I got your bogus in a bag and it's zip-locked shut

I'm kinda half and half on this episode of Gilmore. Some parts were very good; others were sorta blah.

Lorelei's story was basically that she helped Christopher by taking care of Gigi who is a terror. Zzzzzzz.

Zach realized he needed to get the band back together so he hunted down Sebastian Bach at a bar mitzvah, where the first awesomeness happened - the man was singing some Hollaback Girl. He and Brian agreed to give Zach and the band a second chance as long as Lane was their drummer. So Zach went and proposed to Lane in the middle of Luke's and she accepted.
Aw.

Rory had most of the story tonight. She participated in a forum on journalism and kicked some bootie. But Logan's sister was getting married and when Rory ended up hanging with the bridesmaids, she found out he's slept with 3 out of 4 of them, all during the time the show was off the air this Christmas. Ew. Ew to sleeping with the brother of any of my friends and ew to my brother sleeping with my friends. Ew ew ew.

He tried to play the Ross/Rachel "WE WERE ON A BREAK" card but dude, we watched the show. You never broke up with her! She found out through your sister that you were on a break as it was. Rory was astute enough to point out that you have to tell a person to consider it a break up.

Then she went and got drunk. She was an angry drunk which I loved. The bartender was trying to get her to eat and her response was "YOU eat something..." She ran into Doyle, freshly kicked out of Paris' - they broke up too.
Rory drunk = amusing. Rory drunk with Doyle=funny.

In the end, Paris took Rory back in and she and Logan seem to really be broken up now.

So an uneven episode in my book. Bring us more drunken Doyle, less drunken Logan.

What did I just watch?

I taped 24 and will post on it at another time.

Meanwhile, I watched the Apprentice because it's more my speed in terms of brain power this evening.

The task: fly a Goodyear Blimp over a suburban Sam's Club to try and draw people in to upgrade their memberships there.

Yeah. I know. Now we've got multiple sponsors per task, right?

It did feature the bestest Caroline moment: she turned to one idiot in the boardroom and pointedly asked "What did you contribute to your team?"
Girl stammered a non reply. Caroline pushed again. Still no answer. Finally, Caroline said "What did you contribute to your team? I've asked three times now."

I love Caroline.

The best part of it wasn't just the awkwardness it instilled in the idiot; it was that Trump was on a rampage and ready to fire someone who wasn't as useless. I hate it when he does that. George and Caroline both say that this idiot was chief idiot but something about someone just rubs Trump wrong way and away he goes. Well, Caroline used the above exchange to re-focus the Trumpster on who really should be fired.

I'm not sure it'll be a interesting season but I'll likely still watch it.

The STAHS! They are all done dancing now...

So in what has to be the most drawn out, overdone live finale since the Apprentice a few years ago, Dancing With The Stars ended a few minutes ago. And I feel like the final 3 hit it in the right order, in terms of entertainment.

Drew Lachey won which was justified because he was the best dancer throughout the competition. Jerry Rice came in second which made my heart smile because he just had so much fun and if you compare his performance tonight with his performances at first, you can see a dancer whereas before he was just as awkward as you and I.

So that was fun. Here's hoping if they do this again that they give Ashley DelGrosso or whatever her name is a better partner.
I'm not exactly sure what the point of all the Mary J. Blige singing was but hey, she's gotta sell her record I suppose.

Here's to Drew! May you capitalize on this better than the winner of the first season!

Or, You May Just Be Pregnant!

This clip that runs on the web site is much like the ad that is running on tv. Minus the depression for four weeks, many of the symptoms are also signs of pregnancy you fools!
And if my mood swings were more stereotypical, I suppose that the "depression" could be true too.

Idol Thoughts

I didn't have Kiki's will power. If only Gilmore had been on...
So I caught a few of the "performances" on Idol. Maybe 4. So that's some will power.

I was less than impressed.

Any Idol fans out there wishing to comment?

From the recap at the end, I wish I'd seen the basketball player and the girl at the very end instead of the few I did see.

Look Kiki!

Hello Kitty comes to TV

Also, over 50,000 products available worldwide? Methinks shall need a larger guest room.

Don't Drive Angry!

Ok. So tonight on 24 things quickly went from bad to worse.

Jack blew it last week - his decision to save hundreds of lives cost the trail of where the gas is...
So that means that the Hobbit in charge is mad and typically, as all CTU leaders eventually do, wants Jack detained.
Of course, angry Hobbit was really just ticked because his keycard got stolen by his drug addict sister.

Jack overtook Curtis and pursued a call to the evil guy that was pulling Walt's puppet strings. This call came through Audrey's phone. Of course, angry Hobbit finds out and ends up screwing everything up when he detains Buchanan and shadows Audrey and is just a general nuisance (though not before Buchanan tries to distract the Hobbit by mentioning his keycard - brilliant).

Meanwhile, back at the Presidential Ranch, the new terrorist in charge has called the Pres and is demanding the whereabouts of the Russian Pres's motorcade - oh, you know this isn't going to go well.

Weasly commander in chief ends up giving it to Head Terror guy so the First Lady jumps into the car to ride off with the Russians and get herself nerve gassed in an act of stupid defiance. Which secret service guy joins her? Aaron the great!
So help me god if they kill Aaron...I outta....

Oprah and Tom: Part Two

Best Week Ever Satire showing Oprah reacting as she "should" have toward Tom last year.

Never Trust a Big Butt and a Smile...

Turk Lip Synchs to "Poison"

Because Scrubs is on break for the Olympics. And this made my week last week.

The Stahs! They are at it again!

Tonight ended like it probably should. As fun as Jerry Rice is to watch, he stumbles more than the others.

I'm still not behind Stacy getting all the attention she gets. When she has to slip into character, she is worse than Jerry and he's a football player for goodness sakes.

If I had to pick, I'd say GO DREW.

Chaos...Control

Is it me or is the team speed skating just total armageddon on ice?

Reasons to Love Luke

Mainly, he hates Logan.

Last night's Very Special Valentine's Gilmore was skipped by me so I could spend a few fleeting moments with my own Valentine who is not much of a Gilmore watcher. I think it has something to do with the fast talking girls in it. But nonetheless, I postponed watching until this evening.

Rory invited Lorelei and Luke to spend Valentine's weekend with her and Logan at the Hunsberger compound on Martha's Vineyard. It was as awkward as it sounds. Luke, it turns out, hates staying at other people's houses with their sheets and their weird tap water. I love Luke. He even complains about Logan when Logan does nothing wrong, just like I do. Perhaps I'm the female Luke, minus the diner and backwards baseball cap. Anywho, he gets overly cranky and finally makes Lorelei snap a bit and rightfully so. She's feeling uptight as it is with the postponed wedding. She finally owns up to not being comfortable with the wedding postponement and he assures her rather sweetly that he fully intends to marry her. The next morning he even talks about eloping with her, or planning something for later in the summer. They seem to agree that he needs to tell her he loves her more and she needs to relax and realize that they are still getting married.

Meanwhile, Rory is in her element, not at all her mother's daughter, as she plays housewife for Logan. There are a few cute Lorelei/Rory scenes, scenes like they used to have all the time and that I miss now. They went to the gym as only Lorelei and Rory can (getting massages and drinking cucumber water as their workouts) and then as "cook" in the Hunsberger kitchen.

The episode ends with Logan getting into a very loud argument with his dad. Turns out he blew off a meeting with his Dad's contacts of some sort in order to have this weekend. He has to fly to London immediately and it becomes very clear that Logan is living in a dream world, part of which Rory awkwardly fits into (in reality, if he's forced to have the perfect job for his stature, that whole Rory not fitting in part has to come up again, no?).

And then Lorelei and Luke, newly bonded over her openness about the wedding postponement and his admission that he's sometimes too inward when dealing with problems (like a new daughter), wind up at home and find their escape worked as well as Logan's: Luke still has a daughter he's figuring out how to deal with and Lorelei still has the June 3rd wedding date advertised everywhere as her mother pulls another Emily and has announced it in the newspaper with the world's largest engagement announcement.

Reminder: You can be a part of the fun too!

Kiki and I are looking to expand the content on our tv blog. If you've got a show that you watch that you want to talk about, leave us a note in the comments to this posting. We'd love to have more people joining in on the fun!

The First Lady uses a Mac

And we all know what THAT means...


I don't know if it's cuz I watched it alone or just the kinda day I had but I wasn't too into 24 tonight.

Probably me.
Probably me.

Anywho, I also found myself distracted with the whole coverup story due to what our real VP has been up to this weekend. Am I watching too much 24 or does anyone else wonder if Cheney really had an "accident?"

It was kinda fun to watch Jack be...submissive? Scared? I mean, he wasn't, but still. He pretended.

And with one hour on the job he's already got CTU big wigs wanting him arrested.
Fun stuff.

The "24 weekends" reruns are in the meat and potatoes of the first season for the next four weeks (the last four hours).
Teri is on her way back to CTU (and Nina), Jack's narrowing in on Dennis Hopper and Palmer and the Mrs. are about to have a big old showdown.

Good times.

Check out this Gilmore article.

Particulary interesting are the parts at the bottom where the creators discuss why they are writing Luke and Lorelei and Rory and Logan the ways they are right now.

Arrested Wrap Up

I've sorta been digesting all four episodes of Arrested that I watched last night/earlier today. I thought other than the second to last episode that they were all really strong. I have moments that I really loved about these episodes that epitomize the show that I'll mention below. But in the end, I think maybe - just maybe - I'm willing to let it have its last episode be just that. The end.

1. Franklin, GOB's puppet, wore a shirt that said "George Bush Don't Care About Black Puppets." They also found as many ways as possible to slip in their song they do together, "It ain't easy being white, it ain't easy being brown..."

2. Justine Bateman guest starring as a prostitute who ends up hitting on Jason Bateman's character. And yes, that makes me a sick person to find that funny. Or as Michael (Jason Bateman's character) said "That's just so wrong in so many ways..."

3. Anything George Michael did, the poor kid. From punching out GOB for living with his ex-girlfriend, to marrying Maybae, to his reaction to the pictures of Maybae being born, to just opening that granola bar...that kid is a genius child actor and should be recognized as such.

4. Ron Howard finally appeared.

5. We finally get why Lindsey didn't look like any of them.

6. Their obsession with Judge Reinhold. I think "Well excuse me Judge Reinhold" should live on as a catch phrase everywhere.

There was just a ton more, because they included so many inside jokes that you had to watch all three seasons to appreciate...but a part of me is sad, mainly because I've read that the creator isn't so sure he wants to continue it. So with that, I feel like just end it and let it be this brilliantly short sitcom that lives on in DVD.

The Olympics

I'm looking for:

The luge
Snowboarding
Ski jumping
Curling


Those are my highlights that I don't want to miss.


PS Why didn't people tell me my two boyfriends were on the other night? Taye Diggs is Will's boyfriend on Will and Grace? Carter is coming back on ER? Now I have to wait till post Olympics to see them?

Favorite Moments from this week's The Office

In no particular order...

1. Dwight's bobblehead that he got for Valentine's from his "secret" girlfriend in the office.
"I'm the bobblehead."
2. Michael's financial report for the CFO that had no financials at all, but instead was a video of his employees trying to avoid his camera, in slow motion, set to "With or Without You."
3. Jim - his attempts at avoiding Kelly and her rambling about her personal life hit home. Who hasn't had that moment like he did where he's being polite and nodding and trying to end the conversation, all while backing away from the coworker, sneaking one body part at a time out the door?
4. Pam and the drunk lady (don't recall her name), reacting to all of Phyllis' Valentine deliveries from her boyfriend. Whether you've been the recipient of flowers and noticed the discomfort it causes in coworkers, or you've been the jealous coworker with no flowers, these scenes were hilarious.
5. Michael in NYC, hitting up his "Favorite pizza joint" - Sbarros.
6. The end people! Jan had finally - FINALLY - gotten through to Michael that she wasn't interested and he behaved as gentlemanly as possible to his being let down...and then she kissed him! Again!

The end is here

Arrested Development ends on Fox tonight. I'll be watching while I tape it for those who can't watch.

Watching Biggest Loser While Pregnant

For most people, Biggest Loser serves as inspiration. The gist of the show is watching people just like you improve themselves and heck if it doesn't make the normal person want to get off their butt and work out.

But me? I'm pregnant. So Biggest Loser serves as inspiration for my cravings and my cravings alone.

Last night the Biggest Loser got me wanting Chinese Food. While the normal audience was rooting for the couple to turn down the deadly chinese food and get something healthy, I got stuck in the "mmmm Chinese Food sounds good..." rut.

I ended up with a bowl of chocolate ice cream but I tell you what, next chance I get, I'm having me some sweet and sour chicken.

Brown Bear does Boston

Tonight's episodes of Scrubs may have had guest star Mandy Moore as the female JD but the real star was Turk, people.

First episode he joined Janitor and friends in an Air Band and rocked his audition by doing the bestest lip synch to Poison by Bel Biv Devoe you done ever seen. He wrapped up the episode with their performance of "More Than a Feeling" by Boston. I was an obnoxious laugher at those scenes.

I liked in the second episode that they once again played with the idea of the voice over. JD was told to get out of his head so he just started doing his normal narration but out loud in the scene.


Ok. What these last three posts proved was that i watched A LOT of tv tonight.

You've Been Gilmored!

Rory and her bangs were elected to be the new editor in chief at the newspaper. Paris handled it as one would think and kicked Rory out...landing Rory at Logan's. We figured out the attraction to Logan: He's mini-Christopher. Yes, Daddy dropped by this week to take a tour with Rory. He loved all the Logan being a bratty prep boy stories because, hey, that's who he was too.

Meanwhile, Lorelei and Michel bonded after Michel started having really great hissy fits about Luke doing repair work at the inn. Lorelei had to patch things up with him after she realized that the hissy fits had nothing to do with Luke and everything to do with Michel missing her. The things Luke puts up with...next up, Lorelei made him go to Friday night dinner. Of course she lied to her mom that they still had a wedding date and then lied to Luke that her mom was just confused by the wedding date. But overall, they acted like a solid couple; a fact they both recognized after Emily and Richard called Luke family. He even got treated like Lorelei with lectures on responsibility.


Next week looks to be a very special Valentine's episode of Gilmore Girls. Really, though. We've spent 6 seasons watching Lorelei realize Christopher isn't the right kinda guy for her...do we now have to watch her daughter do the same?

(Though to his credit, Logan didn't do anything unappealing this time out.) (And I promise to start letting go of the bangs...)

You don't wanna go down this road with me...

Oh but Jack, you know we do.

24 rocked it's 7th hour with John McCain AND the threat that Kim the Dimwitted Daughter will return. But it was good.

First the John McCain: if you blinked or weren't looking for it, you missed it. Turns out he's a fan of the show and dropped by for a cameo. It came during one of those split screen back from commercial ka-chung moments. He handed Audrey a file.

Jack gets re-instated by Logan. He then realizes he needs to warn Kim that he's alive so he puts Audrey on the case asking her to track her down. Logan and wife bond over a press release to try and explain what the deal with Walt was. Of course, they are now up shit's creek because Walt somehow eluded Secret Service and killed himself. Obviously, Aaron was no longer watching him.

Jack and Curtis track some guy who's re-coding the nerve gas canisters for the bad guys. Dude has a russian sex slave. Jack gets all mushy about it and lets his guard down allowing sex slave to kill re-coding bad guy. Now Jack and Curtis have to figure out how to keep in contact with current main bad guys when they call back.

Dudes, KIM? REALLY!?!?! Hide the cougars, man.

Attention Office Fans!

If you've only watched the US version, you may not know how cool this is...but if you appreciate both the UK original and the current Steve Carrell version, news that Ricky Gervais is going to co-write an episode for next season of the US version will just blow your mind, like it did mine. YAYNESS!

Code Black?

Ok, who's going to tell me about Grey's Anatomy last night? I'm curious about the CODE BLACK situation, what it is and all...I started to watch last night but that lady's infernal screaming and then a pregnant lady being featured kept me from continuing. The screaming unnerved me and then the giving birth storyline had doom written all over it (hence my current ban on medical shows).

So someone must fill me in.

Super Bowl: The Ads

Or, according to the husband, the only real reason to watch. I married me a football fan I tell you (how else do you explain his four years at a football school yet the first time in the stadium for him as a student was graduation?).

So far the only ad that I reacted to at all was the Magic Refrigerator one.

The hubby has given up and is listening to his iPod shuffle while doing dishes.

SuperBowl...your ads, they suck.

Super Bowl

They are in a frenzy on the local channels, showing more about Detroit and SuperBowl than necessary.

I'm ticked cuz they kept teasing a tea shop I like as one of the gems of the area but the spot never aired.

Meanwhile, Rhonda Walker's husband is cute. And a former Wolverine. Who knew?

Those STAHS, how they dance...

Well we're down to the good/entertaining stars on Dancing With the Stars. The two that are still far and away the best are Drew and Stacey. However, Lisa and Jerry keep making such great progress each week that they should be getting better scores soon. Tia and George are fun to watch but less so than the others. At least to me. I mean they are fun to watch but aren't dancing as well. Yeah.

I'm not sure who should go home. I guess George is technically the worst dancer but he looks like he's having such great fun I don't want him to leave yet. Tia is probably the one to go home in my mind. But not cuz she's bad, just not as interesting as the rest.