You look horribly familiar...

I have mentioned this many a time before but I really like Monday night television. It has 4 of the shows I like the most ("Big Bang Theory", "How I Met Your Mother", "Castle", and "Chuck" - all of which contain at least one person that has worked on something with Mr Joss Whedon). Tonight was the season finale for Big Bang Theory and Castle. They were both quite enjoyable. I only really started watching "Castle" because of Mr. Nathan Fillion who I loved in so many things ("Firefly"/"Serenity", "Waitress", "SLiTHER" and "Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog" to name a few) and I really started enjoying it. Nathan Fillion plays arrogantly charming quite well. He also plays charmingly loathsome quite well, as shown by his character, Captain Hammer, in "Dr. Horrible".
In addition to the fact that it was "Castle" night, it was also "How I Met Your Mother" night which contains another of my favourites - Mr. Neil Patrick Harris, who is hysterically shameless as Barney Stinson.
So the combination of Nathan Fillion and Neil Patrick Harris both having TV shows on the same night, plus the fact that I decided to re-watch "Dr. Horrible",which stars them both (and also co- stars Simon Helberg (aka Wolowitz) from "Big Bang Theory"), made it quite the awesome night for TV.
I continue to urge people to check out "Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog"; the trailer for which is available below:

So today's favourite thing is a night of TV that contains a whole lot of both Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion. Adam Baldwin would be in there too if a) "Chuck"'s season hadn't ended two weeks ago and b) he had also been in "Dr. Horrible."

PS. There are rumours going around about a sequel to "Dr. Horrible" so look out for it on a computer near you. I will no doubt post something on my blog when it is known for sure.

Secret, secret, I got a secret!

Alas, this is yet another "Chuck"-related post. It tends to be the bright spot in my weeks and thus, has an almost unavoidable presence on my blog. I wrote about the season finale on Monday (well, I mentioned that it was awesome and that I wanted to save the show, but the post was about something else). Since Monday, I have been watching one particular sequence from the finale numerous times, because it was pretty awesome. It is related to the video I posted a couple weeks ago in that in contains the band JEFFSTER. In the sequence, JEFFSTER is performing "Domo Arigato, Mr.Roboto" whilst other events are transpiring.

Anyway, today when I woke up at 2:30pm (I worked an overnight shift last night), I went upstairs to find that my sister had also been rewatching that sequence - a few times, even. So I was quite relieve to find that I'm not the only one to repeatedly watch favourite scenes in TV shows. We watched the sequence a couple more times after that. I think we have had our fill for the time being, but who knows. My fingers are crossed for another season of "Chuck".

"I know Kung Fu"

I apologize but this is going to be yet another "Chuck"-related post. That leads me to believe that "Chuck" has been pretty much my most favourite thing of the past 5 months. Honestly, that seems pretty likely. It's been pretty awesome and tonight's season finale was no exception. That being said, the show is not guaranteed a third season yet and so many fans are trying to save the show. The main campaign has had to do with getting a footlong sub at Subway and letting Subway know that you are doing this in support of Chuck. Today on my break from work, I walked over to the Subway and got myself a sandwich. I also did in fact leave a comment. It was good. It was good being part of something bigger, even if the something bigger is an attempt to get a TV show renewed. As far as causes go, it won't change the world, but "Chuck" does make me extraordinarily happy and that should count for something.

Same topic, different post

Before Christmas, I wrote a post about the TV show "Chuck." It is one of my favourite shows and it is rising in the ranks I will probably soon be my absolute favourite show (provided it gets a third season, which is not done deal quite yet). Since I've already had a post naming "Chuck" as my favourite thing, I feel like I would be somewhat cheating to do it again. Instead, tonight's post is going to focus on why I like it and why I think more people should watch it. Here are some of the reasons why I love Chuck:

• It's funny
• It's suspenseful
• It's an action show
• It's romantic
• It's goofy
• It has Adam Baldwin (better known as Jayne from Firefly) and he's pretty awesome
• It has a character whose nickname actually is "Captain Awesome"
• It blends humour and emotion very well
• It has creepy yet hilarious characters
• It pays homage to so many different shows that it's a matter of trying to pick them out.
• This clip
  
  

Here's a crash course in all things "Chuck".

All in all, I will be very disappointed if Chuck doesn't get another season. It's a pretty awesome show with awesome characters and a character named "Awesome" which is pretty....cool. My lecture about Chuck is now done, but please check it out.

Oh, awesome!

Pretty much everyday, when I first go on the internet, I flip through all of my homepage tabs and see what's happening. When I got to my blog and looked at my blogroll (the place on the left hand side of my blog entitled "Blogs I Enjoy"), I got very excited. One of the blogs I follow called The Park Bench had chosen January's Nerd Man of the Month. Not only that, but this month's awesome Nerdy man was Jim Parsons. For those that don't know, Jim Parsons plays the neurotic, humorously socially bewildered theoretical physicist, Sheldon Cooper, on the Big Bang Theory (a show that routinely cracks me up). Sheldon pretty much exemplifies the definition of "nerd" so it was only a matter of time before he (or the actor that plays him)became the Nerd Man of the Month. Past Nerdy men include John Krasinski (Jim Halpert, Awesome!), Neil Patrick Harris (Do I need to explain who he is?), Adam Baldwin (Firefly, Angel, Chuck), Nathan Fillion (Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, Firefly, Waitress), James Gunn (SLiTHER), and Joss Whedon, among others.

Mwa ha ha ha!

My evil, evil sister has this ability to get me hooked on to various things. Many of the things that I enjoy, particularily of the TV variety, it is because she is the one that said you should watch this. And I do. And I pretty much get hooked. It's happened with the Office, Bones, Buffy and to a lesser extent Angel. Yesterday she taught me a solitaire game that I had a difficult time not playing today. So when I know that I have gotten her interested in a particular show it makes me happy. The shows that I started getting her to watch have been Big Bang Theory, Chuck and 30 Rock. Knowing that I am the reason that she watches those shows makes me quite happy and I feel that is justifiable payback for all of the shows she's hooked me on over the years. So today's favourite thing is getting my sister interested in stuff and then not telling her how it ends.

Now is not the time to be awesome...Oh, but it so is!

As I mentioned last week, Mondays are the day when I pick a TV show (from Mondays) and write about it. This week, the winner is Chuck. No question. I watched the pilot last year but I never really got into it until this year. Probably because last year I had to watch it online and this year I have a TV and can watch it when it is actually on, and then again, and again,.....and again. And probably a couple more times. For those of you that don't know, Chuck is a about a guy named Chuck (go figure!) who received an email from his old college roommate that effectively filled his head with government secrets. He is now protected by a guy from the NSA (Casey, played by Adam Baldwin of Firefly and Angel and one episode of Bones - well that's where I know him from) who growls a lot, and a girl from the CIA (Sarah, played by Yvonne Strahovski) who is his cover girlfriend and the ex-girlfriend of the guy that sent the email. So basically he has his bumbling spy life with Casey and Sarah, and his actual life with his sister Ellie, Ellie's fiance Captain Awesome (or Devin, as is his actual name), his BFF Morgan and his Buy More coworkers. His family and friends have no idea about his spy life. Tonight's episode was pretty awesome and at one point my sister and I said "Wow!" simltaneously. It was a pretty awesome moment if by awesome you mean horrifying and sad. Sadly this is the last episode til February but it was a great episode to go out on. You can watch episodes online at citytv.com (in Canada) or on Hulu (US), or rent or borrow the Season 1 DVDs from a video store or library.