Last TV show you watched

[frankie_fan]

Spin City - Goodbye (Part 2)

You're right, Medikor. It did lose appeal when he left. I did like that they kept the humour going through the episode. This is possibly the only farewell episode I like!

[AerostarMonk]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I actually liked the Charlie Sheen years. Even if they did break the law by having Mayor Winston run for a third term.

[AerostarMonk]

So I watched The Critic. All of it. Every single episode. I've seen them before but not all at one time. I must say Family Guy owes a deep debt of thanks to this show. It pioneered the cutaway gag in prime-time animation. Although unlike Family Guy, most of the cutaways were intergral to the plot.

This show was was damn fine entertainment. Jon Lovitz is golden as always, and Maurice LaMarche and Nick Jameson bring down the house with their dead on celeb impressions. I mean everyone knows Maurice can do a mean Orson Welles, but also hidden away in there is a Patrick Stewart, Kirk Douglas and Charlton Heston. Between those two you'll hear some of the best vocal gymnastics this side of Hank Azaria or Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

I will admit that there is a bit of a learning curve to this show. I mean you actually have to remember the 90s to get it. And I don't mean the main things of the 90s this show goes into little minutiae of 90s culture and politics that really work against it. So does a lot of its New York humor. While funny, a lot of the humor about the city is lost on the 292 million Americans who didn't happen to live within walking distance of Manhattan in 1995.

But when the humor does hit, like it does in many of its movie parodies, it hits hard. The show really brings the funny when it needs to. And with writers that include the early showrunners of The Simpsons, and Brad Bird and Judd Apatow, it's not hard to see why.

The animation is crisp and clean for a show produced before the advent of computer graphics on television. In fact all characters possess the often elusive "fifth finger' usually cut out for cost reasons. New York lives and breathes and feels like and actual city. And the characters themselves are a nice cross between cartoony and realistic.

Now as funny and well-written as this show was I'm glad it ended in its second season. I'm almost sure the third season would've been the death knell for the entire thing creatively. By the end of season one you could already see that they were recycling some jokes and not their best ones at that. The stories remained tops, but there's only so many times you can keep making Rain Man and Scent of a Woman jokes. The last episode, "I Can't Believe It's a Clip Show" was so broad with its humor and leaned so much on the parodies that had already worn out their welcome on earlier episodes that it can easily be awarded the title of Worst Episode In Series.

In the end, the good outweighs the bad. The shows mix of sentimentality with 90s cynicism make for a good mix. The characters grow on you with every episode. And it's just nice to hear Lovitz, who seems to go MIA every few years. So this is a definite Monk Recommendation. Buy it today, it doesn't cost much, and you'll be glad that you did.

[Subzeroace]

I last watched Ellen, I <3 her and her DJ Striker =D

[Cassini90125]

Sailor Moon (again!), Episode #25, late this afternoon. Zoycite begins hunting for the seven Rainbow Crystals, the girls try to stop him, and Sailor Moon is given the Crescent Moon Wand by her talking cat Luna. Not as silly as it sounds. Pretty good episode although not especially memorable, except for one minor little detail that set it apart from all the rest; this was the one that introduced Sailor Jupiter. It took about a half a second for everything that I ever felt about this truly wonderful lady to come roaring back to life. My head's still spinning.

[Lynnie]

Road to Avonlea

This great "family" show aired on the Disney channel throughout the early to mid '90s here in the US. My passion for all things Edwardian certainly drew me in, deeply. Now my mother has the first four seasons on DVD (and they are on my wish list), and I borrow them every so often. The acting doesn't start out so good, but gets better over the course of a season or two. Unfortunately, as the acting got better, the plots become very predictable, and it becomes very cheezy and even dumb at times. But I love the stories, and OH, those costumes! A great depiction of real every-day sort of life 100 years ago too, if I may say so myself.

[Ccook50]

The first episode of The Price Is Right with Drew Carey as host (also the first show of the 36th season). Drew was okay--a little rushed and stiff here and there, but it's only his first show.

[Medikor]

Simpsons and American Dad. At fist I thought the newest episode had potential but then it went down hill really fast. The jokes (mostly Homer's) fell flat and it felt a lot more like a Family Guy episode.
American Dad's newest episode was a winner, though! The side story of Rodger tricking Steve into thinking a drug lab was Hogwarts was great stuff.

[Bloonan]

Originally Posted by Ccook50

The first episode of The Price Is Right with Drew Carey as host (also the first show of the 36th season). Drew was okay--a little rushed and stiff here and there, but it's only his first show.

They replaced the host? It was months ago when I saw the old one (whatever his name was) was to be retiring on my Wii news, took them long enough. Can't wait to see how he checks out when I find the time.

More on-topic...

My TV's on right now with CatDog (Nicktoons Network, I have a full cable package). I watch Nicktoons more then Nick for 2 reasons:

1. Nick is being taken over by TeenNick!

2. Nicktoons has a lot of shows I miss (and beleive to be true entertainment).

[Ccook50]

Originally Posted by Bloonan

They replaced the host? It was months ago when I saw the old one (whatever his name was) was to be retiring on my Wii news, took them long enough. Can't wait to see how he checks out when I find the time.

That was Bob Barker, who'd been at the helm since 1972. Bill Cullen was the very first host (1956-65).

The announcement of Drew Carey was made in July and he taped his first show on August 15, a good month-and-a-half behind normal schedule. That allowed him to get adjusted to the show's mechanics and go through rehearsals and run-throughs.