Snomo Zone Part II (weird week recap)

Being mostly trapped in doors for 5 days meant a lot of the boob tube, and what my friends whom I was trapped with and I mostly watched was very mild reality shows. We found that the really light fare felt good, and kept the spirits high while the stir crazy demons tried to mess with us. The wonderful late afternoon/early evening one two punch of Switched and Knock First on ABC Family is really nice. So mild. Not much to either show, but well produced, just interesting enough, and never that crummy. Wow, ringing endorsement.

We also did mega marathons of both Curb Your Enthusiasm (which just started its new season, but I haven't watched the new episode yet) and Mr. Show (which is so hit or miss, alternating between painfully smart and funny to just bland and weak). Curb is what it is. You will either like it or hate it. I find it to be the show that feels like real life and the real life stuff that can drive you crazy.

On January 1, Comedy Central just lost all of their rights to their Saturday Night Live reruns (to E!, Entertainment Television), which is a pretty big deal for that network because they used them for multiple hours everyday for many many years. Over a 4 day span near Christmas they hosted a Top 100 episodes ever countdown, which I thought was a really classy way for them to end their relationship with that show (they could have just sorta let it fade away without any sort of fanfare). To fill the void they purchased rerun rights to Mad TV. Now, let me state that I have never been a fan of Mad TV, but I turned it on today thinking "Let me give it a shot." It was awful; terrible; some of the worst comedy my eyes have ever witnessed. I like Comedy Central as a network, but I hope they don't show that garbage too much.

Spot the marginalized minorities!

My two big finds for the week are Airline and The Real World San Diego. Airline is a really fun little reality show about working in the Airline industry. Maybe it's just me, but I find dealing with rough customers, and other sorta workaday problems to be fascinating to watch. The Real World San Diego premier episode was trashy and exploitive and very entertaining. Seems like a good cast with lots of terribl(y)e things to watch coming up.