The following were on my mind between Monday, May 16th and Tuesday, May 24th (not Monday, May 23rd, because of the newest installment of "End of the Week" being pushed back for another two whole days):
- I think its safe to say that the HBO GO is easily one of the the top new entertainment and technological products to be released this year. Its like NetFlix for those people who have HBO but are still cheap enough to not pay an extra $10 a month to pay for a subscription to the former (ahem).
- If the original purpose of car horns were to simply warn people of incoming danger, then I think its safe to say that it was a poor thought out one, considering what it has morphed into.
- I wonder what genius advertisement executive came up to the folks at ESPN and said "You know what we should do to promote every NBA playoff game? Let's have commercials with talking basketballs!" Also, I wonder how long it took for those ESPN personnel to allow those commercials to happen realize what a horrible mistake they made.
- Anyone who feels that breastfeeding their child over the age of two need to watch the past two episodes of "Game of Thrones" (which, by the way, is officially my new favorite TV show to come out this '10-'11 season, surpassing fellow HBO drama "Boardwalk Empire"), especially whenever the crazy looking son of Catelyn's sister (who I think is around nine) says "Make the tiny man fly!" Truly disturbing stuff.
- Yellow dinosaur fighting pedophiles? Yellow dinosaur fighting pedophiles. One of the best videos of the year? One of the best videos of the year. Tired out Internet meme? Tired out Internet meme.
YELLOW DINO: PEDO HUNTER from Everything Is Terrible! on Vimeo.
- Even though the power rankings ended a week ago, I still feel like I should write a few thoughts on the 1 hour season finales of "The Office" and "Parks and Recreations," so here it goes. Overall, I actually enjoyed both of them (especially the wonderful "P&R," who have officially wrapped up season 3 with another great slate of episodes, particularly "Lil' Sebastian," making them a perfect 16 for 16 in quality for 2011). However, I do have a few criticisms towards "The Office." For starters, why did they feel the need to wait until the fall to reveal who the new boss was? Many fans of the show were going to find out who the boss would be anyway during the summer through the Internet rumor mill, and I still feel that it would have been a better way to end the show than with ten minutes that were basically included to stall the rest of the episode. Second, the dumbing down of both Kevin and Darryl were stunning. So, what, Kevin is actually supposed to be a retard now that he can't say the alphabet properly? In that case, what the whole point of the "Holly mistakes Kevin for a retard" story in early season 5? Also, I was under the assumption that the show made out Darryl to be one of the smartest people in Dundler-Mifflin, and now he's so clueless that he doesn't even know that he needed a resume for the job? Oh well, anything for a laugh, I guess.
Oh, well, at least the second half of season 7 proved to be an improvement over the first half, and the entire season 6 for that matter. Can't wait to see "Parks and Recreations" return in the fall for season four and can't wait to see how the post-Steve Carell 'Office' experiment plays out (F.Y.I., I think either Jim, Andy and Catherine Tate's character is going to be the boss).
Programming note: Because next Monday is Memorial Day, I've decided to post the next weekly installment of "Random Thoughts" until next Tuesday. Until then, enjoy what I hope will be a pleasant workweek!
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15
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