April 28, 2014: Seinfeld #128
In training this morning, Suzie found out the hard way that something you make as a description will show up in places you might not want them to. Needless to say, what she used as her test description was pretty funny, and we all got a big laugh out of it. For the afternoon class, we used this funny situation as a lesson on what not to do. To reference Seinfeld, I said we wouldn't "name names", but before I could say it, Chris said it was Suzie. So I said, "he name name"...I don't think anyone got it. This was a reference to when Elaine got Ned's name blacklisted at Hop-Sing's, and he said "she name name".
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April 21, 2014
April 17, 2014
TV Ironicness
What are the odds?
Yesterday, I was reading a blog written by one of my friends, and it's called "Work in Progress". As I was reading the blog, I was also watching American Idol. Sam Woolf had just performed, and Harry Connick, Jr. was giving his critique, and he said that Sam was still a "work in progress". Whoa! So weird!
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Yesterday, I was reading a blog written by one of my friends, and it's called "Work in Progress". As I was reading the blog, I was also watching American Idol. Sam Woolf had just performed, and Harry Connick, Jr. was giving his critique, and he said that Sam was still a "work in progress". Whoa! So weird!
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Seinfeld Reference #127
April 17, 2014: Seinfeld Reference #127
Diane said she had a carload of stinky junior high boys in her car last night, and she had to air the car out afterward because it was so bad. That reminded us of the horrible b.o. smell left by the valet in Jerry's car that was so bad that it "infected" anyone who came in contact with it.
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Diane said she had a carload of stinky junior high boys in her car last night, and she had to air the car out afterward because it was so bad. That reminded us of the horrible b.o. smell left by the valet in Jerry's car that was so bad that it "infected" anyone who came in contact with it.
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April 9, 2014
Survivor Alum Twitter Interactions
Lots and lots of Survivor alums were active on Twitter for tonight's Survivor. I took the time to send a few tweets from my Reality Bites account, and the reaction was incredible!
I got Phillip Sheppard to follow me, I got Coach to Favorite and Retweet me, and I also got Skupin and Kat to Favorite a couple tweets. I just think that's too cool!
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I got Phillip Sheppard to follow me, I got Coach to Favorite and Retweet me, and I also got Skupin and Kat to Favorite a couple tweets. I just think that's too cool!
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Music Ironicness: Bowling For Soup - 1985
Today, I was posting something to Facebook. I was marking the visibility of the post using my pre-defined group "TV". When I start typing "TV", it also shows another group I have set up called "Reality TV". As I was doing this, the song "1985" by Bowling For Soup was playing, and a line in the song says "When did reality become TV", just as I was selecting "TV", but also looking right at "Reality TV". So weird! What are the odds?!
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April 3, 2014
Music Ironicness: Rain
Today it rained, and rained, and rained....all day long. It's funny that it seems like any time it rains, a song about rain randomly plays. It's usually Travis's "Why Does It Always Rain On Me". Today I heard not one, not two, but three songs with rain in the title!
The first one was Jordin Sparks's "Let It Rain"
Next came The Audition's "Make It Rain" (Note: on this song, I actually chose to play my entire The Audition collection, but still).
Then, as if that wasn't weird enough, on my way home from work, I hear Blind Melon's "No Rain" (What's odd about this song is that this song is 20 years old! What was it doing on the radio? Side note...how can this song be 20 years old? Man, I feel old!)
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The first one was Jordin Sparks's "Let It Rain"
Next came The Audition's "Make It Rain" (Note: on this song, I actually chose to play my entire The Audition collection, but still).
Then, as if that wasn't weird enough, on my way home from work, I hear Blind Melon's "No Rain" (What's odd about this song is that this song is 20 years old! What was it doing on the radio? Side note...how can this song be 20 years old? Man, I feel old!)
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March 31, 2014
Seinfeld Reference #126
March 31, 2014: Seinfeld Reference #126
Today, Diane was talking about someone she knows who hit a deer. He was taking a child home from the event that they were at together. She said after they hit the deer, he kept driving...even though the car was smoking and still managed to drop the kid off safely at home. As she was telling this story, I was thinking of Kramer when he was telling his story about driving the bus and how he had to take over driving during all the commotion. At one point he talks about kicking the bad guy who had a gun, out the door at the next stop. Jerry says: "You kept making all the stops?!" Kramer replies: "Well, people kept ringing the bell!" So, I used that reference and Diane totally got it, and we both laughed so hard!
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Today, Diane was talking about someone she knows who hit a deer. He was taking a child home from the event that they were at together. She said after they hit the deer, he kept driving...even though the car was smoking and still managed to drop the kid off safely at home. As she was telling this story, I was thinking of Kramer when he was telling his story about driving the bus and how he had to take over driving during all the commotion. At one point he talks about kicking the bad guy who had a gun, out the door at the next stop. Jerry says: "You kept making all the stops?!" Kramer replies: "Well, people kept ringing the bell!" So, I used that reference and Diane totally got it, and we both laughed so hard!
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TV Ironicness
Normally, when something really ironic happens, it is music-related. I like to call it "music ironicness". It's when I'm listening to a song, and either it totally relates to something that just happened, or maybe a word in the song was just said out loud, or I read it at the same time it was sung in the song, etc. Well today, something ironic happened, TV-wise.
For my treadmill walk today, I watched the next episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer in my queue on Netflix. That episode was the Season 5, episode 15 called "I Was Made To Love". In that episode, Buffy's mom, Joyce dies. So what's ironic, you ask? Well, I was catching up on my TV blogs that I like to read daily, and in TV Guide's "Ask Matt" column, the very first question included a reference to this exact episode of Buffy! Keep in mind, this episode originally aired in 2001...it's 13 years old! How totally ironic, for this show to be referenced...let alone the EXACT episode that I literally just watched 2 hours ago! Whoa!
This was the reference:
Question: I'm sure you have tons of letters in your mailbag about the "twist" on The Good Wife. For once, this was not over-hyped at all. I've always stood by the idea that the creators of shows are artists who have the right to do whatever they want with their characters, and we should be more angry with gratuitous plot twists or inconsistent character development than things that just make us sad. It is a "melodrama," after all, and entertainment does not mean that you will be made happy all the time. That said, I have had to rein myself in about Will's death, which might rank as the most upsetting TV death in my long history of TV watching. Unlike, say, the death of Joyce Summers on Buffy, Will and Alicia have seemed integral to the plot trajectory of the show, and now I feel like a main source of my pleasure is gone.
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For my treadmill walk today, I watched the next episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer in my queue on Netflix. That episode was the Season 5, episode 15 called "I Was Made To Love". In that episode, Buffy's mom, Joyce dies. So what's ironic, you ask? Well, I was catching up on my TV blogs that I like to read daily, and in TV Guide's "Ask Matt" column, the very first question included a reference to this exact episode of Buffy! Keep in mind, this episode originally aired in 2001...it's 13 years old! How totally ironic, for this show to be referenced...let alone the EXACT episode that I literally just watched 2 hours ago! Whoa!
This was the reference:
Question: I'm sure you have tons of letters in your mailbag about the "twist" on The Good Wife. For once, this was not over-hyped at all. I've always stood by the idea that the creators of shows are artists who have the right to do whatever they want with their characters, and we should be more angry with gratuitous plot twists or inconsistent character development than things that just make us sad. It is a "melodrama," after all, and entertainment does not mean that you will be made happy all the time. That said, I have had to rein myself in about Will's death, which might rank as the most upsetting TV death in my long history of TV watching. Unlike, say, the death of Joyce Summers on Buffy, Will and Alicia have seemed integral to the plot trajectory of the show, and now I feel like a main source of my pleasure is gone.
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March 18, 2014
Music Ironicness: The Downtown Fiction - Keep Moving
Maybe it was the full moon just a couple days ago, but another totally random and strange musical occurrence happened to me. I was working on a spreadsheet at work. One of the columns, specifically the column I was editing, was labeled "Signed Up". While I was working in that column, the song "Keep Moving" by The Downtown Fiction came on. One of the lines in the song includes the words "signed up". Seriously, what are the odds?!?! The line was "she signed up for community college".
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March 14, 2014
Seinfeld Reference #125
March 14, 2014: Seinfeld Reference #125
Fridays definitely have a "feel" around the office. Everyone always seems a bit more giddy and silly, and sometimes downright loopy. Today felt downright loopy. Holly said it sure feels like Friday. That made me think of the conversation that Jerry, Kramer and Newman had one time about how Friday has a "feel", and Kramer said that he really thought Tuesdays had a "feel".
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Fridays definitely have a "feel" around the office. Everyone always seems a bit more giddy and silly, and sometimes downright loopy. Today felt downright loopy. Holly said it sure feels like Friday. That made me think of the conversation that Jerry, Kramer and Newman had one time about how Friday has a "feel", and Kramer said that he really thought Tuesdays had a "feel".
Kramer: What's today?
Newman: It's Thursday.
Kramer: Really? Feels like Tuesday.
Newman: Tuesday has no feel. Monday has a feel, Friday has a feel, Sunday has a feel....
Kramer: I feel Tuesday and Wednesday...
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