MODERN FAMILY: ‘Slow Down Your Neighbors’

Is it just me, or are shows always better after a long break?  This week’s MODERN FAMILY was no exception.  There were squatters, and speeders, and sports (oh my!) so let’s get to it!

Cam and Mitchell have a new neighbor, Barry, who is into holistic medicine.  They catch him in their hot tub and almost call the police, but when they realize how attractive he is, they decide the only polite thing to do is to join him.  And boy, James Marsden is attractive, isn’t he!  Why doesn’t he join the cast?  I wouldn’t mind seeing him on my TV every week!  Later, Cameron finds out he’s been living in Lily’s princess castle and makes him leave.  But Barry doesn’t go down without a fight!  You would think a guy who makes a living (though a clearly meager one) as a massage therapist — excuse me, Reiki healer — wouldn’t mind being touched, but the way he was wailing, it was as if Cameron was ripping his arm off.  Of course Mitchell had to throw in a little “I was right!” as he went to call the cops.

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2011 New Year’s Resolutions for Your Favorite TV Characters

As 2011 begins, a few of your favorite television characters have written resolutions for the New Year.

Take a look to see what they plan to do!

THE BIG BANG THEORY’s Howard Wolowitz:
1. Finally get to eighth base. And not just with the Katee Sackhoff in my head. With a real girl…like, I don’t know, my girlfriend, Bernadette.
2. Move out of Ma’s house. But then that would mean she wouldn’t make her famous turbriskefilte for me whenever I wanted. On second thought, I’ll stay.
3. Go shopping for more tight pants, dickies and belt buckles. One can never have enough, you know.

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MODERN FAMILY: “Manny Get You Gun”

It was great to have MODERN FAMILY back this week! Dang you CMA’s for keeping it away from us last week! I missed my FAMILY!

It’s Manny’s birthday, and the whole family gathers to celebrate, despite their sour moods. Even Manny has had a rough time of it.  After Jay tells him that he’s never really thought of him as a kid, Manny fears he let his childhood slip away. He then decides he needs to try every childhood trick in the book including prank calling and mixing a bunch of sodas together. When I was a kid, I never did that – that sounds terrible! Is that a “thing” I missed out on as a child?

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MODERN FAMILY: ‘Chirp’

After last week’s amazing Halloween episode, this week’s MODERN FAMILY was a bit of a letdown. But, even a not-so-funny ep of this show still has a way of making me laugh.

It’s flu season and Claire has come down with the sniffles. But because she’s Super-Mom, she doesn’t have time to get sick –- she has to make the ladyfingers for the bake sale and go to the gym to pick up her forgotten phone. Phil takes it upon himself to be “Mr. Mom” for the day, because after all, with everything Claire does for him — including going to the gym four times a week to keep him interested — it’s the least he can do. And wanting to stay home is not at all related to the fact that his home showings for the day fell through, right? It’s all the helping around the house that he wants to get accomplished that’s keeping him there! Uhhh…exactly. Now, if he could just figure out which smoke alarm keeps chirping!

At Cam and Mitchell’s place, Cam has just booked Lily in a local children’s furniture commercial even though Mitchell doesn’t approve. He wants Lily to have a normal childhood but as Cam points out, “that gay cruise has sailed.” He wants Lily to have a theatrical childhood like he did, but Mitchell says that just because Cam did “Godspell” one summer in a barn, that doesn’t make him theatre-folk… that makes him barn-folk and his final say on the matter is “no.”

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MODERN FAMILY: ‘Halloween’

When is a Halloween episode better than your typical TV trick-or-treat? When it’s a MODERN FAMILY Halloween episode, of course!

Claire’s favorite holiday is Halloween, and it had to be perfect – right down to assigning everyone costumes for her annual haunted house. She and Phil were a corpse bride and groom, Luke was Dr. Frankenstein with Manny playing his monster, Jay was a gargoyle (or, as Gloria pronounced it, a “gargle”), Gloria was a witch and Haley finally settled on being a sexy Mother Theresa (ay yay yay) after her two previous costumes — a sexy cat and a sexy nurse — were rejected by Claire. Their next door neighbor was supposed to participate too — playing the scarecrow who frightens trick-or-treaters as they leave, but with his marriage falling apart — the wife left him — he wasn’t feeling up to it, so Mitchell filled in.

After talking with his heartbroken neighbor, who was apparently blindsided by the separation, Phil began to worry that his own marriage could be on the rocks. He attempted to show Claire how spontaneous and loving he can be, but she just thought he was being annoying and getting in the way of her Halloween preparations.

Meanwhile, Mitchell — who heard two guys at work talking about how everyone at the law firm dresses up for Halloween — decided to get decked out as Spider-Man, since he’s new and wants to fit in. Of course he got to work and the only other people in costume were the two guys (whom he then overheard his colleagues calling “the tool” and “the douche”). He called Cam who reminded him that he had dry cleaning in the trunk of his car, thank God. So Mitchell put a suit on over his bulky SpiderMan costume, because he didn’t have time to take it off, and was then hilariously — and literally — dragged from meeting to meeting all day long. His co-workers thought he’d been hitting the gym a lot because his clothes were so tight. When he finally got a free moment to go to the bathroom and change, he dropped his pants in the toilet. Again he called Cam who told him that Spider-Man is, ironically, exactly who he needed in this moment of distress. Mitchell, clearly in a fit of panic, proceeded to make an interesting move — climbing down the side of the building, so he could fish more clothes out of his trunk. Though he made it to solid ground safely, he sadly set off all the car alarms in the parking lot and looked up to find the entire firm staring out their windows with a bird’s eye view of him and his secret Spidey identity.

Back at the patriarchal Pritchett home, Gloria became distraught because Manny and Jay both make fun of her Colombian accent. Her unhappiness turned to anger when a package of the “baby cheeses” that she ordered for Jay arrived — It was a box full of baby Jesus figurines.

And so, when the entire family finally arrived at the Dunphy house for Halloween, all was not well. Gloria was making a bitter attempt to talk like a “proper American” — which pretty much ruined the scary part she was supposed to play in Claire’s haunted house. Cam didn’t want to participate because of a “childhood Halloween trauma” that he couldn’t stop talking about. Alex wanted to study more than she wanted to be festive. And Mitchell tried to bow out too, still feeling the embarrassment of his day. Claire tried desperately to rally the troops though and the haunted house was opened for trick-or-treating business.

However, it didn’t exactly go off without a hitch. Jay missed his thunder, lightning and fog cues. Cam continued to talk about his childhood trauma — something about a Quasimodo costume, getting stuck in a bush and subsequently wetting his pants. The kids were less than enthusiastic in their roles and Gloria was still talking like a “proper American” instead of a witch.

Claire got very upset with everyone, saying she just wants one holiday to stay the same, since they now set off fireworks on Christmas — because that’s Gloria’s thing — and the gays have overtaken Thanksgiving with their Food Network experiments. She stormed out of the house. Phil followed her and, after letting each other know that they are stuck with one another and won’t end up like the neighbors, they began to overhear the family inside, running Claire’s haunted house as it was planned.

Sweet.

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Conan O’Brien Names New TBS Show

We’ve all known for quite some time that Conan would be returning to late night with a new show on TBS.  But until today, we weren’t privy to what this new show of his would be called.  Despite fans clamoring for the hokey “Win a Date with Conan O’Brien” he went in a different direction.

Today it was announced that the simply named CONAN will premiere November 8 at 11 PM on TBS.

Conan was famously let go from THE TONIGHT SHOW in January but per his exit deal with NBC, he wasn’t allowed to perform on television… until today.  In the subsequent months since the NBC ousting, Conan toured the country in “The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour” which was met with an enthusiastic response from fans and critics alike.

His time spent at the helm of THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH CONAN O’BRIEN Tonight Show garnered three Emmy nominations this year.

I, for one, can’t wait until his return.  I went to two stops on his tour and it couldn’t have been funnier.  His absurdist and self-deprecating comedy can’t be beat and I’m anxiously waiting for that lanky redhead to be back on my TV

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHeyO2W8aPU[/youtube]

So will you be watching CONAN when it premieres in November?

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