I totally agree.

Yeah, ouch to UConn. But 30 for 30 is known for being very selective about things. Still though, I liked the documentary.

Like your senator hasn't killed three girls!

"Saving Private Ryan" might be the only war movie or show where battle actually impacts a person's hearing.

Followed later in the show by "this ends now!"

"Helix" had a 26-year-old CDC researcher who informed us she had "a PhD and two masters degrees." I'm not even sure that's mathematically possible, given how long such programs run in the biosciences, unless she started college freakishly early.

Owning a retail business on TV seems awesome; you have a cute little shop with a handful of customers in a small town and it somehow provides enough income to support your family and a nice house. In Hallmark movies, it's a staple.

I'm watching the very lame series "Helix", and it features yet another mysterious Asian guy who we're supposed to believe has achieved some kind of Zen-like state of mind that allows him to show no emotion, reveal no infomation, speak incredibly slowly and answer no questions even though his real job is to run a…

A few more:
-on TV shows, people sit and watch sports like lunatics. In real life, you kind of sit there for three hours, and perhaps express emotion once or twice the entire time.
-on TV shows, people working normal jobs in high-priced cities never seem to have financial problems; the only people with bad apartments…

I'm pretty sure that every new show featuring a grandmother/elderly female character has to make sure that she's the dirtiest, most sex-crazed person on the show.

I hate the trope of the "Hard-Edged Boss who Can Make Unrealistic Things Happen Just By Speaking" and last week, SNL's spoof of Scandal did just that, and it was perfect. When the hacker says he needs 24 hours to break a code, his boss says "do it in 60 seconds" and somehow he does it, and Lena Dunham's ditzy intern…

Bon Jovi is a rather easy target.

Yes.

A lot of excellent bands emerged in a very short period of time. It may not have changed everything, but it was great, and frankly even the greatest musicians — the Beatles, Dylan, Prince, Bowie — can't lift all boats. It's not Nirvana's fault that lots of phonies sold records after they were done. Grunge, in the form…

The promos for the new Robin Williams show are just too much. I'm reminded of Will Farrell doing James Lipton, worshipping the ground that Charles Nelson Reilly walks on. Personally, it seems like Michael J. Fox's return to TV is more inspiring than the fact that Robin Williams and Buffy have nice new income streams,…

Here are awards for the videos we don't show anymore.

I read all the glowing reviews and listened to it and I don't see what the fuss is about. The track record of aging rock musicians not named Neil Young is, unfortunately, almost uniformly dismal.

Sting got tired of making brilliant music with The Police and decided to bore us for the last 30 years.

This show is superb.

We tried to watch this last night (I'm a sucker for Jamie Gertz), but oh man, it just made everyone angry, it was so bad. We eventually settled on a Seinfeld re-run (the Todd Gak episode) that was airing during the Tiger-Yankee rain delay.