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Jim and Pam Are Back

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Miscellaneous | Comments (55)



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This is the kind of night that Pajiba After Dark is meant for, a solid television night mostly of returning favorites. I’m just glad my kickball game tonight is an earlier one (and yeah: I play adult kickball. You got something to say? It’s just like kickball when you were a kid, only there’s beer. And you can drink it on the field. Yeah. Who’s jealous now?)

8:00

— “Weekend Update: Thursday,” over on NBC. Not exactly the best way to start the evening, but Amy Poehler will be returning to the anchor chair.

— “Behind the Music,” featuring Pink, on VH1. I bet that’s a thrilling account.

— “Survivor” kicks off its 19th cycle on CBS. And I hear (and saw in a couple of adverts) that there’s one evil motherfucker in this season. I’m probably more excited than I should be.

— “Vampire Diaries,” continues over on The CW, for those who need their Twilight fix.

8:30

“Parks and Recreation” kicks off its second season on NBC.

9:00

— “Fringe” debuts its second season on Fox. Joshua Jackson (RIP) is starting to smell rally funky.

— “The Office” kicks off its sixth season on NBC. Jim and Pam. Jim and Pam. Jim and Pam.

— “Supernatural” on The CW. Weirdos.

9:30

— “Community” begins its run on NBC. Do check it out. It’s definitely worth a look.

10:00

— “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” starts its 5th season with “The Gang Exploits the Mortgage Crisis.” Sadly, I think that means the pervasive “Always Sunny” ads will be disappearing from the site.

— “Project Runway” over on Lifetime.

— “Real Housewives of Atlanta” on Bravo.

— “The Jay Leno Show” has Halle Berry.

10:30

— “Pranked” on MTV, which is CollegeHumor’s version of “Punk’d.”

11:00

— “Models of the Runway,” on Lifetime. Not sure what this is — some sort of continuation of “Project Runway,” but the wife insists it’s actually better than “Runway.”









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Comments

7:30pm - Kick off between Miami and Georgia Tech. Go 'Canes!

Sorry, had to do it.

Posted by: Rusty (formerly Genny) at September 17, 2009 7:14 PM

And BONES is back tonight at 8:00!

Posted by: Lainey at September 17, 2009 7:28 PM

Oh gosh, after six mostly blissful months, looks like tonight will be the official date of both my abandonment of books and bored weeknight booty calls and my re-enslavement to TV. DVR: Sure, it wastes all your time, but at least you're not gonna get an STD.

Posted by: SaBrina at September 17, 2009 7:38 PM

I'm more excited than I should be about the crazy evil guy on Survivor. I just hope he doesn't turn out to be some deluded asshole like Coach. Every time I saw that motherfucker on my screen I wanted to punch myself in the face. And face-punching will not work well with my raging sinus headache.

Posted by: Blonde Savant at September 17, 2009 7:41 PM

The Office!! I can't wait fot it tonight. I Love me some Pam and Jim. True story...I cried like a baby when Pam refused Jim in the first season finale.

Posted by: ashes at September 17, 2009 7:42 PM

"Jim and Pam. Jim and Pam"

Oh god. The season finale was horrible. I've never seen such cheap and sappy dialougue. This show is a comedy that wants to be a romance/drama. I wish they keep the chemistry between the two funny.

Posted by: Fishboy at September 17, 2009 7:42 PM

It’s just like kickball when you were a kid, only there’s beer. And you can drink it on the field. Yeah. Who’s jealous now?

I am actually jealous. I need to see if there is a league in my town. And it will be more fun than your league because I live in the South. Yeah.

Screw both NBC and Fox for airing "Fringe" and "The Office" at the same time. I love both shows and cannot choose between.

Posted by: stardust savant at September 17, 2009 7:54 PM

Why -- oh why -- did you include that "Survivor" hook, Dustin? Seriously. I don't have time to rekindle such a broken, life-sucking relationship.

Posted by: Sapphiar at September 17, 2009 7:55 PM

I need something to watch at 8. Maybe something at 8:30 too. Parks and Recreation still hasn't proven itself to me. Maybe I'll try watching Bones.

There's a show on The Discovery Channel at 9 called Pig Bomb!

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at September 17, 2009 7:59 PM

Jim and Pam. Jim and Pam. Jim and Pam.

AND ANDY.

Posted by: figgy at September 17, 2009 7:59 PM

lot of us loves us some Bones, deal with it Rowles, where else do u get a psychic Cyndi Lauper?

Posted by: rio at September 17, 2009 7:59 PM

TV: on.

Sunglasses: on.

Soooooo Sunny.

Posted by: commanderfunky at September 17, 2009 8:03 PM

I didn't know what was going on while watching Bones. The SNL thing isn't funny. Is it 9 yet?

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at September 17, 2009 8:20 PM

Okay, the Fresh Prince rap on Parks and Recreations made me laugh out loud.

Posted by: Pinky McLadybits at September 17, 2009 8:31 PM

Holy crap, this guy IS evil! He's like...the opposite of Rupert.
I do believe this is the beginning of a beautiful love-to-hate relationship.

Posted by: Blonde Savant at September 17, 2009 8:32 PM

Thank Godtopus for DVRs. No one should have to choose between "It's Always Sunny" and "Project Runway."

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at September 17, 2009 8:54 PM

We have an adult kickball league.

You forgot about Creed and Stanley and the only relationship I want to work, Dwight and Angela.

Posted by: Melody at September 17, 2009 8:55 PM

And the Daily Show has Bill Clinton!

Posted by: coveredinbees at September 17, 2009 9:01 PM

The Nielsen people called us during Survivor to tell us that we're getting the equipment to start shaping America's television viewing. (Which is really scary if you knew us). But there is an evil guy and he's really really good at it already; he burned his own team's clothes and dumped out their good water. Now I gotta shut up and watch Fringe.

Posted by: dawn at September 17, 2009 9:11 PM

Wow. This season of Survivor really has gathered the cream of the crop, hasn't it?

The guy who thought 'afro-merkans' couldn't swim.

The guy who picked the Asian girl for the 'smart' person.

The beyond idiotic moron who wore HEELS on her first day ON SURVIVOR. The fuck, woman? Were you dropped on your head?

Posted by: figgy at September 17, 2009 9:20 PM

Add to that the gem who called the three girls the 'dumbass girl' alliance.

Posted by: figgy at September 17, 2009 9:25 PM

Holy shit he just lied about having been in Katrina.

And dumped water out of their canteens.

And burnt socks.

And he's a multi-millionaire. Holy fuck. I didn't think it could get worse than Coach.

Posted by: figgy at September 17, 2009 9:28 PM

"They said I can ride in the back with the body! Can I?"

I love Walter with a passion, but I'm glad he's not my dad.

Posted by: dawn at September 17, 2009 9:31 PM

ROWLES! wake up.

that gay-ass bs at the very top up there over the credit score nonsense is giving me stacking errors.

and the dudes are ugly.

get some better-looking dudes.

and chill this damn applejuice! it's warmer than piss. oh wait. *sniff* you serving me piss, mister?

well, hell-o nurse.

Posted by: gp at September 17, 2009 9:53 PM

— “Pranked” on MTV, which is CollegeHumor’s version of “Punk’d.”

Sounds like a piss filled version of a shit sundae.

Posted by: George at September 17, 2009 9:56 PM

Russell is very entertaining, and I have to give him credit. This could be quite a fun round of Survivor.

I love the evil dudes.

I don't know how Marissa got sucked into that black hole at tribal council, but she sure did.

Posted by: Cindy at September 17, 2009 9:58 PM

okay, so it's not doing it anymore.

but the guys are still gross.

Posted by: gp at September 17, 2009 10:14 PM

I can't believe your wife thinks Models of the Runway is better. Speechless. I suggest you never put that in print again.

Posted by: Kelli at September 17, 2009 10:14 PM

Pam, Pam, Pam, PPPAAAMMMMM!!!! Why, why, oh why do you look like my ex-roomate this season. WHY? I have never hated anyone in my entire life. Ever! Until She came along. Let's call her Mandy, because well, that was her name. Maybe it's the fact I haven't seen you in a couple of months or the fact that you are "pregnant" this season and the producers changed your makeup or something, but you had better change that shit back real quick like because I do not like it. DO NOT LIKE!

I swear to bob, if you do not change something, whatever it is, I will ban you and Jim and Andy and Stanley and Michael and etc. from my DVR. For fucks sake, I have followed you you're entire career on The Office. Pleeeaaassse. I really hate that bitch and do not need to be reminded of her every Thursday night!

Posted by: ashes at September 17, 2009 10:19 PM

My DVR is going to explode tonight. SNL, Parks (it can't get worse, can it?), 30 Rock, Community (for the second time - yay Facebook!), The Office, Fringe, It's Always Sunny, The Daily Show (Clinton!), The Colbert Report, and the Tonight Show (Louis C.K. and because Conan needs our support).

Which one will I watch after going out tonight and avoiding those STDs SaBrina mentioned? It's Always Sunny.

And I've got to agree with gp, whatever those dudes are doing in the upper left hand corner of this page is cahreeping me out. The chocolate cake and Lisa Lampanelli (played apparently by Nia Vardalos) isn't really doing it for me either.

Posted by: NJ at September 17, 2009 10:26 PM

Cindy yeah I'm just gonna let my schadenfreude out to play and enjoy what's definitely gonna be a fun season. I still don't get how no one looked further into the canteen thing. I would've gone insane.

Posted by: figgy at September 17, 2009 10:33 PM

Yeah, you think someone would have caught on. The interesting thing is that so far people are playing right into his hands. Marisa did that shit to herself!

I like police woman though - she could trip him up.

And how 'bout all them hunky boys?

Posted by: Cindy at September 17, 2009 10:41 PM

I'm also very impressed with all this newspaper stuff on Project Runway tonight.

Posted by: Cindy at September 17, 2009 10:42 PM

What is this Archer thing? It's really funny.

Posted by: figgy at September 17, 2009 10:51 PM

Nice and tall hunky boys indeed. I wish Russell would keep his shirt on, though.

Posted by: figgy at September 17, 2009 10:53 PM

Russell ain't hot.

Posted by: Cindy at September 17, 2009 11:07 PM

I think it needs to be pointed out that pretty boy Boone is on "Vampire Diaries" as the evil brother. That is all.

Posted by: kelsy at September 17, 2009 11:42 PM

Archer is some damned funny shit.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at September 17, 2009 11:51 PM

Oh fuuuuck me. That stupid, annoyingly funny and increasingly successful boy who was unwittingly on the other end of a love zigzag with me and who was also a douchebag is on Community. A movie in Cannes? That's fine, I can easily ignore that, but I can't just turn away from Joel McHale. I may need a condom to finish this one off. Fortunately I won some at bingo a few weeks ago.

Posted by: SaBrina at September 18, 2009 12:09 AM

Dude, Community is awesome.

Posted by: coryo at September 18, 2009 12:09 AM

Oh Jim, I've missed you so. You're almost as soothing to my burning lips as the cold jar of spaghetti sauce I have pressed against my face.

yaaaay thursday! yaaaay allergic reactions!

Posted by: Lauren at September 18, 2009 12:12 AM

Yeah, Community shows a lot of promise. Parks was a teeeeeeeny bit better than last season, but honestly not a lot. Amy, what the hell? She seemed a bit drugged.

The Office was the awesome. So many quotable lines from that show, it's ridiculous.

Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at September 18, 2009 12:37 AM

A friend who's read The Vampire Diaries tells me it's a lot darker than Twilight. Maybe they'll be true to the books and go there. If not, there's always Boone....

I'll take Joshua Jackson RIP, regardless. If necrophilia is wrong, I don't wanna be right!

OK, Bones was... odd? It felt off somehow. They tried to carry on from the ill-advised last season finale, but all that shit was still on their shoes, slowing them down.
Booth's brain damage is making him love Bones? Really, show? Really?

Posted by: Tarn at September 18, 2009 3:52 AM

I liked Bones, but they need to go the Fox Scully route from the X-Files. Great partners, who may have sexual tension, but will never ever EVER get together. This love crap is getting annoying. That is not what the show is about.

The Office, however, was completely awesome. I haven't laughed that hard at anything in a long time. All those fake rumors were hilarious.

And sorry my post is so late, but I live in Hawaii. What do you want from me. I don't get the shows till people on the east coast are in bed.

Posted by: Morgan Lefai at September 18, 2009 7:23 AM

BONUS:
There is a girl who looks like she is about to die any minute in "Models of the Runway". Seriously, she looks like the living skeleton surrounded by pine tree air fresheners in "Seven". She's in a constant battle with one of the other models, so if they fight and a punch is landed, skin-n-bones will be annihilated. They need to do an intervention with that girl. Even her smile is painful to watch.

Posted by: Kballs at September 18, 2009 8:19 AM

And I missed every single program on TV last night (no, I take that back. I caught Project Runway, but I have no investment in the season because this was the first episode I've seen since the premiere. Also, I HATE Models of the Runway) because my sister has decided to not bother implementing a babysitting schedule for her children while she goes to rehearsals every night for the community theater production of Rent she's directing, because clearly she can just have me or our other sister do it. It's totally awesome to not only not see any shows on the teevee that I would like to see, but also to not get homework done, or laundry, or dishes, or pay my bills, or get any work done for my consulting job. Wheee! I love family!

Didn't see Bones. Didn't see Fringe. Didn't see The Office. Didn't see Community. Didn't see Vampire Diaries (although, honestly, I don't really care about that one, plus it's on the same time as Bones and I finally got my recorder working but can only record one thing, so, Bones it is). Grrrr.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at September 18, 2009 8:34 AM

Community was fair to middlin' at best. It had some redeeming qualities (John Oliver) and I can see it getting better eventually.

Also, one question for the legal field people on this site. Isn't there a flaw in the premise of Community? I thought you didn't have to have a college degree or even go to law school to be a lawyer, I thought you just had to pass the Bar exam. I mean, those two items are EXTREMELY helpful in actually passing the bar and being a good lawyer but I didn't think they were absolute necessities.

Posted by: alphawhiskey at September 18, 2009 8:52 AM

Please don't compare The Vampire Diaries to Twilight. It's embarrassing enough that I'm actually watching it.

Posted by: Kolby at September 18, 2009 9:33 AM

I like the science stuff on Bones (although I suspect most of it is total BS--every time Hodgens gets a soil sample he's able to pinpoint its exact location down to a block in the entire country, and I really doubt the soil here has been cataloged that extensively), but I agree that the lovey-dovey crap needs to stop. I don't watch the show regularly enough to know why Angela and Hodgens broke up, and at least I liked their relationship, but I'm sick of the Booth/Bones crap, and I'm especially sick of how often everyone comments on how beautiful Bones is, when there are two far more gorgeous women on the show. It's like they don't think her intelligence and weird personality are enough to make her interesting, so they have to constantly hype on her looks.

Cyndi Lauper was great fun, though. Loved her as a kid, had all her songs, watched MTV for hours just to catch her videos.

Fringe is finally starting to pull me in. I caught the finale, which was fascinating--Walter actually punched through to an alternate universe to kidnap another version of Peter when his Peter died as a kid? WOW. That reveal on the headstone was awesome. And here I barely watched the show or knew the characters, and I was still blown away.

Likewise when Walter "unstuck" Olivia's car and she suddenly burst through the windshield even though the car was stationary. Very cool. I'm a little confused about the ending though--although I strongly suspected Charlie had been replaced, I can't really figure on how the shapeshifter did it. Given that the nurse took two bullets to the back and jumped ten stories without slowing down, I didn't expect that Charlie could stop her with a few more shots. But then the soldier must have killed Charlie, shapeshifted, hid Charlie's body and dragged the nurse from where he originally killed her on the dock, and shot her multiple times, all before anyone could catch up. Didn't seem like he had enough time to do all that.

Posted by: DeadBessie at September 18, 2009 10:20 AM

Tarn, I think Bones was odd for two reasons:

1. They had to clear everything up after that ridiculous cluster fuck of a season finale.

2. New makeup artist. Blech. Less makeup on my boys, please


Fuck you for not including Bones. AGAIN. Pajiba snotty bastards....

Posted by: Kate at September 18, 2009 10:32 AM

I agree with you on Fringe, DeadBessie.

Plus, it left a plot hole that keeps on bothering me. Walter SURELY would have wanted and gotten to examine the dead nurse's body, what with it supposed to be a shape-shifting super-soldier from an alternate universe. That would most certainly blow faux-Charlie's cover.

Still enjoyed it generally, and appreciated the shout-outs to the X-Files.

Posted by: Drake at September 18, 2009 11:19 AM

I kept screaming at them to check the bodies --including faux-Charlie. C'mon, it takes seconds, and what's the worst that can happen, you hurt Charlie's feelings a little if you're wrong? You've got a badass shapeshifter running around; you don't take chances. CHECK EVERYONE'S MOUTH.

Also enjoyed the X-Files reference--wasn't even sure I heard that part correctly.

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Posted by: happyone11 at September 18, 2009 12:16 PM

The Office- I didn't love last season and felt it had started to go off track, but if this season's premiere is any indication of where the new season is headed, I'm very hopeful. The Office is always better when it's not focused on one particular character/relationship but rather utilizes the whole ensemble cast.

Community- LOVED it. Quirky characters, quick dialogue, and 80's pop culture references. It's hard to go wrong with that combination. Add Ken Jeong into the mix and I think it's going to quickly become one of my favorite new shows.

Fringe- Welcome back, wonderfully crazy Walter and Co. RIP Good Charlie, although I saw that coming a mile away...

Add "LOST" to the mix in January of next year, and Thursday is going to be my favorite night of TV by far. Hopefully my DVR will be able to keep up...

Posted by: Kristi at September 18, 2009 1:23 PM


















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