Northwest Passage

I finally got caught up on my episodes of Fringe, and OMG, the show gets better and better with every episode (except for Brown Betty, which was good for character development but did absolutely nothing to move the story along).  I love how the Northwest Passage ended with such a good cliffhanger (even though we all knew that was coming).  Watch FOX cancel this show just as it's getting good.  Networks always find a way to ruin a good show.

The first appearance of Frak

is in the third episode of the original Battlestar Galactica. :-)

Battlestar Galactica old skool

Hulu recently posted the first twenty-four episodes of the original Battlestar Galactica. This show is almost as old as me! The series first aired in September of 1978, only a few months after I was born. TV is so much smarter and thoughtful these days (with the exception of Star Trek TNG of course!), so it's been a blast to watch scifi from the 70s. While the plot lines and special effects have gotten better in today's scifi, it's also been great to see that some things remain the same. In Star Trek, there's an instantaneous language translator, and I just noticed that the BSG warriors carry a "Languatron" for translation purposes too. :-)

Who knew the Vatican was a Simpsons fan?

Homer doesn't even believe in Jeebus!

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26520387-952,00.html

Yesterday the paper, L'Osservatore Romano, congratulated the show on its 20th anniversary and lauded its philosophical leanings as well as its stinging and often irreverent take on religion.

Religion, from the snore-evoking sermons of the Reverend Lovejoy to Homer's face-to-face talks with God, appears so frequently on the show that it could be possible to come up with a ''Simpsonian theology'', it said.

Homer's religious confusion and ignorance are ''a mirror of the indifference and the need that modern man feels toward faith'', the paper said.

It commented on several religion-themed episodes, including one in which Homer calls for divine intervention by crying: ''I'm not normally a religious man, but if you're up there, save me, Superman!''

''Homer finds in God his last refuge, even though he sometimes gets His name sensationally wrong,'' L'Osservatore said. ''But these are just minor mistakes, after all, the two know each other well.''

"He's ten times the man you are,

...and you're like forty guys."

I had to laugh at that line. That's what I get for watching the Dollhouse.

Cover Me

I recently discovered Cover Me on Hulu, and I've been unable to pull myself away from my computer since. It's well written, not over the top, and loosely based off a true story about a crime-fighting FBI family. Plus, the acting by Peter Dobson and Michael Angarano is just brilliant. Too bad USA cancelled the show after Season 1, but if you've got time, there's a good 25 episodes to watch on Hulu.

I heart NPH

NY Mag's profile of NPH is totally right on and awesome:

Neil Patrick Harris used to be an underage doctor on TV. Now he’s another Hollywood first: an out gay actor who can host award shows, play a womanizer, walk the red carpet with his boyfriend, and then get cast in movies as a straight dad. Neat trick.

http://nymag.com/arts/tv/profiles/59002/

Styling by Sharon Williams/Celestine Talent; Grooming by Cheri Keating/The Wall Group; Production design by Nick Tortorici. Shirt and bow tie by Brooks Brothers.

(Photo: Art Streiber)

I love mascots

I know that's weird, but I'm a little obsessed with them. Not in a creepy fetishist way, but because mascots usually involve the anthropomorphization of animals. Animals don't have human characteristics! That'd be CRAZY! (Except for the animals on the Brian Fellows show, that is.)

Making the distinction between racial and racist one furniture store at a time...

OMG, he's NOT being ironic in those Priceline commercials!!!

Who are Jon and Kate and their eight???

And why the hell does anyone care about them?

"I had broken a ligament and pulled a bone..."

I can't tell if this guy was trying to be funny, or if he really got the two concepts confused...

Check out the video

Glee a little too twee?

Is Fox's new fall series, Glee Club a little too twee?

I caught the pilot the other night. It was cute and inoffensive. I liked it. I thought it cute, positive and different. I can't, however, imagine watching it every week. Check out the pilot for yourself:

Glee Pilot

This commercial cracks me up

Blake Lewis beatboxes Bon Jovi

I have a man crush on this guy because he can beatbox AND dance. Double threat!

Best episode of 30 Rock this season

For just the starting scene with the laid off investment bankers alone.

Alec Baldwin playing both Jack Donaghy and the Generalissimo totally makes it my fave epi of all time!

http://www.hulu.com/watch/56361/30-rock-confronting-the-general

"I want to go to there."

One of Liz Lemon's best lines yet!

I can't embed the video, but click here to see it.

Why do you wear so much purple?

A while back, B started downloading episodes of GG to watch on the bus on her way to J's house every weekend. As a result, she got me hooked on the show as well.

A show about a bunch of mid-20-somethings who play teenagers in high school that live the lives of jaded mid-30-year-olds is completely unrealistic but guilty fun. There's tons of soap opera drama and angst.

I'm glad the GG writers have a sense of humor about their show too. In this scene, Chuck Bass, 17yo debonair playboy, is at the reading of his father's will. It's just before Chuck is about to inherit 1 billion dollars and a portion of his father's multinational corporation, and Chuck is talking about how he's always been a disappointment to his father...

Lifetime TV

Pooks was unable to make it back from Long Island in time to meet me for dinner tonight. Without the added incentive of having to meet someone for food, it was far too cold out for me to motivate to join friends in Brooklyn or Queens for drinks, etc.

Instead, I cleaned the bathroom, swept and mopped the bathroom, kitchen and my bedroom floors, made crabcakes and steamed asparagus for dinner, and baked banana blueberry muffins from scratch. All while I polished off a ginormous bag of Hershey's kisses (B, I hate you for leaving them with me.) and watching Lifetime TV.

I don't get Lifetime TV. So far tonight, I've watched two movies about high school girls that are social outcasts due to their size. By the end of the movie, the overweight girls have managed to overcome adversity so that their peers see them for their true selves and not their fat. Yet, during the commercial breaks, Lifetime runs ads for a new reality show about a group of overweight women that dislike being overweight and will have a personal trainer who'll work with them to lose weight.

First, why is Lifetime TV so obsessed with fat women? Second, the movies are all centered around the idea that fat people should be liked for who they are, not the way they look. Yet, Lifetime will be premiering a reality show that says otherwise.

Methinks Lifetime is a bit too judgemental about other people's weight.