rocking some superhero costume than watch Sunny, and that's a fact.

Meh, I'd rather watch *Dune* and marvel at Sting's codpiece.

BBT was very good last night. Community was mostly meh and Crazy Ones was lame. So overall not a good post Olympic return for me.

Oh Yaya Han isn't just something you made up, I see, or some in-board reference.

Well, fine, she might rock the codpiece a little better than Sting. But I bet Sting's codpieces don't smell so good these days -- he used them for hours, I heard.

Ha, I was wondering about you preferring Sting to Yaya. (not that there's anything wrong with that.)

Actually, I've grown strangely fascinated with her. Making a living and being the star in such a little niche

Hey, stop the patriarchal hegemony!

You know, just off her wikipedia thing, I was like, (a) huh, OK, it's a real person, and it's a female specimen who I guess does stuff IRL and (b) she does some shows and (c) maybe I'll watch some of that shows.

Ten out of ten awesome people like RL performance art, like Fluxus and everything and sound poetry and even some of that visual-plastic thing and movies, therefore being one of ten, she might be doing something good.

I like that, in the pictures I've seen doing one google search, she's not really playing up the whole meat-market ZOMGITSAGIRLINACOSTUMEWITHOUTACNEOREMOTIONALISSUES ANDISANADULTS! Leads me to think her game might have more to do with presentation and reflection, rather than getting lost in the parabasis of irony.

Bates Motel season is on. WTF happened? Now it's like those ridiculous teenager shows, with stupid stylish visuals, like it's a fake-*The Crow*, and stupid crap like that idiotically dramatic eulogy by the preacher man, and everyone in a backwater town happening to own black suits, black umbrellas, like they're like a bunch of Italian mobsters, and a bunch of stupid pop music. Sucks. It's like that differently-abled show with the gossip girls.

It used to be like Twin Peaks kind of vibe.

Now it sucks.

sucks.

I'm very disappointed. And angry. How dare they! I'm dedicated to my favorite shows! Don't they understand? Why don't they respect me! I'm the customer! I put their kids through school! I buy their cocaine and Colt 45! Me! How dare they!

Oh yeah IMPORTANT READ NOW LOUIE IS BACK SOMETIME IN APRIL OR MAY! I hope he gets more Parker Posey -- she's still pretty attractive for an old broad. Would watch.

OK, I have never seen Bates Motel, but I think you may have put your finger on it with "It used to be like Twin Peaks kind of vibe".. Twin Peaks went down hill very fast too. I think it's really hard to deliver a payoff that suits the atmosphere you've created. The only show I can think of that came close to doing that was "Babylon 5", and it could have done a lot better if they hadn't had to do so much re-writing to meet the ever present threat of being cancelled before they delivered.

That'sa dirty lie....OK, yeah, Twin Peaks got stupid PDQ. The movie was excellent, though. Except they lost Lara Flynn Boyle and "Audrey," which kind of sucked. Way too much Ben Horne.

WTF is all this Babylon 5 shit?

NERD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

eta I think they killed off Parker Posey in *Louie* -- one of those "very special episodes" or maybe I'm just confused again. True fact: I struck up a little nerd-ship with a woman named Parker in a calculus class. But she was in a LTR with a professional lady mathematician, and also not my type. Probably don't meet too many women or people named Parker, so therefore that's of enormous interest to everyone.

OK, Bates Motel seems to be getting back a little bit out of Gossip Girl assface land.

Norma Bates (that's {Norman}-{n}) is getting even spicier and crazier. Her character kind of reminds me of someone I know.

That Nestor Carbonell (sp?) is cool! Like an ethnic Steve McQueen, just kind of cool. Well, minus the cool stuff like Ali Sheedy and motorcycle racing and car driving, but you know, cool for today's age of neutered sensitive new-aged feel-goodery. I'd ask why he doesn't do movies, but given that independent art movies are big pieces of shit run by asshole millenial hobo chic film-school hipster douches trapped in the Whedonverse, who gives a shit?

They seemed to get most of the crappiest dialogue out of their smegma-crusted crankholes in the first few minutes. Why can't these "writers" just shut up and write some good dialogue? That's literally the only job they have to do, ever, at anything, is write dialogue. C'mon, I'm not being any more an asshole than anyone who complains for a moment at the Circle K clerk who is kind of a dick every time you go in, or the recycling truck guy who seems to take pleasure in being extra loud. I don't hate them, I just think they should do their fucking jobs and stop whining about how much it sucks. David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino -- those people write dialogue, and I somewhat doubt people like that are under some delusions about how they are "crafting" the infrastructure for the collective dreams of their movies when they are figuring out the mere words. "Pull the strings! Pull the strings!" Yeah, no, probably not. If they were, they'd be making twink garbage shit like *Schenectady* or whatever that was. If the others don't like writing dialogue, they should go be a "show runner" or produce or direct or help build sets, or learn a trade like accounting or electricity, if they want to stay in their industry and aren't happy with writing dialogue. I mean, seriously, I have never seen one of those advertising sign-twirlers go apeshit or do a really crap job twirling the sign -- just suck it up. Hipster douche millenial fuckheads.

Oh yeah, none of you people are hipster douche millenial fuckheads, right? I mean, if you are, then I'm not talking about you. Also, if you actually have or are an assneck, then I was talking about those other people, the next town over, the ones with the really big assnecks.

Oh I looked up for fun "omnibus" in some shit online "dictionary" -- whatever passes for an actual dictionary online, who the hell knows, whatever. Do people not use "omnibus" as an adjective? I thought that was a thing. Well, whatever, you know what I mean, and I'll be damned if I'm going to stop using it because some garbage neutered fake dictionary whatever. American Heritage or OED. Those are dictionaries. I don't know what the fuck this other crap is supposed to be. Maybe they haven't been properly incentivized, and prioritization of the profit-center resources and human intel hasn't been vetted by our consultant team.

[size=1Oh, I was watching a few minutes of the rifftrax *Hunger Games* this AM. Holy shit. Not to go off-topic, but I think I have a porno that has a woman who looks *exactly* like the main hunter-lady. Right down to the Tony Robbins/Jennifer Garner chin. That had to have been intentional. It's a crap porno -- like, the woman is just kind of like..."oh yeah that's nice...sort of...yeah someone's real lucky!" Whatever.[/size]

Hey new *Californication*I. Deirdre-from-Ronin hitting her stride. Not enough of the little sprout. Plenty of good Runkle action.

They started out good this season. A little bit *Next* (some crappy movie am ashamed to admit I saw).

Liking the new *Californication* -- wasn't sure about the kid, but he turned out to be a pretty good addition, that fat fucking weirdo. Also, I can't stand Heather Graham -- she should have died for real at the hands of Bob in *Twin Peaks*.

Oh yeah, so the reason I came in this thread (hehe) is, what exactly DID Don Draper do that was so shitty last season on *Mad Men*? I think he got wasted at some meeting or whatever, and made fun of Peggy and her weirdo little office lover, and did something bad to some account.

He's still a goddamned partner. Why isn't it SCDP any more?

I confess, I don't really pay attention to TV, I just listen to it while playing bridge against my computer and farting in my underpants. Occasionally glance at the "picture-in-picture" on my monitor. Always pause when Brandi Belle nature calls, though.

ETA Heather Graham is old, gross, and seems really, really dumb. And she makes shitty movies. And she was never that hot. She has the body of Michael Phelps and the face of Helena Bonham Carter after it has been smashed thin in a vice.

Talia Balsam who plays the wife of the Roger Sterling Slattery on that show about the idiots in advertising, is indeed the daughter of Martin Balsam.

AND THE TWO BALSAM AND SLATTERY ARE MARRIED IRL!!!!!!!!!!!!

I did not know that.

She is pretty foxy. Would fap.

You all suck.

Four fucking episodes *Louie* has been on already, nobody told me?

FOUR FUCKING EPISODES, PYLE!

Oh well, I only have another physics midterm Thursday. It's bad enough I haven't seen the new *Californication*, or, meh, I guess that *Madmen* thing. And some disassembly puzzle for homework Thursday morning. And a little C program. And a lab write up.

UR A ASSNECK MOTHER FUCKER! SO HATE!

Wait, that's not mellow.

Well, whatever, it kind of sucks, I guess, but I'm not in the mood for TV and impregnating my furniture with ass fart so much right now.

Louie's just not my thing. Archer is.

Fine. You no-TV-Guide-having-mother-fucker STILL could have warned me!

Yeah, *Louie* isn't really all that funny -- kind of gentle, family humor, like Louis CK's stand-up, but it's somewhat amusing to me.

Hey, I saw some *Archer* last night. Pretty solid. I like the lady who likes to get choked and beavered all the time.

Goddamned fucking shit, it was like five disassembly exercises and it wasn't even due until this coming Tuesday. Well, it's in now.

And I *still* saw the *Louie*s and the *Californication* and the *Madmen* and like six or seven *Archers* (season 1).

I might be the laziest sack of puke procrastinator there is.

But at least zomg I'm all caught up on my beloved TV! It's so serious! Spoilers are terrible!

Holy fucking shit. There's going to be some brain blood and some ass blood spilled PDQ.

ROBOT FUCKING CHICKEN STARTED TOO??????????

That's it. I'm putting your names down in my book.

The remake of the out-of-towners sucked a ass. Oh, that wasn't Jack Lemmon in the original.......was.......Segal George Segal. Yeah mother fucker I know my smarmy timid actor types.....wait a minute...........well, I can't remember. Pretty sure it was a great Segal-Dennis movie, so I'm sticking to that line.

I knew you'd like Archer. Even when it's not that great, it's still pretty damned good.

Yes. I like that woman whose vulva is as smooth as a veal cutlet, too, but I like the nympho naked crazy lady better.

I guess H Jon Benjamin gets around. I was a much younger man when I liked *Dr. Katz* cartoon (with the hot sister of Sarah Silverman voicing the secretary/receptionist/whatever they're called -- I did not know that at the time).

HFS it was Lemmon in theoutofTowners. Should have gone with my first instinct. And, I learned today, or yesterday, that Gerry Mulligan was all shacked up with Sandy Dennis for a good long while. Good for him! Is he still alive? I think this assneck restaurant I walk by every day that pipes jazz out on the street was playing a tune by him. Earplugs in, of course, but I think it was him. Maybe with Chet. God I hate that music-playing shit. Yes, we get it, you're such a "sophisticated" place. FFS, get off my jock you fucking pogues with your music. I listen to what I want, when I want, and I don't want their fucking soundtrack raping my ears. Asnnecks.

I just wish, Jizzelbin, that you wouldn't be so hamstrung by good manners and etiquette as to be unable to tell us how you really feel about people. Sheesh.

Restaurants aren't people!

lol

*Archer* does pretty much rulerz. On the second season now.

"Who's there? Because all you're going to get is holes...I mean holes in you, not my...."

"The African Queen....Audrey Hepburn....Katharine....Whichever Hepburn....Pretty sure Tonto was a Jew."

Love the ongoing callbacks to, first *Gator*, then, of course, *White Lightning*.

Yes! The ep where Burt Reynolds actually turns up is hilarious.

Oh feck you! That was a major spoiler!

OK, now I can actually see why people get all hurt in the rosette about all that spoiler blahblah.

You're lying, though!

OK, I can see Stuntman Burt actually doing it -- he was in *Silent Movie* after all. I will look forward to that.

I gots to know, since you have revealed yourself to be a horndog, senior grade -- Jane, Lana, or Cheryl (or whatever her nom du jour is)?

Cheryl all the way for me. She appears to have cauterized any sentiment buds growing in her brain, is pretty sexy body, feminine appearance, and is DTF.

ETA wait a minute. Now am confused if BR showed up as a cartoon or did a voice thingy for cartoon Burt, or both, or one, or, I'm confused now :( but also far too lazy to look it up.

Hahahaha.

EH is loves cartoons!

Pevert old man.

Burt is in an episode. If you keep watching you'll see him.

Who's Jane? Do you mean Pam?: http://static.tumblr.com/30c51c0a798...blrsidebar.png

Yes, definitely Cheryl for me, although Lana is pretty hot, too.

And if you're gonna call me old, at least learn to spell "pervert."

OK, glad you had a sense of humor. I suppose you might have guessed I think it's really really funny to insult people as a joke.

You know, I was looking today toward the end of season 2 and it occurred to me Ms. Tunt has a weirdly mannish face, and kind of lifeless, dead eyes, like a doll's eyes.

I don't know, so Pam's the one with the dolphin, and than Lana. I guess I don't know who Jane was.

I might have accidentally on purpose been drinking a little bit yesterday. So that's like a ... terrible great excuse for nothing whatever.

OK so that's multiple times *Archer* got the *Deer Hunter* roulette thing going on. And it took quite a few episodes before I realized that the voice actors are matched with the silhouetted characterrs they perform in the opening credits. And the music is pretty good -- haven't looked up who is doing it, but it's pretty good (for some kid using a DAW, sounds like). What else are on-going gags. Obviously the Burt Reynolds thing, which is hilarious, and I can say that unironically because I fucking love *White Lightning* and *Gator* (drink and movie, perfect combination....and also Jerry Reed).

And for the win, *Sunny in Philadelphia* also did the "Nick! Look at me! You got to do it! One shot!" thing. It's fucking weird, because I fucking have two horrible dark aesthetic secrets in real life. I love *The Deer Hunter* and *White Lightning* (sorry, stuntman Burt, *Gator* just wasn't very good), and watch them all the time.

Well there are a shitload of ongoing gags -- running jokes, I guess is the term -- but I have to say the son of a bitch who was be writing all the New Orleans episode jokes/dialogue was a top of cream man of the plantation.

Oh wait....the throwing of the clothes off the balcony/wherever. That's a thinker! Like.

"There's radiation, there's chemotherapy, there's....well, just those two things, but" funny. That's always a funny form of a joke -- what was another form of same in something else....oh yeah, Hans Groiner, well I can't remember what. Don't want to load the video here because my shit head mannish working girl downstairsnikeh will probably think that's me playing that joke piano on the record.

Oh yeah, thanks for turning me on to *Archer* -- I would not have watched, probably, because I didn't know about it. It's a thinker!

And I change my vote to Lana. It wasn't until midway through season 2 I figured out she's supposed to be black. For some reason I think that's pretty hot -- not all that much experience with the nubian princesses (some but not a lot -- mainly because I was tied up for seven (eight? i don't know) years in this %@&*E@E(@( thing &*@&((* damned &^@(Y& *&@&(@(( &^%@*()716(*@*&@))*)!)

And my mannish working girl downstairsnikeh thinks (probably) that I'm the king of all piano in all styles that are awesome. I hope she is very very afraid of me, because I do not want to have to interact with any neighbors, ever. And, I was extremely rude to her (twice) about parking in my (empty) carport when she first moved in. And coming home one night from the library about midnight, I saw her car lights on (car still cooling down -- could hear it) and didn't say anything. I don't know why. It was late, and I think she's probably mad at me for being an asshole, and, also, I thought it would be funny to see her freak out in the morning when her battery was dead, because I just don't like her.

I'm 38 36, so ur not that much older than me. So take some midol, gramps!

They make a couple of jokes about Lana's skin color on Archer. Very un-P.C. Once Archer calls her "black-ish" and then complains because Lana complained when he referred to her as (IIRC) a quadroon.

OK made it to the end of all the season 5, which I guess is like the current of whatever, of *Archer*. Phrasing. Are we not doing that? Oh wow that was so unenjoyable, I just like seriously made it sound like a task.

The one thing I noticed is that Ms. Tunt did something to her face and or jawline in season 5. Maybe it was the country music -- that is another horrible secret of mine aesthetically. I might be the only white jazz semi-musician who actually plays and loves listening to country music. The black guys, your Jimmy Smiths (his son in this month of TapeOp, I assume), your Ray, your Gatemouth Brown, etc, whatever name players and arrangers, they do it almost agin, but I love all it.

Speaking of, is that one of those computer programs doing the animation? Looks like it. I know shit from shinola about graphics, but I do know that there is some good math (heavy on rudimentary matrix operations) in graphics/video/whatever so they probably do that. Probably make that shit in a garage.

So, Tunt is back on my cartoon-representations-of-people-I-would-fuck list.

ETA I don't have the TapeOP mag with me, those stay in the head, but this guy was about the right age, said he was son of a "jazz organist," had LN of "Smith" and is a reputable hip-hop guy, and, given JOS's latter day mix-it-up albums with some of that elements, made me assume.....could be. Don't know for sure.

Also, *Louie* eps 5 and 6 -- sack of puling earnest crap. Just read a Beetle Bailey cartoon, if you want some maudlin Jew puke.

I don't know if that was the last episode of the season of *Californication* last week I guess, or maybe the whole series -- far too lazy to look it up, and I don't really care anymore. Cute episode.

*Louie*'s last two episodes were just the worst possible treacly abominations ever. That show is done, in my opinion.

Also, the last two episodes of *Robot Chicken* were just horrible and unfunny. They're usually hilarious.

Also, I rewatched *Archer* -- still very funny. But it occurs to me that every single character is just horrible and unsympathetic. Well Ray the periodically-ironsided gay doesn't seem too bad -- competent agent, interesting character, and he gets some of the funniest lines. Lana the Nubian Amazon is OK, I guess, but kind of blah. The character Archer is a raging douche whose only redeeming quality is his admiration for Stuntman Burt, who is indeed awesome.

Hey is that wolfman vampire zombie show about the Walking Dead good or just "so nerdy and bad it's amusing?" FWIW, I liked *Buffy* and *Angel*, mostly because Rupert the librarian I kind of identified with, and I liked Jenny Calendar as his little computer love interest.

Changed mind. Pam is not as good as Ray, but she's a pretty regular person, too. Don't know about the whole cocaine thing -- seemed cartoonish. Everyone likes a little blow now and then, and it's not a big deal unless someone is a complete freak to begin with. Hate that shit, tweakers. They just bother me.

Yeah yeah I have to get back to topic soon, but I just saw some crazy-ass shit on TV....the CW channel.

WTF is this shit about? Like Mary Queen being all a flesh bitch and something about the subordinates Scotland and stuff, Funny.

Oh yeah, well, I thought it was funny.

Also, I didn't realize that was the last of the last *Californication* but apparently it was. Eh. Cute. *Rob. Chicken* got better. Cute show, whatever.

Stopped watching *Louie* a few weeks ago. Wow, that just got way too mature and real for me. Fuck you. It's like an average high-schooler got hold of a Sharpie and made something art combined with a scifi storyboard. Not for me.

For once I don't really have anything amazing to say about childr.en's entertainment aka TV, I just figured this is a place where I can vent and nobody will bust my nuts up or nothing.

FWIW, I'm still kind of....meh....about that being the last *Californication*,, but equally strident about *Louie* sucking so hard. Jesus fucking christ, I can walk next door and hear some sad sack bullshit about some fifty-ish dude trying to figure out life. Gay. And depressing. Also, not funny.

Oh fucking a jesus h fucking christ i forgot what i was going to say. well, whatever. since apparently you old queens don't talk TV to me, I'm taking this thread. Back to the streets.

Goddammit I fucking hate cracked.com. Bunch of retard faggot idiots.

and this is "my" thread because i'm a "lady" so if u don't like my language, go fuck a dick, and get candiru or whatever.

And just to note, the color commentary is not directed at anyone here. I am sorry if my way of speaking offends you, and if it truly is a problem, I will adopt my policy out of courtesy that I have elsewhere. On the other hand, if you are undecided, can I just point out I'm talking to a bunch of white, straight Westerners, who are the very last people who have, de jure, anything to say about anything.

And, when alluding to historical figures and their peculiarities, I am obviously not responsible for their thoughts, nor is it reasonable for me to expect supposedly educated people are ignorant of standard Western European classics, extending to antiquity. That is, actually, what one expects from literate people.

Anyone watching that new one, *The Leftovers*? I might start. Saw a derp thread about that guy who did that *Lost* thing -- I thought that show was pretty cool, and while I thought the whole "it was just a dream" ending was pretty lame, I didn't really care.

Also, *Robot Chicken* is finally back to snuff, after a rocky start in the first ten or dozen episodes this season.

Also, meh, *Californication*, whatever, surprised it lasted as long as it did, but they should have told me it was the last season and then I could have gotten like upset or something or whatever. Eh, both McElhone (MacElhone?) and Duchovny were looking pretty ragged by the end, physically, as was Runks and Pam Adlon.

Just watched the second season of *Drunk History* (forget they made a TV show about it but I did see last season I guess whenever that was).

That host, Derek Wsomething, seems like kind of a dickhole. He's like all serious and mean and shit. And I read an interview just now (since I was curious about how they pick some of the narrators) and they don't even get that drunk and they're constantly sticking the narrator with bullshit like blood alcohol tests.

That said, most of them are pretty funny, still, even though it sounds like it would be a really unfun, clinical thing to be the narrator. I am satisfied with the explanation that, since the narrators are really basically just acting drunk, a few of them are kind of annoying, like the girl who claimed she "drank all the whiskey" and yet was lucid, coherent, boring, ugly, and stupid.

And Jen Kirkman was back -- I probably watched the youtube where she drank some wine and was talking about something history and was (a) funny and (b) fucking hawt as balls. Yes, I watched that one a lot.

In other news, *The League* seems to be back. Unfortunately, one must wait until January until *It's Always Sunny/Philly* returns, but *The League* is OK.

However, the first episode was stupid. Every part of it. That Katie Aselton and the Frankenstein dude didn't even mention their daughter, the Andre dance was stupid, the guy with the hair cut his hair, which exposed more of his dumbass character to the camera, the plot was stupid, but at least they didn't have that Indian freak and that fat dude Rogan, who are horrible and should be cut.

*The Leftovers* is getting kind of stupid, but there is a lot more of Carrie Coon, who I think is very attractive for an old broad, in addition to having an awesome name and a good character on the show. Chris Eccleston is kind of being wasted. And I thought that Justin Theroux was the guy who played the movie producer in *Mulholland Drive* -- that will always confuse me until I look it up right after this. But he's OK, even though the tatoos make his character weird. Scott Glen. Always a nice surprise. And the woman who plays the cops daughter is very good. She really sells that whole teenage whatever thing.

*Robot Chicken* season is over. That was a stupid season. I think they might have got canceled or whatever. Don't know.

ETA HOLY FUCKING SHIT! That IS the same guy in *Mulholland Drive*. Well, that solves that mystery for me. That must have been fun pouring the paint on the jewels and shit. Didn't think it was the same guy, but with a very similar name. Weird.

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Here's a thread about it over on That Other Board. I watched the first episode and it didn't hook me. Fan feedback on later eps has not exactly been glowing, but it has been renewed for a second season: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=725456

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On reddit, the general interest discussion board? I suppose that's not surprising that there is some nurd chatter somewhere.

Meh, it's a cute little show to kill a few minutes here and there and look at some eye candy. And fans of blockbuster heist movie *Heat*'s [s]Michel Lonsdale[/s] Amy Brenneman. Apparently that Theroux guy is "ripped" -- characters on the show mention it like every other second and he takes his shirt off every ten minutes. Meh, he's not fat, but he's no Jesse Ventura (and his character smokes, has tatoos, and doesn't shave) so "ladies" can have eye candy too.

And Carrie Coon totally has what is the longest nudiest TV boning scene that is also kind of boring. But her character is awesome and she is allowed to have short hair. And the name "Coon" is hilarious.

And *Lost* was funny.

I did finally read this on reddit and it seems to indicate *Leftovers* that was the season finale until season 2.

Didn't know that. Whatever.

Tried to read your link, EH, but it seemed like some children mumbling, instead of the many coherent threads at reddit. I'm sure they have some interesting threads over there, though -- not trying to denigrate.

Archer now up to third episode. I thought that show was cancelled! Good to see some more. Haven't seen the third episode yet, but I actually thought the first two were spot-on. And yes, I still will never understand why so-called animators need live models of characters and costumes and stuff. But Cheryl's real-life "model" is a jock-strap-dropper, actually. Good for her!

Also, Always Sunny/Philadelphia back on. Meh. Still killing it, obviously, but given how few things I watch on TV, beats a sharp stick on the eye.

*It's always sunny/philly* is well into the current season. They've really been firing on all cylinders, for my tastes. I know you guys aren't fans, but I really get off on seeing people more moronic than me doing a bunch of crazy shit, and Danny DeVito (sp?) is legitimately hilarious. Kind of depressing seeing the core cast getting older and more wizened, but afaic still funny.

*Archer* is shaping up to be a great season -- lots of in-jokes. I really wish I didn't look at the RL models on that website.

Seriously, why would an animator NEED models? Are the animators incapable of drawing, in the classic style? Are they just doing the equivalent of tracing using their touch-screens? WTF!!!! I find it offensive and an insult to the great tradition of Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, and the rest. Really is offensive to me to enjoy watching a show I am now 100% sure is staffed by idiots incapable of even the basics of their supposed craft.

Wow I bothered to stay up to watch SNL and apparently it's a repeat from a long time ago.

Carlin is doing his classic baseball vs US football thing. Everyone knows that one, but it's good to hear the original, just for fun.

And apparently Billy fucking Preston (one of my keyboard/songwriting heroes) is on here too.

Past my bedtime, but am kind of glad I stayed awake.

holy shit that is some stone cold preston..i love that tune and play it all the time just off the record. stone groove. i never played the solo exactly off the record, but just did my approximatiion as solo/duo/trio and made it sound good.

holy shit Andy Kaufmann too! nice!

Oh, "Nothing from Nothing" is one of the tunes he did that I was talking about. For some reason, his original piano parts just feel really good to play -- and, for a "deep thoughts"-type tune, I like the message.

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SNL has a big 40th anniversary special on NBC tonight. Check it out.

Thanks but TBH, I'm kind of done with TV. No offense intended, just kind of not my thing anymore.

OK, I broke down -- I like that Jimmy Fallon kid (he's a pretty good mimic). So apparently I'm going to watch TV again. Wow! Some great musician, sitting around watching TV! Oh well, sometimes life happens!

I got a huge kick out of that last night -- and it was Sunday so I didn't have to feel too ashamed to not be playing a job!

Man, they had about all the classics on there. That was a trip.

Thanks. Haven't watched it yet, but I will.

it's probably stuff you seen before, as have I, but it was a good trip down memory lane

Is *Better Call Saul* worth watching?

I like Odenkirk, from Mr Show and BB and that movie with Bruce Dern, but I have enough shit to waste time on, including random TV shows.

So is it funny as shit or some "serious" drama like *BB*? I got into *BB* and followed it to the end -- mind you, I don't get invested in dramas like a lot of people, just along for the ride for grins and giggles. But I was amused.

Also, did anyone actually WATCH the Oscars? I heard the Birdman won for some stuff, but don't know anything else.

How was Doogie Howser as the host?

I didn't watch more than a few minutes of the Oscars. I thought Doogie did fine, from what little I saw. I guess the ratings were down from last year.

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Well, the vig starts.

Shit, I had money on that.

OK I saw the first episode of Better Call Saul --

it seems like they don't know if it's a sitcom a la *On The Air* or some deep dramatic shit with a bunch of characters and gangster shit.

Anyone want to bet bitcoin if it lasts more than a season? (i'd bet the first season is already in the can and they're going to run their episodes no matter what).

Also, shit, Odenkirk looks OLD. Fuck if I know if that's makeup or whatever, but that's kind of depressing, given that yesterday I noticed in the mirror un front ride' (wrinkled forehead).

In other news, I should start playing Bob Wills's "time changes everything" more often, when I get a chance to be at my place near my keyboards. With Tommy....forgot his last name...anyway, the one who sang that.

I was psyched when *Archer* started back up, but two things:

(i) this stupid baby bullshit isn't funny. no one wants to watch Lana with her gorilla-hands be a central-casting "protective mother"
(ii) I was very disappointed to learn that the crew of *Archer* doesn't know how to draw, and instead uses pictures of RL models.

OTOH there are some very nice callbacks to earlier lines.

ALSO AM PISSSSSSSSSSSSSSED off that (i)robot chicken (ii) bates motel (iii) the league aren't back in play. I will roundhouse kick them in the face.

OTOH meh, *It's Always/Philly* is, meh, whatever. More Devito time, which is good. And *Better Call Saul*'s lady lawyer, whatever her name is, gives me a boner, so happy about that. Wexler, something....Kim....yeah, that's probably it. Whatever, the blonde lady lawyer.

Was that JPolito who was the "some fat guy" in *Better Call Saul*?

That sequence was one of the more amusing things I've seen on TV in a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KctO7S62ZfY Louis CK on SNL. Sort of amusing -- I had to stop watching his show because family-friendly comedy starts to be annoying. Are people actually upset by his extremely tame monologue on some late-night show? Weird. Yeah, he's a funny enough guy, I guess.

All right, get your heads straight, you mongos.

It has come to my attention that there's a new-ish show co-starring Melanie Lynskey called *Togetherness*, on American cable.

My boner is about a lot at attention, and I'm frustrated I didn't hear about it as soon as the show aired.

I'm really, really pissed off now -- you guys are fucking half-wit mongoloids for not having told me about this.

Fuck all of you.

Fine, here's the backstory -- I am in love with Melanie Lynskey, she's my age, and she seems awesome. Pretty sure the feeling is not reciprocated, but whatever. Also I wear earplugs regularly and have terrible hearing, so she's exactly good for me. I also think she's adorable, although with extremely questionable taste in men. I never have crushes on celebrities, so this is awesome to have my first. I will watch her show!

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Tommy Duncan. Just remembered that.

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That didn't come off exactly as I intended. Regrettable. However, the idea is preserved.

I don't think I'll be able to see *Togtherness* until when it comes out on disc.

What's worse is that I don't have my copies of *Drive* -- I think they only aired a few episodes, but I used to have on disc about ten episodes. That was a fun show, with an ensemble cast and a cool little idea.

So, I'm slowly starting to piece together how TV works. I guess Fall/Autumn/whatever is when a lot of TV shows start up. And then some others after the new year.

OK, I lied, I really don't understand how they do TV.

But I do know that I'm liking *Rick and Morty* as a stop-gap -- yesterday's episode about made me jizz all over myself. New title sequence (or whatever the technical term is) and a buttfucking hilarious episode. Exact moment of jizzitude: when Sarah Chalked first appeared as the

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. Well, the first half was total jizzitude, then it kind of petered out when they started tying together all the loose ends. Fucking Jerry has new meaning. Adjective, verb, it doesn't matter.

So, what's up now anyway? I forgot about *Togetherness*, supra -- have to check that out. I want more *Robot Chicken* and more *Bates Motel* and more *The Leftovers*.

I still can't get over that .....Justin (?) Theroux is the same guy as in *Mulholland Drive*.

I'm done with *Mad Men* and I think that's finished anyway. *Californication* is long over.

Meh, even though that...Lucy Liu...is in it, I guess I should catch up on multiple seasons of *Elementary*. It sucks, but Jonny Miiller is funny.

What else is new that isn't a reality show, and isn't lame, and isn't some sci-fi/fantasy/werewolf/zombie "drama"?

Yes, the recent Rick and Morty alien marriage-counseling episode was hilarious.

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Yeah, well don't break your hand jerking yourself off about it.

Season One callback, bitches!

OK, for future reference for future me:

Robot Chicken Season 8 25-oct-2015
The Leftovers 11-oct-2015
Bates Motel "early 2016" or something

Is *American Dad* still going? For some reason, I stopped watching *Family Guy* -- I can't stand Seth Macdickintheface. But *AD* is pretty funny -- they got off to a slow start, but Roger the alien has some pretty funny lines.

Stopped bothering about *Bob's Burgers* -- I'm just sick of all the cute family crap.

I want it hard and fast. Like a chicken likes its stuffing.

Tonight 9-15: Neil Patrick Harris has a new live variety show, I will give it a shot.
9-19: Doctor Who is back
9-22-2015: The Muppets premier.

Doogie Howser is pretty funny -- sounds like fun.

To all concerned, *Togetherness* is dire. It has that douchebag from *The League* in it, and it opens with extreme closeups of Melanie Lynskey's literal T&A.

Couldn't make it through the first episode. Something about that dude mugging while staring directly at the camera is extremely off-putting to me. Maybe it induced a flashback to the movie *Creep*, or something.

Well the NPH show was crappy. Won't be giving it a second try I suspect.

Season 7 of *The League* started....a long time ago, it looks like. Forgot to put that on my list for future self.

For future self: *It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia* starts January 2016.

In the meantime, the web-comic "Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal" is my Halloween satan-worshipping gift to you. It's like xkcd, for non-idiots who can read.

The Muppets is not very good sad to say.

Thanks for the Web Comic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php I am ripping through it.

My daughter suggested The Flash & iZombie. I like the Flash and don't really like iZombie. So the Flash is recording on DVR.

Librarians are back tomorrow. I liked this show season, hope it holds up for season 2.

The new season of *The Leftovers* -- at least the first episode -- was dismal, dark, unpleasant, and full of a bunch of people I had no idea who they were.

HOWEVER, *The League* is awesome this season! Even if you never liked the show before, they dug deep for at least the first few episodes.

First new *Robot Chicken* -- eh, it was OK. I hope they keep Seth MacFarlane occupied oiling up in a gas station bathroom -- lack of his annoying "voices" was about the only memorable thing about this one. It's not his show, dammit! Keep his degenerate filthy mitts off it. And his fat-ass sister, too. The singing parts suck balls.

ETA oh yeah, that's fine about the SMBC -- I guess it isn't as funny as Fireman Comics!, but it's still better than anything that flaming, nerd-revenge-fantasy-having, neutered, low-T, sackless piece of crap Randall can hack out at XKCD.

Thanks for the Flash and iZombie tips -- I don't think either of those are for me, but I like to know what's going on.

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I'd like to take that back. It's a shame Rachael M. is tainted by having a stain for a brother, but IRL she seems pretty cool, and *American Dad* can be amusing.

Sorry, Rachael. And you're not that fat -- it's just that the rich tapestry of life passes me by.

Oh.

So, yeah, *Librarians* -- keep an eye out for ye olde Portland's Washington Park amphitheater. It was part of my daily walk through where they were shooting I think in August. Bunch of Hollywood asswipe fuckers, took the whole tourist season part over, and had some stupid sign up by the archery range saying "Ex Libris Crew Parking" with an arrow on it, which is stupid and not clever, and I didn't get to see Jon Lithgow and impress him with my "monkey boy" impersonation. ETA oh, apparently Lithgow wasn't a part of the cast -- I could have sworn I saw his name on one of those fancy canvas chairs with the names on them. Well, somebody else then.

John Larroquette most likely. Famous for Night Court and Stripes.

Don't forget later episodes of Boston Legal! I don't know how to heckle Larroquette -- maybe say "nice hair, buddy!"

*Togetherness* isn't that bad. Melanie Lynskey sure did age hard, though. And that guy with the combover is extremely irritating to look at. But the rest of the cast is OK. I never had that problem with *Californication* -- you didn't see Duchovny mugging at the camera and he had a proper haircut. MacElhone aged better. And the supporting cast was better, but commensurable.

Gave up halfway through episode 1 of season 2 of *The Leftovers*. I won't be coming back to that one.

I gave Better off Ted another shot, I ended up watching all 26 episodes in the last 2 weeks off Netflix. It is not great but it is non-standard, quirky and entertaining at least. They probably made the right choice though in not giving it more time on the air.

I am waiting for The Man in High Castle to release on Netflix. I read the Philip K Dick book ages ago when I was 18 or 19 and recall liking it. It is one of the earliest Alt History book I know of and one of the better ones as I recall.

Yes, the trailer for The Man in the High Castle looks pretty good. I'm a sucker for alt-hist of all varieties.

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Had to do a double-take. Apparently you ARE talking about that show from a few years ago -- I really liked the blonde lady in that. Well, I thought it was a fun show, with some nice, thick, blonde women in it. That was a long time ago, I lived in a different place, and didn't throw my TV in the dumpster then.


*The Man in High Castle* sounds good -- well, it sounds like plumage and swords and stuff, so that's close enough. Highlander returns!

Has anyone stuck it out with *Man in High Castle*? I've watched a bit of the first two episodes, and might watch the series, but, TBH, it seemed kind of .... I don't know, gimmicky to me, like I've seen it before.

Could be good, though.

*Robot Chicken* -- either the second or third episode was great. Whichever was the one with the sketch where the father did this elaborate scheme to humiliate his wife and daughter by hiring the manager of one of those "buy a doll that looks like me" stores to bring out a dead whale and say, "just stuff it full of Lunchables and it'll be perfect." Can I describe it better? Sure, but that would take more effort, and anyway, you had to be there.

I watched the first 3 episodes of The Man in the High Castle and I love it so far. Best show I've seen in a long time. I don't feel like I've seen but I have read it before as I read the book in 1991.

*Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends* is one of the most upsetting TV shows I've seen.

Your brain will melt if you sit down and try to watch them, one after the other.

ETA to put this in perspective -- recent things I did Saturday. Reread some of Freud's case history "the rat man," before going to sleep, after promising in person to loan it to my mother on Tuesday. Watched some *Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends* (the first several episodes) Sunday.

Jay Ward's work was much more unsettling -- I remember the Rat Man, and he was cool and all, but I had no idea just how far Rocky and Bullwinkle went. They and their friends were capable of anything -- from the most vile, desspicable thoughts to the kindest actions.

I didn't know *South Park* was still on the air. This current season upset me very much. They stole everything from me. Hating Japanese politics and culture, weenies, anti-cyber-bullying, technology, Whole Foods.

Right down to fucking people in the ass to death, which I stole from Johnny Depp in the first place.

Those hillbilly assholes. Fucking pricks. Screw them, and screw their dumb ass fucking cartoon. ETA Here you go, you fucking turds from Colorado. They had me at kill all the Batman people, but lost me at "meh, mewl, pule, we don't like Yik Yak!"

Apparently *The Blacklist* is a show. I don't know if it gets better after the first seven episodes, but I hope it does -- everyone likes Jimmy Spader.

The "keystone cops" routine is really pretty irritating, even by Hollywood standards, and it was a great disappointment that "profiler" star who somehow packs heat and is first on every crime scene giving orders didn't shoot her lactating millenial hipster douche little man in the face, or have someone else do it.

Could make a good drinking game -- drink every time some FBI/whatever person says or does something not reasonable, and don't drink every time James Spader gets to say something cool.

NEW SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA!!!!!!!!!!!! CHARDEE MACDENNIS II!!!!!!!! VIOLENT RAGE EXPLODES!!!!!!

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Yeah, I figured out *The Blacklist* -- it's just that the first dozen or so episodes suck, is all. It gets better. I still don't know why they didn't have a native English-speaker proofread the dialogue.

But the whole thing is also a satire of the New Millenials' ethos. You know, feelings, anti-bigotry, inclusive, smarmy, puling, lactating all over the place. In addition to being a Jimmy Spader vehicle, which is good as well.

Still not sure if anyone wins if they try my drinking game version.

Not watching much right now other than The Big Bang Theory, PBS documentaries and the new season of Downton Abbey.

I think I've seen something I truly am surprised is on TV. A little sketch from the last Robot Chicken (episode 10 of season 8).

A google of "robot chicken youtube vagina game show" yields no clip yet, but, man, that was almost surprising. The water slide. Knowing it was formed from clay, in lifelike detail. The button. The water slide.

That's some fucked up shit.

Sorry to say (to myself, er, I mean "future self," yeah that's the ticket) that it appears *It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia* has jumped the shark. Tame, tepid, weak bullshit. I'll let some nerd speculate about whatever reasons or whatever.

HOWEVER, in my compulsive frenzy to stay on top of things, I did find out that *Schitt's Creek* is really fucking funny. I've only seen season 2 (the current one, not yet through), but that was a good get. Eugene Levy does an excellent Eugene Levy impersonation, Catherine O'Hara is hilarious, the son is hilarious, Chris Eliot is subdued and funny, and the DAUGHTER, character name "Alexis" is hysterical, and yet she has no wikipedia page. I don't know where they found her, but she's very funny.

I've heard great things about the Apocalypse one, but after looking up and retrieving the episodes, after about twenty seconds of playing the first episode while shaving this morning, it doesn't look like it's for me. The bit about Rob Lowe being a sleazy guy seems like a really adventurous bit of casting, though. I'm sure it's great.

NEED NEWS WHEN BATES MOTEL RICK AND MORTY AGAIN

Second episode of Bates Motel aired this past week. They are really getting into it now. It's turning out to be better than most of the sequels to *Psycho*.

I'm thinking it might have been the last season of *It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia* -- that last season was just a pile of lame dogshit, though. Kind of lame to go out like that. Even *Californication* went out on a high note, sort of, by television standards.

Episode ten of the current season of Schitt's Creek killed it. Can't remember what exactly what in particular, but they've really hit their stride. I still haven't seen the first season, but from the first few episodes of season 1, it's still funny, just finding its legs. Season Two, however, they've got it.

NEED MORE ARCHER AND RICK AND MORTY!!!!

Archer resumes March 31!: http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/archer/episodes

No word yet on when Rick and Morty will be back for sure with new episodes, but probably late this year: http://www.idigitaltimes.com/rick-an...pisodes-516455

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Word for Donald Byrd!

Well, to great acclaim -- at least on FB -- *Archer* started again last week sometime.

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I didn't laugh very much, but then again, I don't think of it is a "laugh riot" to begin with. It's more like a sitcom, I guess. Of the sort where people tune in every week, to see what happens to "the gang."

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. Shrugs. Meh, that rings a bell, sort of, I just didn't remember.

California is dicks!

Lance Strongarm!

Archer Season 7 Episode 3: kind of funny. Valerie Archer is a bitch because she has a vagina, and Cyril has transvestite nerd revenge fantasies.

Elementary Season 3: OK, I remember this show. It's like that guy Parsons from the Big Bang show, but doing stuff. Lucy Liu is horrible. Her favorite expression is: "Excuse me?" She is a total bitch, but she gets points for being almost geriatric and still doing low-grade detective exploitation stuff on TV.

Lucy Liu used to be really pretty, she has never been able to act, but she could do stunts at least so she had that going for her too. Actually I find Elementary to be a terrible show especially with the BBC Sherlock around at the same time for direct comparison.

Can't seem to get into Archer at all, not sure why.

I've been Binge watching Fringe. It is pretty good, especially for a show I was even aware was on and around.

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is back for season 2. It is funny but awkward show. Carol Kane shines in it but the addition of Amy Sedaris is not a positive. Ellie Kemper is solid in the lead role.

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Holy shit. Carol Kane from *The Last Detail*, must be. That could be good to check out. What is she, like eighty?

I'm pretty sure the main guy from *Fringe* is Sherlock's father, Morlock or whatever.

Meh, *Archer* is a sitcom at this point. Must be watched from beginning for it to make sense.

Yes, *Elementary* isn't Masterpiece Theater, but I think is (a) > *Sherlock* and (b) anyway, Sherlock is just a ripoff of Poe's Auguste Dupin anyway, and it's all pretty stupid anyway.

Surprisingly Carol Kane is only 63. She has been around forever but I guess she started young.

The Father from Fringe is Denethor from the Lord of the Rings movies. But yes John Noble is also from Elementary and apparently Sleepy Hollow.

Yeah, I saw a season or whatever of *Fringe* back in the TV days -- remembering back, it was a pretty cute show. I think it was Fox TV, or something. Whatever it was, I don't remember hating the dialogue.

And, yet, I'm still watching *Bates Motel*. Some kind of twisted desire to see how low programming can get, I guess. Awful, and despicable. Even the kid, that Highmore kid, has turned into a horrible actor. Whatever.

I'm sure some hipsters have figured out a funny drinking game based on that show, but I'm pretty sure it's not very clever.

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Lucy Liu used to be really pretty, she has never been able to act, but she could do stunts at least so she had that going for her too.

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No, but yeah, but who cares. In that order.

All right I need some advice on TV matters. Speaking of BBC.

I've recently (as in an hour ago) acquired a copy of the BBC telenovela of *Daniel Deronda*. As faithful listeners will know, it's pretty rare for me to like something, much less a novel, and still more a novel by an English"man," and even still less by a protohipsterneovictoriansteampuke...never mind. Well, whatever it is, I think the novel *Daniel Deronda* is one of the very few good novels.

So should I watch this, or is it going to precipitate me going apeshit on an inanimate object?

FWIW one of the other good novels, *Nostromo*, had a pretty good BBC miniseries.

Sherlock S0302. "That was laughing? Sounded like someone torturing an owl. --she was laughing. --Could have been both."

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Love it. With laser-like concentration, one could imagine that Milana Vayntrub, Melanie Lynskey, and some shorts from the Rubbermaid hamper had a baby named Ellie Kemper, multiple times, on ..... everywhere. But, that said, my true love is the black man whose appearance you shouldn't summon in vain.

And that is why, boys and girls, and whatevers, you should not watch 13 episodes of one show at once. Because of the smell. Smells. Am I spelling that right?

Funny in spite of Tina Fey's best efforts to be preachy and idiotic. I'm pretty sure Tina Fey has never written a funny line in her life, but her ideas are pretty good, I guess. If only her fugly ass wasn't plastered all over everything, I'd be all for it.

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I know you love Randy Quaid but what am I infinity.

ETA and, yes, I got about thirty seconds into the BBC *Deronda*. Q: who is this made for? George Costanza? I don't have to see more: it makes me want to puke, and that was only after the opening credits.

*Archer* is not off to a great start, sorry to see.

*Bates Motel* somehow rallied a little bit.

Someone told me there's some show............re.............Trucker..........Tr ailer Park Boys that's funny, but I don't know if that's the best use of my time. I mean, I have nerd revenge fantasies and vile insults to create. Serious business.

I've only seen the first two episodes of this season's Archer, but liked 'em. I have at least three others waiting for me on our DVR.

Finished this season of Archer - where they're all working for the Figgis private investigations firm in Hollywood - and was underwhelmed. Some laughs but not nearly as many as in the show's early years.

On the other hand, HBO's Westworld series is great. Excellent cast, a slow-burn plot, high production values, and some very interesting things to say about AI, humanity, morality and depravity.

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I'm guessing that's what you'd call a "good tip"? Heard about it, but your word counts for something, so I'll check it out.

I'm with you about the last *Archer* -- meh, I feel that way about the last *Always Sunny in Philadelphia* and *Robot Chicken*.

Am looking forward to seeing *The Guild* (it was a one-off web-series) and *The Guns of Will Sonnett*, for some reason. I'm sure there's some seasons of *Ironside* I haven't seen, too.

The season opener of *Elementary* had WAY too much of that.......insert expletive............Lucy Liu in it. Gawd. Ugly and can't act. Great idea for a show. Aidan Quinn is ugly and can't act either, but at least I don't have to look at him very much. Johnny Lee Miller isn't what I'd call a "pretty" boy, but at least he's got a good character.

Speaking of retard cartoons, *South Park* is stupid. Don't bother.

I'm just waiting on good old Rick and Morty.

Well, *Rick and Morty* and *Archer* are on. No comment on the *Rick and Morty* yet -- they'll get there, I'm sure. *Archer* -- yeah, pretty fun little idea. I am personally most pleased with the Tunt's development -- her character was a little played out for me, so she gets another .... what do they call it, like a remake or whatever, plus some of the funnier lines. Well, that's what I said.

I'm liking Malory staying behind the curtains a little bit -- she's been a little overexposed, like seeing Donald Pleasance in full daylight.

Aftr second time there was a mistake about something that doesn't concern me, for already existing TV thread here. Not my battle.

I reproduce

Sorry to report back negatively on the new MST3K. What a strange idea, to dump all of the episodes at once on Netflix, but it's not the first -- just reminds me it's an odd phenomenon.

I've only seen one episode, #5. Unlikely to watch more -- I'm a big fan of the original series, especially after the Josh left in the first nationwide season. I'd rather just watch for the umpteenth time one of the older episodes. I don't care for the new host -- just sort of a bland fashion-oriented without personality I can see except he likes fancy glasses and haircuts. It's remarkable how much presence and poise Felicia Day seems to have developed. Good for her -- I enjoyed *The Guild*, and maybe she's become a real actress. Her autobiographical book is somewhat amusing as well, I suppose -- sort of an interesting young life, I guess. She's apparently a competent violin picker with an interest in the 20th C concert violin repertoire, and she's pretty cute, so I admit I'd like to screw her like a rented mule and then get her to explain some points about the string repertoire. She supposedly has training in mathematics, but doesn't appear to have much of a research interest there -- could be interesting to hear her opinions on various topics. And then screw some more, just like a Chinaman.

I'm indifferent to Patton Oswalt, and am still not sure if he's supposed to be a comedian or just a third-tier character actor in real life. I don't find him funny, but maybe he's not supposed to be. At any rate, it doesn't matter to me, so good for him.

Oh, Servo and Crow aren't amusing -- I don't find any personalities. Together with the host just a steady, bland commentary notably unfunny,

Also the movies are all in color, seems. Strange choice -- those are invariably my least favorite riffed movies. Too distracting to keep the inferior color photography in the brain, in general, but there were some exceptions in the One True Series (under Joel and Mike both -- Mike got better movies, in general, but I'm sure that's just the way it worked out under the thumb of Jim Mallon, who by some accounts seems like a difficult, unpleasant feeb).

And the riff jokes themselves aren't recognizable as jokes -- just a running commentary, absent anything resembling humor. Yep, I didn't hear a single joke in the commentary -- I feel like I'd enjoy watching some shitty color movie more by repeatedly hitting myself about the face and neck with a hammer and saying random words from a small dictionary.

Absolutely not worth the small effort. If I wanted to imagine a metrosexual idiot saying random things, I'd just ride a city bus and observe some non-traditional person trapped in deviant contemporary culture that has replaced traditional mainstream Western culture in the United States. Eh, deplorable, whatever, it doesn't matter. None of the host segments were remotely amusing. Like I said, Felicia Day is nice to watch, but humor is not apparently something the mads do, either. Seens like they're trying, though, unlike the chunky guy with the glasses and the hair and the neckbeard and the robots.
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Oh, *Westworld* was sort of cute. I don't have anything to say about it, except it was kind of a cute little thing to look at. Jimmi Simpson can go to hell, as far as I'm concerned, but he's small potatoes, in the show, in my opinion, so doesn't matter. Distant memory for me. Maybe could be convinced to watch a second season if it comes on the air, but not too concerned. I can't get too invested in the lives of technicians, their middle-management idiotic bosses, who probably smell perpetual like tampons that could use a change (the fat one), although the kind of cute little technician who looks ethnic with black hair seems to have a nice rack and after a few drinks could be amusing, provided she didn't insist on talking about anything related to her pedestrian work, and some boring morons on vacation. And some robots, meh. They probably got Ed Harris and the guy from *The ELephant Man* for a day each and gave them some scraps of dialogue while miming the universal sign for "stretch" from behind the camera.
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In other news, *Archer* keeps on keeping on. Maybe not knee-slapping hilarity, but I've been amused so far. I'm glad they found a funny role for Ray -- he's always been a funny character but maybe not taken advantage for laughs in the past few seasons, if I'm remembering right. Brings a true equal-opportunity flavor to not only make fun of blacks, but also the gays, and everything else. Him shrieking out "marijuana cigarette" with the band is pretty funny. For that matter, the fellows in the band are pretty funny as well -- don't recognize any names reading the lines in the credits, but that's definitely a welcome addition. Takes some of the attention away from Figgis, who isn't that funny except when being made fun of as a womanly feeb.

Patres omnipotentite,
genitus non factus,

Moderator would you please merge this thread with the pre-existing thread about TV -- it was called something like "TV omnibus frak" blah blah. Clearly I'd intended this brief commentary to be a part of that thread, but after some problems with networking, I sort of decided it would be best to just give up and start a new thread.

It is, to me, of little importance, but perhaps for the sake of convenience, if happen to have a spare section of time, it's a better to have it all in one place.

And I personally thank you for your service.

Confiteor unum baptisma in remissionem peccatorum et exspecto resurrectionem the One True Thread.

Mille grazie.

"Person of Interest" season 5. Amy Acker is one tasty older bitch. I think it was after noticing her in *Cabin in the Woods* that I found out about this show, and remembered her having been a fine young woman in *Angel*.

Actually, the show is kind of bitching -- I haven't watched one of those type of shows in a dog's age, but this is good. I only have seen/am seeing season 5, and probably won't see the others, except maybe season 4 if I need some more sugar from lady sugar tits. Actually, to be honest, she's had some hard miles on her, but she has character in her face, and she doesn't look dried out yet, so she'll do. Oh wait, gross. She's like my age. Gross. Oh well, I still like her, but unfortunately she is unsuitable in real life for admiration. She'd make a good sex doll model, though, younger version.

Don't get me wrong, it's pretty stupid, but I like the eye candy, the hot lesbian action, a good 65% of the dialogue sounds like an adult wrote it, which is extremely good for television and movies, and I enjoy seeing a show set primarily in Manhattan where not every character sounds like straight out of central casting, and the sets are regular, not just hack photographs.

Although it is a mash-up of *The Blacklist*, *Quantum Leap*, and *The Net* (the good TV show with Brooke Langton, not the B-movie with that old broad). And that fake-John Hurt British cunt is really annoying -- somebody should cut his tongue out in the show, because his voice makes me want to puke. Oh, I just remembered, the little lover of Amy Acker reminds me of an old lady friend, except taller and smarter. Huh. Wow, I don't like memory road. Oh, and Jim Caviezel or whatever his name is has about the stage charisma of a doormat. Yeah, OK, to keep with the Buffy parallel, he's kind of like that guy from that, the Boreanaz. That's an odd coincidence -- two strange names, with improbable access to hot, wet bitches despite being wet noodles.

Oh yeah, Twin Peaks is back, I guess nerds everywhere know. Yeah, I've seen the original episodes probably three times, and the movie a few times more than that, I guess I'm a fan as much as any casual media consumer. I guess I recommend the new ones. I don't know, just have to see where things take me, but I'm not really finding many ideas here. So far my favorite bits have been Gordon Cole -- some funny bits there. I don't know, just along for the ride.

As delighted I am to see Robert Forster as a new Sheriff Truman, I thought the real core of the show was a buddy-cop show between Cooper and Harry Truman. Nobody I've ever heard of actually cares about the black lodge and all that shit, that was just an amusing little vision.


Also, the tasty ethnic-looking broad from *Westworld* turned out to have been the bitch I was really enthusiastic about from that show *The Riches* -- I watched it for a few seasons then lost track of it, but I remember her as the daughter being fetching. Still is, and she seems to have filled out nicely.

And, just to be clear, "bitch" is not an insult -- it's a term of endearment, even a compliment. Or the complement of a dog (NB: those are two different words, compliment, and complement, with different meanings) -- nobody likes dogs, but every loves bitches.

Pretty harsh on MST3K TNG -- let's just say I had an erotic dream that convinced me to "like the show." I guess that's a euphemism for something disgusting. That bitch be controlling my mind. Still, among the many, many, many, many ways it sucks, they really do seem to be trying, and it seems mean to kick the midget slow kid.

Although.........kind of the point of the show.........but, still, I'll allow it. The producers really do seem to have put a lot of effort into their idiot show, so I say they may live.

Not liking that they're turning Morty into a sanctimonious little uppity turd. Very unpleasant. Also, the show needs an ineffectual half-wit to dump on, namely, Jerry. I fulfill that role here, and I do a damned good job, but apparently Parnell or whatever his name is is too good to be an animated Jizzelbin for vast sums of Hollywood scratch. What a lame.

Also, it appears that the scrumptious little girl on *Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt* has aged herself out of her "cute" phase. Also, Titus, while hilarious in previous seasons, is kind of getting tiresome. They should replace him with that Keenan Ivory what's his name from SNL a while ago.

Also, Twin Peaks season 3 is just too much, too quickly, and with too much plot and not enough cool dialogue. I guess it can be watched, barely, but it's not what I would call "must see TV." More like "maybe must see when I get around to it and am trying to recover from a stroke while eating soup ineptly."

I'm enjoying Rick and Morty this season very much. The one with Pickle Rick was insanely funny.

Although I was a fan of Twin Peaks back in the day (well, the first season, anyway), I haven't checked out the new season. Someday on DVD, probably.

The Tick just came back to Netflix. But I need to wait for my daughter to come home as she wants to watch it with me.

Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt definitely failed this year for me too. Now the characters and stories are no longer working for me.

I have about 80 Barney Millers recorded off, that and Yankee Baseball should cover a lot of my TV time in the next 2 months.

Nicely done w/ the Barney Miller -- a few years ago I watched a few seasons. Knew the theme song prior to that, but not much else. Bunch of characters. I don't know how to judge acting, but AFAIC great cast. And............the little guy.....from Mel Brooks.............whatever. The guy from *High Anxiety*, with the "I got it, I got it.....I don't got it." Not Bruno Kirby, but the other little guy. And Hal Linden's wife is hot, and it's too bad she wasn't more part of the show. ETA Ron Carey for the win! Weird, didn't look it up, but apparently the brain has more flaps than a double-pussied hooker.

This just in: message from Rick and Morty episode 6. Don't ever improve yourself, because it's weird. I say it's an amusing episode from this season. Pickle Rick was good, especially with the spot-on therapist (I'm not a partaker myself, but I've been obliged to have read some neuropsychology textbooks). Maybe there's some kind of theme in this season, especially with Jerry getting short-shrifted, which I don't like. Something, something, maybe the fat guy who made the show feels bad about being a drunk dink. That's stupid. But the darkest moment so far, good Rick putting a gun in bad Morty's mouth and pulling the trigger. I find it amusing. "You can't keep the drones: they turn into a little Voltron [can't remember next word]." Yeah, pretty funny, I'd say, in a weird way. "My terry flaps in your mouth. Suck my terry flaps."

Still a funny season. Will report back when I finish the Twin Peaks season, but don't expect any great thoughts from me -- it is what it is, I guess.

Twin Peaks, ep 17, I think: nice callback to IMHO one of the great car scenes in movies pays off. Right up there with *Gone in 60 Seconds.

I've set up the DVR to record "The Orville", the new Seth McFarlane Sci-fi show on Fox. Other than that I'm waiting for shows like Dirk Gently to restart.

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Well, power to you. I'm find that looking at RL Seth MacFarlane makes me want to puke, and that he should make more *American Dad*.

Huh. Somehow I felt braindead so I put on Orv #2.

Well, Jeffrey Tambour is funny -- he's a real actor, and good at comedy. I kind of like that ex-wife on the ship, but she seems like a moron.

This would be a good comedy cartoon.

I will not be sad if MacFarlane's black boyfriend gives him AIDS. Srsly, *American Dad* and *Family Guy* have funny jokes. Leave it at that.

Damned uppity employees of some company I don't own or manage.

Also, if this airs more episodes than the classic cancelled comedy/action/drama *Drive*, then I will cut someone. With my dick. And a spitball. Inside a loogey.

Those who haven't scanned through this little interview with two of the *Rick and Morty* guys should probably do so.

For once I'm glad I read one of those fanzine-type things. Those guys are a couple of nuts, but then again, who isn't?

Still have yet to see the last *R_Mort*, but I'm sure it's fine. Kind of a strange, abridged season, but giving Summer and Sarah Chalke more cool stuff to do almost makes up almost zero Jerry.

Although if I was Chalke or the Summer girl, I'd be kind of pissed that the animators gave me such saggy tits. But, I guess they're professionals, and not petty and vain like some people I know.

It was a good Rick and Morty season; I think Pickle Rick is still my favorite. The Orville is a little hit-or-miss but so far I'm enjoying it.

Huh. The last episode of *Rick and Morty* (or however it's spelled) was kind of a return to the "classic" form of R&M.

If I still had a Robitussin avatar, I'd probably have some stuff to say about how the big dialogue between Sarah Chalke and Rick Sanchez is kind of like peaking on a pretty deep little trip, and probably something about the season or whatever.

But that would be ridiculous.

Wow, though, those guys kind of reeled it all back into making everybody sort of zen with waiting until, like, whenever, for the next whatever.

Meh, now I don't have anything to watch. Sorry, I just can't do anymore Orville. Maybe that new Star Trek, but I only know TOS and TNG, so I kind of don't want to get involved in yet another spin-off. Tired of *Schitt's Ck*, can't stand watching SNL, that president show with Kevin Spacey sucks without Kate Mara.

I think a better idea is to buy more large white posterboards at the dollar store and start making up my own shit. Fucking asshole TV shit people, making me make my own shit, fuckers.

Yeah, I'll call it "John Nash, Ted Kaczynski, the psychotic retard, and Althusser's turkey neck." It'll take a while.

I bring you glad tidings from TV land.

Citizens, I have changed my mind about *The Orville* on seeing some of the fourth episode.

It is growing more tolerable the less screen time that jackass "captain" is on screen.

I find that I will probably watch this show, albeit with strong reservations.

But, shit, it's only TV, and it's better than whupping the computer's silicon ass at Gin Rummy.

That is all. Go in peace.

Well, I finally found *Person of Interest*, season 4. Previously, I'd seen season 5.

I suppose I should be kind of ashamed, but I think it's kind of fun, provided you're able to laugh a little bit at yourself while watching it.

That little Lost hobbit guy is pretty good, I guess, as an actor. I'm pretty sure the people in charge of doing the womens' makeup has some kind of issues -- very moist look, for the main cop lady and also Amy Acker. Not bad, just kind of a peculiar visual choice.

Person of Interest has been a show I hope to get around to sometime; it sounds interesting. The Orville has been uneven - still trying the find the right balance between the jokes of Galaxy Quest and the serious drama of ST:TNG - but all in all I'm enjoying it, and will stick with it.

Well, I had to test out my new cellular data carrier, so I ended up watching, like episode 9 or something of the new Star Trek (Discovery? something like that).

Makes The Orville look like Masterpiece Theatre. Unwatchable.

Well, I made some effort to track down The Avengers, and while I think I've seen most of the Emma Peel ones, I really do think Honor Blackman (pretty sure that's her name) does an incredible job.

Also, I'm looking forward to checking out Night Gallery.

And, I was surprised to know that David Suchet did a LOT of *Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot*. I only have a few seasons, but I'll take Poirot over Sherlock any day of the week as far as detectives go. Sure, he's Belgian, but nobody's perfect! No, I haven't read any of the books, and I'm unlikely to, but the TV show is satisfying, usually.

So, apparently that's going to take me a long, long time to watch these occasionally -- I can't do the "binge watching" thing without really becoming disgusted with myself in the morning.

Emma Peel was Diana Rigg. Honor is probably best known as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger.

OK, IMDB indicates Honor was the first female partner in The Avengers but Emma was the one that is best known in the US at least.

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OK, IMDB indicates Honor was the first female partner in The Avengers but Emma was the one that is best known in the US at least.

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But...but...Honor Blackman is good too! Besides, Diana Rigg was spoiled in my memory by shagging that putz of a Bond in *Her Majesty's*.

Sorry to say, I had kind of high hopes for Night Gallery, and maybe some day I'll give it another go. The episode I started with was from Season 2, with Clint Howard (I didn't know he was so much younger than Ronnie -- kind of an annoying little shit, but that was the character. Sure he's a nice guy).

And, yes, I do have to admit, Diana Rigg truly should not have been disrespected. The earlier episodes, as well, while not bad at all, John Steed was kind of chump, sort of. Sort of a straight-of-central-casting "stiff upper lip, wot, don't you know, English my dear boy!" Of course, he got better as well.

What else. Yes indeed, those Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) movie/TV episodes confirm my intuition that POIROT is pretty much the man. Definitely my hero. They're pretty intense little episodes, so I can only watch one every few days, really.

A very young Steven Spielberg's first TV directing gig was an episode of Night Gallery, IIRC. Never saw the show myself.

Suchet is quite good indeed as Poirot, although I've always had a soft spot for Albert Finney in the role in the Seventies big-screen version of Murder on the Orient Express.

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A very young Steven Spielberg's first TV directing gig was an episode of Night Gallery, IIRC. Never saw the show myself.

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That was the one with Joan Crawford I believe. I've seen it but it was nothing special. Night Gallery never really came up to the level of the Twilight Zone. Outer Limits was better also.

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A very young Steven Spielberg's first TV directing gig was an episode of Night Gallery, IIRC. Never saw the show myself.

Suchet is quite good indeed as Poirot, although I've always had a soft spot for Albert Finney in the role in the Seventies big-screen version of Murder on the Orient Express.

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I never knew that piece of trivia about Spielberg. I've also never heard about that show which is weird as I really like shows like that. I'll check it out if I can find it anywhere.

Boy, these first two seasons of*Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot* sure do not compare favorably to the more recent episodes. I mean, Suchet -- I don't think he ever really changed his character, except of course being a bit younger. Probably something to do with his "method acting" -- he must have had it locked down from the beginning.

I guess just not as high budgets -- either on video or just substandard lighting. And Captain Hastings is not a very welcome sidekick.

Poirot? Poirot does not require an assistance!

Hastings was Watson to Poirot's Holmes - the Everyman who can ooh and ah at the master's deductions, stand in for the reader to ask needed questions, and provide either comic relief, an apt acerbic comment, or a bit of muscle, as needed.

Yeah, I can see that. But the actor who plays him -- I really have only place in my TV-MOVIE mind for one sort of weak-chinned, weasel-faced British actor, and that's the great David Thewlis.

And anyway, Poirot, he is not to need a helper, because when Poirot is to see the mystery, it is to have been said correct, and there is no doubt to have been made! I much should think that when Poirot desires to command a company, it should be a sorry day, for is it not that military endeavors come to ends without wit?

You channel the famous French, er, Belgian detective quite well, O Jizz!

Yes, monsieur, that is correct and I am thanking you for the correction. I have pretended on some time to be a Swiss, and yet it was a ruse. Of course Poirot is not a Frenchman, no more than he is a Chinese.

Poirot does not make himself involved with the intrigues of politics, it is that Poirot only requires that the size of the houses of governments in subject be of the correct size, and disposition, for the peoples which they govern.

But of course.

Those interested might be interested in Rifftrax's commentary track to Westworld (TV show, not movie), first episode.

It's actually better to watch now that you know what happens: instead of some stupid mystery crap, you can just look at the little people trying to pretend to act, as though they were little humans. Ed Harris and that fat English fancy-lad excepted, of course, they're actual adult actors.

"Marvel: Daredevil" I was skeptical, but seeing the first episode, I think it's kind of cute.

However, after having given "Star Trek: New Voyages" a second chance. Sorry, bub. That is just...no.

Well, everyone knows Archer started back up -- I only found out by glimpsing a promo at my after-work one-MAYBE-two beer and a rack of 14.1 pool against myself place on TV and asking the other people "Is it on again???!!!"

Not much to add, although I think WareGirl might be impressed that I have the exact shirt Archer is wearing in the premiere and will be wearing it. I don't know, just a blue LL Bean long sleeve cotton shirt with buttons to hold up the sleeves, in medium-blue color. Pretty damned close.

I'm liking Krieger being demoted to Macaw -- he was my least favorite character.

And Ray as Louis Renault (sp?) parody is very amusing.

OMG WHY CAN IT TALK????????????????

Both whatserface and whatsisface do extremely good French accents, and the French sounds impeccable too -- I wonder if they practiced like mofos or that was just one of their skills.

I approve.

Episode on a whole? Meh, sure, it'll be a slow burn, but I'm not bothering with a lot of TV, so it's worth it to me.

OBSERVATION ARCHERO

Geez, on episode 04.

So, they do earlier ze French extremely well,both in accent and in language.

However, merely having German as third language.

That is the fucking worst German I have ever heard.

And I hate the Germans!

That is terrible/

Oh, Better Call Saul is in full power ahead for a few weeks.

Yeah, that's one of those you really need to watch from the beginning to get the whole deal.

Well, I'm amused anyway. Like a monkey using a tire swing at the zoo.

That's all the TV I feel I want to watch these days.

I saw the first, and then the last two, episodes of Archer's most recent season (Danger Island). My DVR missed the other episodes, unfortunately. What I saw was OK but not great.

Yeah, I think I saw all the current Archer, except the last one or maybe two (kind of forgot about it toward the end of the season).

It's getting kind of tiresome for each season to be some new gimmick.

Not that there aren't good opportunities for the voice actors to do some fun stuff in every season I've seen.

Like, how many Bond movies have there been, right? Just straight spy stuff seems to have worked out for Cubby Broccoli and Eon entertainment, or whatever.

Well, whatever, as long as they're having fun and keeping the lights on, I wish them well.

Maybe they're just hungry for Hummels.

Well, the third episode of Better Call Saul had some very revelatory dialogue between Mr. Manager (Gus Fring) and über-dork Gail (Gael?).

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but that scene reminded me of just how much I loathe (i) nerds and (ii) Tom Lehrer (rhythmically inept prosody, and also nerd stuff). He's no Victor Borge. Well, Gail (Gäel? — I played in a band with somebody named Gael, but he was French, and not a total geek, although a shitty guitar player) at least is an inoffensive, neutral kind of nerd.

Therefore, I shall allow his character to live.

Sorry, Archer, I guess Burt Reynolds isn't going to be coming around no more.

Goddamned freak with more hair on his chest than me and a bigger dick.

I mean, sorry you're gone! I'll do...think about...rosary....something.

Goddamned macho....

Love you! Bye!

Can't say I was much of a Burt Reynolds fan, but he did some good work, including Deliverance, Sharky's Machine and, yes, his Archer appearance.

All right, I have to be the first one to remind myself of NEW ARCHER IN SPACE!!!!

Yeah, I finished in my pants before three minutes.

Again.

Yes, Mother. I have the clothespin ready. Yes, Mother. The side with the splintered rough-shod finish is facing inward this time.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT, did anyone but me notice that Charlene or whatever's cameltoe was drenched in fluid as the space-abomination was set free in the ship, first episode?

Shit.

Literally.

Sploosh.

You go, girl.

ETA and, no, you fucking Krauts, she didn't shit her pants, that was totally moisture from the front crotch. srsly.

I didn't notice that! I did see several homages to Alien, Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars, though. And having Babou the Ocelot's face on the crew patch is sheer genius. LOL.

It is all true.

I never got the Battlestar Galactica thing — pretty sure that's what they're going for in the title sequence. You know, with the Faceman from the A-Team. And then that remake with the sexy lady robots that everyone creamed themselves about.

But, yes, in the second episode it became clear that it was not only a spoof on the first two Alien movies, but I'm guessing Carol's (apparently that's her name in this season, for now) haircut is supposed to be Wynona Ryder's from one of the later Alien movies.

A couple of good Predator references.

The horror that is Buzz Beak or whatever that is called was defused by its infestation by Mother's "presence."

And, now thanks to this show I may never wear earlugs again, thanks to SOMEONE pointing out that green fucking slime mold of an alien has the shape of not only an earplug but also a buttplug.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Just not something I considered before. And, yes, I am very displeased at having that thought be implanted into my brain.

Yeah, I'd say they're bring their A-game on this season.

Indeed, I wouldn't have noticed the ocelot on the "space badge," but that sure looks like a jungle cat, and there can be only one.

It's Babou! And he thinks he's people!

It's true.

But he's always getting sick and the vet visits are tiresome.

I'm pretty sure Sterling has jungle(cat)-fever though.

And I'm not sure that Pam and her raging, but malodorous, she-boners isn't in part to blame for facilitating the darkest aspect of cross-species gratification.

Hmm.

Apparently this has been on for years.

Black Mirror.

I've only seen the first episode yet, but even though the photography and lighting and acting was horrid, I found it somewhat amusing.

Who doesn't like fucking pigs?

Limey prudes.

Hmm.

Apparently this has been on for years.

Black Mirror.

I've only seen the first episode yet, but even though the photography and lighting and acting was horrid, I found it somewhat amusing.

Who doesn't like fucking pigs?

Limey prudes.

Hmm.

Apparently this has been on for years.

Black Mirror.

I've only seen the first episode yet, but even though the photography and lighting and acting was horrid, I found it somewhat amusing.

Who doesn't like fucking pigs?

Limey prudes.

You can say that again. And then again.

Never saw Black Mirror, although I've been told it's pretty good.

Eh, I've seen a few at this point. It's kind of a low-rent Twilight Zone...maybe like Night Gallery or something.

I would just skip it, unless you happen to be super-bored.

Oh, speaking of TV, before work I was chatting with a couple coworkers and saying how "You know, I should really not drunk-text my romantic interest." They were each appalled, as though their consciences are lily-white.

My excuse was, "hey, I don't have a TV, sitting around drinking whiskey, what the hell else am I going to do?"

Unanimous advice: "John, go out and get a fucking TV, you ass."

Gets my vote!

I was watching that David Suchet Poirot episode again, something like *The Mystery of the Blue Train" I think it's called.

Anyway, Elliot (Eliot?) Gould's (adult!) daughter in the episode was played by a woman who appealed to my prurience, so I looked her up on wikipedia or imdb or one of those and found that she played this character in that TV show *Dexter*.

I was like, "Oh, yeah, I used to like that show, let me try to find season two and see if she's spankworthy."

Haven't got to her entry in the season, but man is the overdubbed internal monologue and dialogue extremely precious. It's really not that watchable, as a TV show, although I liked it well enough when it was current to watch it through to the end of the series.

HOWEVER, yes, I did find a TV, by luck, that my sister was going to toss. Has a built-in DVD player, so that's probably my one use for it.

But, really. Can I be expected to find a place to put it, a spare outlet (yes, you'd rightly imagine that I have some very cobbled-together bunches of circuit extenders at every accessible outlet (ETA, and, no, I'm not daisy-chaining multiple consumer-grade circuit breakers, unless I unplug each with a distance of more than one after each use). The pianos and keyboards alone take up every available outlet in that section of the front room, and the stereo is similarly encumbered. (No, I don't use rack equipment with power conditioners or anything, even for music performing — although, that would be a good piece of equipment, just like a Furman all-in-one power conditioner or just a really big prosumer circuit breaker/portable outlet extenders....yes, the internal wiring's a mess in the walls, I'm guessing, but IME, I can count on the actual circuit breakers in the panel to activate when overloaded).

I assume the TV has a built in DTV receiver. Otherwise, forget it, it's not worth fiddling with yet another mass of cables for something I don't even want to watch.

Although, I did find out there's some normal DTV broadcast station called "Grit" that specializes in showing B&W, mainly, episodes of old westerns from the 1950s and 1960s.

No. I can't be watching TV commercials and just sitting around like a lump: that's what I have the computer for. And there's no way I'd pay for cable service: that seems ridiculous to me when I already have a phone.

Can someone please explain to me what in the motherfucking shit this is? The video is a SFW low-fi animation of Rick Sanchez and Morty Whatisface dropping a flask of "acid" on the floor.

It was a cute little very brief bit of animation.

No idea if it came from the booze-addled brains of the creators of Rick & Morty, but I will say it wins...................well, I don't know. Something, I guess.

Ah, fucking Christ shit.

Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Yeah, they're still going into year fourteen, but this week they do some stupid pastiche of a Spillane thing.

Yeah, I mean, fine, whatever. Makes we want to turn it off and watch Kiss Me Deadly or The Big Sleep or many others.

Shit Christ, fuck, I shit you not, I have tried to watch this twenty minute show for the third time now, this episode, and I still can't last it.

Very tedious.

I don't want any plot with this stupid TV shit! I still watch Archer, after all, but the main feature is watching morons do stupid shit.

What are you fucking industrial arthouse magicians with the slight of hand?

It's a fucking dumbass TV show, you nitwits.

So less with the character, none with the plot, more with the funny.

Assholes.

Here's my final verdict on Black Mirror, having seen by now a few episodes rather than a mere few episodes.

No.

It's like listening attentively by some obligation to the idiot ideas your stoned college-freshman nephew came up with.

I'm not having any of it, and I can't really understand people who do.

But, that's fine. "White Bear," really? I mean, come on.

Instead of a slick, brightly lit rom-com with very adequate actors, this kind of thing, the whole show, should have had the feeling of coming out of some person's basement apartment, where he or she cut the film shot on sixteen-millimeter. Not this glossy, "Oh, well, let the games begin, shall we? You will marvel out how adept our little show seems!"

Too much budget spent on visuals. If it was some aggro punk kind of go-back to a time, it would have come off better, even for telling more condensed tales, and more of them.

Thumbs down.

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Rick and Morty. Of course.

Yeah, they're getting the hang of this TV show thing.

I love how the one continuity of this story seems to be "Jessica," like a permanent imago seared into the souls of millions of Mortys. I mean, you can count on Summer to be mostly a bitchy teen, and Beth to be a depressive mom-cow, and so forth.

Hmmm.

I don't think this counts as a SPOILER ALERT, but let's just say that jumping on the circumferential rim of a trash can might sever an enemies head.

Actually, that sounds improbable.

But, it's a good idea, anyway.

Ah, TVLand is pretty good.

I've almost watched the first three seasons of The High Chaparral (srsly, WTF happened to Cameron Mitchell? He was fantastic as Buck Cannon! I guess he had bills to pay afterwards). And I'll look forward to the fourth season, although not quite as many episodes as season two and three.

Archer's back, and badder than ever. AFAIK they're not just dumping an entire season out at once, so it gives me something to look forward to on Wednesdays.

Football's back, although I still don't know much about the game and it's just the tip (of the season), but it will amuse me that others I talk to will get all riled up. Go Saints! :)

I feel very proud that not only did I understand the reference to Bolzano in the most recent episode of Archer, but somehow oddly ashamed that not two days before watching the episode I was dredging the recesses of my memory to remember his first name. I think I settled on "Franz," thinking it was a coincidence that it was also the prename of Brentano, so I just thought of him as Fritz Bolzano, as a nickname.

Well, I'm sure those interested know that Rick and Morty has started back up.

I'll spoiler my very few thoughts on the episode.

Spoiler (mouseover to read):

I'm getting slightly tired of little Morty getting cock-blocked all the time with his would-be gal, Jessica. This was the farthest I think I've seen them take it, and even I was getting blue balls. On the other hand, as Morty points out, since he hasn't had a full week of school for over a year, he "doesn't know shit," so it's not surprising that in this case, at least, his own ineptness is the cause of not at the minimum getting up in those sweater puppets of Jessica's. Can't really blame Rick for that one. Summer had a pretty funny line, when she suits up to go grab Nimbus's conch shell or whatever. "It's time to go lick some pussy!" is I think what it was, with "pussy" being bleeped but (to me anyway), pretty obvious. And the rest of the family's reaction to her. I don't know what was going on with the Beth and ...whatsisnames ... threesome with the Ziggy Stardust-styled Mr. Nimbus. Kind of tiresome, but whatever.