TheGongOfDoom

I partially agree with this. I think the bit about people using dark humor and sex as a means of escape is true, but that only gets you through for so long and you burn out on that. You saw that in Band of Brothers, the early episodes there was a fair bit of joking and joshing but by the last two-three episodes everyone was sick of war and espeically sick of the replacements who were "WHEN ARE WE GONNA JUMP INTO BERLIN I WANNA SEE SOME ACTION!!!!!!!!!" I can see why the oldtimers would want those asshats to get shot just so they'd shut the hell up. As for all of the characters becoming quasi goody two shoes, that happens on every show. Every character turns towards being more good the bad, the only real exception on the show was Frank and let;s be honest that whole "Oh look it's an unlikeable smarmy jackass who is a horrible doctor" was getting bored and played out, there was little if anything the character could have done and they certainly couldn't have had him make some magical turn into a likeable guy.

IIRC it was the episode where Trapper and Hawkeye wanted an incubator to help make pencillin or something. It was health related and would save lives so of course the Army says no. Hawk and Trap got to a press conference and start questioning a general and there is a cut to Henry Trapper and Haak witting in Henry's office and Henry is railing at them. He stops and reads the paper in front of him, "Did you really call a two star general a nincompact? Col. Flagg was always great because he said the most outrageous things in the most casual, matter of cat way. "Corporal, I'm gonna need you to get me a box of scorpions." "Sir di you--" "Big ones. And if you can't do that, get me two snakes and a rat."

I doubt they will do a show about horses because having just one young animal only gives them one 'storyline' although it's not like the storylines they have are complex; you have the shy baby, the one who loves to explore, the one who gets into trouble. I'd like to see a show about wheaten terriers, if only because they are one of the few dogs whose coloring changes dramatically as the puppies age.

The last person you'd expect singing Alicia Keys No One on the Italian version of The Voice: Any Italian speakers out there that can translate what they say after she stops singing?

Queens performance at Live Aid. Freddie Mercury had a cold/strep throat, and was touch and go as to whether he'd make the gig, but the band annihilated it The montage at the end of the series finale of Friday Night Lights set to Delta Spirits 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.' It showed that there was more to life than football, well except for Buddy. ;p Tinker makes the SuperTeam!!!! The Scrubs season 8 finale with The Book of Love by Peter Gabriel

For those ragging on Henry Winkler, you do know that he had a serious learning disability to the point where his childhood doctor declared him retarded, so I think it's more than fair to cut him a good bit of slack. As for Martin Short it's not like he has a lot of irons in the fire movie or tv show wise, this is more a ploy for some casting director to notice him.

I don't think it's that the stars trained for this show, most tv stars even back then worked out and kept in good shape. A couple of problems with a possible remake. 1)Too many networks. Do you include the cable networks or just the Big 4 plus the CW? 2)Too much chance for an injury which could put a star out of action for a couple of months. And the injury would be replayed the star who was injured would be ridiculed right out of the industry. 3) It wouldn't be taken remotely seriously. Not that the original was, but it would get ripped to shreds on a site like, well like the one I'm writing this on.

Most reality Tv for a couple of reasons: 1)How much of it is so obviously scripted, and I mean scripted beyond how the show is edited. 2) How much importance there is in 'bringing drama' ie catfighting, chicks clawing at each other, just people losing their shit ALL the GODDAMN time. I loathe this because it has filtered out from the TV world down to the high school students who watch and emulate this kind of bullshit level. Guy I went ot school with is a high school teacher and he has to break up fights at least once a day between kids because of 'drama.' Shows like Pawn Stars or Storage wars because they moved away from what was in the actual trailers or the items that were brought in to spend entire episodes focusing on mopes like Bernie or the Chumley and showing what morons they are. Finding Bigfoot. This while show is ludicrous but how the fuck do these four mopes get a couple hundred people to show up for a town hall meeting to talk about all of the Squatches that live among them or just outside town. There can't possibly be THAT many gullible people in every bullshit small town in the country, can there?

Actually Amber's reaction is pretty much the norm in today's society, thanks to all of the bullshit shrieking and screaming and flying off the handle and 'drama' and fighting has percolated out from the various "Real Housewives of Whatever out into the real world. Go on Youtube and put 'school fight' into the search box. You get THOUSANDS of videos. EVERYONE is now A SPECIAL ANGEWIC ITTLE PWECIOUS FWOWER and if anything should happen to them like someone farts ten feet away and they smell it, one must instantly fly into a tizzy and tantrum and tweet out a gazillion tweets complete with hashtags and Facebook and Tumblr and whatever, so yeah, Amber's reaction is actually pretty restrained. As far as Max goes, maybe Adam and Christina let Max act like a shitbag because it's Max's way at 'getting back' at his supposed tormenters. Outside of the wheelchair kid and his history teacher have we ever actually seen any kids or adults being big meany fart stinko poopypants to Max?

Christ. 30 seconds in and I wanted to punch Max through the front window. That HAS to be a new record. All because his teacher assigned him 10 more homework problems. Oh goody, now Drew is acting just as petulant and bratty as Max. If I was that chick I'd have thrown something at him. And Adam and Kristina, just, NO. That building is gonna cost AT LEAST $500,000, probably over a million and their like, "Eh, NO PROBLEM, LET;S SIGN THE PAPERS RIGHT NOW!!! Wasn't Adam just whinging about how the recording studio was gonna go out of business and they were down to their last $10,000? That scene with Kristina and the cancer patient killed me, went through the same thing with my mom at the end. The scene with her and Adam when she gets back was a true thing. Drew and the chick who doinked his roommate, ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! Christ, have Max and Drew secretly been taking a class in how to be passive agressive together?

Agree with Brandon and Emily Valentine hooking up. That ,made zero sense. She suddenly appeared at West Beverly and becomes the center of attention of the gang because she wears a beret and knows where all the KEWL parties are, gets Brandon to take scary SCARY drugs and wreck his car at said party, then goes all way super stalky and is presumably institutionalized and we never hear from her again, I mean NOTHING. No hints that Brandon and she are exchanging letters or whatever or anything then out of nowhere Brandon just decides for no reason to drive to San Francisco and ZOMG ITS EMILY!!!!! And because it's Brandon and he's now in college, of course they doink. The story arc with Lucinda was okay, but the end game especially the lines Steve says about students reviewing their old tests was horrible. I guess they used a horrible take of Steve but that came off as horrible cue card reading.

Something semi horrible happens to Ryan so of course Amber rushes to his side.

I don't understand this line of thinking. Meyers and Fallon have gotten upswings in the ratings since they started their shows, Kimmel has settled in comfortably, Colbert will be taking over Letterman, Fergeson is doing well. The only utter Failure is of course Conan, who has been reduced to having to beg to host the MTV Movie Awards in a desperate pathetic attempt to get people to pay attention to him/watch his show. And that isn't even going into all of the daytime talk shows which tweak the format, usually eskewing the monologue but are essentially the same. The shows are cheap to produce, it's costs next to nothing in terms of what one pays the guest/musical act. I'm curious as to what you would expect the networks to replace them with. A quick look at numbers shows it would be more expensive and a money loser if they put on syndicated shows instead. El Blimpo has freaked out about Colbert taking over: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/10/rush-limbaugh-stephen-colbert-assault_n_5127182.html

The scene where the army doctor tells Spiers that he can't do anything for Grant kills me because of Spiers holding Grant's hand. Keep in mind this is the same guy who shot an killed a dozen German soldiers in cold blood because...well no one really knows why. The scene where the German general is allowed to address his men and gives the speech that applies not just to them, but to all soldiers. You can tell Winters and Nixon appreciate it.

I've noticed a 'thing' in ads now is to have dudes shriek and screech and scream like terrified 8 year old girls who saw a mouse. One is the dudes in the Burger King commercial who is standing behind at all black dude wearing a basketball jersey that says Webber on it. Black dude turns around and ZOMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S CHRIS WEBBER!!!! There's another one where a dude shrieks because he has a bug crawling on his arm. That redhead chick in the Wendy's ads, one in particular makes me want to slap her in the face until she bleeds. It's the one where she and her oh-so-hip friends are sitting around a sidewalk cafe shoveling Wendy;s chibatta or whatever burgers in their maws and there's a dude at another table who has a regular sandwich and he says something like, "Not a Chibatta," and redhead chick says in the most condescending sneery McSneeryson smarmy mcHipster shitbag disdainful tone imaginable, "He must a forgotta," and then finishes it off with a chuckle. So want ot grab her Chibatta and force it down her throat until she chokes to death on it.

The Alan Brady Show. "I said PUMPERNICKEL!!!" Pursonality Paul tasering himself at the airport. "Why do I smell toast?" Lisa finding everything she needs in the nick of time in Jamie's purse.

Beating out Rob and Laura Petrie on the Dick van Dyke Show, Paul and Jamie on Mad About You, Ma and Pa Walton. Tami and Eric argue and fight and tease and love and care and don't go upset with the fact that people keep showing up and knocking on their front door at all hours of the day and night with issues or problems or maybe just looking for a "Hey y'all" from Tami and a "GRUMBLE GRUMBLE GROWLY GRUMBLE GROWL I have game tape to watch" from Eric, unless of course it's Buddy Garrity in which case Tami plasters on her fake smile and talks through her teeth and Eric's fuse gets shortened down to a nub and then lit. As I wrote in the "They Had a Blanket...You're an Idiot Favorite scenes thread, the "They had a blanket...you're an idiot is my all time favorite scene and thus my alltime favorite Eric and Tami scene. One of my favorite behind the scenes stories is when Connie Britton told Peter Berg that she and Kyle were going to follow each other from LA down to Austin to start shooting, Kyle on his motorcycle, Peter was terrified and thought it was a horrible idea because he was positive they'd be doinking before they got out of Arizona, which would have been a bigger issue than usual because Kyle was and still is married. Peter told Connie his concerns and she told him to stop being an idiot.

Surprised this hasn't been posted yet.

Okay, since Benson went on tv and admitted she committed perjury during the trial, how does she not get her badge and gun taken away and oh yeah is also arrested and charged with assault or brought before a review board and given a semi-stern talking too chewing out while the board members ogle her breasts the entire time? How the hell does this just get hand waved away*? That bothers me more than the ludicrousness of her stalker escaping storyline and all the bullshit involved with that. Like how she managed to slip her body detail/ Seriously, how the hell did that happen? If the chick follows her into the bathroom and checks each stall Live would have to knock them both out to make her getaway, right? *Unless this is some kind of meta-commentary on the corruptness of the NYPD, which I so believe is true. (The corruptness bit.)

Couple things about the porn parodies. The level of detail is pretty high as far as making it look like the original show/movie. The other thing is that on the dvd there is usually the option to watch the movie sans the sex scenes and it's not terrible, they actually put some thought into the script and acting.

Umm, pretty much the whole point of going to parties when you're young is the hooking up AT THE PARTY aspect of it. Guess you've never been to a frat/college party.

How long until we get a shot of an actual shit in the toilet? 5 years?

I'll get in early ahead of the Julie haters, who seem to focus much of their ire on season 2 and 5. Let's see, at the end of season one, her dad has resigned/quit his job as head coach of the newly crowned State champions and taken a job as a qb coach at Texas State which is in Austin which is like, a kabillion miles away. (Measurement may not be accurate.) She has also found out that her mom is pregnant, which means her mom and dad have been having sex which G-R-O-S-S!!!!!, conveniently ignoring the fact that she has been desperate to be banged by her wun twuw wuv, who also happens to be QB1, Matty Saracen. Her mom said that they should move to Austin which like I just told you is like a kajillion miles away. (Measurement may not be accurate) tearing her from the arms of her wun twuw wuv, Matty Saracen, who is pissed at her dad for betraying the team and the town. After season one ends one can imagine at least a hundred arguments between Eric and Tami about whether or not to move, at least 40% involve raised voices and 25% end in tears. In the end the family is split up with Eric moving to Austin and Tami and Julie staying in Dillon, where Tami increasingly gets on Tami''s nerves because preggo+hormones =rapid mood and emotional changes/swings + teenage hormones + thinking you know everything and adults know nothing = FUN TIMES FOR EVERYONE!!! When season 2 starts it;s clear Julie can't stand to spend more than 3 minutes in the same room as Tami and she Julie has met and is madly flirting with just the DREAMIEST DREAM GUY EVARSSSS!!!!! His name is "The Swede," well okay, that's not really his name, his real name is....well, EVERYONE calls him the Swede and did I mention how SUPER DREAMY he is? With his dark brown hair an--hey wait, aren't Swedish people supposed to all have blonde hair? SHUT UP YOU HATER!!!!! *Ahem* So, he has this DREAMY dark brown hair and it's always wet and kinda oily and greasy and he's always kinda sweaty and you might think it's gross but IT IS NOT in fact it is SOOOOPER H-A-W-T. And the best part is that he's in a band. An actual band. He plays guitar and sings and he gets PAID actual money. SO WORLDLY. Not at all like Matt who is just a football player in some podunk town in Texas. The Swede has SEEN THE WORLD. Then her mom keeps on showing up at the pool and since she's all gross and fat and preggo she is EMBARRASSING Julie in front of her classmates. How can her mom not know this? Stupid mom and dad having sex. G-R-O-S-S. Then the baby is born and it's like Julie doesn't exist anymore and the Swede is so dreamy, he SMOKES POT SO COOL!!!! even though Julie never takes a puff. And her mom is like even more gross and crazy than when she was preggo and she even slaps Julie in the face and all Julie was doing was kissing The Swede in his van. Yes, the Swede drives a van and it is SO KEWL!!! Then later on that year Julie has this SUPER dreamy advisor to the newspaper and who TOTALLY gets her and then her mom embarrasses her AGAIN this time in front of like the ENTIRE SCHOOL. (May have only been two or three students, but you know how gossip is in high school. Then Tami starts ignoring Julie AGAIN this time for Tyra and leaves Julie standing there all by herself outside the school waiting for her mom to pick her up and take her to get her license LIKE HER MOM HAD PROMISED TO DO. So yeah, I think Julie had some good reasons for bratting out in season 2.

"They had a blanket." "You're an idiot." Alltime never to be topped best scene for me. Eric's holding the blanket like it's OJ's bloody gloves always makes me giggle. The scene at the Taylors dinner table in The Son. It's everything. It's horrible. It's beautiful. It's awful. You want it to stop. The tension in the air from the moment Matt comes through the front door. Eric showing his concern and how he cares with "Didya drive?" Julie's heart exploding as she flails around trying to grab on Matt and FIX THIS but having ZERO idea how to go about that. Matt who has been keeping this in pretty much his whole life, finally letting it all out but still trying to maintain his control. Even though Matt is losing it he is SO polite and so well mannered, when he could be excused if he'd thrown his plate against the wall. Eric and Tami's silent looks of concern. Tyra's voiceover reading of her college essay and her talking to Landry as they drive to Austin for State about how and why she changed. Julie and Tami's two talks about sex. Julie and Tyra talking about sex and Tyra recognizing that as much as Julie may say that ZOMG she SO wants Matt to bone her, she really isn't ready. Smash running into the end zone before he leaves for Texas A& M flashing that bright smile and yelling "Where you at dog? Where you at?" Matt and Tim talking Julie and Lyla when they're out hunting. Tinker and Hastings and Vince and Luke hanging out on the balcony talking about life not knowing Eric is listening in. Tami marching into the Dillon boosters meeting and telling them it's fine if Joe wants to launch an investigation about the mailbox...except that will likely mean that some people at that table will have to turn in their state championship rings. Landry telling Tyra off using The Giving Tree. Landry going off on Tim after having read Mice and Men aloud to him and Tim having no opinion of the book, then Tim showing up to the Crucifictorious gig. Julie and Eric bumping into Matt and his grandmother at the grocery store and Grandma giving Eric a piece of her mind as to why Matt isn't QB1, especially Eric's face as it goes from "Hey so nice to see--wait, what's going on she loves me this woman LOVES me??!!" Lyla meeting Jebus boy's family for dinner was nice, they aren't stuck up and pious, they tease just like any other family. Tyra and Jason talking and drinking in the hospital.

How can Tim be a failure at things he never wanted in the first place? That's like saying Lebron James is a failure at being an NFL player and therefore a failure at his entire life because he never cared to play football. Or that Bill Clinton is a failure as a rock star because he chose how to learn to play the saxaphone instead of the guitar and thus is a failure at his life. Tim never wanted college. NEVER. Lyla kept harping at him and pushing him on it and he finally threw his hands up and let her do what she wanted because he loved her, and in the end for all her talk of loving him she went somewhere else for college. So now he's stuck somewhere that he never wanted to be because despite knowing himself better than his girlfriend did she wouldn't shut the hell up about it. But I guess everyone who drops out of college is a colossal failure at their entire life, right? What about someone like me, who got suspended from college for a year due to academic issues, does that make me a failure as well. As for the life he built for himself slipping away, how exactly does that happen? He is building his house on the land that he bought and paid for. Yes, he and Billy are always going to argue and bicker and fight, that's what their relationship is. I'm curious as to why you think Tim's being in Jail didn't scare the shit out of him in terms of being on the right side of the law the rest of his life. He wasn't gonna dick around on the job with Buddy and he could get work as a carpenter. He has his land, he has his house, he has a job. He isn't behind bars. Just because you don't have a college degree doesn't make your life a complete and utter failure. According to you he would be just so much better off being utterly miserable struggling through something he has ZERO interest in doing, namely attending college, rather than living the life he wants. I'm curious why you handwave away the fact that Eric had ZERO problems aside with the whole going to jail thing, about how Tim's life was turning out. He wanted Tim to be happy. You want Tim to be miserable. That says so many things about you. Going by that line of reasoning EVERYBODY on the show and on the goddamn planet is a failure. EVERYONE could have done more but they didn't/don't. Eric could have worked harder to get more schools to look at Luke ,but he didn't so of course going by your view of things Eric Taylor is a colossal failure at EVERYTHING. Oh and so is Tami because she obviously did NOTHING to help Luke vis-a-vie colleges. And Eric and Tami are complete FAILURES at being parents because not only did they allow Julie to hang around and become friends with the town slut (Tyra) they also let her have premarital sex and let her get into a screwed up relationship with her TA at college. Matt of course is a TOTAL FAILURE because he didn't prevent his grandmother from getting dementia or prevent his parents from splitting up and thus he is also responsible for his dad's death.