I was packing up my car yesterday morning in preparation for my trip and I turned around to two sets of eyes watching me.
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I think we should move to somewhere that these two can hang out together and be nice. Or Heather should just give me Mia. Or take the detective. But clearly they belong together.
And I feel bad leaving the detective all alone all weekend. He's angry enough as it is, I don't like doing things to exacerbate his condition. And I know Heather is filling his head with lies, as usual.
Heather: I promised him I would watch tv with him tomorrow
Me: How? I don't have tv.
Heather: Seriously?
Why else would I force Heather to watch SVU with me when I know that she can't follow the storyline beyond the first 5 minutes. This is another reason why Jonathan needs to start doing his weekly SVU recap, I think if Heather could hear it from his mouth she would understand better.
So Jon, get on that. Heather, stop telling lies. Detective, I'll be home soon.
In the meantime, I'm having nice cuddles and pets with this handsome guy:
I've got TV Land on in the background while I pack and clean (and tend to kitty's every need) and we're now in the middle of an, "I Dream of Jeannie" marathon.
I mean, clearly we all realize that the show is terribly dated and a perfect example of what was the norm back in the day, but wow, I hadn't actually watched an episode since I was a little kid and didn't have a clue how inappropriate it was.
You could pretty much just take the dialogue between them and use it for the perp and vic in an episode of Law and Order SVU. It's really creepy how he always tells her to be a "good girl" and then she says, "yes master".
I will say that they are definitely the most attractive of the tv couples from the good old days. I'd squeeze myself in to that bottle with the two of them any day. Well, I guess maybe Lucy and Ricky are my all time most attractive tv couple, but these guys are a close second.
This clip is kind of brilliant for what I wanted to post about because it happened by chance but features two people I was going to talk about. But I don't want to get ahead of myself, let me start at the beginning.
So I was watching reruns of Law and Order SVU earlier and had it in the back of my mind that the marathon ended at 11, perfect timing for the daily show/colbert report block. I wasn't really paying attention because it was the episode with the gay poker/sex club that makes me uncomfortable because I always end up trying to imagine what them having sex would be like. I mean seriously? The guy with the beard? Blech. But that's neither here nor there. The point is that I wasn't paying attention and all of a sudden realized that I was watching "Psych", which meant that it was past 11.
Since I'm still not used to our new cable provider I have to manually switch through the channels until I find what I'm looking for. As I was clicking through all of the other things that come on at 11:00 I found myself pondering something that I've pondered many times before.
Why would anybody even bother trying to have a show against the kings of TV?
There are three hours that I would never want my tv show to be aired. 11:00 am, 4:00 pm, and 11:00 pm. Although to be fair, Oprah is going off the air after this season, though I still wouldn't want to go up against Ellen.
Which brings me to why the above clip is so perfect. When the new Conan show was announced the first thing I thought was, "why on earth would he go up against the daily show?". I feel like they appeal to the same demographic, but while I think that Conan is really funny, I actually appreciate that they cover real news topics on the Daily Show, thus my tv is always set to Comedy Central between the hours of 11 and 12. Similarly, why would you ever watch anything besides Oprah between the hours of 4 and 5? I mean what else is there? Judge Judy? I know it's Ariel's favorite show but it's no competition for the big O.
So anyways when I was trying to figure out what image I could use for this post that I wanted to do I remembered seeing this Oprah bee clip somewhere and went on the hunt. I actually had no idea that it was from the Conan show when I went searching for it. It's pretty incredible that I was able to tie in two of the people I wanted to write about anyways so seamlessly.
It's like it was meant to be. That's the best kind of post.
Yesterday seemed terribly appropriate to be the last day of October, even more so looking back today after walking in the bitter November cold this morning. Even though it was chilly yesterday there was still an element of summer in the air.
I spent most of the day laying on the couch watching the SVU fan favorite marathon. I agreed with most of their choices, and was glad that they did classic episodes with random actors instead of the stupid ones with celebrity guest stars. Sorry Marty Short, you just don't cut it on my fan favorite list. At the same time though it wasn't really my ideal favorite episodes either. If it were my favorite episode marathon it would have just been every time Mariska goes undercover. "I know mom but men don't grow on trees!"
I did get out of the house for a couple hours when Meghan met me for food and a scotchtoberfest beer. That was when I took the picture above of the pretty clouds when I was walking by the river. I also spent some quality time watching the little dogs at the dog park. I tried to take a picture of this guy but he was moving too fast!! He was the size of my foot and he was wearing a nice knit sweater.
I wish I could take the detective out on walks. He's angry though : (
I gotta say I was impressed with the performance. I thought that the writing was pretty terrible but she managed to pull it off and make it sound not that bad. I think that's the true test of a good actor or actress, if they are on an episode of Law and Order and actually make you forget how absurd some of their lines are. That's why Mariska is so good!
I did appreciate that for most of the episode she looked pretty rough. She wasn't wearing much, if any, makeup which helped you forget that it was Jennifer Love you were watching. However, they did add in video of her that was supposedly taken when she was 16, but was obviously shot in tandem with the rest of the episode. The videos featured her all done up and wearing a really ridiculous candy striper uniform. I feel like it was in her contract, "ok ok, i'll go sans makeup, but only if you figure out a way to include something where i'm young and hot". I mean the video had her licking an ice cream cone.
