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Pajiba After Dark: Learn From Our Fail

By Genevieve Burgess | Posted Under Miscellaneous | Comments (12)

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Lots more sports tonight, and as I sit here gazing out at weather in the mid-80s (or high 20s for those of you who speak Celsius) I find myself wondering how it is that two ‘winter’ sports are still going strong. Basketball makes slightly more sense, because it’s always been played indoors so it doesn’t matter as much what time of year the games are played. But hockey? I don’t doubt there are still places where you could have an outdoor ice rink around this time of year but not for much longer. Is there an explanation for this other than “the season starts later than it should to accommodate football” or is that it? Questions for the ages, for sure. Here’s your Tuesday night TV:

6:30pm: “NHL Playoffs: Washington at Tampa Bay, Game 3” on Versus

7:00pm: “NBA Playoffs: Boston at Miami, Game 2” on TNT

“What the Sell” on TLC

8:00pm: “The Biggest Loser” on NBC

“Glee” on Fox. The Ryan Murphy problem is beginning to rear it’s ugly head on “Glee.” That problem being that Ryan Murphy is a great ideas guy but not so good on the follow through. As with “Nip/Tuck” the rate at which the characters are becoming caricatures is increasing as time goes on, and as with “Popular” it’s glaringly obvious which characters the staff likes to write for. The real question is whether he keeps it up for a “Nip/Tuck” length of time, eventually bringing in plots involving transsexuals, serial killers, and drug addiction to keep things ‘fresh’ and ending up as a sort of hideous fever dream version of itself or a “Popular” length of time, which will allow fans to regard it as a great show cancelled before it could really find its legs.

“NCIS” on CBS

“One Tree Hill” on The CW

“Black in Latin America: Brazil” on PBS

9:00pm: “Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern” on Travel

“Braxton Family Values” on WE

“Dancing With the Stars” on ABC

“Deadliest Catch” on Discovery

“Hellcats” on The CW

“NCIS: Los Angeles” on CBS

“Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy” on History

“NHL Playoffs: Vancouver at Nashville, Game 3” on Versus

“The Voice” on NBC. I’ve heard this is great. So far I’m not watching it on the principle that I can’t stand these kind of shows but the presence of Cee-Lo Green is tempting me to give it a shot. That man has more fabulous than a hustle of drag queens.

“Raising Hope” on Fox

9:30pm: “NBA Playoffs: Memphis at Oklahoma City, Game 2” on TNT

“Traffic Light” on Fox

10:00pm: “16 and Pregnant” on MTV

“Addicted to Food” on OWN

“Chopped” on Food Network. Seventh season premiere.

“The Good Wife” on CBS

“How the States Got Their Shapes” on History. Series premiere.

“Independent Lens: A Film Unfinished” on PBS

“Steel Divas” on Lifetime

“Pregnant in Heels” on Bravo

“Sinbad: It’s Just Family” on WE

“Toya: A Family Affair” on BET

“Body of Proof” on ABC

10:30pm: “Sports Show with Norm MacDonald” on Comedy Central

Late Night Listings

“The Late Show with David Letterman” on CBS featuring Caroline Kennedy and Ty Burrell

“The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” on NBC featuring Penelope Cruz and Ricky Martin

“Jimmy Kimmel Live” on ABC featuring Anthony Hopkins, Andre Agassi, and the latest “Dancing with the Stars” castoff

“The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” on CBS featuring Geoffrey Rush, Reese Waters, and OK Go

“Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” on NBC featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Jennifer Hudson, and Elmo. Wait, what?

“Last Call with Carson Daly” on NBC featuring Jason Eisener, Shane Smith, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

“The Daily Show with John Stewart” on Comedy Central featuring Rachel Maddow

“The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central featuring Rex Ryan

“Chelsea Lately” on E featuring Paula Patton, Jo Koy, Loni Love, and Chris Hardwick

“Conan” on TBS featuring Steve Martin and Atticus Shaffer

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Comments

Nip/Tuck was crazy from the beginning. The first season ended has the two kill a mexican drug dealer and dumped his body in the Everglades. Body wrapped in ham to be eaten by Crocodiles.

ALso, Julia was a terrible character.

Posted by: kilmo at May 3, 2011 6:32 PM

I vote "Nip/Tuck". I think I read that Fox has already guaranteed two more seasons for Glee, which should be plenty of time for the Carver to make an appearance.

Posted by: Craig at May 3, 2011 6:33 PM

Is that "hustle of Drag Queens" an original neologistic collective noun, or may I swipe it?

Posted by: Jerry at May 3, 2011 7:30 PM

I loved the crazy on Nip/Tuck but it got surreal in the later episodes.

*SPOILER, if anyone cares*

The son in prison and his cell mate demanding he get breast implants was about as far in the story as I cared to watch.

Posted by: snapnhiss at May 3, 2011 7:33 PM

Julia McNamera is the worst television character ever created. That being said, I stuck with that batshit insane show till the very end. People try to tell me other shows are scandalous (i.e True Blood), and I always say you don't know scandal until you've seen Nip/Tuck.

Posted by: Mel C. at May 3, 2011 8:44 PM

Glee is definitely starting to show symptoms of Nip/Tuck insanity, although a PG-13 version. Murphy is again pulling his trick of shuffling his deck of characters to constantly re-couple them.

Hey remember how said Mexican drug dealer loved listening to 80's tunes to re-live his glory days? That's totally Mr. Schu.

Posted by: Empress of All the Russias at May 3, 2011 9:06 PM

Jerry, "hustle of drag queens" is something I'm pretty certain I made up while writing this but you're welcome to use it. Honestly, with all the shit I read on the internet these days I'm not sure what's me and what's someone else that's just been sitting around in my head so long I think it's me.

Posted by: Intern Rusty at May 3, 2011 9:20 PM

Are you suggesting that Kurt Hummel is the new Mary Cherry? Yeah, let's see him plot to eat every living creature in town to piss off the animal rights activists before we start drawing that comparison. Or are you saying Sue Sylvester is the new Mary Cherry? Someone has to be the new Mary Cherry. I'm hoping it's Kristen Chenoweth or Cheyenne Jackson.

Godtopus, I miss Popular. Delta Burke played her long-lost mother. Characters popped in and out of clinics without any need for appointments. And Murphy introduced a transgender character who was treated the same as a woman and as a man. Plus, ending a series (not by choice) on a cliffhanger that determined whether or not a heinous character lived or died was brilliant.

Posted by: Robert at May 3, 2011 9:38 PM

Rachel Berry's body is discovered, track-marked and sexually assaulted (courtesy of a bedazzled microphone), in a dumpster behind Breadsticks. Guest-star credit goes to Lea Michele for the rest of the series' existence so she can at least sing one song per episode, regardless of whether or not there's an explanation for the resident dead girl suddenly appearing on a spotlighted stage right in the middle of an episode where Tina tries to come to terms with the fact that she's Asian, Artie's in a wheelchair and may unfortunately rap for us, and Santana's a whore. Hmm, this sounds like the beginning of "Ryan Murphy's Interpretation of Desperate Housewives."

Has anyone stopped trying to follow where their next competition will be? I got completely turned around about whether or not they were going to Sectionals, Regionals, Nationals, or the Olympics about two episodes into season one. I also think that they should get a new teacher; Mr. Schu always blows into the classroom like he just realized how dead-end his job really is that he's sitting on an autotuned goldmine of kids (and a resident school band, now that it's mentioned) and no one realizes it or dances around Ohio child labor laws to get the New Directions to perform like street-performing monkeys.

Posted by: duckandcover at May 4, 2011 5:38 AM

"More fabulous than a hustle of drag queens" is, well, it is... more fabulous than a hustle of drag queens. There's just no better way to put it.

Posted by: CptCrckpot at May 4, 2011 11:23 AM

Nip/tuck didn't embrace over-the-top it gang raped it.


And Julia was terrible.

Posted by: logan at May 4, 2011 1:15 PM

Julia sucked. It should've been her who jumped into the ocean and not Kimber. If Julia had been portrayed by a better actress she might have been somewhat tolerable. But, Joely Richardson and her horrible American accent were a deal breaker for me.

Posted by: Claudia at May 7, 2011 2:53 AM