Smallville (The CW, Friday) – I am giving this top billing for three reasons. 1) It is the series finale. 2) I had no idea it was still on, and neither did you. 3) I wanted to run a picture of Erica Durance as the banner instead of Ed Helms.
Blue Bloods (CBS, Friday) – Season finale. I know a few people who watch this that swear it’s not the usual, run of the mill, crapfest CBS procedural. I still have not watched it, mainly because if I do, and they are wrong, I will cause a tremendous scene demanding that hour of my life back that will ruin the friendships. One of them makes terrific chili dip that she always brings to social gatherings. It’s just not a risk I’m willing to take.
Saturday Night Live (NBC, Saturday) – Ed Helms hosts, with musical guest Paul Simon. I’ve liked Ed Helms in just about everything he’s done, so I’m cautiously optimistic on this one. Don’t hurt me, SNL. I’m quite fragile.
Parking Wars (A&E, Saturday) – Two of the most loathsome subsets of people in the world are meter maids and reality television stars. This show managed to combine them. I’ve made the case a number of times that this is the worst thing to ever happen to my precious Philadelphia.
Survivor (ABC, Sunday) – Season finale. Spoiler alert: A malnourished person wins $1 million.
Desperate Housewives (ABC, Sunday) – Season finale. Spoiler alert: Bleh.
The Killing (AMC, Sunday) – Spoiler alert: It rains a lot while ominous music plays.
Game of Thrones (HBO, Sunday) – Spoiler alert: Someone gets killed, someone gets naked, someone gets killed while naked.
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You know who recommended Blue Bloods to me?
My parents.
And I’m the oldest living GloMo.
“3) I wanted to run a picture of Erica Durance as the banner instead of Ed Helms.”
Good call.
Ned Stark gets beheaded what???
I knew Smallville was still on. There’s a co-worker of mine (male, 37 years old) who watches it. I make fun of him every week for the fact that this show’s been on 11 years and SUPERMAN STILL CAN’T FLY!!!!
Patrick Leary: Citizen Dickbag.
Aw, I’d rather have Ed Helms. He’s just about as cute as a basket of fluffy kittens.
Mob Wives on VH1. I usually hate these “wives of place X” shows, but this one is entertaining. Totally trashy, yes, but the women are all kinda scary. Drita both turns me on and makes me afraid.
If they had been smart enough to use the above costume for Wonder Woman (with I guess some gold thrown in to make it more like the original) they probably wouldn’t have gotten canceled so quickly.
I’ve clearly been hanging out in here too long, because I thought exactly the same thing Zack did.
Hell, I didn’t know the CW was still on.
No, Smello, my dear. It just means you dig chicks. No shame in it.
Someone gets killed, someone gets naked, someone gets killed while naked.
God bless American television!
Aww… no more Erica Durance in different sexy outfits.
Wonder if superman still lives with his parents.. kind a makes sense for a guy who wears capes..
Erika Durance brought the thunder last night. And by thunder, I mean massive titties.
Ed Helms: Pretty shitty on SNL. You’d think he has never stood in front of a live audience.
Went to the venerable Urban Dictionary to find the opposite of “jumped the shark”. No. 1 is “launched the pig”. Doctor Who launched the pig with that Neil Gaiman penned episode last night.
Instead of jumped the shark or launched the pig or nuked the fridge, try pooped the coffin. I think you’ll find it more to your liking.
Ed Helms was the least charismatic person in the (four) skits he was actually in. pitiful.
SNL needs to retire the trope where a group of characters take turns saying outrageous things which aren’t given a second thought. Or maybe it just needs to retire everything. I’m old enough to recall when SNL was edgy; now it’s like watching a Nickelodeon kids’ “comedy” show where they go for the easiest, simplest joke possible.
‘Launched the pig’? Fucked the goat.
So did the horse count as the naked death on Game of Thrones?
How about SNL fires Seth Myers and gets rid of the 15-minute weekend update. … How hard is it to write a 90-minute sketch comedy show when you have 10-12 minutes worth of music, 15 minutes of Seth Myers’ masturbating to his own voice and 25-30 minutes of commercials. Factor in the 5- to 8-minute monologue, and the writers have roughly 30 minutes worth of time to write for. How difficult is it to come up with 6 solid sketches? Especially when at least one of those sketches should be an established, solid skit like “What’s Up With That?” which one would think practically writes itself.
Basically what I’m trying to say is, I want to kick Seth Myers is his smug face with my steel-toe work boot.
I wish the The Mountain had said “nice shoes asshole” before he went off on his horse. And the chest shaving scene, hoo boy………
@clueheywood — how about SNL just… retires? Ed Helms’ monologue made me want to practice self-immolation, and What’s Up With That is the worst skit in the history of sketch comedy.
I think this week’s installment of “Game of Thrones: Just the Badass Parts” is going to have to cover the entire hour.
Well, maybe not the chest-shaving scene.
Yeah, if we’re calling “What’s Up with That?” an established, solid skit, this show needs to be put out to pasture.
The Ambiguously Gay Duo live version was decent, but other than that … meh.
For the ladies. . . Game of Thrones had male full-frontal! Sunday nights just became 100% more awesomer.
I can’t think of any part of last night’s Game of Thrones that wasn’t amazing, except for one small spoiler that shouldn’t have happened til Storm of Swords and the omission of Sandor and Sansa’s …moment. Still, 5 out of 5 nerd boners.
Let’s see we had a horse beheading, a little girl dressing down some guards and a midget bludgeoning someone to death with a shield. Yep, was a good Sunday night. Especially the bludgeoning, I think I got boner during that scene, the chest shaving one, not so much.
Don’t forget Ned’s guy who was offed with what I’m calling the Medieval Bin Ladening.
Also, the 12 year kid still being breast feed was hot, um I mean creepy.
@Otto — It’s pretty scary that “What’s Up With That?” is established enough in the minds of SNL writers and higher-ups to merit an appearance from the real Lindsey Buckingham. Not that he’s particularly busy, but still.
SNL has writers?
Wait… true? I have no clue about the creative processes behind SNL. I hope that’s not the point. The point is YOU’RE MAKING ME CRINGE LIKE EIGHT TIMES MORE THAN LAUGH DAMNIT.