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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:49:19 GMT

Probably the most blatant example of that was from Homer Loves Flanders:

Bart: The Flanders are a bunch of geeks, man.
Homer: The Flandereses are not geeks!  -- OK, Rod and Todd are, and the
       wife has a thing for me, but she hides it behind a mask of low-
       key hostility -- but we've gotta give this thing a chance!  I
       want the two families to take a trip together this weekend.
 Bart: No...

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feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:28:17 GMT

The Simpsons makes fun of that type of thing a lot, like when Homer had that rental car while his car was in the shop for repairs, and he made every indication that he loved the rental car more and wanted to keep it. But then he happens to drive by the repair shop and see his old car on sale for $99, and he immediately takes it back with very little rhyme or reason.

The weird thing is...it actually does seem like The Simpsons has made a major change lately - I don't think...

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:57:59 GMT

One thing I think is good about The Sarah Connor Chronicles is that it's unlike most one hour shows I've seen (like Prison Break, House, even 24 -- and while I've never seen Lost, I've heard it described the same way). Most of them seem like they have very little story to tell, so much of an episode, maybe even much of a season, is dedicated to killing time. How many episodes did you REALLY need from season 3 of Prison Break? (Which was a short 13 episode season, anyway!)...

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:35:32 GMT

You know, having paid more attention to the original Terminator, I'm not even sure how Terminator 2 worked.

According to Kyle Reese's testimony at the cop station, the reason Skynet had to send a terminator into the past was because that was its only choice. John Connor won in the future, and destroyed Skynet. Even if a terminator killed him in the future, skynet had already lost.

He also said the evil terminator was sent into the past, then the humans sent Kyle,...

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:00:47 GMT

Why can't Skynet wait until John Connor dies of old age to take over the world?

Why can't it kill all humans on sight instead of having work camps (which is where John Connor organized the resistance?)

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feeds@yuku.com (Flying Omelette) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:15:29 GMT

Boy, I never would have understood the symbolism in T2 if that episode hadn't spoonfed it down my throat.

And it's funny that the series is making Sarah out to be the Jesus figure when it was John in the movies. Heck, he's the one with the J.C. initials.

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:28:09 GMT

Okay, Sarah and John are trying to stop the invention of Skynet.

But why can't the Terminators sent back in time invent Skynet themselves?

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:58:57 GMT

After seeing the pilot episode, that didn't bother me. The terminator was shot, the time portal sucked it through... It didn't look to me like the skin was already completely off, then it went through (which would presumably not be allowed). It might have been alive, but dying, when it went through the portal.

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:22:39 GMT

Qwipster looks like he might review every episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

I missed the first one, watched the next two. It seemed like nothing happened in episode 3. That's one of my complaints with some of these hour long TV dramas. They have to last a whole season (at least), so they have to drag things out.

Blowing up a chess-playing computer didn't advance the story. A girl committing suicide didn't advance the story.

I...

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 13:10:06 GMT

James Berardinelli said that House has still "got it" -- It doesn't matter that the show is formulaic, because what's important is the character interaction.

I disagree (granted, I am not watching this season). It is a huge problem that nothing changes on that show. This did, however, make me wonder why it matters. Nothing ever really changed on Seinfeld, and that didn't hurt that show (Well, even though the characters didn't change, the show itself...

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feeds@yuku.com (shingetterpokey(d)) — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:25:16 GMT

The only reality shows I've ever watched were Flavor of Love and I Love New York, which were far from intellectual pursuits. However, they make for fantastic romps with people who have embraced ethnic stereotypes as their lifestyles and exercises in amoral competitiveness over what prize? In the former, a grouple of 20 women making fools out of themselves for an opportunity to date a washed up rapper twice their age with more than half a dozen illegitimate children. In the latter, you have 20...

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:46:53 GMT

I just remembered something else about 24.

There was a scene where a main character from the show, one of Jack Bauer's CTU support team, was captured by the terrorists and forced to program the firing key (or whatever) for the bombs.

He doesn't do it at first, of course, but then they use a power drill to put a hole in his back, and threaten worse. He gives in. When Jack finds out, Jack is pissed.

Pfft! Maybe we're supposed to be more "heroic" in our...

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:20:07 GMT

Since I've given up House, I've been watching Prison Break and 24.

I hear this season of 24 is weak compared to the others. I don't know about that, but it does seem to prove Stalin's comment: "One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." I guess they're trying to "raise the stakes" by not only having nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists, but by having at least one (so far) go off....

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feeds@yuku.com (CLOUDBOND007) — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:36:35 GMT

I lost interest in house right after I rented the DVD's from the first season. I just can't handle that much of the same old same old.

What I've been enjoying lately on TV is Myth Busters. It's a fun show. But that's actually about all I bother to watch. I'd try to catch the new Simpsons and Family Guy, but I always forget, and when I do remember, it's a repeat. The little bit of Adult Swim that I still care for I watch at the AS website.

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I believe that we humans love and...

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feeds@yuku.com (CRAWLand1000) — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:53:07 GMT

The season premiere of House is tonight!

"You ran here?"
"It was only 8 miles."

"You are not healthy!"

"This time, he was lucky. Next time, he'll kill someone!"

Anyway, to try to post something less nonsensical, I think the show often intentionally skirts the line of self-parody. (I'm not sure if the show is more drama or comedy) Example, in the Mad TV parody, House had a huge bottle of vicodin pills,...

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:41:54 GMT

There was a decent Mad TV parody of House, MD, but one thing they missed was that House often solves his medical mysteries by looking at some random object that happens to be in front of him at the time and realizing that that's the solution.

Example, tonight, he happens to be peeing in a urinal and notices rust on the pipes. So, the guy must be suffering from heavy metal poisoning!

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feeds@yuku.com (da dick) — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 08:38:42 GMT

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(The most amusing part was when a lady with a low cut top goes to the counter to complain to him about the delay, and he asks for just a few seconds to finish getting an order together. She bitches at him some more, and he tells her he can't work with her boobs on the counter. She starts to bitch again, and he yells, "Get your boobs off my counter!" and she flips the food there over, and gets led off by...

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feeds@yuku.com (Bomberguy221) — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:41:28 GMT

I think we all do.

I watched House, but my parents have seen all of the season 2 ones and don't seem interested in seeing the repeats, so I'll have to wait to see those.

The only reality show I've seen recently is American Idol, and even then I only caught a few episodes here and there. It's mostly my parents' interest rather than mine.

As far as personal shows that I watch, the only one that comes readily to mind is Fullmetal Alchemist, which comes on Adult Swim...

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feeds@yuku.com (Crawl and 1OOO) — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:46:19 GMT

I usually don't watch the "idiot box" much, but for whatever reason I've been watching a couple of shows a week, which I probably should be embarassed to admit to:

Hell's Kitchen: This is the first reality show I've watched. One thing that makes it interesting is that the main things the people have to do aren't that different than what you'd have to do to cook a single meal. Can you finish all the parts of a meal at the same time, so nothing's cold? Can you cook a...