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You know, I keep waiting for the humor in this show to get old but it just doesn’t. If anything, it’s getting funnier and funnier with each episode. I also keep waiting for Bradley Whitford’s performance as Dan to get annoying but nope, that’s not happening either. Still funny as hell and going strong, this week’s episode has the boys tracking down a candy thief. Of course, like with all their cases, it leads them to something much bigger and they end up after a no-good pimp who’s threatening a girl who just wants to get out of the biz once and for all.

My favorite bits…

Jack being more upset that Dan is about to sneeze on him than the fact that they’re both getting shot to hell in a bathtub.

Jack’s ex setting him up on a date

The thug telling his boss that his office is kind of a dump and he should get a decorator. Last week we got a sidekick spouting dating advice and now design advice? What’s next, a sidekick with cooking tips?

Gemini not willing to let his best girl go because he needs to get his tattoo removed. Must be a big problem among pimps everywhere.

Dan referring to the forensics techs as “the geeks with the microscopes”. LOL! You know, somehow I think Abby on NCIS would think that was pretty darn funny.

Dan trying to memorize the names on the computer before he saw that Jack had printed it out on the “mimeograph”.

The look between Dan and Jack when the hotel manager came flying off the roof. Classic.

The chase after the bad guys on the roof, done to the tune of ‘Solid Gold Easy Action’ by T. Rex.

Dan’s flu going from the hotel manager and making its way over to Gemini the pimp. That’s some pretty powerful germs he’s got there.

Barfing in the bushes turning out to be a good way to find evidence. Who knew?

Dan’s painful “It….will….pass” as he’s bent double and unable to move.

The angry wife threatening to gun down her husband to the tune of “These Boots Are Made For Walking”, originally by Nancy Sinatra but I’m pretty sure the version in this ep is from Star Academy.

Dan practically beside himself that he’s not the one who gets to entrap the call girl and Jack ending up only talking to her about his ex.

Great use of a punk version (which I could not find anywhere, unfortunately) of “My Boyfriend’s Back” during the scene where Gemini and his thug come to shoot up the hotel room.

Dan’s flu then making its way over to Lieutenant Ruiz and the simultaneous “she’s pissed” Dan and Jack say as she walks away, well, pissed.

Cracking up at my local news cutting into the episode to report on the earthquake that just happened and the episode resuming at the point where there’s a news report about the shooting. For a second there, I didn’t know what the heck was real…..well, except for the earthquake cuz I felt that. LOL.

Jack and Dan just happening to be at the pharmacy where Gemini shows up, exactly 1.01 miles from his house and therefore not breaking the ultimatum that the lieutenant gave them.

Dan’s “It’s not a toy…..it’s a red gun” when Gemini spots what he’s got in the mirror.

Another final action sequence to a great song ‘Traveling Band’ by Creedence.

Dan handcuffing himself to Gemini as he loses consciousness and then Jack fighting Gemini while the pimp is still attached to his partner. OMG, best fight ever!! LOL.

Jack telling Dan that he can’t punch the smug bastard in the face but letting him do the next best thing…..giving the guy a big ol’ wet kiss and the infamous flu.

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More of The Good Guys Reviews…
The Good Guys, season 1, episode 1 “Pilot”
The Good Guys, season 1, episode 2 “Bait and Switch”

Two episodes into this series and I’m totally hooked. I have no idea what kind of numbers this tv show is bringing in, but I really hope they’re good because ‘The Good Guys’ is already becoming a favorite.

Like the pilot, this episode was full of great lines, hilarious bad guys, gorgeous classic cars, awesome stunts and some totally rockin’ tunes. With all that good stuff, it’s hard to know what I like the most, but overall I’d have to say it’s the writing. Pretty much every single thing that comes out of every character’s mouth (especially Dan’s) cracks me up.

In this episode, the guys start out on a vandalism case and end up tracking down a whole lot of stolen classic cars. Not getting much help from the department they use Dan’s Trans Am as a bait car and (no surprise) they lose it. In the meantime, the sexy officer on the task force seems to have her sights set on Jack but it turns out that she’s working with the bad guys and trying to keep him off track.

My favorite bits….

Dan using Jack’s keyboard to scratch his back. Now there’s a use for one I hadn’t thought of before.

This line from Dan: “The only place a woman should punch a man is in the face.” – LOL!

Jack telling Dan “I’m not getting into a bed you’re already in, Dan.”

The bad guy’s sidekick actually spouting out some pretty good love advice.

Jack and Dan locking a snitch in the trunk so they can track Dan’s car. Brilliant and freaking hilarious.

Not being at all surprised that the moment Dan is left alone with a computer, he downloads enough porn to give it a virus.

That when the guys discover the computer isn’t tracking, Dan yells “my car!” and Jack yells “Julius!” – it’s not hard to who’s priorities are where.

Two sets of goofy bad guys – one silly but tough Brits and the other silly but tough rednecks.

Dan calling peanut shells “salty, delicious tree bark”

This bit:
Dan: “Hey man it don’t matter what her name is, you’re never gonna see her naked.”
(looks up and sees Kiersten standing behind him)
Dan: “I know I won’t”
(me falling on the floor and laughing my ass off)

Liz trying to hide the fact that she’s jealous about Jack going on a date with Kiersten, and failing miserably at it.

Kiersten and Jack battling it out to the tune of Heart’s ‘Crazy On You’. I was beginning to wonder at this point if we were going to get any music in this ep.

Dan nearly blowing away the “computer machine” because it wouldn’t tell him where his partner was.

FINALLY figuring out what in the heck the sound effect was that they use when flipping back and forth from scene to scene. When going from past to present they use the sounds of a revolver: spinning the cylinder and firing it. Then for just the regular scene changes they use an automatic: pulling back the slide and firing. Oh yes, I am extremely proud of myself for figuring this out. Can you tell?

Yelling at the screen “Noooo! Don’t hurt the cars!!” when Jack’s car came crashing through the window and hit the Mustang and then they started shooting it up. Oh noes!!

The final shootout done to the tune of “Rock You Like a Hurricane” by Scorpions….and laughing out loud at the fact that both of the songs used in the ep are actually in my iPod shuffle right now and I worked out to at least one of them in the past week.

Jack turning down Liz so he could go take part in Dan’s tradition of eating oysters and drinking beer till they puke. Awwww, so sweet.

Overall another fun episode of this great new series.

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Lie To Me, Season 2, episode 11 “Beat The Devil”
Burn Notice, season 4, episode 1 “Friends and Enemies”
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As I watched the last two episodes of this season’s Kirstie Alley’s Big Life, I found myself laughing and laughing and……you guessed it, laughing some more. Every episode has had this rather odd effect on me and I decided to try and figure out why.

So I examined the episodes from beginning to end, studying them with my glasses (which I wear when I don’t feel like putting my contacts in) perched on the end of my nose, notebook in hand and taking studious notes.

Um yeah….so maybe not.

What I did do was think about it, and I decided that the reason is quite simple. The people in Kirstie’s (big) life are freaking hilarious. If I were standing in a room with them and had to watch all the shenanigans I’ve watched this season, I’d laugh. Cameras or no cameras.

In the first episode, titled “Fat Like Me”, Kirstie decides to try and show all her skinny peeps what it’s like to be fat like her and Jim. She not only makes them wear weighted vests, she even goes so far as to put them in huge fat suits. The results are not only hilarious, but also pretty insightful as each one of them actually does begin to understand what it’s like. As a woman who has struggled with my own weight issues, there have been a lot of times where I wish I could have done that with people, just so they’d get it.

In the final episode, the big joke is that everyone thinks that Kirstie and her extremely hawt Australian manservant…..erm I mean creative assistant… are having a torrid affair. The two are actually working on a surprise project for Jim before he goes back home to Florida.

Do I think that none of this stuff is set up? Heck no, of course it’s gotta be set up. How else do you explain the fact that Kirstie and Nick just so happen to be having a conversation (full of double entendres) in front of her children? Or the fact that Kelly just so happens to be outside Kirstie’s bedroom door to hear them “going at it” and that Tracy just so happens to run upstairs just in time to see Nick run out of the room wearin nothing but a towel.

The fact that some of the jokes are set up doesn’t take away from how funny the results are. These are real people, not actors, and you can’t fake how real people react to the often ridiculous situations they get put into on the show.

Overall the last two episodes of this series were just as hilarious as the rest and I already can’t wait for next season.

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Kirstie Alley’s Big Life – The Way We Weren’t

Episode 7 starts out with Spruce performing a ritual from his ancestors, all of them apparently. The mix of Cherokee and Hebrew is supposed to clear out the ghost from the film they found, sure that’s what is trapping the spirit in the theater. Afterwards the team starts to relax and a little bit of romance comes out as Ambyr and Ed do a little flirting via camera and Harry and Maggie start a play fight that leads to something more…..until they’re caught by Spruce. LOL.

Whoa! Episode 8 left my poor heart pounding. Up until now Ambyr has been nothing except the dumb blonde with the big boobs. But suddenly the ghost appears and this little web series starts looking more like its older cousin, Supernatural. Blood is shed as the ghost starts cutting not only at the hapless Ghostfacer’s face but also taking a vicious swipe at her neck. The Facers finally figure out that it’s the mirrors that are giving the ghost her power and set about destroying them all, the only question is whether or not the team is about to lose another member….

Overall the best two eps by far, full of action and drama with just a touch of romance thrown in for good measure. I can’t wait to see what happens next week.

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More Ghostfacers…..
Ghostfacers, episodes 1 and 2
Ghostfacers, episodes 3 and 4
Ghost facers, episodes 5 and 6

Okay so I just discovered a great way to scare the bejeezus outta myself while watching these eps. Turn out all the lights and watch them alone on your laptop late at night. I was doing that while I watched the 5th installment and just about jumped out of my skin when the ghost appeared at the end and attacked Ed. I totally thought she was going to go after Ambyr or any of the others who were out with the mirrors, not Ed, since he was just at their control center. So yeah, big startle for me.

The 6th episode was a touch more on the serious side. After getting attacked, Ed is leery of taking on the ghost, despite the team’s excitement over their ‘first fully formed spectral humanoid’ seen since the Morton House. But Ed remembers what else happened in that house, the death of one of their first teammates, Corbette.

Overall this series just keeps getting better and better with these two eps going from super scary to fairly serious, while still keeping it pretty light and fun, no easy task.

Visit the Ghostfacers website HERE

Watch Ghostfacers webisodes HERE

Watch other Ghostfacers videos HERE

More Ghostfacers…..
Ghostfacers, episodes 1 and 2
Ghostfacers, episodes 3 and 4