How I Met Your Mother ~ Double Date

Well, we’re all caught up on TV, but again we’re way behind on blogging! Here’s one more to check off the list!

How I Met Your Mother

This week Ted found himself on a hauntingly familiar blind date. It turned out that he had been on that exact same date with the same girl seven years earlier. Neither of them remembered the other until part way through the date when Ted made a pun about sharing oysters (“because if you didn't, that would be shellfish.”). She remembers that he was snobby, and he remembers that she dresses up her cats in weird costumes (what? Took likes to wear that tie, we swear!).

"We've done a complete lap of all the single people in New York, only to end up back here with each other." – Ted

They decide to retrace the steps of that first date so that they could learn from their mistakes and not end up on another blind date 7 years in the future. It turns out that she talked too much about her ex-boyfriend and her cats, and she didn’t do the check-dance at the end of the date. Ted, however, made fun of spelling errors in the menu, made bad puns, didn’t offer her his jacket when she was freezing, came off as a player (she thought he was checking out another girl, but he was actually checking out Mustache Marshal – more on that later), and he didn’t call her after the date. They imagine what could have happened if all those little annoyances had gone differently, including a wedding with cats dressed as bride’s maids, and this:

They decided that it was all for the best, because let’s face it – Ted likes pointing out typos and making puns, and she will always talk about her cats. They’ll hold out for finding someone who likes their quirks, not settle for someone who tolerates him.

Meanwhile, Barney tricks Marshal into coming to the strip club with him (he tells him they’re going to the Origins of Chewbacca "Star Wars" exhibit). Marshal says that he can’t fantasize about other women without feeling guilty. So first he has to set-up an elaborate fantasy of Lily dying of a rare but “medically legitimate” hiccup condition. Marshal vows to be the wingman of Marshal’s mind and tells him to put Lily completely out of his mind as he watches the next stripper. Easier said than done – the stripped looks exactly like Lily.

“I'm going to make Marshall watch as I wedge Ulysses S. Grant between his wife's tatas." - Barney

Later they find Lily and Robin at the bar to tell them they have found “the third doppelganger.” Voice-over Ted explains that they had found Lesbian Robin, Mustache Marshal, and now Stripper Lily. We’re told that they find the other two doppelgangers later that summer. While Lily finds this “awesome”, Robin is less than pleased that Barney was at a strip club. Marshal also admits to Lily that in order to fantasize about other women he needs to pretend she’s tragically died. Lily said it was fine to fantasize, but “don’t kill me off!” The four of them make their way to the strip club together and Lily is very excited to see her stripper self. She even buys herself and Marshal some private time with Stripper Lily. Robin, however, is less than pleased with how well everyone at the strip club knows Barney. Robin doesn’t like this whole strip club thing one bit, and they’re going to need to seriously talk about it. Awwww, like a real couple of something! Nice!

This post was brought to you by Lesbian Robin

Amazing Race 15 – Eat the Wasabi!!!!!!

This is our first year watching Amazing Race from beginning to end, and we are excited! This week the contestants were shocked to discover that one team would be eliminated before even crossing the start line. The teams had to sort through a gigantic wall of license plates to find the one referenced in their clue. Shockingly, it took every team at least one wrong try before they noticed the characters on the clue were also on the appropriate license plate. Eventually they caught on, but there were only so many license plates to go around. Eric and Lisa got the boot, which was fine because we had already decided we were over them. The blond yoga instructors had already lost our interests the second the said “We’re like yoga in the hood.” Sure you are, guys.

After that things got under way for real. The teams raced to Tokyo where they had to participate in a Japanese game show called Sushi Roulette. The best thing about this challenge was clearly the audience members. Oh Japan, you know your game shows. This challenge was 80% luck and 20% wasabi tolerance. The giant wheel of sushi was spun, and whoever received the coveted wasabi bomb had two minutes to choke it down. Most teams were able to do it in just in time. A couple people failed the first time and actually had to eat another one just moments after. One of the Globetrotters ate it in about 30 seconds and made my brain explode. Once the team has successfully eaten the wasabi bomb, they were assigned 20 Japanese tourists from the game show audience and needed to herd them through the ridiculously busy streets of Japan and make their way to the pit stop. The horrible poker girls actually lost 2 of their tourists! Luckily for them, this was a non-elimination leg. The next day folks had to herd ducks through a course while Courtney screamed in terror from the comfort of our couch. Big props to Zev for being the surprise duck whisperer. There was also some mud slinging – literally. They had to cover the base of a tree with some super nutrient mud. Messy! At the end of the leg, Garret and Jessica got the boot. Meh. Okay with that, but would much prefer to go back in time and eliminate the poker chicks.

He’s a quick breakdown of the couples who made it across the start line (sorry Eric and Lisa):

Sam and Dan – two gay brothers, what are the odds? They’re not mentioning that they’re gay to the other teams in hopes on staying on the good side of cute girls who want to fruitlessly flirt with them. It is working pretty well on the poker girls, so well played you guys! So far they are amusing us.

Zev and Justin – Zev has Asperger’s Syndrome, so that automatically put him high on our list. Combine that with his deadpan one liners and bluntness and he’s aces. We’re all about this team.

Flight Time and Big Easy – two Harlem Globetrotters who are sweet as sugar, athletic (obvs), and likeable to a ridiculous degree. My favorite quote of the night came from Flight Time during the tourist herding challenge in Tokyo: “They Thought Godzilla Was Walking Down the Street".

Gary and Matt – the requisite “''father and son who never communicated much before but whose relationship will grow in leaps and bounds on the trip” team. Amazingly enough there wasn’t any awkwardness of bickering between them (at least not so far), and their farming background gave them a leg up during the duck challenge. Plus the son’s hair is pink – so that’s cool.

Mercy and Ron – the older couple. They’ve only been dating for about a year (bold choice taking on the race so early in a relationship). She was super perky during the tourist challenge. I don’t remember a whole lot about him other than being older. So we’ll see how that goes for them!

Mika and Canaan – newly dating, uber religious, and he’s saving himself for marriage. . ''He likes me for the right reasons,'' said Mika. ''It's not because he wants to have sex.” Awwww, how sweet. Not as sweet? Canaan during the duck challenge: ''God, I want to rip her head off right now!''

Brian and Ericka – she’s a former Miss America, so that’s impressive. You know that she should be able to keep her cool, after being put through all of that pageant drama. Plus they’re a married interracial couple – so that’s fun too. Brian’s the one to keep an eye on. He somehow managed to bargain their way onto a sold old flight, and came up with the idea to have several teams pool their money together to buy up the remaining seats on a bus so that they could leave earlier to catch up with the other teams (as it turned out, it didn’t make any difference – all of the teams ended up waiting together for the dock to reopen the next morning, but still). He’s a clever little minx!

Garret and Jessica – they got eliminated at the end of the second leg, so we’ll never find out whether their on-again-off-again relationship has what it takes to make it (spoiler alert – probably not). They kept telling us that she’s got a hot temper and he’s the one that keeps his cool. And yet, he’s the one who hit the wall (literally) when Phil told them they had been eliminated.
Meghan and Cheyne – all I can tell you about this couple is that they’re childhood sweethearts and, more importantly, we are super annoyed by the way Cheyne spells his name. Dude! Your name is “Shane” – did you’re parents hate you or something?

Lance and Keri – we’re totally ready for these Massholes to be eliminated at the next convenient pit stop. He’s rude, condescending, and a “meathead.” (His wife’s words, not mine!). Despite Keri’s claim that he’s “smaaaaaht”, I really don’t think I’d trust him to represent anyone I know if court (oh yeah, he’s a lawyer – did I forget to mention that?).

Maria and Tiffany – 2 professional poker players who are playing mind games before they even hit foreign soil. They decide to tell everyone that they work with a non-profit organization that serves homeless youth, because who wants to help out a couple of rich poker players? This strategy worked well for them for a little while, until their cover was blown by a poker fan in the airport on the way to Vietnam. Everyone quickly realized that they were liars, and basically horrible people, so they shouldn’t be expecting a whole lot of help in the future.

Fringe - Creepy Scorpion/Mole/Human offspring is creepy

Fringe

What I learned this week is to not sneak up on Olivia Dunham, because she might accidentally shoot you (or come damn close). Yikes! This was a good straight up Monster of the week episode. One of the best things about it? That stupid new girl didn’t say a word. She just wandered through a scene, and then we completely forgot she even existed. Let’s see if we can keep that going. There was a big X-Files feel to it (mostly “Home”, with a dash of “Post-Modern Prometheus” and “Arcadia”). We totally jumped when Oliva got dragged into that hole by the scorpion/mole/human lupus-resistant baby/man thing. We knew it was coming, but DAMN if it didn’t startle us anyway. Plus that thing was hella creepy looking. On a side note, how freaking hardcore is Olivia? Girl almost died last week, but she's right back out there kicking butt. Love her super hearing. Thanks Leonard Nimoy . . . William Bell? And what’s up with fake Charlie? Guy’s looking kind of rough. Notice how he was holding his stomach and limping when he went into the room? Either he’s injured, his body isn’t taking well to such a prolonged shift, OR he’s not doing well in our universe. Peter seems to have sustained just fine on this side, so we’ll assume it’s one of the first two options.


Here’s your observer sighting for the week. This was outside the Hughes’ house right around when Agent Jessup finds the bible. These are getting harder and harder to see, and much less obvious. A bi-product of them shooting in Canada and not having daily access to Michael Ceveris anymore, methinks.

While we’re at it, here are the Glyphs from the season so far:

From “A New Day in Town”, referencing World Trade Tower where we saw Oliva meet William Bell in last season’s finale.

From this weekend episode, “Night of Desirable Objects” referencing the mirror that shape-shifter Charlie uses to communicate with the other side.

Bones - The Bond in the Boot

Bones

We shake our fists at DirecTv for failing on Fox Thursday night, because it was damn inconvenient watching this online. But we did it! There was some super spy work going on, diamonds, encoded information, intrigue, etc. All fine and good and interesting.

More interesting was the fact that Wendell, our favorite intern of the week, had lost his scholarship. He’s from a poor rough and tumble neighborhood (in Boston, I think?), and there’s no way he could keep the internship at the Jeffersonian without that scholarship (or “the miracle” as his Mom calls it). While the gang all tip-toes around it, avoiding telling him for as long as possible, Brennan tells him that he’ll be missed and that it’s been a pleasure working with him, etc., not realizing that this is all news to him. Ohhhh, Bones. After exploring all other funding opportunities, there they could find the money to keep his funding going. By the end of the episode (oh, and by the way, he totally should have been King of the Lab this week), they were all saying their goodbyes. Just as he’s about to leave, Cam runs in to tell him that there scholarship received an anonymous donation that allows him to continue the rest of his education. As it turns out, there were enough anonymous donations for 3 scholarships. Thanks Hodgins and Brennan! And maybe Cam? Not Angela – she packs her own lunch, girl ain’t got that kind of money.

In the squee department this week, Booth needs to fix his plumbing and refuses to pay a plumber to do what he is perfectly capable of doing. The trouble is that he doesn’t remember any of the plumbing knowledge that he had before the coma. Convinced that he can figure it out, he tries to get a Plumbing for Dummies book, but the bookstore was sold out. Sweets convinces Brennan to have Booth teach her how to fix pipes, because it would be good for him and their relationship. She finds him the book, but expects to be reimbursed so that his pride isn’t injured. His pride would much rather save $6. The end of the episode has a very sweet moment between them under the sink fixing his pipes, which of course ends with water everywhere.

We've got TV coming out our ears!

After a massive amount of DVR catch-up, we are mostly up to date of viewing, but not nearly up to date on blogging! So here begins the completely random entries for shows in absolutely no particular order:

Modern Family
We really didn’t think we were going to like this, but recorded it just in case. The promos for it really didn’t do it justice. There were several things that made us very happy – enough to add it into our DVR prioritizer.


Flash Forward

Really trying to be the new Lost. We see where you’re going with this, guys. We were sufficiently weirded out by both Joseph Fiennes and Sonya Walger doing American accents, but we got over that pretty quickly. We’re interested. I have a feeling that I might get a little sick of seeing their flashes repeated ad nauseum (I feel like we saw him take a swig out of that flask about 30 times), but we’ll see. Our hopes are high, and we’re looking forward to Charlie  Dominic Monaghan.

Eastwick
We’re digging it so far. There were some moments that were extra piloty, and I personally find Rebecca Romijn’s acting a teensy bit forced every once in a while, but then she’ll do something to amuse me and I get over it. We enjoy Lindsey Price – hope this goes better than Lipstick Jungle for her. Jamie Ray Newman’s character is pleasing me a lot so far. Meanwhile, we wish Sara Rue would gain some weight back – we liked her better with some meat on her bones. And hey, Veronica Cartwright – you’re right, this totally has happened before! Like, oh say in 1987? You remember! Then again, you had a different character name then, but you were totally around.

Parks and Recreations

We’re still one week behind on this, but we did finally see the premier featuring a gay penguin wedding and surprise performance of “Parets Just Don’t Understand.” This episode was a vast improvement on last season. Let’s see if it can keep up the momentum

America’s Next Top Model
Short people continue to be short. Emphasized by making them walk next to really tall people. That’s about all I have to say about that.


Saturday Night Live
Meghan Fox is lame, Kristen Wiig is working overtime on the funny (we love her, so we’re fine with that), one of the new girls accidentally dropped the F-bomb, and Keenan Thompson continues to keep our All That childhood alive in a very good way. Rocky start to the season. Let’s see where this goes.

Project Runway
This was a really interesting challenge, finally! Designing a costumer for a character that they get to make up from a genre they got to pick in order of there names beign drawn. Poor Epperson – always at the bottom of the bag! He got stuck with Western, which everyone was avoiding like the plague. He, however, had one of the best designs, so well played! The judges (whom still didn’t include Michael Kors or Nina Garcia!) chose Nicolas as the winner, and while we liked the design, it wasn’t our favorite. He did, however, put the most thought into the character he created – so we’ll give him some credit there. We really don’t like him in general, but we aren’t too upset about the win. We ARE getting really annoyed that Gordanna keeps ending up in the bottom, even though her work has been spotless, at least from the technical standpoint. She seems to have trouble stepping thinking out of the box, but her clothes always look so nice! Ra’mon ended up being sent home, which is fair because his outfit was hideous. We were really worried, though, because we like his model a lot. Luckily, Models of The Runway shower us that after this challenge all of the designers are forced to pick a model other than the one they used on the previous challenge. This led to her being safe, and Louise’s model (who we hate) getting the boot, kind of by default. Phew! And FYI, I just read that Michael Kors will be back next week and Nina will be back later in October. Maybe then things will start making sense again!
 

Grey's Anatomy - Yup. George is dead. Sorry.

8 hours of TV recorded on Thursday night, and all me managed to make it through was Grey’s Anatomy and Community? Fail on our part. We started watching Bones, but Direct TV completely jumbled Fox from about 8:30 on – so that was a no go. Grrrr! So here’s a Grey’s recap for now.


Grey’s Anatomy

If you don’t know that George is dead by now, then you don’t deserve to watch TV. Shonda and Co. made no attempt to keep the fates of George and Izzie a secret. George was a gone, while Izzie annoyingly came back to life. Way to ignore her DNR, guys! We totally could have been rid of her!

The premier was 2 hours and covered 40 days in Grey’s time. Everyone grieved in their own way, which included a lot of sex on Meredith and Derek’s part. George’s Mom stuck Callie with the decision of what to do with his organs, as if she wasn’t traumatized enough by the death of her ex. Izzie of course was the only one qualified to make the most obvious decision. I mean, come on, what douchey doctor would refuse organ donation?!? So yes, sadness, mourning, etc. At the funeral Izzie pulled a Mary Tyler Moore and started laughing her ass off (topical Chuckle’s funeral episode reference – what what!). As much as I hate her, the scene made us giggle:

Izzie (still guffawing): George is dead. He's dead. They're about to put him in the ground, and the priest is doing classic rock lyrics, and that girl, that redhead, is crying harder than his mother.

Cristina: You are far more twisted than I ever realized.

Izzie, to Meredith: And you got married on a Post-It!

Meredith: I got married on a Post-It, I did.

Cristina, to Izzie and Alex: And you guys got married for real?!

Izzie: And I got cancer? What?

Yeah, that was pretty much our reaction to last season too.

A little further down the line, Callie checked in with the Chief to see if she was going to get the Ortho Attending position she applied for. Apparently some old dude that we’ve never seen before isn’t retiring, so there is no position for Callie. She flips, and rightly so. She gets to have a nice sassy rant about being a superstar with a scalpel, an tells him that he’s going to rue this day.

"Yeah, I used the word Rue!"

All of this went down in front of Skinner Mitch Pileggi (who is playing a member of the Hospital board, but I'm too lazy to look up his character name). The hire-ups are staging a coup. They’re trying to get rid of the Chief and make Derek the new Chief of Surgery. Did they not hear about his strife beard period last year? Ah well. The Chief has sufficiently pissed us off by being mean to Callie and Arizona, and other people who we care slightly less about.


Don’t worry too much about Callie though. She gets an open Ortho Attending position at Mercy West instead. Oh no, does this mean we’ll see less of Callie? We would be worried if we didn’t already know that Mercy West and Seattle Grace are going to be merging. People who aren’t spoiler whores might have not known this until the end of the episode. So good for you guys! Also happening in Callie land – Mark moves into the apartment across the hall from Callie (and Christina, as we assume this is still the same apartment from last season). Lexie is a little concerned, since Callie has no problem changing in the hall in front of them, or standing in the bathroom while Mark is in the shower to have a conversation of the chief.

Lexie: How gay are you on a scale of one to gay? Because even if you really are gay, he's not. And you're hot.

Callie (sweetly): ''He doesn't look at my boobs anymore. … Not since he met you.'

Awww, that’s nice. Until we realize that she totally didn’t answer the question. Well, we know she’s still dating Arizona, so that’s good enough for us for now.

Speaking of Arizona, she’s spent most of this episode hanging out with Martha Plimpton and her 15 year-old son who is having growing pains of death. She butts heads with the chief, who is being too much of whiny cheapskate to authorize the tests Arizona needs to help fix the kind. After some sneaky business sending the kid to Mercy West to guilt Callie into running the tests (which she does, but isn’t too happy about it), she finally figures out what she thinks is wrong, but needs Derek to authorize tests to prove it (the Chief would of course reject these as well). She and Derek have a nice little moment where she says she finally gets why they call him McDreamy. She’s quick to point out that she’s involved with someone (like he doesn’t already know that?), but still – she gets it. The find the problem which would have never been caught if it wasn’t for this test, and his spine is fixed with a quick snip.

Owen and Cristina have been gradually working their up to a relationship, and finally talk about the whole choking incident. They are cute together and we love them.

Whenever Lexie wasn’t worried about Callie getting up on her man or hanging out with boating accident survivor Clara (or Ceviche as Cristina nicknamed her), so was feeling bad about not being a better friend to George. She did basically completely cut him out and stop talking to him after he refused to acknowledge her affections for him. This led Mark to ask the question no one dared ask:

"This may be bad timing, but I gotta ask: What did that guy have? He wasn't much to look at, but you and Stevens and Torres? Tell the truth. Was he, you know, hung?"

She doesn’t answer, so the world may never know.


In other news, Bailey is grieving weirdly and spends a lot of time yelling at Cristina and riding the elevator. Izzie gets to go home because her cancer is just hanging out being lame like her – meaning it’s not bad enough to keep her as a surgical patient, but she still has cancer and she’ll need to keep up with her treatment and just live with it. In Courntey’s words, Izzie’s cancer sucks just as much as she does. Sex crazed MerDer banish Izzie and Alex to Derek’s trailer (ummm, thanks?). Alex and Izzie aren’t exactly in wedded bliss – but I don’t care about Izzie enough to talk about her any more.

And more stuff happened with more people. Man this episode was long!

To wrap it up, because this is WAY too long again (I fail at shot blog entries this week), the Chief announces that Seattle Grace and Mercy West will be merging (as previously spoiled earlier in the blog) and people are going to get fired, so watch your back!

Stuff we've also watched . . .

Alright, in quick succession, shows that we watched by haven’t gotten around to talking about yet:


Community
We love everything about Joel McHale, so it wasn’t hard to convince us that we’re going to like this show a lot. The pilot was a little too piloty at moments, but over all made us laugh our little tushies off. We loved the all of the Breakfast Club references, and we really did emphasize with that pencil names Steve. Poor Steve. Definitely worth the watch if you haven’t already.

Castle

This was a nice start to the second season. We love this show. Yes, it’s kind of a procedural, but it’s mainly character driven. It’s very funny and self aware. Nathan Fillion is made of win – so that’s always a plus. And weird name I can never remember so I have to google it Stana Katic is really stepping up to the plate this season to keep up with him. Keep up the good work (and more importantly in ABC’s eyes, the ratings) guys!

Warehouse 13

Season Finale! WHY???? I have no idea when this is coming back, but at least we know if is definitely picked up for another season. I hope it comes back earlier than the summer, though. Poor Artie! I would be a lot more concerned for you if I wasn’t convinced you have the Pheonix on you, so you probably weren’t burned alive. However, everyone seems to be pretty trapped in the Warehouse right now, so that’s not good. Oh, and LENA! How dare you?!?!?!

Top Chef
Robin is working our last nerve. Laurine is getting kind of tiresome too – but her deep hatred of Robin is amusing us. Both of them had really crappy food last night. Also in the bottom were Ash and Ron. Luckily for Robin, she had immunity from winning the Quickfire (where she totally played the cancer card). Ultimately it was Ron’s failure at deconstructing paella that sent him home. Not a shock. Coming out on top were Ashley (you keep not sucking, girl!), Michael V., Jen (who was convinced that her dish could send her home), and Kevin. Our boy Kevin took home the win and some nifty Calphalon nonstick cookware.

Glee Also Thinks It Can Dance

Okay, blog. You will not be the master of me! I say that this one will be brief and I mean it!

Glee

We’ve been big fans of Kurt’s all along, but last night’s episode made us love him even more (didn’t think that was possible!). His dancing was fierce, he was adorable when he waved to his father at the football game, and he almost made us cry when he came out to his father. Thankfully he’s got a cool dad like Mike O’Malley, was totally accepting of his son even if it wasn’t exactly in love with the idea. Way to keep it classy, O’Malley. That’s why we loved you on Global Guts.

Over in the adult plotlines, Terri admits to her sister that she is faking her pregnancy, but is quickly convinced that the only way to make sure Will doesn’t leave her is to find a baby somewhere. I think I’ve seen this a few hundred times on soap operas. It almost always ends well, right? No?

We’ll find out I suppose, because Quinn is now conveniently pregnant (worst President of Celibacy Club EVER!) with Puck’s baby, but has convinced Finn that it’s his. Come on man, do you REALLY believe that hot tubs can make you pregnant? Well, it’s a good think you’re pretty and sing real nice. Puck gets points for stepping up and saying he would want to take care of the baby, because his father ran out on him. He also loses points for apparently having taken advantage of a drunk Quinn. Man, high school is hard (that’s what your mom said when Puck cleaned your pool last week – WHAT WHAT!). Terri creepily waits in Quinn’s car (lol, what?) to plant the seeds of a baby swap operation. Terri, girl, what are you thinking! She’s one of you husband's students, so he’ll know that she’s pregnant. He might notice when the baby conveniently disappears right after your make believe one if born. Also, you’re at least 2 months more “pregnant” than she is. How is this going to work? We’ll see.

Back in Glee club land, Rachel throws a fit when Tina is given the West Side Story solo even though clearly should belong to her. Because Natalie Wood was a Jew. Fair enough. So she defects to Sandy’s production of Cabaret (who else is in this show???). Girl – get over it! It was nice to see Tina get to sing by herself. It was actually very good, besides the epic fail on the last couple of notes. Thanks for saying Tina’s name enough in this episode to make it finally stick in my brain! Rachel quits Glee for the time being. Score 1 for Sue and Sandy.

This episode was pretty light on the Will/Emma stuff, but we did let out a little squee when they were cheering together in the football stands.

And of course, we had the dancing football team. They were really reluctant to resort to the “ring on it” play, but it sure payed off! Go Kurt and Finn for making that happen! Three more football players decided to hop on the glee bandwagon after their first win in who knows how long. Score!

And now, some of the best quotes of the night:

“I had sex with you because you got me drunk on wine coolers and I felt fat that day.”  ~ Quinn to Puck

"Take this three times a day. Otherwise, your baby will be ugly." ~ Terri to Quinn

“I'll often yell at homeless people: 'Hey, how is that homelessness working out for you? Try not being homeless for once.” ~ Sue

“Not everyone is going to have the walnuts to take a pro-littering stance, but I will not rest until every last inch of our fair state is covered in garbage. It's why I pay taxes. It keeps garbage men earning a living. So they can afford tacos. For their family.” ~ Sue

“My body is like a rum chocolate souffle. If I don't warm it up right, it doesn't rise."  ~ Kurt

“The more time Rachel storms out of rehearsal, the less impact it has.” ~ Artie

“Isn’t this just lovely and normal?” ~ Sue about Sandy’s doll collection

“Boy, the only thing missing from this place is a couple dozen bodies limed and rotting in shallow graves under the floorboards.” ~ Sue about Sandy’s apartment.

“I’ve known since you were 3. All you wanted for your birthday was a pair of sensible heels.” ~ Kurt’s Dad when Kurt comes out of the closet

See you next week when the awesomeness of Kristin Chenoweth on Glee makes our brains explode.

PS: What was Bangs Brit (I'm told is her name) doing hanging out at with Tina and Kurt? Curious.

SYTYCD - Wicked Pisser Edition

My goal is to make this relatively brief. Let’s see that goes! *Spoiler Alert!* I totally fail.


First up on last night’s list of successfully viewed TV shows is:

So You Think You Can Dance

Hey, look at all of those dancers they’re showcasing! Only a few cringe worthy appearances. We finally got to see some focus on the men, they showed even more of the choreography round, Cat Deeley being adorable and trying to speak with a Boston accent – “park the car in Harvard Yard” and “wicked pisser” have never sounded so classy, and Tyce made us want to punch him in the face several times.

Auditions this week were in Boston. Don’t worry, Pat, Courtney, and I totally auditioned with an excellent piece set to the Manwich song, music provided by Courtney – I don’t know why that didn’t make the cut! Anyway, Cat Deeley says “Hey girl!” Or did we totally make that up? So hard to tell.

Some of the quality dancing highlights included:

•  Kimara Wood - dreadlocked contemporary dancer with can fly and hypnotize you with his hair
•  Channing - who we aren’t sure how we feel yet because most of her dancing was stretching and rolling around on the ground. We do know that she like ice cream, so she’s already more interesting than Kayla
• Jean Lloret - b-boy who started slow and had us worried for a second, until he broke out his power moves which blew everyone’s minds. He got 3 tickets to vegas and not a single criticism
•  Teddy Tedholm - who must be whimsical because he’s wearing funny pants and a bow-tie. He didn’t actually do that much dancing, but we’ll have to wait until Vegas to see if he has what it takes
• Married ballroom couple Karen and Matthew Hauer - meh. They were good, but now seem a little boring in retrospect
•  Kevin ''K'Bez'' Hunte - hip-hopped who Tyce went OFF on for not showing more of what he had worked on between last auditions and now, but they ended up sending him along to Vegas after the choreography round anyways
• Russell Ferguson - a crumper who managed to entertain us without making us think we were going to get murdered (what? Crumping is scary sometimes!)

In the, he’s just so adorable but too gigantic to function department, we saw 6’ 8” Ryan Casey, who put on a decent tap performance. His feet seemed to know what they were doing, but the rest of his body couldn’t quite keep up. Right now he’s a little too ungainly for the show, and would definitely be too tall to partner, but the kid’s only 18 and has a bright future ahead of him. He might be able to work on work on becoming more graceful and coordinated. Shrinking at least 8 inches? Probably not so much.

In this, why oh why on earth are you even showing us this department, we had 46 year old Paul Magliato who was well beyond the competition’s age limit (why did you even let him on the stage, guys?) and wore the tightest, most disgusting pants imaginable. I tried to find a picture of him so that he could haunt your dreams a little further – but the internet has failed me. Don’t worry though, google tells me he has a facebook page and he wants to be your friend.

HIMYM ~ Season Premier

We're mostly up to date on TV, but sadly not up to date on blogging about it. Le sigh.

How I met Your Mother came back on Monday, and it rocked our socks as per usual. We got some great Barney/Robin moments (squee!) and lots of second hand embarrassment courtesy of Ted. A+ all around.

Ted is about to start his teaching job. The gang get him an Indiana Jones hat and whip (“Yeah, I have a whip guy” – Barney) which they take into the alley to play with. They have a convenient dummy set up with a cigarette in his mouth (“Tell him to ‘whip’ the habit! – Marshall), but as we see moments later, Ted has a lot to learn about the finer points of whip aiming. Poor Marshall.

Robin and Barney have spent all summer keeping their relationship sex secret from the group, but are discovered making out, much to Lily’s delight. However, they refuse to admit that they are dating, and haven’t had “the talk” to define their relationship. So far this has led to a lot of confusion and even violence when Barney punches Robin’s date at a hockey game. (“I'm always punching guys, girls, I'll even punch a baby, I don't care” – Barney).

While Ted is off at his first day (more on that in a moment), Lily and Marshall take it upon themselves to force Barney and Robin into having the talk by locking them in Robin’s bedroom. Lily refuses to let them out until they have slipped a note under the door that defines their relationship to Lily’s satisfaction. They have some failed attempts (“We’re just seeing where this is going”) which were shot down by Lily, punctuated by Marshall with a loud crack of the whip (“NOT GOOD ENOUGH” – Marshal). Robin and Barney decide that they are both bad at relationships, but they are good at lying. So they tell Lily that they are going to be boyfriend and girlfriend. He says Robin is awesome, and she says Barney looks great in a suit, and our hearts melt because you know that they’re telling the truth, even if they don’t. Lily is satisfied, frees them from the bedroom (“GOOD ENOUGH” – Marshall with a loud crack of the whip). They leave hand in hand walking down the street on the way to grab brunch. When Ted points out to Lily that they were lying she responds, “No, they don't realize that they weren't lying,” and our hearts melt a little more.

Throughout all of this we have been seeing Ted’s first day of teaching. He had been having recurring nightmares, which were spurred on by Ted not knowing what kind of teacher he should be – cool guy, or serious teacher. He spends so much time worrying about what kind of professor he’ll be that he forgets one vital thing: how the word professor is spelled. Ted stood at the chalk board slowly writing “PROF”, pauses, adds an “F”, looks around the class room to dead faces and one girl slowly shaking her head, and then changes that “F” to an “E”, receiving a small nod from that girl. We died.

Ted still hasn’t decided what type of Professor to be, so he has a split personality moment. “I’m Professor Mosby . . . but you can call me Ted . . . . Professor Mosby . . . . T-Dawg . . . . do NOT call me T-Dawg.” Finally, when a girl raises her hand, he decides to go with serious teacher and says that all questions should wait until the end of the lecture. That was an unfortunate choice, because she was going to tell him that he was in the wrong classroom.

The second hand embarrassment was almost unbearable, in the most delicious way possible. He went on for seven minutes about the glory of architecture, despite repeated clues that something was amiss. Finally the actual professor arrives, convinces Ted that he is in the wrong classroom, and Ted begins his run across the campus with the Indiana Jones theme playing in the background. The good thing to come out of this was that being 20 minutes late for his class forced him to just be natural and normal when he finally got there – he didn’t have time to over-think everything, and came off much less douchey, we are to believe. And somewhere – either in the economics class or Ted’s architecture class (now I’m not so sure which) is the Mother, we are told. So one step closer!

House ~ Broken

And the season premiers keep on rolling in!

House made a bold choice this week in having its 2 hour premier set entirely in the asylum where House has committed himself. We got some really strong character work, a peak at a new side of House (one where he can admit that he’s broken), and some fun guest stars (I see you there, Booger – being all paranoid).

Since I got a little carried away with the Mad Men post (see gigantic ramblings below), I’ll keep this one short. So in a NUT-shell (see what I did there? No? Ok), here are some brief thoughts on the premier of the sixth season of House.

• Hugh Laurie can act his ass off. Sure, we already knew this, but it’s nice to be reminded. This episode was completely and utterly his. Wilson popped up for a minute on the other end of the telephone, but other than that there were no reminders of the world outside of the asylum. This was a great episode for him. Maybe they should have called it a tv-movie, 24 style, and tried to swing some Emmy nods in the Mini-series/TV movie category.

• We were totally prepared to be enraged at seeing House with another woman (we had been thoroughly spoiled on this part of the plot), but his encounter with Franka Potente really didn’t bother us. Cuddy loyalists though we are, it was interesting to see House actually with someone, and being completely and totally honest with them. Yes, the fact that we knew it was doomed from the start, and that it was completely fleeting, may have made it easier to stomach. Still – seeing House all vulnerable and teary eyed broke our little hearts.

• So after some fun and games, some legitimate breakthroughs, and an admission of having serious problems to work through, House is unleashed back into the real world. We’ll be seeing the rest of the gang next week, but we can rest assured that things won’t be the same as when House left.

FYI, next week’s episode is called “Epic Fail”.

Mad Men - Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency

This week on Mad Men we get more Joan (FINALLY), Betty defends her title of “Best Worst Mother in the World”, the British Invasion takes an interesting turn, and HOLY CRAP DID THAT SERIOUSLY JUST HAPPEN ON MY TV?

This would be the time to turn back if you haven’t watched the most recent Mad Men.

On the home front, Sally is afraid of the dark and Baby Gene. Turns out that she thinks the baby actually is her Dad Grandpa come creepily back to life. Fair enough.

Weird Bobby replacement continues to weird me out. Did he just ask to “pet” the baby? Yes he did.

When Bobby complains that he is bored Betty comes up with these two gems:

“Go bang your head against a wall”

 “Only boring people are bored”

At the office, everyone is told that their Independence Day holiday is going to be getting off the late start because THE BRITISH ARE COMING! Joan is particularly annoyed, because it messes with her last day at Sterling Cooper (her husband is supposed to be promoted to Chief Resident). The girls all scramble to rearrange plans for her going away party. Somehow Peggy was oblivious to all of this.

In this-can’t-possibly-end-well news, Ken Cosgrove triumphantly drives a John Deere lawnmower into the office after just landing their account. We are immediately convinced that someone is about to be horribly injured.

We learn that Mr. Nigel Murray Mr. Hooker is going to be taking over Joan’s position as office manager. Oh brother. Then he promptly ruins the surprise part of Joan’s surprise party. He is now our official pick for the “person we most want to see run over by a lawnmower” award.

Bert Cooper seems to think that the British are coming with the intention of promoting Don, and plans thoughts in his heads about a London life. Then he forces Roger to kiss and make-up over a shave. While Don is getting a closer shave, Roger gets a manicure and tells a lovely anecdote about his father’s dismemberment. Holy Foreshadowing, Batman!

At the Harris (not Patrick) residence that evening, Joan’s asshole of a husband stumbles home drunk in the middle of the night. Turns out that he didn’t get the promotion, and he was told he doesn’t have and brains in his fingers. Now he’s stuck with another year of residency and tells Joan they would have to move to some god forsaken place like Alabama if he ever wanted to be a surgeon. In the meantime, Joan’s just going to have to keep on supporting them. So now Joan has to walk into Sterling Cooper for her triumphant last day, but somehow manage to slip in a “jk, I totes need this job, ya’ll.” At this point we are trying to figure out how to get Greg in close proximately to that lawnmower.

Back at the office, The British have arrived! Hey Mr. Sheffield Charles Shaughnessy! The two big wigs are accompanied by a young eager chap named “Guy”. Hey, Guy – your names in the title of the episode! You must be important! As it turns out the Brits have no intention of promoting Don. Instead they whip out a transparency flowchart displaying the new chain of authority at Sterling Cooper. Guy has replaced Mr. Pryce, who is being shipped off to Bombay just when he was starting to grow on me. Poor Roger doesn’t even make it on the transparency. Whoops! They scribble him in with a marker.

So, that went well for no one, with the exception of Harry Crane who somehow managed to get bumped up the ladder. Everyone’s in a real party mood, now! Guy announces his new title to the troops, but quickly turns the attention to Joan to celebrate her final day.

“I wish you caviar, children, and everything else good…”

Joan bursts into tears (and brakes our hearts!), but manages to make it through with dignity and without mentioning that she’ll be coming back after the holiday. Peggy pulls her aside to tell her that she wanted to get her something, and then starts talking about how much Joan has done for her, and that she’ll miss her, but we never get to see the end of this conversation because . . . .

Someone thought it was a great idea to mix drunken secretaries and lawnmowers. Smitty hands the wheel over to Lois (oh girl, we love you, always have) who shockingly enough doesn’t know how to drive a riding lawnmower. She quickly loses control and CUTS OFF GUY’s foot, splashing blood all over the smiling people next to her (yes, I have this gif, but I’ll avoid posting it for the faint of heart), and she crashes through a set of glass doors. Guy is screaming in pain and horror. Everyone is freaking out. Lois’s “Oh God, WHAT DID I DO?” actually made me laugh. Peggy passes out into Pete’s arms. Don’t worry though, because Joan apparently has brains in her fingers (suck it, Greg!) and quickly hops in to get the situation under control. She wraps a tourniquet around his ankle and gets the bleeding under control, while barking out orders to people around her. Is this like standard office manager training? If so, I sincerely hope no one is dismembered while Mr. Hooker is in charge.

Roger missed the main event – I think because he was in Bert Cooper’s office watching him eat pudding, setting him up for the great line, "It looks like Iwo Jima in here". And then a scene happens, with him and the guys, where they’re tossing around blame and guilt. Honestly, I’m not sure what happened, because the entire time a guys is squeegee-ing Guy’s blood off the window behind them, and we are laughing ourselves to death.

Don missed all the fun because he’s was invited to a special meeting with Conrad Hilton (yes, like the hotel) who turns out to be the guy Don had that chat with in the bar at Roger’s party a couple weeks back. He’s looking for free advertising advice, Don gives him a little taste, waxes poetical like Don Draper does, and then sets himself up for a chance at the Hilton business. Thank god, because the mouse-centric ad campaign Hilton was working on was made of fail.

Don gets a call from Joan telling about the great foot debacle. He arrives at the hospital to find an exhausted Joan covered in blood. She and Don have a great scene, which makes me mad that they haven’t had more scenes like this in the past. Joan delivers my favorite line of the night:

''That's life. One day you're on top of the world and the next some secretary is running you over with a lawn mower.''

For a second there, I am totally prepared to ship Don and Joan. She ends up saying goodbye, kissing him on the cheek, and still neglecting to mention that she needs her job back. GIRL! You better get on that!

The Brits inform us that Guy has lost his foot, but not his life (thanks to Joan). It sure is too bad that he can’t work in advertising anymore, according to them. Don doesn’t quite get what the problem is, but we’re assured that since he can’t play golf anymore there is no way he can be taken seriously in the workplace. Fair enough. Handicaps are for losers.

So, to wrap it up things on the home front, Don straightens out Sally, telling her that her brother is just a baby and not her dead grandfather. Phew!

Oh, and I didn’t find a place to slip it in there, but we were very excited to see Kurt pop back up! We were worried about him.

Also, do you think John Deere had a real good grasp on how Mad Men was going to work in their product placement? How's that working for you guys?

The Emmy Awards!!!

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Let’s face it – we’re a little too into TV. Some might call it a sickness. So for us, the Emmys are basically a holiday. This year was easily the best show in our memory. Neil Patrick Harris should host every awards show – and produce it, because you could definitely see the difference he made. We loved the genre format (the awards were broken down into Comedy, Reality, Variety, TV Movie/Miniseries, and Drama, saving the best show in Comedy and Drama for last). I’ve read some people complaining about being bored during the middle sections, and a surprisingly large number of complaints about the dancing section (which we loved, of course). We thought it kept a nice pace. It was much easier to keep track of what awards had been given out and what we were still waiting for throughout the night.

Some of our highlights from the night:

• NPH’s opening number was delightful. Throughout the night he kept it classy and hilarious. He is made of win.

• The choice to have John Hodgman as the announcer was genius. He made us not fast forward through the awkward walk to the stage, while he announced completely made up facts about the winners before slipping the “has been nominated # times, and this is the # win” business. The one that killed us was in the special event section when the guys who wrote Hugh Jackman’s Oscars opening number were walking to the stage. “This was the first time a musical number was written for a wolverine”.

• We personally LOVED the glasses bit that Amy Poehler dreamed up for the Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy nominees. Vanessa William’s refusal to wear them was clearly part of the bit (what-up with EW and other bloggers not getting that it was part of the joke?), and the whole thing slayed us.

• Cheno wins!!!! In our heart of hearts we wanted her to win, but didn’t think it would happen. Pushing Daisies was cancelled, after all. Kristen Chenoweth looked stunned. She’s was an adorable and so appreciative – and her dress was so shiny! ''Thank you for recognizing me for a show that's no longer on the air.''

•  Surprise Cat Deeley! NPH clearly demanded her presence, since she totally should have been at least nominated, if not awarded, Best TV Reality Host. Since she was completely snubbed in that regard, it was a nice surprise to find her backstage telling us to vote for some weird made-up viewer choice award, brought to you by Jergens, or something weird like that. I could care less about the award, but HEY GIRL HEY! At least she got to pop up at the beginning and end of the show to talk to us about it, and then go hang out with her SYTYCD babies backstage.

• Toni Collette was a surprise, but not at all undeserved – she acts her ass off on United States of Tara. The real star of this category, however, was Sarah Silverman’s mustache. She knew there was no way in hell she would win. So at least she guaranteed herself some good laughs, extra screen time, and a picture that will be popping up all over the internet today. Well played, girl.

• The Dr. Horrible bit was everything we could have dreamed of and more. The buffering gag was great. So nice to see Nathan Fillion, Felicia Day, and Simon Helberg (Moist) pop in too! Thanks for making up this category for Dr. Horrible to win, Schmemmys!

 

• Michael Emerson wins Emmy - impregnates Courtney while doing so. This was another triumph that we wanted so badly, but had a sinking feeling that it wasn’t possible . . . and then there he is, being all adorable and super classy!

There were of course a few disappointments (really, John Cryer winning? Not NPH, or ANYONE ELSE in the category besides him? Whatevs), but over all this was an awesome evening.

PS: This just in from Bonnie:

Bonnie Henry Bishoff: AND Krstin C. (above) is dressed by Jay Woods, an MCLA theatre grad from around 1993!!!! His name is still on the wall in the costume room. He also does UGLY BETTY and lots of stuff on B'way.

Fringe is back, Baby!

Welcome back, Fringe!

Everyone should be this excited to see Fringe back - because it's a darn good show! This season, they aren't messing around. As Peter said at the end of last night's episode, "From now on, we’re calling the shots; we’re done reacting.” Hopefully this means Joshua Jackson will have a little more to do this season, and we don't just mean Olivia - OH SNAP! Ok, that's just wishful thinking.

Fringe really knows the way to our hearts. This is evidenced by two X-Files references in one episode!

When we first saw the shape shifting soldier take the form of his first unfortunate victim in the dimension, what should be playing on the TV in the background?

The X-Files! It went by very quickly, so it would have been easy to miss - but we sure didn't! We were even able to correctly identify it as the scene from the end of episode Dreamland II. This was a two part episode in which Fox Mulder and Morris Fletcher (played by Michael McKean) switched bodies. So the outside world looked at Fletcher and saw Mulder face. An allusion to the shape shifter in this episode? You bet ya!

Reference number two came when Broyles was sitting before a senate committee who was trying to determine whether or not they should keep the Fringe Division open. They referenced that they have wasted enough money on both Fringe and X Divisions. Holla! The senators shut down Fringe, but by the end of the episode Peter rounds up some technology from the shape shifter that is sure to get them reinstated. See Fringe, don't worry! The X-Files got shut down plenty of times, but it always found its way back.

On a non-X-Files related note, we felt bad for Charlie - but totally saw it coming. The fact that the actor who plays Charlie famously twittered about his character being written out this season might have helped us out, but we choose to believe we are smart. Let us have it!

And the real pay-off of the episode:

We've been waiting for that for weeks, ever since we saw this promo picture - and it was everything we could have hoped for.

And for those of us keeping track of the Observer sightings, here he was in Last night's episode:

This was right after the shape shifter fled from the accident in the very beginning of the episode. We'll admit it - we totally missed this. To be fair - we were eating cake at the time. Thanks for hooking us up, internet!

Bones - Harbingers in the Fountain

Last night the Season Premier of Bones brought us great joy and happiness, as Bones always does. We had great guest stars (Hey Cyndi Lauper, how you doin' girl?), good music (hey again, Cyndi Lauper), good "I don't know what that means" moments from Bones, a good case, and great Booth and Bones moments. They hug, Bone's offers to kiss his forehead, Booth rescues her from a scalpel stabbing doctor, he comforts her and calls her "baby" while they wait for the ambulance to arrive - what more could we ask for?

As it turns out, Booth's coma dream from last year's season finale (which had a lot of fans very angry, even though we found it delightful), isn't going to be resolved quite as quickly as you might have thought. Booth did have brain damage, after all. One of the lasting side effects of the coma dream (in which Booth and Bones were married, owned a club, wore some rocking clothes, and were expecting a baby) is that Booth is in love with Bones. DAMN RIGHT! The problem here is that we can't be sure if this is love is genuine, or if it will fade as he recovers. He confessed he feelings to Cam, who told him to trust his heart and tell her how he feels, but he'd better be damn sure the feelings are real, because it will destroy Bones if he changes his mind. Sweets showed up with Brain scans which claim to show that he wasn't in love before the coma, but he was during the coma, and still is. He says that these will fade, and to not hurt Brennan by telling her his feelings if they are fake. I love that everyone is so protective of Bones' heart.

In the end he is all set to confess his love to her, when a clown shows up and squirts him in the face. Now let's take a moment to remember just how much Booth hates clowns. He shot a noisy fake clown that was part of an ice cream truck. Instead of hurting the clown, however, Booth laughs and honks the clown's nose. Bones is very confused. She reminds Booth that he hates clowns, but not to worry. She's sure he'll hate clowns again in a few weeks. Booth chickens out on confessing his romantic love to her, but he does say he loves her "in a professional and at-a-girl, kind of way." We'll take what we can get. We're looking forward to all of the longing, I-love-you-so-much-it-hurts looks Booth will be directing towards her this season.

Oh, and in case you were wondering what a bald computer generated Cyndi Lauper might look like, we've got you covered:

You're welcome.

Here are some nice quotes from the night:

“You were there. You killed the bad guy dead. I know you hate that, but it always make me a little glad. Does that make me a bad person?” ~ Caroline to Booth

"Well, they gave me medication, so I feel how I imagine people of average intelligence feel all the time.” ~ Brennan

"Yes, he knows the truth of you, and he is dazzled by that truth" ~ Avalon (Cyndi Lauper) to Brennan

"By the way, my cards tell me that this all works out eventually." ~ Avalon to Booth

Top Chef - Teepee edition

Tonight's edition of Top Chef had the contestants cooking over fire pits for some real life Las Vegas cowboys. Before they could cook, however, they had to camp out overnight in teepees. Why? No clue - especially since there was no prep going on overnight, and they were serving lunch. Basically the people at Bravo all got together and decided this sounded funny. For this, I thank Bravo, because it brought us our first documented Into The Woods reference to appear on the show.

While sitting around the camp fire, folks start to wonder if they should be worried about any wild animals. Ash (who has been managed to remain pretty under the radar so far) revealed that he had been an animal psychologist. This was in between being an actor and before becoming a chef. Someone then mentioned bears, to which he responded:

"Bears? Bears are sweet!"

His cadence matched Bernadette Peter's delivery of this precisely:

Witch: A bear? Bears are sweet. Besides, you ever see a bear with forty-foot feet?
Wife: Dragon?
Witch: No scorch marks--usually they're linked.
Baker: Manticore?
Witch: Imaginary.
Wife, Baker: Griffin?
Witch: Extinct.
Baker: Giant?
Witch: Possible. Very, very possible...

This made us very happy.

Ok, so on about the actual episode. The Quickfire had the contestants cooking with Cactus, which most of them didn't have a clue about. Stupid Mike I. was the most successful, and won the Quickfire and $15,000. The guest judge for this episode was Tim Love, who we always find delightful. So that was a nice bonus.

As I mentioned, the elimination round had the contestants working over a fire pit with limited equipment. Helpful hint to future Top Chef contestants: don't try to make a ceviche in the desert. No one will like you.

Coming out on top this week were Laurine, Ashley, and Bryan. Bryan of course won, but it sure was nice to see the girls coming out with some good dishes.

On the bottom were Robin (whose shrimp romaine salad tasted like chlorine), Mattin (whose ceviche was so undercooked that Tom actually left the table to spit it out - Tim Love was not so lucky, and might genuinely have gotten food poisoning), and Ron (whose food wasn't too bad, but his mojito was awful). Mattin was told to pack his neckerchief knives and go.

Coming up next week - Pen and Teller stop by to make some suggestive remarks about Padma having her fair share of bull testicles, and Toby Young returns to make the contestants want to kill themselves. Whee!

So You Think You Can Glee

First off we'd like to lodge a formal complaint that DirecTv hates Fox in HD. OR it hates us. This could be equally possible. For some reason this channel is an Epic Fail in HD. It always freezes up, the sound goes wonky, and it ends up skipping huge chunks of episodes. As a result we've had to totally bail on trying to record anything in HD on Fox. This is particularly bothersome since Fox has so many of the shows that we really want in HD (Dollhouse, Fringe, Glee, Bones, are all way prettier in HD). Whatevs.

Anyway, on to our non-HD viewing of Fox from last evening.

So You Think You Can Dance

We had a rocking good b-boy, a reasonably talented deaf girl who made Mary cry, an enjoyable male same-sex couple that made Mia cry, and an overly excited guy whose screams of joy made my ears cry. We got to see a bit more of the choreography round this episode - which filled us with Pasha and Anya love. Once again, we didn't really get to see that many dancers (a casualty of the 1hr format), and they seemed to be overly focusing on the girls.

Most importantly, we're pretty sure Cat Deeley saved Jarvis's life. The aforementioned  overly excited screaming guy got through the choreographer (much to Nigel and Mia's own shock when they agreed to send him there), and promptly had a asthma attack (although at the time he thought it might have been a heart attack). Who came rushing to his side? A medic, maybe a producer or two . . . and CAT DEELEY, BITCHES! That right. She was at his side the whole time, while the other contestants danced around them (the show must go on). She supported him as he hobbled off stage. When was the last time you saw Seacrest do that, hmmmmmmm?

Glee

Glee continues to fill our hearts with joy. There is so much to love about this show. For example, the following progression of events which pretty much made me pee my pants.

Can't even handle it. Best. Cake. Ever.

On a more heartwarming note, Kurt made us cry a little when he came out to Mercedes. *SPOILER ALERT* Word on the street is that we'll be seeing him come out to his father next week. *END SPOILER ALERT* But seriously, Mercedes? Girl needs to work on her gaydar. Like whoa. At least she got a fierce musical number out of it.

Big shout outs to Victor Garber and Debra Monk as Will's parents! Neither of them broke out into song this week, but I think we can be pretty confident that they'll show up again. Victor Garber's bow ties stole the show, and Courtney's heart (which has always belonged to him anyway - so that's cool).

Will slayed me with all of the "This is how we do it"'s he sang straight at the camera. Every time. Win.

And now, some of our favorite quotes from the night:

“The way you use your mental illness to help these kids is really inspiring…and I’m SHOCKED you’re not married!” ~ Sue to Emma

“'Who’s Josh Groban?' Kill yourself!” ~ Sandy

“Josh Groban loves a blousy alcoholic.” ~ Josh Groban trying to seduce Will's drunk mother.

“They say it takes more certainty than talent to become a star. I mean look at John Stamos.” ~ Emma

Speaking of John Stamos, you might recognize Whit Hertford (who played Dakota Stanley in tonight's episode) from his turn as Walter (AKA Duck-lips) on Full House.




On a side note, did anyone else think the saw Lauren from Season 3 of SYTYCD in the front row of Vocal Adrenaline? Apparently she was uncredited in the Pilot (probably in their Rehab number).

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