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Blue Harvest - Coming to FOX Sept. 23

Flight of the Conchords

This is mine and Kelly's favorite new show. Freaking hilarious.

 

Flight of the Conchords is about two folk rockers from New Zealand who try and make it big in New York. In each episode they sing at least 1 song per episode. Our favorite song thus far, "Hip-hopopotamus vs. the Rhymenocerous." from episode 3, "Mugged."

Watch it here: Just click on Episode 3 on the right, and begin your viewing pleasure.

Here's a fansite, and this link has lots of audio clips.

Below are lyrics to the aforementioned Kiwi Rap song.

Battlestar Galactica

Season 3 of Battlestar Galactica starts back up tonight after several weeks on hiatus. This is still the best show around. It is still SO good, and I'm very anxious to see what happens next as Humans and Cylons square-off over the Eye of Jupiter and the directions to planet Earth.

Scifi is running "The Story So Far" tv episodes right now. If you're interested, go check it out. And I'm excited for Mia and Drew to whom I have so generously lent Seasons 1 and 2 of Battlestar. I'm so glad I'm not the only scifi dork in the family. Though, in all honesty, I AM the biggest one. =) I mean, when you've got Battlestar Galactica, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate Atlantis & Stargate SG-1, and a desk covered with action figures, it's hard to out-dork.

Kelly and I are working like dogs to get all of our work taken care of. No social life. No time for anything. Not even enough time for our children lately. But 7 more days, and we should be good to go. THEN, I can sit down and watch Battlestar. And, more importantly, cuddle up with my girls and play something - video game, Star Wars, Disney Princess School, Fairies, My Little Pony, or whatever. It'll be fun.

Anyway. The 2nd half of Season 3 of Battlestar tonight. Also, a new show called "The Dresden Files" starts tonight too. AND, there's this show called, "24". Ever heard of it? I've never watched it. I'm thinking I should watch this season, and pick up the first 2 hours on iTunes.

Ack! Enough typing. Back to work.

Scooby Doo creator passes away

Iwao Takamoto passed away today. Iwao was the original creator of Scooby-Doo. The name "Scooby Doo" came from the last line of Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night."

Scooby Doo remains one of my favorite cartoons of all time. And it's fun to watch my daughters enjoy it as well - though I censor when they watching, judging the overall scariness of each villain per episode. And his death is right on the heals of the death of Joe Barbera on December 18th.

These two guys certainly left a fun legacy behind.

Read the complete article here.

Cartoon Legend Dies

Joe Barbera died today at 95 years old.

We will all remember of course the partnership between he and Bill Hanna to create some of the best cartoons of all time; The Flintstones, Tom & Jerry, Huckleberry Hound, Johnny Quest, the Jetsons, and Scooby Doo. Man - those were the best cartoons.

He and Bill Hanna left behind quite a legacy.

Frisky Dingo

I downloaded episode 1 of Frisky Dingo, "Meet Killface," as a free download courtesy of iTunes. It's still there, and it's still free. And Holy Crap is this show funny!!! If you don't want to download it, starting Tivo'ing it on Sundays at 12:30am / 11:30pm on Adult Swim on Cartoon Network.

Killface is a new evil villain on the block with a ruthless plan to destroy the world with his doomsday weapon, the Annihilatrix. Unfortunately, no one has heard of Killface. So he kidnaps a small marketing team to help get the word out by any means necessary; ultimately deciding on a pc-compatible DVD and a postcard directmail campaign.

Meanwhile the local superhero, Awesome-X, aka Xander Cruz, has just defeated the last remaining Super Villain, and with corporate responsibilities mounting, decides to diversify, and take the company in a new creative direction.

Hilarity ensues.

At the very least, download the free episode on iTunes, it's REALLY funny. After that, set up your Tivo.

Morena Baccarin I've Missed You! (but not really)

There used to be a great show called, "Firefly." This show remains in my top ten shows ever. Truly a great program. I should watch it again. The show also had a follow-up movie called "Serenity." There was an actress in that show named Morena Baccarin. Morena played the attractive "companion" named Inara. I've never seen her in any other show since Firefly...until today.

After Firefly, I delved into Battlestar Galactica. That show rips to shreds everything else on tv. I have also recently started watching Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. I know I know, I've officially gone too far.

I was watching SG-1 today (courtesy of iTunes), and lo and behold, there's Inara, except now she's like some evil queen-like character. I started wondering - will Morena Baccarin be able to breakout of the scifi genre, or is she there to stay? I'm sure she's stoked to get a new gig and everything, but I bet she was hoping for that one-episode shot on some NBC show or something. I wonder if she'll forever be doomed to scifi work. Interesting.

Here she is from Firefly.

Here she is when I saw her today on Stargate SG-1 (with evil red eyes).

Dwight Schrute, TV, and Dancing Midgets

I just discovered an entry on the Dwight Schrute blog over at NBC.com.

Dwight ponders, and successfully navigates, a difficult question.

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF BATTLESTAR GALACTICA CRASHED ON THE 'LOST' ISLAND?!!

He surmises an alliance between the Others and the Cylons, hot romantic passion between Lee Adama and Kate, and Sawyer and Starbuck, and the main cast of "Lost" would be mistaken to be Cylons, and herded up like cattle.

Pretty funny.

Today I finished watching LOST - It was quite good. I still think Michael and Walt are going to explode somehow though. And I think that John Locke and Mr. Ecko may have been spared by The Island. But we'll have to wait and see. And it will be interesting to see how Desmond's fiance plays into Season 3.

For those interested - which I'm sure is very few, there is an all day EUREKA marathon tomorrow on SciFi ending with the Season Finale. Also, X-MEN 3 [do check out this site, it's freaking awesome, and has won several awards] comes out tomorrow. HEROES is on tonight. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Premiere is on Friday. AND, a new, cool looking show called THRESHOLD debuts on October 13. And I've now watched 2 episodes of SURFACE - Man, Freaking Awesome!!

It is a very scifi-some [that's scifi and awesome combined] time to be alive. Pretty crazy when you think about it actually. With the release of the Star Wars Prequels, The success of The Matrix, and the overwhelming success of Spiderman, it appears that TV Exec types are finally realizing that DORKS are a HUGE Audience willing to stay home and watch tv and they have vast amounts of disposible income.

Even crazier, I've gone from watching NO TV to TONS of TV. And on top of that, I keep talking about it on this stupid blog.

Now for something insanely funny that's been making the rounds. This killer movie of an Emmanual Lewis type Indian Midget-kid who dances with bitchin' moves. It is bizarrely radical.

Catching Up...

So, now I'm hooked on LOST. I've got Season 1 down, and I've got 6 episodes left of Season 2.

I've got 3 episodes left of Battlestar Galactica Season 1, all 20 episodes of Season 2, AND the 10 webisodes at scifi.com.

I need to watch all the LOST episodes by the 4th. I should be able to manage. But worse than that, I need (haha - "need") to watch the 23 episodes of Battlestar, each lasting 44+ minutes, for a grand total of about 20 hours by next Thursday.

That's a lot of tv for a guy who doesn't watch a lot of tv.

To that I'll add the rest of ROME and SURFACE.

Oh, and I thought I should finally watch this show called "24". Ever heard of it?

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So, I'm now MOSTLY done with Season 2 of LOST. It is REALLY GOOD!! Much better than Season 1 I think. But for whatever reason, this morning the numbers popped in my head, and the whole "Hurley winning the Lottery" thing. And I got to thinking. I would bet a significant amount of money that there has been a significant increase in the selection of those numbers since LOST aired.

Lame.

Speaking of Lame - I don't quite remember the specifics, but a woman behavioral scientist was recently awarded $500,000 in a "Genius Grant." She was awarded this for her studies in race relations. What major scientific breakthrough did she uncover? Get this! Through her countless hours of research, she concluded that people often suppress bigotry when dealing with people of a different race.

SHOCKING! Man, is that all you have to do to to get a $500,000 Genius Grant?