Posts tagged television

This Week’s Canceled DVR ‘Season Passes’

  • Blue Bloods - Lack of dramatic circulation.
  • @#$!* My Dad Says - Just call it what it is… Shit.

Ech. Bombs, bombers, vulvas: You people are just ruining my trip.
Malory Archer - from Archer (Season 1, Episode 7: “Skytanic”)

This Week’s Canceled DVR ‘Season Passes’

  • Heroes - Should’ve been canceled last season (by me and NBC)

I remember Bush Jr. kissing Prince Abdullah on the cheek and then holding his hand for an extended period of time. Maybe if he let him get to second base then gas would be a dollar a gallon.
Rep. Alan Grayson (D - FL), commenting during MSNBC’s Hardball on the GOP apoplexy over U.S. President Barack Obama’s respectful and traditional bow to Japanese Emperor Akihito

This Week’s Canceled DVR ‘Season Passes’

An all-healthcare edition:

  • Trauma - Clear!
  • Mercy - I miss E.R.
  • Scrubs - Funny was its pre-existing condition. Now on lifeless support.
I hate, hate, hate being left out. Whether it’s not being picked for a team, or being picked for a team, and then showing up, and realizing that the team doesn’t exist, or that the sport doesn’t exist. I should’ve known. Poopball…?
Michael Scott, from The Office
I’m just an old man having a slice of fun pie.
Lester Corncrake, from the ‘Journey to the Centre of the Punk’ episode of The Mighty Boosh, Series 3

Digital TV Transgressions


NYT: Millions Still Not Ready For Digital TV

Broadcasting armageddon is at hand. You can take away an American’s job, their health care coverage and their civil liberties, but there will be riots in the streets if anyone fucks with their TV.

This Week’s Canceled DVR ‘Season Pass’

  • ER - Mandatory, unfortunately. Never missed an episode in its 15-year run. Sure, the show was on life support ratings-wise for more than a few years, but it’s hard to overlook the fact that the writing was consistently top notch, from premier to finale.
ER Season One Cast Photo: (l-r) Julianna Marguiles, Eric LaSalle, George Clooney, Anthony Edwards, Sherry Stringfield and Noah Wyle
ER Season One Cast (1994): Margulies, La Salle, Clooney, Edwards, Stringfield and Wyle

You know, it’s funny… This morning, outside of Penn Station, I saw a guy huffing glue out of a paper bag, and he was making more sense than Michelle Bachman was making. I can’t believe you need to pass a written test to drive a car in this country, but I bet this woman can’t even write her name in the ground with a stick. I mean, it’s just, it’s unbelievable to me that this person is in Congress.
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone political journalist, during his March 27th appearance on Hardball with Chris Matthews, offering his opinion on the Minnesota Congresswoman’s most recent ideological vomit.