It's baaaaaack!

Well, fall TV has returned and thus my life is infinitely better the same with better stuff to watch.

This week, I'm gonna focus on "Must See NBC Thursday" (no, they don't call it that anymore).


Community, 8:00

Parks and Recreation, 8:30

The Office, 9:00

Whitney, 9:30 (Captioned images really don't do this show justice. You should just watch and see.)

Fall Premiers

Some of you may have noticed that I kinda like television. And by "kinda like" I mean love way more than any one person should. So you can imagine how excited I am every year around this time for all my shows to be returning!

It's been a long Summer.

So without further ado, here's what I think you should be watching this year Fall.

The Office, NBC (Returns Sept. 22)


Community, NBC (Returns Sept. 22)


How I Met Your Mother, CBS (Returns Sept. 19)


Always Sunny in Philadelphia, FX (Returns Sept. 15)


Modern Family, ABC (Returns Sept. 21)


CASTLE CASTLE CASTLE ABC (Returns Sept. 19)


Parenthood, NBC (Returns Sept. 13)


Archer, FX (Returns Sept. 15)


New Girl, ABC (Premieres Sept. 20)


Happy Endings, ABC (Returns Sept. 28) For some reason there's no promo on youtube for this...?


Whitney, NBC (Pre Sept. 22)


Parks and Recreation, NBC (Returns Sept. 22) For some reason there's no new promo on youtube for this either :(

That's What She Said

Today is dedicated solely to the departure of Steve Carell from my very favorite show, The Office.



Highlights from "Goodbye, Michael"

Classic Michael

She has a point.

I'm still not completely sold. He still dresses like an Easter egg.

I love that they addressed the fact that they're still being
followed around by camera's for the first time in forever...

...And that in 7 years they've never done anything with the footage.

Very touching and bittersweet but still good for some laughs. Farewell Michael Scott. You will be missed.



Now for some highlights, I was THRILLED that they brought back the Dundies one more time. Not as good as the first one but still loved it. I always wished they did a Dundies episode every year.


Loved the "Seasons of Love" (from Rent) remake for Michael.

And some of my favorite Michael scenes (out of the ones available on hulu.)

I could watch Goodbye Toby all day. Definitely Michael's best parody. 


Dwight, you ignorant slut. 


Poor Jim, tortured more than anyone else because he's Michael's favorite... After Ryan, that is.

Michael will go along with anything.

And like Tina Fey's character declared on 30 Rock, Steve Carell owns "That's what she said."

Turtles Are Condescending

Welcome to the premiere of Media Monday! yaaaaayyyyy... Okay so as part of my revamp, I have moved TV day over here to Monday. It actually makes more sense anytime I do "this week" recap because I can then do a Sunday-Friday week, rather than Thurs-Wed one. Also if I have nothing to say that's related to TV I can include other media types in my Monday posts.

Okay, so remember how you were thinking how much you wished that Christan Slater was on tv? Me either. I gave this one a shot since Hulu suggested it to me and boy-o-boy is it crappy. Consider yourself warned.

Oh the wonderful world of online dating. 

I have a turtle.

Saw this coming miles and miles and miles away. Still sad though.

He was.

I'm enjoying Happy Endings. This week we got another Scrubs [Med School] person making an appearance. Which was awesome cause I loved Drew. Maybe even more than Denise. I'm hoping he comes back regularly.

Happy Endings

You Stay Here, You Die.

ALL OF MY SHOWS ARE BACK!!! Well, all of my absolute favorite sitcoms; Community, Parks and Recreation, and The Office. It's weird that 50% of my favorite shows are on NBC but what can I say. I just wish they didn't force of Conan so that he could still be in my list of NBC awesomeness. Moving along.


The Paul Reiser show was eh but of course, I'll keep watching till the very end, just because.

Sam Axe Movie. AWESOME. It was like if you took all the good parts of every episode of Burn Notice and put them into one 2 hour movie. And Michael Westen even made an appearance.

And it's all marzipan? Probably not the best gift for a diabetic.

Oh and Cougartown is back after a VERY long hiatus. HILARIOUS. But I recommend this to girls more than guys. So here's what I have to say about it that's totally not helpful to most people. Jordan from Scrubs (and Kate from The Drew Carey Show) and Monica from Friends are both in it. I'll admit, I was a bit put off by the show's title because it sounded like a) a dumb premise and 2) what a crappy title. However they dropped the whole Courtney Cox as a cougar after 4 or 5 episodes and it's much better now.

Naughty Naughty Kool-Aid

I've always been pretty much a non-fan of Family Guy. It's just so damn stupid so much of the time. I do like Stewie and Brian though. And I LOVE a lot of the pop culture references.

My favorite is the recurring Kool-Aid Man. This is only the first of about 5.


You know what? Fuck it. Here's some more.


Okay enough of that.

Outsourced. Pretty meh on a weekly basis. Dedrich Badger is usually pretty good though. Makes me miss The Drew Carey Show. Kinda. Let me rephrase: he makes me remember The Drew Carey Show.

I don't know how I don't talk about Archer more... probably because it wasn't until a few weeks ago that I subscribed it to on Hulu. I just started watching it this year and its a-MAZING! (If you saw the below episode you'll get that). But no really, watch it.

As a British person with British teeth, I never tire of a good British-teeth joke.

Phil Dunphy strikes again.

You saw the ad? You want both of them? I guess that makes sense if you're trying to flip one.

Okay just a couple more things:

Yay Paul Reiser is going to be back on TV, it's been WAY too long. But man did he get old. This is pretty exciting for me because a) Mad About You will probably always be my favorite show of all time and 2) ... I don't really have a two but Mad About You fans will get the reference.

Happy Endings premiered yesterday. So far I like it but I don't know if I can really recommend it or not. I'm pulling for it because a) Kim Bauer is in it and more importantly 2) Jo aka Denise from Scrubs is also in it.

If I Wasn't Lorelai Gilmore I Would Be Gil...less

First some news. I was a guest blogger for Ashely over at After Nine to Five today. I did a DIY scrapbook page which is AWESOME. Check it and the rest of her blog out cause it's tons of fun!



Also, this week I was chosen to be the Featured Blogger on Colorful Rant's of a Fed Up Sista. I got this badge to prove it:

Awesome blog if you aren't scared off by her crass, honest, in-your-face writing style. I love it. You should too, just don't say you weren't warned.

Now onto the topic at hand.

This week (and then some) on TV!:

Larry King. He's really old.

Last week...
We had the return of Secret Life of the American Teenager. I have one word for their writing staff: pronouns. It's astounding how many sentence subjects are reiterated 4-8 times in 4-8 sentences even if it's between two different people. Painful. Example: "Adrien is going to have my baby" "I know Adrien is going to have your baby, and because Adrien is having your baby you need to do the right thing" "I know I have to do the right thing because Adrien is going to have my baby." Now that is not an actual quote but it could be. And you see what I mean. I was seriously hoping that I would be able to just not watch it and not long for a lobotomy every Monday night but alas, with nothing else on Mondays curiosity of what happens to the characters has gotten the best of me. It's going to be a long season. Two more words: acting lessons.

Someone put Ben on Castle... and named him Ashley. Hahahahaha

This week... 

AMC's new crazy-insane-fucking-around-with-shit style show, The Killing. For those of you not watching, AMC likes to push boundaries with it's original programming more than any other cable network and somehow they get away with it. Well there are probably people up in arms about their shows but since I haven't been in telecommunications classes since 2007, so I haven't heard anything about it. ANYWAY. Pretty entertaining but fairly predicable. Which doesn't bother me because when I can guess what's going to happen, I feel smart.

Anyone else remember Ryan Renyolds on Two Guys and A Girl?

Moving along. 
Conan. Doesn't stop being awesome. Not for a moment.

"This guy's huge!" (Conan himself is 6'4" and loves finding dudes who are taller than him)

Parenthood, good-not-great, I guess I want it to be funnier but it's not really supposed to be. But Lauren Graham was lovely as always. Oh! Huge pet peeve of mine: people who refer to "the prom" simply as "prom." Am I the only one who thinks people sound retarded when they say "I can't wait for prom" or "I'm going to wear high-heels on prom." ? (Oh yeah also people who say "on prom" instead of "to prom," even worse.) Just think about how much more right it sounds to say "I'm going to wear high-heels to the prom). So you all should agree, and start using "the" when referring to...the prom, and you will be a better person for it. </rant>

For anyone who doesn't know Lorelai Gilmore's real name.

Lights Out wrapped up it's debut season on FX, home to the awesomeness that is Always Sunny, The League, Rescue Me, and Archer (watch all of these). First I have to say "uh oh" But then again, who's surprised really? Best worst line: "Save that rage for the stage; the mojo for the Dojo." Weird, I thought they we're boxing, not karate fighting. I half expected Ralph Macchio to show up. Okay not really. Would have been AMAZING though. I have less issue with comparing the boxing ring to a stage since there's certainly a bit of pageantry going on. At least up until the fighting actually starts. Oh and worst dress goes to... Michelle from 24:

What costumer thought THAT was a good dress to put her in?

Mr. Sunshine. My favorite episodes are the ones Jose Garcia is in. Especially because Matthew Perry's character keeps calling him Bobert. Which, btw, is what "Bob" should actually be short for. This week, funny as ever and we got to see the girl from Party Down...not that ANY of you watched that. You may know her better as Janice Ian.

I too have keep my face on the front of my head.

Perfect Couples. I know what you're thinking, "what?" Yeah. Kinda wish I never started watching this one but it has The Waitress from Always Sunny, and it's in the NBC Thursday night line up, so I had to. I have a tendency to watch shows because someone I like is on it or not watch one that has someone I don't like. I pretty much only watch Rizzoli and Isles because Kate from NCIS is on it and every time I catch a Zeva episode of NCIS I spend the whole hour missing Kate.

That's Kate, and oh look! Jan from The Office.

Now if only my sitcoms would come back already.


To go along with this weeks theme of actors I loved on other shows, I'm gonna wrap this here post with one more:

Community's Danny Pudi on Gilmore Girls?!?? Heck yeah!

Chuck Full O Awesome

I feel like I'm the only one still watching Chuck. Mind you, I feel like I'm the only person who ever watched it. Oh and my mom. And after I started watching it again from the beginning (sometimes there are too many hours in my work day) I wonder how everyone isn't watching it. Action, comedy, hot blonde girls, Adam Baldwin, Captain Awesome and of course the lovable, nerdy protagonist. It's like this show was created just for me. What more could you ask for? Today I bring you, some highlights from episode 1 and urge you to start watching pronto. In case you don't know, "pronto" is Italian for "you should listen to me."

Me too.

I almost wish Matt Bomer was still on Chuck instead of White Collar. Almost.

Awesome.

Awesome-sauce

This week in television... for me... Pretty Little Liars wrapped up the season and something ACTUALLY happened. To avoid a spoiler, I'll just say I am NOT going to miss him. Parks and Rec was more than awesome, it was awesome-sauce. I don't get why Bones and Seeley aren't together yet, now that what's-her-name is gone. Don't miss her either. I did like her when she was on that episode of House when she played a rape victim. Community was it's usual level of awesomeness. And that was about it for my shows. 

I also hate when snow days are ruined by murder. That's all for today, now I'm going to go figure out what's so great about mini horses.