Guys.

I’m so depressed.

Even though my girls are 6 & 7 and past the Nick Jr NOGGIN target age, they were raised on Moose and Zee.

Stupid Nickelodeon gave the pair the axe and sent them on their way.

Jerks.

I’ll take an hour of Moose and Zee clips ANYTIME over any of that damn Big Time Rush band and Fred The Movie, which is officially banned in my house.

…pouring one out for my homies…

image via Curvy Girl Guide credit Nickelodeon

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It was today while I was cleaning up that-time-of-the-month’s bathroom trash on which my wiener dog decided to make a meal that I remembered one of my most favorite lines from South Park.

I just don’t trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn’t die. – Mr Garrison, South Park

We women are gross, but my dog is grosser.

WAY grosser.

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Seeing as I’m the Queen of All TV, my suggestions on what you should be watching or catching up on is pretty much gospel.

DOWNTON ABBEY

image via PBS

Downton Abbey, Season 1 – Masterpiece
Downton Abbey, Season 2 – Masterpiece

Good thing for all of us that there are only 2 seasons of Downton Abbey for you to catch up on and within those seasons are just 7 episodes. Set aside a weekend, lock the kids outside, and watch yourself into English royalty bliss.

Plus, you’ll totally get why these Downton Abbey paper dolls from Vulture I shared on We Know Awesome are so HIGHlarious.

image credit Kyle Hilton

BREAKING BAD

image via AMC TV

Breaking Bad

It’s shameful how I didn’t start watching Breaking Bad until just a few months ago. Lucky for me though that I had the chance to catch up all at once in a 2 week marathon of WATCH ALL THE BREAKING BADS.

And maybe you’ll understand why I have a woody for Jesse Pinkman. And LOOK! I can make out with him in his paper doll form! Don’t worry; I’ll laminate him first.

image credit Kyle Hilton

SECRET DIARY OF A CALL GIRL

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Secret Diary of a Call Girl

It’s probably the best British import show you’ve never heard of. Secret Diary of a Call Girl has been on Showtime for the last few years, tucked in to a few other popular shows. In a quick synopsis, picture Belle, a London call girl entertaining men in her fashionable flat, who as Hannah, happens to be in love with her best friend. I know. It’s so good. Watch it.

WHAT NOT TO WATCH

I’m going to admit that I’m a joiner, wanting to be a cool kid and get all of the Doctor Who references I read. I tried watching the first episode. Friends, when I say it was the weirdest show I’ve ever seen, and not in a good way, I’m not exaggerating.

image via BBC

In my confusion with the mannequins and the alien Doctor and why Hannah/Belle from Secret Diary of a Call Girl was wearing high-waisted mom jeans, I couldn’t get past the first 30 minutes. How I got past the first 10 minutes is a testament to my passion for TV.

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I don’t have the words to express how much this someecards speaks about my soul.

I’m tense because I have too much recorded TV to watch.

Pin It

I live for seeing teeny red light lit on the front the DVR then having that 2-3 second pause after pressing the “list” button on the remote before showing me the glory of what’s waiting for me.

Real Housewives of Somewhere, The Good Wife, Real Housewives of Somewhere Else, 5 new House Hunters International, this week’s HBO documentary, and a new MTV’s True Life all await me.

When the children are at school, the husband is at work, and the DVR is ready, it’s the best feeling in the world, save for kid birthing, spouse marrying, and the like.

But the anxiety of wondering if will I have the time to watch it all before my time alone is over?

There’s nothing better.

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I love me a dangerous man.

Which, clearly, is why I chose to marry a man who is the polar opposite of dangerous. Granted, I chose to marry him when I was all of 19 20 years old when we all make the best life-long decisions. At least I got lucky in my un-adult decision. If I’d have waited to marry someone else more dangerous, I’d probably be chopped up at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean by now.

Now I think I’m realizing why I like the dangerous mens from my TV shows. They live in my box, not in my house. But HOT FRIGGIN DAMN, I’d hump on these bad mens.

image credit HBO, Boardwalk Empire

Jimmy Darmody may be a killer, an asshole, a motherfucker, and a twisted mess with a traumatized past, but sweet peasus, he’s a beautiful man.

image credit AMC, Breaking Bad

What’s not to love about a meth-head who protects his partner at any cost? I’d kill for Jesse Pinkman.

image credit Bullett Media, Dexter

Dexter Morgan is a tad too creepy for me, so I’ll just pick Michael C Hall to be in my bed.

image credit FX, Sons of Anarchy

I’ve professed my love for Jax Teller here before and on Twitter and in my dreams, but since then, there’s been even more Jax to show off. Even though he kills people, he’s a good bad guy, saving the world for his family.

image credit unknown, Weeds

My lady boner for Silas Botwin began to grow when he started to stand up to Nancy. Bitch had it coming. He’s a good kid, he just has to have direction from his messed-up mother. And his abs don’t hurt.

Now I need a moment to myself.

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Friends, to say I love TV is an understatement. It’s a way of life.

I compiled a 1st week of Fall TV review that can only best be described as EPIC.

Enjoy.

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I’m addicted to TV.

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

I have no shame in my game of TV-watching. It makes me happy to see new shows start, old shows come back, and all of the hype that goes with everything TV. Coming from a home where the TV was on at all times and was made a priority for family time, I can blame my parents for instilling my respect for television.

If I could afford have multiple HD DVRs set up to my DirecTV dish, I would. Maybe I should start a fund. * notes to self *

Sadly, the one over-priced DirecTV HD DVR is all we have for recording my precious, and that’s capped at 40 season passes and recording two shows at a time, so I have to pick and choose what I’m going to record on any given night during the Fall TV premiere season.

Weep with me, nerds!

I like to think of myself as a professional TV-watcher, where “professional” does not equal “getting paid,” but I watch like it’s my job. I’ve thought about developing a TV-centered blog or website, but then I’d be watching TV for work and not pleasure. That? Would be a travesty.

However, if anyone wants to hire me to live-tweet any live televised event, I’m your girl. I’ll live-tweet the shite out of award shows, sporting events, important Presidential speeches for you. * hand phone ringy dingy * call me *

With all of the TV I love, there are things on the boob tube that irk me. I’m finicky about what I watch, though I’m sure Patrick would argue that recording The World According to Paris (RIP) is the opposite of being finicky. So I’m arguing back with, “IT WAS THE SUMMER AND NOTHING ELSE WAS ON FOR ME TO WATCH WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM ME?”

As of today at this moment, I’ve made a short list of what’s bothering me on TV. Think of it as Robert is Bothered, but with a less sexy version of Jimmy Fallon’s Robert Pattinson impersonation.

• That new show, Whitney, about one of my favorite comedians, Whitney Cummings, has cast an actor to be her boyfriend/husband/ubiquitous level-headed male that, even from just seeing the onslaught of premiere episode commercials, can’t act. Like, he may be a worse actor than Keanu Reeves. As much as I like Whitney Cummings, I don’t think I’ll be able to watch the show with him on it.

• I admit it: I watch daytime TV. The Talk is CBS’s wannabe version of The View, just with different ladies around a different table in a different studio on a different coast. Same show, different time. I didn’t want to like the show just because of its blatant rip-off of another show, but I started watching it, and I started to like Leah Remini, Holly Robinson Peete, and the other 3 co-hosts and their rapport. I might have actually laughed out loud at Leah and Holly’s antics. But at the last minute, like a week or two before the show returned from summer hiatus, they replaced Leah and Holly. According to both women and their Twitter streams, they were basically “not asked to return.” Of course, with my interest in TV dramas, I tuned in this past Tuesday to see how they were going to explain the replacements of Molly Shannon (love her) and another lady (she was annoying). ONLY THEY DIDN’T. No mention from Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, or Sharon Osborne as to why the two other co-hosts magically disappeared. Nothing. So, I won’t be watching any longer. Any show that refuses to acknowledge a major change is a show I can’t watch.

• Craig T Nelson’s hair during the first season of Parenthood still bothers me. I’ve never recovered.

• Two- and three-hour long reality shows should be against the law. Period. It’s stupid and lazy and it bothers me. Drawing out the fake drama of The Bachelor/-ette/Pad makes me want to mail the producers an envelope of herpes. Cut that crap down, and make your shows actually good enough to watch.

• The cable networks (TNT, A&E, HBO, USA, etc) have started airing their original series in mini seasons of 10-12 shows rather than the traditional 24+ episode season. I realize they’re doing this to be able to air their shows (which, many times, are so much better than the network’s) during the Big 4′s off-season, but just when I get into watching a season and invested in what’s going on with characters, BOOM!, they end the season. That leaves me with 6-12 months of not having some of my favorite shows to watch, and in the meantime, forgetting what happened on the previous season. Can we all get together and decide on airing whole seasons with weekly shows back-to-back with NO REPEATS during the season (which BTW, is another major irk)?

This list is in no way comprehensive, so of course you have your own ideas of what bothers you on TV. What is it? No detail is too small (see: Craig T Nelson’s hair).

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How appropriate that today, the day after the MTV VMAs, I’m at Curvy Girl Guide hosting a Pep Rally for the Fall TV season? My tweet-a-thon that brings out the snarkiest in me is a kick-off for all of my shows returning to my TeeVee.

In case you missed out on my crazy Live Televised Event/Award Show/Sports Game/Presidential Address Tweet-a-Thon, fear not, because my favorite gems are here:

When you’re a born and bred vidiot like me, you live for the Fall when kids return to school and the best and newest shows call to me from within the Black Box of Joy. I load up my DVR scheduler with 40 of my favorite returning series and a few of the most promising premieres.

The new shows start in the upcoming weeks, so if you want to find me, I’ll be in front of the TV, which come to think of it, is no different than any other day.

What shows are you going to watch with me?

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If you don’t know by now that I’m a TV nerd, you don’t know me at all.

Last night’s episode of Game of Thrones “Baelor” was, to say the least, EPIC. I don’t believe in spoilers, so I won’t go into details, but if you’re not watching this show on HBO, I DON’T EVEN WANT TO KNOW YOU.

So what if that’s going too far. I feel that strongly about this show. It is… mind-blowingly good. Watch it. You will thank me and want to send me a Dothraki mad man of my very own.

I read a blog post this morning (chocked full of spoilers) where a TV critic/commentator used “Game of Thrones” and “Sons of Anarchy” in the same sentence.

And something on me gasmed. I still haven’t recovered.

Clearly, someone should pay me to write TV reviews.

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If you know me at all, you know I watch a lot of TV, whereby “a lot” means, “the TV is always on, except when I am sleeping in my bed.” Lately, I’ve seen Paul Reiser on many talk shows promoting his new self-titled 1/2-hour comedy show that’s not-so-loosely based on his real life. I enjoyed Mad About You, not particularly him, but that’s not my point. Well, maybe it’s my point that I’m not really a Paul Reiser fan, so I may feel a little judgmental when I watch the show clip he’s promoting.

The gist of the clip is that after Mad About You ended 11 years ago, Paul Reiser decided to stay home from working as an actor and raise his children while his wife went to school and started her career. He tells his “friend” in the show that he was filling out a school form for his son, and in the box marked “Father’s Occupation,” he didn’t know what to put down. During TV interviews, he tells a story of when his son asked him, “Daddy, what do you DO?” and to his son, he doesn’t have an answer.

It’s not unusual these days that men stay home and the mother works. It’s also not unusual that women stay home with the children while the father works outside the home.

But I’m wondering, why is it that no one is questioning Paul Reiser’s lack of equality in how stay-at-home mothers have felt for MANY years when they are asked “What do you DO?” This was a question men weren’t typically asked 20+ years ago, but in today’s society, stay-at-home dads should have just as much honor in saying, “What I DO is raise my children.”

Maybe I’m overly sensitive. Maybe I should watch the show to see which direction Paul Reiser is taking his stay-at-home dad status. Or maybe I’m right-on in my judgements.

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