Category: Cowboy Pete’s TV Roundup

He really needs a cane and a pronounced limp.

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The season opener on BL, while House takes on the Wizard of Oz from “Wicked” (and even makes an in-joke “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” comment). Two different dramas, two different creators, two different stations–but both of them focusing on the right to privacy and allowing someone to do as they wish with their body. Comments below:

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Yes, it’s a new season, and I’m going to get back to the much asked-after Cowboy Pete entries. I used to do them on day of airing, and then people complained because they claimed I was doing too many blog entries about TV shows. So I started consolidating them, except then it was too many at one time and I just didn’t get to it. So I’m going back to doing them as I see the shows, and if you don’t like it, Dan can point the way out for you. So there, nyaaah.

I am going to routinely put all comments in the extended entry, however, so as to avoid spoiler comments in this day and age of Tivo.

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The last five weeks of “The West Wing” have played like the world’s longest back door pilot. Kind of like the last weeks of “The Practice” that were basically a back door pilot for “Boston Legal,” as one show wound down but another was being set up. Sadly, the new series that was being promoted was dead before it got a chance, and that’s a dámņëd shame.

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In “The Onion’s” trade paperback collection that essentially operated as if the gag newspaper had been around for over a century, one of the most memorable articles was about the moon landing. The headline was something along the lines of “HOLY SHÍT, WE LAND ON FÙÇKÍNG MOON!” and the entire article was written with that same sense of over-the-top incredulity. They literally can’t believe it.

In the spirit of that article…

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Okay, so now we can chat about it AFTER it’s aired. Spoilers, I assume, to follow…

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Kath and I are usually on the same wavelength when it comes to television, but one thing we’ve always split on is “Family Guy.” She likes the series; I’m, at most, lukewarm. So I have to say I got a truly snarky amount of amusement out of last week’s episode of “South Park” in which “Family Guy” was skewered, a storyline that ostensibly is supposed to be concluded tonight (although, I dunno…I still wouldn’t put it past them to have the second half be no second half at all. The bait-and-switch of Cartman’s father is not easily forgotten.)

The great thing, of course, is that the storyline isn’t *really* about “Family Guy.” It’s about religious fanatics going completely nuts over things that are depicted in cartoons. An obvious shot at the riot-inducing pictures of Mohammed, and particularly appropriate for “South Park” since years ago, in the episode “Super Best Friends,” Mohammed was depicted on the show and it caused no stir whatsoever that I can recall. It almost makes you wonder if they’re going to reair “Super Best Friends” just to remind people that, when it came to visually lampooning Mohammed, “South Park” got there first.

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