The writers are feeling underappreciated lately, so here are the lines that made me laugh the hardest this season--that should cheer 'em up.
30 Rock: “Gay for Jamie” should officially be added to the encyclopedia as a term used for straight men who become overly fascinated with another guy. Then in italics the passage should refer you to the excerpt on “bromances,” with a helpful image of Matthew McConnaghey and Woody Harrelson or Jake Gyllenhaal and Lance Armstrong.
Life: They were working on a case where they couldn't find a rape victim and Charlie makes a very clever point about this generation’s fascination with disseminating all of their personal information: “She’s 22 years old. Aren’t they all on Myspace, yourspace, Facebook, faceplace? Don’t you want a whole bunch of new friends? Don’t you want them all to know where you are all the time?”
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Like in every episode, Charlie gets under Dani's skin. This time he kept using a metaphor about cause and effect, like if a butterfly flaps their wings in California, it'll start some natural disaster somewhere else. Of course, he always has to run it into the ground, so you can't blame Dani when she says: "You mention that butterfly and I'm going to find it and rip its wings off."
Big Bang Theory: Penny’s ex-boyfriend saw her kiss Leonard goodbye after he nobly rejected her drunken advances, and his response to gigantor's shock and awe was: "That's how we roll in the shire."--the best Lord of the Rings reference yet.
Rules of Engagement: Russell's idea of falling in love: "It was like my heart had an erection."
Cavemen: Andy proves that even cavemen can get a little attached to video games. And Nick expresses how annoying that is for everyone else when he says, "Nothing's more relaxing than the sound of incessant gun fire."
Samantha who?: Andrea’s worried that Sam won’t give up on finding out why one of her ex-boyfriends has a restraining order against her and she says, "I know you. You get something in your teeth and you shake it till it's dead."
Dirty Sexy Money: Justin tries to find out how he can pretend to be poor and one of the lines from his whole "you're the spokesperson for poverty" schpiel to his personal driver was: "I don't know what's going on with the whole silent movie mustache, but it seems pretty poverty related."
Pushing Daisies: Usually these characters beat around the bush when it comes to sex (no pun intended), so I was excited to learn whether or not Ned had had girlfriends before. And apparently so was Emerson, who said, "I must admit I am curious. Hell, before dead girl came along I didn't know what you liked or if you liked and if you had anything to like with. For all I know you could've been one of those people who was born with both, but didn't use either." It's such a tongue twister, yet perfectly articulated.
Chuck: Morgan’s most endearing moment was when he declared his appreciation of Anna, saying, "She's an amazing woman dude and I am a lucky guy." Then Chuck responds: "Is there anyway you can say that to her instead of me?" And Morgan uniquely describes his emotions saying, "Yeah, I guess I could, but that would leave me completely vulnerable. You know, kind of like a sweet little puppy, laying on his back, waiting for his belly to be scratched, privates just kind of dangling out there for everyone to see."
Grey's Anatomy: The best part of the disaster twofer episodes was when the Nazi patient got pissed that Miranda altered his tattoo during surgery and tried to defend what he was and George said: "Since we're sharing belief systems, I believe if you were dead, the world would be a better place." Then he stared him down as if daring him to react.
Here's hoping that the writers get back into the swing of things in the new year.
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