Too young to retire, too old to hang out at da club, the right age to buy an overpriced sports car. Happy 40th Birthday SNL!
I wish I could watch your special but I’m too hooked on Walking Dead. Hopefully tonight’s special will end up on Hulu or on NBC On Demand.
I totally love SNL. Watching it as a kid, trying to do the imitations the cast were doing – fun stuff. Everyone seems to love the cast they grew up with the best. Which cast is your favorite?
Grrr….arghh…SPOILERS!
Gleamed from tonight’s The Walking Dead
What’s that guy from the beginning of the show up to now? I guess we’ll find out in February 2015!
EDIT – FUN FACT – THIS WAS MY 100th POST!
GRR! ARGH! SPOILERS AHEAD! BRAINS!
It was an all Daryl and Carol episode tonight on The Walking Dead. The Bookshelf Battler’s Observations:
1) A lot of flashbacks and shifts around in time. A bit confusing but I figured it out.
2) That van never would have landed like that but I’m glad Daryl and Carol are ok.
3) Did the hospital people hit Carol on purpose? Did she get hit on purpose to find Beth?
4) Why were all those zombies just hanging out in sleeping bags?
5) These people have been walking around for years. Why haven’t they made it out of Georgia yet?
Did you watch tonight’s episode? Do you have any random comments or questions? Feel free to share!
WARNING: GRRR! ARGH! SPOILERS!! BRAINS!
We didn’t get to see what is going on with Carol at the hospital but a major plot bomb was dropped tonight – we learned that Eugene was in fact, full of crap. He was a mullet wearing doofus in shorts who claimed to be on a mission to get to Washington, D.C. to use his scientific mind to bring about a cure to the zombie apocalypse. There was an ongoing question of – is he lying? Is he for real? Does he have a zombie cure? Is he full of crap?
Turns out he was full of crap and ended up getting a severe beat-down by Abraham, so much so that it pretty much looks like he’s dead but we’ll have to find out next week.
We learned more about Abraham’s character – that he lost his family and was about to give it all up when Eugene recruited him for his fake mission (i.e. claiming to be a scientist that needed to get to DC but in reality was just a coward conning people into taking him to DC because he thought that would be the safest location).
It has been a pretty captivating season of The Walking Dead – what thoughts do you have on this zombie-tastic series?
After a hiatus, Beth returned to tonight’s Walking Dead with an all Beth episode.
WARNING – GRR ARGH ZOMBIE SPOILERS AHEAD
Beth wakes up in a hospital in Atlanta. To borrow Talking Dead’s term, she’s been “save-napped.” A hospital operated by police officers and one remaining doctor (he conspires to get another doctor killed for his own job security, so to speak) have saved her but now they expect her to work in indentured servitude until she works off her debt. In other words – there is no safe refuge in the Walking Dead. Woodbury, Terminus, now the Hospital – they’re all run by someone evil and they all abuse their subjects.
Guinea pigs for dinner, a pervert police officer gets his come-uppance, Beth and a fellow captive, Noah (played by that kid from Everybody Hates Chris) make an escape attempt but Beth gets caught.
At the very end of the episode, Carol is admitted as a patient. The history of the show tells us that Carol won’t put up with this crap.
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In conclusion, GRR! ARGH! BRAINS!
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In honor of the Simpsons Marathon on FXX, “Every Simpsons Ever!” I’m posting the following filmography of everyone’s favorite Hollywood hack, Troy McClure. Voiced by the late, great Phil Hartman, the character was a mockery of celebrities who have fallen from stardom and are forced to take part in lame projects they view as beneath them. In Troy’s case, he was always featured in some movie, film, TV special that was incorporated into the Simpsons’ plot and he’d introduce himself by saying, “Hi I’m Troy McClure! You might remember me from such films as…” and then he’d go on to list two hilariously titled films.
Without further ado:
Hi! I’m Troy McClure! You might remember me from…
1) …such films as “Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die” and “Gladys the Groovy Mule.”
2)…such educational films as “Smoke Yourself Thin!” and “Get Some Confidence, Stupid!”
3) …such films as “The Greatest Story Ever Hula-ed” and “They Came to Burgle Carnegie Hall!”
4) …such driver education films as “Alice’s Adventures through the Windshield Glass” and “The Decapitation of Larry Leadfoot.”
5) …such cartoons as “Christmas Ape” and “Christmas Ape Goes to Summer Camp”
6) …such educational films as “Lead Paint: Delicious But Deadly” and “Here Comes the Metric System!”
7) …such Fox Network Specials as “Alien Nose Job” and “The Five Fabulous Weeks of the Chevy Chase Show!”
8) …such telethons as “Out with Gout 88” and “Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House”
9) …such films as “P is for Psycho” and “The President’s Neck is Missing”
10) …such TV spinoffs as “Son of Sanford and Son” and “After Mannix.”
There’s plenty more where that came from. What’s your favorite Troy McClure movie title? Or, for that matter, what’s your favorite Simpsons quote?
Yo Mr. White! This post has SPOILERS, bitch!!!
First thing to understand about showbiz people is that they are, in fact, businessmen (and women).
Imagine you open a yogurt store. For the first year or two, you suffer as you try to get it off the ground. Your yogurt stinks for awhile until you find the perfect recipe. Your workers stink until you find the right employees. Your location stinks until you find the right place. Eventually, you turn a profit and become successful. You want to reinvest your profits. What do you do? Do you start a banana stand? Open a pizza shop? A drycleaner store?
No, you go with what has worked for you – you open another yogurt stand.
And that’s why you see Fast and Furious 7, Transformers 4, Spiderman Reboot, Star Wars 7 and so on. Movies and TV shows cost money and the showbiz types want to put their money in tried and true products. That’s why somewhere in the world a fabulous heart wrenching movie script is lying in a drawer somewhere, never to be produced while 95 Jump Street will be out before you know it.
Better Call Saul is an upcoming spin off of the mega-hit show Breaking Bad, starring Walter White’s hilariously sleazy lawyer Saul Goodman, played Bob Odenkirk. On Breaking Bad, Saul provided much needed comic relief to an otherwise serious show, but can he carry a whole series on his own? I have my doubts, but then again, I don’t have any doubts about the people behind Breaking Bad so if they’re behind this, then I will be too.
The latest news is that the character of Walter White will appear on the show – that the show will take place before, during, and after Breaking Bad. I am worried that if the show tanks, it might devalue the whole Breaking Bad brand. Breaking Bad is a masterpiece – you don’t make a Mona Lisa Part II.
I suppose this is one of those things where we’ll just have to wait and see.
Are there SPOILERS ahead?
Oh yah’, you betcha’ young fella.’
I just finished the last episode of this season’s Fargo on FX. All I can say is, “Wow.”
When I first heard that a Fargo TV show was in the works, I hated the idea. The Fargo film is such a classic and so self-contained that it did not seem like it would be possible to improve onto it or add to it. If you haven’t seen it, you should. The movie follows a scheme by a wimpy, chronically disrespected car salesman played by William H. Macy to stage a fake kidnapping of his wife in order to extort money from his overbearing father-in-law. The kidnappers, one of them played by Steve Buscemi in what I recall to be one of the best performances of his early career, botch things up miserably and well, tragedy ensues. The evildoers are eventually rounded up by unlikely hero Margie, an exceptionally pregnant police officer. Throughout the movie, much fun is poked at the ways of the Northern Midwest, the overly polite manners of the people there, and their tendency to speak in pseudo-Scandanavian accents – “Oh yah,’ dontch’a know?”
Naturally, the Fargo TV series did capture some of the film’s themes. There’s a wimpy disrespected loser, Lester Nygaard, this time played by Martin Freeman. There’s a female police officer, played by Allison Tolman, but she doesn’t get pregnant until the end. Further homages to the film are made here and there, but for the most part, this is not an attempt to remake the movie so much as to tell another crime story set in the greater Fargo area.
The show becomes increasingly shocking – especially towards the end – the Las Vegas elevator scene and the scene where Lester sends his second wife into the shop, well, I’ll let you watch for yourself, but those scenes left my jaw scraping the floor.
I did worry that casting Key and Peele as two bumbling FBI agents might turn the whole show into a joke, but oddly enough, it did work.
Overall, a great show. FX continues to set the bar high in bringing quality entertainment.
…it’s in a book…take a look…a reading rainbow.
I loved this show when I was a kid, and now Geordi LaForge has used his special Star Trek powers to travel back in time and bring back the show through a kickstarter campaign. Please support his efforts by clicking below:
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