Nothing Worthier Than This For My 100th Post

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to whomever it may concern: this is my favorite episode of The Office.

1. "One of the cutest little asparagus farms you'll ever see."
2. Wow - Jan is really mean. "Why do you need a car? For improv? Why don't you just pretend you have a car?"
3. Dwight and his literal wild oats.
4. Michael has a second job! Selling diet pills on the phone...! I feel bad for him though.
5. Jim and Pam going to Dwight's bed and breakfast is going to be hilarious.
6. Jim: "We will be requiring a bed time story."
Dwight: "No."
Jim: "Not even Harry Potter?"
7. I LOVED when Jim was talking about what he thought his and Pam's first night away would be... "I didn't think Dwight would be involved at all."
8. Those beets were disgusting. Ugh.
9. OH MY GOSH... Dwight reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and doing voices!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jim and Pam cuddled up and cute listening!!!! I think that scene is probably my absolute favorite of the whole entire show. And I don't think it can possibly be beaten by anything else. That has made my life. I want Dwight to read me Harry Potter.
10. Wow, Michael totally fits in with all those telemarketers. That's kind of sad.
11. Aww, Dwight was crying over Angela's cupid figurine. Well, that's what you get for putting her cat in the freezer.
12. Ugh, Ryan. I really hate him these days.
13. "Power point. Power point. Power point." I think that might be the funniest thing Michael Scott has ever done. (The pointing, I mean.)
14. Kelly is a ridiculous human being.
15. I loved the debate over "whomever" and "whoever." That was amazing.
16. "Well maybe you should look in the smart part of your brain." I love pretty much everyone on this show, but I like Andy a lot since he got back from anger management.
17. Ha ha! Meredith is playing spider solitaire on her computer.
18. Darryl, run away from Kelly. Seriously. She is crazy.
19. "Bankruptcy is like nature's do-over." Why does anybody ever believe anything Creed says.
20. ANDY! Trying to catch that cat was hilarious. I really think Angela and Andy should be together. Sorry Dwight.
21. Dwight playing a green recorder by the dumpster. That is so sad and pathetic and hilarious.
22. Jim and Pam are so nice to Dwight, it makes me happy.
23. THAT CAT IS SO CUTE. Awww.
24. OH JIM AND PAM KISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I totally knew that was coming! This is the best episode ever!!!! I mean - first, Dwight reads Harry Potter, second, Andy gets Angela a cat, and finally, Jim kisses Pam in front of everyone. I love it.
25. Yay, Dwight is back to normal. I was afraid he would try to leave or something, and I wouldn't be able to handle that.
26. Jim's kind of in love with "Italian food." Oh man. When are they going to get married? Because seriously - it's coming. I wouldn't be surprised if they eloped or something, after the whole Pam being engaged for like seven years and never setting a date thing. It would be cute.

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Bionic Woman.
1. I still hate NBC.com. But I love Katee Sackhoff too much to stop watching this show.
2. I still can't stand Jamie Sommers. She's unbelievably irritating for a main character. I hope she gets better, because I feel bad when I don't like the lead. I did warm up to her a little this episode, when they showed her actually having emotions at her boyfriend's funeral (who I guess is dead after all).
3. In the intro credits, they show Jamie punching Sarah Corvus... what they don't show is the rest of the fight, where Sarah completely kicks Jamie's butt in every single way, and the only reason she "won" is because Sarah left when the other people from that agency showed up.
4. OMG ANOTHER BSG PERSON. Roslin's priest lady is the bratty sister's principal. At first I was like, how are all the same people on this show, but then I realized oh, because of David Eick. (BSG producer.) Still. It's kind of blowing my mind.
5. "Pot's not really a drug. It comes from the earth." Thank you, bratty sister. That makes it okay then. Yep. Go ahead, keep smoking pot. It will make you more interesting.
6. Bratty Sister wants to move in with their dad... I thought the dad didn't want her to live with him? Remember how Jamie was like "Dad dropped you off on my doorstep"? Wasn't that Dad going "I don't want you to live with me"? Seems like it would be. Just saying.
7. Jamie's friends were just stupid. "Oh my gosh! You got into Columbia Law! How great! Let's talk about it right here in front of our friend who never went to college and make her feel really crappy about it." And then they looked confused and hurt when she made an excuse and left. Dumb. Good thing they will probably never be on the show again.
8. I love Isaiah Washington (from here on referred to as Burke) and I don't care who knows it. I think he's a fabulous actor - Grey's is worse off for losing him, I don't care what the drama was behind that. Maybe he's a jerk in real life, but whatever. He's a great actor. So this show is all the better for having him.
9. I really loved when that tech guy hit Jamie in the head to fix the ringing in her ear. Really. She deserved that. So thanks random tech guy.
10. All I could think about during the training montage they had Jamie go through was the montage song in Team America: World Police.
11. How did Sarah Corvus get into that guy's office without anybody seeing her? The security seems extremely lax in that place, for it being a super secret agency. And are they really married or is that a cover up or something? I don't really get it.
12. I really don't like the other blonde lady. She reminds me too much of the Stargate SG-1 girl. Also she's annoying as a character.
13. Burke when he's interrogating that guy: "...or I could take a pair of pliers and show you something someone once showed me..." Was that someone Jack Bauer*?
14. Thank God Wilco sang over the Annie Get Your Gun song the Bratty Sister was singing in the talent show at the end.
15. The end of this episode was a little too Gilmore Girlsy for me.

The Office.
The Office was amazing tonight, as usual. I watched it in the Junior Commons in the TV with a bunch of guys (including the Brooks College president - the vice president was also there, but she's a girl). I staked out the TV - only two people were like "let's watch Grey's Anatomy!" and I was able to successfully hold the TV from them.

This is out of order because I didn't take notes as I was watching it (I was around other people, that would have looked weird.)
1. Thank you Ryan for finally yelling at stupid Michael for all the idiotic things he does. I want to, all the time, no one else does, but finally, you did. I still think you're kind of a jerk, but you win points for saying what everybody else has been thinking.
2. Dwight and Angela are officially over... I LOVED her eye roll at the end of the episode, when Dwight got back with Michael after the gift basket incident. Every time she was on the screen, someone in the room would be like "she went to Baylor!"
2.5. Dwight bringing a new cat for Angela... "It's a barn cat. He's named Garbage, because he likes to eat garbage! I trapped him this morning. He's very useful, he killed an entire family of raccoons." And then he just locks him in a random office. I love Angela though. She rocks.
3. One of my favorite lines from tonight: "I am not old. You are old. You are like a hundred."
4. CREED oh my gosh. He dyed his hair... and said he was about to turn thirty. In the last episode he said he was eighty two.
5. I don't know if this was just the TV and the fact that it's widescreen, but Steve Carell's nose looked so huge.
6. Everyone knows about Jim and Pam now. What the heck was up with Phyllis going up to Pam and telling her, all sweetly of course, not to redirect the new sales calls to Jim just because she's sleeping with him? Geez... Phyllis is actually kind of mean, it turns out.
7. "YES! CASH BASKET!" and "If you can't see how that's awesome, then... you need awesome lessons." Andy is so much more hilarious since anger management training. And Andy and Kevin going on about how cool Ryan is now and how he can get any girl he wants (see 9).
8. I liked the old Dunder-Mifflin website, the one that said "Dunder-Mifflin - Under Construction. Coming Christmas 2002!" better than the new one.
9. OMG RYAN HITTING ON PAM! AHHH! That was so hilarious... wow. Okay. FAVORITE moment tonight was when Pam said, "I'm dating Jim," and the camera pans to Jim, who is right there and heard everything, obviously, and he just keeps looking at his computer when he waves at the camera... and then he says in his next talking head, "I guess he can't get any girl he wants..." JIM, you're the best. (There was a guy** sitting there with the rest of us who had never watched it before, who I don't think really got the concept of the show at first ["Why do they keep looking at the camera?"] but when this scene started, he was like "he's totally hitting on her," and I was almost like "no, that can't be" but then he ended up being right. Basically I was impressed.)
10. That moment is tied with the moment when MICHAEL DROVE INTO THE FREAKING LAKE. "The machine knows what it's doing!" I have a Michael tolerance, and for the majority of this episode I was like "ugh, Michael is being even more idiotic than usual in this one" what with the ageism meeting and everything to do with that, and then harassing their former clients with gift baskets and so forth. It just kept getting worse and worse and then finally it reached a point of ridiculousness that it started being funny again. Everything Michael did after the car thing was just hilarious. Especially when he went back to that guy's office and demanded the gift basket back.
11. Finally (and this is paraphrased)...
Jim: So, Angela and Dwight? They've been dating, for like, six months.
Pam: Really? They've actually been dating for like two years.
Jim: What? You never said anything to me!
Pam: You never said anything to me, either.
Jim: We should have started dating so much sooner!
Um... yes!

*And the award for the Most Talked About TV Character On a Show I Do Not Watch goes to...

**This same guy was reading what looked like a science fiction book (don't know which one). During one of the commercials, where we saw a preview for Heroes, he and I had the following conversation in front of like, a ton of other guys:
Nerd Guy: Does anybody else watch that show ever?
Me: I do.
Nerd Guy: Okay, so Sylar takes people's brains, but what does he do with them?
Me: He eats them.
Nerd Guy: Really? They never say that in the show, do they?
Me: No, it was in an interview, they said it would be too gross to put on the show but yeah, that's what he does.
Nerd Guy: Ohhhh, okay...
I didn't know whether to be proud that I knew the answer to that question or incredibly embarrassed that I knew the answer to that question. (...I think I'm more proud.)

tv entertainment on the internet!!!!

After having some serious beef with NBC.com for repeatedly freezing about three minutes into the episode, I finally got to watch the premiere of Heroes online. And I think this season is going to be better than the first one. There are so many places it can go. I love this show because it's basically a comic book - so anything I find unrealistic, or any "wow, high school is not like that" situations for Claire or "wow, someone would totally have noticed Mohinder shoving that guy into the wall in real life" moments are excused for that reason. And just like in real comic books, no villain is ever really destroyed, and no character is ever really dead. It's filmed the way a comic book is written and drawn, and it is so awesome for that.

(Spoilers if you keep going.)

My first shock was seeing Nathan lookin' all grody with a beard and wandering around like a homeless guy. My second shock was "wait, isn't he supposed to be dead?" Because I totally thought he was dead. I thought that was what the whole "I will fly you, Peter, up to the sky to blow up instead of you blowing up the city of New York." I thought it was a sacrifice made for the greater good. "I open at the close," and all that. Well, apparently not. Nathan lived to beard another day. I mean die. Die another day. Just like James Bond. Only... with more emotional issues and less chicks in bathing suits. A lot less. I'm sort of confused about the whole "Peter's dead" thing that everyone and their mom believes (get it). If Peter really is alive, which of course he is (duh. what a stupid idea), then wouldn't Nathan, you know, know? I mean, wasn't he like, holding him when he blew up...? I'm just saying. I guess maybe he could have like, thrown him up into the air, or something, and then Nathan flew away from the explosion, and Peter just disappeared, but um, that isn't clear. (Also, what I didn't really get from last season was, why couldn't Peter have just flown himself up into space to blow up...?) Anyway, of course Peter's not dead. Duh. My guess is that he's chained up somewhere in a warehouse in like, Ireland, or something. And he has amnesia! HAHAHAHA - oh... okay. That's fine. As long as he's shirtless!

Hiro's in the past and he meets the samurai guy, who is... Sark? SARK FROM ALIAS?? OH MY GOSH I LOVE SARK FROM ALIAS!!!!! SARK WITH HIS CUTE PUPPY DOG FACE AND ACCENT AND MURDEROUS PLOTS!!!! AWWWW!!!!!!!!!! He's the samurai...? O...kay. Whatever. Sark. From Alias. Anyway - moving on: I love Hiro and how frustrated he got with him. "This is going to be tough." Ha ha Hiro, as a goat licks your face. I'm really looking forward to that storyline. It'll be neat to see Hiro turn Sark into a... um... hero, and have him get with Mulan. And you know you were thinking "Mulan" too, I mean, when the girl grabbed the sword and was all "if Sark's not going to save my dad, I WILL!" Yeah. You were. Also I really loved that both Hiro and Sark were like "my sword!" Yeah. Not a coherent paragraph, but that is Sark's fault. (SARK FROM ALIAS!!!!!!!)

Well, I think my new favorite character might be that guy West, who almost ran Claire over with his car. Yep. I thought that from the first time I saw him on the screen. I was like, "oooh... who's THAT guy." And I knew that he was going to show up again, because they spent a little more time than necessary on his face when he was like "look where you're going" to Claire. And I was right! There he is in Claire's chemistry class. Was that chemistry? Why were they talking about Darwin in a chemistry class, exactly? Whatever, I almost failed chemistry so I guess I wouldn't know. Anyway - I totally want him and Claire to hook up. And guess what? They're going to! Duh! But get this! I think I have a radar for this kind of thing, because I decided I loved him from all the times he was bugging Claire at school, and then at the end OMG HE IS FLYING OUTSIDE CLAIRE'S WINDOW STALKING HER JUST LIKE SUPERMAN STALKS LOIS. WEST IS SUPERMAN. SUPERMAN! SUPERMAN IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!! WEST IS SO AWESOME!!!! Caps lock and exclamation points do not fully express my feelings on this subject!!!!!!!!!!!

I have to say that even though Mr. Bennett started out as a real douche last season, I really like him now. He is such a good dad, even if he is making Claire be boring. He is much better than stupid Nathan. "Why are you calling me." UM, I don't know, because I'm your daughter?! That's what you should have said, Claire. Not a bunch of crap about how you can't be someone you're not, and how you miss Peter too but you need to just like, get over it. PETER IS NOT DEAD GUYS! HE'S LOCKED UP SOMEWHERE! IN IRELAND! WITH AMNESIA! JUST WAIT UNTIL THE LAST SCENE OKAY?

I'm not sure I'm all that interested in the two new characters they introduced - the Spanish ones. But I hope they show their illegal immigration. I don't want them to just skip over that. I want to know how that works. It can't actually be that hard, if it's such a problem. I guess the girl has some kind of Hulk power, only instead of turning into a big green monster when she gets pissed off, she kills everyone. Kind of a sucky power... I mean, Ted from last season's sucked because he was radioactive and that killed people, but at least he could shoot fireballs at people. This girl Maya just makes people bleed from their eyeballs, and that's just disgusting.

I am freaked out by that little girl. Those drawings were totally disturbing. And so was the music they played when Weiss from Alias was looking at them... Oh!!! I almost forgot, now there are two people from Alias on Heroes! Sark AND Weiss! Yay for them! Only they never really shared scenes on Alias! And it looks like they probably won't share any scenes on Heroes either. So it's not really a reunion at all, except for my eyes. Anyway - that part was creepy. I'm sure the guy who is dream-stalking her is the new Sylar for this season. Only WORSE.

So Mr. Sulu is dead. I guess that's sad, because now we don't get to hear about whatever his legacy is that he gets to pass on to Hiro. But actually, we probably will, because guess what? Hiro can travel through time! So he can go talk to his dad if he wants. Oh and I guess he could like, go back in time and prevent his dad from ever dying, but whatever. It's been done. He can just ask Mrs. Petrelli. I REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT THEIR POWERS ARE. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Why don't they use them? I mean, they haven't even shown them using them even when nobody's looking. COME ON. I WANT TO KNOW.

About the last scene... were those Irish dudes looking for iPods? Is that really what they said? "Where are the iPods?" That's what I thought I heard. And like some chained up shirtless dude is going to know. Seriously, don't beat him up. If someone took a bunch of iPods, why would they chain themselves up in the place they stole them from, half naked and completely freaked out? Does he look like he has the iPods? Um... not really! He looks kind of traumatized actually! I don't think he needs you to hit him! Not like he can't defend himself. I mean, he's Peter. Peter can do anything. He is awesome. And not dead in case you couldn't tell.

Let us all take a moment of silence out of respect for Peter's beautiful hair, for it is gone, and it is very, very sad.


And let it be known that I want Christopher Eccleston back. Come back Claude.

I didn't see the preview for next week, because they don't show it online, because watching it online sucks. So every week it will be a surprise. Unless in a couple seconds, when I look on the NBC website, I find a link to the preview. Well... nope. No, NBC.com is being stupid once again. Fine, I don't care. I will just wait until next Tuesday.

I also watched The Bachelor and all I have to say so far is that he is not "the sexiest Bachelor ever." That's retarded. They say that every season. But this time the host guy even said to him, "people are saying you're the sexiest Bachelor... EVER. How does that make you feel?" and the guy's just like "...I don't know? Good? Thank you?" And everyone else is going "Andy was hotter." Because, well, he was.

I'm excited for all the shows to start up again. Guess what else starts this week? Grey's Anatomy! And... I'm going to watch it. Why? I don't know. Last season sucked. It suuuuuuuuuuucked. The finale was RIDICULOUS. So overdramatic and COMPLETELY UNREALISTIC. Barf. Meredith is brain damaged, because anybody who dumps Patrick Dempsey is automatically certifiable. And give me a break on that totally stupid George/Izzie relationship. That is STUPID. NO, George shouldn't have married Callie. He only did it because his dad, who died, liked her and said he should marry her. He didn't really love her. BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S OKAY TO CHEAT ON HER!!!!!! UGHHHHH GEORGE! There are so many other things I want to complain about but I will save it until I watch the premiere. Because I am watching it. Because I feel obligated. Even if all I will do is ridicule it. Private Practice also starts this week, which is the Grey's spinoff about Addison. I'm watching that too, because I feel obligated. Also because... maybe, just maybe, it will be good the way Grey's was good in the beginning. (Probably not though.)

But here is the best news of all! Thursday! At 8 (Central time)! ONE HOUR PREMIERE OF THE OFFICE!! And four one hour episodes in a row. How awesome is that? Very, very awesome. I leave you with this:



(LOOK HOW HAPPY JIM AND PAM LOOK!!!!!!!)