Thats why I hate NBC’s Olympic coverage. I need my West Wing and Law and Order fix!
Checking into the Buffy and Angel corner. After particularly traumatic episodes (particularly the end of the third series) I dream the whole scenes again, and still cry at them. I’ve honestly never been so absorbed by anything I’ve read or seen. It’s wonderful. At the grand age of 30 I’ve finally developed an obsession.
I cannot believe we still have almost 4 months to the new season premiere in the UK. (But only 4 weeks until the release of the first half of series 4 on video).
Oh, how could I forget! NYPD Blue. I love that show. What a soap opera. My family hates it, and everyone goes away when it comes on. Not me! Kim Delaney is wonderful, as is the rest of the cast. I can’t wait to find out Rick Schroeder’s “secret”. Have to wait til January again.
“Oh, I’m sorry that our esteemed ancestors didn’t leave behind ritual brain-eating implements.”
Unfortunately, I don’t have the entire Spike speech.
And as for Wesley, I just find it slightly odd that he’s dating Alyson Hannigan. Lucky bastard…
Damn, I love both shows. I always clear my Tuesday nights for both of them. Cracking writing (notice that it got an Emmy nomination against two episodes of Sopranos and two episodes of West Wing, for the episode “Hush” - heady company).
What point in the plt have you guys come to in Buffy in the UK? We just started (last night) season 5 (technically, season 4.5, since Buffy was a mid-season replacement).
There’s just so many. Like many others, I’ve seen virtually every episode of Law & Order several times. I also plan evening around the Buffy/Angel combo, as well as the West Wing/Law & Order duet. Simpsons re-runs are a must see, since I rarely get the oportunity to see the new ones. Someone mentioned it already, but Space: Above and Beyond was a great show, and I really wish they’d put it back on the air.
When I was a kid, I’d risk being late for the school bus every morning, just to watch Robotech. Then there was the old Batman tv show.
Is it so wrong to not do laundry because of the Buffy and Angel season premiers?
GAME SHOW HOST: Why are you acting like this?
YAKKO: We’re not acting, we really are like this!
WAKKO: Aren’t we lucky?
SLAPPY: Look, that was only an actress, Vina Walleen. She and I were great pals. She used to date George Jetson. Have I ever lied to you before?
SKIPPY: You said kino’s legal in Burbank! You said Magilla Gorilla was a woman. You said-
SLAPPY: Can it!
YAKKO: (To Michelangelo) You mean you want us innocent children to climb up dangerous scaffolding to paint naked people all over a church?! We’ll do it!
BRAIN: (As country singer) You are my manager, Colonel Pinky. You discovered me singing on the porch of my humble pig farm. Any questions?
PINKY: Yes. When you farm humble pigs, how far apart do you have to plant them?
SCRATCHANSNIFF: You must remember to be polite, well-behaved children.
DOT: I thought you said it was a party!
BRAIN: And remember, I’m not just the President of Small Club for Men, I’m also a mouse bent on global domination!
SCRATCHANSNIFF’S GIRLFRIEND: You’re not going to bite me, are you?
DOT: Not unless you want us to!
SCRATCHANSNIFF: Tell me, what’s on your mind?
WAKKO: My hat.
S: No, that is on your head. What’s on your mind?
W: My skin?
S: No, that’s on your head. What is on your mind?
W: Oh, I’ve got it, my hair!
S: Your hair? (Tears out some of his own.) This is hair! This is on your head!
W: No, it’s in your hand.
S: (Almost loses it, but recovers.) Just tell me what you are feeling.
W: My shirt.
S: No, that’s what you are touching. What are you feeling?
W: (Confused, touches nose.) My nose?
S: No, that’s what you are touching. Just tell me how you are feeling!
W: I feel fine.
S: Good! Would you like to expand on that?
W: Okay! (Blows up like a balloon.)
CHIPMUNK: That’s my trash can. I’m sure you must have a trash can of your own.
SLAPPY: Let me get this straight. You want me to take my can out of your trash can, walk all the way back to my house and throw it away there?
CHIPMUNK: That’s right. Do you have a problem with that?
SLAPPY: No, but now you do!
YAKKO, WAKKO, and DOT: (Singing.) We’re from Sam ‘n’ Ella’s Coffee Shop!
Eat our food and you’re bound to drop!
Then there’s one thing left to do.
Head to the potty and spew, spew, spew!
Sam ‘n’ Ella’s!
DOT: We’re Beatrice!
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN: Why won’t anybody say hello to me?
What’s green and stands in the corner?
Mystery Science Theatre 3000. (Which is kind of odd as I’m Canadian, and the show was only readily available to Canadian TV viewers for only a few months.)
One of my roommates now also likes the show, and we use these as inside jokes around the house now.
“Release the caustic vapours!”
“Jeeeeed!”
“Saaaaay.” (Tom Servo voice)
…and I’ve worn MST3K T-shirts to church. 
We have a slight complication in that both Buffy and Angel are aired by satellite and by terrestrial TV stations.
Buffy series 4 finished on Sky satellite at the end of May, and the same series starts tonight on BBC TV. Angel the same - the first series ended on Sky in May, and started a couple of weeks ago on terrestrial. The annoying thing about this is that although on Sky the two series are shown as they are meant to be - on the same night, Angel immediately following Buffy - on terrestrial they are being shown by different TV stations, on different nights, and starting in different weeks. The whole continuity is already shot to blazes.
Buffy 5 and presumably Angel 2 are scheduled for Sky in January of next year - and they’ll then get onto terrestrial in about a year’s time. The only saving grace we do have is that series 1-3 Buffy is already on sale on video, and series 4 and Angel series 1 will be out by Christmas, so I can indulge my fix with proper copies of back episodes.
I have now become disturbingly obsessive, and I acknowledge this is probably more information than you needed. Sorry about that.
[sub]I’m really hooked on the natural disaster/super machines kind of shows on Discovery…please don’t hurt me…[/sub]
AbFab.
“Sweetie-sweetie-sweetie-sweetie! I’m chanting as we speak.”
And of course, it came to an end just as it was getting going. I have the boxed set, The Last Shout and the outtake tape and I want MORE!!!
More of Eddie’s selfishness, Patsy drinking and smoking non-stop, Bubble being loopy, Gran being loopy, and poor Saffy trying to clean up after everyone (but occasionally having a come-from-behind moment). And all of the unspoken commentary on women’s issues and the fashion industry, celebrity, men, family. And the occasional little flashes of Eddie’s and Patsy’s fear. And the miracle of Patsy herself - now really, how is that woman even still alive?
“I know it’s bloody selfish, darling, but it’s me me me!”
Put me down for being obsessed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
One of my many favorite lines from the show:
Principal Snyder: This place (Sunnydale High School) has quite a reputation. Suicide, missing persons, spontaneous cheerleader combustion. You can’t put up with that.
or this exchange:
Buffy: …so then Kathy’s like, ‘It’s share time.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh yeah? Share this!’ (She punches at the air.)
Oz: So, either you hit her, or you did your wacky mime routine for her.
Buffy: Well, I didn’t do either, actually. But she deserves it, don’t you think?
Oz: Nobody deserves mime, Buffy.
OK, since people are talking about other teeny bopper shows, I guess I will have to be the first to say that I love Dawson’s Creek. Yes, I know it’s unrealistic, I know that teenagers don’t talk like that, but there is something about that show. It’s just so…good. I don’t know how to describe it. It fits my life perfectly too sometimes. My favorite line from the whole show is…
“If we are truly meant to be, we will find our way back to each other.”
…My boyfriend said those very words to me after I broke up with him the first time. And we did find our way back to each other after all.