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Retro Television Reviews: The Love Boat 2.10 “Man of the Cloth / Her Own Two Feet / Tony’s Family”

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Welcome to Retro Television Reviews, a feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past!  On Wednesdays, I will be reviewing the original Love Boat, which aired on ABC from 1977 to 1986!  The series can be streamed on Paramount Plus!

It’s time to give thanks as the Love Boat sets sail for another holiday adventure!

Episode 2.10 “Man of the Cloth / Her Own Two Feet / Tony’s Family”

(Dir by Richard Kinon, originally aired on November 17th, 1978)

It’s time for the big Thanksgiving cruise and love is in the air!

Unfortunately, the ship’s chief engineer calls in sick the day of the cruise.  The ship can’t sail without a chief engineer!  Rather than cancel the cruise, Captain Stubing decides that assistant engineer Tony Santini (Larry Storch) will just have to give up his Thanksgiving and work on the cruise.  Needless to say, Tony is not happy about this.  As he explains to Gopher and Julie, his entire family is in town and he was planning on spending his holiday with them.  Julie comes up with a brilliant idea!  Maybe Tony’s family could secretly take the cruise with Tony.  They can just sneak on board and remember to stay away from the captain.  Tony agrees.  Of course, it then turns out that Tony has a gigantic family.  Along with his wife and his children, he is also accompanied by his parents, neither of whom speak English.  His parents bring a chicken with them.

The crew goes out of their way to keep the Captain from discovering the stowaways but, eventually, the chicken gets loose and Stubing figures out what is going on.  The entire crew — including the Captain — volunteers to pay for the family’s tickets but Tony announces that he doesn’t take charity.  He’ll figure out a way to pay the bill.

While that’s going on, Rev. Gerald Whitney (Peter Graves) is excited to find love on the cruise.  The only problem is that the woman who he’s fallen in love with (Roz Kelley) is also a stripper!  Rev. Whitney doesn’t care but unfortunately, Barbara Sharp (Vivian Blane) does.  Barbara just happens to be a member of Whitney’s church and she is shocked to see the reverend and the stripper together on the cruise.  Barbara gets so judgmental that her husband, Phil (Alan Young), threatens to divorce her.  Barbara and Phil finally have a heart-to-heart talk in the casino.  Barbara agrees to stop being so judgmental.  Phil agrees to stop gambling as soon as he puts his last silver dollar in the ship’s slot machine.  That silver dollar was given to him by one Tony’s kids and when the slot machine pays off, Phil and Barbara give all of the money to Tony’s family.  Yay!  Now Tony can pay for the cruise.

(I guess the lesson here is that, if you’re going to be a stowaway, make sure the ship has a casino.)

Finally, Bert (Van Johnson) and his wife, Audrey (June Allyson), are having to adjust to life now that Audrey has gone blind.  Fortunately, Doc Bricker takes a break from hitting on every woman on the boat and gives them some words of encouragement.  Soon, Bert is no longer lying about Audrey’s condition and Audrey is using her cane and learning how to read braille.

This episode felt a bit weird.  Obviously, the most interesting story was the reverend falling in love with a stripper but the show itself devoted more energy to Tony and his family and Phil gambling.  To be honest, with the amount of time that Phil spent in the casino, he came across like he might have a problem.  Hopefully, he went straight from the cruise to Gamblers Anonymous.  The guest stars themselves just seemed to be going through the motions and the end result was a fairly forgettable Thanksgiving.

Music Video Of The Day: L.O.V.E. by Ashlee Simpson (2005, dir by Diane Martel)

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In this music video, Ashlee Simpson decides that she’s tired of her clingy boyfriend so she ruins her phone and goes out with her friends.  This video is very, very, very 2005.

Among other things, this video also highlights the early attempts to market Ashlee as being an edgier version of her sister.  In her videos, Jessica would have fun with her friends but, at that point in her career, she was still always destined to leave them for her man.  Ashlee, on the other hand, was all about girl power.  That said, though she throws away her phone, Ashlee doesn’t necessarily throw away her boyfriend.  She knows that she can call him back whenever she feels like doing so.

As I said, it’s all very 2005.

Enjoy!

Retro Television Reviews: Fantasy Island 2.18 “Casting Director/Pentagram/A Little Ball”

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Welcome to Retro Television Reviews, a feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past!  On Tuesdays, I will be reviewing the original Fantasy Island, which ran on ABC from 1977 to 1986.  The entire show is currently streaming on Tubi!

This week, we have a special, super-sized episode of Fantasy Island!

Episode 2.18 “Casting Director/Pentagram/A Little Ball”

(Dir by George McCowan and Michael Vejar, originally aired on February 17th, 1979)

This week, we get three fantasies, instead of the usual two!

Sister Mary Theresa (Lisa Hartman) is a nun who has been struggling with her faith even since the death of her mentor.  Her fantasy is a chance to meet the only mortal man that her mentor ever loved.  Colin McArthur (John Saxon) is tall, dark, handsome, and he loves animals!  Not only does he seem like the perfect guy but he’s also played by John Saxon.  Today, Saxon is best-known for appearing in horror movies and for playing B-movie villains and it’s easy to forget that he could also be quite a charming actor when given the chance.  That said, as charming as he is, Colin just can’t compete with God and Sister Mary Theresa once again dons her habit before leaving the Island.

Meanwhile, Felix Birdsong (Don Knotts) has spent his life fantasizing about being a big time Hollywood casting agent and he gets his chance when he comes to the Island and is put in charge of selecting the woman who will star in a film called The Most Beautiful Girl In The World.  Felix soon discovers that Hollywood isn’t as glamorous as he thought.  (Uh, yeah, no doubt.)  The film’s producer (Abe Vigoda) is a sleaze.  The film is being funded by a combination of gangsters and oil sheikhs (one of whom is played by Cesar Romero) and all of them expect Felix to select their girlfriends for the role.  Felix ends up very disillusioned, though you have to wonder what type of sheltered existence he experienced before coming to the island.  I mean, he’s shocked to discover that Hollywood can be a heartless place and that rich men have mistresses!  In the end, Felix announces that all 20 of the women will be cast as The Most Beautiful Girl In The World and that every single one of them will get the prize money.  Yay!  Of course, now the production is probably out of money so it’s not as if the film will ever actually be made.  Actually, if I was a contestant in a beauty pageant and the judge just declared a 20-girl tie instead of giving me the prize, I would probably think he was the biggest jerk in the world.  Boooo!  Felix, you jerk!

Finally, Jane Garwood (Florence Henderson, continuing the tradition of Brady Bunch cast members showing up on the island) is a television news reporter who recently gained a lot of attention for a report she filed on Satanic cults.  As a result of the report, a Satanic priest put a curse on Jane.  Jane laughed it off until all of the men in her life started dying.  Jane’s fantasy is to learn whether the curse is real.  Mr. Roarke’s solution is to become the new man in Jane’s life.  When he doesn’t die, Jane will see that the curse is not real….

Except, the curse is real!  The cult has followed Jane to the Island and now they’re not only trying to kill her but Mr. Roarke as well!  I have to admit that I’ve always assumed that Mr. Roarke was meant to be a supernatural being and I also assumed that he was immortal.  Apparently, that’s not completely true.  Still, despite the cult leader kidnapping Jane and dancing around with a cobra, Roarke is able to reveal that the cult leader is not only not a supernatural being but that he’s also Jane’s ex-boyfriend!

This episode was a fun mix of cartoonish comedy, sincere romance, and ludicrous melodrama.  It was entertainingly silly in the way that only Fantasy Island could be at its best.  I mean, with the exception of The Brady Bunch Hour, how many other shows would have the guts to give us Florence Henderson being menaced by a Satanic cult?  For that, you have to go to Fantasy Island!

Music Video of the Day: After Taxes by Johnny Cash (1978, dir by ????)

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Tell ’em, Johnny!

Today is Tax Day, the worst day of the year.  This when we’re all told to pay our “fair share.”  Of course, no one bothered to ask us what that fair share should be.  Instead, as citizens, we’re expected to do what we’re told and not to question why.

Anyway, Johnny Cash got it.

Enjoy!

Retro Television Review: Hang Time 4.11 “Restless Mary Beth” and 4.12 “Shoot Out”

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Welcome to Retro Television Reviews, a feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past!  On Mondays, I will be reviewing Hang Time, which ran on NBC from 1995 to 2000.  The entire show is currently streaming on YouTube!

When last we checked in with Hang Time, the Tornadoes were in San Antonio and the show was doing an absolutely terrible job of portraying Texas.  Wow, I hope that’s over with!  Let’s find out.

Episode 4.11 “Restless Mary Beth”

(Dir by Patrick Maloney, originally aired on October 17th, 1998)

Hey, we’re back in Indiana!  I guess that stupid and insulting Texas storyline is over with.  Yay!

Freaking out because she’s worried that she doesn’t have enough extra-curricular activities to get into the college of her choice, Mary Beth starts taking on every activity that she can.  She joins the band.  She rejoins the cheerleaders.  She joins the Speech and Debate club.  When she finds out that a special election is being held to select a new student council president, she decides to run.  Julie, Hammer, and Kristy warn her that she’s taking on too much but Mary Beth laughs them off.  One scene later and Mary Beth is having a nervous breakdown and sobbing in the locker room because she’s working herself to exhaustion.

No worries!  Mary Beth ends up falling asleep and she has a dream where she’s competing against Kristy in a shopping spree.  Mary Beth has more stuff in her cart but Kristy still wins because, as Hammer explains, Mary Beth didn’t make it to graduation because she tried to take on too much.  So, I guess the implication is that Mary Beth is going to die if she takes on too many extra-curriculars?  Wow, that’s dark!

That said, I could relate to this episode.  I tend to take on too much as well.  Despite a rather stupid B-plot about the team losing the Coach’s championship ring while lounging in the new hot tub, this was a pretty good episode and it made a good point about taking time to rest.  Plus, it returned the action to Indiana, where it belongs.

Episode 4.12 “Shoot Out”

(Dir by Patrick Maloney, originally aired on October 17th, 1998)

The Tornadoes are in San Antonio for the Tri-state Tournament….

WAIT A MINUTE, THEY’RE BACK IN TEXAS!?  They were just in Indiana, how are they back in Texas!?

The obvious answer is that NBC showed these episodes out-of-order.  NBC tended to do that to all of their Sunday morning shows so it shouldn’t come as a shock that they would do it to Hang Time.  Still, it always surprises me how blatant NBC was in its utter disregard for the three or four people who were actually paying attention to continuity back in the 90s.

Anyway, the team is back in San Antonio and, as always, they are just one game away from winning not only the tournament but also a trip to New York.  Coach K is excited to learn that their next game will be against a team coached by his protegee, Rick.  However, when the Coach discovers that 1) Rick is now in a wheelchair and 2) Rick might get an NBA job but only if his team wins, Coach K finds himself feeling a bit conflicted.  The Tornadoes interpret this as Coach wanting them to throw the game!  Fortunately, after a terrible first half, Coach K tells them that he doesn’t want them to throw the game and that deliberately losing is an insult to the other team.  Just as with every other game they’ve ever played, the Tornadoes come back in the second half and win by one point.  They win a trip to New York and Rick gets his NBA position regardless.  Does the NBA regularly hire high school coaches?

While this is going on, Antonio (Jay Hernandez) begs Kristy to forgive him for not telling her that he could speak English.  He eventually wins Kristy over, mostly because he’s totally adorable and, since this show was filmed in the 90s, no one mentions how messed up it was that Kristy automatically assumed that Antonio and his friends couldn’t speak English to begin with.

Ugh.  This episode did a slightly better job of presenting Texas than the previous San Antonio episode did but there were still way too many people walking around wearing cowboy hats.  Not everyone in Texas is a cowboy.

Anyway, I guess the team is going to New York now!  If they can make it there, they can make it anywhere …. well, you know the rest.

Music Video of the Day: A Public Affair by Jessica Simpson (2006, dir by Brett Ratner)

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How famous do you want to be?

This music video features Jessica Simpson and her friends — Christina Applegate, Christina Milian, and Eva Longoria — hitting the roller rink and debating how famous they would like to be.  They’re already famous enough that Ryan Seacrest is driving their limo and Andy Dick is handing them their roller skates.  What was going on with Andy Dick anyways?  I’ve never heard one person, famous or not, describe a positive interaction with Andy Dick but somehow, for a few years, he just seemed to show up everywhere.  Were that many people really saying, “I want Dick in 2006.”  Wait, that didn’t come out right …. oh well, I’m too lazy to rephrase.

This video was directed by Brett Ratner.  There used to be a reality show called On The Lot.  It was like American Idol for aspiring filmmakers.  One of the guest judges was Brett Ratner and all the contestants were like, “I mean, Brett Ratner is the guy who made me want to make movies!”  I always thought that was a weird reason to want to make movies.  It was also a weird thing to admit to.  I mean, Brett Ratner pretty much is a walking episode of Entourage.  That said, Brett has always been pretty honest about being an overgrown frat boy so I don’t get as annoyed with him as I do with certain other directors.

Brett was originally meant to produce one of the recent Oscar telecasts but he had to step down due to some controversial statements he made in the past.  Eddie Murphy was scheduled to host but Murphy stepped down as well.  Nobody asked Andy Dick to take their place so maybe Hollywood’s gotten over needing Dick.  Wait….

Lisa Marie’s Week In Review: 4/10/23 — 4/16/23

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As you can tell be looking below, I spent this week making up for lost time when it came to my movie watching.

Films I Watched:

  1. A Star is Born (1976)
  2. Battle For The Planet of the Apes (1973)
  3. Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
  4. Behind The Planet of the Apes (1998)
  5. The Breakfast Club (1985)
  6. Bright Eyes (1934)
  7. Conflict (1945)
  8. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
  9. Cry Wolf (1947)
  10. Curly Top (1935)
  11. The Dark Corner (1946)
  12. Dark Passage (1947)
  13. Down to the Sea In The Ships (1949)
  14. The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
  15. Escape From The Planet of the Apes (1971)
  16. Escape to Athena (1979)
  17. Event Horizon (1997)
  18. The Evil That Men Do (1984)
  19. Fearless Faith (2019)
  20. Free Indeed: The Phil Thatcher Story (1983)
  21. Heaven’s Heroes (1980)
  22. Horrors of Spider Island (1960)
  23. In A Lonely Place (1950)
  24. Jeopardy (1954)
  25. Jesse James (1939)
  26. Kelly’s Heroes (1970)
  27. The Little Princess (1939)
  28. My Cousin Vinny (1992)
  29. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
  30. Planet of the Apes (1968)
  31. The Return of Frank James (1940)
  32. Ruling of the Heart (2018)
  33. St. Ives (1976)
  34. Satanic (2016)
  35. Savage Dawn (1985)
  36. The Silencer (2000)
  37. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
  38. Tunnel Vision (1976)
  39. The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)

Television Shows I Watched:

  1. Abbott Elementary
  2. Accused
  3. American Idol
  4. Barry
  5. Farmer Wants A Wife
  6. Half Nelson
  7. The Love Boat
  8. Night Court
  9. Survivor
  10. Yellowjackets

Books I Read:

  1. Friday the 13th (1987) by Simon Hawke
  2. Friday the 13th Part II (1988) by Simon Hawke
  3. Me and Orson Welles (2003) by Robert Kaplow

Music To Which I Listened:

  1. Adi Ulmansky
  2. Alex and Nat Wolff
  3. Billie Eilish
  4. Britney Spears
  5. The Chemical Brothers
  6. The Communards
  7. David Cook
  8. Haim
  9. Jakalope
  10. Jessica Simpson
  11. Kelly Clarkson
  12. Kylie Minogue
  13. Maren Ord
  14. Muse
  15. Nikki DeMar
  16. The Prodigy
  17. Public Service Broadcasting
  18. Saint Motel
  19. Simple Minds
  20. Talking Heads
  21. Taylor Swift
  22. Tina Arena

Live Tweets:

  1. The Silencer
  2. My Cousin Vinny
  3. The Breakfast Club
  4. Event Horizon

News From Last Week:

  1. Jai Paul, Mysterious Electronic Music Maestro, Makes His Live Debut at Coachella
  2. Al Jaffee of Mad Magazine Fame Dies At 102
  3. Dame Mary Quant Dies At 93
  4. Actress Garn Stephens Dies At 87
  5. Actor Murray Melvin Dies at 90
  6. Cheryl Hines ‘Fully Supports’ Anti-Vaxxer Husband RFK Jr.’s Decision To Run Against President Biden In 2024 Election
  7. Aaron Rodgers appears to endorse fellow anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. for president
  8. Reality TV Star Mark Lamb announces for Arizona senate seat

Links From Last Week:

  1. Michael Cieply: Don’t Doubt It, The Film Academy And Its Inclusion Allies Mean To Change The Business
  2. Did Steve Miller Create The Word “Pompatous”? Celebrating 70’s Music With The Answer! ELO! Supertramp! Steely Dan And More!
  3. Tater’s Week in Review 4/15/23

Links From The Site:

  1. I shared music videos from David Cook, Tina Arena, Kylie Minogue, Sugar Ray, Maren Ord, Niki DeMar, and The Communards!
  2. I shared my week in television!
  3. I shared what’s coming to Cannes!
  4. I reviewed Hi Mom, My Cousin Vinny, and The Secret Night Caller!
  5. I reviewed Hang Time, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, City Guys, Half Nelson, and California Dreams!
  6. I paid tribute to Uli Edel!
  7. I shared a scene from Red Dawn!
  8. Erin shared Super Science Fiction, The Jackie Robinson Story, The Underworld Magazine, Thomas Jefferson At 78, Golden Fleece, Adventure, and Black Mask!
  9. Jeff reviewed Who Killed Nancy and The Acid King!

More From Us:

  1. At her photography site, Erin shared A Sitting Place, Hi There!, What?, Work, Possum, Hide Behind A Tree, and Storm!
  2. At Pop Politics, Jeff shared: Monday’s Daily Prompt, It’s My WordPress Anniversary, and Tuesday’s Daily Prompt: What Book Could You Read Over And Over Again?
  3. At SyFyDesigns, I shared: At Least Once A Day!
  4. At my online dream journal, I shared: Last Night’s Weird Hawaii Dream, Last Night’s Bank Commercial Dream, and No Dreams Last Night!
  5. At Reality TV Chat Blog, I reviewed the latest episode of Survivor!
  6. At my music site, I shared songs from Public Service Broadcasting, Simple Minds, Tina Arena, Kelly Clarkson, Billie Eilish, Haim, and Talking Heads!

Want to check out last week?  Click here!

Retro Television Reviews: The Secret Night Caller (dir by Jerry Jameson)

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Welcome to Retro Television Reviews, a feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past!  On Sundays, I will be reviewing the made-for-television movies that used to be a primetime mainstay.  Today’s film is 1975’s The Secret Night Caller!  It  can be viewed on YouTube!

Though the show pretty much guaranteed that he would forever be a part of the American pop cultural landscape, Robert Reed was not a fan of The Brady Bunch.  Onscreen, Reed played Mike Brady, the stern patriarch who always knew the right thing to do and who, as a result, was named father of the year by the local chamber of commerce.  (Of course, even though she was responsible for him getting the reward, Mike still grounded Marcia for sneaking out to mail in his nomination forms.)  Offscreen, Reed was notoriously difficult, complaining that the scripts for the show were juvenile and shallow.  Reed was correct and it should be noted that all of the actors who played the Brady kids have said that Reed never took out his frustration on the cast and actually became a bit of a surrogate father to all of them.  Still, you have to wonder what Reed was expecting when he signed up for a show that was created by the man responsible for Gilligan’s Island.

The Brady Bunch was cancelled in 1974, temporarily setting Robert Reed free from the burden of playing Mike Brady.  (Of course, he would later return to the role in The Brady Bunch Hour and we all know how that turned out.)  One of the first post-Brady movies that Reed starred in was The Secret Night Caller.   

In this film, Reed plays a seemingly mild-mannered IRS (booo!) agent named Freddy Durant.  Freddy has a good career and a nice home but he’s deeply unsatisfied.  He barely communicates with his wife, Pat (Hope Lange).  He freaks out over his teenage daughter, Jan (Robin Mattson), wearing a bikini.  He fantasies about hitting on almost every woman that he sees.  He hangs out at a strip club and, when he’s really feeling unsatisfied, he makes obscene phone calls!  Because this is a made-for-TV movie from the 70s, we never actually get to hear what Freddy says on the phone but he manages to disgust and/or horrify everyone who has the misfortune to answer his call.  He even calls a woman who works in his office, scaring Charlotte (Arlene Golonka) so much that she subsequently has an auto accident.  Unfortunately, for Freddy, one of his victims, a stripper named Chloe (Elaine Giftos), recognizes his voice and tries to blackmail him.  Freddy’s life is falling apart.  Can his psychiatrist (played by Michael Constantine) help him put it all back together again?

Freddy Durant is obviously meant to come across as being the exact opposite of Mike Brady.  (Of course, many of us who have seen The Brady Bunch have our suspicions about what Mike was actually doing in his office….)  Whereas Mike Brady was the perfect father, Freddy is cold, distant, and repressed.  Reed is convincingly uptight as Freddy and he’s surrounded by a fine supporting cast, including Sylvia Sidney as his disapproving mother-in-law.  That said, it’s still impossible to watch this show without thinking to yourself, “There’s Mike Brady making an obscene phone call.”  That’s the difficulty of typecasting unfortunately.  For all of his efforts to escape the shadow of the Brady Bunch, it’s impossible not to associate Robert Reed with the show, even when he’s talking dirty on the phone.

Lisa Marie’s Week In Television: 4/9/23 — 4/15/23

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Abbott Elementary (Wednesday Night, ABC)

This week, Janine’s mom (Taraji P. Henson) made an appearance, hoping that she could get Janine to pay her phone bill.  This was a really touching and very emotional episode.  Sheryl Lee Ralph was especially moving as Barbara tried to save Janine from being taken advantage of by her mother.  While that was going on, Gregory struggled to improve his people skills and Jacob amazed everyone with his magic tricks.  “The magic doesn’t work if you lie, Melissa!”

Accused (Tuesday Night, FOX)

This week’s episode was a nicely melodramatic one, in which an angry man tried to frame his ex-wife as a drug smuggler.  To be honest, it was kind of a silly episode but it was so over-the-top that it was still enjoyable.

American Idol (Sunday and Monday Night, FOX)

Not surprisingly, I wasn’t really that happy with the Top 24.  Many of the singers seemed to be a bit generic and, after all the suffering he went through to just make it through Hollywood Week, Aden was eliminated.  I was happy that Nutsa made the top 24.  She’s a force of chaos so I hope she wins but I fear that the show’s efforts to turn her into Hollywood Week’s villain will lead to the voters punishing her.

Farmer Wants A Wife (Wednesday Night, FOX)

I was cleaning around the house while watching this week’s episode so I have to admit that I wasn’t paying the show 100% attention.  That said, the farmers still do not have wives.

Half Nelson (YouTube)

I wrote about this week’s episode here!

The Love Boat (Paramount Plus)

I wrote about this week’s episode here!

The Masters (Sunday Afternoon, CBS)

“Lisa Marie,” so many people said to me on Easter, “you’re watching golf?”

You better believe I was watching golf!  Seriously, the golf course was very relaxing to look at and I enjoyed the restrained applause of all the people watching the game.  Later that night, while rest of my family was enjoying the danger of NASCAR, I was remembering the calming day on the golf course.  As for who won the game …. well, to be honest, I don’t know who any of the golfers are, outside of Tiger Woods (who dropped out by the final round of the Masters) and that guy that Necromoonyeti doesn’t like.  But no matter!  I’m happy for whoever it was that won.

Night Court (Tuesday Night, NBC)

Dan had a chance to become a billionaire by investing in a new tech company.  Abbi ruined it for everyone.  Oh, Abbi!  Seriously, I like Melissa Rauch and I think she does about as good as anyone could with the character but, at some point, I’m going to start wondering why everyone puts up with Abbi continually screwing up their lives.

Survivor (Wednesday Night, CBS)

I wrote about this week’s episode here!  Where is Jeff Probst always trying to be so nice nowadays?  It’s weird.

Yellowjackets (Sunday Night, Showtime)

Now, I not only have to worry about the new dog but I also have to worry about Elijah Wood!  I swear, I may never recover from the anxiety that this show brings me.