This has always been one of my favorite Seinfeld moments, just kills me every time.
Pity the clip is not a bit longer.
Archive for February, 2008
The Manzier (Bro)
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008“Starter Wife” Got to get a Life?
Friday, February 15th, 2008I watched the first episode of the “Starter Wife”. Believe me, when I tell you, I had to force myself to not turn it off. It was pure torture trying to get through it! If you had asked me, I also couldn’t have picked out even one character that I liked. Even if I was trying to save one from a firing line! That’s sad, very sad. 
The episode was full of nasty, self absorbed people that obsessed about who they were with and how much money they could make off of them. It’s definitely not realistic of the average life but probably too close to home in Hollywood. Since I’m the gullible merciful person that I am, I gave the second episode a shot. I had such a bad taste in my mouth from the first episode that I think that just about anything had to be better. Surely, it couldn’t be as bad as the first, I thought. I was surprised to find that the show actually started showing a little heart and a small bit of reality. I actually found myself watching the third episode and so on. (Thanks to their episodes on their website) All of a sudden, I found that I was hooked!?!? I admit that I wasn’t expecting that at all. The main character Molly Kagan, played by Debra Messing, is a confused woman who’s trying to find her niche’ in life again. Sadly, her friends have enough of their own problems to fill many new episodes. Bottom line, this just goes to show you that the first episode of a brand new series doesn’t always predict its success. I recommend that you give the show a shot. It may have heart after all. If you want to take a look, go to http://www.usanetwork.com/fullepisodes/.
The Anal Detective
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008The other day we were watching a Monk on DVR and I paused it to make myself a refreshing Coke product. That is when I noticed that we were watching a very “special” epsiode of Monk. He is the anal retentive detective you know…
Still, kind of scary, not only did this come up as NC-17, but it did not ask me for a password or anything else. Guess the ratings are not what drives that, must be some other value the DVR is using for permissions. Meh, FIOS is buggy anyway.
Pokemon: Diamond & Pearl
Monday, February 4th, 2008First, let’s get a few things out of the way. I like women, I am married, I have a job (not just the glamorous Craptastictv gig), and I do not have any action figure collections. OK, now that we have that out of the way, let me just say this, I do not hate this series.
Pokemon, for those that might read this article the first thing after you have wakened from a 20 year coma, loosely means “Pocket Monsters” in Japanese (ポケットモンスター Poketto Monsutā). The object of the game is to collect the Pokemon, increase their powers and have them battle other Trainer’s Pokemon until you become the strongest Pokemon Trainer, the Pokemon Master.
I really tried to keep my kids away from the whole Pokemon thing for quite a few years. A cynical person might say that the point of Pokemon is to make money. Especially, since there are over 400+ of the little buggers (not Bug Type) and with every fresh installment they add a few more thus forcing the mindless Poke – Automatons to buy more games. To make it worse, each time they release a new Pokemon game they release it in two flavors with a few Pokemons that are unique to each. This is why it is not called Pokemon Diamond, but Diamond AND Pearl (and Pearl is the superior of the two).
The series now is about Ash, Brock (The Japanese Stewart French) and Dawn as they travel about the Sinnoh Region (don’t ask) exploring. The series is typical Japanese Anime, that is, very crappy animation which is the norm. Seriously, it looks terrible. I do like the style and colors, but the animation is atrocious. Static backgrounds, the people do not move when they talk-other than their mouths. I’m not sure if they even blink.
Another thing that I am so-so on is Team Rocket. They are in pretty much every episode and do something stupid every episode. It gets annoying. Still, I will give them style points for their awesome coifed hair and the clothes that they have. Not to mention they have about the only intelligently SPEAKING Pokemon on the series, Meowth. In addition, they have a Wobbuffet. Which I am so very ashamed to say that I find it to be quite funny and quirky.
That said, I do like this series. At least the ones that I have watched with my kids. I found the stories to be somewhat entertaining, certainly they do show quite a bit of imagination. And when I say imagination, I don’t mean just making up a bunch of odd names for this or silly landmarks like say… “Jay Jay the Jet Plane’s” Sparkleberry Tree, gah! Big Jake run me over please, if I have to watch that show again!
Oh, and I was right about my initial feeling towards it. Every time I watch this show with the kids I feel like going and playing Pokemon Pearl or Pokemon Ruby or Pokemon Battle Revolution…