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The Once and Future … Wait, What?!

Will — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:35:47 +0000

I’m 20 minutes into NBC’s new Merlin series, and WOW have they taken some strange liberties with the story. I’m trying to get past it. The story is the teller’s to tell, and if they want to mix it up, that could be interesting. Still, if you’re going to scramble the mythology that much, why not just change the names and start fresh? Anybody coming looking for King Aurthur won’t find it here, and who’s going to watch this other than somebody looking for King Aurthur? I hope it gets better or that I find a way to get past it and just pretend the names are a coincidence.

30 ROCK is a rip-off of THE MUPPET SHOW!

Will — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:01:05 +0000

Man, after reading about how 30 ROCK is a rip-off of THE MUPPET SHOW!, I don’t think I’m ever going to be able to see the show the same way again.

http://bloglynch.blogspot.com/2009/06/30-rock-is-rip-off-of-muppet-show.html

Star Trek — The Opera

Will — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:47:36 +0000

How much do I LOVE Robot Chicken? I would totally go see an Opera about the Wrath of Kahn. In fact, somebody should really get on top of producing that one because it is dripping with 13 kinds of awesome.

Le Wrath di Khan

Shocker, Knight Rider is Fun

Will — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:48:23 +0000

After I watched the debate tonight (great night, can’t wait to see the polls coming out of that), I got on my exercise bike and watched the new Knight Rider show.

I was watching it as a lark since the movie from earlier in the year was so dumb, and I’d heard that the new show is equally dumb. Man, was I ever surprised to find that it is a really fun show. Sure, it’s got plenty of dopey moments, but unlike say Fringe, which is stupid dopey, Knight Rider is awesomely fun dopey.

I’m sure it will be canceled within a few episodes, but give this show a chance if you like that kind of thing.

Update: I take it all back. The second episode blows.

Shatner Woo Remix

Will — Fri, 25 May 2007 08:23:10 +0000

The Shatner Woo Remix is 10 kinds of awesome. The David Bowie and Cher Medley is 10 kinds of something else.

Lynda Carter on The Muppet Show

Will — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:08:26 +0000

I don’t know how long This Video of Lynda Carter on The Muppet Show will be left up, but it’s great. Check it out while you can.

Out Damn Embryonic Ear Worm

Will — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:16:52 +0000

Last week, I was deleting an episode of Gilmore Girls that Tivo recorded for me. As I was deleting it, I noticed the episode title, “One’s Got Class and the Other One Dyes”. That struck a chord with me. It sounded so familiar that I thought maybe it was a pun on a song lyric or something.

I couldn’t think of the song though and no manor of Google searches could turn up the lyric I was looking for. I thought it was a Springsteen song or maybe Billy Joel. It just kept coming back and back — some barely remembered wisp of a lyric that I couldn’t quite catch and couldn’t quite forget.

This morning, I finally thought of the lyric that was driving me crazy. “Somebody’s going to emergency. Somebody’s going to jail” from Don Henley’s “New York Minute”. I still think the Gilmore Girls show might be referring to a different song, but that’s the one I was thinking of. I also think it’s funny that Google turned up a West Wing episode called Somebody’s Going to Emergency, Somebody’s Going to Jail, which is obviously a better match.

It’s such a relief to get that out of my head!

Get Ready to Shred

Will — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:53:52 +0000

The Colbert Report’s Countdown to Guitarmageddon was awesome. Who knew that Kissinger could rock that hard?

Wow, That’s Bad

Will — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 16:24:56 +0000

OK, so we won’t go into why I was watching Saturday Night Live. Suffice it to say that if you can watch the show on a TiVo, it isn’t too painful, and I typically don’t have a lot of shows to watch on Sunday morning when I wake up anyway, so the season pass doesn’t really cost me much.

Anyway, I’m watching last nights show, and Gwen Stefani is one of the musical guests. This was quite possibly one of the worst performances I have ever seen in my life. I thought that when she did a cover from Fiddler on the Roof that was kind of bad, but this went so far beyond that it was actually a little awe inspiring.

She start off yodeling. Then she moves onto to this sort of rap. I think it’s supposed to be a look how sexy I am Fergie type of song (and Stefani is really sexy, so it should work well), but the rap itself is so forced and stilted that it’s even worse than Fergalicious. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to get this performance out of my head.

She only did one song on the show. They had somebody else do the second act for some reason. If that’s the song from her new album that she decided to lead with, I would love to hear what else didn’t get performed. It must suck harder than 100 black holes.

Is that Mr. Belding?!

Will — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 22:30:51 +0000

I’d never even heard of the show, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Judging from the dates, it looks like it’s been on for a year or two. I don’t know how I could have missed it. Anyway, I saw an ad or something and told the TiVo to record an episode. It was pretty good. I think I’ll keep watching it.

Also, the episode I saw had Dennis Haskins, the guy who played Mr. Belding on Saved by the Bell. Man, that guy got huge.