No Joey = Better TV

First of all that freakin' transit strike before Christmas resulted in nothing. The members rejected the contract and the will lose most of their gains in binding arbitration. Good!

Smallville: Lockdown
After surviving the Kryptonian attack earlier this season a rogue cop and his fiancee go to Lex to find the spaceship. They kill yet another black guy after Lex locks himself in a panic room.
The cop killers then get Lana but lose her to Lex and once again Lex is mortally wounded.
Of course everything goes well at the end when Clark comes to the rescue.
While watching the show someone pointed out that it looked like Tom Welling was wearing a hearing aid, but I thought it was shadow I've posted a picture. So is there something in his ear?

My Name Is Earl: Stole P's H D cart
Earl tries to help an old man after he stole the man's Hot Dog cart as a two hundred dollar heist for another hot dog vendor. Giavonni Ribisi also stars in this episode. The old gang must infiltrate an office to steal at least $10,000 of office supplies to make right what has now gone wrong with the old man's hot dog cart.
It was a dang funny episode and the best part was Darnell. In an obvious joke he reprised his role as Rubberband-Man from those OfficeMax commercials.

Here is a blog dedicated to Eddie Steeples(Darnell)
http://www.steeplechaser.blogspot.com/
Here are two of those famos Rubberband-Man ads. They are on an endless loop but here's the link and the other link.

New Thursday Line-Up

No more Joey, yes, wooooo yeah.

Four Kings: Pilot
Pilot episodes are the worst episodes of a show and this one is no different. They set up the show about four life long friends who inherit a beautifully large apartment in New York City and deice to live together. They are all now single and ready to move on to their next stage of life.
Seth Green is the funny angry one and the only thing worth watching. That guy from Commited is the main guy but not as funny as when he did Commited.

My Name Is Earl: Barn Burner
Earl's brother burns down a barn and Earl makes him do the list. Eventually Earl forgives him for ruining their future and takes the list back.
This was a dang funny episode with Catalina stealing most of the scenes. When asked what she feared the most she plainly says snakes..."snakes and rape". Also in another scene she speaks Spanish when responding to Joy. Let me translate what she said..."To all the Latino in the audience thanks for watching and for those non-Latinos thanks for taking the time and learning another language." I fell over laughing when she said that.

ER: If Not Now
The announcers for NBC should be tortured. All week long they announce the shock of what will happen to Dr. Neela will go down in ER history and then not only is it not on this week's episode it looks to be something stupif and boring.
As for the episode it was all about abortion and Dr. Abby keeping her baby. The only person I like in the show now is Dr. Morris played by Scott Grimes. I always liked him since his sci-fi horror days doing those Critters movies. Which comes back to the point that these Critters should eat the NBC announcers.

Alternate Tuesday Shows

TV NEWS STORIES
Once again starting out with more of my favorite childhood actors dying, Jack Colvin, best known as tabloid reporter Jack McGee in the The Incredible Hulk, has died. Colvin, 71, died Thursday in North Hollywood of complications following a stroke. He did so many TV shows in the 70's it was impossible to miss him. He never was over the top and in the past decade did not work much, another primetime veteran gone from the time when we only had 7 channels with 3 networks.

Valerie Bertinelli and her husband, Eddie Van Halen, are getting a divorce after 24 years of marriage, Bertinelli's publicist confirmed that they have been separated for 4 years. I feel bad for her kids but hey that means I still have a shot.

Back to tonights shows.

Fear Factor: Heist Fear Factor
Well besides Road Rules/ Real World Challenges the only other reality show I watch on a regular basis is this one. Joe Rogan is back as host. This season will focus less on the gross eating stuff and more on the danger.
Today four couples did stunts to win keys to unlock a million dollars in fake gold at the bottom of a pool. The brother and sister steroid freaks lost to a "friend" couple. The winners took home $275,000 and some crappy trip.
It was funny and I like the stunts at one point a contestant ripped off his toenail in an accident.
At the end they also went to a fans home and had him and his mom get bit by snakes for 5 grand.

My Name Is Earl: White Lie Christmas
After Earl ruined every Christmas for his ex-wife he decides to make it up with some bikes and a car. When arriving at her double-wide her parents played by the once great Brett Butler and
Some guy who always place a redneck. Joy has been lying to protect Darnell, thinking her parents are racists, but the father was lying about having other kids most of them black, while the mother was lying about being a paralized-dialysis patient to cover up her gambling.
Funny episode with a sweet ending.

Law & Order: SVU : Alien
A little boy gets stabbed and a little girl is the main suspect, she confesses but the episode was more about how a community of religious people got together to deny a lesbian mother from claiming her child since the biological mother died. The lesbian mom falsely accused of being a child molester was played by Amy Pietz from Caroline In The City.

Post Turkey Catch-Up

I just learned Pat Morita of Happy Days and Karate Kid fame died at the age of 73 of natural causes. He was so cool and funny.
Morita was one of first Asian actors I can recall playing in comedies and dramas with out being a stereotype he did about 100 movies and just about the same amount ofTV appearances . I liked his character on The Hughleys he played a racist neighbor.

On to the shows I’ve caught up with this past Thanksgiving.

Bones: A Man on Death Row
Bones applies for a concealed gun permit and gets denied. The agents tries to save a man on death row but only find out he’s really, really guilty and he now will stay alive just to answer for more crimes.

My Name Is Earl: Cost My Dad the Election
Nice use of a bunch of amputees. Earl’s dad once ran for mayor and Earl ruined it. Now Earl is trying to make it up but ends up costing him the election again. But the dad, Beau Bridges, sees he is trying to do good and bails him out again.

House: Hunting
House stole his ex-wife’s therapy records with a cool file cabinet opening trick and finds out she’s sexless. He tries to use this to prove she still loves him and starts moving close to her. She finds out and tells him to go to hell because now she really hates him.
At the hospital an irresponsible gay guy has AIDS and coughs up some blood on the young female doctor’s eyes and mouth. She freaks out takes some drugs and sleeps with her Australian colleague.
There was also a sick rat that becomes House’s new pet. Odd but great episode.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Rockabye
Just like a recent case in the headlines a pair of religious home schooled kids run away and does the wrong thing. These two kids try to legally get an abortion but with so many religious freaks around the country the get blocked and manipulated at every turn. Eventually the girl decides to knock the baby out of her body with her boyfriends help.
Another all-star cast with great performances.

NightLine
The last one with Ted Koppel featured a piece about the Tuesday with Morrie guys. But the best part was at the end when Koppel tells the audience to support the new Nightline people because if they don’t then ABC “will just replace this show with some comedy” that was such a great dis to Jimmy Kimmel, rightfully so but still funny.

I only saw parts of the parade on TV, I got live balloon picture the day before so no big deal. Saw enough to see the accident. And both football games sucked. I will not shop on black Friday.

Tuesday Shows

Bones: Man In The Wall
During a ridiculous fight in a club Bones discovers a mummified DJ and must find out what happened. During one creepy stomach turning scene Bones strips the flesh off of the dead mans hand and wears it as a glove to get fingerprints. To counter this scene we later see a plaster cast made by the boy at age 5 to give him more of a soul.
Of course the killer is found at the end but we see how insensitive Bones really is.

House: Spin
After last week’s great but depressing episode we get more cheery in this one. Sela Ward is back and House gets all jealous and snippy with her recovering husband. I fell asleep through a part of it but woke up in time to see the team cure their patient.
Oh for those Tom Lenk fans he was in this episode as a guy who got chronic diarrhea from chewing too much sugarless gum.

Law & Order: SVU: Starved
Dean Cain played a manipulative rapist with a wussy wife. This episode was filled with stars from dead TV shows, some of them are Who’s The Boss, Six Feet Under, Lois & Clark, and Grace Under Fire. Nice to see actors don’t die they just go to Law & Order. Back to the story line at the end the wussy wife dies and the rapist is going to go free and get millions from her insurance.

My Name Is Earl: Joy’s Wedding
Funny episode. Joy is getting married, white trash style, and Earl shows up drunk and ruins it. He tries to make it up to her and ends up sleeping with her. Now he has to make it up to Darnell. After a quick pep talk Earl shows Darnell that Joy is a skank but one that is in love with Darnell. The wedding was cool but the music was great. Just Bust A Move.

I will watch Gilmore Girls and Supernatural later.

Tuesdays Shows

Bones was O.K.

Gilmore Girls was better and Alexis Bleidel finally spoke her native spanish, she's Mexican.

Supernatural was fine, but the dead girls tombstone said Jan. 24 1984-Nov. 02 2005, hmmm.... she died in the future.

Law & Order: SVU :Demons
Meloni's character gets even creepier then last year, also Robert Patrick was great.

House was the best.
In "Autopsy" a 9 year-old dying girl gives everyone a little hope. Just like the Mad TV sketch the find something wrong with her that they fixed but something else is wrong so they must kill her to save.
The fact that the Australian guy kisses the little girl was enough to hold my scattered mind.
Also they gave the girl some tickets to the American Museum of Natural History which I also have was kinda cool.

My Name Is Earl: Pilot
A loser must change his life to get good things in life. Not bad Jaime Pressly was better then expected she stole the show and I like Earl's laid back attitude.