Three of the network TV sitcoms that Andrea and I follow are up and running for new episodes.
Abbott Elementary is back for it's 5th season.
Melissa Schemmenti gets moved from the second-grade to teaching sixth grade where the normally street smart Melissa is caught off guard by the conniving machinations of her older students.
Janine Teagues' second grade class nearly doubles in size.
Despite these minor changes to the status quo, it does feel like Abbott Elementary may be spinning it's wheels a bit.
I was very impressed by last week's episode when the gang attends a Philadelphia Phillies baseball game. The episode was actually shot a real game this summer.
Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage is back for it's 2nd season. The partnership between Georgie and Ruben is severely strained after they took joint ownership of McAllister Tire. It doesn't help that Georgie is running hard with the idiot ball, confusing a goal with a plan. Yes, building the tire store into a statewide chain is a great goal but he's totally clueless on the plan to achieve that goal. While Ruben is overly cautious, the older more experienced Ruben (who is going to night school to stude business) knows what he's talking about.
We saw in Big Bang Theory that Georgie will go on the own a chain of successful tire stores in Texas called Dr. Tire.
Another problem I have with the show is I don't think Montana Jordan who plays Georgie is leading role material. He did a far better job with the role in Young Sheldon but in Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage, Jordan is still mugging for the camera desperately trying to wring laughs out of not so funny lines.
Ghosts is back for it's 5th season as the gang copes with the terrible threat to Jay's life and soul: Elias Woodstone has secured Jay's soul and as soon as he dies, Elias will be free from Hell.
The writers do not drag this out and by the end of the first episode of season 5, Jay's soul is safe after an unexpected sacrifice by Carol, the ghost of Pete's wife died on the property last season after choking on a donut hole.
Carol avoids Hell after her ghost is sucked off to Heaven in response to her selfless sacrifice.
Meanwhile, Patience, the prickly judgemental self righteous Puritan ghost may be sticking around. Patience is dismayed that simply pointing at Elias and yelling "SMITE!" over and over does nothing to consign him back to Hell. She thought her superior goodness would be enough to repel the evil demonic Elias.
Isaac and Sass actually pierce Patience' shell when they point that while she talks a good game about others being bad, she herself does nothing good.
(Hey, right wing MAGA Christian nut jobs, did you all get that?)
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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