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“Family Guy” Season 7 Episode 10 Recap: FOX-y Lady

March 23, 2009 Channel Guide Contributor

While the guys are all at The Drunken Clam comparing driver’s license photos and discovering that Quagmire is 61 years old (carrots), FOX News comes on with its hot new anchorwoman, Rhonda, and the guys drool over her for a while. When FOX announces that it’s going HD, Peter gets an enormous new HDTV, and it turns out that HD Rhonda is a hag. She’s fired. Lois wants the job, despite Brian’s moral objections about working for a fake news network that’s in the Republican party’s pocket. Lois’ audition goes so well that she gets the job. She runs home […]

“My Name Is Earl” Recap: Witch Lady

March 20, 2009 Ryan Berenz

When the Crazy Witch Lady (Betty White) walks into the Crab Shack, Earl realizes that she is No. 186 on his list. Earl, like most people in the neighborhood, thought Griselda Weezmer was a witch, and they did mean things to her. Earl explains to Griselda that he was sorry and wants to make it up to her. She’s lonely, and she invites Earl over for tea. But Earl’s tea is drugged, and he wakes up chained in Griselda’s basement. Randy comes to Griselda’s looking for Earl (or any parts of him that she hasn’t made into pudding), and ends […]

“The Office”: New Boss Recap

March 20, 2009 StayTuned Staff

Synopsis: It’s time to celebrate! Michael Scott has been with Dunder Mifflin for 15 years, and the party to commemorate that achievement needs to have all the excitement, drama and intrigue of his time there. And figs. Lots of figs. It also needs to be classy like Freddie Blassie — or like Jim’s tuxedo, which he wore today to make a mockery of a memo Dwight has issued about the dress code. As effective as the tux is in getting under Dwight’s skin, it doesn’t make a great impression on Charles Minor (Idris Elba, The Wire) — Dunder Mifflin’s new […]

“Scrubs”: My Nah Nah Nah Recap

March 19, 2009 StayTuned Staff

By Stacey Harrison Gee, that’s not a good sign, is it? The weakest episode of the season, and it’s the only one so far that has had no trace of the interns. Nope, strictly principal cast members this week, wandering through an unfocused plot about experimental treatment and relationship anxiety. We start off with Turk watching SportsCenter in the break room, listening to the true news account of NFL player Kevin Everett, who avoided almost certain paralysis through a relatively untested and controversial technique called cold therapy. Seems random at the time, but of course it comes into play later. […]

“The Colbert Report” Off To A Place With “Sand … And People Who Wish We Would Leave”

March 18, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

By RabbitEars “I’m taking my show to the Persian Gulf,” said Stephen Colbert today. “If there was any hope of peace in the Middle East, you can forget it now.” Colbert and Comedy Central announced that the comedian’s Emmy- and Peabody-winning show The Colbert Report will temporarily wrap filming in New York City and head to the front lines as part of a USO/Armed Forces Entertainment tour to an unnamed country … at an unnamed time. Some point in the “near or distant future. … or past,” according to Colbert, who is upholding government secrecy requirements. Four episodes will be […]

“Scrubs” Returns Wednesday With New Episode

March 17, 2009 StayTuned Staff

After a monthlong break, Scrubs is back on a new night (apparently ABC prefers the NBC method of schizophrenic scheduling) with “My Nah Nah,” in which Turk gets an idea about a risky procedure from watching SportsCenter that may restore a paralyzed teenager’s ability to walk. Joining the gang at Sacred Heart are (synergy alert!) real-life SportsCenter anchors Josh Elliott and Hannah Storm, who star in one of J.D.’s fantasy sequences in which he’s labeled world’s worst athlete. Storm tells ESPN, “Playing ourselves was a real stretch. I hope we pulled it off. We’d like an Emmy, or at least […]

“How I Met Your Mother”: The Front Porch Recap

March 17, 2009 StayTuned Staff

Synopsis: To the dismay of everyone but Ted, Karen (Laura Prepon) is back this week. Marshall doesn’t sugarcoat things when he tells Ted that Karen is a complete douche. Oh, wait — that was sugarcoating. Of course, Marshall realizes what Ted sees in her. Since they met in high school, Karen was “the first person to touch his wiener besides himself, his mom and his pediatrician.” She won’t be touching it again, though, because while she and Ted are teasing each other about which one of them likes 2002 chianti — which is apparently a put-down of epic proportions in […]

ABC Family Reaches For Laughs

March 16, 2009 StayTuned Staff

by Karl J. Paloucek Continuing its mission to be maybe a little more “ABC” than “Family,” ABC Family is stretching its comedy wings for the first time with back-to-back original series premiering next Monday. First up is “Roommates” (9pm ET), executive-produced in part by the team that brought you “Reba,” and starring Tamera Mowry, whom you might remember from Disney’s “Twitches” movies a few years back. The series centers on a group of friends who room together in New York City following their college years. (Sounds vaguely familiar, doesn’t it? Aren’t you at least a bit curious to see how […]

Lorelai Let’s Live Together Again: “Gilmore Girls” Comes To SOAPNet April 4

March 16, 2009 Lori Acken

Wishing for a multigenerational — right down to the teens — series about family, friendship and social class, but the hyper-fashionista, over-sexed, Gossip Girl know-it-alls are a bit much for your taste? Well, ya missed it. But SOAPNet has welcome news. The network has announced that it will air all seven seasons of the beloved, family-friendly, girlie-dramedy Gilmore Girls (which originally aired from 2000-2007) Saturdays beginning April 4 at 9pm, and Sundays at 6pm ET. New to the WB series, which Time called one of top 100 series of all time? Gilmore Girls tells the tale of hip single mama Lorelai Gilmore […]

“Family Guy” Season 7 Episode 9 Recap: The Juice Is Loose

March 16, 2009 Channel Guide Contributor

In this lost episode found in Peter’s basement, it’s March of 2007. While Lois goes to her book club, Peter has to babysit, even though last time he was left alone with the baby, he killed it in the worst and most unnecessary Family Guy “joke” ever. This time will be different, though, because Peter’s a 14-year-old girl reading Teen Beat and inviting the guys over for squeeing and “Truth or Dare.” The party gets out of hand when Joe and Cleveland start making out, and the resulting hubbub brings Stewie downstairs. His enjoyment of Out of Shape/In Shape Guy […]