Not gonna lie... i was flipping through the channels and as i flipped to NBC (sigh) i landed just in time to see a promo for the office.

It was a series of slow motion shots of the cast and crew working on new episodes on the set of the show, and it was all slow-sappy-we have missed you everso-type music behind the images and narration along the lines of "when you haven't seen your loved ones for a while..."

Then there were shots of the cast hugging and saying "hi! missed you while the writers were striking!"

i won't lie... i cried. not a full out weep... but a little tear did appear in the corner of my eye...

if i can find the promo online i'll post it. it was amazing.

2 weeks.

2 weeks.

That Time of Year

Baseball Season is here...


So, I figure the world has been inspired by Barry Bonds and I might as well make an inspirational poster about him:

Going all Sorkin...

Ok...

I don't want to go all Aaron Sorkin on TV, but lets be serious... some of these reality TV game shows suck.

Deal or No Deal... i can get behind that. I don't think it is very intellectual, and there isn't much to the game in the end... but it is god natured, and fun.

There is one, however, that has commercials... teasers, really... that make me feel like an evil British Gossip Bitch. That show is "Moment of Truth."

Watching the commercials make me snap into Jordan McDeere mode (Studio 60 reference) and vomit over the baseness of the program. They are enticing viewers by saying things like "last week, a woman risked sacrificing her marriage, only to lose the money on the followign questions... and you'll never believe what happens this week...."

Basically the show is marketing the opportunity for America to watch people expose thier problems, and then ruin their lives over it. And here is the troubling thing... People are tuning in. They are actually tuning in to watch this crap... and from what i hear people saying around lunch tables, we cannot get enough of it. To quote Wes Mendell on Studio 60, "We're eating worms for money. Who wants to screw my sister? Guys are getting killed in a war that's got theme music and a logo? That remote in your hands is a crack pipe. Oh, yeah, every once in a while we pretend to be appalled..."

Well, i AM appalled. I was hoping the end of the writers strike would also see the end of some of this media bile, but i suppose not. Maybe eventually we will all smarten up and start watching decent programming again, but i don't see i happening anytime soon, and that is tragic.