According to the fine folks at TVShowsOnDVD.com, it looks like Hanna Barbara is continuing its trend of releasing the shows from my youth just in time for me to infect my daughter with them. “Dynomutt” is on the way, and, if this news is true, it won’t be long before we see a “Hong Kong Phooey” set.
Can the “Captain Caveman” and “Funky Phantom” collections be far away…?
Attention late night couch potatoes: “SNL” is funny again. It took them long enough, considering Will Ferrell was the only remaining talent on the cast until about three years ago. After leaving the show to pursue a movie career, though, the famous sketch program was left in the hands of… gasp… Jimmy Fallon. We all know how that turned out, since Fallon has one character he uses in every one of his skits. Now, relative newcomers Chris Parnel and Andy Samberg have delivered what’s sure to become the hottest internet download of the year with the “‘SNL’ Digital Short” entitled “Lazy Sunday.” In it, two grown men rap about their journey on the way to seeing Disney’s “The Chronicles of Narnia” in theaters. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and then you’ll hit “replay.”
Check it out: http://youtube.com/watch.php?v=zLElfJ9YCh0
This might be even more devastating than the revelation that there was talk of Phil Hartman doing a live action Troy McClure movie: in the commentary for “22 Short Films about Springfield,” the executive producers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein reveal that they made the episode in hopes of creating a spinoff series that revolved around the entire city of Springfield, not just the Simpson family. I shed a single tear, for what could have been.
Fred Savage, former cute-as-a-button star of TV’s “Wonder Years,” is all growed up now…and will prove it by shaking up his image with a new comedy to air on ABC starting January 12. Called “The Crumbs,” the sitcom features Savage as Mitch, the “gay prodigal son who returns home from a failed Hollywood career,” and also stars Jane Curtin as the mother recently released from a psychiatric ward. TV stalwart William Devane–always thisclose to becoming a parody of himself–will play Savage’s skirt-chasing father, who is divorced from Curtin’s character.
The talent involved with the show is intriguing, but this one doesn’t exactly have “breakout hit” written all over it. It’s got a lousy title (reminiscent of Fox’s Randy Quaid dud “The Grubbs” from a few years back), and the script includes multiple references to Mitch’s deceased brother…because dead siblings are always comedy GOLD!
Savage himself admits that studio audiences viewing early tapes of the show “laugh at the wrong places, or don’t laugh at all sometimes.” He insists that this is a good thing, as it means they’re hitting a different tone than the standard sitcom slush — and he might be right about that. These dysfunctional characters just might have the next “Arrested Development” on their hands.
Then again, they might not. As Daniel Stern would likely narrate in voiceover at this point in the show, “Sometimes you just have to wait and see what happens.”
Those bastards over at the Food Network have done it again. They got me to watch a cooking show that I otherwise wouldn’t have cared to see. The other day my wife was watching “Everyday Italian” with host Giada De Laurentiis (granddaughter of Dino De) and I became fixated. Soft focus Skinemax lighting, a low cut shirt, and breasts a-popping with plenty o’ nice cleavage. I sat there making lewd remarks every time she talked about spreading this or that and so forth. My wife sighed and did that laugh she does when she knows I’m a pathetic mess. I just said, “Who’s looking at the food?!” She of course said she had no interest in Giada’s boobs, which is understood.
However, it reminds me of when the Food network also ran that one show with chef Nigella Lawson, another buxom babe with a nice soft focus show and a cameraman who seemed hell bent on making sure you didn’t notice the food too much. I used to find myself being caught in the headlights (har har) of that one as well. So it’s my professional advice to you dudes out there who are looking for something titillating that isn’t the same old same old to check out some Giada or Nigella and get your freak on. Cooking complex shit for rich friends you will never have was never so good.
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