Tuesday September 23, 2002

Thank goodness they moved this show to Tuesday nights, now I can watch it again!

I know I'm a little behind the times, having missed lots of last season, but what's up with everybody's hair? Sean's is too long, Jimmy's is a big fuzzball, and Lily looks like she just stepped out of a salon five minutes ago. Claudia's is new but looks fine.

I guess Sean & Eddie bought a bar or something, I'll have to watch more to figure that one out. Anyway, this week featured Stephen Root (a fave of mine from NewsRadio) as Claudia's father Tony. Sean had to beg to borrow money from him, and got tortured all week for it. Tony gave Lily his red Mustang, just to increase the torment, and when Sean & Claudia took it out for a joyride -- to prove that they were responsible enough to drive it -- Sean ended up losing it in a drag race to Fez from That 70s Show. (Actually, Fez turned out to be a pretty good actor. Who knew?) Claudia had to win it back by pretending she was going to do it with him. D'oh!

It doesn't seem quite as fun as it used to be, but I'll give it a chance, and it's still better than every other sitcom on the air right now.

I can't watch this show anymore. It's too dumb. Donna and Eric used to be smart and now they're idiots, and Red just spouts one-liners, and the laugh track is intolerable and includes applause anytime anyone uses the word "ass".

January 12, 2003

This show still isn't funny. I guess I enjoyed the Cribs parody and the Museum of Sadness & Oppression, but they're really not coming up with good stories anymore or any of those little moments that always made the show so much fun.

Homer realized he didn't know anything about Lisa -- by buying her one of those personalized videos where you put in your kids' favorite things, which actually was kind of funny -- so he hired a private detective to find things out about her. I remember that, and some smoking monkeys, and that's about it. Smoking monkeys are always funny.

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Sunday, January 12, 2003

I've missed this show. Happy to see that the Cartoon Network has picked it up and has it on at 11:00 p.m. Sunday to Thursday. Thank you!

Good news, everyone! You're going to deliver something to the hive-mind of somewhere! I don't remember where, but anytime there's a hive mind involved, I'm happy.

Actually, Amy detoured the ship so they could rendezvous with Kif, with whom she's in love. Kif got pregnant, but it turned out to be Leela's DNA that did it and not Amy's. This was fine for Amy, who wasn't interested in motherhood, but Kif named her the mother anyway, because in his species, the mother is the person who inspires the feelings that allowed him to become pregnant.

There were some nice Star Trek references along the way -- Dr. McCoy, the horta -- and a nice last-minute save by Amy as she showed up just in time for delivery. Then Kif's babies hopped down the hill and jumped into the water, where they get picked up in 20 years.

It was funny.