TV Blind Dates ~ Part 3

The final installment of awkward random TV pairings.




Annie Edison (Community) and John Locke (Lost)

Common Ground: The both have a vulnerable side, a need for approval, and obsessive tendencies. Also, I’m just guessing about Annie, but I think it’s safe to bet that they are both rocking some Daddy issues.

Possible Conflicts: The age difference is staggering, and a little gross. Plus Locke’s occasional deaths could put a real strain on a relationship.

At the end of the date: 18% chance of a second date. 100% chance that he is technically old enough to be her grandpa.





Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation) and Walter Bishop (Fringe)

Common Ground: Walter shares Leslie’s appreciation of parks. They are both known to be a little out of touch with the rest of the world.

Possible Conflicts: Walter’s checkered past would be sure to complicate Leslie’s future presidential campaign. The age difference might be a bit troublesome, but if you were to just not count those years that Walter was in the mental institution then they almost catch up with each other.

At the end of the date: 41% chance of a second date. 23% likelihood of Walter convincing Leslie to take a homemade hallucinogen.





Kate Beckett (Castle) and Chuck Bartowksi (Chuck)

Common Ground: Both have high risk jobs where getting shot at is just part of a day’s work. They both will fight for what is right. Beckett might play it cool, but we all know that she is a giant dork deep down.

Possible Conflicts: Beckett is pretty well settled into her adult life while Chuck still has a bit of maturing to do. He’s not quite ready to break through Beckett’s emotional walls yet. (sidenote: how weird is it that their counterparts were paired with eachother in part 2?)

At the end of the date: 72% chance of a second date. 40% chance that Beckett will be sporting a mullet.






Bree Hodge (Desperate Housewives) and Benjamin Linus (Lost)

Common Ground: He’s a BAMF and she’s a HBIC. They share an appreciation for the finer things in life. Whenever possible, Ben is polite and well mannered. They are both used to people dying around them at disproportionate rates.

Possible Conflicts: You know what? No conflicts. I’ve just realized these two are perfect together. Plus there couple name could be Benree. Win win.

At the end of the date: 80% likely to get married and have a bunch of ginger babies. 32% chance of Widmore putting out a death order on at least one of these kids.

 

 


Joan Harris (Mad Men) and Bill Compton (True Blood)

Common Ground: They both have an ageless beauty. We know Joan has a thing for older men (we’re looking at you, Roger). Bill knows how to treat a woman with respect, unlike Joan’s asshole husband.

Possible Conflicts: Bill is cool and powerful and all, but there is no way he could handle a woman as fierce as Joan.

At the end of the date: 76% probability of a second date but only a 25% chance that Joan will understand a word Bill says.

Quickies - DH, House, Castle, and P&R

Desperate Housewives

We loved vengeful Katherine, especially when she wore Susan’s wedding dress while stirring a messy pot of tomato sauce. We know that she’s seriously hurt, and we feel bad for her, but I for one kinda hope she never gets over it. I can take this Katherine all season long. Not sure how we feel about the new neighbors yet. It’s weird to have them assimilated so quickly, what with the quick time passage and all. They’re clearly on the run from something. The mob? The police? Something to do with their creepy kind? And her big ass back scar? Interesting. We’ll see how you go new guys. As far as Julie goes, the easy suspects are Katherine (I don’t believe for a second that she would actually do that) and the creepy new kid or his sketchy Dad. I’m sure fingers will be pointing by next week. Also, we love Lynette and this story lien. We hope you end up loving your babies by the time they pop out and that you don’t do anything drastic.

Two quotes from the night that amused me:

''I got really lucky. The woman who handled the properties in the area, she slammed her car into a pole and got fried by a power line.'' – Lee, explaining how he had gotten such a great house for his first listing.

''We will never be done if we birth two every time one moves out — that's just math!'' - Lynette

House

All House and Wilson all the time please. Their scenes were pretty much the only good thing about this episode. The case wasn’t that interesting, and Foreman suck ass as a boss. Oh, and for the love of gob shave that pube beard, Foreman! We can’t take it anymore. Also intolerable are him and Thirteen (Foreteen – gag me with a spoon). Our hate for them as a couple burns so bright that it has completely erased any memory why (or if) we ever liked them as individuals. Being in charge put a serious strain on their relationship, which led him to fire her (ummmmm, I’m pretty sure that’s sexual harassment). Oh, and Taub quit, which I keep forgetting. Next week House is back at work, and we get James Earl Jones as a patient – so things should be looking up!


Castle

This show just keeps getting better and better. We loved the inter office bet on who could solve their murder first, and thought it was great to have Becket be just as competitive as Castle instead of standing to the side judging him like we would have thought. While the show is improving with each episode, poor Becket’s hair is not so lucky. She’s got some unfortunate stuff happening. Hope they fix that soon.

Parks and Recreations

Keeps being funny! You go, guys! I especially loved the C-plot line of Ron Swanson stuck in his chair all day from a hernia. Over all it wasn’t quite as funny as last week, but it keeps hopes high for the rest of the season.

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!