“How I Met Your Mother” 5-1: Definitions

The talk sucks.
This little nugget from Barney explains the relationship talk so well, don’t you think?
See, Barney and Robin’s kiss at the end of last season caused Lily to a have a ” woo” moment, but they played it off as neither of them really wanting to take it forward. Except they have sex all summer [...]

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Live Blog: The Emmys 2009

5:50 Going for a quick cigarette outside before awards begin.
6:00 Opening spiel, then NPH singing in a white dinner jacket. Yummy.
6:04 ” I grew up on television.”
6:05 Shaiman and Whitman wrote the song. Knew it.
6:07 Tour of the Emmy set.
6:09 Funny Emmy clip reel.
6:11 Jon Hamm ( sigh) and Tina Fey ( sigh). Supporting Actress [...]

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Emmy Nominees Announced!

Below are the nominees for the major categories of the Emmys nominations released earlier today. I will post my thoughts and picks in the near future, but needless to say, the Emmy voters got more right than usual, but why do people who hate television so much get to select what is the best of [...]

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Best And Worst of the 2008-2009 TV Season

First, the good news.
Best Comedy Series
The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
Years of Devotion to How I Met Your Mother and Scrubs has been painful at times, as both of these hilarious but criminally under watched shows suffered from time slot shifts and near cancellation more than once. But HIMYM’s fifth season was all but assured this [...]

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Big Bang and HIMYM News

CBS announced it’s sked today, and The Big Bang Theory is moving to 9:30 on Mondays, behind Two and A Half Men ( still won’t watch that). HIMYM is taking over the 8:00 spot TBBT has had all season.
Oh, and Criminal Minds was on the sked, same place, same time. 
I’ll be misisng the first half [...]

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FIVE SHOWS YOU SHOULD BE WATCHING BUT YOU AREN’T. WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE???????

The recent cancellation of ABC’s great remake of BBC’s ” Life On Mars” annoyed me a great deal. Good shows aren’t given chances anymore ( Seinfeld would be cancelled now if it got the type of ratings the first season got). Bad shows aren’t given chances, either, but beggars, choosers, never the twain shall meet. [...]

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Sad News for Fans of Good Television… And One Shining Beacon of Goodness

Ausiello at EW has confirmed that Life On Mars has been cancelled by ABC. Mourn everyone.
Two And A Half Men has gotten a three season pick up from CBS. Mourn harder.
Now rejoice- The Big Bang Theory has gotten a two season pick up. SHELDON COOPER FOR THE WIN!
No word yet on How I Met Your [...]

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REMINDER

All new CBS lineup tonight, starting with Howard and Leslie- ew- on The Big Bang Theory, Barney’s ” wife” and ” son” on HIMYM, some stuff about Charlie and Alan I don’t care about, the season premiere of that David Spade show I dislike immensely, capped with a new CSI Miami where Caruso takes off [...]

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SCHEDULING CHANGE ALERT

ATTENTION: ALL BIG BANG THEORY FANS
Please remember that the show tonight, a fresh, brand spanking new episode that has Leonard’s mom visiting is on tonight AFTER Two and A Half Men, due to the Presidential News Conference. On the West Coast, they will be airing a Christine repeat, followed by HIMYM, then the two Chuck [...]

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Notes From the Underbelly

Yay, Steelers!!!! Way to pull it out.
Yay, Boss!!!! Way to kick ass during halftime. Born To Run!!!!!
Why the fuck are people acting like idiots about Michael Phelps taking a good hit off a bong? Seriously? The dude’s not in competition, and the last drug on earth that enhances anyone’s performance in any sport is marijuana, [...]

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Quick Casting Notes

Barney’s got a MOM! And she will be played by Patricia Conroy, best known as the Matriarch on Six Feet Under.
Bonus casting for the 4-15 Episode labelled ” The Stinsons”- Barney has a ” wife and kid” on hire to fool mommy, and the ” wife” is going to be played by Brooke D’Orsay ( [...]

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R&R- How I Met Your Mother 2-13 ” Three Days Of Snow”

After last weeks disturbing Ted story about how he kept nailing Aunt Robin, I half expected an episode that opened on the kids receiving electroshock therapy to burn the images away. Or an episode in which Ted pesters Barney into admitting his actual feelings for Robin ( Lily would have told Marshall a while back, [...]

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Mini Reviews and Recaps and other crap on my mind

The Big Bang Theory- a bit of a let down considering the glorioski ending of the Christmas/Saturnalia episode, but still, nothing better than Sheldon running down the hallway shreiking ” Don’t hurt us! Don’t hurt us! DON’T HURT US!”. BTW, the guy who plays Kripke- yes, I know people who are pissed about the ” [...]

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Damn it, More Casting News

This time from the other great CBS sitcom, How I Met Your Mother and Proceeded to tell My Teenage Children of How I Slept With their Aunt Robin all the Time ( I was  little disturbed with Ted’s story this week…). Ted’s ex and future girlfriend has been cast and she’s being played by Laura [...]

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News Updates

First, how awesome that the cast of HIMYM are getting raises and an extension? They deserve it. Too think, this show was a bubble show. Now, where are the glory gifts for TBBT boys and Kaley?
Second, Slumdog Millionaire picked up five at the Critic’s Choice awards.
Third, Neil Patrick Harris is on SNL Saturday.
Fourth, the Golden [...]

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In Defense Of The Sitcom

As 2008 draws to a close, I am again dealing with a cacophony of voices proclaiming that the sitcom is dead. Now, television is a cyclical business, and this news comes every time a long running show leaves the television landscape and no one steps up the following year with some zeitgeist consuming hit. The [...]

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Quotes of 2008

”It’s very simple. Scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, rock crushes lizard, lizard poisons Spock, Spock smashes scissors, scissors decapitates lizard, lizard eats paper, paper disproves Spock, Spock vaporizes rock, and, as it always has, rock crushes scissors.”
—Sheldon (Jim Parsons), explaining his new game of Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock, on The Big Bang Theory
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The Top Ten Television Shows And Moments of 2008

10.  The season nine premiere of CSI
I stopped watching after Tarantino made a mark and other shows popped up. But the news Gary Dourdan was leaving was enough to make me tune in and see the cast actually act for what seems like the first time in four seasons. Emotionally charged, and William Peterson reminding [...]

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RECAP AND REVIEW- HIMYM 4-02 ” The Best Burger In New York”

Ah, New York, the sixth character in HIMYM world. You have changed so much the last few years… and it doesn’t help that Marshall cannot remember the restaurant he ate the greatest burger. It doesn’t matter that MacLarens has an awesome burger. It’s not that burger. And Marshall’s sudden obsession with it is pretty weird, [...]

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RECAP AND REVIEW: How I Met Your Mother 4-01 ” Do I Know You?”

Aside from my burning desire to be the mother of Jason Segel’s babies ( more shocking when you realize I have three kids already and should really stop), I have always thought HIMYM was the funniest traditional multicamera on TV ( as opposed to Scrubs and  tHe Office, both single camera masterpieces). Consistently hilarious and [...]

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