Did you watch Better off Ted this season? Judging by the dismal ratingsit gets week after week, my guess is no. In fact, I actually thought it had been cancelled, and was pretty shocked when I found it would be coming back as a mid-season replacement. What’s even more shocking (follow along if you can here), is the lack of shock I would have experienced had it actually been cancelled. Confused yet?

This is not your typical “Of course they cancelled it, because ABC cancels any good/funny/clever/adjective-of-your-choice show without giving it a chance to develop an audience” rant. No, I didn’t give a crap about Pushing Daisies, and I never watched a single episode of Eli Stone. The reason why I expected to see Better Off Ted up on the chopping block is because Andrea Anders has a semi-starring role in it, and every show she is on gets cancelled.

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Dude. When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with Sifl and Olly. I don’t even know how to explain it, but I can tell you this: sock puppets are awesome.

It started when I was around 14. My older brother was staying with us after he had surgery on his knee, and we were about to move to South Korea at the end of the summer. We were all so stressed out, but my brother and I got a break from it all watching Sifl and Olly on MTV late at night and laughing our asses off.

A year later, after moving back to the States, I found out my best friend loved the show just as much as I did and we cracked ourselves up (and believe me, we were the only ones laughing) talking about sock puppets and people who look like sock puppets. Dave Grohl? Sock puppet. Our newest American Idol, Kris Allen, is definitely a puppet of the sock variety.

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Okay, my mind is still reeling from the season finale of Supernatural, in a completely awesome way. I have so many questions, and I simply cannot wait for the new season to start. I’m already going through withdrawal, if that’s possible.

Just about everything lived up to my expectations, not only with the finale, but throughout the season as a whole. Lilith proved to be an excellent foe for the Winchesters, and I loved the way everything played out with her in the end. Still, her character, in general, was somewhat of a mystery to me. Maybe we’re not supposed to wonder so much about the big bads, but I do. Especially in Lilith’s case. Read the rest of this entry »

Once upon a time, I was a hardcore SNL fan. I’m talking back in the days of Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer, Chris Kattan and Molly Shannon. Towards the end of the 90s, I drifted away and only recently have started to watch again on any regular basis.

Still, the show on a whole just doesn’t make me laugh like it used to. Maybe that’s because I’m no longer 14, but I like to think I’m as immature as I ever was, at least where comedy is concerned. This is probably why the one and only skit out of this entire season to make me literally convulse with laughter, tears streaming down my face so hard I could barely see, was The Lawrence Welk Show from episode four, with Anne Hathaway hosting. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, I had all but forgotten that Castiel was inhabiting a vessel in pretty much the same way the demons do. While we didn’t get a whole lot of development in terms of breaking the seals, or Lilith, this week, “The Rapture” is probably going to go down in the Supernatural hall of fame as being one of the most memorable episodes of the season, if not the series. This is mainly because of what happened with Sam in the end, but also because we got to know the man who literally gave up life and limb to do God’s work: Jimmy Novak. Read the rest of this entry »

And that, my friends, is precisely why I write about TV, and not for TV. Never in a million years would I have come up with such a solution for a very tricky situation. Well okay, maybe I would have, because a million years is a long time. Anyway, I knew that there was no way Allison herself would be able rid herself of Harvey Lucas, so at least I got that part right.

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Seriously, two two-parters in a row? What gives? As Kona mentioned last week, the first one was really unnecessary. It wasn’t even really a continuation. Now we get another “to be continued…”, which granted, seems a little more interesting, and yet, I’m fearful that this is going to bomb.

While this episode was a vast improvement from last week’s, which really just felt like a whole lot of filler, I have a couple of bones to pick.

First off, has there ever been an instance in which a spirit has influenced Allison’s dreams before? If there has been, I can’t remember. I called it before the big reveal at the end, and yet I was hoping it wouldn’t turn out to be that way because it seems ridiculous. Read the rest of this entry »