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The Middle – Beware flying beer bottles

This is what comedy is all about. A typical, everyday situation that snowballs into a series of events that just leaves you shaking your head and laughing. In the case of last night’s episode of The Middle, that situation was garbage day, an event that only occurs once every two weeks in the Hecks’ part […]

by Aryeh S.

Is sitcom quality limited by a finite amount of available humor?

Or, put another way, is there only so much funny out there in TV land that if another success story shows up, or something already on the air gets better, everything else is destined to get worse? Maybe it’s that as individual viewers we’re only allotted so much laughing in a week. I don’t know […]

by Aryeh S.

Ratings Clack – V gets off to a great start

The World Series was the big ratings winner last week, but with New York involved, everyone kind of expected that, right? What nobody expected — most notably ABC — was the success of the V premiere. The numbers weren’t just good. It was the highest rated scripted program on the network, topping the Housewives and […]

by Brett Love

Where the heck do the Hecks live that they didn’t get robbed?

I’ll admit that maybe the East Coast is rougher geography than some, but how in the world do you get a deer (and not a thief) in your house, when you don’t have a front door? That’s just one of the many quant side-points that The Middle employs in creating its off-beat, and very likable […]

by Aryeh S.

Ratings Clack – The Mentalist knocks off CSI

A combination of baseball and pre-sweeps repeats made for a bit of an odd week. Repeats don’t mean there aren’t numbers of note however. We had Jay Leno’s first shot against CSI: Miami and NY repeats, and a look at what running repeats on Friday does for FOX. That is, nothing good for Dollhouse season […]

by Brett Love

Quotation Marks – Batman, Emperor Palpatine, and sexy kittens

Halloween week on TV always is fun. Costumes, parties, and horror stories, oh my! This week wasn’t all about the Day of the Dead, however. We saw Derek buck the odds (and his boss) and perform a miracle like surgery, NBC cancel my favorite new show of year (Favorite show not named Glee that is), […]

by Ivey West

Who knew that The Middle’s Brick was such a lover of basketball?

Okay, so not the sport as much as the three syllables in the word, putting it in the ranks of all of the other three syllable words that Brick went off to list before bed. He may do well in a country club setting; there’s archery, badminton…. When’s the last time such a distinctively unusual character […]

by Aryeh S.
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