My two favorite things about summer television are Leverage and Warehouse 13, and both of them are starting up in the next few weeks! I am so excited, I could spit. Since I’ve got TV on the brain, it seemed like a natural choice for trivia this week.
- What do these three things have in common: potato, poker and Eric Estrada?
- What do you think I mean when I say, “Now that I’m older, I feel all Columbo whenever I leave a room”?
- If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire… Who?
- Which theme song starts with “I know, you know, that you’re not telling the truth,”?
- What show from the ’90s titled every episode “The One With _____”?
- Who was the yeoman-purser for the Love Boat?
- What classic show from the ’70s and ’80s was revived in 1998 with Malcolm McDowell playing Mr. Roarke?
- Name the two men, both with eponymous shows in the ’50s, who also starred in crime dramas in the ’80s, one as a doctor and one as a lawyer.
- Name the British crime drama that featured a hip antiques dealer as the amateur sleuth.
- How many seasons did Murder, She Wrote run?
As you can see, my tastes run toward crime dramas. I have been in hog heaven since Netflix put Quincy, M.E. back into rotation. I would knit and watch Jack Klugman yell about things for hours if you let me.
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My upstairs neighbors are driving me insane. Months, **months**,  of them banging on  the floors, bouncing hard things on the floors, and stampeding like a pissed off elephant herd! All day! Up to like 2am! Grah! I’m mid-dissertation writing and I can’t fucking concentrate, I’m getting horrible headaches these horrible headaches and these fucking jerks won’t stop. We sometimes tap on the ceiling to see if they take the fucking hint and they become even freaking louder. And all this noise pollution is seriously increasing my anxiety. Thinking about having to confront them is giving me anxiety as well.
Has anyone of you had to deal with this kind of ish? Any tips, help, pointers?
1, They’re CHIPS!
2. You’re leaving to look for a lollipop? No, that’s Kojak. A bird? No, that’s the other one I get confused with Kojak and Columbo. I just don’t know.
3. The A-Team.
4. Psych!
5. Friends.
6. Congressman Gopher
7. Fantasy Island
8. Dick Van Dyke in that doctor show with Scott Baio (who ruins everything) and Andy Griffith in Matlock.
9. and 10. I have no idea.
What is with me and grammatical and/or spelling errors today? Ugh. We are not friends!
A friend of mine posted the following link to facebook with the comment, “If the Higgs Boson is the God Particle, what does this say about God?”
CERN scientists inexplicably present Higgs boson findings in Comic Sans
I’ll admit, I’m enough of a design snob that I laughed.
That is funny. Poor Comic Sans, it’s like the Carrot Top of fonts.
I don’t think it’s inherently bad font, it just is overly cutesy and often used where cutesy should never be used.
Number 2…. “Oh, just one more thing” lolololololol
Great reference!
Seriously, every time I leave a room I have to pat down all my pockets to make sure I have everything, and I always end up turning back for just one more thing that I forgot.
I’m surprised how many people don’t know number 5.
OK, totally unrelated to television, but super cool nonetheless. I had a flavor-tripping party this last weekend, and it was amazing. I highly recommend throwing one if you’re thinking about it. I got the tablets off Amazon and everyone had some sort of reaction to it. Some stronger than others. The lemons and limes were amazing, and don’t even get me started on the goat cheese – like heaven!
That and number 3 was the only one I did know!
What is flavour-tripping?
There’s a fruit, called Miracle Fruit, that turns sour to sweet. You can buy tablets that have been made from the berries or the berries themselves (it’s more expensive). It lasts about an hour, but it a very unique experience.
ooo. Interesting. sweet goat’s cheese… did you have any blue cheese around ?
Yeah, but it didn’t change that or the feta very much. The brie was super though. Sour cream tasted like sweet greek yogurt.
That’s awesome. This is now on my list of things to do.
I wrote about taste tripping a few months ago! It really does make a fun party, because you get to see everyone make the same face of surprise the first time they try something that should be sour.
Linking to your post for others: http://persephonemagazine.com/2012/04/16/we-try-it-taste-tripping/Â I should have done that before.
I bought the brand you put on the post and it worked out great. I think I will try another brand later just to see if there’s a difference.
I am feeling extra smug this morning. Didn’t even have to bring the issue up with my boss, she got stern with my slacking coworkers all on her own.
Okay, TV related question!
Did Arrested Development invent the never-nude?!
Am I stupid for asking this question? I never encountered this term before watching this show, so I’m honestly wondering.
As far as I know it’s a real thing, official name gymnophobia (gymnos = naked in Greek), but the shorts were all Tobias’s idea…
So I’m almost halfway through my first week of my new jerb, and holy cow does it leave little time for PMag and the interwebs! This is shaping up to be one of the most boring weeks of my life because we’ve just finished 2 days of HR, and are about to finish out the week with endless hours of safety training.
It is Lovejoy! They used to show it on A&E and there is a lot to love about it.
Next Persephone book club suggestion:
From here (from Neil Gaiman’s Tumblr)
And if you want to get no work done today at all:Â http://www.ustream.tv/sevenkittens
Gah, I love flipping through strange books. I’d be in. :-p I’d also vote that ‘Anybody Can Be Cool…But Awesome Takes Practice’ would be next in line, but it’s unfortunately sold out.
I decided that I want to watch both The Wire and Breaking Bad this Summer. Or at least try their first seasons. I’m already looking forward to episode-marathons.
I spent the summer of 2010 watching The Wire. Seriously, one of the best TV dramas evar.
Oooh this excites me, yar!
Is #3 the A-Team?
I don’t think that any of them is Macgyver, but that was a great show. He could do ANYTHING with that swiss army knife and a few scraps.
I know #3 and #5.
Major fail. I’m a regular couch potato, but I don’t know the answer to any of your questions. I thought I knew half of #8, but then I double checked and I’m wrong. I’m just going to continue on with my Law & Order marathon with Vincent D’Onofrio :)
I have a weird affinity for him. I can’t put my finger on what it is exactly, but he makes my heart flutter.
He’s kind of like a sexy Everyman guy.
Yikes. I knew a lot of those. I guess all those hours with Netflix, HuluPlus and friends with great dvd collections paid off. . .
It did help that I’m also OBSESSED with crime drama shows (mostly British ones, though). So, um, yay me?
Guys. There is a house centipede aka million legger in my apartment. In case you aren’t familiar with these hideously terrifying efficient predators, read (and see) them here.
WHAT DO I DO. I know I shouldn’t kill it because it’s a good bug and eats the bad bugs, but seriously? These things are gross and creepy and fast and JUMP at you. Trust me, this has happened. And apparently they can bite people!? I can’t even get away from it because I live in a studio apartment. My cats also apparently suck at hunting. I’ve already moved my bed to the opposite wall away from where I saw it and am super hyper vigilant now. Every time I think something is on me, this is my face:
I hate that! I usually trap creepy bugs in a cup and throw them outside, that way they can keep eating other bugs, just not in my house.
I try to do that too, as much as I can. However, this is a kill or be killed situation.
Or a ‘you stay out of my line of sight and you will be allowed to live your buggy life’ situation.
oh. my. god.
There was one of these beasts in the basement my senior year of college. Â It would crawl out of the holes in the wall as I was doing laundry and ick ick ick! My friend and I killed it. I know they’re good, but…I just couldn’t… I feel your fear.
I had never even seen one until I moved to Philly. Which is weird, since I was living in the suburbs and big bugs are more prevalent out there. The first apartment I was in, they were all over. Ok, maybe not ALL over, but I saw one every few months.
I think this guy followed me into my apartment though. I swear I saw it outside when I was taking the trash out and thought, “Ugh, a million legger. Stay away.” Apparently he doesn’t read minds. Or…there’s more than one…0.0
They are awful, and I would just kill it. There was one in the bathroom of a dorm I shared with two other girls in college. One of them killed it because I am a wimp. Then, a guyfriend of ours caught one in his bathroom and put it in a ziploc bag and put it on my roommate’s bed. She, quite rightly, flipped her shit.
So…at least it’s not in your bed? Yay?
That sounds terrifying.I don’t even know where I would sleep if there had been one in my bed!
The only other one I’ve seen in my current apartment crawled out of the toilet tank, where the cover didn’t quite meet the actual tank. That one died a swift death. You don’t mess with a girl while she’s peeing, that’s just rude.
I vote kill it! My college apartment was infested with those things, and I would have to use the vacuum to kill them because they run so horrifyingly fast that I’d always miss with the broom or my hand
It MOTHERS ITS YOUNG. Â Raising them to be (gross) efficient killers! Â KILL IT BEFORE IT BREEDS! Â (Also, kill it before it dies! Â Didn’t anybody else binge on Charmed in college?)
Per usual, I’m terrible with these quizzes. :)Â But Breaking Bad starts next week and I’m so excited! Eep.
I only know #5. I don’t feel fit to call myself a couch potato.
I tend to have the TV on in the background when I work, so my useless television knowledge is vast and frightening.