Latest Heroes Episode: An Invisible Thread

The latest episode, An Invisable Thread picks up where the last episode I Am Sylar, left off with Noah Bennet (Jack Coleman), driving a van with Claire (Hayden Panettiere) in the passenger seat and Angela Petrelli (Cristine Rose) asleep and dreaming in the back. The vehicle approached a police roadblock and a van following Bennet stopped behind their van and the back doors opened and a squad of the Hero catchers came out, surrounding the Bennets and Angela. In the new episode, Noah stops before the road block and advises Claire and Angela to run and help Nathan who Angela says was in danger according to her dream. Noah gives Claire a secure phone and tells her he will call her. When Bennet approaches the road block he is now the only occupant of the van.

Sylar Has "A Dream"

When Sylar (Zachary Quinto) rose from the dead in I Am Sylar, and removed the knife from the back of his head that Danko (Zeljko Ivanek) had stabbed him with in a futile attempt to kill Sylar, he pins Danko against the wall and tells him of his plans to "absorb" Nathan's memories (he apparently took Angela's power), and then set up a meeting with the president so Sylar can morph into the chief executive. Sylar tells him that he plans on taking the President's place. Danko swears that he will never allow that to happen. Sylar replies with a grin that, "In 30 seconds no one on the planet will believe a word you have to say" as he again assumes Danko's form, moves to the door and shoots one or two of the approaching soldiers. As more begin to arrive Sylar transforms into Agent Traub (one of Danko's minions) and yells to the other agents that he has Danko, who is led away cursing Sylar.

Danko Aligns With Noah Bennet

Danko is dropped into a cell where Noah Bennet is also being held after his capture at the road block. They discuss the similarities of their situation and agree that they absolutely have to stop Sylar's plan. As they reach out to shake hands in agreement, they freeze... Hiro has stopped time. Hiro and Ando open the door to the cell containing Danko and Noah Bennet and peer in. They shake their heads and move away (leaving the door open). Hiro pulls aside a curtain and finds dozens of Heroes on gurneys with tubes attached which prevents them from regaining consciousness. They find Doctor Sheref who they revive. Ando notices that Hiro's ear is bleeding...

Escape And Sylar Finds Claire

Ando, Sheref and Hiro put all the guards on the gurneys and help all the Heros imprisoned there to escape. Sheref worries that Hiro cannot continue using his power to freeze time as his body is rejecting his power like a virus. When Hiro leaves, Bennet and Danko unfreeze and see the door is ajar. As the realize that there are no guards, Bennet tells Danko that Hiro must have done it. He tells Danko that there is no way to defeat the Heroes given all the various powers available to them. As Noah frantically calls Claire, he finds her all right, but them discovers the "Claire" that answered the phone was Sylar, who has Claire as his prisoner. He forces Claire to drink wine with him as he discusses the similarities between himself and Claire. Both adopted. Both cannot die. He tells her of the future he sees for them together. "You could be my first, First Lady." But Claire tells him she will never give up on trying to kill him.

Nathan And Peter Battle Sylar


Peter and Nathan Petrelli confront Sylar and Claire is thrown out of the room. As the doors swing shut, Claire rushes to the door and sees the Petrellis and Sylar fighting. Then the fight ends and only Peter is left in the room, bleeding from his face. Claire enters and they leave as they have to find Nathan. After they leave the room, Nathan Petrelli's body is flung to the floor and Sylar floats down (he's taken Nathan's power). Sylar laughs and kills Nathan by slashing his throat. Nathan collapses into a chair and dies (yes, Nathan Pettrelli is dead!).

Sylar Moves On the President

As Peter and Claire rush to the lobby, Noah trains his gun on them demanding to know if it is really Claire and not Sylar. Peter tells him that he just fought Sylar and took his power. Claire assures Noah she is the real Claire. As they discuss what to do now to stop Sylar, government agents rush in and tell them to hit the floor. Noah tells them that the president is in danger, but they are unsure. Claire walks up to one and stands with her head directly on the barrel of the gun and tells him "You are going to listen to me. Now, or after you shoot me."

Sylar, again in Nathan's form, approaches one of the president's aides as they rush the president out of the hotel. The aide had known Nathan in college (seen earlier in the episode), but as this is Sylar, he tells the aide that he has no time left. We see the aide get into the president's limo and is seated across from the President. The aide (Sylar) extends his hand in congratulations on the president escaping and he takes Sylar's hand. Sylar becomes confused and as his face assumes several different faces of those who he has taken before, the president stabs Sylar in the throat with a hypodermic needle. The President turns into Peter Petrelli who tells Sylar as he loses conscioussness, "I bet you didn't think I took that one did you?"

Sylar Becomes Nathan Petrelli, permanently?

As Hiro, Ando, Claire, Peter and Angela watch, Noah Bennet convinces Matt to force the unconscious Sylar to permanently become Nathan Petrelli. Matt grabs Sylar and tells him, Sylar is dead... Gabriel Gray is dead... you are Nathan. Sylar becomes Nathan and wakes up looking at Angela... "Mom?" he asks. Later, we see all together again as they burn the body of the unfortunate shapeshifter (still in Sylar's form). The group drifts apart.


Six weeks later, we see a former Building 26 guard walking into his apartment to an overflowing kitchen sink. As he watches, the water takes the form of Tracy Strauss (Ali Larter) who was killed (or was she) by Danko several episodes ago helping Rebel escape Danko's men. She grins at the man saying "You're number four!"

Later we see Nathan Petrelli reading about a "Fourth Mysterious Drowning" and his mother, Angela walks in asking about their plans for lunch. Nathan seems a little distant, fixating on a clock in a cabinet. He is irritated by the clock for losing a minute here and there and adjusts the hand of the clock. He walks out with Angela (who looks a little distraught herself, as it all began with watchmaking with Sylar).

Jay Leno Is Okay! Released From Hospital

The Tonight Show's retiring (well, not entirely retiring) host, Jay Leno has been released from hospital after checking himself in after experiencing some symptoms of illness last Thursday. Before missing the two shows the 58 year old comedian hadn't missed a single day of work since taking the reins way back in 1992, but better safe than sorry. Big Jay had felt a degree of sickness that made him seek medical help. The details about Leno's apparent illness were kept tightly under wraps, but you can expect to see Leno behind the desk come Monday night's Tonight Show telecast.

Conan O'Brien is slated to take over The Tonight Show on June 1st when Leno steps down after 17 years as host. "Jay Leno is anxious to return to work on Monday" according to Leno's spokesman. He was kept overnight more as "a precautionary measure", and the Internet speculation that Leno had suffered a heart attack was also dismissed as untrue. Another report of possible food poisoning was also shot down. Leno is also scheduled to start working on his new show, which will air at 10pm starting this September.

Lost's Henry Ian Cusick Is Being Sued!

Apparently Henry Ian Cusick has been named in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former ABC employee. Back in October of 2007, the alleged victim claims, Cusick "kissed her on the mouth, placed his face on her breasts and caressed the back of her body" while making "moaning sounds." The alleged victim made a complaint, but was fired twelve days after the incident, she feels was in retaliation for the complaint.

The complainant had been employed by ABC since 1997 up til that time. She is seeking unspecified damages from Cusick, ABC Entertainment and Grass Skirt Productions (who produces the show). So far, there's been no response from those named. I, for one, notwithstanding the serious allegations brought forward, ask, is Lost still on the air? I haven't watched it for so long I thought it had been cancelled long ago due to lack of interest.

Latest Heroes Episode: I Am Sylar

Zachary Quinto will be playing a big part in next season's Heroes, and the events are starting take shape in this episode. In case you aren't aware, Sylar (Zachary Quinto) has continued acquiring additional powers as he kills and absorbs the various skills of Heroes in this past season.

The most recent, has been the ability to shapeshift.

In the latest episode entitled "I Am Sylar" he discovers that his latest ability is causing him to lose himself. The episode opens with the Petrelli clan and Noah Bennet (Jack Coleman) at a non-descript diner trying to figure out what they are going to do. Nathan (Adrian Pasdar) says that he is going to "take ownership of what he has done and go bakc to Washington and speak to the President." Claire (Hayden Panettiere) mentions "It looks like you already have" and motions toward to TV in the diner. Nathan is addressing the nation on a live broadcast. He is saying that he has tried to discuss his plan to fix the country and make America the great power it once was, but has been rebuffed at every turn. He claims "the President talks about change but he really is just supporting the status quo" and he, Petrelli, will change things for the better. He turns and grins at the camera and we see Nathan looking downcast. "Who is that?" asks Nathan. And Noah replies, "It's Sylar."

18 Hours Earlier

We see a man wake up and look at a mirror. He has a puzzled look and then changes into Sylar, but with difficulty. He pulls a bloody wisdom tooth from his mouth and asks "Who are you?" to his reflection.


Meanwhile, Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg) holding little Matt junior, talks on a pay phone to his ex-wife Janice (Lisa Lackey), and promising to bring little Matt back to her shortly. Hiro (Masi Oka) and Ando (James Kyson Lee) approach him and ask for his help to break into building 26, but Matt declines. "This is not the Matt Parkman we know" says Hiro. Matt tells them he wants to be around for Matt junior's first steps and his first baseball game. "This little guy is a game changer," he says smiling as he holds his son aloft. As he gets into his car to drive away, he tells Hiro and Ando to forget about building 26. What are their plans? To freeze time, then what? The agents will still be alive and they will hurt Hiro and Ando, or worse. They look downcast as Matt drives away.

Danko (Zeljko Ivanek) approaches Sylar as he sits on a park bench. He tries to convinces him to re-assume the form of agent Traub on his team, "so he can come and go. As Sylar, I'll be forced to hunt you down." But Syler tells Danko that he went to bed himself, but woke up as someone else. He is worried that when he is losing himself a bit when he re-configures his DNA. But, Sylar agrees to help Danko and changes shape. After Danko leaves, Sylar cut into his arm "I Am Sylar" but it heals almost at once (but with slight scarring...)

Let's Go, Batman!

Ando gets captured by agents but Hiro escapes but allows them to take Ando. Hiro dresses as one of the smaller agents (black mask etc) and freezes time while in the van so he can wake Ando and tell him to play possum. When he un-freezes time, one of the other agents asks Hiro about his glasses but Ando zaps him. As they leave the van, Hiro says plan B as he grabs a GPS from an unconscious agent. "Let's go Batman!" says an excited Hiro and Ando says "It's Crimson Arc" (Ando's wannabe superhero nickname).

Rebel Meets Sylar

Sylar meanwhile acquires another ability. He arrives ahead of Danko's men and takes the ability of another. This time it is a man (Rance Howard) who with a snap of his fingers can make an object dissolve into nothingness. A potentially lethal new ability for Sylar. As Danko and his team arrive to capture this man, they hear a scream as Sylar slices open his head. When they get in the room, he is dead, lying on the ground. Scrawled on the wall in his latest victim's blood is "I Am Sylar."


Next Danko comes for Micah (Noah Gray-Cabey), but once again Sylar is there first. He decides to spare Micah, (later he tells Danko that "with all the new abilities he has swimming in his head, talking to machines seemed like... overkill." Micah, later at Sylar's home, wakes up to arguing voices. He looks on as Sylar has a conversation with his dead mother, and very creepily turns into his dead mother when she speaks and back to Sylar when he replies. When he spots Micah watching him, he tells Micah to leave now before he kills him. Micah tries to reason with Sylar, that he is "one of us" and that Sylar is special and that he can "save all the Heroes." But Sylar tells him to leave and that if he ever sees him again, he will surely kill him.

Sylar Dies Yet Again

Cut to Nathan Petrelli's office and Nathan rummaging through his desk. Sylar, asks what Nathan is looking for and when he turns around, he sees himself. He insists that Sylar will fool no one and that he needs to get out of Nathan's body. Sylar obliges, but says he isn't going to be Nathan, but he will be better than Nathan. At this point Sylar gets prepared to slice into Nathan's skull, but Danko appears and shoots Nathn in the back with tranqualers darts. Danko tells Sylar to transform back into agent Traub. When Sylar walk out of the washroom still as Sylar, Danko asks him what he thinks he is doing. Sylar replies, "I don't care anymore what you want" and starts to walk away. He stops short. He turns to Danko who has thrown a knife into the back of Sylar's skull and he falls to the floor dead.

Danko calls for a cleanup crew. That should be it right? Sylar was hit in the "sweet spot" as Danko called it. The only sure way of killing him. But Sylar stirs, stands up and pulls the bloody knife out, and looks at Danko and says "That hurt!" as he stares intently at Danko.

How can Sylar be stopped?

Supernatural: A Third Winchester Brother?

As the 4th season of Supernatural comes to an end, there's a bit of a surprise in store for the demon-hunting brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester. In the upcoming episode called "Jump The Shark", they receive word that there may be another brother out there. His name is Adam, and of course the brothers are sure that this is some sort of a demon-inspired trick to finally dispose of the underworld's biggest pain, the brothers' Winchester. How could there possibly be a 3rd brother? Well, their dear old daddy was on the road for long stretches at a time and it can get a little lonely when you're fighting the good fight against the evil undead. Maybe Pa Winchester got hisself some strange.

This could be an interesting twist in the Supernatural saga, but I'm hoping it's not something like when Shannon Doherty left Charmed and they brought in a 4th sister to take her place in the trio. (Hope I didn't lose any street cred by admitting I've watched Charmed: Alyssa Milano and Holly Marie Combs are hot little witches). If this 3rd brother starts tagging along like some pain-in-the-butt lil' brother "C'mon guys, let me kill the demon this time, pleeease", maybe I can see why the episode would be named "Jump The Shark." Have to wait and see what's going on.

Thursday at 9pm. Then 3 more episodes this season, "Rapture" will air April 30, "When the Levee Breaks" on May 7 and the season-ending "Lucifer Rising" on May 21. Lucifer Rising sounds like it will be a cliffhanger, don't it?

YouTube Will Have TV Shows Soon: Could Be Interesting...

Have you heard about this? YouTube is about to unveil a section where you will be able to watch actual TV shows and feature films. They're doing this because of the increasing popularity of Hulu, which is eating into the massive numbers of views that are generated by the biggest kid on the block, YouTube.

Hulu is new and owned by News Corp and NBC Universal and has a huge library of TV shows and movies available. And the ever-hungry Disney Corp is angling for a stake in Hulu so they could be allowing Disney-produced movies and TV shows (more Hanna Montana dreck anyone?). Hulu is growing by leaps and bounds and may eventually overtake YouTube if they get the mix right for viewers and advertisers. And that's the rub for YouTube. This new section for YouTube is an interesting spin, and with a little work could turn YouTube into the money-spinner the Googlemeisters were looking for. Still too many details need to be ironed out.

Advertisers are the pot o' gold Google (who purchased YouTube for a sackful of money in 2006) are after. They love the numbers for YouTube (5.3 million views in February), but enticing the wary adboys to part with their dollars is the hard part. Would you advertise with a company that seems to air mostly kids showin' off their hot skateboard tricks and flips? Of course, that's not all there is to YouTube. I love YouTube because of the old trailers and movie and sports clips available. But if you can provide longer clips of movies or television episodes, there's a boatload of dollars waiting for the guys who put it all together with the advertisers.

Almost makes me want to dust off my old YouTube-ish idea about providing clips with subtle ads interspersed (No, not subliminally, you dork). What's needed is a platform that provides the good visual content and with ads featured alongside that content. The advertising has to be unobtrusive and non-distracting. Hmmm... maybe I should put in a call to Google boys with my brilliant idea.

You heard it here at Tube Squad first. I just have to do a little legwork and maybe I'll get a sliver of the revenue or maybe I'll just start a new website (maybe I'll call it "Tube Squad"!) and then sell it to Google and retire to a tropical island. Dare to dream.

Nicollette Sheridan's Gone From Desperate Housewives

Lovely Nicollette Sheridan is no longer on Desperate Housewives! Oh NOOO! Okay, I don't watch the show, but I can't help but watch Nicollette Sheridan whenever I'm channel surfing. She is eminently watchable, and I've usually stopped to watch the show from time to time whenever she's been on. Then sometimes I watch long enough and Eva Longoria Parker appears, and then I ask myself... what am I watching this tripe for?


I've never really been able to understand the allure of the show, well Eva and Nicollette notwithstanding, because it strikes me as a soap opera, albet with some humerous moments thrown in. It seems they work just too hard trying to be funny, witty etc on Desperate Housewives. It seems to have been on the air forever and I've never really been the least bit interested in the comings and goings of Wysteria Lane (is that the street they all live on?) or cared one whit about the story lines. This was the same as other much beloved "dramas" that I thankfully have avoided like Knots Landing, Melrose Place (although Courtney Thorne-Smith was yummy on Allie McBeal and According to Jim, I couldn't fathom they urgency that all the girls at work would discuss these shows).

So, although I don't mourn her character "Edie Britt", I will miss catching Sheridan when I'm flipping through channels. She does have an impressive body... of work, and has been on and off television since 1984's Paper Dolls and apparently she was in Knots Landing for 179 episodes. She has been on Desperate Housewives for 113 episodes and I'm sure that there'll be another series waiting in the wings for the hot mid-40s-something actress. I'll look forward to spotting her again and having her force me to linger momentarily while I look for something good to watch. Meanwhile, the "Wives" will have to crank it up a notch and maybe bring in some new blood to fill her void.

Supernatural, Great Repeat: Ghostfacers

I just watched a great repeat episode of Supernatural called Ghostfacers which aired last year. It reminded me of a mix between The Blair Witch Project and one of those shows where some psychics go into a haunted building snooping around for ghosts. Almost the entire show looks like it was filled with a handheld camera. This episode was the lucky number 13th episode of Supernatural - The Complete Third Season. Highly enjoyable. If you love those stories people trying to locate weird spirits using oddball gizmos and "see-in-the-dark" lighting, this is definitely what you're looking for.

Here's what happened if you missed it. It starts with a couple of amateur ghost busters named Harry and Ed making a tape advertising their show they've named "Ghostfacers." The Ghostfacers have formed a team to investigate various supernatural phenomena and haunted houses. The two guys are joined by Kenny, Maggie (Ed's adopted sister) and Alan Corbett (the intern: shades of the red-shirted Star Trek ensign). Their plan? They're going to stay the night and film their experiences in the infamous Morton House.

Morton House Back Story

Apparently dozens of people have disappeared after entering the Morton House over the years. The house is your standard creepy, big old house on the outside, dusty and even creepier on the inside with twisting corridors, bugs and other assorted vermin. Rumored to be the most haunted place in America every four years or so, the house is one of those "I dare ya to spend the night in the old Morton place" deals that were perfect for Shaggy and Scooby. And it starts getting spooky right from the get go.

Dean And Sam Show Up

The Ghostfacers pry open the door and wander inside after seeing Dean and Sam drive past. The team split up and check out various rooms. The fun starts almost immediately after they begin setting up their equipment and scatter throughout the house. Ed and Corbett are calling out to any ghostly residents that they want to make contact and back at their home base Maggie, Harry and Spruce detect "something" on their scans, but it quickly fades. Just them Dean and Sam barge in pretending to be the cops, and tries to convince the ghostfacers to hightail it out, but Ed recognizes the brothers from another supernatural occurrence in Texas. The team feels a drop in temperature and then spot a ghostly figure standing in an adjacent room. As they watch they see the figure (looking like a 1920s mobster) get gunned down and then vanish. What to make of that? Dean explains that what they've seen is an "echo." Usually seen at the sight of the person's death or where they had lived. But what was the connection to this shot-to-death goodfella? Dean advises that they all get out before midnight (because his past experience) and the group agrees. At this point the group realizes their young intern has left the group.

Corbett Disappears

We cut to Corbett walking by himself and calling for ghosts to contact him and he's carrying a camera trained on his face. You just know that this is not going to end well. The camera starts to flicker and Corbett's night goggles go out. We still see him on the film, but he can't see. Suddenly there's a LARGE figure of a man standing directly behind Corbett in the frame. Back at the group, we hear Corbett screaming for help and the rest of his team and Sam and Dean race upstairs to try to help. When they get there we still hear Corbett screaming, but fainter and fainter... We see on the film Corbett is being dragged away by the spectral figure down a hallway by one of his legs. Corbett's screams cease.

Gotta Be Out Before Midnight!

Sam begins slamming a chair against the door which has become mysteriously sealed as have all the windows. They realize that it is now after midnight and they are all guests of whatever is in the Morton House for the duration of the night. Dean tells them that "something or someone doesn't want them to leave." Then as the Ghostfacers equipment again starts twitching, they spot another ghost. A man is standing in the next room with his back to them. Dean walks over to him and starts yelling to try to shock this new ghostly echo to snap back into realization. Suddenly the man starts to turn around... and is bathed in a light. It's an invisible train that hits the echo pitching him into the wall and he disappears. And then Dean notices Sam has also vanished...

And that is all I'm going to say about this episode. Really a top notch suspenseful show and all this happened in only the first half hour. There's another 30 minutes to go as Dean and the remaining Ghostfacers try to avoid being picked off by whatever is in the house with them while trying to save Corbett and Sam and figure out exactly what is happening to them. Really, take a look at this series. It funny and scary at the same time which is a very hard line to tread.

Latest Heroes Episode: 1961

Angela Petrelli's dark past begins to unfold. Her sister Alice, along with Angela, were taken to the compound that Angela brought Nathan, Peter and Claire in the last episode. Claire and Angela discuss what happened there so many years ago, but a fierce windstorm flares up. Angela runs outside calling for her sister who we find out was able to control the weather (hopefully she will look like Storm from The X-Men, but it will likely be Cristine Rose in dual roles).

In a flashback, Angela and Alice Shaw arrive on a bus labeled "Coyote Sands Relocation Center" with an Indian doctor checking them in (likely the senior Doctor Suresh). There are armed guards and the doctor tells young Angela that they are there to keep them "safe." Angela tries to convince her sister that the people at the compound will help them overcome their problems (Angela has terrifying nightmares). Next we see Angela back in the present telling Peter that her sister and parents were killed at the compound and she wants to prevent that from happening to them all in the present. Peter questions Angela about why they had to be brought to this place when she could have told her about it anywhere, but Angela says she has been dreaming about her dead sister a lot recently and wants to find something, a piece of cloth if not the body of Alice in order to give her a proper burial.

The few who survived the slaughter, so many years ago became "the Company" explains Angela. They determined that never again should those with abilities be rounded up. They did this by destroying files, erasing memories, killing and blackmailing. Claire wonders if Angela stating that they need to go back to the "old ways" means killing and blackmailing people. Peter refuses to be a part in anything like that and races off.

Back in 1961, Dr Suresh comes for Alice and when he tries to use a needle on her arm, Alice panics and an electrical storm causes the door to blow open. When Dr Suresh tries to force Alice to take the needle, a guard trying to close the door is electrocuted and Alice runs out the back door into the storm. Dr Suresh tries to grab her and he strikes Alice across the face. A man uses a force to push Sureah away as he tries to apologise. A guard shoots him and Alice hides under a shack as gunfire and screaming is heard as the guards begin shooting everyone. Mohinder Sureah turns up and confronts Noah Bennet asking why he is there. Noah advises he was brought by Angela Petrelli and Mohinder says he found a file stating his father was a doctor there years ago and he wanted to find out why, but now he is unsure if he really wants to know.

Then Angela finds her sister Alice still alive. Alice explains she stayed at the compound and stole what she needed to survive. Alice appears a little loopy (wouldn't you after 50 years alone?) and begins channeling another storm. Mohinder tries to placate her but Alice flashes back to his father slapping her and Mohinder is knocked back by an electrical discharge. Angela tries to tell Alice that it is all right, that these people are her family...

Unmarried Gary Dates The Hot Teacher

Scrumpious Cerina Vincent plays a temp at the school of Gary's daughter, Louise in the new series Gary Unmarried, which is about a recently divorced dad of 2 kids starring Jay Mohr.
In the most recent episode, Gary finds out about the "hot art teacher" at Louise's school, "The guys' IQs drop 60 points whenever she walks into a room" mopes Louise. Even the kid who is her desk partner (with the bad eye) has both eyes on "Ms Saint James." I have to admit, she is very hot. Gary becomes smitten with Ms Saint James and asks her out ("Can I call you Ms Saint James? -- That's so hot!" says Gary). His daughter thinks that Gary has asked out her other art teacher, Ms Plumber (Kathleen Rose Perkins), who dresses in layers and is, well, a little on the homely side.

When Gary's ex-wife Allison (Paula Marshall) insists he choose to go out with Ms Plumber, rather than Ms Saint James (which keeps confusing Gary, because "Ms Saint james is the hot one"), he eventually relents when Louise also insists he go out with her favorite teacher, because Gary needs to "get out there, and mix it up".

Gary plans on meeting the homely Ms Plumber at the gym and then take the hot teacher to a fancy restaurant. But... Ms Plumber arrives looking very hot herself. Unfortunately for Gary Ms Plumber has found out that he has asked out 2 of his daughter's teachers and throttles him in the ring. She informs Gary that she was a golden gloves champ. "I didn't know there was a division for girls in the Golden Gloves." "There isn't" replies Ms Plumber as she drops him like a bad habit. She looms over him and winks and says "call me!"

The Big Bang Theory: The Hofstadter Isotope

It's "anything can happen Thursday" according to Sheldon (Jim Parsons) as the guys prepare to venture out to the comic book store. They run into Penny (Kaley Cuoco) in the hall and after she asks them to pick up some comics for her 13-year-old nephew, Sheldon quizzes her about which "comics" they should get. "The ones with talking babies, or anthramorphized pets?" Penny says Spiderman, and then Sheldon asks "Original Spiderman? The Amazing Spiderman? The Spectacular Spiderman? Or Spiderman 2099?" Reluctantly Penny agrees to tag along to the comic book store just to shut Sheldon up.

When they get the to store, of course all the comic book patrons are watching Penny's every move. Pretty girl in a comic book store syndrome. The guy working there is named Stuart (Kevin Sussman) and is a friend of Leonard (Johhny Galecki) and Sheldon and they introduce him to Penny. While Sheldon and Howard (Simon Helberg) quibble over which of them should get the latest Batman book, Stuart draws a picture of Penny and when she likes it, he asks her out, much to Leonard's chagrin. Back at the apartment, Leonard is moping and turns off "the Star Trek Deep Space Nine-Original Trek, 'The Trouble With Tribbles' crossover episode" which peaks Sheldon's interest. He suggests now would be the perfect time for Leonard to start a blog with interactive comments section to get people on the Internet to provide Leonard with guidance about his problem with the Stuart-Penny dating situation. Leonard decides to go to "a bar where women are" with Howard and Raj (Kunal Nayyar) when he meets Penny and Stuart heading out to one of his art exhibits.

At the bar, Howard tries to work his mojo with expected results. Howard, it turns out waits for "the jocks and attorneys" to thin the herd, so he can swoop in on the weak and the aged. His best bits for attracting women include having Leonard put handkerchiefs in his mouth so the women will laugh, then Leonard and Howard will laugh and then they'll get them drinking til they're at 1.5 the legal limit and then Howard and Leonard will tell them they are millionaires. Raj meanwhile, having imbibed several Brandy Alexanders, is spotted necking with a rather large woman. Penny returns from her date with Stuart and invites him in for coffee, to which Stuart asks "Isn't it a little late for coffee?" and Penny starts to explain that it is so cute that he thinks coffee means coffee. Sheldon comes out into the hallway because he heard Stuart's voice.

After arguing with Stuart about Dick Grayson (the original Robin) "picking up the cowl and becoming the new Batman in the event of Bruce Wayne's death, and Stuart perplexing Sheldon by insisting Sheldon couldn't be "more wrong", "wrong being a quantitative state with no room for degradation so he couldn't be 'more wrong.'" Stuart argues that yes he can. If Sheldon said "steak is not a meat" he would be wrong, but if he said meat could be a suspension bridge" he would be more wrong. Finally, Stuart concedes defeat in exhaustion. Sheldon suggests they leave Penny's apartment (she's asleep on her couch), because if Stuart wakes her, she'll "ravage him like rabid wolverine."

The next morning we see Raj wake up in an unfamiliar bedroom with a big, meaty arm crushing him. He tries to move away, but the girl pulls him close. Raj smiles and goes back to sleep.

And that's it til next season. Good to see that the show has been picked up for another season, because it is hilarious. There's a good The Big Bang Theory episode guide I've put together that you might like. Take a look if you're a fan.

Hillary Duff On Ghost Whisperer

On this week's Ghost Whisperer, Hillary Duff puts in an appearance as Morgan Jeffries, a young woman who may have been involved in the death of an older man who attended a group therapy session with Duff's character. This is the 19th episode of the 4th season for Jennifer Love Hewitt's series about a young woman who can see and communicate with spirits and those with "unfinished business" after they die. Here's a link to a short clip of the episode called Thrilled to Death featuring Hillary Duff.

The episode starts with Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Jim (or Sam) who now inhabits Sam's body discussing Jim's death and him being in Sam now. Then it cuts to Duff wakening from a scary dream that seems to carry on to the real world. She runs into the hallway from her apartment and bumps into Eli (one of Melinda's ghosthunting pals) who enters the frightened girl's apartment where he hears a ghost asking if they want to die.

About her role in the episode Duff said, "I'm kind of being haunted by someone that I was in a relationship with before they passed away. He had unfinished business with me, and I'm having nightmares of being turned upside down in my apartment, like when I'm sleeping on the bed, I'm actually going to be hanging from the ceiling." Which she does, in the first scene we see her in.

The episode deals with Melinda and Eli trying to figure out Morgan's relationship with a deceased cancer patient, whom Morgan claims no knowledge of.

Supernatural About To Embark On The Show's Fifth Season!

Hard to believe, but Supernatural is about to start filming it's fifth season. I've been watching the show off and on, it seems to air at weird times, late at night and repeated on some of the higher cable channels, so I'm not totally up to speed on all that's happened. The basic premise of the show is that there are these two brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester (played by Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles) who do battle with demons and angels and all things creepy in this world and the next. Each week there are weird occurances and paranormal shite happening to the two Winchester boys as they carry on their deceased father's good work (or is he really dead?)

There's lots of cool effects, like when a demon leaves a human host a black cloud comes out of the person's mouth and disappears. One episode had a particularly odd scene where a hot woman with psychic powers has her eyes removed by some demonic power (so she cannot see, get it?). Over the past few years, both Sam and Dean have had their own problems. They bicker with each other, and one brother even died, and after a short sojorn in Hades, claws his way out of his grave. The other brother was touched by a great evil as an infant and he manifests some demonic powers of his own.

As this kind of reminds me of Buffy and her mis-adventures, and there is a fair bit of humor running through most episodes. One recent episode I saw involved a demi-god (sort of like Loki, that mischievious imp) living in a small college town wreaking havoc on several locals, and pitting Sam against Dean by making them believe the other is stealing a computer or damaging their precious car. That one had it all: a scary ghost, a sewer-dwelling alligator, and and alien abduction all roled up into one tight package.

But the bottom line is that the show provides a fair bit of chills and thrills along with goos story arcs. Need I say more? Supernatural - Seasons 1-3 is one of those shows that you start watching midway through and wish you had been there from the beginning.

Amy Poehler's “Parks and Recreation”

Amy Poehler is set to star in a new series called Parks And Recreation, starting Thursdays. Poehler will be playing Leslie Knope, the deputy director in the parks department of Pawnee, Indiana. Leslie Knope is described as "a bureaucrat infused with a clueless, Michael Scott-like optimism", think The Office meets the great outdoors. Poehler's character is the kind of person who reacts to the public's criticism by explaining that "what I hear when I'm being yelled at is people caring loudly at me."

Poehler's character, Knope, has a crush on Mark Brendanawicz (played by Paul Schneider) who is a touch clueless himself. He and Knope slept together once, but Brendanawicz doesn't remember their coupling. Other castmembers include: Aziz Ansari (who plays Knope's colleague, Tom), and Nick Offerman who plays her boss. I think it may be a wait and see for this one. It has some good points, namely Poehler, along with the producers of The Office lending a hand. If the writing hits the clever level that The Office has enjoyed, then it might be interesting viewing.

Robin Will Be Living With Ted Moseby Next Year

Did you catch the end of How I Met Your Mother last night? There was a goat involved, and a spat between Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) and Ted Moseby (Josh Radnor) over Barney and Robin's tryst. In the episode, Ted confronts Barney over a very guilty Barney in a limo about Barney having slept with Robin (Cobie Smulders). Ted told Barney that he didn't want to be friends with Barney any longer and hopped out of the limo (Barney was taking Ted to Vegas to celebrate Ted 30th birthday). Barney was feeling terrible for having broken "The Bro Code" by sleeping with his bud's ex. (As a side note: Barney Stinson wrote The Bro Code, which gives his rules to live by).

Basically Ted let Barney know that Robin had told him about her night with Barney because she felt guilty herself, just as Barney was going to tell Ted about it himself.

What About The Goat?

Lily (Alyson Hannigan) had a goat (in a birthday hat, because, c'mon! A goat in a birthday hat is funny!) for Ted surprise birthday party, while Barney decided to surprise Ted himself by winging him off to Las Vegas to really kick off Ted's 30s with a bang. Actually Barney was doing this out of painful guilt.

At the very end of the show, Ted was telling his kids about the goat locking itself in the bathroom and it was eating one of Robin's face-clothes. Then Ted said - wait a minute... Robin's face-clothes? But Robin wasn't living there on his 30th birthday. He then said, oh that's right, the goat in the bathroom was on his 31st birthday. Implying Robin and Ted will be living together again next season. Hmmm...

Heroes Latest Episode: Turn and Face The Strange

Picture Hiro (Masi Oka), Ando (James Kyson Lee) in a car with Toddler "Touch and Go", Matt's son. Ando and Hiro are discussing their next step when the baby starts crying and the car stops dead. Meanwhile Danko (Zeljko Ivanek) and Noah Bennet (Jack Coleman) discuss Sylar's death. Danko wanders into the washroom and there is the real Danko, who lectures Sylar (Zachary Quinto) on the danger of assuming his form. Sylar smiles and advises Danko to keep an eye on a mole he discovered while in Danko's form. Then Sylar states he is planning to destroy Bennet.

Ando, Hiro with the baby catch a ride with down-home truck driver who promises them a mechanic can help them out in the next town. Bennet pulls the spike from the head of the dead Sylar, while having gunmen present in case it really is Sylar and he springs back to life - he doesn't and orders cancellation of Danko's order to cremate the body of the shapeshifter. Noah is realizing that Sylar is not really dead. Meanwhile, his wife, Sandra (Ashley Crow) is crowding in on him at his work reminding him that Claire is missing and questioning why he is looking for Sylar.

Parkman Confronts Danko

Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg), becoming obsessed with Danko for the death of Daphne so he follows him and meets a beautiful russian woman, named Elena who believes Danko is a wonderful schoolbook salesman with a family in Chicago. Matt brings her to Danko and forces him to confess to Elena that he hunts and kills people for the government and what he did to Daphne and what he does for a living. She leaves Danko in tears, demanding he stay away from her.

Noah gets a DNA test back that proves the dead body is not the actual Sylar and realizes Sylar has become a shapeshifter. He immediately confronts Sandra with a gun to the back of her head, believing her to be Sylar in her form. Luckily, she proves her identity when her cell phone rings and it is their son.

Later, when Noah Bennet confronts Danko about Sylar, Danko reveals that Sylar has assumed the identity of one of the team leaders who "has been racking up a lot of wins lately." When the team returns from another successful capture, Noah congratuates the team leader and them shoots him in the back. The man falls to the ground dead with Bennet yelling at him to "Get up! Get up! It's Sylar!" When the man doesn't arise, he runs away with the rest of the team in hot pursuit. Then Sylar rises - it was him after all. It is beginning to look like Sylar's decision to ruin Noah Bennet's life is coming true.

Back To The Petrellis

At the end of the episode, the Petrelli clan meets (Angela, Nathan, Peter, and Claire) at an abandoned compound. When Nathan asks Angela why they are all together, she starts handing out shovels and says "Dig." Nathan uncovers a skull with a bullet hole and asks who it was. Angela replies she know them all. How many people are buried there questions the others. At this point Noah Bennet pulls up in a car and he and Claire just look at each other.

Octo-Mom! Octo-Drama! Enough Already!

I am sick and tired of hearing about the so-called "Octo Mom" and her brood and I want this story to go away. Every time I turn on the TV, there's this incensed commentator vehemently tearing into this woman and almost salivating in the hopes that some hanger-on will drop some nugget of information that will lead to the children being removed, or at least the story can be moved forward one more day, so they can pound away another day. These so-called stories that appear on these "current affairs" programs are the worst drivel on television today and have no redeeming factors.

All they do is stridently attack people and trundle in lawyers, experts, and special guests to undermine everyone involved. The worst part is that when viewers begin to tire of the story of the day, they drop all their commentary and move on to the next big story and then they begin the cycle once more. Their self-righteous indignation moves on because the story has become old news, there is never another word about the old news. Disgusting.

They play up the latest homicide, investment scandal, drug-overdose or whatever meaningless story pops up on the purient media's collective consciousness that will garner the programs some ratings and playing up to the lowest common denominator. Even if I had even the slightest interest in whatever the "Octo-Mom" is up to, hopefully, I wouldn't be spending my day glued to the tube with baited breath to see if her nanny situation works out. I just don't care and you shouldn't either. If there are problems incurred with raising her own little tribe, let her deal with it and if she can't, there are people able to step in and help, either by removing the kids if mistreated or neglected. This is not a story that should be glammed up for television. It is not news. People need to move on and GET A LIFE! Okay, I'm now done ranting.

ER: The Series Finale

It's gone. The long-standing series about the Emergency Room at Chicago County Hospital is now gone to the big re-run and syndication network in the sky. The series kicked off and rejuvenated the acting careers of many of the TV and movie stars of the past, with the most notable being George Clooney who appeared in 109 episodes as Dr. Doug Ross. Noah Wyle has the honor of having appeared in the most episodes in the shows 15 year run (1994-2009) having started with the show as fresh faced intern, Dr. John Carter with 254 appearances, while Laura Innes' Dr. Kerry Weaver appeared in 250 episodes in total.

The show was must-watch TV for years garnering HUGE audiences, but as the cast members left, one by one, the series began to falter and lose steam, but still managed to entertain as new cast members joined and older ones left. Recently, in the episode "Old Times" George Clooney and Julianne Margolis reprised their roles as Dr. Ross and Nurse Carol Hathaway. Both left the show in 2000, but it was intriguing to find out what had become of the couple after leaving County. Eriq La Salle showed up in the same episode as Dr. Peter Benton. Dr. Benton also was in the finale at Dr. John Carter's opening of the new unit named in honor of his son, Joshua Carter, who had died. The last episode contains both births and death, loss and a regained purpose for an original castmember. The final scene shows multiple ambulances arriving following an industrial accident which provides shades of past seasons, of doctors playing basketball outside of the ER and waiting for the traumas of the day to show up so they can try to help the injured.

What I remember most of the early years, was the romance of Dr. Ross and Nurse Hathaway, as well as the attempts of Chief Resident, Dr. Mark Greene (played by the great Anthony Edwards) as he tried to hook up with Sherry Springfield's character, Dr. Susan Lewis. They just seemed perfect for each other, but both never seemed able to get together. Then the story arc of the last days of Dr. Greene's father who died from lung cancer (loved the scene of him and his father on the boat with no dialogue, only music).

Sadly, Dr. Greene also ended up passing away. His daughter, Rachel, who we saw in several early and middle episodes returns to the ER as a 22-year old med student. Here's a link to ER - The Complete First Season, just one of the many great seasons. If you haven't watched the series from start to finish, here's your chance. This was an above average medical series for years, with great storylines and character development. The show was nominated 123 times for Emmys (the show won at least one Emmy award every year for 9 of it's first 10 years), and also won the Peoples Choice Award as Favorite Television Dramatic Series 1995-2002.

So far, seasons one to eleven have been released on DVD, and here's the latest available ER: The Complete Eleventh Season. The final four seasons are still TBA" (to be announced).