tv

There’s been a bunch happening in the last 30 day of pop culture. Summer movies began. The TV season ended.  Many were good, but only one stuck out in my mind.

Honorable Mentions for:

-Star Trek (5/5 – it was good without the geek) – It was the quintessential summer popcorn movie.

-Conan O’Brien begins his reign on the Tonight Show. It’s about time they gave Jay the boot. He was always too corny to be really funny. So long live Conan [and Andy]. Here’s a little bit o’ classic Conan.

- The season finale for Chuck. What a great show that no one’s watching. It narrowly escaped cancelation and it’s a travesty that NBC can’t make this show work. It’s funny, it’s clean, and there’s action…

And for the Best of the Last 30 days…

Let me preface this by saying that I typically hate musicals (besides Dr. Horrible). They make no sense to me, because people just randomly break out in song and I can’t get past the suspension of disbelief. Sorry you HSM fans. I can’t stomach them.

That being said. Miriam (who doesn’t abhor musicals, like I do) asked me to watch Glee a new show on Fox. Maybe it’s just because I’m a sucker for Journey, but I really liked it. Glee is a “one-hour musical comedy that follows an optimistic high school teacher as he tries to transform the Glee Club and inspire a group of ragtag performers to make it to the biggest competition of all: Nationals.”

Watch the pilot episode here…

The kids watched “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (the original) the other day and started commenting on how Tristen looked like Cindy Lou Who…

What do you think?

In the history of bad ideas, this is not the worst one, but it may be close…

[youtube= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e9wgshS0qI]

A new Knight Rider? How can you replace the Hoff? Aren’t there any new (and good) ideas out there? I’m just waiting now for the updated version of Manimal or Automan. We can only hope.

So any other bad 80’s shows that shouldn’t be remade?

Some of the best advice I’ve heard lately was:

“Live every week like it’s Shark Week.”

-Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)

And I was wondering the same thing. Why don’t we live every week like it’s Shark Week? Or like every day is Christmas? Sometimes we get so stuck in where we’re at that we lose all perspective. We get so caught up in the busyness of life that we forget to live because:

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

-Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off)

Do we ever stop? I doesn’t seem that way. We’re always trying to get ahead in life. To make more for ourselves. And because of that we must remember:

“The first key to your own prosperity, is to make me prosperous first…”

-Joely Ostein (Joely Ostein’s Prosperity Plus)

How different would our lives be if we took more advice from fictitious people?

Any great fake advice you’ve received lately?

Heroes begins in less than a week. Are you ready?

Here’s a sneak peek of the new season.

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=HobIma4xcm4]

Waiting around in the hospital, you tend to end up watching more TV than is healthy. So Miriam and I found ourselves watching a new show on Nick Jr. called Yo Gabba Gabba. It’s bizarrely addictive. Think Sesame Street meets the humor of Spongebob only more warped and educational.

Here’s a taste:

[youtube= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggrOcBWqHiU]

[youtube= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6gT-J8kfpo]

Here’s their website.