Showing posts with label awesome shows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label awesome shows. Show all posts

Monday, May 11, 2009

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.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

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".

Monday, April 27, 2009

"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.

Monday, April 13, 2009

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.