Link Dump - TV Edition
* After IDOL and LOST tonight, the TV season is over. I’m planning on disappearing tomorrow, since I won’t get to watch LOST until Thursday night. I just know someone will start posting spoilers in the most inappropriate places, so I’ll attempt to skip most everything. In the meantime, don’t discuss the LOST finale here until Friday morning. I’ll start up a thread to discuss it then. That’ll give you a full day to roam around the web and see what everyone else is saying first.
* More info on the forthcoming TaleSpin DVD release, including some nicely designed box art. Thankfully, it includes the pilot mini-series. If only they had thought of that for DuckTales. UGH
* The Tick DVD release is missing an episode.
* More love for My Super Sweet Sixteen, a show that proves civilization is in a steep decline.
* The Brit-Com “Joking Apart” (written by the guy who did “Coupling”) is being released to DVD next week thanks to a fan who bought the rights to do so, when the BBC wouldn’t. It sounds funny, but I don’t think I’ll bother to order it through a UK site with all the shipping charges that would entail. If it shows up on Amazon, though. . .
Technorati Tags: Joking Apart, Coupling
May 24th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
I got stuck watching My Super Sweet 16 one Saturday afternoon with my wife. The show appalls me to no end, but you just…can’t…stop…watching… Although, it certainly helps me to realize how much better of a parent I hope to be when I have kids. The worst part was during the marathon, they brought some of the kids back together and they were commenting on the episodes and couldn’t understand why everyone said bad things about them.
May 24th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Exactly! I saw some of those bits, too, and was amazed that the kids truly don’t get it. Not even seeing themselves on TV acting like punks could help them. They stuck to their guns. Their parents have truly failed them. I almost can’t blame the kids for acting the way they do — they don’t know any better.
The other fun part is watching what stupid crap teenagers will do to get on TV — a lot of those receiving invitations will act up in extreme ways because they know the cameras are on them. They’re just as bad as the people at baseball games behind home plate on their cell phones waving to the center field cameras.
May 24th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
I like the episodes where the kids complain when they don’t get the BMW X5 or the Mercedes S-class they saw at the dealership as a gift for their 16th birthday or the one where the girl was upset that Eminem didn’t perform at her party. UGH. That show disgusts me. And it just mindboggles me that these super-rich parents would go to these lengths to buy their kids these extravagant gifts and throw them million dollar parties. The kid doesn’t learn anything at all about what kind of work needs to be put in to get something like that.
I just wonder what the average income teenager thinks of the show.
May 25th, 2006 at 9:15 am
re The Tick, if I recall, there’s 36 episodes total. putting only 12 in the first set means they can put 12 in Season 2, and 12 in Season 3 (which was shorter), for a total of 6 DVDs with 6 episodes each. I don’t know if that’s what’s going on, but it seems logical.