Monday, February 20, 2012

"Parks and Recreations," The Oscars, and the 500th Episode of "The Simpsons"

RANDOM THOUGHTS:

If you're an American, then I hope that you've been enjoying your President's Day so far. If you're an overseas reader, then I hope that your most-likely average Monday has also been going well. Regardless, thanks for once again stopping by and reading my crap. Now, let's get down to the goodies...

The following were on my mind between Thursday, February 16th and Monday, February 20th:

- While season four of "Parks and Recreations" has not been up to par with how good season three was, I have still been enjoying it as a whole, although there have been a few problems that I've been noticing with the show that showrunner Mike Shur might need to address. The first problem is Andy, who has been Flanderized into this show's Kevin from "The Office," a bumbling goof who resorts himself to going as far as eating an entire bottle of whipped cream just to see if there's a clue that no right minded person knows will be there. My second problem with the show is Ann Perkins. There just doesn't seem to be any real need of her as a character (moreso this season) and it just seems that she's only there to be in a relationship with another character on the show (now Tom Haverford, probably the strangest choice by the show yet).

- I wonder if there's anyone who assumes that the Academy Award nominated documentary "The Undefeated" is the one about Sarah Palin, and not about the story of the high school football team.

- Speaking of the Academy Awards, they're an award show that almost always goes past its three hour time limit, so I don't see why they should also be booking Cirque de Soleil. I think that the show would go along just fine without people seeing their act play out in what will surely be a boring fashion.

- I applaud "The Simpsons" for making it to 500 episodes, but as a longtime fan of the show last night's monumental episode was not one to make me happy that the show has still been going on all of these years. It was one of those many post-1997 episodes where you can tell that the writers put little effort into making it, and all of the gags just seemed to fall flat. I, personally, never even laughed once the whole time, and this season has actually been one of the better ones in recent memory (this year's Christmas episode was especially great).

- Hollywood trying to maximize their profit by getting money off a famous person's death. Shocking! (http://gawker.com/5886685/studios-allegedly-pull-all-whitney-houston-titles-from-netflix-to-make-more-money-off-the-dvd-sales)

- If I had a nickel for everytime somebody said "Gee wilikers!" in my lifetime, I'd owe all of you ten cents. Because I'm the only one I've ever heard say "Gee wilikers!"


More of the RTs to come this Thursday. See you then!
Sincerely,
Your pal: mj15





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