House – “Merry Little Christmas” Original airdate 12/12/06 This episode falls smack in the middle of a longer arc involving a police officer making a point of ruining House’s life. We House fans call this storyline “Somebody give Hugh Laurie a freaking Emmy already”. The main plot involves House treating, […]
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25 Days of Christmas Episodes – Day 1: Seinfeld, “The Strike” (Dec 1)
Christmas means just one thing over at spunkybean – Christmas episodes! Well, three things actually, since we also love our Hanukkah and Kwanzaa episodes. (Please note: Kwanzaa episodes are purely theoretical at this point in time.) For as long as there’s been TV, there have been special holiday episodes. Sometimes […]
Mad Men Roundtable: Season Two, Episode 13 – “Meditations in an Emergency”:
The season finale of Mad Men was, in many ways, an exercise in frustration. That’s not to say it was poorly executed, by any means. It’s just that, after the supporting cast all had their own storylines this season, they were left open come the end. Sal, Harry, and Paul […]
Mad Men Round Table: Season 2, Episode 12 – “The Mountain King” (Oct 21)
EJ – Wait just a minute. Bert’s sister is named Alice? Alice…. Cooper? HA! This is the happiest we’ve ever seen Don and Peggy, but everybody else had a rough time this week. It turns out, his call last week was to the woman from the flashback, and she is […]
Mad Men Round Table: Season 2, Episode 11 – “The Jet Set” (Oct 14)
EJ I was off the Round Table last week, so I didn’t get the chance to note the brief appearance of Aloma “Nurse Laverne” Wright as the nurse. My dreams for a Mad Men / Scrubs crossover are coming ever closer to fruition. So, last week, Myndi used the phrase […]
Mad Men Roundtable: Season 2, Episode 10 – “The Inheritance” (Oct 7)
Don (not Draper) Sometimes Mad Men is ‘smart’, but sometimes its just creepy. And by ‘creepy’ I mean a 12-year-old boy making moves on a 30-something mother of two. Or a confused father groping his grown daughter because she resembles her own mother. While Atlas Shrugged is often cited as […]