Week 2: 26 Weeks To Share meme
Favorite Television show.
I have been thinking about this and thinking about this for almost a week. It is so hard to chose even just a few. But I think that I have narrowed it down, at last.
1. Current I can't miss show or I will get upset.
Big Bang Theory.
This is a very cleverly written, extremely funny sitcom about brilliant but socially challenged men, their lives and their attempts to find happiness. One would suppose that the jokes are at the expense of nerds, but I don't find them to be so. The characters are Leonard Hofstadter [played by Johnny Galecki, who also was in Roseanne]. Leonard is a experimental physicist at CalTech. He is the center of the story and the most loveable and normal of the group. He actually manages to have relationships with women, including Sareh Gilbert [who was his love interest on Roseanne] and Kaley Cuoco.
Leonard's roommate is Sheldon Cooper [played by Jim Parsons, who is a very good comedic actor and can out OCD Tony Shaloub any day, IMHO] Sheldon is the child prodigy of the group, graduating with a master's and two Ph.D's while in his early teens. He also works at CalTech as a theoretical physicist. He has an extremely high IQ and a huge ego to go with it. He is also able to quote any book on human relations but is totally incapable of understanding what they mean. It is because of this that a lot of the comedic situations happen.
They have two very best friends, Howard Wallowitz and Rajesh Ramayan Koothrappali. Both well played by Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar. Both are well played and well written.
Here are some examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjc265lI8Dg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOan_0acqE8&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op6X6NW7AVU&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVBdVCCpd4I&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WhJBLsA95Y&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Dwxv-EMTM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlhHTdDqoBc&NR=1
2. Show that has been cancelled and I am really upset about:
Pushing Daisies.
This show was well written, quirky, the sets were elaborate and unusual. I didn't miss a show, which was difficult given that ABC was constantly moving the show around the second season.
Pushing Daisies centers on the life of Ned, a pie-maker gifted with the mysterious ability to bring dead things back to life by touching them. There are some conditions to this somewhat unusual talent. Ned quickly learns that if something is revived for more than exactly one minute, something of similar "life value" in the vicinity drops dead, as a form of balance. Additionally, if he touches the revived person or thing a second time, it falls dead again, this time permanently.
The girl of Ned's dreams is murdered, he brings her back to life. But because he cannot touch her again, or she will die again, they have a very poignant love.
Inheriting his mother's baking talents, Ned becomes a pie-maker who owns a restaurant called "The Pie Hole", which he runs with the help of waitress Olive Snook. The restaurant is failing financially when private investigator Emerson Cod accidentally discovers Ned's gift and offers him a proposal: Ned will temporarily bring murder victims back to life, allowing Emerson to inquire about the circumstances of their demise, quickly solve the case and split the reward money with him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GyE21TYvzo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G41MjEgAKo&NR=1
3. Show that has consistantly excelled in good scripts and good acting:
Criminal Minds.
The story of the men and women of the FBI's BAU [behavior Analysis Unit]. I have watched this both in current run and in reruns and it never fails to interest me, even when I have seen it numerous times. And Thomas Gibson isn't bad to look at either.
4. The Cancelled Show that consistantly excelled in good script and good acting.
The Unit.
Although there is a lot of violence in this show, there is also a lot of intrigue. It reminded me of a more passionate and human Mission Impossible. I liked all of the men in the series. The women's scenes were okay, but very Desperate Housewives-y. I was very upset when they cancelled this show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDQsdbhsxdo
5. My favorite show from my childhood:
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show [also known as: Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show ]
Funny, funny, punny, punny. Absurd. Not the best animation in the world, but you didn't care, because you loved the characters, heros and villains both.
The lead characters and heroes of the series were Rocket "Rocky" J. Squirrel, a flying squirrel and his best friend Bullwinkle J Moose, a dim-witted but good-natured moose. Both characters lived in the fictional town of Frostbite Falls, Minnesota The scheming villains in most episodes were the fiendish, but inept, agents of the fictitious nation of Pottsylvania: Boris Badenov, a pun on Boris Godunov, and Natasha Fatale, a pun on femme fatale. Boris and Natasha were commanded by the sinister Mr. Big and Fearless Leader. Other characters included Gidney and Cloyd, little green men from the moon who were armed with scrooch guns; Captain Peter "Wrongway" Peachfuzz, the captain of the S.S. Guppy; and the inevitable onlookers, Edgar and Chauncy.
The story was always narrated by William Conrad.
Along with the Rocky and Bullwinkle stories were shown episodes of Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties and his nemesis, Snideley Whiplash. Silly, silly, silly.
And Peabody's Improbable Histories. Mr. Peabody was a genius dog, and Sherman was his boy. They always went back in time using the WABAC [pronounces 'way-back'] machine. Very bad puns abounded.
And Fractured Fairy Tales presented familiar fairy tales and children's stories, but with storylines altered and modernized for humorous effect. This segment was narrated by Edward Everett Horton.
And several other segments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gShfemIddlo&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcFtgzcjiM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnBULq0XQWE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBj14W5vY04&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkN5HnMHXpc&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAAkauRR-y4&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiimrz3dyrk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXC66yMe3ao
6. The Muppet Show.
Silly, punny, brilliant show. I could watch it forever and never get bored.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFebGZ7FJQQ&feature=PlayList&p=E96071DFDF0D929F&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTwq1_9VH68&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO-bp2D2jfw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cq-PvPD8FQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFvZtROeJrE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDZlYjsPFwE&feature=related
I could go on forever with shows that I like or liked. I will end with one of the best series ever.
7. Masterpiece Theater
What can I say about this show? Always a good production of classic literature.
I have been thinking about this and thinking about this for almost a week. It is so hard to chose even just a few. But I think that I have narrowed it down, at last.
1. Current I can't miss show or I will get upset.
Big Bang Theory.
This is a very cleverly written, extremely funny sitcom about brilliant but socially challenged men, their lives and their attempts to find happiness. One would suppose that the jokes are at the expense of nerds, but I don't find them to be so. The characters are Leonard Hofstadter [played by Johnny Galecki, who also was in Roseanne]. Leonard is a experimental physicist at CalTech. He is the center of the story and the most loveable and normal of the group. He actually manages to have relationships with women, including Sareh Gilbert [who was his love interest on Roseanne] and Kaley Cuoco.
Leonard's roommate is Sheldon Cooper [played by Jim Parsons, who is a very good comedic actor and can out OCD Tony Shaloub any day, IMHO] Sheldon is the child prodigy of the group, graduating with a master's and two Ph.D's while in his early teens. He also works at CalTech as a theoretical physicist. He has an extremely high IQ and a huge ego to go with it. He is also able to quote any book on human relations but is totally incapable of understanding what they mean. It is because of this that a lot of the comedic situations happen.
They have two very best friends, Howard Wallowitz and Rajesh Ramayan Koothrappali. Both well played by Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar. Both are well played and well written.
Here are some examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjc265lI8Dg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOan_0acqE8&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op6X6NW7AVU&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVBdVCCpd4I&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WhJBLsA95Y&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Dwxv-EMTM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlhHTdDqoBc&NR=1
2. Show that has been cancelled and I am really upset about:
Pushing Daisies.
This show was well written, quirky, the sets were elaborate and unusual. I didn't miss a show, which was difficult given that ABC was constantly moving the show around the second season.
Pushing Daisies centers on the life of Ned, a pie-maker gifted with the mysterious ability to bring dead things back to life by touching them. There are some conditions to this somewhat unusual talent. Ned quickly learns that if something is revived for more than exactly one minute, something of similar "life value" in the vicinity drops dead, as a form of balance. Additionally, if he touches the revived person or thing a second time, it falls dead again, this time permanently.
The girl of Ned's dreams is murdered, he brings her back to life. But because he cannot touch her again, or she will die again, they have a very poignant love.
Inheriting his mother's baking talents, Ned becomes a pie-maker who owns a restaurant called "The Pie Hole", which he runs with the help of waitress Olive Snook. The restaurant is failing financially when private investigator Emerson Cod accidentally discovers Ned's gift and offers him a proposal: Ned will temporarily bring murder victims back to life, allowing Emerson to inquire about the circumstances of their demise, quickly solve the case and split the reward money with him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GyE21TYvzo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G41MjEgAKo&NR=1
3. Show that has consistantly excelled in good scripts and good acting:
Criminal Minds.
The story of the men and women of the FBI's BAU [behavior Analysis Unit]. I have watched this both in current run and in reruns and it never fails to interest me, even when I have seen it numerous times. And Thomas Gibson isn't bad to look at either.
4. The Cancelled Show that consistantly excelled in good script and good acting.
The Unit.
Although there is a lot of violence in this show, there is also a lot of intrigue. It reminded me of a more passionate and human Mission Impossible. I liked all of the men in the series. The women's scenes were okay, but very Desperate Housewives-y. I was very upset when they cancelled this show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDQsdbhsxdo
5. My favorite show from my childhood:
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show [also known as: Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show ]
Funny, funny, punny, punny. Absurd. Not the best animation in the world, but you didn't care, because you loved the characters, heros and villains both.
The lead characters and heroes of the series were Rocket "Rocky" J. Squirrel, a flying squirrel and his best friend Bullwinkle J Moose, a dim-witted but good-natured moose. Both characters lived in the fictional town of Frostbite Falls, Minnesota The scheming villains in most episodes were the fiendish, but inept, agents of the fictitious nation of Pottsylvania: Boris Badenov, a pun on Boris Godunov, and Natasha Fatale, a pun on femme fatale. Boris and Natasha were commanded by the sinister Mr. Big and Fearless Leader. Other characters included Gidney and Cloyd, little green men from the moon who were armed with scrooch guns; Captain Peter "Wrongway" Peachfuzz, the captain of the S.S. Guppy; and the inevitable onlookers, Edgar and Chauncy.
The story was always narrated by William Conrad.
Along with the Rocky and Bullwinkle stories were shown episodes of Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties and his nemesis, Snideley Whiplash. Silly, silly, silly.
And Peabody's Improbable Histories. Mr. Peabody was a genius dog, and Sherman was his boy. They always went back in time using the WABAC [pronounces 'way-back'] machine. Very bad puns abounded.
And Fractured Fairy Tales presented familiar fairy tales and children's stories, but with storylines altered and modernized for humorous effect. This segment was narrated by Edward Everett Horton.
And several other segments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gShfemIddlo&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKcFtgzcjiM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnBULq0XQWE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBj14W5vY04&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkN5HnMHXpc&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAAkauRR-y4&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiimrz3dyrk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXC66yMe3ao
6. The Muppet Show.
Silly, punny, brilliant show. I could watch it forever and never get bored.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFebGZ7FJQQ&feature=PlayList&p=E96071DFDF0D929F&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTwq1_9VH68&feature=fvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO-bp2D2jfw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cq-PvPD8FQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFvZtROeJrE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDZlYjsPFwE&feature=related
I could go on forever with shows that I like or liked. I will end with one of the best series ever.
7. Masterpiece Theater
What can I say about this show? Always a good production of classic literature.