View From the Bushes

The TV show "Scrubs" has returned after a brief hiatus. The last couple of weeks they've shown two new episodes back to back, an embarrassment of riches if there ever was one. "Scrubs" is one of those shows that I'm amazed is not more popular, but at least it wasn't cancelled after one season like most of the shows I end up liking. Of course the benefits of cancellation are that it cuts down on the amount of TV I'm viewing. This year was particularly bad I picked up not one but two new shows.

The first was "My Name is Earl" which I believe I've talked about before. Jason Lee's low-key delivery is a thing to behold, and the little gags they slip in that allude to his (or others) criminal past, as just about the funniest thing on TV. Last week he was working on a farm and a Mexican maid he's befriended wanted to come along, since she worked on a farm when she was young. They ask her where that was and in an expressionless reminiscance she says, "Well they took us there with a blindfold, so I don't really no, but my father died in Nogales, so it had to be north of there, and it was east of the "River of Blood", so..."

The other show I started watching this season is "How I Met Your Mother". The show itself is sweet and funny all on it's own, but until you have seen Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Hoowser) as Barney, you don't know what comedy is. A favorite scene from that movie involved Barney convincing Ted (the main character) to go lick the Liberty Bell. As Ted relates the story to a girl later, she asks him what it tasted like. He gets this far away look at says, "It tasted like freedom..."

Enjoying the taste of captivity
Ross