So yesterday marked the end of the tailgating season for your's truly. Despite the Brewers questionable season (recap to come), the tailgating season was record setting.
In one word: Bolos and Beer (I know that's two words, but in a perfect world it would be one word).
For those of you who don't know what the Game of Kings, Bolos, is; check out this video:
Imagine that plus beer. Goodnight.
Also since last night was Sunday and that means a new episode of Mad Men , here is a funny clip:
This clip is funny if you hate people from Boston (check) It's funny if you watch Mad Men (check) It is really funny if you hate people from Boston and watch Mad Men (check, check)
I've blogged in the past about the lazy writing on many tv shows; when they can't think of anything else to do they kill of a major character. Then I blogged how many shows have brought back characters they either wrote off the show (CSI) or killed off and were somehow alive (24). Now there is a new trend on television, shape shifters. A shape shifter is one character on the show who transforms into another character and pretends they are this new character and no one knows it. It basically is like "jumping the shark" times 10.
Beware spoilers for the following shows will follow: Fringe, Lost, Heroes, and Desperate Housewives.
Last season with about 4 episodes remaining in the season for Heroes they gave the main bad guy the ability to shape shift and turn into any character he touches. They then had the creative freedom to do anything on the show. You never knew what was occuring on the show because you never knew if it was the real character, or this main bad guy. They decided that this would get out of hand so in the last episode of the season they made another character get into his head and stop this transforming. It ended with the main bad guy killing one of the main good guys and then transforming into him, but now his brain and memories of that old good guy. Basically the main bad guy now looks and acts like the main good guy. This is the plot they are going to follow this season.
Then on Lost you found out in the season finale that one of the main characters died a while ago and who you were actually watching was this presence on the island that transformed themself into this main character. (WTF?) So here you didn't even have any real clues to it, they explained it many episodes later what happened awhile ago off camera.
Then in the season premiere of Fringe they had one of the main FBI characters killed by this alien type creature and the alien turned into him but no one knows. They think the FBI guy killed the alien type thing, when it was the other way around. When showing previews of the season, they showed that most of the plot this season is going to revovle around this fact.
I am guess that this season on Desperate Housewives will we will find out that one of the lonely housewives is actually the pool boy who shape shifted into a 40 year old soccer mom to get closer to the other women.
It's as if all these Hollywood writers went to the same seminar on how to write for television. This year's topic: "Shape shifters: how to use a simple plot twist to confuse the audience and be able to write whatever you want."
Why can't tv stick to basic writing and character development. On the other hand I watched the season premiere of House and it was outstanding. It didn't even take place in the hospital and House was the only main character in it. It was still outstanding. It had character development, comedy, suspense, drama, sex, and you actually became engaged in the plot and could understand what was going on.
I know it's been a week since I have blogged, but I will crank out two tonight, and they will both be about your best friend, the television.
Some of you may have watched the Emmy's on Sunday, or you are like most Americans and your read on the Internet who won and it only took 3 minutes to read everything that took 3.5 hours on television.
The thing that stuck out to me is that the Emmy voters are getting very easy. Going into the award ceremony, about 75% of the nominees were the same as last year. The really lazy part comes in with the number of winners that were exactly the same as last year.
Mad Men won again for best drama (It is the best show on tv, so that makes sense I guess)
30 Rock won for best comedy, 3 times in a row. (It is funny, but I don't know if it has been the funniest for 3 years now.)
Daily Show for best variety show (now for 8 years in a row)
ALec Baldwin for best actor in a comedy'
Glenn Close for best actress in a drama
Bryan Cranston for best actor in a drama
An actor from Lost for best supporting actor in a drama (last year, John O'Terry and This year Michael Emerson)
Maybe its just a sad commentary that there really isn't anything on television, or that the Emmy voters are lazy and they just keep turning in last year's ballot.
So I was just at a meeting for about 3 hours nad I found out what is more annoying than someone leaving their phone on, someone who has their phone on vibrate and it goes off every 10 minutes for 3 hours straight. At this meeting we were first reminded to please turn off your phone and everyone checks (shouldn't your phone be off most times anyways?). Then throughout the meeting this same guy has his phone go off constantly every 10 minutes for the whole 3 hours. He never just turns it off (technically turning it to vibrate is not turning it off), nor does he check his phone to see if it is any kind of an emergency. On his phone, and with many people's phones, the vibrate is actually louder than a ringing. I literally almost jumped out of my seat, went to his spot, grabbed his phone, and smashed it against the wall. However, unlike George Costanzo who decides to do the opposite of everything and goes off on the guy in the movie theater, I did nothing.
Since my rival blogger has stopped regularly blogging and has thus deprived the world of "Fun With the Internets," here are a few random links that may put a smile on your face.
They should recreate every show from the 90s. Home Improvement has a lot more story to tell. Another Cheers that takes place in a trendy club, it writes itself.
I'm not ready to say I "miss"John Madden, but I fear I might before the end of the season. Chris Collinsworth has replaced Madden on NBC for Sunday night games. Tonight NBC has the first game, Steelers vs Titans. Colinsworth was talking about god l what for most of the game. At one point he was talking about Titans wide receiver Nate Washington and made an interesting (stupid) observation.
He said Washington has a bright future and reminds a lot of people of Plexico Burress. WTF? Bright future and Plexico in the same sentence? If Washington reminds people of Plexico does that mean he is a piece of s**t that received exams in college that already had the correct answers, will barely try on the field, and will eventually shoot himself in the leg.
Great football insight Collinsworth, can't wait for other gems this season.
I realize that I could start almost every blog post that way, but this really got me angry enough to wish my wife would drop those charges so I would be allowed to go buy a gun.
The television death trap known as Fox has started a new gimmick that I hope doesn't turn into a trend. They call it "tweet-peat." When they play a rerun of a show they don't just play it, they play it again with a twitter feed running on the bottom of the screen so you can seen every asine thing those high schoolers have to say while watching the show. They have already done it last week and this week with House, Fringe, and Glee. I tried watching House and it was so terribly distracting, I wasn't able to enjoy Dr. House's cynicism nearly as much and had to turn. If this catches on I will have to shoot someone.
In honor of this great country and freedom, and not having to work on Monday (and getting paid) I present Rock, Flag and Eagle:
"I'm gonna rise up, gonna kick a little ass, gonna kick some ass in the USA. Gonna climb a mountain, gonna sew a flag, gonna fly on an eagle. I'm gonna kick some butt, I'm gonna drive a big truck, I'm gonna rule this world, I'm gonna kick some ass, I'm gonna rise up, I'm gonna kick a little ass, ROCK, FLAG, AND EAGLE!!"
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia premieres Sunday September 21st, get ready. THey also have a few new t-shirts on their website, including Charlie as a Leprechaun, Charlie as Wildcard, Dennis Reynolds for Comptroller, Electric Dream Machine, Dayman, and Rock Flag and Eagle. I've already made my 2 purchases.
I didn't purchase the Comptroller shirt, but the speech Charlie wrote for Dennis is a classic:
"Hello, fellow American. This you should vote me. I leave power. Good. Thank you. Thank you. If you vote me, I am hot. What? Taxes. They'll be lower, son. The democratic vote for me is the right thing to do, Philadelphia. So do."
If I ever run for office, I am using that speech.
Here is a outtake scene from this coming season:
Sadly I don't think this is an outtake, I think there is going to be a scene with Danny Devito coming out of a couch naked.
Some of you may have seen the commercial that allows you to put a piece of AstroTurf in your house for your pet to micturate on so you don't have to take it outside. That is bad enough but could serve a purpose for people who can't get home or if you are old and have a pet.
But now comes this:
WTF? Why get a dog if you want none of the responsibilities of having one? Could you imagine seeing a dog walking with a harness around its a** with a bag on it? Sad. The funniest thing about this is a comment I saw posted: "this piece of s**t degrades the dog and makes yo look like an a**hole." Well said.
