Kel Varnsen

You mean in the event that they can't get CCH Pounder who would also fit that same description.

I watched that it was really interesting. Although I would say the most famous is the dude who played Jim Brass on CSI (Paul Guilfoyle). I mean sure he hasn't been in a lot of stuff (and he almost always plays cops) but he was on CSI for 14 years and for a good chunk of that time it was the #1 show on TV. The funniest thing about that movie was seeing some of the other actors talking about how they still have to work hard, go to open casting calls and basically take what they can get. While Guilfoyle can probably live extremely well off of CSI residuals for the rest of his life.

That would actually make things kind of interesting. I mean Scotiabank has a presence in Mexico and the Carribean. Flights to those destinations aren't really that far, and could showcase to people how easy they are to get to on Air Canada, and how they have Canadian banks. Plus then they could add in some language/cultural barrier to make the race a bit more difficult, since that was my big complaint last year, what with everyone having to fly on AC it was basically fly on a predetermined flight from one city to the next, take a cab to an easy to find place, and then do a task. With one of the tasks this season being at the Empress Hotel, it doesn't give me a lot of hope that we won't see the same thing this year. I would have loved it if they had been forced to drive from Calgary to Vancouver (about 10 hours) and then taken a seaplane ride to Victoria.

The old grizzled veteran detective is usually a former alcoholic or gambling addict or something. The young hispanic partner will almost always be a super devout catholic.

I met George Wendt (Norm from Cheers) at a beer festival in Eastern Ontario once. It was no surprise that I met him because he was the guest of honour but it was actually better than just saying hello. The festival fair grounds and the brewery that were running it were about a 10 minute hay wagon ride. My wife and decided we were needed a break from the festival so we went for a hay wagon ride to the brewery . When we got there George Wendt had just shown up and was talking with the organizers and took some pictures at the brewery. After a few minutes we decided we better get back on the hay wagon so that we could get back to the fair grounds in time for George to make his appearance. As the wagon was about to leave George was getting in his car, and a bunch of people on the wagon yelled for him to hop on. Since I was sitting at the very back of the wagon he ended up sitting next to me for the whole ride to the fair grounds. We didn't really talk much since everyone on the wagon was trying to talk to him, but my wife got some good pictures.

I am sort of the same way. I don't necessarily hate family guy but pretty much all of the episodes have no rewatchabity. I mean there are a ton of classic Simpsons or King of the Hill episodes I could watch over and over again, but even when I was watching Family Guy there aren't any episodes I can think of that I would want to watch more than once. I mean are there any episodes from the Post-cancellation period that people consider classic?

Like others have said when you are that rich you are probably supporting a ton of people. Plus depending on how financially disciplined she is maybe she spends her Friends money on a very strict budget, which means commercial money is like easy bonus spending money (which could mean new boat or fancy vacation somewhere). Or maybe she is like Jay Leno (who was known for never spending any of his tonight show earnings, only living off the money he made doing stand-up) and doesn't touch her Friends money at all. Plus like others have also said commercial money, especially commercial voice over money, has to be the most ridiculously easy money there is.

The funny thing about Ted McGinley is that his status as a show killer isn't really deserved. I mean he was a cast member for 61 Episodes of Happy Days and 164 episodes of Married... With Children (in fact MWC produced more episodes after he was cast as Jefferson, than before).

I totally agree with that. I mean sure it is new episodes aren't as good as seasons 3-6. But to me that is an almost unattainable standard. I mean there are no sitcoms on TV right now that are as funny, and new/original/groundbreaking as those golden age Simpsons episodes. So if no other shows can live up to that standard, why should the current simpsons episodes live up to that standards. I will say that when I do watch the episodes they usually make me laugh as much as any other sitcom I watch that week (which I think is a much more fair standard of comparison).

Interesting about Wolverine and Spiderman on the Avengers. I never really read those stories, I stopped reading comics before those things happened and only read about them online. Most of the time I was reading avengers was during Busiek's run and I loved those. So something so different seems weird to me. Another thing I hated was The Ultimates. It seemed like such a huge ripoff of The Authority. It was so irritating it made me retroactively hate Mark Millar's run on The Authority..

I stopped reading comics sort of as Bendis's career was just about to take off. Other than his work on Powers I never really liked his stuff. And readying sort of what happened in marvel comics continuity in the last 10 or so years it just seems insane to me how many changes he made. I mean it seemed that this guy had his hand in everything including destroying the Avengers and then even worse putting Wolverine and Spiderman on the team. To me that doesn't make any sense other than being a giant cash grab. I mean why not throw Han Solo, Mickey Mouse and Optimus Prime on the avengers too?

Maybe not my favourite but certainly one of the most memorable ones from back in the days when I was reading comics. It was this Ultron story line that actually got me into the avengers. I met Kurt Busiek once and he basically said it was his favourite cover in the run that he and George Perez did.

For me it is not so much the hardcore techno stuff that is confusing me (because I would have no idea if it is right) it is the basic logic stuff that is bugging me. I mean are they building a straight competitor for the IBM PC that is half the price and twice as fast? Or are they building something portable (and if so will it still be half the cost of the IBM-PC)? And if they are building an IBM PC clone why do they need their own operating system?

Even though I have dropped a bunch of shows over the last few years (with having kids I have had to choose sleep or TV and in many cases sleep wins) for me a big one has been Sons of Anarchy. It seems to get dumber and dumber and more and more like a soap crossed with a video game each season, yet I will probably stick it out for the final season just to see how it turned out.

I don't know I watch fairly regularly still and while the current crop of episodes aren't stellar, they are usually as funny as anything else on TV that week. Worst episode all time for me though would have to be Lastest Gun in the West, the one with the cowboy actor. And now just looking at it, I can't believe that episode is 12 years old.

I thought it was pretty impressive too. I could have done without the skydiving and the tea service task at the Empress though. I grew up in Victoria and it would have been cool if they could find something more obscure. I mean every cabbie in victoria can probably get to the Empress with his eyes closed. As for the teams most are pretty good. The Muskoka guys seem super annoying to me, and the mom in the mother and son team needs to just be a little more quiet. Also as others have said the prizes are awesome. Gas for life at Canadian gas prices is insane. Even the leg prize was really good (express pass, trip to anywhere in south america and 2000 bucks).

Anyone who wants to get their hands on a Mitsubishi Patent can just look it up. Here is a list of approximately 72000 patents where the word Mistubishi appears. http://goo.gl/YSlbdM This is from the US patent office's searchable database so the company needing to keep the same information under lock and key makes absolutely no sense.

You forgot to fit the word "gams" in there somehow.

Plus as someone else has mentioned there seems to be something getting killed every week (the armadillo on Joe's car, the bird in Gordon's yard, the livestock on the boss's ranch and now a person. Would the next step up be death of a main character?

Except this goes back to what I have said in previous episode threads, what kind of computer are they making. If they are making a computer that is for someone who has never used a computer before, then why the hell does it need to be portable. Now I can see someone who uses a computer for business, or a computer programmer maybe wanting something they can take on business trips. But would the person Cameron described, who has never used a computer (who would likely be playing games and doing word processing, need to have a computer they can take on a plane? And would they be willing to pay any kind of premium for it?

Even without the screwing the fact that she told her team to work on something, and then totally bailed on them and wasn't there to back them up when a manager from a different department told them to work on something else is not really a great way to gain loyalty from your employees.

If they can't get Domenic Cooper Stark, I would love it if they could do some kind of of flashforwards and give us more of John Slattery Stark. I mean Slattery is going to be looking for a new job soon, and his Howard Stark was one of the best things about Iron Man 2.

No contract might be just as bad though. I mean if (or more likely when) she turns down her boss's sexual advances he can fire her and just say it was for cause because she was doing work for a competitor (not because she refused to have sex with him). I mean I don't think sexual harassment, as we know it today was really a thing back then. The person was dead, but the power lines were still sparking meaning they were still live. You are right he can't do anything for that person, but calling for help/fire department or whoever could at least make sure no one else gets hurt from the downed power lines. That said I wonder if in a future episode it will be revealed that the person was a worker in the toy store who stayed late because some guy called and said he was coming to buy a cabbage patch kid.

I just wish this show can have strong enough writers that they can grab the audience's interest right off the bat. I mean I have to think that this show is going to be a harder sell for the average viewer than Agents of Shield is. I mean it is set in the past (a hard sell on its own, plus it means no name dropping Iron Man or Romanov or Nick Fury showing up), it features a lesser known character, plus for fans of the movies there will be even less risk than usual since you know that Agent Carter is never going to be killed. I mean Agents of SHIELD I think has kind of been a letdown for the network, and just the basic premise of this show seems like one that would bring in fewer viewers right off the bat. I also hope that the writers are good enough that they can have Agent Carter be smart enough to be interesting, but have a reasonable explanation for how she doesn't realize that SHIELD is being infiltrated by HYDRA.

I thought this was the most boring episode yet. So many bad 80's cliches and trying to be a better/more artistic show than it really is. I mean we had Gordon's supposedly deep dream sequence at the beginning, Joe's ridiculous yuppie clothing store closet (has anyone in the real world ever had their clothes laid out like that), the whole thing previously mentioned where Cameron can only get inspiration from having sex, and then of course it is the early 1980's so you have to mention cabbage patch kids. The only scene I really liked was Cameron's drinking scene with Bosworth since it did seem kind of real. And I did kind of like that Boz got to fire up the computer. And it totally made sense that the team would support him. Most of the old school engineers he probably hired, and for the younger programmers he was the one saying late playing adventure with them. Speaking of Bosworth as a King of the Hill fan, they really need to find a way to have him say "fity men" for some reason. One thing I didn't understand about the Cardiff computer, and maybe someone who knows about computers can explain it to me, but if they are building an IBM compatible PC, why do they need an operating system at all? Wouldn't it have to run MS-Dos to be compatible with IBM programs? I get that the thing Cameron was designing was something above and beyond, but when they fired up the prototype, they said that the coders designed the OS, and I just wondered why. I think the scene with Donna and her boss is going to come back to bite her in the ass. She basically told him she had a hand in designing the Cardiff PC. And I totally wouldn't be surprised if her contract with Texas Instruments has some kind of clause where any computer equipment she designs automatically becomes their property or at very least it is the kind of thing where doing work for another company is a fireable offense. I can predict it now, on the business trip, boss is going to hit on her, she is going to turn him down, and then when they get back he is either going to stir up trouble with Cardiff or fire her because she helped her husband. That said, like others I kind of wouldn't have a problem if she didn't turn him down. I mean they still haven't given me one bit of story to explain what Donna sees in Gordon (since Gordon is a major jerkass). Although the part at the dinner where she knew exactly where he was, and that he didn't have a Cabbage Patch was hilarious.