Posting Spree, Posting Spree, Nothing Could Stop me…

I’ve had too much homework during this week, so all the blog post ideas I’ve had have been delayed till today.

Sims 3 loaded in 19 minutes (Sunday) and 18 minutes(Yesterday) this week. I seriously was surprised. No joke.

And Nickelodeon is doing their annual Worldwide Day of Play, which would be good, but well, I’ve talked about this before. This year, once they go back on the air, they have Spongebob on for their daily amount of I dunno, 6 hours?

Dear Nickelodeon,

IF YOU WANT KIDS TO BE ACTIVE, YOU’LL HAVE TO DO MORE THAN GO OFF THE AIR FOR THREE HOURS. ESPECIALLY IF FREAKING SPONGEBOB IS WHAT YOU’LL RETURN WITH! IF YOU’RE TRYING TO GET KIDS TO BE ACTIVE, SHOW A LESS POPULAR CARTOON!

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But then they have episodes of True Jackson VP, Victorious, Big Time Rush, and a special of iCarly. Yeah, sure, it’s night, so kids can’t exactly play basketball in their driveway, so I guess it’ okay. The only thing I have against it is that this block is being hosted by Keke Palmer and the others from True Jackson. True Jackson is neglected on Nickelodeon, since it’s not a Schneider produced program. So one of the only promotions for this show is when Nickelodeon is telling kids to not watch their channel? Doesn’t that sound like they’re giving ruining the show on purpose?

Total Drama: World Tour

I’ve only had one post about the Total Drama series on my blog, which doesn’t really show my love for the cartoon. Well, as much as love you could have for a cartoon. Total Drama started out as a reality show parody with stereotypical contestants. The goth girl, the reality show bitch who everybody hates and yet stays on for a long time, the sassy black woman, the gentle giant, the fat guy only available for food/fart jokes, the dumb blonde, and so on…

Now you’re probably thinking, “How shallow of a show! That’s not funny” and stuff, but the show makes it kind of work.

The show had a worse second season, mainly because some of the characters weren’t on, and the show focused on one love triangle thing. And I didn’t have the time to watch most of the season. :x

The cartoon had a third season, which was a… musical. Yes, you’re probably confused on why I like the cartoon. The third season was an improvement from the second, because they had more contestants, and the character conflicts were somewhat better. And here’s what I think of it more:

• Gwen. I liked her in TDI, but hated her in TDA because she was the main love triangle person. In TDWT, she doesn’t get any better by kissing another contestant’s boyfriend, and acting like she did nothing wrong. After thinking of the first season for why I liked her, I just found more reasons to hate her. She had an inconsistent on-again-off-again thing with another contestant, and then she voted him off, because she saw him kissing the reality show bitch who avoids eliminations. And at the end of the season, she has a tirade on all but five campers. And she learned to befriend one of the people she ranted a couple episodes before. I guess she’s supposed to be parodying whiny teenage girls too?
• Heather, the aforementioned reality show bitch who managed to avoid every elimination. She had no real personality at TDA, but in TDWT, she’s somewhat of a better character. She’s not as evil. She’s probably my favorite this season.
• Sierra. She’s a new girl who’s supposed to be a teenager, but she looks 22, and she’s parodying stalker-fangirls, I guess. She has a crush on another contestant who likes Gwen, but that hasn’t caused much drama yet. I like her a bit.
• Owen. This season still is Owen-centric, and I think it’s (Pardon the horrible weight pun) because he attracts people with a gravitational pull. He’s still in the competition at the moment, which is probably because without him, the writers wouldn’t have anyone to use fat/fart jokes on. He won TDI, made it to TDA, and is in TDWT, so it’s pretty obvious that the writers like him. In show, he prolly won TDI because he didn’t do anything to seriously piss anyone off, so nobody voted him off.
• Alejandro. I have no real opinion of him, but it feels like the producers of the show listened to me when I complained about Justin. Justin was supposed to be the “Hot one” in TDI, and became the antagonist in TDA, but then he just randomly changed back to the “Hot one”. Alejandro seems to be Justin, but as a consistent villain.

If you’re okay with stereotypes, satires, toilet humor, cheesy musicals, and reality shows, then this is okay. Like I said in my TDA post, it beats most stuff on Cartoon Network.

I Love the ‘70s Comment

I watched some of the “Best of: I Love the ‘70s” yesterday, and I was somewhat right in my previous post. For the ‘70s, the commentators were less snarky, and more nostalgic. They had a positive tone for things like Shrinky Dinks and Sea Monkeys. Yeah, I said positive and Shrinky Dinks in the same sentence. :P

They also had some better, well-known celebrities, like George Lopez, Constance Marie, and Maggie Wheeler. Well, at least they’re somewhat legitimate actors.

I Love the Decades Rant

If you watch cable TV, have plenty of guilty pleasures, and love nostalgia, then you’ve probably watched, or at least heard of the VH1 series “I Love the ___” Series. Basically, VH1 gets a bunch of ‘celebrities*’, comedians, and rights to show bits of shows and movies, and they just talk about trends and stuff from that decade.

With I love the ‘80s, it was a hit. Then they just decided to do that with the ‘70s, the ‘90s, toys, holidays, and the 2000s. In 2008.  Seriously?

Aside from the fact that the decade wasn’t over, I Love the New Millennium was bad because of a couple of things:

• They missed out on a lot. For certain years, they didn’t include things which were iconic in the year (And still are big now), yet they included things that were kind of big, but forgotten about after a while.  Most of the time, this was for budget reasons, or the actors from the movie/show didn’t want to be on, but still.
• It wasn’t much of “I Love” the New Millennium, as much as it was “Let’s roast trends from the 2000s, because when they were in, we were too old to ‘get it’”. I watched a “Best of I Love the ‘80s” and the comedians actually liked the things they were talking about, and seemed nostalgic. But for things like Sudoku, they were just like “WTF IS THIS?” They could’ve wait till 2020-ish, so then people whose childhoods were in the 2000’s could talk about the trends and toys and stuff more nostalgically.
• They missed out on a lot of stuff. They made it in June 2008, and a lot happened in the year and a half left of the decade: Barack Obama winning presidency, the Tina Fey/ Sarah Palin SNL sketches, the Olympics, H1N1, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and lots of other celebrities dying, Lady Gaga (In general), Glee, the Taylor Swift/Kanye West VMA incident, The Hangover, Avatar, etc…

Sadly, it came to this fate:

The Golden Rule of today? Don’t recap decades that haven’t ended yet for nostalgia, especially if they don’t even have a proper name!

*Celebrities meaning D-List has-beens or never-weres.

This Week in my TV watching

After my enthusiasm for the iCarly special, iSam’s Mom, it seems weird that I didn’t blog about it. I just didn’t have time. I also managed to watch a bunch of other stuff, too, so I decided to clump them all together.

iCarly: iSam’s Mom was good, but not enough Jane Lynch. The episode has a subplot which was about Freddie and his mom, and it managed to be a co-plot, not subplot. Seriously, Dan? You should've make it an hour long, or make the Freddie co-plot another episode. Or you could’ve have Freddie’s mom and Jane Lynch fight. Okay, so the last one would be weird.

Good Luck, Charlie: The show is the only thing on Disney which makes me laugh (Other than Wizards of Waverly Place, though). Too bad Disney reruns the show too much. It has some funny lines, but Disney reruns the show 24/7, and the jokes are the “You’ll only laugh once” types. But Charlie’s cute!

The VMAs: So I’m not sure if I had to italicize that, but oh well. :P Lady Gaga won a lot of stuff. Rihanna had a “surprise” appearance. Not much else.

Response to Yesterday’s Post

Just in time for Halloween: Newsea’s models double as….

…..demon things!

Thank you AE for the idea. I used Gimp(Which I haven’t used for a while, other then the banner for this blog) for this. Her skin looks a bit on the sun burnt side, but oh well. :P devil horns from Google.

Another Good Hair Day?

I’ve found (And by found, I mean saw it on My Sims 3 Blog) a good hair again. This time it’s by… Newsea?!

It looks familiar, like he’s already done it before. But he’s done so much hairs that they all look alike at this point.

Good Hair Day

Sorry for the cheesier pun-title then usual. And for not posting at all this week. School has begun, and… yeah. How many times have you read that in the past few weeks? I have a couple of post ideas, but I’m saving them for the weekend because I haven’t had enough time to type them.

On another note, though, My Blue Book has made a really good guy hair, which is, well, really good. :P

It looks like a real hairstyle, and not just a random “emo hairstyle”. There are plenty of good hairstyles on that blog, so go check them out. :)

I promise I’ll try to post some (TV show review) blog posts this weekend.

Incoming Ham: Maggie Wheeler on Drake and Josh

Tomorrow, Jane Lynch is guest starring on iCarly as Sam’s mom. I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned that a lot. :P Speaking of stars performing on Nick shows, I found out Maggie Wheeler of Friends was on an episode of Drake and Josh. Thanks to IMDB, I found the episode (and a link to the video of the episode): Here are some screenshots of her:

And here she is in the credits:

© to Nickelodeon, Dan Schneider, Viacom, Spongebob, Drake and Josh…

And to those wondering, I got the screenshots from the Nick video site.

This Week in my Life

So, this week started out with my brother and I franticly finishing our summer reading. For the record, we started the summer reading during Mid-July, and we read during vacation, so it’s not exactly procrastinating. The summer reading included coming up with an alternate ending to a book, for a AP US History class. Yep, that’s right. We also had a test with two essays for that class. Looks like they’re not joking about the AP part.

We also got the news that our grandma’s brother passed away. That definitely made our day sadder. :( RIP.

School was okay, but the first day was filled with signing things and hearing about the future and SATs and colleges and stuff like that. Not exactly the best transition. As mentioned before, we had a test too. We haven’t gotten the grades back yet.

Oh, and I’m using “we” because my brother and I have lots of classes together, just thought I should mention that somewhere.

We’re also in plenty of Honors classes, and I came to the realization that almost everyone in it is sucking up to the teacher in blatant ways. Like, seriously, small talk with the teacher is one thing, being their Yes Man is another.

My biology teacher’s hairstyle is kind of familiar (If I recognize that hair, does that mean I play Sims 3 too much?), and there are only two other sophomores in that class. The rest are freshmen. I think in our district, biology is supposed to be a class with mostly, if not all, sophomores. So that’s… awkward.

And now we have a long weekend because of Rosh Hashanah. Happy Rosh Hashanah to those who celebrate it.

I’m looking forward to Saturday, because Jane Lynch is guest starring on iCarly, and Sunday, because my cousin’s son is getting Baptized, so I get to spend the day with my family. And then there are the VMAs, which I guess I might watch if I have time.

Disney xD Fail

Last Sunday, I mentioned how The Nanny was being taken off nick@nite, but apparently, it’s still on. So um, I was wrong.

And on another note, Disney XD is making a sitcom called Pair of Kings which involves Mitchell Musso of Hannah Montana fame, and Doc Shaw, of The Suite Life on Deck fame. Or House of Payne fame. Anyway, they go from being normal fraternal twins living in Chicago into heirs to a throne in a foreign, make believe tropical island.

Yeah, how are they fraternal twins? I don’t mean to be offensive to biracial families or whatever, but it bothers me how Disney couldn’t find actors who are the same ethnicity to play twins. They don’t even look alike otherwise. Seriously, Disney? They could’ve just say they’re stepsiblings or cousins or something.

And why are they getting their own show? At 19, Mitchell is too old for Disney with Hannah Montana ending, and he’s not going to be taken seriously with a Disney xD sitcom. And at 18, Doc Shaw should be looking for other projects, too. Not to mention, Doc Shaw wasn’t exactly a good actor on The Suite Life on Deck, seeing as he just shouted all his lines, and complained about not being famous anymore.

This Friday, there’s going to be a sneak peek of this show on Disney Channel. Honestly, I’m kind of confused, because Disney xD’s a premium channel, so if a kid likes the preview on Disney Channel, are they just going to tell their parents to buy the package with Disney xD? Disney tends to do this a lot. They’ve had “Special Previews” of their other Disney xD shows, like Zeke and Luther and I’m in the Band. Other than the obvious reason (Money), why do they do this so much? Disney xD’s targeted toward boys, and Disney Channel is more for girls, so how do they expect these crossover things to work?

Oh, and that Chuck kid from iCarly’s also going to be on Pair of Kings, so yeah.

Zynga’s Labor Day Celebration

Even though it doesn’t make any sense that a Facebook Game Developer celebrates Labor Day (How could one even ‘celebrate’ Labor Day? Mourning seems to be a better word), Zynga’s celebrating it anyway.

With Farmville, there’s double mastery in this weekend, from now until Monday. So if you have any crops you’re trying to master, but you’re having a hard time doing, plant them now. They haven’t made any decorations or buildings yet, but that’s okay with me.

And Yoville, eh, not exactly the best time to be a Yovillian. They don’t have any stuff like double mastery which improves game play, and they just made mediocre furniture and clothes, most of which costs real money (Where does this sound familiar? Oh yeah, The Sims 3 Store). Heck, they didn’t even make new jobs. Last year, they used to make new stuff which cost coins, and looked nice. Now, everything’s a ridiculous costume that costs real money. I have more than 60,000 because there’s nothing to spend it on (Yes, that sounds ridiculous, but comparing the game to what it was a year ago will show how much it’s declined).

Just Say No to Paysites

This, time, I’m not necessarily talking about TSR. There’s a new paysite called Soulful Sims, and xXAngelicEvilXx gave plenty of reasons for why it’s bad. Paysites in general are illegal, because EA owns the rights for making profits off of the Sims custom content. So just boycott them.

And because this wasn’t a lengthy or well written post, here are some links:

Chouxie's Chalkboard: It's Not Worth Any Money You Give Them

Zeri's Useless Ponderings: yet another illegal paysite

New Header

I updated the header for this blog. Now it’s not just text.

I really need stuff to blog about. .-.