You knew it was coming.
(and yes, my blog has been reduced to posting SNL clips featuring Kenan Thompson – fuck you for noticing)
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I know I’m WAY late to the party, but I recently discovered Dr. Steel and I absolutely love everything about the character – the music, the videos, the concept, the gimmick. Wonderful, wonderful stuff.
- O’Brien’s last show will be this Friday, January 22
- Jay Leno will take over The Tonight Show on March 1
- O’Brien will be able to to begin working for another network beginning September 1
- NBC retains the rights to bits and characters Conan created
I’m on a pretty big It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia kick right now.
Awesome show.
Cool article. I’ve always been ok with compression and I believe you can push it quite a bit before it gets ugly, but popular techniques have long passed that point.
If only the show on at 8pm was called “Slim Shady”
It mustn’t just be my Kenan crush. Last night “What Up With That” ran right after the monologue, so somebody is liking it. I thought last night’s was the weakest yet, but still worth watching.
Probably the best SNL all season. The cold opening was finally something other than the completely unfunny political stuff they do. In fact, they opened with a favorite of mine and my daughter’s – The Lawrence Welk Show. Not the funniest one, but still laughable. (seemed to be the theme on the repeat skits, huh?) Not sure what to add as the bonus funny, so I’ll just say you can’t go wrong checking out any of last night’s show – not a real stinker in the entire bunch.
You’ve probably seen this a ton of other places, but it was 20 years ago today (December 17, 1989) that first 20-minute episode of The Simpsons aired on FOX.
That’s really nuts if you think about it. I don’t think I’ve felt much older then realizing not only has this show been on 20 years (and I’ve been rather faithful in watching it all this time) but also that I was 16 when it debuted. Sheesh. If they were real people, Bart would be 30 and Santa’s Little Helper would be dead.
Funny how much times change though. I can remember people complaining about how ‘bad’ Bart was and how that sort of thing shouldn’t be on TV – especially as a cartoon that kids would be inclined to watch. In today’s climate, the character is downright cute and nonthreatening and most of the cartoons on TV (outside of Nick and Disney) are meant for adults.
At any rate, I dig the show.
Gonch Fun Fact – I still say, “I’d like some taquitos” every time we walk past them in the grocery store and that’s a quote from a minor character in an episode that’s more than 10 years old.
From the press release:
One of America’s favorite — if not entirely functional — families first appeared on its own half-hour television show on this day 20 years ago — “The Simpsons.” Cartoonist Matt Groening’s characters Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie soon had popularity unusual for an animated feature, and created a legion of loyal fans who wouldn’t miss one of the shows. Aside from the wide range of souvenir items generated by the program, some of the character’s sayings — especially Bart’s — have become part of the language, such as “Don’t have a cow.” When “The Simpsons” first went on the air, there were 193 million television sets in U.S. homes — today, the number is more than 300 million.
The Simpsons first appeared in 1987 as a series of 30-second shorts produced by Groening for the FOX series “The Tracey Ullman Show.” The first of these shorts aired on April 19, 1987, during the third week of primetime broadcasts on FOX. Soon they had their own series, premiering on FOX as a half-hour Christmas special on Dec. 17, 1989, and then as a regular series on Jan. 14, 1990.
And yes, sadly, I remember the pre-Simpsons clips as my mother was a fan of the Tracey Ullman show…and back then we didn’t have TV’s in every room and the internets and such, so you either watched TV as a family and watched what your arents watched or you didn’t watch TV…and you actually watched things when they aired – on their schedule, not yours, rarely timeshifting with the VCR – that was for when you wouldn’t be home and really wanted to see something…hence, my viewing of the Tracey Ullman show.
Caught this yesterday on SHO:
I never in my life thought I’d be able to sit through (let alone be entertained, forced to think and laugh…and even get a bit misty-eyed by) a two hour and ten minute monologue about faith by the chick who was Pat on SNL, but I did…and I’m recommending it to you.
Definitely a must-watch holiday special.
For those who don’t know (and I assume that means those without kids and those that don’t get high and watch cartoons) – Phineas and Ferb is the Disney cartoon that has knocked Spongebob off his throne as the highest rated cartoon on TV…and with good reason. The show is great. The Phineas and Ferb world works on so many levels that you’d be hard pressed to not find something you like. (I personally am impressed by the fact that the show features well done original music – so much so that there’s even a Phineas and Ferb music countdown special)
At any rate their new X-mas special, “Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation” is showing here and there on all of the various Disney channels and is a seriously good time. I imagine it’s still entertaining if you’re new to the show, but I think one would appreciate it more if they’re already familiar with the characters and premise of the show and their little world.
That’s all I got – just wanted to mention the show and the Christmas special.
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(I think that’s the most I’ve ever used the word ’special’ in one post)
EDITED TO ADD – turns out that the debut of Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation was the most watched show ever on the DisneyXD channel.
I liked it the first time and liked it even more this time. Love the the idea of using Lindsey Buckingham as a running joke in the skit.
Still not sure why, but I really enjoy these. I think I kinda just enjoy Kenan Thompson. I remember thinking he was funny back when he was on Nickelodeon even though he generally played the straight man in the Kenan and Kel duo.
Bonus Funny (I usually think they try too hard on the digital clips and find them to be generally overrated, but I like this one – maybe it’s Kenan, huh?):
I found this quite amusing:
I said it in my comments under this post over two years ago and finally I’m devoting an entry to it.
The best show currently on television by a decent margin is Californication.
The stuff they’re doing right now with Rick Springfield is some of the funniest stuff I’ve seen in a while – from playing himself as a totally skeezy aging rocker to the subtle humor of the rest of the characters calling him by his full name everytime they address him.
Sure, it’s silly a lot of the time with tons of sex and drugs, but I think it’s one of the most human shows on TV too. Some good complex relationships that in the end you know these people care for each other – the realationship between Hank and daughter Becca is wonderful. It’s about as perfect as TV gets for me.
Plus, I wanna be Hank Moody when I grow up.
Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
Heh
The Taking of Pelham 123
Yeh
Food Inc.
Meh
Crank 2: High Voltage
Every bit as stupid and awesome as you’d expect it to be.
Adventureland
A slow moving movie full of uninteresting characters I barely cared about.
I wanted to do just a one-liner pertaining to this video, but there are so many possible plays that I can’t even begin to narrow it down. I can’t believe this is really for real…and current.
Sorry, don’t have a review. I didn’t see it. My wife and son did. They both loved the first one and made a date to see the second long ago. They seemed to have liked it. I just saw that it made a little over $60 million yesterday. That’s crazy.
I saw most of the first movie when it showed up on HBO or SHO or Starz or whoever nabbed it. I’ll probably see the second when it gets to DVD and off of my Netflix queue.
Someone should build a wooden coaster themed to the Transformers franchise.
Speaking of building things, you may have been looking forward to another “around the house” work update this weekend. I didn’t do one. This weekend we did a little concrete aork around the driveway near the garage. We’d actually like a whole new driveway done, but it’s a bunch of slabs and a bunch of cash and low on the list of priorities, so $50 and a couple of hours got us satisfactory results that will buy us some time. I also got all of the new deck lights up and working. I just need to decide how to hide the wires and give it a finished look.
Next up will probably be a full shed and garage cleaning and organizational session. After that the only thing left on our “Summer 2009 to do around the house outside” list is the retaining wall.
No more retaining wall work until someone decides to dens Daddy a check. I have a bunch of outstanding invoices floating around and I’m just waiting for someone to pay up and then we’ll be back to the brick work. After the garage/shed thing, the bricks/walls/edging for the landscaping around the front of the house is the last thing we absolutely want done before fall (and by fall, I mean school starts and we have less time outside). The actual plants can wait until spring if they have to. Just getting the brick work done would be a huge step in the right direction. We’re getting there…then it’s back inside with fall/winter projects. Notably, the basement re-do.
And to wrap this one up, Penn & Teller: Bullshit! returns for season 7 tonight on SHO. Things seem to be starting slow with the topic of orgasms, but looking ahead I see things like video game violence, 2012 and organic foods in the upcoming weeks.
Good stuff.