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Day 01 - A show that should never have been cancelled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of one of your favorite shows
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of one of your favorite TV shows
Day 08 - A show that's had a significant effect on who you are today
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
Close second-place to Onion Sportsdome merely by virtue of being, well, new, even if not consistently good yet. Though the most recent episode helps in that one of the anchors got entertainingly wired on energy drinks ("Bull's Milk") and starts running laps around the studio, motormouthing everything on the teleprompter (including his partner's lines), screaming out his lines, seeing everything purple, going numb, or crashing hard and falling asleep during the commercial and coming back with bedhead. Bonus points for the NBA kidnapping deadline and the highlight films of Eli Manning becoming inexplicably popular as French art films. I would've said that the recurring sports stories that the show covers multiple times in a single episode had been growing stale and repetitive and that they would take a single joke and run it into the ground, but they at least seem to be aware of it: said recurring sports story in the last episode was about the continuing attempts to, er, manually extract genetic material from a fatally-injured racehorse that was still lying on the track. Once it dawned on me, I had to appreciate it on audacity of metaphor alone.
But the show I've been watching every day after work: Arrested Development. There's a show worth rewatching. It's an acquired taste, for sure -- you either love it, hate it, or have never seen it -- and it's cruel show, no mistake about it, but even more than the dialogue is the perfect nestling of plot threads in each episode that seem to always converge in the most hysterical or occasionally horrifying ways. Any show that can naturally get David Cross in a mole suit fighting Michael Cera in a jetpack, smashing through a model housing complex while Japanese investors look on.... God, yes, it's a farce -- it takes farce to levels we don't see on TV anymore, sadly enough, but does it well:
And aw, Charlize Theron as Rita, who is simply adorable, even if there is a cold hard core of cruelty through her character arc...and so many more things, really, like GOB's treatment of the Japanese in this episode, or...well, the foundation of pretty much every adult relationship in the family. The cousins mutually crushing on each other seem to be the most level-headed of the bunch, though, by the show's end, you'll never look at Pete Rose the same way. And there's Judy Greer, too, and more Judy Greer is a good, good thing. "Okay, glasses on! Hair up!"
And if you like meta in your show, you can't get much more meta than Barry Zuckerkorn. Not only does Henry Winkler's character play a delightfully awful and demented lawyer, but he literally jumps over a shark until he gets himself replaced by lawyer Bob Loblaw (who has a blog, Bob Loblaw's Law Blog) played by, of course, Scott Baio. Ron Howard's narrator gets in on the act impressively. And then there's Justine Bateman. That...gets confusing.
Pity only the third (final) season's on Hulu unleaded right now. The third-season premiere's not the best jumping-on point, but certainly the best of what's available. The show may not be your cuppa tea, but let it be Exhibit A against ever using the laugh track again.
Tomorrow, meme's end -- saddest character death and favorite kiss, though I didn't even notice the kiss the first few times I saw the episode. Also probably my favorite single episode of anything, ever. And if you think you know what it is by now, you're probably right.
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of one of your favorite shows
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of one of your favorite TV shows
Day 08 - A show that's had a significant effect on who you are today
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
Close second-place to Onion Sportsdome merely by virtue of being, well, new, even if not consistently good yet. Though the most recent episode helps in that one of the anchors got entertainingly wired on energy drinks ("Bull's Milk") and starts running laps around the studio, motormouthing everything on the teleprompter (including his partner's lines), screaming out his lines, seeing everything purple, going numb, or crashing hard and falling asleep during the commercial and coming back with bedhead. Bonus points for the NBA kidnapping deadline and the highlight films of Eli Manning becoming inexplicably popular as French art films. I would've said that the recurring sports stories that the show covers multiple times in a single episode had been growing stale and repetitive and that they would take a single joke and run it into the ground, but they at least seem to be aware of it: said recurring sports story in the last episode was about the continuing attempts to, er, manually extract genetic material from a fatally-injured racehorse that was still lying on the track. Once it dawned on me, I had to appreciate it on audacity of metaphor alone.
But the show I've been watching every day after work: Arrested Development. There's a show worth rewatching. It's an acquired taste, for sure -- you either love it, hate it, or have never seen it -- and it's cruel show, no mistake about it, but even more than the dialogue is the perfect nestling of plot threads in each episode that seem to always converge in the most hysterical or occasionally horrifying ways. Any show that can naturally get David Cross in a mole suit fighting Michael Cera in a jetpack, smashing through a model housing complex while Japanese investors look on.... God, yes, it's a farce -- it takes farce to levels we don't see on TV anymore, sadly enough, but does it well:
And aw, Charlize Theron as Rita, who is simply adorable, even if there is a cold hard core of cruelty through her character arc...and so many more things, really, like GOB's treatment of the Japanese in this episode, or...well, the foundation of pretty much every adult relationship in the family. The cousins mutually crushing on each other seem to be the most level-headed of the bunch, though, by the show's end, you'll never look at Pete Rose the same way. And there's Judy Greer, too, and more Judy Greer is a good, good thing. "Okay, glasses on! Hair up!"
And if you like meta in your show, you can't get much more meta than Barry Zuckerkorn. Not only does Henry Winkler's character play a delightfully awful and demented lawyer, but he literally jumps over a shark until he gets himself replaced by lawyer Bob Loblaw (who has a blog, Bob Loblaw's Law Blog) played by, of course, Scott Baio. Ron Howard's narrator gets in on the act impressively. And then there's Justine Bateman. That...gets confusing.
Pity only the third (final) season's on Hulu unleaded right now. The third-season premiere's not the best jumping-on point, but certainly the best of what's available. The show may not be your cuppa tea, but let it be Exhibit A against ever using the laugh track again.
Tomorrow, meme's end -- saddest character death and favorite kiss, though I didn't even notice the kiss the first few times I saw the episode. Also probably my favorite single episode of anything, ever. And if you think you know what it is by now, you're probably right.
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