Sure, spending Thanksgiving around a giant table with your closest friends and family and gorging yourself on unreasonable portions of dead bird, stuffing, noodles, mashed potatoes and cranberry is lovely, but wouldn’t you rather celebrate such a holiday with a group of strangers? Especially when those strangers have glib conversations with one another, exchanging witty [...]
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Top Five Fridays: Television Thanksgivings
Posted in 3rd Rock From the Sun, Friends, Full House, Roseanne, The Wonder Years, Top Five Friday's on 11/27/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Top Five Friday: TV “Star” Encounters (Continued)
Posted in Bones, Friends, Full House, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Moonlighting, Roswell, Top Five Friday's, tagged Bones, Brendan Fehr, Bruce Willis, David Addison, Friends, John Aprea, John Shea, Matthew Perry, Michael Guerin, Roswell on 11/13/2009 | 1 Comment »
by Judi Clearly, living in LA for four years has its benefits. 5. Jessie Katsopolis’s Dad (John Aprea) from Full House I remember watching an award show once. Julia Roberts won for something, it must’ve been Erin Brockovich. And she climbs up on stage to receive it and then has a momentary freak-out because Beau [...]
Top Five Fridays: Stars So Nice They Cast Them Twice (Continued)
Posted in Brothers & Sisters, Cougar Town, Dynasty, Etc., Friends, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Melrose Place, Taxi, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Top Five Friday's, West Wing on 10/16/2009 | 1 Comment »
by Judi Note: The title for today’s Top Five topic was clearly all Beal. I apologize for the bits of cheese that just flew out of your monitor. 5. Courtney Cox in Friends (1994 – 2004) and Cougar Town (2009) Sometimes, it feels like Courtney Cox has been around FOREVER. That Springsteen video, Family Ties, [...]
Great Moments #11
Posted in Friends, Great Moments, tagged Friends on 10/14/2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Judi Show: Friends Great Moments: People tend to be snarky about Friends these days (it’s regarded as the McDonald’s of sitcoms now- popular abroad, way-too-prescient here) which I can understand but it still makes me a little sad. There’s something so comforting about occasionally revisiting Central Perk and watching the wholly unrealistic shenanigans of [...]
Top Five Fridays: TV Births
Posted in Friends, Full House, I Love Lucy, Sex & The City, The Cosby Show, Top Five Friday's, tagged Top Five TV Births on 09/25/2009 | Leave a Comment »
We love babies in this country. Don’t believe me? Just ask Utah. Or, better yet, US Weekly. US Weekly is so in tune with our lust for babies and pregnant women and people with babies and women with babies who lost all the baby weight and baby fashion lines and baby FEUDS (it’s coming, trust [...]
Top Five Friday’s: Burst into Song (Continued)
Posted in Beverly Hills 90210, Friends, My So-Called Life, Saved By The Bell, The Brady Bunch, Top Five Friday's on 08/28/2009 | Leave a Comment »
5. Monica on Friends “The One Where Monica Sings” (2003) Alright so technically Monica doesn’t have to sing, but I’m still keeping this on my list, for several reasons. The first being Paul Rudd as Phoebe’s boyfriend, Mike, who works at the piano bar where Monica chooses to perform a little ditty. He’s hilarious and as [...]
Top Five Fridays: Crossover Madness
Posted in Ally McBeal, Angel, Boy Meets World, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cheers, ER, Friends, Mad About You, Step By Step, The Practice, Top Five Friday's, Wings, tagged Angel, Buffy, Friends, George Clooney, Top Five TV Crossovers, Wings on 07/31/2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Judi Oh, the CROSSOVER. Jack Doneghy, I’m sure, loves the concept of the TV crossover being such a fan of things like “synergy” and “product integration”, “pro-menz” (that’s “positive mention” to you, little buddy) and “making lots of money.” After all, what better way to get your TV loving public to excitedly clap their [...]
Top Five Fridays: TV Weddings Continued
Posted in Cheers, Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends, Happy Days, Mad About You, Melrose Place, Taxi on 07/03/2009 | 1 Comment »
by Judi 5. Happy Days- Joanie Marries Chachi in “Passages (2)” (1984) I, like many other children of the ’80s, was far too invested in the relationship of Joanie and Chachi. This wasn’t really my fault, though, and I’ll tell you why (of course I’ll tell you why.) Happy Days ran for so long that [...]
Top 5 Fridays: TV Weddings
Posted in Friends, Full House, Golden Girls, Seinfeld, Top Five Friday's, Weeds on 07/03/2009 | 1 Comment »
by Beal Back in 1981 Luke and Laura set the bar pretty high for television weddings, drawing nearly 30 million viewers–the most ever for a daytime drama. That said, be aware that the following nuptials do not begin to compare–in total viewers, quality or emotional impact. I now pronounce these, my favorite television weddings of [...]
