Sunday, September 28, 2008

Addition to Notables: Venture & Costas

Just flipped through my upcoming recordings on the DVR and came across two fun episodes.

First, on Monday night, there's the "Assassinanny 911" episode of The Venture Brothers (adult swim/Cartoon Network; 11:30 pm CST). I am 99.9% sure that's the ep with one of my favorite scenes of all time: when Dean gets mouth to mouth and then runs around screaming that the Apaches are back (check out the ep-- I won't ruin it here).

Next, on Tuesday, is the newest episode of Costas Now (HBO, 8 pm). This ep features Hank Aaron and Willie Mays. This is mandatory viewing for a number of reasons: it has two of the greatest baseball players-- and men-- who ever stepped onto the field; two men who were instrumental in the race issues sports had at the time; and the fact that Bob Costas is an amazing talent who absolutely loves baseball in general and those two men in particular. I'm not much of a baseball fan, but I will be glued to my couch. This promises to be amazing television. Do not miss it.
(Note: those of you recording this would be smart to extend the recording a good half-hour beyond the hour-long run time. When Costas had the baseball roundtable discussion-- which included Aaron & Mays-- earlier this year, the filming went over by about ten minutes.)

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