Archive for August, 2007

31AugTVDeuce.com Mad Men Marathon Weekend Giveaway!!!

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That’s right, TVDeuce.com is doing it’s first sponsored giveaway.  No lousy T-Shirts here, but instead we’re offering up a classy Mad Men Cocktail Shaker!  After all, doesn’t booze make everything better?

I’ve told you all summer that Mad Men on AMC is the best new show and even they are listening!  I was contacted to do a give away and promote the Mad Men marathon on AMC this Sunday starting at 10am.  Or you can check it out here: MAD MEN

All you need to do to enter is leave a comment to this post, and make sure you write your email when prompted so I can get back to you and have them send out the shaker.  On Monday night at 8pm, I will randomly select the winner.  Remember, this isn’t the busiest website in the world, so you got a pretty good chance at making your next party a bit classier!

Have a great long weekend guys and we’ll be back Monday with the winner!!

30AugSimpsons To Remake Old Episodes

I have a feeling that after 300+ episodes, the idea tank over at the Simpson’s writer’s office is getting perilously dry.  The show is still very profitable and will always have a cult following.  So it’s my theory that the Simpsons will begin to take a page out of Hollywood’s book and remake old episodes.  They will be re-casted and modernized to make them culturally relevant today.  So here are just a few of the episodes you can expect to see redone this year.

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FLAMING MOE’S
This time police officer Lou will be the mixer of the choice.  The back story will revolve around a stakeout at Disco Stu’s.  While Eddie and Lou are killing time, they take up consuming booze for fun.  A little rum here, a little schnapps there and to top it off, Lou will put in a hint of Listerine.  Then an errant road flare tossed by Jimbo Jones into the squad car ignites the drink.  Voila, a Flaming Lou has been created.  Don’t worry, Moe will steal the drink and Professor Frink will still believe the secret ingredient is love.  As Flaming Moe’s turns Moe’s Tavern into a hoppin’ club, Moe will still attract big name music acts.  But instead of Aerosmith, My Chemical Romance will play an intimate gig at the tavern.  The writer’s will change the ending, as Lou will beat down Moe in the back alley, but it will still be for naught, as Eddie spills the beans about the mysterious ingredient.

LISA THE GREEK
Here, instead of Lisa feeding Homer NFL picks in exchange for parental love, Lisa will instead give insiders information on cockfighting to the sarcastic salesman.  This time, Lisa will be doling out the scoop on rooster to rooster combat to help sarcastic man turn his life around, after Lisa accidentally cripples him with rancid vegan food.  With no legs or a will to live, the only thing that will bring the salesman back from the edge of self pity is sympathetic pity picks of a guilty girl in Kruty’s Foul Fights.  However, their bond will be tested as sarcastic salesman tries to lure Lisa into having Santa’s Little Helper battle the reigning champ of the Bad Newz Kennelz.  How will it end?  Catch it this Fall, with special guest star Michael Vick, on an all new Simpsons.

STARK RAVING DAD
Instead of Homer winding up in the crazy house with pseudo Michael Jackson, this spring Fox will air “Drederick’s Raving Mad.”  This episode will follow the oft-troubled producer of pain, Drederick Tatum.  Tatum, after losing a boxing match to a local hopped up Hobo, is forced back onto the streets as his manager Lucious Harris disbars him from his stable of brutal boxers.  Tatum, forced to turn tricks on the mean streets of Springfield, winds up at an Asylum for mentally ill celebrities.  Here he meets a man, who believes that he is famous.  As the two grow closer together, Tatum realizes that this man is not famous, but merely one time SNL member Chris Katan.  Upon leaving the crazy house, the two begin singing to random little girls on the streets and are quickly apprehended by Wiggum and Company.  In prison, Tatum defends off numerous hooligans, who are looking for love, Mango style.  The only question viewers will have is “Is that really Chris Katan’s voice?”  Find out this winter, on Fox.

KING OF THE HILL
Homer will no longer be climbing the Murderhorn, instead Reiner Wolfcastle will be advising Arnie Pie on techniques to take out Kent Brockman, once and for all.  In the biggest blockbuster of the season, angst filled traffic reporter Arnie Pie, will snap when he sees that Mr. Brockman is erecting a Lenin-esque statue outside his Springfield Estate.  Looking to take the law into his own hands, Pie hires the star of the McBain series to help guide him on a quest to become an average military marksman.  After many long nights and ammo trips to the Blood Bath and Beyond, Pie is ready to assassinate Springfield’s #1 TV anchorman.  Pie will need the assistance of local sherpas to get the job done?  Will he be able to do it?  Hell yeah, because he’s Arnie Pie!

So this is the crap that Fox is going to toss at us.  What episodes might you recast?

27AugI LOVE SIX: The Six Most Annoying TV People In The World

After days of backbreaking research, I have compiled a list of the 6 Most Annoying TV People In The World.  These are people that you should avoid like paying child support.

#6 - People Who Brag About Reading Spoilers.  First of all, people who read spoilers should be on this list, but even worse are the people that brag about knowing what’s coming up on a show.  I know first hand, as my wife must read what’s going to happen on Heroes and Lost.  I can understand that some people still have a 3 year old’s mentality when dealing with surprises, but nothing is worse than when they start rubbing it in your face.  Like something exciting will happen on Lost and right away my wife chimes in with “Oh, I knew that was going to happen weeks ago.”  Then I remind her that I see a messy divorce and a deadbeat Dad in her future if she keeps it up.  If you know anybody like this, do what Bob Saget suggests and “Just Shoot Them!”

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#5 - Characters Added To Shows To Boost Ratings.  The Olivers and Olivia’s are widely recognized, but let’s look at a few other people added to shows to boost ratings.  You have Jo on The Real World, who replaced Puck.  MTV booted Puck in order to create a buzz in Australia with Jo, the rugged Aussie with a creepy boyfriend.  The Muppet Babies added Bean Bunny to help spice up the nursery.  The creators opted to add another talking animal, instead of demasking the animal en-slaver Nanny.  Also, under this umbrella would be Comet, who helped save Full House from an early grave.  Comet was the glue that held the otherwise fragile cast together with his kindness and sharp wit.  Finally, I would submit that Sandy Duncan, glass eye and all, turned the Hogan Family from a meandering, plotless comedy into a edge of your seat family show that truly showed how a pilot’s sister living in the gender biased decade of the 80’s could help raise a family, while sheltering them from an evil man named Burt.

#4 - Ted on “How I Met Your Mother.”  I love this show, I mean it’s the only show on CBS that I watch.  I think for the most part it’s well written and having two very attractive girls on the show helps tremendously, but as I’ve stated before on this website, I hate Ted.  I’m sure Josh Radnor is a decent human being.  I’m sure I don’t need to create a Venn Diagram comparing him to Stalin, but his character sucks.  The writers over at CBS try to hard to make him a lovable, sympathetic character.  I’m sure that they sat down at some sort of round table and said “Let’s make a male character that women would love.  He should be cute, sweet, sensitive, funny (not edgy funny like Daniel Tosh, but non-offensive funny like Margaret Cho.)  To top it off we’ll make him successful.  That’s how they ended up with Ted.  Ted is the type of guy that guys claim to be, but really aren’t.  Ted would be disgusted by German adult sites, whereas the rest of us are just curious.  I’m sure to all the lovely ladies out there dead is great, but to the guys in this world, he’s #4 on the most annoying list.

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#3 -  Whoever Decided To Kill Mitch Off on Dawson’s Creek.  This poor guy has his wife cheat on him, a child with a super-sized melon and vocabulary, a mid-life crisis job change and a neighbor from across the Creek, who was undoubtedly ruining his siding by slamming a ladder up against the house every day because like the brothers Duke, she had to use a window and not a door to enter, and then they decide to kill him off.  It reeks of Old Yeller being brought out back to stare down the wrong end of the barrel of a shotgun.  They couldn’t even let him go with dignity, as he’s reaching around the floor of his Wrangler.  Mitch deserved better.  The viewing audience deserved better.  For shame! Writers of Dawsons Creek!

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#2 - Tori From Saved By The Bell.  Hurricane Tori came in and ruined Bayside High.  She wiped Kelly and Jesse off the map.  Her way to obvious Jo Polniaczek imitation scam was as clear as 1990’s Pepsi.  Her rough exterior and sweet, afraid of earthquakes and commitment exterior may have fooled a gentleman by the name of Zak Morris, but I know better.  The most interesting part of Tori’s Reign Of Terror was that they never make any mention of her in the college years.  Rather bizarre.  I personally believe that she is mainly responsible for the downfall of the cult classic.  Who knows, without Tori’s appearance, we may still be enjoying the antics of Zak, Slater and the rest of the gang.  But, like trans-fat foods, we can no longer enjoy them.  Thank you very much Tori!

#1 - TV Show Fanatics.  Here I’m talking about the fans of a show that take it to cult level.  I’ll admit that I fall into this category with The Simpsons.  Fans like this are worse to talk to than the Spoiler Braggers.  Why?  I know that when people talk about The Simpsons, I always have to ask a test question to see if they’re “conversation” worthy.  One question I like to throw out there is “What’s the white cop’s name?”  If you don’t say Eddie, you can forget about talking to me.  But there are lots of jerks out there like me.  You have Lost jerks, Heroes jerks, The Office jerks, Buffy jerks and even Swan’s Crossing jerks!
The reason you want to stay away from these people is that you can’t go “quote for quote” with them, or they’ll get mad at you when you don’t see subtle references.  “What ya’ mean you didn’t see the smashed ambulance outside of the gorge in the movie?”  However, you’re in luck because these people are easy to spot.  They tend to wear clothing inspired by the store and are very pale because their TV viewing doesn’t allow them to get out in the sun much.  Basically, if you see a guy that looks like Powder wearing a Duff TV shirt, don’t go asking him if he saw the Simpsons movie, because chances are that he bought the script and has memorized which side characters were left out.  People like this need to get a life.

So this is my list of the Most TV People.  Who did I get right?  Who did I leave off?  It’s up for you to decide America!