Episodes of Shows that I Wish I Had Written

Hey y'all. I just wanted to be openly admiring of a random smattering of episodes of TV shows I have found fascinating, many from Childhood..

To kick off,

Even Stevens, "Influenza" - Ok, who has seen this and doesn't see the beauty? Perfectionist Ren suffering from the flu and dreaming that her life is a musical and that she doesn't have her science project completed. The whole thing culminates to one of the best songs, "We Went to the Moon", which is the science project in question. Any time I turned on Disney, this was on, and it was clever and fun and awesome. And who can forget little Shia?

Doug, Any Episode - I used to, and still, love Doug. My mom even said that one day I'd marry someone who had the characteristics of Doug, shy, introspective (I guess) Or maybe a guy with real skinny legs. I don't know. But either way I just really found Doug to be a likeable show, and he was definitely a relatable character. He had a crush, he had a big imagination, he wrote a journal. He loved The Beets. He had a band! Do I need to say more?

The Simpsons, "The Springfield Connection" - One of my all time favorite Simpson episodes, this is the one where Homer thinks he is seeing an extra terrestrial but it's Mr. Burns (Kill it!) As the Simpsons went from good to great to sucky to ok to good, this episode remains one of the best. Pimple faced teenager concluding the episode with "I'm Leonard Nimoy", Marge wearing a "Homer is a Dope" shirt, and of course the "Good Morning Starshine" singalong make this episode hilarious. Remember when there were no "misses", only "hits" when it came to the Simpsons?

The Wonder Years, "She, My Friend, and I" - This is my favorite episode of one of my favorite shows of all time. Paul dates Winnie, and finds out she likes Kevin. Kevin finds out he still likes Winnie when she starts dating Paul. He goes to her door, she answers ALL SMILES, and he blows it, and gets the door slammed in his face. Kevin and I are siblings from another mother.


I'm sure I have more, but I've been writing this for like, a day now, going back and adding more once in a while, so I'm just going to publish it.

The Ugly...

Heyo,

I just want to elaborate on "the bad" a bit more, since the fallout of the bad made it hard to sleep the night before I wrote the post, and therefore, made it hard to read the post. But ya, I can't keep an air bed for the life of me. A friend of mine is insisting that I must claw my bed in my sleep, or that perhaps I go to bed in a suit of armor. But last night I had a restful sleep. It was awesome.

Now, onto the ugly - and this is not about the pimples which sprout on my face on occasion. This is about my venture into the field of stand up comedy. Yes, I am writing stand up which I also have to perform, and I need to do this by Halloween, because that's the deadline I've given myself.

I love to make people laugh, I love to say things that people think are funny, but I realize how hard it is to write a real true joke. It's really hard. I can put lines into the mouth of Dwight Schrute like it's nobodies business, but when it comes to me myself getting on a stage and dazzling all with my wit, I barely know how to begin. So I am writing and I'll do it, and hopefully after I do it, I keep doing it, and hopefully the practice will make me good at it. But for me, this is a pretty ugly thing I'm getting into.

There will be a post entitled "The Rest" soon...but I hope you are enjoying my blogness.

The Bad...

I can tell you exactly what the "bad" is at the moment.

My beloved aerobed, whom I've shared some restful times with, is the victim of two holes. Count them, you can. Well, the first one was tiny and I patched that, and then a dime sized hole sprouted. And right now I am dead tired and achey after having slept..or "slept" on it last night. I woke up on the ground. Now I don't know if you've ever tried to balance on a ball of air and get sleep..but it does not work. Not effective in the least.

Anyway - so tired, so very tired. And I am going to a friend's birthday tonight so I need to be awake enough to be enjoyable for all.

I need a bed.

What could be ugly if that's just bad? Well, wait and see...

The good. The bad. The ugly. And the rest.

The good -

Right this second I am sitting at a reception desk at the Warner Bros Studio's Motion Picture Imaging Building, where I am working this week. It was pretty cool to get that call yesterday and it shows that things can change in an instant, where I thought I was returning to a vast wasteland of joblessness, I can save the drama. ;-) Everyone here has been really nice, and even though I do things tentatively the first time I do them, I pick up on details pretty quickly. I wanted to roam around Stars Hollow for a bit before I went back to work but there was a crew setting something up for something - pretty interesting.

Also, reception means I can jot down notes for my new writing project - see "The ugly" below. I bet you're already dying to know what it is.

Also, I decided to adopt a "life is good" policy. Or for some of you, I've decided to become another person altogether. I'm in a position where I can really love my life, and I'm going to do it. Ha!

The movie "Paper Heart" looks really good, I really want to see it. I love Michael Cera, and quirky comedies, and mockumentaries. Plus I'm totally one of those posers that wants to be like, "I saw Paper Heart, it was in Sundance. The film festival. It's so deep!" I eat peanut butter and fluff sandwiches. But I do eat them on whole wheat, so what's in a name, ya know?

I just returned from a trip to Boston, which was really good. Good to see family, and good to see friends. It's nice to be home when I can, and I do miss everyone. I saw my friend Andrea get married to Mark, the man we nicknamed "Husband" since day 1. It was a beautiful wedding and a great reception. They named each table after a place significant in their relationship, my friends and I sat at "Hugh O'Neils", which was the location of part of their first date, and also where we all nicknamed him Husband, later. EXCITED FOR THEM BOTH!!!

I'm tired of blogging. I'll continue with the bad and the ugly tomorrow...