My Simpsons Sequel Idea

 Fox wants a sequel but it doesn't look like one will be made soon, the Simpsons writers and producers have their reasons. But I think they real reason is they can't come up with a good enough idea to fill 90 minutes without it seeming like three long episodes. Despite what producers say, some episodes have a cinematic feel like "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"" and many others. One of the biggest complaints of the Simpsons movie is that we didn't see enough of the townspeople. My problem with it was its use of too much music over the jokes in the beginning, making them hard to hear. It reminded me too much of the scoring in The Goofy Movie and Rugrats Movie. "At Long Last Leave" reminded many fans of the movie itself as the Simpsons were kicked out of town.

 

I would personally like a movie that tied the characters together. I would like to see some of my favorite Simpsons writers like Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, John Swartzwelder (he wrote some for the first movie), and Ian Maxtone-Graham (he wrote some of the movie too). I would like some conspiracy within the town that would someone link the military (Principal Skinner, Abe Simpsons, etc.), the criminals (Snake, Fat Tony and the mob), and M. Burns (Waylon Smithers' dad was killed in a nuclear accident in a flashback in season 13). I was thinking of re-hashing the Stonecutters from season 6 and Maggie's position as the 'gem child' in "Gone Maggie Gone" from season 12.

 

In "Gone Maggie Gone," Nuns took Maggie on a throne, causing a light to hit her which makes a rainbow that brings peace all over Springfield. Marge took her back. But maybe the nuns can come back to get her back as some apocalypse might be happening. Apocalypses and conspiracies are not new to the Simpsons but if it has enough of the lore from the past 26 years, it could be something interesting. Maybe Selma B. is dating Snake and Snake has been hired by the Mob with a big secret. But of course this seems like a lot of elements from the 90's and not enough from current but it can derive from a combo of all. Like for example, in recent years Edna Krabpel married Ned Flanders and later died because her actress Marcia Wallace died.

Related: http://spanengrish.blogspot.com/2008/09/simpsons-sequel-circles.html | http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Fox-Wants-Simpsons-Movie-Sequel-Here-Latest-67575.html

Giving another chance to Blackish

ABC has a new sitcom with Anthony Anderson called "Blackish," when I first heard of it, I thought it had an offensive title. I just didn't like the title. I am Guatemalan-American but grew up in urban Allapattah and grew up with the African-American community. Blackish wasn't meant to be an offensive title but it sounded garish to me. And the promos for the show didn't look funny, just looked like a smug guy, silly wife and obnoxious children. But watching already a couple episodes, the show revels in the obnoxious children. It is not only a funny show, it is smart too. Last episode had to do with Martin Lurther King Jr day and the disconnect children have these days with the legend. Reminds me of my nephew who came home yesterday telling me he learned at school that the President King died in a book. Anyway, I do find Anderson's voice in the narration annoying at times and the wife is a pushover, I wish she was a stronger character. Even though the show promoted Lawrence Fishbourne, he is only in a  couple episodes. 

Community three episode Season Three finale

Community is so brilliant! I always mistake the Dean (played by Jim Rash ) for J.P. Manoux (Phil of the Future and Aaron Stone) in the second episode of the night ("The First Chang Dynasty") which semi-wraps up a year-long plot. Chang has taken over as the secruity and kidnapped the Dean. Even though 'Digital Estate Planning' is production number #22 aired first and was not the finale, it was a Pierce episode and most of it takes place in a video game that is a mix of early NES graphics and looks a bit like Zelda mix with Super Mario 2 (American version). 

 

Also all year the season has been hinting on a Troy and Brita romance. And the season finale is "Introduction to Finality." I don't like that NBC burned off the last three episodes of Community, but oh well. Parks and Recreation and The Office ended last week. 

I love Cougartown but bad casting!

I love "Cougartown" but don't like its new day and time, I miss it on Wednesdays at 9:30, but it is NOW on Tuesday at 8:30pm. Please watch Cougartown! I don't like the new cast members such as Garrison's ex-wife  Holly (Briga Heelan) and Nicole Sullivan as Lynn as abrasive and doesn't quite gell. It was a good episode with Travis and Laurie stuff and also Ellie and Bobby surfing stuff. Sarah Clarke is welcoming and fun, she does jell with the cast but she does seem too much like her Scrubs' character Elliott Reid. Anywayz, the Holly character doesn't mix well, it seems she just walked out of stereotype book. The characters are anti-stereotype and seeing her in there is like an abrupt cartoon interference. Boo casting!

Tower Heist Net Worths

There is a new movie called Tower Heist with Casey Affleck, Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller and Matthew Borderick. I was wondering how much Eddie Murphy made these days so I did a little research. Casey Affleck's net worth is 5 million dollars, Matthew Broderick is worth 45 million and Eddie Murphy has 75 million net worth and Ben Stiller is worth 120 million dollars. I was surprised by Ben Stiller, I thought Eddie would make more or even Matthew. These numbers could be wrong, but they are from http://www.celebritynetworth.com/

Charlie Sheen Roast Review

Originally I thought this was going to be a disaster but it was pretty good and funny. They even tore Seth Macfarlene a new one. Kate Walsh (Private Practice) was there, everyone made fun of her, she was cruel but not so funny. She resorted only to gay jokes Jon Lovitz promised to be pathetic but he was quite funny. They all made fun of Partice O'Neal's diabetes and he rightfully complained about it. Seth was the only one to poke at many of Charlie's quotes like a Vatican assassin. At the end, Charlie says he has seen the error of his ways and that he will change. It is sort of humbling and a little discerning, because we expect him to be nuts and upset, but in the end, he learned his lesson... he says. Oh and I forgot to mention Mike Tyson's smart ass jokes but his voice and accent ruined it. William Shatner gave some sage advise, but I don't think I will be giving it a second look.

Related: http://spanengrish.blogspot.com/2011/08/trainwreck-waiting-to-happen-charlie.html

Trainwreck waiting to happen: Charlie Sheen ROAST

Comedy Central said today that Family Guy boss Seth MacFarlane will host the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen, which will tape in Los Angeles on Sept. 10 ahead of a Sept. 19 airdate -- which happens to be the same night CBS premieres the post-Sheen post-Two And a Half Men. MacFarlane has hosted two previous roasts.

Comedy Central's head of original programming and production Kent Alterman added:

“Charlie has assured us that nothing will be off limits in this Roast… which scares even us.”

These roasts are often therapeutic for a person,” Jeffery Ross (The unicorn in Toy Story 3) said, in an interview with EW. “These are things he needs to hear...I see this as a comedy intervention." Ross also hinted about the "long list" of people from Sheen's past, who might come back looking for revenge. “I think people are going to be blown away by the line up,” he replied “There has been interest from very surprising people."

"There's less [cocaine] left on the planet because of me, so roast away," Sheen acknowledged, laughing. "If that's what's in store for me, then bring it," he said, agreeing that cocaine and hooker jokes would probably be "vying for first place" in terms of frequency up on the dais.

Related:
http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/08/11/charlie-sheen-seth-macfarlane/
http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/07/05/comedy-central-to-roast-charlie-sheen/
http://www.hollywood.com/news/Jeff_Ross_Charlie_Sheens_Roast_To_Be_Comedy_Intervention/7829962
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44168291/ns/today-entertainment/

Bridesmaids Movie Review

A delightful and funny bust-out comedy, with the director Paul Fieg ("The Office", "Arrested Development" and played Mr. Eugene Pool in "Sabrina the Teenage Witch") with a script written by Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumulo. Kristen Wiig plays Annie, who has the task of being her childhood friend Lillian's (Maya Rudolph) maid of honor. We barely see Lillian's groom to be Dougie (Tim Heidecker of Tim and Eric). My best friend says she feels something is missing without Eric around. Tim barely speaks. Anyway, Annie lost all her money in her dream bakery and lost her boyfriend and is now living with two fat weirdo siblings and working at a jewelry store, having to see happy couples. She butts heads with Lillian's new friend Helen (Rose Byrne) who seems to be perfect at everything. She meets Officer Nathan (Chris O'Dowd) who is Irish but they never mention it, just about his accent. Of course when we first meet him, we know that they are going to get involved but the journey is interesting, he is an interesting and fully fleshed out character.

The men don't get much talking. Most of the roles are filled by comedians in this movie. Other than Tim Heidecker, Andy Buckley (David Wallace of "The Office") plays Helen's husband but gets zero lines. Supposedly he is Dougie's employer. Anyway, that's not important. What is important are the scene stealing Bridesmaids, a good mix: Wendi McLendon-Covey (Reno 911) as Rita, Lillian's cousin; Elie Kemper (The Office) as Becca, Lillian's young newlywed co-worker and the super talented Melissa McCarthy as Megan, Dougie's sister. Everything manages to go wrong for Annie, to not say much: the engagement party speech outranking, bridesmaid dress fitting becomes a diarrhea-laugh-o-rama, bacholerette party airplane trip to Las Vegas gone awry because of Annie's plane-obia and Helen's backstabbing one-upswomanship.

At 2 hours and 5 minutes, the movie is really a heart-felt movie, also with laugh-out-loud gross-out scenes and lots of cursing, but it has well-written dialogue that you must listen to but also has a lot of sympathy. Annie is really at a crossroads, when she thinks that things can't go bad, they do and sadness does become dark but like any heroine, she gets out of her funk. By the end of the movie, not all her problems are solved and the end does make one believe that this world will continue and she will find happiness and fulfill her dreams, like all of us. Ah yes and I must mention Jon Hamm as her fuck buddy who is a jerk. I know people find him hot, but to me and my friend, not much. Shirtless, he is pale and full of birthmarks and kind of chubby. The movie opens up with her and him fucking around and then her doing the walk of shame.

She wears heart earrings in the movie, I pay attention so much to props and details. She wears heart earrings in the normal and devastating moments of the movie. In some pivotal scenes, she wears round circle earrings. In the scene where she has sex with Nathan, where she makes up with Lillian and in the final wedding scene where she wears pearl earrings.

MadTv's Jill-Michele Melean a mom on Big Time Rush?

Jill-Michele Meleán is an Irish/Bolivian that was born and raised in Miami, Florida. She knows zero Spanish and she is 31 years old (born in 1979) and she was on MadTV from 2002-2003. And now she was in the Mother's Day episode of Big Time Rush with Celebrity Apprentice's Lisa Rinna. She plays the mother of Carlos Pena and Carlos is 21, she is only 10 years older than him! In the show, of course he is a teenager but still, she could at most have had a 13 year-old by now. Also, Lisa Rinna is 47, she played James' mom and James Maslow is 20, which is plausible. Kendall Schmidt is 20 and Challen Cates who plays his mother is only 31 as well! Oh my god, she would had to be 11 to have him. Crazy. But Jill-Michele looked much younger to be Carlos' mother versus Challen being Kendall's mom, she looks 40 (no offense). Older actresses have trouble finding work and now younger women getting their jobs? Dang, you hit 30 and automatically you are a mother? Hell. I don't know who played Logan's mom.

Seth Macfarlane's Crossover Night postponed

This Sunday there was to be a crossover between the three cartoons Seth Macfarlane has created such as Family Guy, The Cleaveland Show and American Dad but it was pulled tonight.

A couple of days ago, CNN announced the grim 24-hour long storms that mostly devastated Alabama, actually caused nearly 300 deaths. Earlier, local reports had only discussed fallout from the storms occurring in particular areas and the destruction seemed less ruinous. With the final tally, the situation became even more tragic, and will be cemented into cultural consciousness as the weeks go on. It came as no surprise when Fox pulled its Sunday night cartoon plan out of this week’s lineup. This week’s planned crossover plotline, featuring a hurricane catastrophe, couldn’t have been less timely.

Initially, when news of the storms hit, Fox pulled promotion for the crossover episodes, including American Dad, Family Guy, and The Cleveland Show. Had the storms been less damaging, this might have been enough. However, in lieu of the tornadoes, Deadline is reporting Fox decided to air reruns this week. The pulled episodes will be gone from this season altogether, but could air next year.
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Franklin & Bash Incorrect Spanish subtitles

The new TNT network Franklin & Bash has promos with Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer, who star in it. In one commercial, Breckin Meyer speaks Spanish and makes fun of Mark-Paul Gosselaar's character and says in Spanish 'Tiene una nalga guapo' which means Has a nice butt but the subtitles says 'nice bank.'

Television: When the Woman Proposes

UPDATED 7/28/14
I noticed a trend in Television, that when the female proposes to their love, everything goes wrong and ultimately the man proposes and then they get married. There may be other examples but I can't remember them right now. This has all come up because of "The Secret Life of the American Teenager."

Boy Meets World
Cory and Topanga were the big couple on the show and they got married in the last season. Anyway, Topanga was the first to propose to him and it was at the end of Season 5 when they graduated and continued into Season 6 where they eloped but ultimately she said 'I don't' and they decided to get married with their family present. So it showed that when the woman does it, its wrong. because when Cory proposed, he got on one knee in a park with Cory's parents present and a heirloom ring.

Friends
Before Chandler proposed, Monica tried but couldn't and she ended up crying and said that is why the men do it, and Chandler ended up doing it.

Sex and the City
Steve proposes to Miranda when she says she is pregnant, which prompts her to yell at him that she doesn't want to marry him, to which Steve responds that he doesn't really want to marry her. Miranda proposes to Steve, he accepts, and they get married in a small, tasteful ceremony. One rare turn.

The Secret Life of American Teenager
The reason I bring this up because of this show, because the girl proposed to the boy, he said yes but he is having doubts. Will this end up the same? Why is it important to me that the woman proposing and things ending up better? Because it should, because screw tradition, why does to have to be the man? In the end, they didn't marry. Amy went to college with Ben and left her kid with his father Ricky.

The Office
Jim and Pam are now married and have a kid on the show, Jim proposed under the rain, Pam never proposed and that was that. With Michael and his lady love Holy, he proposed.

Golden Girls
Back in the day, in the Moonlight Madness party episodes, Rose proposes to Miles on one knee. He says "I'm going to cry." They ended up not getting married.

Sonny With a Chance becomes So Random

Demi Lovato has gone to rehab because of her cutting herself and depression, she opted not to continue on her Disney Channel show "Sonny With a Chance." Disney is fine with that, they were reportedly planning to make the show more about their sketch show So Random and do less of the Behind the Scenes stuff. But now that she won't be returning at all, they are sticking with that plan and renaming the show 'So Random.' I see they aren't showing the show reruns as much, probably the phase it out for kids. What will happen to Sterling Knight (Chad Michael Murray)? His character is not part of So Random, let's see how they handle it. Maybe McKenzie Falls is canceled and he has to join So Random.

Related: http://spanengrish.blogspot.com/2010/11/about-demi-lovatos-depression.html

I love Leslie Knope

Parks and Recreation is a great show, Leslie Knope is an awesome character and Amy Poehler is hilarious.

Happy Ending Review

I didn't have high hopes for the new ABC sitcom about 6 friends: 3 male, 3 female; any like those will be compared to 'Friends' but this one has woman and man having a wedding in the beginning and Elisha Cuthbert leaves the guy Dave (Zachary Knighton) and kind of wedges in between the six friends. So Alex (Cuthbert)'s sister Jane is married to the black friend Brad. And the third guy Max is a gay guy, who was fat as a kid and might be a little chubby now and doesn't like that people say she might be chubby. Max (Adam Phally) is a delight. Brad does seem like a oreo, white guy in black skin. They aired another ep at 10, its regular time--good slot since Cougartown should be coming back. And the third girl is the delightful Casey Wilson of Saturday Night Live as Penny, who knew Max from college and they are 'gay married,' where Max is Penny's gay husband. Max is a masculine gay guy who isn't above 'gaying' it up. I really like the characters of Penny and Max, but not so crazy about the other four. Dave is a bit charming, but after what Alex did, it's hard to like her.

In the second episode, Penny says she was a 'gay gay' which Max calls a stereotypical 'Sex and the City' gay guy that would touch her boobs in a platonic way, so he does get one--by the name of Derrick. Hiliairous. I didn't think the show would go that far. ABC even called it a 'Modern Family' of 'Friends' and it might as well be. No laugh track, like I like, it might be a bit exaggerated and outlandish. The show just needs to calm it down a bit and rely more on the sly writing, and get a note off "My Boys" from TBS, they know how to do it.

Bobby Moynihan should play Taco Bell President Greg Creed on SNL

Taco Bell President Greg Creed above with Ken and Barbie. Creed has come around because of the debate over Taco Bell not having Beef. I think Saturday Night Live, if they do a sketch about this, should use Bobby Moynihan as Greg Creed. He could totally played him. Many like his take on Snooki.

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"Modern Family" "Slow Down Your Neighbors" Episode Review

This show is incredible, believe the hype. This is one of the best episodes of the season, maybe the whole series. it had a great way of tying things together and making sense and not feel convoluted. The plot is that Clare is against a driver that speeds way too fast in their neighborhood (which was done before in "Malcolm int he Middle" and a large child-height speed bump), but it didn't end there, Phil's client is the driver! And he has to live a double life to keep them apart. On the other side, the hilarious but never given a chance to be funny handsome actor James Marsden plays Barry, who claims to be the new upstairs neighbor to Mitchell and Cam, but it turns out--SPOILER ALERT-Barry is homeless and living inside their daughter Lily's dollhouse.

Also on the side of Gloria and Clare and Cam's dad, he finds out that Gloria and Manny don't know how to ride a bike. Manny almost rode on a bike with training wheels. So it goes well with Manny but Gloria is a mistake, it is not easy to teach her. So, she goes to look for Phil... but he is busy with his deal, Luke the young crazy boy ends up teaching Gloria. Gloria says she needs someone nurturing, he starts out like that, but he then starts out with squirting her with a squirt gun. Yes, squirt gun! And it works! Right when Clare steals Gloria's bike to go chase the speeder, I forgot to mention that it was established that her fear was to be stolen. Anyway, it was really hilarious and smart episode.

TV Shows about Young Witches/Wizards with more 'mature' intros

For the Fourth Season of 'Wizards of Waverly Place', there is a new intro sequence. The old sequence was more child-like, interactive and looked like it cost a lot to make it. The new one looked like it didn't cost as much, that it did cost a great amount of money but it wasn't as much as the last one. The first song was sung by Selena Gomez but the new one is a remix, a more club mix, which sounds a bit like Selena's band. This reminds me of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, a sitcom that aired in the 90's on ABC and then later the WB with Melissa Joan Hart. The first sequence was just Sabrina, changing into different outfits. For the fourth season, it was changed to a club techno song with the whole cast in bubbles and other scenes in bubbles and the ending is very unbecoming of a sitcom, a very ominous mystical end.

I have a feeling Melissa Joan Hart was behind the change of her show's intro in the fourth season because she always wanted the show to be more mature, in the sixth season intro--in which she went to college, it showed her partying in a club---which rarely happened on the actual show. She even wanted the WB to change the name of the show to Sabrina, as Sabrina was no longer a teenager. Anyway, I think much like MJH, Selena was behind the change of the new intro, to show she's more mature and cool. But the show hasn't changed in mood as much from season 3, maybe from the first season but not as mature as the intro suggests. Who exactly do they think theya re selling with this intro? The show is for kids, not club kids. Anyhoo, I find it curious that both new sequences have the casts in circles (Bubbles and Crystal Balls). Judge yourself:

First Intro to 'Wizards of Waverly Place':


New Intro to 'Wizards of Waverly Place':


First, Second, and Third Season Intro to "Sabrina the Teenage Witch":


Fourth Season Intro to "Sabrina the Teenage Witch":

Rocky Horror Glee Show Review

Good show. It had many homages to the movie, with some nods to the stageshow. It moved the plot along. it also had a message of teenage men and body image, an important message. When I was 12, I first saw Rocky Horror Picture Show and I loved it, it was awesome. I caught it on Bravo back when they aired movies and I caught it in the part where Rocky was born and I loved the blonde white boy, it was so cool. When I went to High School, Halloween party there was a thing with the seniors doing a song from it and the class hunk, white and blonde dressed as Rocky, shirtless and all, me and my friends were like falling apart. That stayed imprinted in my memory.

Better With You Review/Sitcom Problems

"Better With You" is a new sitcom on ABC on Wednesday nights airing along with the three new hits from last season--"The Middle," "Cougartown" and the coveted "Modern Family." Last year, "Scrubs" took the 8pm lead before it was canceled and they would air reruns of either The Middle or Modern Family at 8 during the summer. Lots of magazine and websites have been saying 'the sitcom is back,' this ABC took as 'the bad sitcom' can be back. "Better With You" is any other cookie-cutter sitcom from the 90's, what killed the sitcom. Reality TV didn't kill sitcoms, the laugh track killed sitcoms. Granted, kid's shows on Nick and Disney have laugh track but that isn't network television. "Better With You" wouldn't be different in any other era. It is about three couples from three different generations, much like Modern Family, they are family.

Two sisters and their parents. 20-somethings not married, expecting a child (Joanna Garcia), thirty-somethings married for a couple years and the parents married for like over 20 years and retired (Debra Jo Rupp). It has its funny moments and the quick wit of Jo Rupp is killer. Garcia has experience from "Reba" and Jo Rupp was on "That 70's Show," and the inexperience of the others shows. Kurt Fuller is indeed a character actor and has been on sitcoms before but never as a lead, and with Jo Rupp, they just don't gel. But what bugs me most of the show is the multiple cameras and laugh track. Network executives don't understand that the reason sitcoms like "The Middle," "Cougartown" and "Modern Family"were successful because they are single camera and HAVE NO LAUGH TRACK.

And they put "Better With You" in between the shows, following "The Middle." It is in the title, they show have it in the middle of the schedule. I am sure they thought if they put "Better With You" first or last, people would ignore it. And for good reason, it leaves a sour taste in my mouth. I think if they got rid of the laugh track and went single camera and changed some of the cast, they would have another hit.

For example, NBC knows what they are doing. With Thursday nights, their comedy shows are single camera and have no laugh tracks. "Community" and "Outsourced" are much in the same style, like mini movies. "Outsourced" is quite funny and the characters are interesting and relateble, even though it takes place in a foreign country.