What Did You Watch? 2009-12-25 (Friday)
David Johnston
watched:
Criminal Minds
Kate Jackson is the dark haired woman agent's mom. Yeah, I can see
the resemblance. Not bad casting.
Life
Insects. Bugs that wrestle, bugs that sting and spray, bugs that
steal from each other and find that the spawn of their victim have
gone in search of food, joined their own brood, and will now work
their new mom to death and eat her. It's heart warming, really.
The Pink Panther
The Steve Martin version of Clouseau was not of course as bad as
reputed. I laughed about as much as I did at Sellars. Maybe more
than I did at "A Shot In The Dark". But Martin was operating under
the handicap of playing a character originated by someone else, and
being the actor to originate a part always wins extra credit, so
naturally he gets badmouthed. .
What did you watch?
Ubiquitous
> What did you watch?
SANDRA LEE CELEBRATES:
I just saw the last five minutes of the Morgenstern(?) ep, the one
with the family with triplets. SLop covered the dining room table with
a red table cloth and put red pillowcases over the backs of all the
chairs, including the baby chairs, then puts a "runner" which
consisted of a one foot wide swap of cotton ball material down the
center. On top of that, she placed a bunch of (inedible) gingerbread
houses, slurring something about making people gasp (heh heh, not in
the way YOU think, bitch!). So where does the food go? She randomly
nestled some candles in the cotton wadding (they turned out to be
battery-operated, thank goodness!) and sprinkled everything with
"edible snow". I got the feeling SLop was trying to make things "baby
safe". SLop presented this ugly-ass "quilt" with baby photos and other
crap glued to it to the two sets of grandparents. Was that some sort
of kit from Wal-Mart with "glue photo here" squares? So totally "Wall-
Martha Stewart"!
SLop presented three shoddily-assembled toy chests and I laughed when
she claimed they would be around for years. Yeah, right. Wasn't the
theme color sppsd to be red? The room with the Bannister and tree
looked like a cotton ball factory exploded in it. Once again, SLop
totally crapped up someone's house for Christmas!
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS:
This was the 1962 classic, not that Jim Carey crapfest. I was amazed
at how well this old classic is still effective and all the detailing
involved with the artwork. Plus, Boris Karloff was an awesome narrator
and vox of the title role.
THE YULE LOG
HOGAN'S HEROES:
Colonel Clink's new assistant is actually a spy for Bulcarter (his
Gestapo nemesis) and nearly framed our colonel for the guy's sabotage
of a nearby train station.
THE O'REILLY FACTOR:
Best of the year clips.
GHOST ADVENTURERS:
A repeat of a lame ep. Next!
SNL'S GILLY'S X-MAS SPECIAL:
A repeat of what used to a be GREAT Christmas clip show, now with all
the funny parts replaced by what passes on the show now-a-days a
"funny", bookended with a character with whom I am not familiar named
"Gilly" who clearly is a blatant rip-off of that spastic little girl
who never spoke and just stared at random things around her that was
played by Gilda Radner. Those who remember the original funny seasons
of SNL know about whom I am speaking. It started with the hilarious
"Lost ending" of It's A Wonderful Life, in which everyone, upon
discovering that mean old man stole George's money and caused all his
woes, form a mob, break down his door, and beat the CRAP out of him!
Next was a classic Eddie Murphy "Mister Robinson's Neighborhood"
Christmas sketch, except they only showed the first 30 seconds of it
before cutting to commercial. When we returned, we were "treated" to
the lame and typical 5-second-joke-stretched-into-ten minutes "Dick in
a box" music video, followed by that "Superstar!" Catholic High School
character singing at a Christmas pageant with Whitney Houston and
falling into an X-mas tree. We were treated to a few seconds of
another Christmas classic before exiting to commercial. Upon out
return, we saw a really lame Rudolph the Reindeer cartoon in which
Santa decides to punish everyone who voted for George Bush and then
picked up Al Franken, Janeen Garafola, and a couple other Hollywood
leftists. You could tell that whoever wrote this trash thought they
were being terribly clever and funny, but it came across as being
petty and mean-spirited. Lastly, they played another 5-second-joke-
stretched-into-a-ten-minute-sketch featuring Alec Baldwin and some
female NPR hosts talking about his "balls", complete with nine minutes
of single entendres. Sorry, but South Park did it better ten years
previously with "Chef's Salty Balls". It's pathetic when you can so
easily distinguish between the old and new material by how much
inferior the latter is.
THE SOUP:
The Top Fourty Clips of 2009, Part One.
CHELSEA LATELY.
--
It's now time for healing, and for fixing the damage the Democrats
did to America.
Ubiquitous
> What did you watch?
THE YULE LOG
TWO AND A HALF MEN:
John Crier's char is dating Sunny, his cooking teacher, who's like a
Martha Stewart in the kitchen and around the house. Unfortunately, he
and Charlie Sheen gain about 15 pounds from all her cooking and John
Crier discovers she's got mental issues (she thinks Santa never shows
up because she's not a good enough home-maker). The show ends with
Charlie and the fat-ass kid arriving at their mother's for X-mas to
escape the loud vulgar sex. My description is funnier than the show
itself was.
Patty Winter
In article <fsbbj59b712m2q3kb...@4ax.com>,
David Johnston <da...@block.net> wrote:
>While disgruntled that my Christmas present had a defective DVD
Awwww...what was the DVD?
>What did you watch?
Part of the Trailer Park Boys Xmas Special (that's how it was
spelled in the listings) on The 101. Or at least, it was "a"
TPB Xmas special; I don't know whether it's the only one they've
ever done. A little of the TPB goes a long way with me, so I
don't keep close watch on their activities. Oh, it says "1997"
in the listing. Yikes, have they been around that long?
A couple episodes of The Librarians, Series 2. This is an Aussie
sitcom that takes place at, well, a public library. A friend just
sent me series 2 for Christmas. She also sent another series called
Bed of Roses that I haven't sampled yet.
Patty
David Johnston
wrote:
>
>In article <fsbbj59b712m2q3kb...@4ax.com>,
>David Johnston <da...@block.net> wrote:
>>While disgruntled that my Christmas present had a defective DVD
>
>Awwww...what was the DVD?
The Lord of the Rings Extended edition, last disc of the actual movie.
Ubiquitous
> A couple episodes of The Librarians, Series 2. This is an Aussie
> sitcom that takes place at, well, a public library.
I thought at first you were talking about that lame action TV movie
with Noah Wilder that aired a few years ago. I thought we might have
to knock some sense into somebody. :-)
Ian J. Ball
> While disgruntled that my Christmas present had a defective DVD, I
> watched:
>
> Criminal Minds
>
> Kate Jackson is the dark haired woman agent's mom. Yeah, I can see
> the resemblance. Not bad casting.
Which one? - Lola Glaudini's Elle Greenaway (the early seasons'
brunette)? Or Paget Brewster's Emily Prentiss (the later seasons'
brunette)?
Unfortunately, I've never seen this episode... :(
> What did you watch?
Obviously, the Charger (CHARGERS!!) vs. Tennessee game. (Can you say
"BLOWOUT!!!1!"?!)
But, earlier, I watched the "CSI:NY" from 2 weeks ago (i.e. the
second-to-last first-run episode before the Christmas break) that I
DVR'ed:
It was the "CSI:NY" with the 'killer house'. Anyway, I found it
completely absurd! If the house was as dangerous as they made it out to
be, just Mac Taylor and Stella wouldn't have been allowed to just wander
around the house like that. I'm not sure who would have "debugged" that
house (do the cops have something equivalent to the Army Corps of
Engineers?! maybe the bomb squad would do it?!...), but it sure as heck
wouldn't have been a 2-man CSI team with no other police backup!
Anyway, the whole episode was patently ridiculous! :/
--
"There's no business, like Cho business."
- Patrick Jane, "The Mentalist", 02/11/09
David Johnston
<ijball-...@mac.invalid> wrote:
>In article <fsbbj59b712m2q3kb...@4ax.com>,
> David Johnston <da...@block.net> wrote:
>
>> While disgruntled that my Christmas present had a defective DVD, I
>> watched:
>>
>> Criminal Minds
>>
>> Kate Jackson is the dark haired woman agent's mom. Yeah, I can see
>> the resemblance. Not bad casting.
>
>Which one? - Lola Glaudini's Elle Greenaway (the early seasons'
>brunette)? Or Paget Brewster's Emily Prentiss (the later seasons'
>brunette)?
Emily Prentiss. Kate plays her mom who is a diplomat and Emily has
issues with her mother because of her mom's excellent poker face which
has always intimidated her.
>It was the "CSI:NY" with the 'killer house'. Anyway, I found it
>completely absurd! If the house was as dangerous as they made it out to
>be, just Mac Taylor and Stella wouldn't have been allowed to just wander
>around the house like that. I'm not sure who would have "debugged" that
>house (do the cops have something equivalent to the Army Corps of
>Engineers?! maybe the bomb squad would do it?!...), but it sure as heck
>wouldn't have been a 2-man CSI team with no other police backup!
>
>Anyway, the whole episode was patently ridiculous! :/
And once again Hollywood neglects the necessity of maintaining complex
mechanical devices...
Michael Black
It was realistic. Nobody complained about the booby traps in "Raiders of
the Lost Ark" or "The Goonies". And those had been set up much earlier
than the booby traps in the apartment.
Michael
Anim8rFSK
Michael Black <et...@ncf.ca> wrote:
LOL, sure we did. We complain about all those torches that light in
National Treasure too. :)
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