Okay, so, cartoons. I actually found the Simpsons episode to be pretty good, even though the ending was a bit abrupt. That's pretty much par for the course these days, though, isn't it? I do wish they'd done more to work the subplot in with the main plot, but they were both pretty funny. And is this the first time we've seen Gerald (the unibrowed baby)'s mother? I think there was some speculation that his father might have been Leopold, Superintendent Chalmers' assistant who was introduced around the same time and quickly forgotten about. The Family Guy episode wasn't that great, but the jokes based around Jerome being the stereotypical cool black guy were amusing, and I liked Quagmire's rant to Brian near the end. It does seem like they've made Brian more of a jerk in recent years than he was in the show's early days. Mind you, I've also seen it suggested that Brian has become a self-insertion character for Seth MacFarlane himself, so maybe there's a bit of self-mockery (or perhaps mockery of Seth by the others writers) in there. I did watch the Cleveland Show and American Dad as well, but I can't think of anything particularly constructive to say about them. I do wonder why they chose to use My Morning Jacket as the band that Stan became obsessed with, but for all I know they went through several others before finding a group that would agree to be on the show. I can't say I know much about the band; it seems like they were a hot item a few years ago, but they've since largely gone off the radar. But then, I don't exactly keep up with the latest in music news, so maybe that's just my impression.
Also, happy twenty-fifth birthday to Scarlett Johansson. Because she totally reads this, right? {g} Seriously, though, she's someone on whom I actually agree with the makers of the Hottest Celebrity lists. She seems to have particular appeal to nerdy guys; I remember one magazine calling her a "brainy bombshell," and
Darius Whiteplume had a post on her possible nerdiness. Not sure how accurate that is, but even though the opinions I've heard on her album of Tom Waits covers weren't particularly positive (I've never heard it myself), it kind of strikes me that you'd have to be at least somewhat geeky to even know who Tom Waits is.
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