Sunday, April 6, 2008

SNHell and Greek Recommendation

Yeah, its not breaking news, but it still sucks.
The opening was pretty decent actually, the Bill and Hillary finances bit was cute. Darrel Hammond can do no wrong as Bill Clinton, and that is saying a lot since Phil Hartman mastered it.
Christopher Walken's monologue was very funny, but that was all Walken...
The Grease Lightning sketch was fairly inspired, and then that was it.
Digital Short - brutal
Other sketches I have forgotten already - awful
Weekend Update - surprisingly benign
Rest of show? Don't know, fell asleep during weekend update.

GREEK
If you are not watching it, you might want to be. I have blogged about it before, but its worth mentioning again - 2 episodes into this second-half of season 1 of Greek is an easy and fun watch on ABC Family. This is not a family show though - no way. It is very much a cliche and somewhat honest look at Greek life on campus, and it's a lot of fun.
The reason I wanted to talk about Greek this week is because less than 24 hours after I celebrated Neil Patrick Harris's ode to Doogie Howser on HIMYM, Alan Ruck shows up as the Dean of Students on Greek -- you know Alan Ruck -- Matthew Broderick once said you could shove a lump of coal up his ass and it would come out a diamond.....yes, he was Cameron in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
So there we are in Greek as the Dean is busting a frat party unexpectedly, and cut to one of the sorority girls trying to explain to him that Ferris Bueller is this generation's Great Gatsby.
I enjoyed that moment even though no true 19 year old would ever make that connection considering Ferris is as archaic to them as Leave it to Beaver. But the writers would, and the shout out was to 'us', not the core demographic of 15 year olds that love this show. I know this because my babysitter told me so.

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