Pajiba After Dark 10/08/09

Pam and Jim Get Married

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Miscellaneous | Comments (21)

Clearly, my television preferences have been established for the night. It may make me a sap, but this is the first time I’ve ever genuinely looked forward to a television wedding.

Here are your highlights:

8:00

— “Survivor” on CBS. Man alive, I was glad to see the racist fuck get the boot last week. He was evil, but not in a fun way. He was just pure fucking nasty.

— “Bones” on Fox.

— “Community” on NBC. I’m as stoked about this show as anyone, but its ratings are already starting to dip. It’s fourth in its time slot, although it is edging “Fringe,” in the 18-49 demographic. However, if it can hold its ratings in this timeslot (unlikely without “The Office” lead-in), it’ll at least improve on the “SNL Thursday” airings. This show needs to find an audience, and quick. Although, let’s be honest: NBC doesn’t have a lot of back-ups to go to.

— “FlashForward” on ABC. Decent premise, painstakingly tedious to watch, so far. And a horrible time of the night to air, and it doesn’t have the excuse of “The Jay Leno” show filling up all the 10:00 slots. They should, at least, move this back into “Eastwick’s” slot, cancel the latter, and maybe rush in both “Scrubs” and “Better Off Ted” to fill the 8:00 slot. It’d be a significant boost for both of those shows, too.

8:30

— “Parks and Recreation” on NBC. Talk about bad ratings. Last week, it tied with “The Jay Leno Show” for lowest ratings of the night (save for The CW offerings), and it’s getting 3 million less viewers than, say, CBS’s awful “Accidentally on Purpose.” This one will get cancelled by mid-season. NBC has got “Parenthood” lined up for the spring. And looking over its schedule, the only logical places for it will either be on Sunday (after football ends), Monday (after “Trauma” is pulled), or Thursdays at 8. If it’s the latter, that may also mean the end of “Community.”

9:00

— “The Office” on NBC. It’s an hour long, and if you don’t have a DVR, there’s nothing else you should be watching.

— “Grey’s Anatomy” on ABC, if you want to see how television relationships should not be done.

— “CSI” on CBS. It’s still getting very good ratings, but it’s starting to see some real ratings erosion.

— “Skins” has its 3rd season finale on BBCA.

— “Fringe” is holding up decently in its new time slot, but not well enough to hold it. We may see this show moved earlier in the week when “American Idol” returns.

10:00

— “Project Runway” on Lifetime.

— “Behind the Music” looks at T.I. on VH1. I don’t know how that is.

— “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” on FX. Even moreso, I suppose, when the Phillies are winning. Also, fuck the Phillies.

— “The Mentalist” on CBS. Blah.

— “Private Practice” on ABC.

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I know what I'm doing at 9pm. I'll be sacrificing part of Bones to make my dinner, and then I will be shutting the computer, turning my phone off, and watching a wedding.

It's been a rough week. I need this.

Posted by: Rusty (formerly Genny) at October 8, 2009 7:08 PM

you had me at project runway. even though i have to close the store tonight, i live 7 blocks away and will only miss 2 or 3 minutes at most. and that's IF i'm dragging ass.

Posted by: gp at October 8, 2009 7:14 PM

Wedding ALREADY???
That made the prospect of tonight (sure to be an all-nighter) like a thousand times better. If I may be a drama geek for a second: It will be ever so lovely to take a break from my term project on Commedia dell'Arte to watch Jim and Pam, effectively the two Innamorati, finally overcome the vecchi (Michael being Pantalone, obviously, and Dwight being Il Dottore) to be together.

Oh, wait, is Dwight Il Dottore or Arlecchino? Or is Jim Arlecchino? Or, perhaps, is it stupid to try to apply archetypes of the Italian renaissance theare to 21st-century television comedy in the first place?

Posted by: Ling at October 8, 2009 7:20 PM

Nah, I'll be watching Supernatural. Not at 9, of course - I'll be using what I like to call my 'virtual DVR'. But I've never seen the US Office, and I reckon it's a bit late to start. I hope you enjoy it, though. Sometimes it's nice to see a happy ending instead of blood, guts, explosions and boobies.
Wait - what am I saying?

Posted by: Tarn at October 8, 2009 7:23 PM

Holy mother of shit Dustin, what the hell are you doing to me? Getting a little misty here over the damned Office????

Posted by: nourbatta at October 8, 2009 7:25 PM

Is it bad that I could give a shit about The Wedding? Or does it just make me dead inside?

Posted by: Cruise at October 8, 2009 7:35 PM

Guys, let's not forget what's important here. "Community" needs us and I want "Community."

So, transitively, I want what needs me or, more fully, us. So, I am us. Don't you see, Pajiba? "Community" makes all of us each other!

I really need to finish this theology paper...

Posted by: coryo at October 8, 2009 7:52 PM

First of all, how far along is Pam in the pregnancy? They threw a wedding together and she's barely showing?

Also, what happens once the baby is born? Does Pam drop out of the show for a while to be a stay-at-home Mom? I'm really curious to see how this is handled considering how well they have portrayed the relationship this far and kept the show interesting while avoiding the cheesy melodrama (mostly thanks to the strength of the ensemble cast, which means no single character arc needs to carry the show.)

Posted by: Yossarian at October 8, 2009 8:32 PM

Did anyone else feel like tonight's Office was a particularly lazy episode? Further, my DVR didn't record Community. Today could be better.

Posted by: coryo at October 8, 2009 10:38 PM

I did not know a chicken would fly up into a tree.

And Russell? Gotta give the dude props. He's smart, and I've never seen a guy of his build who could move so quickly. He's playing to win.

Posted by: Cindy at October 8, 2009 10:58 PM

Cindy, my childhood chicken would climb ladders behind me.

(only now do i realize i may have revealed too much)

Posted by: gp at October 8, 2009 11:27 PM

I came to see if any one else was watching Supernatural. Glad I'm not alone Tarn. There is no better enjoyment to be had after reading about social welfare politcal theory for 6 hours than watching a squirrelly Ghandi fighting a tall guy.

Posted by: Jasper Buckleman at October 8, 2009 11:58 PM

Yes, Chickens can fly. Not terribly well, but they can make a tree OK. Peacocks fly too, they roost in trees. I spend half my time dodging Peacock shit at the stables. Imagine being crapped on from above by a sick house cat. Pretty similar. I hate Peacocks.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at October 9, 2009 12:52 AM

the crows, THE CROWS!

I like Flash Forward

Posted by: Ari at October 9, 2009 4:50 AM

anyone else tear up when they got married? maybe i'm a giant sap.

Posted by: ashley at October 9, 2009 4:56 AM

Needless to say, she has very cute looking!! lots pretty chicks like her should be very famous on the ta ll da ting site: ___Tall connect Co m___. Maybe she can join to attend the sexy session to attract ta ll guys!! at least, that's what my bros and i happen to know!!

Posted by: Kent at October 9, 2009 8:13 AM

Coryo - I agree with you. I preferred the peripheral stories, i.e. Andy's injury, to the wedding itself. I also didn't buy that Pam would look fresh-as-a-daisy in the church after her whirlwind with Jim.

Posted by: samantha t at October 9, 2009 9:11 AM

I'm in a bad place right now where I can't stand having to watch happy couples, even pretend ones, and this Pam and Jim thing is getting on my nerves.

Bones was weird again, with oddly placed humor and inappropriate discussions (talking about your sex life with your kid?), and that intern faking his accent for some really bizarre reason.

I don't know the actor who plays Charlie on Fringe, but damn if he can't pull off the most realistic portrayal of a parallel-universe shape-shifting super-solider suffering too long in one body that I've ever seen. My guts knotted up in sympathy every time he stumbled into a scene.

Lindsey--the first day I moved into my house in a rural area I pulled in the drive to find peacocks wandering my yard. How delightful! Until one took a shit on my car. There was enough to turn every window opaque. Their favorite place to hang out was the parking lot of a local business, wreaking havoc on the cars and deck, until one day they mysteriously "disappeared".

Another time I was wracking my brain and flipping through a bird identification guide when I finally realized the huge white birds in my trees were the neighbor's chickens. I didn't know they could get up that high; they usually spent their time on the ground, kicking every bit of mulch out of my flower beds. They're dumb as hell, but entertaining.

Posted by: DeadBessie at October 9, 2009 9:35 AM

I think "childhood chicken" is my new favorite phrase gp. I just have to figure out how to use it.

Wait, chickens can climb ladders? Clearly I haven't spent enough time on a farm.

Posted by: Cindy at October 9, 2009 10:33 AM

you could dress it up with punctuation. split up, you could totally sneak it in.

for example:

Of all the games i played in my childhood, "Chicken" caused the most heartache.

Posted by: gp at October 9, 2009 12:36 PM

I will not take the bait rowles, won't do it. I have faith that Seth will do the proper thing when he has his chance. I should point out, i work across the street from the letterman show. I can pass him notes if you'd like.

...and on that note, i was kind of shocked that no one showed up to protest him this time. He made a few jokes about the Palins, and people were out there screaming that Letterman was going to rape children with his mouth. He admitted to some sexual deviancy, with a criminal case connected to to it, and no one...

Posted by: Todd at October 9, 2009 12:53 PM

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