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Pajiba After Dark: Also, Not a Big Fan of This Guy Right Now

By Genevieve Burgess | Posted Under Miscellaneous | Comments (45)

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The fifth game of the NBA finals is on tonight and if you’ve been following along at all, you’ll know that the series is tied up at 2-2. The games I’ve seen so far (the first three, I missed the last one because of work and will be missing tonight’s game for the same reason) have been back and forth the whole time and incredibly exciting. Except I don’t really want exciting, because I’d just like the Heat to win. Frankly, it’s probably a little better for my sanity that I won’t be able to get any information on the game other than what the little ESPN app on my phone is able to tell me. Anyone who’s not watching basketball tonight, I hope you’re either big “So You Think You Can Dance” fans or have some nice DVDs to get through because otherwise you’re SOL. Here’s Thursday night’s TV:

8:00pm: “Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night” on ABC

“3 Steps to Incredible Health with Joel Fuhrman, M.D” on PBS This sounds way more like an infomercial than an actual PBS show.

“So You Think You Can Dance” on Fox

8:30pm: “NBC Countdown” on ABC

9:00pm: “NBA Finals, Game 5” on ABC

“The First 48” on A&E

“Police Women” on TLC

“Swamp People” on History

9:30pm: “Stop Back Pain with Vijay Vad, M.D” on PBS. Oh! I know this one! Commercials tell me that it involves some combination of a special mattress (memory foam or one of those ones that you can adjust the inflation on), the ‘toning’ shoes that make your feet look like boats and increase your chance of tripping by 400%, a wide variety of over the counter pain killers, and also probably boner pills judging by how happy those dudes in the commercial look about them.

10:00pm: “24 Hour Restaurant Battle” on Food Network

“Love Bites” on NBC

“Mounted in Alaska” on History

“NY Ink” on TLC

“The Real Housewives of New York City” on Bravo. New, 75 minute episode.

“Swords: Life on the Line” on Discovery

11:15pm: “Watch What Happens: Live” on Bravo

12:00am: “Children’s Hospital” on Adult Swim

Late Night Listings

“The Late Show with David Letterman” on CBS featuring Neil Patrick Harris, Mike Birbiglia, and Neil Peart

“The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” on NBC featuring Jimy Carrey, Selena Gomez, and Tinie Tempah

“Jimmy Kimmel Live” on ABC featuring Kathy Griffin, J.J Abrams, and Friendly Fires

“The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” on CBS featuring Morgan Freeman and Carson Kressley

“Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” on NBC featuring Kirstie Alley, Jessica Chastain, and Robbie Robertson

“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” on Comedy Central featuring Howard Wasdin

“The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central featuring Tom Ridge

“Chelsea Lately” on E featuring Gene Simmons, Adren Myrin, Bobby Lee, and Josh Wolf

“Conan” on TBS featuring George Lopez, Gary Dell’Abate, and Jessie and the Toy Boys

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Comments

Dwyane Wade eats babies. I proudly welcome our new Zombie-Kraut overlord. Go Mavs.

(nothing personal, just a native of Dallas)

Posted by: StoatCat at June 9, 2011 6:11 PM

I don't care about basketball at all, but that goofy German is kind of endearing. I watched maybe 2 minutes of last night's game (just because I thought maybe it'd be nice to know WT big F deal is about). He's not particularly graceful, but he still gets the job done.

And yeah, PBS is back to sucking ass and begging for money. There's no way I'm rewarding them for the shit they're showing now.

Posted by: Slash at June 9, 2011 6:16 PM

Fuck The Heat. Go cry into Lebron James' cock. MAVS!

Posted by: Will at June 9, 2011 6:20 PM

Rooting for the Heat and Lebron James is like rooting for the Devil to win the Apocalypse. The guy screwed over an entire city with no lube. Fuck Lebron James.
Lets go Dallas. Clap Clap Clap

Posted by: Alyson at June 9, 2011 6:22 PM

Dirk Nowitzki and Predrag Stojaković are my secret, really tall gay boyfriends. May they rain three-pointers all night long.

GO MAVS!

Posted by: Jerry at June 9, 2011 6:25 PM

Alyson - my thoughts exactly.

I guess it's different when the Heat is your team, but I don't see how anyone can root for LeBron to win it this year.

Posted by: Riles at June 9, 2011 6:48 PM

Some of you people still want to believe that Lebron fucked over the cavaliers. Lebron played out his contact and left. Fuck the cavs and the mavs.

Posted by: Pookie at June 9, 2011 7:03 PM

Lebron hasn't figured out how to flip on "F.U. mode" when it needs to be. He only has shown glimpses of it. When he does, Miami is winning a title and no amount of hating on him is going to change it. Only Wade on the Heat really cares enough to play the role of a cold-hearted assassin. If they win, it will be due to Wade and not the other big two.

Dallas is the veteran team who has been screwed over enough to where they are trying to make sure they win this one full knowing their chances after this will be small.

I would be stunned to find out who wins tonight doesn't eventually win the series.

Posted by: Matt at June 9, 2011 7:09 PM

I'd sell my soul for a donut, and I'd trade that donut for a Mavs win tonight.

Posted by: googergieger at June 9, 2011 7:23 PM

Gotta cheer for the Mavs. They're old, they're slow, they're ugly. Like me.

Posted by: logan at June 9, 2011 7:55 PM

Lebron scored single digits in a NBA Finals game. What a joke.

Posted by: MXM194 at June 9, 2011 8:07 PM

Even I could score single digits in a finals game! Hey zero is still considered single digits.

Posted by: googergieger at June 9, 2011 8:17 PM

Lebron may not have figured out how to turn on the "F.U. mode" when he needs to, but thanks to him, everyone else here in Ohio has.

Fuck him. Go Mavs.

Lebron can take his talents and shove them up his ass. Last game's performance is Classic Lebron. Choke, choke, choke.

Posted by: Jill at June 9, 2011 8:47 PM

Go Mavericks!!!

Posted by: DarthCorleone at June 9, 2011 8:53 PM

Go Mavs!
Lebron is rich enough already. Punk ass bitch.

Posted by: MRod at June 9, 2011 9:00 PM

BTW...The support for the Mavs here warms my heart.

Oh yeah.... GO MAVS!

Posted by: MRod at June 9, 2011 9:06 PM

Go Mavs. It's nice to see a team with the word Dallas on their jerseys that's winning!

Posted by: Snuggiepants at June 9, 2011 9:36 PM

No LeBron hate. I just loves me some Dirk.

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at June 9, 2011 10:09 PM

I don't like LeBron because he left the Cavaliers. I'm not a Cavs fan, and he played out his contract and was free to leave. I dislike him because he's a whiney, flopping, entitled crybaby. Up his.

Posted by: EqualOpportunityDisliker at June 9, 2011 10:18 PM

i was rooting for OKC so i was hating on Jason Terry's jet nonsense quite a bit but watching Lebron and DWade faking fouls is just too much.

I hope the Mavs win but this is not the same Mavs that defeated the Lakers and Thunders and dats worrying.

Posted by: haplo at June 9, 2011 10:25 PM

*First line should be DISLIKE instead of LIKE.

Posted by: EqualOpportunityDisliker at June 9, 2011 10:50 PM

How dare you. No one goes against the big German.

Posted by: noonoo at June 9, 2011 11:23 PM

I can't express to you how much love I have for you all, knowing that you harbor the same hate for Lebron and (subsequently) the Heat as I do. You go my Glenn Cocos.

Also, I can't tell who these Taco Bell advertisements make me want to kill more: the assholes behind them or myself bc this shit is never going to end.

Posted by: beet salad at June 9, 2011 11:32 PM

And by that I mean the shitty commercials will never end. Oh fuckitall, I have a fever and this beer is helping plenty with that.

Posted by: beet salad at June 9, 2011 11:38 PM

Dallas 3 - Miami 2.

Rusty, brace yourself for Game 6 on Sunday night.

Posted by: Fredo at June 10, 2011 12:17 AM

I don't care if LeBron and the Heat win it all next year, I need him to HURT this year. I need him to not be rewarded for fucking over his hometown.

I don't hate him for leaving. I don't even blame him for leaving. I hate his punk ass for the cowardly showboating way he did it. GO MAVS!

Posted by: Lainey at June 10, 2011 12:33 AM

It's gonna be a 7 game series, Fredo. Great win tonight for the Mavericks, playing their game (Go Mavs!), but this series is too close for any team to win three games in a row.

Of course, I'd love to be proven wrong.

Posted by: RobP at June 10, 2011 12:34 AM

What everyone else said. Also, what they did to the Bulls after such a great season cut me deep. Rose is still a kid though - he'll grow out of it.

My hatred for the Heat stems from this:
LeBron's too damn proud of himself.
Bosh looks like an evil lizard.
Wade looks like Droopy from Snow White.
Chalmers looks like a short angry punk.
Miller is a douche.

All extremely talented, really. And off the court Bosh and Wade seem downright decent. But still.

Posted by: Samcvb at June 10, 2011 1:01 AM

Bosh looks like a velociraptor. I get through the game by making raptor noises whenever he's featured onscreen.

Posted by: kravkitteh at June 10, 2011 2:15 AM

Nice to know people actually share my hatred of the whiney coward Lebron.

Dirk is going to win himself a title. Plus Mark Cuban deserves one for being an awesome albeit jackass owner.

Posted by: Alyson at June 10, 2011 2:24 AM

Okay, I admit, I'm clueless. Why is Mike Miller any douchier than any other member of the Heat?

"...fucking over his hometown"? Last I checked, LeBron was from Akron. It's okay to hate him, but let's at least be factually accurate.

All that aside, I am extremely happy with this Mavs win. Anyone who beats the heat in Texas (and believe me, Austin is effing HOT right now) is okay by me.

Posted by: Jerry at June 10, 2011 2:44 AM

Oh, and I'm also giggling every time they play the Bad Teacher trailer with Segel ripping on LeBron, particularly if they run it more than three times in the course of a game. I have a feeling that the film is going to suck beyond belief, but at least it will live on through those eight seconds of solid LeBron diss.

Posted by: Jerry at June 10, 2011 2:47 AM

Posted by: noonoo at June 10, 2011 2:52 AM

I don't blame PBS for asking for contributions - between the Rabid Asshole Majority in the US House of Reprehensibles and the Rancid Buttfuckers controlling both houses and the governorship in my state, PBS has been reduced to begging. My favorite station had to shitcan its classical music format in exchange for an all-news format.

Go Mavs! Not because I have an opinion one way or the other about the Heat or LeBron (and I don't even like basketball) but I want to see this group of hyperthyroid giants led by a gangling German skyscraper win the series.

Posted by: The Wanderer at June 10, 2011 5:47 AM

Go Mavs!

I'm only partly interested in Basketball, but Nowitzki has earned the title after all these years trying.

Posted by: FabMax at June 10, 2011 8:13 AM

"I'd sell my soul for a donut, and I'd trade that donut for a Mavs win tonight."

That is awesome.

Posted by: MRod at June 10, 2011 9:08 AM

I’m not at all surprised at you all of wanting the German guy to win, I liken you all to people that live in a trailer park that constantly vote Republican. I was born and raised in Miami; I don’t give a fuck about the Mavs or Texas though I live in Texas. If somehow the Mavs won, I hope Lebron takes a dump in the visitors’ locker room then get in an airplane and fly to the Cavaliers owner home and take a dump on his lawn. Then fly back to Dallas and take a dump in front of the Mavs arena. Then fly back to Cleveland and have an orgy with the Cavaliers cheerleaders. Then fly home to Miami and get ready for next season. I’m glad he left Cleveland; the winters there are like living on the Hoth system. You can keep Texas with its 49th place in education and 50th with people without any type of insurance. Texans think that Mississippi is the Harvard of the south. I know I’m all over the place, but who cares. Fuck the Mavs, the Cavs, and Newt Gingrich. Hillary wants to run the World Bank, if she does she might as well put Roy Black on retainer and change Bill’s name Bill Strauss-Kahn.

Posted by: Pookie at June 10, 2011 9:48 AM

I don't really care who wins. Between Cuban and LeBron, the Jerk Store should sponsor the series.

I would just like to see the last two minutes of a game played in under an hour.

Posted by: , at June 10, 2011 11:18 AM

Yeah, Jerry, because Akron is SOOOO far from Cleveland, we don't consider ourselves all pretty much from the same area when it comes to LeBron being born and raised here and then driving a whopping 30 minutes north to play ball. Yep. It's a HUGE detail that I'm super glad you caught! You're a star!

Posted by: Lainey at June 10, 2011 12:11 PM

If you like Lebron James and the Heat you're a bad person.

Posted by: Camytaru at June 10, 2011 1:31 PM

How dare you. No one goes against the big German.

Ominous words indeed my friend.

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at June 10, 2011 2:08 PM

Saying "How could you not want Lebron to win a ring?" is like saying "How could you not want Palin to win the Presidency?"

The answer is simple. Because if either happens, it means there is no God.

Posted by: tobywonkinobi at June 10, 2011 2:23 PM

Lainey:

LeBron thinks it's important enough to make the distinction himself, though...

Posted by: Jerry at June 11, 2011 6:00 PM

I can see that the extreme price of ink cartridges and toners leads to a rise in illegal doings. Don't you think it's time for Epson to lower their prices?

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