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“My Boys” Season 3 Preview

By Ryan Fans of the TBS comedy series My Boys no doubt know that the show returns for Season 3 on Tuesday, March 31, at 10:30pm ET. When we last saw PJ (Jordana Spiro) and her boys, they were getting ready for Bobby and Elsa’s wedding. Figuring she’s lost Bobby (Kyle Howard) for good, PJ hooks up with Bobby’s brother (Billy Burke). But Bobby got cold feet, and came to the realization that he’s marrying the wrong woman. I’ve seen the first two episodes of Season 3 — Welcome Back Kalla Fotter (March 31) and Private Eyes (April 7) — […]

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“10 Items Or Less” Recap: The Milk Man

By Ryan Leslie’s having a problem with shipments of expired milk being delivered to the Greens & Grains, and he goes off on a tirade against milkmen. But unbeknownst to Leslie, milkman Nathan is behind the dairy case, and he overhears Leslie’s fightin’ words. Leslie tells Nathan that he refuses to pay for milk, and so begins the war between the G&G and the powerful Dairy Consortium. Leslie starts fearing for his life when some mysterious mold-ridden cheese ends up in his sandwich and a shelf full of feminine hygiene products collapses on him. He holes up in his bedroom […]

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10 Items Or Less: The Whistler

Posted by Ryan The Greens & Grains is doing a (mostly) very sexy car wash for charity, and they made a modest $86. Mercy Jones, manager of SuperValueMart, drives up in a sweet convertible roadster (SVM must pay extremely well) and says that the SVM’s charity car wash made over $6,000. Leslie’s feeling down about his complete lack of talent or skill, when he realizes that maybe he should put his talent for whistling to good use. With Buck’s help, Leslie records a CD of whistling classics — Whistle While You Work — featuring songs like “Scarborough Fair” and “Londonderry […]

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10 Items Or Less: One Day At A Time

Posted by Ryan Leslie and Carl are in drag, doing a stakeout for shoplifters when they discover a woman trying to steal a bottle of booze. Turns out the woman is Mrs. Mednick, Richard’s mother, and she’s got a little drinking problem. Rather than send her to qualified alcohol rehabilitation experts, Leslie decides to get Richard’s mom off the sauce with his own methods. Leslie decides to take the opposite approach to Alcoholics Anonymous and remove the anonymity part — he makes her wear two red As on her sweater to identify her as an alcoholic (or an adulteress?). When […]

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10 Items Or Less: Star Trok

Posted by Ryan Leslie wants to drum up business from geeks by having a Star Trek convention in the Greens & Grains, but he can’t get permission from Paramount Pictures. Proving that you can rip anything off as long as you change it slightly, Leslie settles for a Star Trok convention, and invites Trek cast members to attend. While in the middle of a reenactment, there’s a big explosion. The compressor for the meat freezer blew out. So while Leslie is dealing with the situation, Jolene Blalock shows up. But before she can bail out on Leslie’s faux-Trek convention, another […]

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10 Items Or Less: Eye Can See Clearly

Posted by Ryan Don “The Bags” Bagley is back, and he’s now practicing medicine. That’s right, “The Bags” packed groceries at SuperValueMart to pay for medical school, and now Leslie is opening Bagley’s LASIK eye surgery clinic right in the Greens & Grains. But Yolanda thinks this is a huge mistake, as she wanted to open the first Yolanda’s Tube Top Shop in that space. So Yolanda busts in the clinic just as Leslie is having laser eye surgery, and the procedure gets messed up, leaving Leslie blinded. Yolanda feels responsible, so she takes care of Leslie at her home […]

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10 Items Or Less: Turkey Bowling

Posted by Ryan Greens & Grains loses a game of stickball to the SuperValueMart, and Todd the butcher loses a big bet as a result. Todd is furious with Leslie’s management of the pitching staff (basically Leslie), and Todd gets in Leslie’s face about it. Todd angrily tosses a frozen turkey, and it knocks over a bunch of two-liter soda bottles that Carl is setting up. And the game of Turkey Bowling is born. Carl, Leslie and Todd play Turkey Bowling in the store aisles through the night, and Leslie is pretty good at it. SuperValueMart’s new manager, Mercedes “Mercy” […]

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10 Items Or Less: Season 3 Preview

Season 3 of the TBS comedy 10 Items or Less premieres Tuesday, Jan. 6 at 11pm ET/PT, and we’ll be back to recap the highlights from each episode again this year. (Click here to catch up on our coverage from Season 2.) Season 3 brings a new nemesis for Leslie Pool (John Lehr) and the employees of the Ohio family-run grocery store Greens & Grains. The SuperValueMart next door wants to put the G&G out of business for good, and they’ve hired Mercedes “Mercy” P. Jones (Kim Coles) from New York to do the dirty work. We talked with Lehr […]

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My Boys “Take My Work Wife… Please”

Bobby and the hot Swedish nanny Elsa are getting married and in a hurry. To top it off, Bobby’s recruited PJ to help plan, using the dreaded “PJ, You’re a girl, right …” lead-in. I’m picturing it already, an episode or two into the future, a “STOP THE WEDDING!!!” cry, a la The Graduate. Andy’s new best friend is a female coworker Jo, played by My Big Fat Greek Wedding’s Nia Vardalos. It quickly becomes apparent to everyone else that there is something more than just friendship between the two, that Andy has found himself a “work wife.” A woman […]

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My Boys “Dinner Party”

Posted by Dizzy Miss Lizzy After a frightening dream where PJ finds herself still single at 80 years old and still hanging out with the guys, she agrees to host a singles’ dinner party. Each single friend brings another single friend and romance ensues. Well, that’s the theory. PJ invites the boys and focuses attention on the fact that they are all single. Maybe they should be trying a little harder to get out there and date more. At the same time, Andy hires a hot Swedish nanny and all the boys are beside themselves. They leap with joy through […]