Ugh, Glee

Dear followers (all two of you), I am sorry for my lack of blogging lately. I have a lot to talk about so I'm going to make a list to make sure I don't leave anything out!

1. Firefly (finished watching the series on blu-ray and watched serenity
2. Community
3. A new series I've been watching (I'll let your imaginations run wide with this for a while)
4. Arrested Development
5. Crappy TV
6. Another favorite moments post

Let's get started on this post and hope that I am able to fulfill the promises I have made to you over the next week or two.

First of all I would like to give a shout out to my Auburn family and say 

WAR EAGLE! 

It was an Iron Bowl for the ages and I'm so glad I was there to enjoy it in person. 

I've been putting off talking about Glee for a while because I have such mixed feelings when I think about/watch this show. I LOVE LOVE LOVED the first half of the first season. The story was touching, the music was great and relevant to the story, and Jane Lynch is hilarious. If you know me, you know that I love musical theater and I am very saddened by the fact that I cannot carry a tune and will never sing on Broadway. So naturally, Glee + Alex was a recipe for success (too cheesy? yes!). My feeling towards Glee slowly began to shift during the second half of the first season and have continued in a sour direction throughout this current season.

I still really enjoy the music and dancing and I've loved John Stamos and the Britney Spears episode. Britney S. Pears can DANCE. Unfortunately, the awful/scattered story lines and this seasons focus on Kurt (my least favorite actor, who ruins a character I probably would have otherwise liked) are making it difficult for me to sit through entire episodes of the show. Now, just because Glee had put me in a bad mood (isn't that the opposite of what the word glee means) I'm going to provide you with a list of some of Glee's more ridiculous moments. Enjoy?

1. Does Ryan Murphy really think a high school would even consider putting on Rocky Horror Picture Show. Even with rewrites to make it less racy (because changing the lyrics from "I'm just a sweet transvestite
From Transexual, Transylvania" to "I'm just a sweet transvestite From sin...sational Transylvania" really makes everything okay).
2. The mother/daughter duo of Poker Face. Really? Because that's a song I would really love to sing to my long lost mother as our last song we get to sing together.
3. The grilled cheesus episode. Some parts of this episode, including the grilled cheesus, were funny but for the most part this episode rubbed me the wrong way. I didn't like how the reasons people were rejecting religion was because they felt entitled and thought God didn't love them because He didn't immediately answer their prayers.
4. Carol Burnett. Don't get me wrong, I love Carol Burnett and I'm very upset with the writers of Glee for not using her better. She is a legend and fantastic and you people brought her in and gave her crappy Sue imitation dialog and a stupid song. Boo on you.
5. There are many more but I'm tired of having to relive these moments. Blah.

Anyway, one more week of school and a week of finals and I'M DONE (until January).
Happy Monday everyone!

"Don't call me Shirley"- R.I.P Leslie Neilsen

Survivor

I started watching Survivor 3 seasons ago when my middle school principle and family friend Debbie was a contestant. She did a great job and made it to the final 6.

I love the strategizing and breakdowns and just how crazy people get when they are living in the jungle for 39 days. I haven't watch any seasons since but I've picked it back up again and the boyfriend and I have been watching the current season Survivor:Nicaragua. I really have not been enjoying this season for the following reasons:

1. I thought young vs. old was a good concept but really didn't work in practice.
2. The old tribe was incredible annoying (Marty, Jimmy T, Dan)
3. NaOnka. While she does provide entertainment, she is an idiot.
4. Sash and Brenda's control. They are smart cookies but really don't like either of them and I don't understand why everyone is following them. I think they would be pretty easy to overturn. 

Survivor:Nicaragua came through for me this week though! The Sash/Brenda team blindsided Marty and the show editing actually managed to not give it away like they've done every other episode this season. With Marty out of the picture I have much more hope for the rest of this season. I'm going to go ahead and make my pick for this season's top 3 and winner. My top three are Sash, Brenda, and purple Kelly. And the winner is.....

Purple Kelly! Home girl has probably only had 10 min of air time and I think she's really nice to everyone and doing a great job a flying under the radar. If she makes it to the finale she'll get all of the votes and win.

Happy football watchin!

One a side note, I finally watched Toy Story 3 last night and it was AMAZING. I thought it was the best of the 3. I laughed, I cried, I ate it up.

Hello November

November is finally here! October was a crazy month and I'm ready for things to slow down. Here are a couple of November happening I'm looking forward to:

Thanksgiving

The Iron Bowl to end all Iron Bowls (it's going to be epic)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (this too will be epic)

Anyway, enough about November. Last weekend and this week have been kind of slow on the TV watching front. The election ruined my Tuesday night programming and four projects due this week ruined the rest of my TV nights. So I've decided to share with you a few of my favorite moments from some my favorite TV shows. I plan on doing this from time to time so please enjoy!

First up, SNL always provides me with some memorable moment but one of my favorites came from an Andy Sandberg digital short. It was unexpected (I'm not huge fan of Andy Sandberg) and I love all things Olympics. Take a look!

Another favorite came from the early years of the Office. It is the episode where Michael burns his foot in the George Foreman grill. That act in and of itself is hilarious but couple that with Dwight getting a concussion and befriending Pam and you've got great TV!

One of my favorite shows growing up was Boy Meets World and there is one episode that every time I think about I laugh so hard I cry. Unfortunately, I cannot find any clips of this particular episode on the internet so you'll just have to trust me on this one(here are some highlights). For fans of the show, it was the sneak attack episode where Eric hides in various places throughout the episode in an attempt to spy on Jack. My personal favorite hiding spot was the couch. I wish they would make a Boy Meets World movie or start showing it again in syndication on ABC family. I miss it and it's so much better than My Wife and Kids.

Well, I hope you enjoy reliving these memorable TV moments or experiencing them for the first time.

Happy November everyone!