And the Next Cancelled Show is...
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Wow. Although funnily enough that fits perfectly with what I'd expect from the "true life" stories of a guy who tells people he's a billionaire anti-terrorist smarter-than-Einstein hacker karateka.
I'm reminded of a former co-worker. He joined our team fresh from HR, without a clue about what he'd be doing. Yet everything he did was related to his former jobs.
You see, at the time, he was 28 years old. He was retired from the military. He had been a Navy Seal, a special ops Marine, had spent time in the Army, and had trained with astonauts for a secret mission. He lived in Omaha, but flew to Las Vegas every weekend using his private jet, and one week when his jet wasn't working, he invented a jet pack that would let him fly without the plane, and would get him there just as fast.
He was married to a supermodel wife in a multi-million dollar mansion (which begs the question, why was he working there?) and every Thursday, he had to leave for a lunch meeting with the President's advisors, because the President's staff could not do their jobs without him.
He consulted with Congressmen, and Warren Buffet called him up for advice on which company to buy.
Every single one of these stories (and the above is just the tip of that iceberg) was told with a straight face.
Along those lines, there was this guy who spoke to my elementary school who claimed to have swum across the Gulf of Mexico on his surfboard, also trained with NASA for the new space shuttle, fought the cartels as a cop (this was part of a "stay off drugs, kids, mmkay" pitch during the height of the Reagan-era Just Say No program and the cocaine fueled 80s), was a filmmaker, drove race cars professionally, and trained tigers or some shit. I'm vague on all the details, but it was basically a bunch of fifth-grade wish fulfillment stuff designed to tell us that we could do all of these amazing things too if we just stay off the crack that no one in the school was interested in or aware of anyway.
Even then I remember that the kids were calling bullshit on most of it. There was a lot of incredulous "No ways" being thrown around. And lo and behold, it turns out it was all fake, so the school got us a different speaker and made us go through the whole anti-drug seminar again.
The last episode of Scorpion was actually pretty darn good. You know in a hokey Walter O'Brien kind of way.
Timmy trapped in a well?
Loved every minute of it.
That sing along was amazing. It just kept getting bigger and bigger. It was awesome of all those friends of the show to make an appearance. It was hilarious to watch how badly some of them were following along with the song though.
The The McCarthys from last night was almost good, and Alyson Hannigan joined the cast.
If they'd brought in Alyson aerier, they probably wouldn't have gotten cancelled.
If they'd brought in Alyson aerier, they probably wouldn't have gotten cancelled.
An awesome little song from Craig.
http://www.cbs.com/shows/late_late_...-friends-bang-their-drum-for-his-final-night/
http://www.cbs.com/shows/late_late_...-friends-bang-their-drum-for-his-final-night/
That was fun. Some crossover there with the people from Colbert's sing along. It must have been an interesting couple of weeks for them recording two TV talk show farewell montages.
I loved Ferguson's Newhart/St. Elsewhere/The Sopranos gag ending.
Though I bet the Newhart and St. Elsewhere references were completely lost on most of the younger audience.
Though I bet the Newhart and St. Elsewhere references were completely lost on most of the younger audience.
I loved Ferguson's Newhart/St. Elsewhere/The Sopranos gag ending.
Though I bet the Newhart and St. Elsewhere references were completely lost on most of the younger audience.
Not lost on me! I think that the Newhart reference is well-known (or at least, the "it's all a dream" part).
When my screen went black, I thought it had cut out, until I remembered that was how The Sopranos had ended.
It's times like this when I wonder whether people are talking about the original or the remake.
(Just kidding, I know the discussion is about the remake.
But the description could easily have been about the original.)
I loved Ferguson's Newhart/St. Elsewhere/The Sopranos gag ending.
Though I bet the Newhart and St. Elsewhere references were completely lost on most of the younger audience.
Craig doesn't strike me as someone who cares. Not in a mean way, but he made the show he wanted to, without worrying about things like if his audience would get what Newhart or St. Elsewhere were. One of his running jokes was how Paul McCartney and Angela Lansbury look alike. That's not exactly "hip."
I haven't seen his finale yet, but I do have to say, when they pulled out of Colbert's studio, I thought they were going with a St. Elsewhere ending. I kept thinking that we'd see everything was in a snow globe that Bill "Papa Bear" O'Reilly was playing with.
Really? It absolutely felt like they had given up and that this was the last season by design.
Plus it was awful (compared to earlier seasons.).
Plus it was awful (compared to earlier seasons.).
I have never watched it but they creators thought they had a few more seasons left to tell, but most of the fans went "This season sucked and it felt like a finale".
However USA has been canceling everything, they used to be number 1 in cable shows, now they don't even have one cable show.
However USA has been canceling everything, they used to be number 1 in cable shows, now they don't even have one cable show.
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