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Son Of A Piñata!: A "Family Guy" Recap

November 19, 2007 Channel Guide Contributor

Posted by Sarah Quahog’s Veterans Day celebration is the place to be. During the parade, Peter decides to try “The John McCain Experience”: He crawls into a bamboo cage and is poked with a sharp stick until he starts crying “I wanna be president!” Then Herbert starts singing “I’m Proud to Be an American” with a children’s choir, and the whole town is moved to tears. The performance inspires Peter to be the most patriotic he can be, which for him means wearing a sparkly American flag suit that Stewie says makes him look like the Statue of Liberty’s pimp. […]

Countdown To Extinction Week 6: A “Cavemen” Recap

November 16, 2007 StayTuned Staff

Like “The Onion” once did with John Leguizamo’s abysmal sketch show “House of Buggin’,” we’re going to provide weekly recaps of “Cavemen” until it gets canceled. Thanks to a malfunctioning TiVo and some trouble with the “Watch Full Episodes” portion of ABC’s website, the recap is a little late this week. (OK, fine — really late.) So let’s not waste another minute in getting to the recap. As “Rock Vote” begins, there is a California state election coming up, and Nick and Joel each have a candidate for whom they believe an undecided — and incredibly uninformed — Andy should […]

“Scrubs”: My Identity Crisis

November 16, 2007 StayTuned Staff

Posted by SH I’ll start off by saying one of my pet peeves about TV shows is when a character has a child, then said child is trotted out only when it’s convenient for the plot. NBC has had its share of offenders in recent years, with Frasier Crane and Ross Geller being perhaps the most absentee fathers in the history of the boob tube. J.D. is nowhere near that point yet — Sammy is just a couple episodes old, after all — but the poor tyke has already suffered his first snub. He’s nowhere to be seen in this […]

“The Office” Recap: The Deposition

November 16, 2007 StayTuned Staff

Thanks to the writers strike, this might be the last new episode of The Office we see for a while. Let’s hope it’s a good one … The episode begins with Pam explaining that Michael prefers to get phone messages via Post-It Notes when he’s in a meeting. Pam did it for him once and he liked it, so now he insists on it every time. The only problem is, he doesn’t get a lot of phone calls, so Pam walks into a lot of meetings with Post-Its that simply say “good morning” or have a smiley face on them. […]

“My Name Is Earl”: Midnight Bun

November 16, 2007 Ryan Berenz

With Frank on the loose, Randy and Earl have to recapture him without getting the police involved and creating a public scene. They ask Frank’s friend Paco where he thinks Frank might be headed, and Paco reveals that they stashed some cash in the trailer where Joy and Darnell now live, and that’s probably where they’ll find Frank. Randy gets a prison K-9 search dog and he and Earl head to the trailer park. Meanwhile, very pregnant Joy is at the clinic demanding to be induced by a doctor, pronto. (But Dr. Pronto is unavailable.) Joy is admitted to a […]

“Chuck” Recap: Chuck Versus The Truth

November 13, 2007 Channel Guide Contributor

Spoiler Alert: Rachel Bilson is adorable. I will forever refer to her as my future ex-wife. Wow. I have to warn you. This blog writer is under the same truth serum influence as the characters from last night’s Chuck episode. I can’t be held responsible for anything in the bold font. It’s the serum talking and I have no control. With just over a half-dozen episodes under its belt, Chuck has finally begun to shed its new employee status and the writers appear comfortable at their place of employment. Sure, week after week they tend to throw spy cliches our […]

“How I Met Your Mother” Recap: Spoiler Alert

November 13, 2007 StayTuned Staff

Ted Mosby is a decent-looking guy, right? He’s got an above-average personality, too, judging from the fact that we’ve all been willing to spend a half-hour a week with him for the past two-plus TV seasons. But is anybody else beginning to question his dating record? Granted, his dating stories are being told a couple of decades in the future and have unfolded over the course of a few years — but by sheer volume, they’re pretty impressive. Almost too impressive. I mean, how many women can one guy date? Particularly a guy who grows up to be Bob Saget? […]

“Scrubs”: My Inconvenient Truth

November 12, 2007 StayTuned Staff

J.D. became a father in last week’s show, but you’d never know it through most of this week’s episode. That’s kind of the point, I guess, as the through-line ends up being, “J.D., you need to grow up.” This initially comes from the unlikeliest of sources — J.D.’s ne’er-do-well older brother, Dan, played as always by Tom Cavanaugh. Man, these guys really look like brothers. It should be required in any project that if one of them has a sibling (male or female), the other gets a call. Uncanny! Despite an immature, hilarious introduction — in which Dan poses as […]

“My Name Is Earl”: Randy In Charge (…Of Our Days And Our Nights)

November 12, 2007 Ryan Berenz

Better late than never with the Earl recap, I guess. With this week’s lackluster episode, maybe never was the better idea. “Randy In Charge (…Of Our Days And Our Nights)” finds Earl called to the warden’s office to assist him with the Scared Straight program. Earl will get five weeks knocked off his sentence if he organizes a group of prisoners to attend a school and scare kids. Randy, as we know, is not the best prison guard, and Earl is constantly bailing Randy out of trouble. Earl decides that Randy should be the guard for their Scared Straight visit, […]

It Was All A Virtual Reality Simulation? A "Family Guy" Recap

November 12, 2007 Channel Guide Contributor

Posted by Sarah At the courthouse, Peter tells Lois he wants to hear all about her non-death … not that night, because he has plans, but definitely the next night. We see a replay of Lois falling over the back of the ship after Stewie shoots her. Luckily, a passing merman took her to shore and treated her, then asked permission to make love to her. Problem was, he had the head and torso of a fish, and the legs of a man. Lois refused to sleep with him, he got angry (“I think you kind of owe me”) and […]