A Charlie Brown Christmas (ABC) — I’m one of the few people on the planet who can’t stand that sad-sack loser Charlie Brown, but even I enjoy this Christmas special. Side note: I like that most shows’ Christmas episodes are taking place during Hanukkah. Take THAT, Hollywood-controlling Jews!
Minute to Win It (NBC) — Season premiere. Yay, Guy Fieri is back. Christmas came early this year.
Warehouse 13 (Syfy) — Judd Hirsch guest stars in a Christmas episode. Eh, I prefer it when my sci-fi/fantasy stories happen in worlds without Christmas.
In Treatment (HBO) Season finale. I know that therapy is useful for a lot of people, but it bores the hell out of me. Why do I wanna listen to people talk about their problems? TV’s my prostitute, not my girlfriend.
Inside the Actors Studio (Bravo) — James Franco enjoys the languid and selfless oral services of James Lipton. Ever notice how James Lipton rarely asks a question? Tonight he’s sure to say something like “You appeared in a soap opera” and then just stop. It really bothers me.
Glee (Fox) — It’s a Christmas episode, and you know what that means: Christmas carols sung in annoying new ways.[GIF via]
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Have they made a Charlie Brown XXXmas yet? If not, I call it.
Every year I keep expecting Charlie Brown to finally end it all halfway through. Every kid in that town (Linus excepted) is a total a-hole and treats him like shit.
The boutique I used to work in had a flat-screen TV on the wall, and we’d usually play these cutesy little fashion videos. But from Black Friday through Christmas Eve, we played the Charlie Brown Christmas special. All day. On loop. Muted, but still.
And yet that dancing scene is still adorable. So I guess that just goes to show how good it is.
So you make short films with floppy penises…
But even I’m over Glee at this point. Unless they can go back to the glory days of the pilot, forget it.
@Patty – I’m pretty sure “Glory Days of the Pilot” is what the call Top Gun in Russia.
I accidentally caught 30 seconds of Glee tonight, they were singing that Whoville song from How the Grinch Stole Christmas. One question: do they autotune the living snot out of them like that on every episode?
DG, you can be my wing comrade anytime.
And, yes, they doalways autotune the crap out of them. Which really defeats the whole talent angle.
@Patty, you hit on the point I was aiming for: what’s the point of a show is about chorale singers but none of the actors can carry worth a damn?
I’m old enough to remember the original Fame and as much as that show was a steaming pile of melodramatic horseshit, at least the vocal students could actually sing.
In other news, GET OFF MY LAWN!
I used to like Glee… but then it got terrible…
I miss it back when teachers were molesting students and planting pot in their lockers… now my teacher’s kids watch it… christ
The Whole of Russia=The Danger Zone
makes sense
The thing is, Pete, some of them actually CAN sing. Really well. But they still autotune everybody. Not to mention that they pick a lot of terrible songs. It’s such a waste.