TV.com Commenter Shout-Outs: Your Recent Thoughts on Teen Wolf, Men of a Certain Age, and Tosh.0

Comments: You make them, we want them. And once a week, we scan the boards for the very best ones, which we compile for you here in a little pageant we call the TV.com Commenter Shout-Outs! Who will be handed a giant bouquet of roses and crowned Miss TV.com Commenter of the Universe? Well, nobody will. But we're more than happy to show you a little love.

Price Peterson, TV.com's Correspondent for Teen Angst and the Black Arts, laid out a very sensible case for why MTV's Teen Wolf—a project which had every reason to be utterly terrible—has turned out to be the surprise delight of the summer. (It was a really compelling argument! I'm going to have to catch up.)

You guys weighed in with your own thoughts on the new monster series.

chrisjo said the show was less Vampire Diaries-inspired, and more Buffy the Vampire Slayer- and Spider-Man-inspired:

I disagree with the comparison to Vampire Diaries. The producers have stated they take their influences from Buffy and Spider-Man. Scott has a lot of similarities to Peter Parker and Jackson is a lot like Eddie Brock. Stiles and Lydia are clearly inspired by Xander and Cordelia. Aunt Kate is clearly channeling Faith Lehane. Buffy also had that small town that apparently ignored lots of murders long before TVD. And other than Joyce, the parents on Buffy were also little heard or seen. Even Joyce was fairly permissive like Scott and Stiles' parents. I think that's one of the reasons I like Teen Wolf. I loved watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Spider-Man: The Animated Series, and this show is like a blending of both.

Count RiinaVornanen is another big TW fan:

I didn't expect much from Teen Wolf when I started watching it, but it turned out to be the most entertaining show this summer! So hell yes I'm still watching! I agree completely with all the points made above and the best about Teen Wolf is the dialogue, which is just hilariously smart. Scott and Stiles are both awesome (Do!). Derek is bit annoying, but he is forgiven for good looks. Allison is likeable and Lydia is surprisingly not as big a b***h as I was waiting for her to be, she's smarter than she looks. Aunt Kate is too self assured but she, beside the alphas, might be the biggest badass on the show.

R.I.P. Men of a Certain Age, which had some big fans around TV.com; TNT canceled the low-rated series late last week. We welcomed you to pay your respects, and you did.

logossun offered this post-mortem:

One word: demographics. American TV simply conditioned their audiences to watch either a) shows with beautiful people and easily digestible plots, b) crass or family oriented comedies, c) action packed hole-in-the-brain shows (of course, there are always exceptions). This show simply does not fall into any easily digestible category. It is by far the most realistic "domestic" show (meaning no genre swerve like crime, spies, etc.) I have seen in a looong time (ever?), with the characters facing repeat problems, small victories, and everyday ***. But, the fact that this is Baccula's best show ever and he's the "worst" actor of the three (Romano and Braugher are just Gods in this one) simply made this show a joy to watch even without the "adrenaline rush" most of us need from other shows. I'm extremely disappointed it's gone, but I'll cherish the two seasons we did get.

brain05 feels the marketing of the show was poorly handled by the network:

If you ask me, and no one is, I realize these decisions are business-related, but TNT did a very poor job of placement and promotion. They had a gold gem in this show, so maybe the problem isn't with the show itself, but with the network. We've seen it so many times before. Freaks and Geeks, Arrested Development, Firefly, etc. The list goes on and on of great original shows canceled before their time. This really sucks. The state of programming on television just got worse with this announcement.

MohammadDabi summed things up shrewdly by posing an excellent question about public appetites:

Sincerely loved the show. Great character-driven roles, Romano in particular. It's a truly tragic state of affairs that it's the only show of its kind and yet it's deemed unworthy of our precious time and attention. Since when are we expected to relate more to the problems of zombies and vampires than those of people like us? Why is it we collectively yearn for bloodlust over relatable emotion?

Finally, Tosh.0 delved into the morally murky territory of female arm wrestling mishaps and male lactation on this week's episode, leading wizened TV.com elder Tim Surette to question whether the show has—DRAMATIC ORGAN CHORD!—finally gone too far.

Reader efonsecajri said he was reluctant to join the Tosh nation, but now finds himself coming back for more:

I was skeptical of Tosh.0 and his antics until I finally watched an episode. Keeps me up to date on the viral stuff and some funny videos I probably would have missed otherwise. His type of comedy is similar to that of Dane Cook, vulgar. It's not for everyone of course, but if that's right up your alley, you would be hard-pressed to find someone else do it better in such a great format.

Dane Cook? All right, then! Every opinion is valid here in the Commenter Shout-Outs.

Thanks for playing, everyone! Keep offering your feedback in the weeks to come, and we'll keep putting shiny gold stars on our favorites.