Day: October 20, 2003

reruns are good

Edit: They teased me by airing a Bebop bumper by accident and I started to edit this. EVIL. So, I went a long time between having Cartoon Network. Like, 3 years? Sounds about right. In that time, new (or “new to Cartoon Network”) shows premired, aired all their episodes, and went into perputal reruns. That’s … Continue reading “reruns are good”

Edit: They teased me by airing a Bebop bumper by accident and I started to edit this. EVIL.

So, I went a long time between having Cartoon Network. Like, 3 years? Sounds about right.

In that time, new (or “new to Cartoon Network”) shows premired, aired all their episodes, and went into perputal reruns. That’s what usually happens. But everything is still New To Me.

On the rare occasion I caught Cartoon Network – on the road, in a hotel, partially in Spanish – two shows caught my eye: Samurai Jack and Cowboy Bebop. I’m not here to sell them to you, because the shows are so good they don’t really need that.

I saw what I guess was the newest Samuari Jack, and then it started to repeat in the afternoon, so I was all over that on my TiVo. It was nice, but since I’d…uh….found other means of getting episodes when I was particularly inspired, but not all of them so I was just waiting my time till the new ones came.

Bebop, I only saw one episode – the meet Ein one – so everything was new. And good. And on a bit late but heck, I wasn’t sleeping anyway. I was kinda sad that they were getting to the last couple episodes but reallllly intersted in seeing (for myself) how everything got resolved. If it got resolved.

So I check my TiVo today for the afternoon Samurai Jack recording, and while the program is listed as Samuari Jack, it certiantly looks a lot like Justice League – a nice cartoon, but not what I was looking for.

Still, I figure they’ll air them all again when they’ve got new episodes to tack on to the end. I thought ‘at least I’ll get to watch Bebop later. Certinally they wouldn’t pull it with just two episodes to go!’

Yea, right. I guess if it’s the 15th time you’ve shown the episodes you think everyone who’s wanted to see them saw them – but then you don’t know the crappy cable companies. Less than happy ending to a lass than happy day, anyway.

[I guess I won’t feel so bad just finding it by other means…]

The moral of this story is that I’m tired but got talked into TiVo-ing Cold Pizza so I’m also insane.

i hate stupid ESPN

(This is not a blog, Hobbes. No it’s not. Keep it up and I’ll link to your page.) You know what was a great moment in humankind this week? When ESPN realized it could show multiple commericals for Cold Pizza. Really. I no longer wanted to meet Kit. I never wanted to meet Kit. If … Continue reading “i hate stupid ESPN”

(This is not a blog, Hobbes. No it’s not. Keep it up and I’ll link to your page.)

You know what was a great moment in humankind this week? When ESPN realized it could show multiple commericals for Cold Pizza. Really. I no longer wanted to meet Kit. I never wanted to meet Kit. If I ever found myself meeting Kit, I would want to loudly ask her to stop being wild and/or unpredictable (and then if there’s an offical post-Real World/Road Rules “how to be an aspring actor” class or if they all just make it up as they go.)

The second batch of ads where they’re hanging out (and not just telling me their names AS IF I CARE) are better. It wasn’t going to get me to watch either, but it didn’t reek of “we have nothing here so we’re just gonna have them act goofy and overhype them” like the other ads did. Oh hurdle, it’s a PUN. Thanks for explaining that to me.

Just because I go to websites too easily, I visited Cold Pizza’s website. Nothing says “someone got this first” than a .tv domain, you know. Anyway, for you, I shall go through the effort of C&Ping their Monday preview:

Notable film and TV actor Fred Willard, who recently appeared in American Wedding, A Mighty Wind and Everybody Loves Raymond, will be a guest on the Cold Pizza’s first show.

The Wiffle Ball – Cold Pizza will look at the 50th anniversary of the Wiffle Ball, a sport that evokes childhood memories of backyard fields and quirky ground rules.

As part of National Pizza Month, the new show will present a series designed to highlight the great American staple. Monday’s show will feature a pizza eating contest with three of the top-ranked competitive eaters in the U.S.

Excusively on Cold Pizza: We’ll announce the 2003 winners of the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Individual Sportswoman of the Year and Team Sportswoman of the Year awards

“Sports on Broadway” – a five-part series that will look at the intersection of sports and theatrical plays on the Great White Way. Monday will feature the cast of the Tony-winning Take me Out – a play about a celebrated New York City baseball hero who announces that he is gay.

Uh, yea. That’ll work. I’ve been dying to know who won SportsWoman of the year! I can’t believe that got that kinda scoop away from SportsCenter. Jim was threating to tape this and give this to me, which would be the most hurtful thing a friend can do to a friend.

The thing that astounds me is that this – and Playmakers and whatever other lovely crap they put on ESPN in the near future – is supposed to appeal to people who don’t normally watch ESPN (a theory that has noteably failed in other places around here, but I’m off track enough).

They’re only advertising on the ESPN networks.
Their own ads feature the typical current ESPN viewers (white! male! 18-39!) so they’re not really doing anything for the non-ESPN people.

So, maybe they’re doing it for the traditional ESPN viewer and just fibbing in the media stuff? THEY’RE DOING A WEEK LONG SERIES ON BROADWAY. ON ESPN. BROADWAY.

They’re insane. That’s it. It must be a tough life.

Speaking of ESPN related stuff: Hey, could someone go back in time and tell TMQ not to say something stupid so I can still read his stuff on, uh, Tuesdays? The upside t’s always fun when people get fired and their employers try to act like they’ve never existed. I dare ya to go find any Gregg Easterbrook content on ESPN.com now – they’ve not only completely obliverated what he said in the past, they’ve completely taken out many things that linked to him on other. I wonder if they’ll try to slip by Tuesday without mentioning that he’s gone.

I wonder if Slate can take him back? He does have a blog where he can post those sort of things, but he did a nice job of balancing out the good and the bad on Page 2 (and now the Good side sure ain’t winning.)

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