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Goldilocks And The Three … Businessmen — A "Cane" Recap

Posted by Sarah

It’s a little disorienting to find Alex in Little Havana. He and Santo go into one of those places that looks like the cantina in Mos Eislcane_9.jpgey from Star Wars, by which I mean that everyone in it looks like they’re up to no good. Alex approaches a guy and says, “I know who you are and I know what you do. I want you to perform a service for me.” We flash to a hospital bed, where Henry lies all beat to a pulp. Huh?

24 hours earlier, the International Rum Awards are being held at Pancho’s. Pancho is absent, and Alex tells inquirers that he’s meeting prospective international clients, though he’s actually at the doctor’s office being told that his pills aren’t working. He needs chemo. When the doc says that chemo will make him lose his senses of smell and taste, Pancho refuses chemo — the scent of his wife and the taste of his rum are the most important things to him, and he won’t die without them.

Henry’s having issues with his investors at the club, because they keep taking the contents of his bar as a perk, leaving him with almost no profit every night.

Alice tells the P.I. to keep tailing Alex, because “there are two kinds of people in the world: One gets away with murder, thanks his lucky stars, and goes back to the straight and narrow. One thinks he can get away with it again.”

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"Chuck" Recap: Chuck Versus The Sandworm

Posted by johnnysweeptheleg

chuck1030.jpgGod help me. But I am beginning to come around to the two characters that I thought I would always dislike on the show. Captain Awesome and Morgan. Too bad their characters aren’t gay. In the Brangelina way of combining names, I would love to refer to the couple as Captain Morgan.

It’s finally interview day for Chuck, who is in direct competition with Tang for a low-level management position at Buy More. Chuck’s own boss wants him to get the job, albeit for purely selfish stress-related reasons, and tells Chuck he’s a lock for it. After all, as he says, “Tang has the charm of a prostate exam.” But Chuck’s biggest liability is Morgan.

While Morgan should be working a double, he’s at a Santa Monica Pier arcade playing a Guitar Hero knockoff. Already warned that Morgan’s the anchor around his neck, Chuck is about to scold Morgan for this gamebreak. That is, until he observes Morgan’s opponent and gets one of those mind-flashy-thingees. His name is Laszlo. He was spotted by the CIA playing Tetris as an 11-year-old, given a scholarship, received a PhD by the age of 17, and then became a weapons designer. I knew I should’ve spent more time playing Tetris and less time playing Mike Tyson’s Punch Out. [Read more →]

"How I Met Your Mother" Recap: I’m Not That Guy

Posted by Mike

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Last week’s episode was the best of the season so far. So how does “I’m Not That Guy” try to top it? With John Cho, of course. He’s the guy who played Harold in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle — the movie that changed people’s perceptions of Neil Patrick Harris and indirectly spawned the awesomeness that is Barney Stinson. Without it, NPH’s career may never have come back from Doogie Howser purgatory. But anyway …

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"E:60": Not Yet Replaced With "World Series Of Poker" Reruns

Posted by Cubicle QB

60 logoE:60 is still alive and kicking on ESPN. The third episode airs Tuesday, Oct. 30 at 7pm ET. Features on the episode are:

Lost Boy E:60 correspondent Tom Farrey follows a young Sudanese, Macharia Yuot, on a journey that spans 7,000 miles and almost 20 years — a journey rife with emotional peaks and valleys. Yuot is one of the “Lost Boys of Sudan,” the more than 20,000 Sudanese children who were ordered to flee their villages during civil war to escape being conscripted by government soldiers or murdered. After a 800-mile trek and years in refugee camps, several thousand children were resettled in the United States, including Yuot, who wound up in Philadelphia. Yuot began distance running when he enrolled at Widener University and became a six-time NCAA champion. On Saturday, Nov. 3, Yuot, now a U.S. citizen, will compete in the U.S. Olympic marathon trials in New York, attempting to earn one of the three places on the men’s team. To tell Yuot’s story, Farrey traveled to the Sudan last month to find Yuot’s surviving family members. At E:60’s invitation, Yuot accompanied Farrey on the arduous trip deep into the Sudanese plains. There, Yuot was reunited with his mother, whom he had not seen in nearly two decades. E:60 crew also captured Yuot’s journey through his application and eventually swearing in moment for U.S. citizenship.

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Dexter Comes Unglued, And So Do The Series Writers

At the end of episode 5 our hero is on his docked boat in the middle of the night using a UV light to find all the incriminating bloodstains so he can scrub them away, while somewhere above him a security camera is recording his every move. Are the writers really so dense that they don’t realize that Dexter is way smarter than that? OR, is his lapse of intelligence due to what happened to him earlier in the episode, when he began a journey of twisted self-exploration that ended with him confronting the man who helped kill his mother? He went so he could talk to the man, and say “You stole my life, and I’m not the person I’m supposed to be.” Yep, he actually got the words out before he grabbed a baseball bat and added some pithy punctuation. [Read more →]

"Men In Trees" Recap: No Man Is An Iceland.

Posted by johnnysweeptheleg

I bench press my own body weight, plus another seventy-five pounds. I like to drink whiskey. And one of my favorite movies of all time is Fight Club.

menintrees.jpgI thought I better offer that up prior to admitting that I watch a show called Men in Trees. Others must be watching it, since the show was picked up for its second season. But I venture a guess that most of them don’t have guy parts.

Where are we at the start?

Jack and the girl formerly of Family Ties have split. So because Lynn and her pregnant-with-some-other-guy’s-kid self have moved on to another city, everyone assumes Jack and Marin are going to flip the on-again switch.

But Marin’s still rooming with Cash. Not Johnny, but instead, the homeless tent-dwelling guy who just so happens to look like one of those dudes you see in the cologne print ads. I find him annoyingly unreal. Yes, even in a show that is already farcically quirky to begin with. [Read more →]

Ellen and Iggy: You’ve Got E-Mail

Posted by ButtonKnows:

Okay, I forget exactly what day we’re on in IggyGate (and hey, Us Magazine, I called it that first, man, so nerny, nerny on you). But just as things were starting to die down a little, and life in Ellenville was getting back to dancing and presents, it looks like the über-sleuths of The Smoking Gun have unearthed a pretty authentic-looking email exchange betwixt all parties involved. And it ain’t looking good for E & P’s version of events.

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‘Scrubs’: ‘My Own Worst Enemy’

Posted by SH

Hope you weren’t staying up nights wondering if J.D. and Elliot would resume their ill-advised romance, because the suspense was over pretty quickly, and dispensed of like so much medical waste. As J.D. ponders their impending lip-lock, eyes closed, he opens them only to find he is kissing air. Eliot apparently moves very fast when there is romantic disaster brewing. “How did you do that?” J.D. asks, incredulously. A long time to wait for such a tame gag.

The hopeless pair decide that their near-smooch wasn’t about their feelings for each other as much as their anxiety over their current relationships. Elliot concludes that she doesn’t want to marry Keith after all (bummer for the Dudemeister!), but J.D. believes he has genuine love for Kim, and that his dalliance with Elliot was yet another attempt to sabotage himself. [Read more →]

"The Office" Recap: Local Ad

Posted by Mike, Ryan and johnnysweeptheleg

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At the start of this week’s episode, the office is abuzz — and it’s not just because Sue Grafton is in town for a book signing. An ad agency is coming to the Scranton branch to film a commercial promoting Dunder Mifflin Infinity. Michael is excited because he’s going to get a chance to show off the creativity that allowed him to imagine a unicorn as a 5-year-old, before he even knew what one was or could even speak. Jim is psyched because now when people hear he works at Dunder Mifflin, they might finally stop thinking he sells mufflers or muffins or mittens — all of which he admits are more exciting than paper. The excitement level drops however, when the ad people in charge of shooting the commercial inform Michael that a company-wide version of the commercial has been filmed, and that only the final five seconds of the spot will be customized by the Scranton branch.

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"My Name Is Earl": Frank's Girl

Posted by Ryan

Billie It’s Conjugal Day at the prison! Frank (Michael Rapaport) is in the hot box for biting someone’s earlobe off, so he won’t be able to meet his girlfriend Billie (Alyssa Milano) for Conjugal Day. Frank shows Earl a nude photo of Billie, who has a tattoo of angel wings, uh, down there. Billie shows up for Conjugal Day, but Earl has to tell her that Frank won’t be coming. Billie’s upset that Frank got tossed in the hot box, but then becomes even more upset when Earl reveals that he saw her nude photo. Billie breaks up with Frank, and suddenly Earl realizes he’s got another item for his list (now written on his pillow case).

After their breakup, Frank sinks into a deep despair. Earl decides he needs to get Frank a new girlfriend, so Frank and Earl shoot videos for a convict match website. Their new girls show up for Conjugal Day. Frank’s girl, Lucy, is totally hot but totally insane. Earl’s girl, Annie, is really a dude.

After that debacle, Earl decides he needs to win Billie back for Frank. Earl has a nude photo of Frank put up on a billboard, begging Billie to come back to him. She eventually comes back for Conjugal Day, and Earl meets her there to apologize. It’s then we learn that Billie once was on the path to becoming a nurse until she met Frank and got into a life of crime. Since Frank’s been in prison, Billie is turning her life around and she reenrolled in nursing school. Earl realizes that Frank needs to let Billie go so she can lead the good life that she wants to. Frank understands this, too, and he painfully breaks up with Billie. Frank throws the photo of Billie in the trash. Earl retrieves the photo, tears it in half, and keeps the top part … the part without the angel wings. It seems Earl has a thing for Frank’s girl.

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