RIP Arrested Development
Why, America? Why? Why didn't you watch it? Why did you let another good show die? Fox, why didn't you advertise it well? Why didn't you give it a good time slot?
@#&%!
Posted by eatcacti, 11/11/2005 10:00am
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Digg thisArrested Development is back tonight!
8 pm, Fox, TWO new episodes.
I'm reminding you, just in case you forget. Since I refuse to believe that anyone, anywhere would not want to watch Arrested Development, naturally the reason it's getting such low rating is because everyone is forgetting. So don't forget!
Posted by eatcacti, 11/07/2005 12:31pm
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I'm reminding you, just in case you forget. Since I refuse to believe that anyone, anywhere would not want to watch Arrested Development, naturally the reason it's getting such low rating is because everyone is forgetting. So don't forget!
Paris is burning
Well, certain Paris suburbs to be exact. Including where my boyfriend lives, Bobigny. I'm going to call him in a few hours to make sure his car didn't mysteriously catch fire. Today is Eid, so I don't think he has work.
I'm so pissed off at France right now. The best way to represent how I feel is with this emoticon:
Granted, I'm usually pissed at France because the way they treat immigrants just sickens me, but this is out of control. Tear gas in a mosque during the last days of Ramadan? That's just too much.
Someday when I'm feeling more articulate I'll write a long-winded rant about France's xenophobia/Islamophobia.
Oh, and I realize that it's cheap to say "..and I'll justify my crazy opinions later!", but this is my blog and I'll do what I damn well please!
Posted by eatcacti, 11/02/2005 9:33pm
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I'm so pissed off at France right now. The best way to represent how I feel is with this emoticon:
Granted, I'm usually pissed at France because the way they treat immigrants just sickens me, but this is out of control. Tear gas in a mosque during the last days of Ramadan? That's just too much. Someday when I'm feeling more articulate I'll write a long-winded rant about France's xenophobia/Islamophobia.
Oh, and I realize that it's cheap to say "..and I'll justify my crazy opinions later!", but this is my blog and I'll do what I damn well please!
RE: My Suspension
I was recently suspended from TV.com for 5 days. I won’t say that I didn't deserve it; quite honestly, I think I had it coming. The post I was suspended for wasn't very offensive, but I've been building up my -ness over a number of weeks and I guess it finally caught up with me. From now on I'll have to try extra hard to keep my flaming subtle and well above the level where the flamee would notice.
Anyway, I’m not too bothered by my suspension. I’m also really touched by the fact that people actually noticed I was gone and seemed to miss me. Thanks, everybody! Having internet friends is now 75% as good as having real friends!
I may not have been able to browse the TV.com forums over the past 5 days, but in a way my suspension was a good thing. I got so much work done, I'm actually ahead in some of my classes! My attention span actually increased.
See, for someone who typically spends an abnormal amount of time on a website devoted to TV, I very rarely ever actually watch TV. That’s because, thanks to the internet, my attention span is so low that I actually can't stand to sit still for a whole half-hour.
I've made a graph chronicling the inverse relationship between severity of internet addiction and attention span.
Point A is where I was prior to my suspension, point B where I am now: above the bare minimum attention span required to watch TV. Eventually I hope to move my way back up to point C, where I will be able to read books again (for fun, not for school work), but I don’t see that happening any time soon.
Of course, I'm rapidly moving back down the scale, now that I'm back. Oh well.
Posted by eatcacti, 10/11/2005 3:43pm
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Anyway, I’m not too bothered by my suspension. I’m also really touched by the fact that people actually noticed I was gone and seemed to miss me. Thanks, everybody! Having internet friends is now 75% as good as having real friends!
I may not have been able to browse the TV.com forums over the past 5 days, but in a way my suspension was a good thing. I got so much work done, I'm actually ahead in some of my classes! My attention span actually increased.
See, for someone who typically spends an abnormal amount of time on a website devoted to TV, I very rarely ever actually watch TV. That’s because, thanks to the internet, my attention span is so low that I actually can't stand to sit still for a whole half-hour.
I've made a graph chronicling the inverse relationship between severity of internet addiction and attention span.
Point A is where I was prior to my suspension, point B where I am now: above the bare minimum attention span required to watch TV. Eventually I hope to move my way back up to point C, where I will be able to read books again (for fun, not for school work), but I don’t see that happening any time soon.
Of course, I'm rapidly moving back down the scale, now that I'm back. Oh well.
you should of learned you're grammer
If reading that title doesn't hurt your eyes, you need to work on your grammar.
Lately, I've taken it upon myself to fix grammatical errors whenever I see them in episode descriptions, allusions, trivia, notes, etc. Usually my edits are accepted, because hey, I'm right. But lately, a lot of them from a particular show have been rejected. Personally, I thought the grammatical errors in question were so obviously wrong that they didn't really need explanation, but that was my mistake. When I have time, I will resubmit them with a full and complete explanation, complete with sources from Dr. Grammaticians and whatnot. Here are some examples of what I tried to change, except using entirely made up stuff instead of the stuff I actually tried to change. I think I'm right (as always), but I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me if I'm actually wrong (but say it nicely!):
1: The words "mom" and "dad" should be capitalized when used as names, but left in lower case in other instances:
2: Words like "wanna" and "gonna" should be changed to "want to" and "going to". Yes, I know that when we speak it often sounds more like "wanna" than "want to", but spelling should never be based on pronunciation unless there is a very compelling reason. Writing "wanna" instead of "want to" is no different than writing "should of" instead of "should have" (and God help you if you don't know why "should of" is wrong!). I say "Warshington" when I speak, but I don't write it that way. In my mind, "wanna" and "gonna" are in the same category.
3: The first letter of a word after a comma should not be capitalized.
Very annoying, no?
4:
You were supposed to have learned this stuff in sixth grade English class! This is just not rocket science, people! Learn how to use the freakin' English language!
Ok, I'm getting bored with this blog entry, so I'm going to wrap it up and maybe do more later. Or maybe not. Meh.
Posted by eatcacti, 09/27/2005 8:27am
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Lately, I've taken it upon myself to fix grammatical errors whenever I see them in episode descriptions, allusions, trivia, notes, etc. Usually my edits are accepted, because hey, I'm right. But lately, a lot of them from a particular show have been rejected. Personally, I thought the grammatical errors in question were so obviously wrong that they didn't really need explanation, but that was my mistake. When I have time, I will resubmit them with a full and complete explanation, complete with sources from Dr. Grammaticians and whatnot. Here are some examples of what I tried to change, except using entirely made up stuff instead of the stuff I actually tried to change. I think I'm right (as always), but I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me if I'm actually wrong (but say it nicely!):
1: The words "mom" and "dad" should be capitalized when used as names, but left in lower case in other instances:
Julie: Ben, Mom said not to eat the cookies!
Julie: My boyfriend's dad tried to kill me with a shovel.
2: Words like "wanna" and "gonna" should be changed to "want to" and "going to". Yes, I know that when we speak it often sounds more like "wanna" than "want to", but spelling should never be based on pronunciation unless there is a very compelling reason. Writing "wanna" instead of "want to" is no different than writing "should of" instead of "should have" (and God help you if you don't know why "should of" is wrong!). I say "Warshington" when I speak, but I don't write it that way. In my mind, "wanna" and "gonna" are in the same category.
3: The first letter of a word after a comma should not be capitalized.
WRONG: Julie: Oh Ben, Are you eating those cookies?
RIGHT: Julie: Oh Ben, are you eating those cookies?
Very annoying, no?
4:
Your vs. You're
There vs. Their vs. They're
Hear vs. Here
Than vs. Then
To vs. Too vs. Two
By vs. Bye vs. Buy
You were supposed to have learned this stuff in sixth grade English class! This is just not rocket science, people! Learn how to use the freakin' English language!
Ok, I'm getting bored with this blog entry, so I'm going to wrap it up and maybe do more later. Or maybe not. Meh.
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The War at Home Avg Score: 8.20 Total Ratings: 2226 Total Reviews: 189 Users who agree: 1 Users who disagree: 1 |
I'm a pretty understanding person, so it's extremely rare that I find a show that is so incredibly bad that I cannot possibly fathom how anyone could possibly like it. This show, sadly, fits that category.
The War at Home is your typical dysfunctional family sitcom, rehashed yet again in what is intended to be a slightly more edgy form. It stars the typical course father, sarcastic mother, slutty daughter, bratty son, and, in a lone twist, another son who may or may not be gay. The gay jokes, by the way, run stale by the end of the very first episode.
Aside from the unoriginal plot, overused jokes, and overbearing laugh track, the acting stands out as particularly atrocious. Lines are delivered in a consistently over-dramatic fashion that even the non-attentive viewer will notice. I could have sworn I saw some the actors actually glance at the cameras from the corner of their eyes at one or two points.
Overall, I cannot recommend this show to anyone, not even to the most devout of crappy-sitcom lovers. This show flounders from the very beginning and continues all the way through.
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Posted Sep 11, 2005
The War at Home is your typical dysfunctional family sitcom, rehashed yet again in what is intended to be a slightly more edgy form. It stars the typical course father, sarcastic mother, slutty daughter, bratty son, and, in a lone twist, another son who may or may not be gay. The gay jokes, by the way, run stale by the end of the very first episode.
Aside from the unoriginal plot, overused jokes, and overbearing laugh track, the acting stands out as particularly atrocious. Lines are delivered in a consistently over-dramatic fashion that even the non-attentive viewer will notice. I could have sworn I saw some the actors actually glance at the cameras from the corner of their eyes at one or two points.
Overall, I cannot recommend this show to anyone, not even to the most devout of crappy-sitcom lovers. This show flounders from the very beginning and continues all the way through.
9.0
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Family Guy Peter's Got Woods Avg Score: 8.48 Total Ratings: 482 Total Reviews: 39 Users who agree: 10 Users who disagree: 2 |
This episode was classic Family Guy all the way: hilarious flashbacks, non-sequitur humor, and offensive yet laugh-out-loud hilarious jokes. Honestly, I was impressed. At first, I was worried about what to expect from this episode; the plotline is typical of a sitcom and has been done a dozen times before in other shows: Brian finds a new girlfriend, Peter gets jealous and finds a new friend (James Woods) to replace him, Brian breaks up with his girlfriend and realizes he needs Peter, and Peter finally realizes that Brian is his true best friend. It could have been boring, but they pulled it off better than I could have expected. But of course, it never has been the actual plot of Family Guy that makes it a great show, it's everything else.
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Posted Sep 11, 2005
10.0
Perfect
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Futurama Avg Score: 9.16 Total Ratings: 14444 Total Reviews: 890 |
Futurama lasted a mere five seasons on Fox, and was cancelled before it even reached its prime. In my youthful ignorance, I thought it was too much like the Simpsons. I watched it only in passing, but never religiously. The two shows have the same creator and even the same animation style - giant overbites for everyone - but besides that, they have little in common.
Futurama takes place (obviously enough) in the future, following the lives of 20th century time traveller Fry and his companions. While the show follows some of the typical futuristic stereotypes, it never gets tiring. Unlike most cartoons, Futurama actually had a sense of continuation, which is fresh.
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Posted Aug 13, 2005
Futurama takes place (obviously enough) in the future, following the lives of 20th century time traveller Fry and his companions. While the show follows some of the typical futuristic stereotypes, it never gets tiring. Unlike most cartoons, Futurama actually had a sense of continuation, which is fresh.
1.0
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MADtv Avg Score: 8.54 Total Ratings: 1659 Total Reviews: 138 Users who agree: 6 Users who disagree: 10 |
MADtv is usually compared, with good reason, to its NBC competitor Saturday Night Live. Both are late night sketch shows that play on Saturday night, both rely on celebrity guest stars and mediocre pop music groups, and both have produced a few good comedians as well as far too many bad ones.
Sadly enough, the comparison stops here. Even during its lengthy down times, SNL still manages to make me laugh every single week. MADtv, on the other hand, is just plain not funny. Never. It's really amazing, in a way, that a show can last ten seasons without a single redeeming quality, a single good episode, a single good joke. But it has, somehow, stuck around.
MADtv recycles the same tired jokes over and over again. If they were funny in the first place this would still be unacceptable, but since they never were funny it is even worse. Every week it's the same old "Hey look, Ms. Swan doing something wacky!"
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Posted Aug 13, 2005
Sadly enough, the comparison stops here. Even during its lengthy down times, SNL still manages to make me laugh every single week. MADtv, on the other hand, is just plain not funny. Never. It's really amazing, in a way, that a show can last ten seasons without a single redeeming quality, a single good episode, a single good joke. But it has, somehow, stuck around.
MADtv recycles the same tired jokes over and over again. If they were funny in the first place this would still be unacceptable, but since they never were funny it is even worse. Every week it's the same old "Hey look, Ms. Swan doing something wacky!"
9.7
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Family Guy Avg Score: 9.17 Total Ratings: 27845 Total Reviews: 2451 |
Family Guy has a peculiar brand of humor that some people find hilarious and some can't stand. I am in the category of the former.
It's a stupid show, to be sure, and it's occasionally offensive. In that respect it follows the precendent set by South Park rather than that of The Simpsons. But unlike South Park, it manages to be consistently funny while being stupid and offensive, and you can't underestimate the power of a stupid, offensive, AND funny TV show.
The fact that Family Guy was brought back on the air after being cancelled is a great testament to its broad and rabid fan base. I can't think of a single other show that had such an opportunity.
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Posted Aug 9, 2005
It's a stupid show, to be sure, and it's occasionally offensive. In that respect it follows the precendent set by South Park rather than that of The Simpsons. But unlike South Park, it manages to be consistently funny while being stupid and offensive, and you can't underestimate the power of a stupid, offensive, AND funny TV show.
The fact that Family Guy was brought back on the air after being cancelled is a great testament to its broad and rabid fan base. I can't think of a single other show that had such an opportunity.
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