The Tuesday TV Touchbase is super random this week.
After a moribund outing with Shane Gillis as host last week (and I hope Lorne Michaels is done with his fascination for this guy), we got an energetic Saturday Night Live with Lady Gaga as host and musical guest.
There was this sketch that really struck me as funny. The concept was centered around the basic romcom plot device of someone leaving a relationship for a career advancement, in this case Gaga is a chef who is going to Paris to study at a culinary school and Marcello Hernández (and a cute as hell puppy named Bailey) says goodbye but immediately regrets it and goes in pursuit.
What tips this over to the absurd is the commitment to rideable luggage.
"Go around! GO AROUND!!"
And the shortcut through the tunnel is done with the backstage hallways at SNL.
Oh my God! This sketch was so stupid which is why I found it so funny.
There's a sketch centered around a group of friends dining at a Friendly's. This one got my attention because our family would dine at Friendly's on our summer vacations to Myrtle Beach.
Apparently they have a really strong policy about lying that it's your birthday to score a free sundae.
Man, they do not fuck around with using deception to score a free sundae.
Last week, Andrea and I finished our re-watch of Arrested Development. When I say finished, I mean we stopped at the end of season 3. The Netflix produced seasons 4 and 5 were just awful and I saw no reason for Andrea to suffer as well.
I had a good time revisiting those three great seasons and Andrea enjoyed the show as well. She especially loved Ron Howard's dry wit as the narrator.
At the time when the series first aired, everyone was distressed when Fox cancelled Arrested Development but in restrospect, there were only so many ways for the Bluth family to fuck each other over and only so many times Michael Bluth would get in a tizzy of a snit that he was tired of saving the family and their construction business.
It may not have been the show's choice but I think the series ended at a good place.
(And the atrocities of seasons 4 and 5 proved me right.)
I recently started catching up on A.P. Bio, a series that ran for 42 episodes over 4 seasons starting 2018.
The series is about how Harvard philosophy professor Jack Griffin loses his dream job to his rival Miles Leonard and after some conduct unbecoming a Harvard philosophy professor is forced to leave Harvard and he returns to his hometown of Toledo, Ohio.
He gets a job as an advanced placement biology teacher at Whitlock High School where he makes it brutally plain to the class that he has NO intention of teaching them biology and they will all get an "A" if they shut up and leave him alone while he plots his revenge against Miles and how to have sex with as many women as possible.
Jack is played by Glenn Howerton who plays Dennis Reynolds on It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia which gives us some idea of the depravity we can expect from Jack.
And the obstacles in front of the hapless students who are all nerds wanting to get into the best college and really need someone to actually teach them advanced placement biology.
NEW STUFF: Andrea and I are watching Daredevil:Born Again over on Disney+. Charlie Cox is back as Matt Murdock aka Daredevil, reprising his role from the Netflix series.
This is some seriously intense shit and I'll have more on that in a future Touchbase.
Well, that is that for this week's Tuesday TV Touchbase.
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.
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Taking a blog break. No new posts for Wednesday through Friday. Back with a movie post on Saturday.Until then, remember to be good to one another.
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