Comedy Night is back! The Office, 30 Rock, Scrubs, My Name is Earl

NBC’s comedy line-up returns to full form this week, all with fresh new episodes. Yay!

For the most part, The Office is what I’ve been anticipating the most.  You can follow this other blog I keep for anything about this program. This week’s episode, Dinner Party, is full of cringe-worthy moments. Poor Michael and his really tiny plasma TV. Poor Michael and his three vasectomies. Poor Jan and her inevitable break down.

Fun quotes from The Office:

- “Snip, snap, snip, snap, snip, snap! You have no idea the physical toll that three vasectomies have on a person!”
Michael to Jan, on their argument about having children.

- "Good luck on paying me back with your $0 a year and no benefits income!"  - Michael to Jan, who broke his plasma TV.

On 30Rock, everybody is crazy over NBC’s reality TV program, MILF Island (partly Survivor, partly Big Brother, partly Kid Nation — ironically a hybrid of CBS programs!),  and the success of the show somehow guarantees Jack Donaghy’s ascend to GE chairmanship. But a blurb on NYTimes’ gossip column may jeopardize his promotion. One of his staffers calls Jack a "Class-A Moron" (I tried googling it, and yup, he’s on first page!) and he’d like to know who said this to the press. This plot actually ties to the show within the MILF show, where deception and connivance come to play. Jack knows who is reponsible, but uses this as a ploy to get the guilty person (Liz Lemmon) to admit it, as well as have her agree to write another new show for one of MILF’s reality stars. 

Admittedly, I need a couple of lessons on pop culture because MILF to me means the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, when it’s supposed to mean something else, too. Google it up.

Fun quotes from 30Rock:  

- "Your eyes look like my uncle’s after he drinks from the air conditioner." - Kenneth to a very angry Liz
- "We no longer want to hit that. Get the hell off of MILF Island." - the emcee of MILF Island
- "Everybody loves her. Soccer moms, NASCAR dad, white pervs, and the obese." - Jack, describing Debora, the star of MILF

I’ve read that this week’s episode of Scrubs was actually done even before the strike took place but NBC tucked away for whatever reason. The goofy stories of the week are about 1) Turk learning Spanish for his wife as an anniversary gift; 2) Dr. JD making sure his burn victim patient gets to go on his graduation; 3) something about Dr. Cox stealing Dr. Kelso’s food.  

The space invaders gag had the most laugh from me. And I’m loving the idea that JD and Elliot might end finally up together when all this is done. There are five episodes left before Scrubs leaves the network to possibly start anew on ABC.

Fun quotes from Scrubs:

- "You got BrInner? Daaaaaaamn Turkledog!" — Dr. Kelso to Turk, for getting his wife to make pancakes for dinner. So out of character.

Last on the list is My Name Is Earl, which continues from  last week’s one-hour episode. Earl is still in a coma so his brother Randy tries to cross off Earl’s list for him. He enlists the help of Joy in figuring out what happened to the motorcycle he and his brother stole before.

And as Randy ties the "clues" together, he comes to a realization that he may have killed his brother once.

Earl meanwhile is still dreaming about his TV sitcom life in his coma state.

My son, who is an Earl fan, thought the episode reminded him of Scooby-Doo, except with dumber people. The Pantienna made my day (Panty + Antenna orTV Antenna with panties).

Fun quotes from My Name is Earl:

"Why would Earl try to kill? I’m Randy. He wouldn’t try to kill me. It would be like peanut butter trying to kill jelly. Peanut butter wouldn’t kill jelly. They’re in the same sandwich" — Randy, tracing the events of the night they stole the motorcycle, thinking Earl tried to kill him.

Whoo-hoo my eyes are hurtin! But I’m not complaining. I love that TV’s back!