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Nick Andopolis?

The moment I had been waiting for all season happened about two-thirds of the way through Monday’s episode as Ted, Barney and Robin sat on the kitchen floor debating who would get whom in a possible divorce of Marshall and Lily. Robin seemed to think she would end up with Lily and Ted and Barney would get Marshall. This lead to the following exchange:

TED: We used to be together and still hang out. It’s not weird.
ROBIN: It’s a little weird.
TED: Yeah, it is a little weird.

I loved that, and as far as I’m concerned the sentiment really corrected a lot of the problems I had been having with this season. More after the jump…

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Sunday’s episode felt a little all over the place, but ultimately successful. Again, the side-characters are still the biggest problem, but it has almost gone to the point of being just a pesky annoyance instead of something that proves to be detrimental to the series as a whole. Except for maybe Doakes. I could really do without his endless hunches. After nearly eight years of the current administration hasn’t everyone in America learned a thing or two about hunches? More after the jump…

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Knowing me, knowing you.

Curb had me right off the bat this week. It wasn’t due to any particular gut-busting comment or scenario (though the funny was brought) so much how Larry’s description of “New Larry” basically mirrored my recent descriptions of “New Rick.” I don’t know if I should be concerned that my life so closely mirrors that of the TV-Larry-David, but as of right now it does. More after the jump…

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Before I go and get all speculative, I want to say for the record that the first three sketches and shockingly the entirety of Weekend Update this week was more or less SNL-perfect (meaning it certainly could be better, but not given the way the show is produced and what it tries to accomplish or not accomplidh). Brian Williams was hilarious in those three sketches right after the monologue and then kind of disappeared for thirty minutes before playing himself in the last few sketches of the evening. Still, I loved those first three because he did, in fact, play a character and in at least two of them spoke with an accent(!). Also Feist! Who knew? Certainly not I (on the Rick J. Pecoraro Hotness Meter playing a Gretsch guitar puts you very close to the top). But, what this their season finale? More after the jump…

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Y Tu Football Tambien

I had some pretty big problems with this week’s episode, most namely Landry and the unsettling level of character inconsistency. I also felt that a lot of the dialogue was particularly cheesy, something the show has always done a good job of shying away from despite the often melodramatic subject matter. Of course like every episode of this show there was as much good as there was bad. More after the jump…

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“I think I cut my penis on the lid!”

That was funny. I felt like I was in good hands while reading the opening titles. The script was by Mindy Kaling and it was directed by wonderboy Joss Whedon. Not too shabby of a starting point. What really made this week’s episode soar (compared to last week) was that the situation really drove the comedy. We know Jim doesn’t want to see Karen so why not put him in a room with Karen and see what happens? We know Michael and Dwight can get carried up in the moment, but what happens when that veil of fun is pulled away? The result was an episode I found to be easily the funniest of the season and generally most fun going back even further. More after the jump…

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I checked in this morning with what those crazy kids over at Bonanza City to see if they were still alive, kickin’ and speaking with adorable speech impediments. Having missed the past two episodes I was certain Wednesday’s episode would open with a series of cabins flames and thick black smoke pouring out of the windows. The streets would be riddled with corpses with one naked youngster beating another naked younger with a wooden plank off by the church. The rest of the town would be covered in mud, faces painted and attacking the film crew, who they have decided serve no purpose other than that of food. These images were quickly put to rest as the kids continued doing/not doing dishes, complaining about not getting paid enough, and looking generally chilly.

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Outside of the wholly unnecessary rhyming that kicking off the episode (I can handle the series preciousness, but there is no reason for the show to push its luck), Pushing Daisies continues to be the most thoroughly enjoyable of the season’s new crop. I find myself grinning ear to ear for much of the episodes durations. “Wholly pleasant” isn’t the most glowing pull-quote for a wonderful series, but it might be the most apt. This isn’t life changing, socially significant television, but who the hell cares when the program is this fun? More after the jump…

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What are you doing to her Lady Cha-Cha?

I had never seen an episode of Nip/Tuck until I watched Tuesday’s fifth season premiere. The series has gone under a bit of an overhaul, relocating the two star doctors McNamara and Troy from Miami to Los Angeles. It was a move that made perfect sense as setting a series about superficiality in Los Angeles is a peanut-butter/chocolate type of relationship. It also provided an especially easy jump-on point for someone who has always wanted to watch the show but not enough to catch up on previous season’s worth of episodes. Based on that episode, it looks like I’ll be watching Nip/Tuck in the weeks to come. The series is dark, funny, well acted, competently written and (this season) features Oliver Platt and Bradley Cooper, whose roles in this first episode were blisteringly funny. More after the jump…

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