Royal Pains, like most USA originals, is an incredibly bland, milquetoast show. All you feel after watching it is a desire for your wasted time back :(

True.

The writing. It's so bad.

I just started watching "Oz" for the third time in my life. Last time was a few years ago. I still love this shit, even though it's just a gritty soap opera with some swinging dicks. Granted, the show goes downhill after the most badass character dies, but it's enjoyable to the bitter end. One of my favorite shows and the complete boxset was cheap as piss.

Dude I need to watch Oz. I have so much shit I need to watch and not enough time for it. It's almost criminal that I haven't gotten around to the Sopranos yet

I've been watching random episodes of Oz when its on but I'm trying to watch them all in order. I didn't know Beecher was also the guy with the dark red hair and z-chop sideburns with beard. He looks completely different.

Yeah, I know the feeling. Luckily, my holiday starts in a few days which allows me to catch up a bit. I'm thinking I should watch the second and third season of Deadwood or maybe watch Rome, which I haven't seen at all.

Beecher is the man. And Adebisi.

Has anyone watched Rome? I only caught the first few episodes when it first aired and thought they were good.

I like Alvarez a lot too because he looks like my friend I haven't seen in a few years.

MILK TOAST? :(

do you have something against milk toast

What guy is this?

I finally got around to adding oz to my queue. Been wanting to watch it forever.

Saw the Locked Up Abroad granddaddy-of-them-all edition, Billy Hayes doing a redux of his Midnight Express story. Hell, I thought that was the whole reason that show existed.

I liked that he was somewhat self-effacing and seemed to well realize just what an idiot he had been.

I disliked that he had told the story so often that I recognized sub-dialogues, turns of phrase and even tearful hesitations from other interviews. He'd just finely tuned the drama, that's all. It didn't seem as honest, but then the man's spent the entire rest of his life telling the same story over and over and over and over again, so what can you expect.

He looks completely different.

Bubbles?

Jersey Shore season 2 is out. Mike "The situation", Pauly and Vinny had an MVP night but angelina wanted to come too. MVP were like "we gotta ditch her but how?" So they waited for her to turn her back and they 23 skidoo out the door.

One of those shows where you can't not watch it.

I get all the Jersey Shore I need from watching The Soup. It looks like it's beyond a complete trainwreck.

It's like a train roundhouse wreck.

This.

I've heard of it.

Then you've already been corrupted

Only figurative and literal shit comes out of Jersey, though. I'm not bothered.

The roast of Hasselhoff. Jeffery Ross told his first good joke ever. "Hey Seth McFarlane. South Park called. They want their everything back."

Then he went back to being totally unlikable.

You said he told a good joke. :(

It seemed got at the time... :(
Maybe I just hate Seth way more than Jeffrey Ross.

What's worse is that I like Hasselhoff. And not an an ironic way. In an "I like Hasselhoff" way.

What was this year's joke to beat into the ground?

I keep falling asleep and waking up during the next reairing :lol

The burger thing is coming up a lot. And not having a job. Actually the judges from America's got Talent had a video for him where they were just like "MAAAAAN IT'S AWESOME STILL BEING ON THIS SHOW AND HAVING BETTER RATINGS. GOOD LUCK WITH THAT 'NO JOB' THING." Even Hulk Hogan was making fun of Hoff not having a job. Which is the pot calling the kettle black if I've ever seen it (unless being in a reality show = employed).

Also, being popular in Germany = cheap and easy transition into a Holocaust joke. HEY GUYS HOW ABOUT THAT HITLER? I'M PRETTY EDGY HUH?

What lameo told the Hitler joke?

Lots of people went for Holocaust jokes. AW IF THEY PLAYED YOUR MUSIC THE JEWS WOULD HAVE RUN INTO THOSE INCINERATORS. Jeffery Ross had some thing about HEIL HASSLEHOFF or whatever. And a few others here and there.

Special award to Lisa Lampinelli for making the entire theater really uncomfortable by telling Pamela Anderson she's had more surgery than Roger Ebert! "IT'S A ROAST PEOPLE!" It's cancer ya bitch.

Oh man, I would have laughed at that and I fucking HATE Lisa Lampinelli.

My favorite roaster so far other than Norm MacDonald at the Bob Saget roast is Giblert Gottfredd, to me he kills every time

I'll have to agree with you about Norm there, Sex Leper. His meta-humor at the Bob Saget roast was great and it was sort of a subtle fuck-you to Comedy Central and their stupid roasts.

But then again Norm MacDonald is awesome and he's just like Bill Murray in that he doesn't give a shit about what anyone thinks. I loved it when he was on Millionaire and he kept making snap decisions without thinking and Regis kept nagging him to actually give the questions some thought. Norm would have won the million of Regis didn't make him second-guess himself on the last question.

Watching teen moms on mtv. I want to karate chop about 90% of the people on this show.

"I don't think there's a single person here that wouldn't love to watch Henry Fonda pick blueberries."

My wife is addicted that that shit. One episode I watched with her (I think from last season) the single mom dumped her baby on her mom then went out with her friends to meet some guy. She gets there and the guy she was so excited to meet just got on her ass about not being home with her baby and what is she doing out partying with friends so late. :lol Same girl whos mom beat the shit out of her for being a twat between seasons.

I saw that one. Her mom is ridiculous. I love/hate the one big guy on the show because between him and the girlfriend I don't know how they functioned enough to procreate. Did you see the episode on the beach where he's like "WANNA MARRY????" Then he gets down on his knee in the sand. Doesn't do anything for a minute......then brings out a ring from somewhere. It looked as if someone were directing him to do things but he wasn't really following what to do because he's an idiot.

No cant say I caught that one. Although my wife was telling me about one where that guy told that fat chick that he needed to be single for a weekend because there was this girl he was interested in. :lol

:lol Oh man. I have a special karate chop waiting for him.

Doesnt she beat him up regularly and laugh about it?

Yeah, they're both dum dums. Speaking of which....new Jersey Shore episode tonight. As bad as these shows are and the idiots who are on them are I always feel better about my own life.

Finally got season 2 of True blood in the mail. Watched the first two episodes. Lafayette has the most ridiculous lines.

Just watched the first 3 episodes of Oz.

Good, but parts seem a tad unlikely. Does it get better?

It gets really good at this part

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF_eVnfHrTg&feature

(Still can't get embed to work. Been like this for the last month or so. >: Did they change how the embedding works on here?)

I just watched the first season of Dexter for the first time, and I fucking loved it. :(

I love how they have Ryan O'Reilly doing Allstate commercials right now and he's impersonating a teenage girl driving wrecklessly in a parking lot. He's like "OMG, Kara's hair turned out bad. Let's go shopping" with a vicious tone in his voice.

That's him? I thought he looked vaguely familiar.

Most of the cast of Oz seemed vaguely familiar anyway. My brother got a kick out of Juno's dad making someone his bitch.

I'm used to seeing him as J Jonah Jameson in the spider man movies. Then I saw him rape the shit out of Beetcher in Oz and was like "Oh Shit!". Then he called that alabisi guy a ******.

Also



Fuck allstate by the way. Also..fuck state farm.

Hey 10K, did you make a new Philly thread 2 years ago or am I allowed to make one without you getting all butt hurt?

I might have but you can make one too. I'll allow it.

McPoyles are back in season 6.

:x

Id stick it in her butt.

I'm now halfway trough season 4 in Oz. The show isn't as great as I remembered. The first two seasons were outstanding but season 3 was kinda weak in comparison. The fourth season is still ok, but there are some things I thought were just retarded.

Still, damn fine show compared to the shit that's on the TV nowadays.

I would also stick it in her butt

yea as long as you dont have to look at her moustache and grub chewer itd prolly be fine

I watched "Terriers" today. Seems decent enough.

Terriers looked kind of good.

My gf was watching REBA while I was doing some manstuff. Reba freaked out because the baby's blankie was misplaced and she was all like "Oh no! We have to find the baby's blankie because she's not going to be able to sleep. Blankie's are like its Scotch."

I was laughing pretty hard.

Is Daria a good show? The whole series is today's Amazon Gold Box deal for 26.99, so I bought it on a whim. It seems like one of those better-for-nostalgic-reasons type shows, but at least I can sell it back for more than twice the price if I don't like it

I always thought of it as the Beavis and Butthead for tween girls.

then it's perfect

I always thought Janeane Garofalo would have played a live action version of the show.

Yeah its about as interesting as she is.

I didn't like Jeneane Garafolo until Wet Hot American Summer. Now I like her.

Looking forward to Boardwalk Empire on HBO. Setting is in Atlantic City during Prohibition starring Steve Buschemi as a beer baron of sorts.

If it's HBO, does that mean we get Steve Buscemi full frontal?

That could be a deal breaker. :lol

SO I JUST WATCHED A COUPLE EPISODES OF NEW DOCTOR WHO

Did you get treated to some gay dalek action?

Daleks are little pussy garbage cans. I couldn't believe it when I first saw one

Yes but did you see the rainbow colored ones? :lol

New Sunny was kinda funny. The premier of The League was so much better though.

It was ok, I didn't watch the League.

You should. I don't care for fantasy football at all but the comedy is pure gold.

Daria isn't that bad so far. I kind of like it. ;_;

FAG

I just cant take this guy seriously.

I liked Daria at the time because they featured good music. Not sure if it the music made it to DVD or not. Maybe the cake song did.

Supposedly all the music was replaced by cover versions. But as someone who never watched it I wouldn't know the difference.

People have the same complaints about The State release. The only people who don't have problems with it are people who never saw it during its original run.

I did notice they changed some things with the state but not enough to make it unwatchable.

I thought Craig Wedren did a good job re-scored the entire thing. It would cost MTV more then it did to film these shows entire run to pay for all the music again. I know it sucks but If your desperate to see them again, it's worth it. I was 5 when The State was on so I wasn't allowed to enjoy MTV when it was enjoyable. So I don't mind as much, other then the sketches where posters & pictures of bands were blurred.

Just got seasons 1 and 2 of oz, dvd sets, and will hopefully watch till my eyeballs bleed.

I have an OZ question because I missed a weeks worth of episodes and certain people died.

I've only gotten to the end of season 1 disc 2 so I'm probably not the person to ask at this point. The sad thing is I can buy and receive them faster on ebay than renting them on netflix :(

Watched Boardwalk Empire last night. This show is awesome. Steve Buschemi is top notch. Music is great. Vernacular is spectacular.

Was atlantic city portrayed approximately as gross as it is irl?

I've watched every episode of Oz and I thought 90% of it was fantastic. Started to rot like shit near the end though.

Zhukov: Adibisi.....



Kitsa:
It takes place during the 1930's so everything is kinda gritty. Gritty awesome though.

I saw the pilot for Raising Hope and it was good. I just hope they won't rely on baby humor too often.

Just finished up Oz season 1 last night and I can't say I was really thrilled with the final two episodes. They stalled and then tried to wrap things up too quickly, I thought.

I lol'd at "salami I like 'em", though. I just can't figure out why the guy was so transfixed by him at the end there.

Seconded. It was amazing and can't wait to see how the story continues. On a sidenote, second season is already confirmed. This could be the new Sopranos.

Jane Lane on Daria is pretty much an identical cartoon version, both in appearance and personality, of a girl I fell for hard a few years back. :(

Which is ironic considering I made fun of Zhukov for liking a Daria character once.

I'm also going through DVDs of How I Met Your Mother which on the surface seemed like a typical shitty laughtrack sitcom but in actuality is waaaaaaay better, and contains Arrested Development-levels of callbacks and continuity (and a lot of it subtle)

How I met your mother is great. Especially the narrator.

That's exactly how I picture it from the commercials. :(

How I Met Your Mother is surprisingly good. It even has Manos references.
Boardwalk Empire is continuing to kick ass, but that may just be Buscemi / 1920s love.
Dexter's season opener was kind of bland. Not terrible. But not great.

Dexter started? Cool, I better check the torrents.

HIMYM shouldn't have the laugh track, since they don't film in front of an audience anyway so it's not like the pacing is suffering as a result like most laugh track shows.

It starts out somewhat generic and I didn't like it at first, but once the show hits its stride it really is something great. It kind of sucks that it's syndicated on the Lifetime channel, though, that's also a great way to turn new audiences off to it >:

Started in on Oz season 2 and I'm not liking it nearly as much as season 1 so far. :(