Saturday, February 24, 2007

Monday... How I Met Your Mother... Ep. 2-16... "Stuff"

From TV.com: Lily gets asked to be in a play. Robin discovers the source of a lot of Ted's stuff and Ted discovers the source of Robin's dogs. They have a fight and ask the rest of the gang to rule on the matter.

Ted: Oh my god, Van Helsing is on. Remember when we went to see it? We sat in the back row...
Robin: I've never seen Van Helsing.
Ted: Oh that's right, I saw it with my sister.

Robin: My boss just got back from Maui, he said it was really romantic.
Ted: Oh, it's so romantic.
Robin: When were you in Maui?
Ted: I went... with... Robin (joining in): my sister!
Robin: Why do you always say that?

Lily: Hot off the presses!
Barney: I don't take flyers.
Marshall: You took one two seconds before you walked in here!
Barney: That's different, it was for a strip club. Two bucks off wings! How much is your flyer gonna save me on wings?

Ted: Really? You can't look at a pillow without seeing my ex girlfriend? A pillow!?
Robin: Yes, Ted, the fact that you still have that pillow is creepy and gross!
Ted: You're creepy and gross!
Robin: Your mom is creepy and gross!
Lily: Order! Order!

Barney: I side with Robin. Ted, your place is too cluttered. It's like you're living in a Bennigan's.

Ted, 2023 (Narration): New York is famous for its theatre. But there's many different levels. There's Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off Broadway, homeless people screaming in the park, and below that, the play Aunt Lily was in.

Actor 1: I am rage!
Actor 2: I am greed!
Lily: I am rage - ENVY!

Lily: If you were in a play, I'd sit through the whole thing and I'd compliment you on it afterward.
Barney: Oh really, you would?
Lily: Yes!
Barney: Bad move, Aldrin. Bad move.

Robin: Oh my God, you've been robbed!
Ted: Nope.
Robin (pauses): All that stuff was from old girlfriends? Don't you buy anything for yourself?
Ted: What can I say? Papa gets swag.

Lily: He's really having trouble dealing with this, huh?
Robin: Yeah, he really is. It's got me thinking maybe I should get rid of my dogs. Might be time to send them to the farm.
Lily: You're going to kill your dogs?!
Robin: No! there really is a farm! My aunt has a farm upstate.

Robin: My aunt is awfully lonely up there, it's just her and her lover Betty.
Lily: Oh that's perfect, they love dogs!
Robin: "They," what do you mean by "they?"
Lily: Uh... people upstate - Oh look it's starting! Shh!

Barney: Moist. Moist. Moist. Moist.
Ted 2023 (Narration): That was the first 40 minutes of Barney's show. Then we endured about 20 minutes of this.
[Barney shoots Lily with a water gun]
Barney: I have to go refill. I'll be back in a moment - play's not over!
Marshall: I never get picked for audience participation.

Sunday... The Simpsons... Ep. 18-13... "Springfield Up"

Quotes.

Young Homer: I will be rich! I'll own a football team and a basketball team and I'll make them play baseball!

Wiggum: And here we are in now-times! As you can see, I've gotten everything i've ever wanted.
Lou (quietly): Except pants that fit.
Wiggum: I told you that if I let you in this movie, you couldn't make fun of me.
Lou: I'm not makin fun of you, I'm makin fun of your pants!
Wiggum: How'd you like if it I made fun of your pants?
Lou: Go ahead.
Wiggum: they're a little uh, th-they..Oh, they're perfect.

Desmond: Don't look at me, look at the camera.
Young Homer: Got it.
Desmond: I said look at the camera.
Young Homer: No problem. (looks down)
Desmond: Now you're looking at a mud puddle. That's your hand. That's the production accountant, that's your other hand! Do you even know what a camera is?
Young Homer: Gah, of cour-No.

Desmond: Are you two considering children?
20s Homer: Puh, kids? No way. You'll never see a couple of rugrats tying me down!
Homer (8 years later): You better not put this shot after the one where I said I won't have kids. That would be a devastating edit.

Desmond: You win, Homer. I guess there's no way I can embarrass you any further.
Caption: Barely literate, Smells like feet.

Young Moe: Oh crap, my first kiss.
Young Comic Book Guy: You could do a lot worse, my friend.

Desmond: Homer Jay Simpson, your fabulous millionaire lifestyle is all a lie!
Lisa (coming in the room): Oh, Father. My pony Buttercup can jump ever so high! -- Ooh boy, it's Mr. Burns!

Burns: I've heard enough. Release the hounds.
Smithers: Uh sir, your hounds are still at the winter house.
Burns: Well, bring them over in that Du-rango.

Homer: All these years I was dreaming of other things, I was actually doing what I really wanted! Hanging out with my family, drinking with my friends, making friends with my family and hanging with my drinking.

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Thursday... American Idol... Season 6, Results Show I

Before it begins, I'd like to re-visit my predictions. I actually don't think that Phil Stacey will be voted out. He did finish well and closed out the show, so I think he may get more votes because of that. I'm allowing myself to change my elimination vote from Phil to Rudy Cardenas.

More to come... LIVE!

  • Randy - "It's a girl's race to lose."
  • Paula looks "not drunk" again.
  • Simon agrees, the guys didn't stand out.
  • Bunch of guest judges or performers this year, including J-Lo, G-Stef and T-Ben.

Aaaand here comes another way-too-long recap. Haley wasn't great either. I won't be shocked if she goes tonight.

Why would Simon accuse Seacrest of trying to date Alaina if he is so gay?

Group song! Tears For Fears - The Seeds of Love
  • Fix your hat, Phil. Doolittle looks like she just threw some clothes on after rolling out of bed.
  • Not bad overall. I'd download that version.

More to come...

The votes are in! But we have another 45 minutes or so to sit through.

Chris loves Simon. Paula almost vomits in disgust.

And here we go...
  • Brandon (one of my top guys) is safe.
  • Sundance is safe.
  • Chris Richardson is safe (ugh).
  • Vote for (Nick) Pedro is safe.
  • Blake (my #1 guy) is safe.
  • Paul Kim is out. I am 1 for 1.

Oh yeah, I forgot the eliminated get to sing again. What if all reality shows did this? "Mike, you've been voted off Survivor Island. Before you go, please complete all your challenges again. We'll wait."

Here come the girls in the back row...
  • Jordin Sparks is safe.
  • Stephanie (my #2) is safe.
  • Sabrina (my #1) is "the one to beat" and safe.
  • Leslie Hunt is safe.
  • Doolittle is safe.
  • Antonella (who I picked to leave) is safe. I'm 1 for 2.

Ooh, Amy comes up alone and goes home. I am possibly now 2 for 2. But I doubt they'd call Antonella back out there, so I'm probably 2 for 3.

Did she just ask the band if she should start now, or am I hearing things?

More to come...

Paul and Amy are gone, so I'm calling myself 2 for 2 right now, since there is the slight possibility Antonella was only safe from the first elimination.

Wow, the easiest trivia in history. I'll go enter for free online. BRB.

Fantasia is performing. Jebus her mouth is HUGE. Don't swallow the microphone, Fanny! My eyes and ears hurt. I think I'll go do something else.

More to come...

More girls...
  • Someone was safe and I didn't hear who. Haley, I think. Yeah, her.
  • Lakisha is safe. (duh)
  • Gina Glocksen is safe. Simon almost looked nervous with his face in his hands. Or maybe he's bored.
  • Alaina and Nicole are left, neither of whom got good feedback.
  • Alaina is.... safe. Nicole is out, and I'm officially at best 2 for 3.

You know, I almost picked her, but I think she is very similar looks-wise to Amy and I didn't expect them both to go home. Plus, I thought she was better than at least four girls. So I went with Antonella. Hey, if you consider Leslie a redhead, we're now out of blonde girls! That was quick. Wow, I wrote that whole paragraph mistakingly thinking Alaina left.

Aw, who is going to watch the series finale of the OC? Me neither.

Time is tight, Ryan Let's go!
  • Chris Sligh is funny, and safe.
  • Phil is second, so he won't leave. Good thing I changed my vote. He's safe.
  • Jared is safe, and not the Subway guy.
  • Simon still looks bored, or sick.
  • AJ is safe.
  • Sanjaya or Rudy will be leaving. One is in the top 4. Wow. I bet the girls like Sanjaya.
  • Rudy is going home! What a good trade-up I did. This makes me 3 for 4 overall on the week.

I love when Paula gets all lovey, saying Rudy has one of the best vocals and Simon is just like "No." Obviously he's right lady, he is leaving. She wants to go give rudy some huggles and kissies.

Is this a Daughtry song in the background? Let's all cheer for no more "Bad Day"!

In summary -
My picks: Paul, Amy, Rudy, Antonella
Who left?: Paul, Amy, Rudy, Nicole.

Monday... Heroes... Ep. 1-16... "Unexpected"

You know what was "Unexpected?" Stan Lee only getting about 3 seconds of TV-time.

Anyway, it's begun: Just as I thought, Sylar is going to just follow Suresh around and kill all these people, then act like "oh man, that sucks, let's go." Suresh is a smart guy, doesn't it come off the least bit strange to him that all of a sudden Sylar (Zane) is getting these bad headaches when they find the woman dead? And when he mentiones Sylar, he's really curious to learn more.

Well, I thought Ando was going to be the one to die, as I figured it would be one of the "Heroes." Plus, I thought I read something about Hiro losing someone he cares for. But I guess they just meant since Ando was kidnapped by Missi Pyle, or when Hiro tells Ando to go home. Turns out it's just Simone who dies. Interesting way to do it though, having Isaac do it while trying to shoot Peter. I read that Simone does in fact die, so Peter must not have contracted any kind of healing power. She never really brought anything to the table for me anyway, so I'm not crying over it.

I had to look up why people keep referring to Claire's dad as "HRG." I guess it means Horn-Rimmed Glasses. Boy, that's really lame. I don't think it's one of those fan-made names though because I've seen it mentioned in more official recaps and episode previews. They are doing a good job with him, though. I actually am on the fence on if I believe he is trying to protect his family. I think he might be, but he's just so obsessed with learning about the people with powers that he's making a lot of mistakes. But considering they knew Sylar was the bad guy, I guess I can believe HRG (I can't believe I'm typing that...) is probably more good than evil. But he may have his own motives.

We might find out, since now Matt and the two newest Heroes are in his house and have guns pointed at him and his family. I thought Matt tried to read his mind before and failed, so I'm not sure how they're going to figure anything out...

Tuesday/Wednesday... American Idol... Top 24 Perform

I think we Idol watchers were spoiled in the first season with the runaway favorites. Kelly and Tamyra were just that good. I think if this were the first season and this was the same 24, the viewing audience might be closer to that of Dancing with the Stars. The guys weren't good and the girls were only better by comparison. As I was watching Stephanie start out the show on Wednesday, I made a comment to my girlfriend predicting Randy would say something like "The girls are ON TONIGHT!" As the show went on, it was clear they really weren't. Although at the end, in comparison to the guys, I believe Randy might have said they did have it "going on," or "brought it down" or something like that.

Ryan accused Simon of being more negative Tuesday night, but was he? Randy called a lot of the performances rough, and Paula was more often making comments about picking the right song or taking/not taking risks. Simon just happens to be more blunt about it, and makes more references to weddings/theme parks/ etc.

Speaking of Ryan and Simon, their bickering used to be fun. Now, it's just painful. It's as if Ryan wants to have more of it and Simon, rightfully so, is bored with it. And Ryan is becoming RUDE. "Thanks to Randy and Paula, the band, and you, America." Wow, we get it. I actually hope that GLAAD finally makes a formal complaint because of all the gay-bashing they joke around with.


If I gotta pick my top three favorite girls and guys right now, I guess I will.

1. Sabrina Sloan
2. Stephanie Edwards
3. No clue. Lakisha was good, but we've kind of already seen a variation of her a few times, and she never seems to win. She is from Michigan though. So, represent.

I wish I thought Leslie Hunt was a better singer. Gina Glocksen, the funnest name to say this year, might become my #3 if she does well next week.

1. Blake Lewis
2. Chris Sligh (he looked a little awkward on stage though)
3. Brandon Rogers

Sabrina was right, there are too many ballads and hopefully some of the guys will do something different next week, and maybe I'll update my list.

I don't think I'll make my season-long predictions until they narrow it down to the Final 12. But this is probably going to be one of the worst final 12 they've had. I fear it may come down to "who I can stand" between the final 2, kind of like how I was rooting for Diana DeGarmo in Season 3 (Fantasia went on to make such hits as .... her life story in a TV movie). Wow... looking back, I don't see a lot back then either. I was a Jasmine fan.

My picks for the elimination... Simon warned me that the performances wouldn't be memorable, so I'm having a hard time remembering who was bad enough to go. So I guess I'll have to make my picks more on the random side.

Guys to be eliminated: Paul Kim, Phil Stacey. Although, Rudy and Sundance may have been worse than those two. Chris Richardson might have been my least favorite performance, though.

Girls to be eliminated: Antonella Barba, Amy Krebs. I guess. I don't have the highlights to wath back right now. So, there you have it.

Monday, February 19, 2007

Monday... 24... Ep. 6-10... "3:00 PM-4:00 PM"

Family members are just so easy.

Jack's dad, "Dad" has who is possibly Jack's son "Josh", but is also Marilyn's son and maybe Graem's son, who is Jack's brother and of course, Jack's father's son. Jack's mom is nowhere to be found. I wonder what Jack's father's mother thinks of all this; She didn't raise no fool.

Usually kids act really calm or really scared. Josh is somewhere in between. It's as if his notes were "act as if you don't know what's going on, but you just want to go play video games."

Meanwhile, Morris goes from wanting to do his job to freaking out about being the cause of more bombs to binge "drinking" (I didn't metabolize!). Then all of a sudden. he's completely fine. Let him go back to work, it's the best medicine. I wonder where his Red Bull went. Combine those with Altoids? Oh boy. Good thing Chloe will keep her eye on him. As will Milo. You can count on some interesting banter from those two!

Milo (CTU is full of cat-like names) got shot and looks almost worse than Morris, and he got a drill through the arm plus a bit of water torture. Plus, Morris has that cool bald head and you can see the big bruise. I think it's obvious who the bigger man is. Damn right, it's Chloe.

President Principal Robin Wood is about to be kiiiilllled! Where's Buffy when you need her?

John Cage (I mean Tom Lennox!) took a nasty gun to the head and doesn't look any worse for wear, besides being passed out cold, of course. Should have seen it coming, Rob Lowe's brother should never be trusted. But if that area was so safe for those two to talk in, how come he was able to hear Lennox make that phone call? It's not like he was across an open room like Josh was when he heard Daddy threaten Marilyn. Which is rule number one in holding a hostage, always go at least two rooms away! I guess he could have kept the door open, although I thought I saw Tom open it.

I like how they give Jack a nice long speech and zoom the camera in rreeeeaaallly close, and we're NOT supposed to expect Daddy to run away. I'm surprised that phone Jack found wasn't accompanied by a "I love you, son" note.

Ok, so who left the phone? Was it Logan himself? No, couldn't be. I don't know if Daddy would have left it, he could have just told him. At least Marilyn got away with Josh, but not before a nice moment with Jack that could have used some harp music. Aw, she touches his face, and he touches her hand with HIS MUTANT HAND! It's nice she is so quick to forgive him throwing her against the wall and choking her. He's got the balls (and the smarts) Graem never had. Love is in the air.