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.
Well this look like fun:
Holy sweet fucking Jesus! My daughter found a commercial for the wipin’ stick just posted to YouTube a few days ago. This is getting bigger than I ever could have imagined:
I’m truly ahead of the curve when it comes to the future of wiping. A visionary, if you will.
Dave is the best!
We finally got around to watching Zack and Miri Make a Porno tonight. There’s this bit at the very beginning about Black Friday being racist. It’s pretty funny. Watch it if you’re not familiar (you only need to watch the first minute or so):
Great, ridiculous stuff, huh?
Here’s the kicker – this has actually happened to my wife…in real life…with one of her managers. They actually had to quit using the term “Black Friday” around the office.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
A little of Dave’s interesting interview with GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz:
Should be called, Paul Blart: This Movie Sucks Every Bit As Bad As You Thought It Would
(alternate joke: Should be called, Paul Blart: Mall Crap)
Seriously, I like some dumb shit. I enjoy movies that are stupid and dumbed down. I watch total fucking worthless movies over and over again.
I was dozing off during this fucking movie. Oddly enough, I liken it to 3 Ninjas: High Noon At Mega Mountain – the same lame villains with their lame moves and shallow storyline. For some reason that’s the movie I was reminded of when watching this…and I’ve sat through the stupid 3 Ninjas movie a couple of times.
Should be called, Paul Blart: I’d Rather Be Teabagged
(aww, I so should have made that the title of this post)
And Jayma Mays is weird looking in this…like I wasn’t sure if I should be repulsed or horny. Quite frankly, I wavered between both.
Have I mentioned that I’m doing a member of the CVB board? (I think she’s something like that – not sure what it actually is)
Being a pillar of the tourism community has its perks – like the ability to score comp tickets for things that you wouldn’t necessarily pay for. WWE tapings, for instance.
We ended up with seats on the on-screen side in the corner opposite the entrance 6 rows off the floor. Pretty sweet seats. If you know where to look in the crowd, you’ll see us plenty. At least we saw ourselves on tonight’s ECW show. I’ve set the DVR for Smackdown and Superstars. I expect more “random faces in the crowd” time.
Was a fun evening. It’s been almost 12 years since we’ve been to a live wrestling event. (before kids!) The kids enjoyed it. My son is a huge Edge fan. We rooted for bad guys all night. I posted a few pics over on Facebook.
Wrestling fans are a goofy bunch. I imagine they’re similar to Nascar fans – just a little to the left. They’re goofy motherfuckers, but on the whole, they’re also some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. Real “salt of the earth” types. We never fail to make short-term friends for the evening and tonight was no exception.
Good fun.
1. Role Models – more adult than I expected and way funnier than I expected. Exactly the kind of movie I suspect anyone reading this blog would not enjoy.
2. SNL with Justin Timberlake – I had expectations going in so maybe it was a case of anticipointment, but this was easily the worst of JT’s appearances. I can’t decide if they tried too hard or not hard enough. Felt like they thought doing the same things again would work. It had moments, but overall the show paled in comparison to the other ones hosted by Timberlake. There are just some people in the world who are likeable. They just have something about them that – even if you want to hate them – you just like. Justin Timberlake is one of those people.
3. The Wrestler – Good, solid movie. Not sure it’s as good as I was led to believe going into it, but it had me for the full 111 minutes. Might be another case of anticipointment.
When I rate movies on Netflix I use this scale:
***** – Good movie, would watch (at least in part) every chance I get
**** – Good movie, would probably watch a handful of times
*** – Good movie, enjoyed but once was enough
** – Not a good movie, sat through the whole thing but didn’t care for it
* – couldn’t even sit through the entire film
The Wrestler was a solid three, not quite a four. A three and a half for me. I could round it to a four thanks to the plentiful, gratutitous shots of Marisa Tomei. I’m officially closing in on middle age. I find myself looking at older women and finding them more attractive than the younger ‘girls’ I see. At 44, she has 8 years on me, but Marisa Tomei looks ridiculously good in this.
So yeah, my weekend entertainment went like that.
Loved these as a kid and they’re still fun:
TV of Tomorrow
Car of Tomorrow
House of Tomorrow
Farm of Tomorrow
Things I enjoyed online this afternoon (Time Travel edition):
