Joe Simpson? Is that you?

If you have Comcast and are ever bored, you can amuse yourself by reading the descriptions of shows in their Television Guide.  

I'm not sure who gets to write them, but I'm guessing it's a combination of fanboys and bitter journalists who thought they'd be writing for the foreign press or covering The White House.  Most of the time they are harsh (Miss Manners would not be pleased) and good for a snicker or two.  As an advertiser, I wouldn't be terribly thrilled with some of them since most of them try to talk you out of watching a program on which they may have paid for advertising. 

However, this little gem is something different all together...

I'm guessing that this writer has a thing for Jessica Simpson and is maybe thirteen... or perhaps a family member.  Ashlee isn't working right now, right?  I'll give him/her this though... I'm kind of wanting to watch this movie now.  It's been a while since I've had a good mocking.

The Day I’ll Never Live Down

Girls Rule - Boys Drool

I grew up in a family of all girls.  Because of this, I wasn’t exposed to many things my husband knows and loves from his childhood.  GI Joe, Transformers and Thundercats are a few that come to mind.  I’m not saying that I was devoid of “boy stuff”.  I regularly watched Batman and Spiderman and still hold the original Star Wars trilogy as some of the best movies of all time.  However, I must admit my ignorance to a lot of after-school television that catered to boys.

When it came to prime-time television, my parents were in control.  The basic rules were this, my father was in charge and if sports were on the schedule, that’s what we’d watch.  If no sports, he handed the reins to my mother and she selected our evening entertainment.  Because of this, we didn’t watch many crime shows because she hated them almost as much as she hated westerns.

When Old Becomes New Again

I’m not going to blog about how Hollywood doesn’t have any original ideas.  That’s been talked to death.  Besides, I think there is an ability to take an old show and reboot it.  For example, I really enjoyed the Get Smart movie.  They took a show based around the cold war, then adapted it into the 21^st century and made it into a movie.  Let’s not forget The Rock was in it… niiiice.  The Batman movies have been brilliant, which says a lot coming from me since I’m a Superman girl.

The danger in rebooting a movie or television series grows with how kitschy the original was and how much it was loved.  It is really hard to do it right.  That brings me to two resuscitated shows I was excited to see: Beavis & Butthead and Fear Factor.

Beavis and Butthead

I was really looking forward to Beavis and Butthead, but Mike Judge has yet to live up to my expectations.  Okay, maybe Beavis and Butthead shouldn’t grow because their stupidity is what drives the show.  However, the REST of the characters have not only stayed the same, but regressed.  Would you REALLY send B&B to make copies when you KNOW they are going to take pictures of their butts?  Are there really that few people who live in Highland, TX that Burger World can’t find anyone else to work there?  And why would you schedule them together?  All the adults in the town are being outsmarted by the two biggest idiots that live there… and they KNOW IT!  Mike Judge needs to revisit the movie, where B&B’s good luck coupled with people who don’t know the pair misjudging their intelligence allowing them to escape and make their way across the country.

The Next Survivor - NOT!

My husband works an evening shift – 11:00AM to 8:00PM - so he isn’t up to date on all of the reality television that we used to watch together.  One of my favorites, Survivor, is quickly winding down to its final episodes and I was recapping all of the lack of strategy that was going to lead to the inevitable conclusion of this season – Benjamin "Coach" Wade being named the next sole survivor.

I could tell he was starting to glaze over about half way through my tirade.  He hasn’t watched any of this season so he has NO idea who I’m talking about other than the two returning contestants.  But I don’t care… my only interactions today were the dude at the gyro stand (I still am boycotting grocery shopping) and my three dogs and they don’t have very good conversational skills.  Note I didn’t say they don’t have ANY conversational skills… but that’s an entirely different blog post.

Lady, I don't give a crap about how
creepy Brandon is