Tellyman 10.4

Killface from Frisky Dingo

I had a brilliant post written for last week’s shows, but Firefox 2.0 just took a big dump on me and it is all gone. I didn’t save a draft in WordPress either; gone means totally gone. I was trying to load up cbs.com and an episode of How I Met Your Mother so I could get a vidcap for the lead picture, but when it started loading their InnerTube — which came first, Inner or You? — page, it locked up because I was missing the RealPlayer plug-in. I tried IE first, but same issue except it wouldn’t set Windows Media Player as my preference there (it gave me a choice between the two). I hated RealPlayer before, which is why I didn’t have it installed, and now I doubly hate it. I’ll never install it again. Ever.

Of course, it is not like I just lost a term paper or novel or something like that. I didn’t even shout, snap a remote in half, smash a keyboard or punch a door. The post was mostly the same old usual garbage spew about shows most of you readers don’t even watch. In fact, that was the whole point of the start of the post, but I eventually got to the usual boring snippits, which were actually shorter this time. However, this must be a sign that what I was proposing is what I should do. So…

Tellyman is Dead! Long Live Tellyman!

I’m kidding. I kid. I’m a kidder. Not really though.

I am going to kill off “Tellyman” as it has existed so far. I have come to this point because The Office wasn’t new last week and I delayed the crafting of this post because I wasn’t going to talk Office. Now I have crafted this post twice!

Starting November 30th, Scrubs will be back and on Thursday’s at nine following The Office and before 30 Rock — anyone watching this now? Is it worth it? — with Earl starting off the night. I plan on writing about Office and Scrubs and I’ll talk Earl if it is worthy. It pains me to write that about Earl, especially since I loved it more than The Office last year… okay… they were neck-and-neck. So, “Tellyman” is going to be reborn, if I keep the name, as a weekly post about the new “Must See.”

I guess the other news I dropped was I am really, really dropping The Nine now. I removed it from my Media Center series list and deleted the two episodes I didn’t watch. I am also not going to watch Jericho after this week. Studio 60 had its first weak ep, but I’m sticking with it. Las Vegas started up and I mentioned something about it being a guilty pleasure and that my other one, Veronica Mars, should probably not be picked up for the full season as it has been pretty weak so far this season.

What the hell, I’ll finish it off the rest. Mother was good in only it was fun to see Barney get worked by Jane Seymour as a “Cougar” and Bryan Cranston made a good guest appearance too. Are the other characters on this show going to do anything this season? Friday Night Lights continues the football movie and Texas cliches — I already didn’t like Texas, but each week makes it worse — but is going good places, especially when Street gets kicked even more while down when he eventually finds out his best friend just started boinking his girlfriend. Smalville had its first meteor freak of the week ep this season and it was predictably weak. Looking forward to Raya being back this week, but I’m sure they’ll handle it poorly. We’ll see.

Lastly, I talked about Aqua Teen Hunger Force and I put up an Aside about the first two eps this year. I’ll likely do that for this show and others as I feel I need to speak up about them. For now, Heroes will continue on its own, I’ll do the Thursday night thing and then I’ll also continue to comment on The Ed Zone about Lost (here’s last week’s comments about “Every Man for Himself“). Once 24 starts up, I’ll give it another go and comment there as well. I did keep up with the reading last year, but I couldn’t lend a voice to the discussion since I wasn’t watching.

So, for those keeping track, here’s my current schedule:

  • Monday: Mother, Heroes, Studio 60
  • Tuesday: Friday Night Lights, Veronica Mars
  • Wednesday: Lost
  • Thursday: Earl, Office, Smallville
  • Friday: Las Vegas
  • Saturday: nothing
  • Sunday: A.T.H.F.

Oh, and I do watch more stuff than this on a regular basis, but it is mostly on [adult swim] and on weekends and you really need to have a DVR, TiVo or Media Center to record this crap to watch later. It’s on too late for people who sleep, but then, you probably wouldn’t enjoy anyway. Frisky Dingo is three eps in, and not anime, so maybe you’d like that new show. In case you didn’t guess, that’s where the lead-in pic is from. You can find the eps on YouTube.

Anyway, that DVR advice is good because I forgot to set Media Center to record Hellboy: Sword of Storms on Saturday and now it doesn’t appear it is being repeated in the next two weeks, if ever. I guess now I will have to check out the DVD.