Kal Penn was the best part of House lately. His sudden exit was shocking in a time when TV shows rarely shock. I was just complaining about the lack of suicidal storylines on dramas and then poor Kutner had to prove me wrong. And yes that was Penn playing his own bloody corpse.
Penn is now part of the Obama White House and should make a fine…liaison? Whatever he will do it at least we know he’ll still be acting.
House: It's a Wonderful Lie
Hell is it Christmas again, oh no the writers strike has forced House to give it's Christmas episode over a month late.
First Mayor Bloomberg interrupted my regularly schedule shows to deal with the transit strike, most professors said if a strike happens finals will be canceled. Now if want to go to the city I must hitchhike or take a ten dollar per mile taxi.
Oh well back to TV.
TiVo updated again and they gave me a whole bunch of new options.
Under Music, Photos and More...
-Yahoo! Photos with a direct link to your Yahoo account.
-Yahoo! Weather with a direct link to your Yahoo account or just a zip code.
-Yahoo! Traffic with a direct link to your Yahoo account or just a zip code.
-Browse & Buy Movie Tickets directly from the TiVo Box with a zip code to local theartes.
-Live365 hundreds of radio stations with commercials or without if you have an account.
-Podcaster lots of Podcasts including TV Guide and Diggnation.
-SameGame a matching colors game.
-Wordsmith a scrabble type game.
-Skulls & Bones a Connect Four type game.
+ The usually links to my photos, music, videos, BestBuy music & Nikon photographer.
But I still watched some TV.
Bones: The Man in the Fallout Shelter
It starts out with Booth dropping off a dead man on December 23 and Bones making everyone work. The dead guy has a killer fungus and everyone is sealed in including the boss.
We see everyone share their family stories and find out Booth has a son. Angela's father is from ZZ Top. Bones does get emotional.
The story surrounded the murder of a white guy who tried to sell his coin collection to go to Paris to marry his pregnant black girlfriend. But a coin buyer decided to kill him instead. When the murder is solved the team tries to get the knowledge to the now old black girlfriend.
They find her and her grandaughter the mother/child died. The old lady is releaved that she wasn't abandoned but the granddaughter wants to go to medical school but can't afford it.
Well what a coincedence the dead man had a 
1943 copper penny in his pocket. Bones gives the penny to the granddaughter 'cause it's worth up to $100,000.
As a coin collector it's nice to see a story line about coins. Now is it true. Yes the 1943 copper cent is rare and one sold in New York for $112,500. According to some, there are seventeen 1943 Bronze Cents known (10 from Philadelphia, 6 from San Francisco, and 1 from Denver) not 12 as Bones stated, but that is still debated in real life. But this coin was touched by so many hands that it can't be in good shape, not to mention it laid in the pocket of a corpse for 50 years. It still may be worth close to $100,000 if the auction was right.
Good episode, there was even a Firefly reference.
House: Deception
Well House is not happy and he is pushing the limits. A woman, played by Cynthia Nixon, is admitted to the hospital by House and presents with one disease. Dr. Morrison thinks she's a faker and gets proven right. House thinks the faker has a terminal illness and injects her with rugs to prove himself right.
It turns out she is sick but by a simple grape smelling fungus and almost kills her.
I felt bad for Dr. Foreman because he was doing so good at being in charge but since he didn't stop House he won't keep his position.
Bones: The Girl in the Fridge
Bones is doing her old teacher and he's a jerk. The episode was just okay.
The cool part was David Boreanaz and Leonard Roberts, who playedForrest Gates on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Roberts also appeared on Tru Calling with Eliza Dushku and Smallville with James Marsters.
House: The Mistake
Dr. Chase is going up for a peer review after admitting to a mistake. The episode goes in flashbacks as we see one patient with a failing liver being treated by Dr. Chase and then die. The sick mother, played by former Kate & Allie star Allison Smith, needs a new liver, gets a cancerous one from her brother and dies. Dr. Chase feels bad for not paying close attention to her and lies about being drunk on duty.
The results are a one week suspension for him but Dr. House gets one month of supervision from a doctor. The doctor turns out to be one of his underlings Dr. Foreman the doc most like House.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Storm
Good episode but very complicated just to get to the point. Let me highlight it.
Two girls get run over,
Hurricane Katrina,
a kidnapping,
some light touching,
a vial of anthrax,
a cold scientist,
one nosy reporter,
lying cops,
even bigger lying feds,
a reunion,
Mariska Harigtay being all tough and rule breaking,
and a nosy reporter in prison.
Basically a vial of anthrax is stolen and the government erases any evidence that this incident happens at the expense of some abused girls from New Orleans. Then one cop leaks the story to a reporter who then goes to jail rather then reveal his source.
Quote of the Week: "Who do we call when we get raped?"- said by Ice-T when returning to the precient and seeing the feds took all there evidence and research into the kidnapped girls.
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.
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.
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.
Bones: Pilot
The half Chinese half Irish girl on the show is brash and outgoing, she flashes in the first scene of the show. There is history between the David Boreanaz as Booth and Emily Deschanel as Brennan, she is pop-culture clueless and he has a heart of gold.
There was an obligatory Scully & Mulder reference, also Brennan was orphaned at 15 with no clue of what happened to her parents.
Good chemistry but the show is missing something….Buffy, although Brennan is tough.
Supernatural: Pilot
Two brothers and a father lose their mother to a mysterious force. They hunt for a living but we don’t see any of the training and monster categories they explored through out the years.
Skip to present day and dad is missing, big brother is back and little bro is in college and in love. They go to find daddy and find a ghost instead, which they bust. When little bro comes back home his love is stuck on the ceiling dying like his mother did.
Obviously it’s the little bro that this thing is after because when he was a baby the thing was at his crib. The show ran 4-7 minutes long and taught us about good pentagrams and white women.
There was an obligatory Scully & Mulder reference.
Gilmore Girls: New and Improved Lorelai
Lorelai is getting married to Luke and still not talking to her daughter. Rory has to do 300 hours of community service after her arrest last season.
This show has the best pop-culture reference, no Scully & Mulder but one great Christopher Atkins and one funny Benson.
By the way I usually don’t judge people by looks but Alexis Bledel has the best ass on current TV since Jenna Von Oy. Lauren Graham and Liza Weil are also hot.
Yes, I know what your thinking, “try to justify watching this show by calling the chick hot”, yeah well it’s still true.
House: Acceptance
The best of all of the Tuesdays show had LL Cool J was a death row inmate who is dying. House is trying to save him and we see all the graphic details.
Dr. Cameron was being a big wuss when trying to tell her patient some real bad news, we find out that she married her husband because he was dying and she didn’t want to leave him alone.
House Fox’s best new show in a long time is on the cover, specifically Hugh Laurie & Sela Ward with the title House Exclusive! The accompanying article is 7-pages long. Sela Ward has been hired for the next thirteen episodes of season 2, yes I know she’s a show killer but let’s hold out hope. The producers vow not to turn the drama into a soap opera but they want more sex. LL Cool J appears in the first episode as a dying criminal.
Hugh Laurie is happy to be in a California studio after his last movie “Flight
of the Phoenix” that was filmed in an African desert. He did dread an auditioning process called “putting yourself on tape”; it requires an actor to commit a few pages on tape with only hope that whoever watches it is in a good mood. A few months later he gets a call back and auditions for Bryan Singer, weeks after that he gets the job.
During the pilot Laurie brought his own unique cane and broke it two days later, he also walked into a glass door. Everyone loved the pilot and the show was picked up for thirteen more then a full season worth of episodes. Season 1 House DVD
Good Things To Read Inside:
Beauty and The Geek:
This was the sort of final episode and it was a perfectly choreographed nail biter. After Chuck tried to teach Richard to calm down they prepared for a question show down. Richard correctly predicted that the question would be personal and made a side bet with his Beauty to make out with her if they win, actually it was her idea. When Chuck and Caitilin started the 10 personal questions contest they were strong and confident. They ended up getting 8 right.Then Richard and Mindi were up and quickly got two wrong(add suspense here) they proceeded to get the next 8 right. Now tied both teams had to go into a one on one questioning until someone got theirs wrong. They went into triple overtime until Richard guessed badly and lost. Chuck and Caitilin got $125,000 each. The show is not over, like The Real World they will have an upcoming Beauty and The Geek:The Aftermath where they will reunite the cast and finally answer is Richard for real.
The Inside:
There were two episodes as the show is being rushed off the air. The first episode was kinda dull so I'll skip it just saying that it was bring the group closer in their daily rituals.
The second episode showed how the good boy scout Special Agent Paul Ryan joined the agency. It also had him at home with his happy pregnant wife. Paul Ryan's first Agency case resurfaced when someone started cutting out hearts. Allegations of tampering with evidence came up and the guilty killer was freed. This upset Agent Ryan especially when his boss Virgil was the tamperer. While trying to scare the killer he gets the call that his wife was hurt he is about to kill the bad guy when he is informed that his wife was in an accident not hurt by the baddie. The second heart-ripper comes in to kill the first and everything goes bad. At the end Ryan lost his baby and the first killer lost his woman and Virgil confesses and lost his job being replaced by Tuvix(Tom Wright).
House:
Keeping it brief, House has a boy with conflicting symptoms and figures out his lying father is to blame because he gave the boy Lepersy after the kid contracted Anthrax. There was a side story involving Dr. Chase and his dying father.
Six Feet Under:
The Fishers have mellowed a bit except for Ruth who hates Claires for some unknown reason. David and Keith had there bio-baby dreams dashed and will adopt two troubled kids instead. Nate and Brenda agreed to tell Maya of her real mommy.
House
As I posted before I started watching House and the it's good. The most recent episode dealt with a teenage boy who was bleeding from every hole in his body. Everyone was screaming Lupus but Dr. House didn't believe it. His problem though was that he was going through withdrawal from Vicadin, I think. He earlier made a bet with his boss to stop taking pills for a week, while doing so he came to realize that his pill-popping was a true addiction not pain management and he doesn't want to change. House orders a dead cat that the boy owned dug up by Omar Epps and a fellow doc. House discovers that the cat died the same way the boy was and found a termite in the cat-daver. After busting open the wall in the boys room hundreds of termites pour out. The young lad was being poisoned by the gas that termites exudes, he was basically living in a termite mound and that was not healthy. After not treating the boy he became better.
On a side note Omar Epps is a young actor born and raised in New York, I may have met him before he was famous but I'm not sure. So I ask does anyone know where he worked before becoming an actor? Did he work in a supermarket? And if so which one?
The Inside
Yes another good one hour drama from Fox. This episode started out with a mother discovering her 9 year old son gutted in their pool. Only one witness points out that the handyman of this gated community did it. So the agents investigating the murder are split with half of them going after the guy and the other half heading by Special Agent Rebecca Locke going after the 10 year old witness. After Locke confronts the girl in a treehouse the little darling throws herself off the top and blames the agent. Everyone now believes that the girl did it including the victims mother. The distraught mother then finds the girl right before she was about to kill a fellow playmate and takes her to a pool. While the evil girl explains how she killed the little boy the mother gets angry and is about to do something stupid when the evil mom of the evil girl comes from behind and whacks her with a shovel. We don't see how the particulars went down but we see the mother-daughter killers hugging each other as the victim's mother is floating dead in the pool. This will be a rough Fathers Day for their 2 husbands. There is also little said about how the killers will face justice but most likely noting much can happen to them.
I saw two repeats of Hit Me Baby One More Time with great performances from The Knack and Cece Peniston yet two rappers won Vanilla Ice, he was good, and Arrested Development, they were awful. This show is a good idea but their voting is crap. They're only voting for the most recent hip-hoppers. Fill an audience with kids and crap like this happens I may have voted for Vanilla Ice
but not Arrested Development, the show is better than the group.
Then a show worth watching House on Fox was gret again. Dr. House tries to solve a newborn infection in the hospital and must sacrfice on of the babies to do so. It turns out that the sacrifical baby would have died antway because it was the wrong treatment. House's underling find the cause and House finally finds patient zero. In a side story House once again shows how many fathers aren't really their babies daddy.
Now that my regularly scheduled programs are over for the summer I'll start watching what ever else I missed during the season. I saw House it's a Fox medical drama on Tuesdays at 9:00pmET. The central character on House is Dr. Gregory House played by Hugh Laurie he has 3 specialist under him and a female administrator who he fondly dislikes. Dr. House is exactly like Dr. Perry Cox(John C. McGinley) on Scrubs except this is a hour long drama and Scrubs is a 30 minute comedy, but the same jokes work well on both. The show works well explain all the medical jargon by including graphic imagery. This is to make sure that an outrageous diganosis is possible even if the have to drill the story line into your head, which they did in this episode. "Paternity", the title of the episode I saw, dealt with a teenager with who after getting hit playing sports is suffering strange side-effects. Through a long and complicated way they come to realize he has the measles. The fun is the journey through his medical history and watching the symptons unfold. This is yet another good show to add to my long list.
