I think the Scrubs musical was pretty awesome and had a good reason for it. Maybe I’ll check out the Buffy one some time even though I’ve never really properlly watched the show. I never had much opportunity to.

Well this week’s Supernatural didn’t just break the 4th wall, it raped then obliterated it. It probably broke it more than anything else has ever done in the history of ever. It was pretty cool and funny though.

And Victor. Victor was awesome.

I just watched those two episodes. Wow. They brought me to tears. Multiple times, too.

I agree with your comments about it, Sly. Considering how great season 2 was, it’s disappointing how underrated it is.

I’m horribly addicted to 24.

Nickelodeon is supposed to start showing their old ’90s shows. If this happens, I will be so happy.

I have a soft spot for Charmed. Drew Fuller is my favorite actor in that show. And his character Chris is my favorite. He brought so many awesome plot twists to the show. In my opinion he deserves some sort of recognition for that role.

Gah, hate to double post, but my parents were watching Matlock and when I walked through the room I recognized a very young Gabriel! squee!

I finished the first season of Friday Night Lights, and it was fucking awesome. Watch it.

That is a most excellent emoticon, Marquis. The ASCII representation of the unhappy version of the rageface guy, I presume?

Oh, it does kinda look a bit like Y U NO. A mix of the two, perhaps?

I don’t have iTunes, but it’s in my Neflix queue.

All five seasons of The Wire are available for purchase on iTunes for $12.99 each. Check it out, you mopes.

I’ve resolved to get all seasons from the library and go on a binge after AP exams…it’s going to be great.

You know you’re a nerd when your reward for yourself after thinking really hard is to think even harder.

But this will be fun thinking!

Seriously though, if you can stick with it through the first couple episodes, it turns into something beautiful(or rather, it’s already something beautiful, but you start being able to see it)... unless you’re one of the few who loves it from the outset, which is rare.

Don’t worry, I have a high level of patience when it comes to these kind of things, especially if I know it’s going to get good. Your waxing poetic on this show for months has convinced me that I’ll have to stick with it. :)

Still, I’m excited for you!

And I’m excited for myself. I need some good TV, and even GoT will be coming on only once a week. Everything I watch now is…kind of stupid.

Don’t worry, I have a high level of patience when it comes to these kind of things, especially if I know it’s going to get good.

Well, it’s actually really good from the outset, you just aren’t really trained on how to watch it. Usually somewhere around the 4th or 5th episode is where it clicks for most people. There’s a chess scene in one of the first couple episodes you can easily read as being about the show talking about itself and its own learning curve. It’s a better game than checkers, if you know the rules.

Your waxing poetic on this show for months has convinced me that I’ll have to stick with it. :)

Kid, you haven’t even begun to see me wax poetic about this show. I can’t truly slobber over its greatness without making references to specific events, and I don’t want to spoil anything for anybody.

I’ve been trying to find episodes to watch so I can figure it out for myself, but I haven’t had much luck yet. (then again, I haven’t really tried to look much yet) I don’t get it either. Maybe it gets better later on?

Timmy Time… a new jewel I’ve found! ^^

HOOOOOOOOOOT!! Hoot hoot hoot, hoot hoot, hooot!! Hoot hoot hoooot, hoot hoot hoooot hooooot hooot! Hooot-hoot-hoot-hoot-hoot-hoot… puffs Hoot! XP

This is owl-speech, by the way. XP

Timmy Time… a new jewel I’ve found! ^^

Timmy Time is one of the greatest TV shows known to humanity.

So apparently, Dan Schneider watches The Wire.

Ahahahaha. What the fuck is that doing there? I mean, it’s awesome, but it’s such a strange place to find a Wire reference, and an apparently well-executed one no less.

I approve.

I’m starting to poop out on Battlestar Galactica about halfway through season 3. I’m really getting tired of hearing about everyone’s marriage problems. I want some PLOT, people, not an exhaustive account of all your little personal problems.

launches into counterpitch for The Wire

Seriously though, it doesn’t get bogged down in that shit too much, because once romantic relationships in The Wire hit the skids, they hit the skids.

I’m starting to poop out on Battlestar Galactica about halfway through season 3. I’m really getting tired of hearing about everyone’s marriage problems. I want some PLOT, people, not an exhaustive account of all your little personal problems.

Yeah, S3 is the point where everybody just kind of tuned out. S4, while polarizing, is kind of a return to form.

I’ve been watching Psych with my little sister every now and again when I visit home. With anyone other than my sister, I don’t think I would enjoy it much. But she makes half the funnies, so it’s hilarious. XD

Oh, good, finally someone I know is into My Little Pony. Now I have someone to ask what is wrong with you people. Because for the life of me, I just don’t get it.

Maybe I’ll have to look it up myself… :D

Well.

Okay, so maybe I’ll consider looking it up.

(I actually have enjoyed a few episodes of Powerpuff Girls. It didn’t always Taste Like Diabetes, and that’s a good thing.)

Huh. That’s pretty good, actually. That’s why I hate most “girly” stuff, because honestly, “boy” stuff is so much more interesting.

GoT comes out Sunday!

It needs to lose the laugh track. I didn’t mind it at first, but after a couple dozen episodes I could recognize the same laugh in the “audience” playing over and over and over. I didn’t find it all that amazing as a whole, but there were a few gem episodes. Also, Barney is by far the best character in the show.

Oh shit son, new Community tonight(and every Thursday until the season finale). Let me again remind everybody that you should be watching this show, and if you don’t like it your taste sucks and I hate you and so does my pretend girlfriend Alison Brie.

Also, bully for a The Wire reference in a front-paged Cracked article today.

YOU WANT IT TO BE ONE WAY, BUT IT’S THE OTHER WAY

I started American Gods last summer, but I stopped. I couldn’t get into it. I will try again at some point.

My little brother wants to watch Game of Thrones. Awww…but no. We let him watch How I Met Your Mother (sometimes) and That 70’s Show, but GoT is in another league.

However, I am very excited for the premiere tonight…just have to figure out how I’m going to watch it.

Now that’s a problem.

I really do want to see the luscious eye-candy sets in HD, but I think I may have to settle for using HBOGo. Unfortunate, since my computer is at least five years old and the screen is really crappy.

^ This.

Oh, and I watched it with my roommates. Two new fans.

I don’t think I’ll be able to watch it on the big screen with my family around. :/

Probably not, considering I’ve heard the pilot referred to as “A Song of Tits and Ass.” It wasn’t far off, either.

Also I started this My Little Pony Marquis was talking about. What is this I don’t even

Heh. So what’s your opinion on it thus far? You must tell us.

I thought it was something to do with child pornography laws…even if the kids aren’t involved in any sex scenes, I guess just being in a production with sex/nudity/violence puts some restrictions. Also, older actors tend to be easier to work with for obvious reasons.

GRRM’s gone on record as saying that he wished he hadn’t made most of the kids so young, so I’d guess the changes have his approval. As I understand it, he’d originally planned to have more time pass(via timeskips and things of that nature) and wanted the kids to start out young and get older as more important stuff happened, but then ended up not doing that once he actually started writing. I don’t mind it at all, personally.

Also, it makes Dany spending half her screentime naked markedly less disgusting, but that’s pretty obvious.

Also, it makes Dany spending half her screentime naked markedly less disgusting, but that’s pretty obvious.

Yeah, I was fine with her being older and knew the reason. I find it really icky that all the people on the IMDb boards are saying that the actress isn’t hot enough (or they were before the first episode aired) because Dany is supposed to be a raving beauty or somesuch. And then someone commented that people would probably like her better after she did some nudity.

...This is creepy. The book character is thirteen/fourteen in the first book. And even in the show,

I’m not bothered by her eyebrows, but I have seen a lot of people bitching about them, as well as her eyes. Some people really do have eyebrows that are lighter than their hair. My cousin is blonde naturally (she dies her hair brown), but she has dark eyebrows.

Heh. So what’s your opinion on it thus far? You must tell us.

It’s certainly better than I expected it to be. I’m not sure that I’m ready to call myself a brony yet or anything. You can definitely see the PPG-esque sensibilities, although PPG blew my mind when it premiered, so I don’t think that’s the fairest comparison. MLP is certainly better than I expected it to be.

Funniest GoT joke name I’ve seen on the internet today?

Also, it’s been renewed for a second season already. Huzzah!

Just watched the pilot. I love how faithful they are to the book. Some of the characters aren’t quite what I imagined them to look like, but most of them are spot on.

I had planned on watching the episode today…but work is drowning me. I must wait until Friday, I suppose. :(

but I couldn’t read most of the names during it.

That was my main quibble about it.

That was my main quibble about it.

Yeah, I mean it was really pretty and cool-looking, but it seems like the main point of the intro should be to show who’s in the show. There a lot going on in the background, and that’s why the skinny gold font they chose was hard to see, but I know they could have made it where the intro was still good and the names were visible.

All this talk of Kansas City and Salina and I-70 and Knob Noster on the TV was highly unsettling.

That must be what people in New York and California feel like all the time.

We’re not that creepy. Honest.

Yes you are. I’ve been to Missouri dozens of times, and as soon as you cross state lines you’re set upon by hordes of zombies slobbering after that sweet, sweet crystal.

Well, in lighter news, tonight’s Community is supposed to involve Annie’s Boobs in some form or fashion. An appearance by Annie’s Boobs has never not been awesome, so I’m excited.

I’m disappointed it took John Hodgman that long to watch The Wire, as a pop culture buff. But yeah, he’s right, there’s a lot of similarities. Huge narrative scale, sprawling casts, no central protagonist, power politics, people constantly fucking each other over, the sense that things are always going to find a way to get worse. The Wire is better, of course, but a good chunk of that betterness is the restrictions inherent as TV as a medium requiring a higher level of craft to work… but they’re both great, so it’s really neither here nor there.

Anyway, tonight’s Community absolutely vaporized. I don’t think I’ve laughed harder at any half-hour comedy episode since some of Futurama’s original run classics.

I finally watched the first episode of Game of Thrones! It was quite good, but I feel that from this point forward, things will be getting more exciting. Dinklage was great as Tyrion especially.

My parents are watching the 2nd GoT episode without me. Methinks they are usurping my show.

Finally started series 5 of Doctor Who. Why don’t I like it very much? D:

Why don’t I like it very much?

Lack of:

I still don’t like 11 that much. He’s okay, but… eh. Also, they just ignore that he had a life before he was 11, except for River. He never mentions any of his other companions or anything. Series 6 premiere was pretty good, but I’m not a fan of premieres being cliffhangers.

@GoT
I liked this episode too. The kids’ acting is impressive.

Neither did any of the other Doctors really.

I wasn’t sure if they did or not because Rose was kind of a bridge between 9 and 10, and then 10 talked about Rose to Martha and Donna. I wasn’t sure if the regenerated Doctors talked about the people they knew before the regeneration or not. I would have actually liked a bridge companion between 10 and 11, but that’s a different complaint.

And if anything S5+ talks more about old Who than new Who – so no, they don’t ignore he had a life before Eleven, they just reference Nine and Ten less.

Oh, I didn’t know that. I’ve never seen the old Who, so that’s probably why. That’s not why I don’t like 11 that much anyway. I don’t really know why. I’m liking him a little better, I think.

The thing you referenced in that hidden text… yeah, the scene where that shows up in the Venice episode was in a preview for the fifth season, and… that was the moment when I was sold on Eleven.