Archive for the ‘Television’ Category

annoying TV characters

Posted: April 16, 2012 in review, Television

Most Annoying TV Characters Ever Kim Bauer, 24 (2001–10) – They called her ”Cougar Trap.” The hapless teenage daughter of terrorist fighter Jack Bauer on 24, Kim Bauer (Elisha Cuthbert) had a never-ending series of misadventures that kept distracting our hero from saving Los Angeles. Most infamously, a season 2 nature trek resulted in Kim [...]

favorite A-Team scenes

Posted: December 22, 2011 in favorite-scenes, quotes, Television

Two of my favorite A-Team quotes/scenes from the episode Bounty: 1) Murdock is abducted at gunpoint from the hospital. As the kidnappers are driving away, Murdock rambles on – in typical Murdock fashion – but his nonsensical chatter makes one of the kidnappers furious. He finally snaps at Murdock, “Are you crazy?!” Murdock replies, quite [...]

In one Golden Girls episode, Blanche had gone back to school, and she was worried about taking a big exam.  She stayed after class one day and was asking her professor for help.  The professor basically told her that if she didn’t sleep with him, he would fail her.  Later, when she told the girls [...]

On one episode of the A-Team, Face has gone missing, and the others are looking for him in a small-ish, rural community. Finally, one of the locals tells them that he saw a guy matching Face’s description get picked up by a woman in a Corvette – and they headed to a motel. The others [...]

The TV show “Benson” was a situation comedy about a governor and his somewhat quirky staff. In one of the more serious episodes, the group – as part of the government leadership – was tasked to participate in a drill in which it was simulated that there had been a nuclear attack. They were in [...]

A plot in an episode of Friends involved Phoebe finding out how some classic movies really ended. It seems that when she watched them as a child, her mom would turn the TV off before something bad happened. In re-watching the films, Phoebe is devastated by the real endings, and she lists among the badness [...]

When I think of “tv shows I liked better when I was younger,” two immediately come to mind: 1) Beauty and the Beast – when I first watched this show I thought it was OH-so-romantic. Now, I don’t really feel the need to watch it again. 2) Knight Rider – I admit it: I was [...]