Did anyone else think the Ghost Hunters Halloween Countdown was lame? Let’s show reruns and highlight a new GH show starring Steve and Tango getting butch with a bunch of college students. LAME!
This is me watching GH's Halloween Special
The Ghost Adventures live show was much better even though the threesome couldn’t keep quiet to save their lives (or hear the dead).
Categories: Ghosts · T.V.
Tagged: Ghost Adventures, Ghost Hunters, Halloween, T.V., television
…but the results are funny. For your entertainment: Star Trek Meets Monty Python
Categories: Comedy · Film · T.V.
Tagged: Film, Monty Python, Star Trek, T.V.
Everytime this Ally Bank commercial is on I chuckle because of two reasons. One: I think the boy is adorable in a chunky sort of way. I love how he pushes down on the truck with all his might that one of his legs kicks back to give him more power. Just a kid unabashedly enjoying himself. Two: When the adult takes away his toy, the boy says under his breath, “I want the red truck.” Such a cool little act of defiance that I always say it outloud along with the boy.
Categories: T.V.
Tagged: Ally Bank, Commercial, T.V., television
Whenever I visit my folks it’s inevitable that we end up watching at least two episodes of, in my humble opinion, the worst t.v. show, Two and a Half Men. At the end of every episode I feel like I lost 30 minutes of my life. The dialogue is inane, every story has a sexual theme or subtheme that’s suppose to be funny and witty but just comes off as lame and immature.
Sorry for the little rant but everytime I see Two and a Half Men, I think of the t.v. show that’s aired a few times throughout the movie RoboCop. You know it’s a different episode but the show recycles the same punchline, “I’d buy that for a dollar!” And the movie’s baddies laugh hysterically everytime. Sheesh…has it come to this already?
Categories: T.V.
Tagged: T.V., television
Where’s my bailout?Every week, a different American-based industry: financial, auto, universities (are they an industry?) and now porn (they need a HAND?), asks Congress this same question. How can screw-up companies get away with a government rescue?
Sometime screw-ups happen to us through no fault of our own. Sometimes we need to take the blame for screw-ups. But we, as individuals, have come to expect a bailout when we screw up.
Where am I going with this?
I started thinking about the bailout culture when I saw a bailout connection between three of my current, fave reality t.v. shows.
Show #1: Clean House, Style Network
The Clean House crew help out a family/couple/individual with cleaning out the MASSIVE clutter that swamped the home. When I say MASSIVE, I mean MASSIVE. You wonder how one family/couple/person could collect so much crap that it’s impossible to walk through each room. The crew collects the items, sells it at a yard sale, and whatever cash is collected goes toward remodeling some of the rooms. The remodeling is pretty cool.
Screw-up: Sloth
Bailout/Reward: MASSIVE clutter is gone, new furniture, remodeled 2-3 rooms
Show #2: How Clean is Your Home, BBC America
Kim and Aggie are two British neat freaks out to clean up the UK (and now they are in the US). They help family/couple/individual clean their DISGUSTING abode. One episode featured an American woman, in her late-20s, who owned one cat. JUST ONE CAT. There was cat crap and throwup EVERYWHERE. She never cleaned her place in THREE YEARS. There was even cat crap on her bed. She explained that she grew up on a farm, so the crap didn’t bother her. Be amazed how a room can be transformed by JUST CLEANING IT.
Screw-up: Sloth (again!)
Bailout/Reward: Professional cleaning crew do their thing for the ENTIRE house. The cleaning operation would cost thousands.
Show #3: Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, BBC America
I’ve written about this show. Basically, UK’s top-chef/restaurateur Gordon Ramsay helps out an eatery (usually) on the verge of closing. The owner (usually) doesn’t know the first thing about running a restaurant. Gordon uses his expertise and well-worn phrasology to get the place back on track.
Screw-up: Ignorance
Bailout/Reward: A place, which should have closed due to incompetance due to owner ignorance, receives a FREE consultant (tops in his field) and, in the US version, the eatery receives a remodel and new sign.
Now that I think about it…I’ll convince Hubby to let the house go to pot. Clean House is looking for the messiest home in the country. We could get some new furniture… I don’t really want to work for it.
Categories: T.V. · culture
Tagged: Bailout, Clean House, How Clean is Your House, Kitchen Nightmares, T.V.
As you know, Hubby and I are all about Ghost Hunters on Wednesday nights and now our Friday nights are fully booked for Ghost Adventures on the Travel Channel. The title of this blog entry isn’t about Moe, Larry and Curly but about Ghost Adventurers: Zak, Nick and Aaron.
The new Three Stooges: Nick, Zak, Aaron
The premise of the show is that the Threesome get locked into a haunted house, asylum, Masonic Lodge, mine, etc., for a whole night without a camera crew following them. Each man carries his own video equipment. (TAKE THAT GHOST HUNTERS!!!) They do capture some neat paranormal evidence like shadow hands and EVPs that say “hello” and “die.” Cool stuff.
The real entertainment value of the show is the Ghost Adventurers themselves. Clearly the leader of the group is Zak (without the “c”). He’s loaded with lots of hair gel, tight fitting shirts, and a voice that rises at least two octaves when frightened, which happens at least once per episode. I fondly remember one incident when Zak (no “c”) provoked a spirit to attack him. Guess what? Zak (absolutely no ”c”) received a number of scatches on his lower back. Now, the really amusing part was his reaction. Zak (sans “c”) screamed, “Who did this to me?” in a whiny, six year old tone. He lifted his body hugging shirt numerous times to show off his scratches and well developed abs. Love it!
Nick follows Zak’s (too cool for ”c”) lead and usually loses it during investigations. It was fun watching him run from a haunted bathroom looking as if he just wet his pants. In a recent episode his buddies placed Nick in an insane asylum morgue drawer to see if a spirit of a previous inhabitant would contact him. So poor Nick is locked in a container designed for dead bodies (ie. no need for air holes) while the other two stooges investigated elsewhere. It’s nearly an hour later when the two stooges realized they left poor Nick in an airtight space and they themselves were lost. Great T.V.
Aaron is blessed with a face fit for radio. He doesn’t get a whole lot of airtime but I’m sure that we will see more of him in the future. (One can only hope.)
Of the two paranormal shows, I still love Ghost Hunters best mostly because they are professional. Though to their credit, Ghost Adventures is way more hilarious. To find out for yourselves, GA is on the Travel Channel Friday nights at 9 p.m. with an encore presentation following at 10 p.m.
Categories: T.V.
Tagged: Ghost Adventures, T.V., Travel Channel
A few months back I ranted that HBO turned the perfectly good drama, Rome, into a porn fest by season 2. They’ve done the same thing to my beloved Sookie Stackhouse series. Let me explain…
Charlaine Harris has written a wonderful series of books (8 at last count) based around telepath, Sookie Stackhouse. Sookie lives in Bon Temps, LA and her world is much like ours except that vampires have come out from the dark. A Japanese pharmaceutical company developed synthetic blood, Tru Blood, which has made sucking on the necks of humans (and potentially killing them in the process) obsolete. Or has it?
Along the way vampire politics, werewolves, fairies and shapeshifters flesh out the Sookie Stackhouse world. Yes, she has adult romances and you can’t have vampires and werewolves inhabiting the same universe and not have violence. I’ve read through the series (which I would rate as PG-13) twice and eagerly anticipate each new book. I slap down hard earned cash for the new hard cover edition. There’s no way I can wait for the paperback.
When hearing there was going to be a series based on the books, I was genuinely interested and then I heard it was to be on HBO as True Blood. Damn.
Anna Paquin, of X-Men fame, plays Sookie and she’s o.k. But what the producers have done to the characters…YUCK. In keeping with HBO tradition, the very first scene in the first episode is a sex scene, as graphic as you can get on cable without it being a Playboy production. Come on! I know when adapting a book to screen some changes are necessary but they have characters sleeping with each other who don’t do so in the book. All the characters do is talk about sex and engage in sex. There is so much cool supernatural stuff from the books to keep the series engaging without the raunchy crap. (And the swear words would make Gordon Ramsay blush.) To me this shows a complete lack of talent on the part of the writers and producers.
I watched two episodes praying it would get better but 20 minutes into the third episode, I shut it off. As I mentioned before, the book series is PG-13 but the cable series is R bordering on X. Thanks HBO for ruining another drama.
Categories: T.V.
Tagged: Charlaine Harris, HBO, Sookie Stackhouse, T.V., True Blood
Maybe because I’m getting older or maybe it’s because I wake up at 4:15 a.m. at least three days a week for work, but I find it very difficult to stay up to 9 p.m. I don’t know if you’ve noticed the same trend as I, but it seems everything interesting on t.v. doesn’t start until 9 p.m.
For example, I remember watching the political conventions as a kid…while doing the dishes. Believe me, I wasn’t doing them at 9 p.m. But yet, the DNC and RNC presidential nominee speeches did not begin until 10 p.m. If it wasn’t for the fact that I had the next day off, there was no way I could have watched the Palin RNC speech. Though I’m eager to see tonight’s 9 p.m. Palin/Biden debate, I’m not sure if I can physically do it.
And forget about the new Ghost Hunters episodes at 9 p.m. I haven’t seen a new episode since September 3. But I blame Sci Fi Channel for that. From 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. they show GH reruns and the last three weeks all the reruns were the “duds.” If they showed the St. Augustine Lighthouse episode (the BEST episode EVER) repeatedly for two hours, I would stay up. Seriously!
I say: BOLLOCKS TO THE WEST COAST. I want to watch what I want to watch AND get to bed by 9 p.m. (Or maybe I should get another job…that’s a thought. )
We're Romans. It's good to be us!
About a year ago I netflixed season 1 of the HBO series, Rome. It begins in the months leading up to Julius Caesar’s murder. (You know… “Et tu, Brute?”) and focuses on the power struggles between two patrician families. There is another story line showcasing the life of lower and middle class Romans in the characters of two veteran imperial soldiers. Mark Antony, Brutus and Cleopatria are thrown in for good measure.
I enjoyed season 1 though there were the obligatory sex scenes and duplicitous goings on. I did like seeing how Rome was a grimy place and all the cultural (“Yes, Domine”) and religious depictions. So the series ended with Caesar lying on the floor of the Senate. GREAT DRAMA!
Last week I popped in the season 2 DVD. Caesar was still lying on the floor of the Senate. How are the patricians and plebes going to react to the Emperor’s demise? The stuff of GREAT DRAMA, right?
The first episode quickly degenerated into one foul mouthed speech after another. Mark Antony was spreading his seed into any female that walked onto the set. Romans were being sliced in the stomach, neck or any appendage that got in the way. I’m not a prude but I couldn’t stand watching it. Even Hubby was shaking his head.
Sorry to say I’ll be sending back the DVDs sight unseen. It’s disappointing to be unsophisticated enough to “get” the language, sex and violence. So to all you readers (all five of you), “Forewarned is Forarmed.”
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