Conan the Barbarian Commentary Greatest Hits

Darth Vader Takes a Picture of Himself Every Day

The Sith Lord has joined the craze.

Solider Loses His Lid

Premieres and Notables: April 26-May 1, 2011

Tuesday, 4/26

The Voice; NBC. 7 pm CST.  Series Premiere.
Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine, and Blake Shelton judge the talent in this new singing competition before they see what the singers look like.

Repo Games; Spike. 7 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Repo men ask delinquent-payment people five questions. If they get three correct, they get to keep their car. Three wrong, and they better hope to have decent shoes.

Top Shot (History; 9 pm CST). Season Finale.


Wednesday, 4/27

South Park; Comedy Central. 9 pm CST. 15th Season Premiere.
Fingers crossed it'll actually be funny this season...

Thursday, 4/28

Steve Carell's final episode as Michael Scott on The Office (NBC; 8 pm CST).


Saturday, 4/30

Kick Buttowski; Disney XD. 8:30 am CST.  2nd Season Premiere.


Sunday, 5/1

Undercover Boss (CBS; 8 pm CST). Season Finale.

Law & Order: Criminal Intent; USA. 8 pm CST. Season Premiere.

In Plain Sight; USA. 9 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Doctor Who Stands Up to the Atraxi

One of my favorite scenes of this show.  Matt Smith knocks this out of the park in his first episode and proves he can hang with any other former Who actors.

And when the Atraxi probe runs through the previous ten Doctor Whos-- and The Eleventh walks through it.  Cool as Hell.



Check out the Series Six premiere tonight on BBC America.

Doctor Who All-Star (Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors)

One more day.

Flight of the Bumblebees on Bottles

Car Gives Ultimate Wedgie

Well, at least he pulled himself out of the gene pool...

Ain't Nothin' But a Glee Thang

Worth it just to listen to Sophia Vergara say "dog shit."

Nuthin' But A Glee Thang with Heather Morris, Matthew Morrison & Sofia Vergara from Heather Morris

One Thing You Never Put in a Trap...

One of the Eleventh Doctor's bad-ass lines..



One week until the Sixth Series premiere...

Premieres and Notables: April 18-24, 2011

Monday, 4/18

Cougartown returns from its hiatus tonight (ABC; 8:31 pm CST) before settling back in its usual Wed @8:30 timeslot.


Tuesday, 4/19

Parenthood (NBC; 9 pm CST). Season Finale.

Dresscue Me; Planet Green. 9:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.
A designer takes her clients vintage-clothes shopping.


Thursday, 4/21

Community (NBC; 7 pm CST) has a clip show.  Except the clips are not from old episodes.
Don't think too hard about it. This show has proven it take take an unlikely subject/style and knock it out of the park.  Just enjoy the ride.

Archer (FX; 9 pm CST). Season Finale.
This season was too short.


Friday, 4/22

Ice Pilots; National Geographic. 9 pm CST.  Series Premiere.
A family of pilots transport people and things to remote areas of Canada.


Saturday, 4/23

Doctor Who; BBC America.  8 pm CST. 6th Series Premiere.
I enjoy this show, but I'm a bit surprised by just how excited I am for this new season.

I really dig Matt Smith's turn as The Doctor.  Goofy, funny, but with an attitude that I would normally consider "bad ass" if he wasn't so likable.  One of my favorite examples of this is when he simply said to a young boy who asked if he was afraid of monsters: "No. They're afraid of me."

Series Six ("Season Six" for us Americans) opens with an ambitious 2-parter not only set in America, but (for the first time for the series) filmed in America as he travels to 1969 to help Nixon turn back aliens who are hypnotizing the world's populace. 


Sunday, 4/24

Treme; HBO. 9 pm CST. 2nd Season Premiere.
I'm embarrassed to say I haven't watched the first season yet, but I've heard very good things.

After Lately (E!; 10:30 pm CST).  Season Finale.
The first season goes out with a bang with Tori Spelling, Dr. Drew, and Justin Beiber (who has had some great interviews with Chelsea) all showing up.

Friday (Brock's dub)

I'm not really about trying to further humiliate this poor girl.  I mean, I haven't even seen the original (other than a couple seconds-worth of snippets on shows like The Soup).

But I thought this was pretty funny.

Tolerance for our times

Smut Cave used its 40th episode "anniversary" to give us a song about acceptance.

Take it to heart as ebony and ivory can mean sexual synchronicity.

Doctor Who Series 6 Trailer

Oh... Hell... Yes...

Ten more days...

Luke spazzes with his lightsaber

Star Trek Acid Drive

I don't know what to say. Weird and... slightly cool.

Premieres and Notables; April 11-17, 2011

Monday, 4/11

Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza; GSN. 7 pm CST. Series Premiere.

Paranormal State; A&E. 9:00 & 9:30 pm CST.  Season Premiere.


Tuesday, 4/12

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution; ABC. 7 pm CST. Season Premiere.

Deadliest Catch; Discovery. 8 pm CST. 7th Season Premiere.

Braxton Family Values; WE TV. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Follows singer Toni Braxton and her relationships with her younger sisters and mother.

Sinbad: It's Just Family; WE TV. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
If you ever wondered what the real Sinbad is like, here's your chance to find out.

Sports Show With Norm McDonald; Comedy Central.  9:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.


Wednesday, 4/13

Happy Endings; ABC. 8:31 pm CST.  Series Premiere.
A man is left at the alter, and the mutual friends of him and his former fiance try to remain friends with both.


Thursday, 4/14

The Paul Reiser Show; NBC.  7:30 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Paul Reiser plays "himself" in this series that hasn't gotten much good press...

Will Ferrell starts his four episode stint on The Office (NBC; 8 pm CST) as Michael's replacement.  And Dwight's not happy about it...


Friday, 4/15

Friday Night Lights; NBC. 7 pm CST. 5th Season Premiere (non-DirecTV)
Now those with us who don't have DirecTV can see how it all ends.

American Restoration; History. 9 pm CST. Series Premiere.
Rick Dale and his crew at Rick's Restoration restore old treasures to their original states.

The Whitest Kids U' Know; IFC. 9:30 pm CST. 5th Season Premiere.
The final season begins here.


Sunday, 4/17

Game of Thrones; HBO. 8 pm CST. Series Premiere.
George R. R. Martin's books get the HBO treatment.  I can't say I really understand what it's all about (power struggles, kingdoms, castles, epic battles), but there's big-time excitement for this out there. Worth checking out.

Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe; USA. 8 pm CST. Special.
A prequel movie that shows how Bruce Campbell's character got to be where he was in life when the series started.

Bulldogs NCAA Champs!

Wanted to be one of the first to congratulate the University of Minnesota- Duluth Bulldogs Men's Ice Hockey team for bringing the NCAA Division I Championship to Duluth-- finally.

First-ever such championship for this team.  My longest-loved team finally reached the top!

I may live in Wisconsin now-- but I'm proud to say I'm still a Duluth boy at heart.

Harry Baals Causing Controversy

Spider-Man Smacka Smacka Smacka

Try hearing this tune without thinking of this ever again: