the office: wah waaaaah.

Okay so this is mostly my fault, I know.

I over-hyped the return of The Office. I did it. I am responsible. I’m sorry, okay? I’M SORRY. But that GD writer’s strike really threw me off. I spent weeks watching DVRed episodes of Everyday Italian. I watched that show about prison gangs. (BTW, the one with the war between the white gang and the southern mexican gang? Intense. Highly recommend.) It’s no wonder that my expectations for “The Dinner Party” were at “Diversity Day” levels of hilarity. Even if that absurdly funny episode of 30 Rock hadn’t aired immediately before, Michael and Jan’s dinner party didn’t have a chance. Here are my random thoughts about the episode. Pretend I’m one of those people (jerks) who gets to blog about TV for a living.

• Overall feeling during the show: anticipation (unrewarded) and intense discomfort. I know this is their thing, and usually I enjoy it, but something was different.
• Usually in this situation, Jim would give the camera that muppet-smile thing he does. Last night he just stared down, looking uncomfortable, while Jan and Michael acted horribly. I felt like an actual guest at this thing, not like a lucky observer. Maybe it was the fact that there were less of those “asides” we usually get, with Dwight or Andy lightening the mood a bit.
• Mostly I enjoyed Jim and Pam, particularly their sad attempt at escape, and their “confessional” style speeches in the bathroom. But, I enjoyed them more in the “I’m so glad to see them again” way. Not the “my face hurts from laughing” kind of way.
• Angela and Andy were great, and provided really the only comic relief, but it was few and far between. The awesomely mismatched pair and the emotional distress they cause Dwight despite their complete and utter incompatibility never ceases to amuse me.
• My favorite moment in the whole episode may have been when Andy playfully licks Angela’s ice cream cone, and she shoves it into the side of the car. Perfection.

It wasn’t a bad episode. It just seemed a little too real-life. And that’s just sad. And a little freaky.

Maybe next week. Until then, I’ll be watching the last season of MILF Island on DVD.

 

Sex and the City: The Movie, Official Trailer

After watching this trailer, I had to wonder…

has Sex and the City jumped the shark?

 

Delta says “Safety First!”

Everyone knows the Golden Age of travel is O-V-A. And never is that more apparent than when you’re idling on a runway in a Delta branded tin can, listening to the Screaming Baby Octette. So if they can’t be first in comfort, luxury, customer service, or on-time departure and arrivals, at least Delta can be first in “Airline video with the most YouTube hits.”

And it’s all thanks to this little lady:

She’s a real Delta flight attendant and instructor at their flight attendant academy, and her cheeky finger-wagging in the No Smoking section has earned her quite a fan base. They’ve had over 300,000 hits on this video.

I have to wonder if her popularity has anything to do with her resemblance to a certain sultry office manager:

Joan from Mad Men.

Hmm. You decide.

In the meantime, please return your seat backs to the upright position, and check out the video:

 

Weeds Season 3 DVD Release Date!

Amazon has listed June 3rd as the official DVD release date for Weeds Season 3!

Yay. We love you MLP!
Now go update your Netflix queues!

 

Britastic!

When was the last time you heard someone saying nice things about Britney Spears? If you are me, it was a few days ago because Harlow, and that kid crying in the Youtube video, are probably the only two fans left on the globe. And yet, news that our FAVORITE show, How I Met Your Mother, will be allowing that piece of trash to appear in next weeks episode has just been splashed across the blogosphere. The promotions for this episode are all over the interweb, nothing new for Britnasty, but exactly what are the big wigs as CBS were looking for? Is this really the type of association you want HIMYM fans to be making???

The question is, are the producers of How I Met Your Mother geniuses that can produce comedy smart enough to make Britnasty seem tolerable? OR are they going to crash and burn, proving that Brittney’s Trailer Trash Force is too strong for even the HIMYM’s writers to shake.

It just seems so wrong!!…Now that I think about it HIMYM DOES have a horrible track record for guests stars. Mandy Moore a featured guest on the Season Three premiere, Enrique Iglesias also in season three, Whinny from the Wonder Years and now Brit?

So what IS the deal with this string of shitty Guest Stars? How can such a great show exists when they are just handing out invitations to their party like they are a desperate teenage girl hoping to prove to her parents she is not a loser?

Lets just hope this episode holds up the level of humor they are capable of and is not just another outlet for Brittney to sip her Iced Latte and say “y’all.”

Sorry Harlow.

YICK!

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ps. stay tuned for my rant on Mandy Moore. I would quit my job if I could make a living campaigning to stop Hollywood from allowing Mandy Moore to act. Not even just Hollywood: theater, Sundance, Foreign films, Bollywood, home movies, everything. It’s a global movement really.

 

LOST shaped rocks, morning update.

Okay so now that the whole world has had a chance to see LOST, here are my thoughts.

1. Some people are saying they thought this episode was boring. I do not agree. I thought Juliet’s episode, with her totally snorefest “affair” with Goodwyn, was way more boring. I’m sorry, a bottle of wine on the beach does not a sizzlin’ love affair make.

2. “Ji Yeon,” while not the most action packed episode, gave us a lot in 1 hour. Think about it:

• We get back to some of the original core characters that we have spent all too little time with this season.
• We got a break from the Locke/Ben staring contest and the Kate/Jack/Sawyer/Juliet Love Rhombus.
• We got resolution on the affair and we know that Jin knows for sure the baby is his.
• We know Sun gets off the island, and we know she does it soon, because the effects of the Island on her pregnancy are going to start ramping up in the next few weeks.
• We meet the kinda studly but kinda sinister Captain.
• We hear Ben Linus and Charles Widmore in the same sentence.
• We see freighter folk jumping off the ship and remainders of their brains splattered across the wall.
• We see MICHAEL again. (I know we all saw it coming, but they still rocked the reveal).
• And, we know that Jin does not get off the island. This may mean he dies, but he may just sacrifice himself to stay in exchange for Sun and their baby getting to go home, where she will survive. That’s what I’m going with, because it’s just too damn sad to think he’s dead.

Also, I thought the way the writers weaved the flash-forward and flash-back together was flashtasterastic.

Just my two Dharma cents.

 

LOST shaped rocks

With the knowledge that Apple won’t be seeing tonight’s stellar episode for another hour, I’ll keep this brief and vague. I can’t stop thinking about it. The writers are holding no punches. Bottom line: this season rocks the casbah.