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.