Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
05.00 Arrested Development
08.00 The Incredible Hulk
09.00 The Closer
01.00 NewsRadio
Arrested Development. Season 2, Episode 18. "Righteous Brothers"
After some messy episodes in the latter part of the season (due to the Fox cutback on the episode order, I suspect) the show goes out on a high note to end the second season.
George Michael and his cousin, Maeby, finally share a passionate kiss. At which point the house starts to sink into the ground under them. Only on Arrested Development. Wonderful.
The Incredible Hulk. Episode 9. "Never Give a Trucker an Even Break" David gets mixed up with a stolen truck.
Kenneth Johnson wrestles with footage from the movie Duel and almost succeeds in turning it into an episode of The Incredible Hulk by playing much of it for laughs, in the hope - I suppose - that we won't notice.
Unfortunately, most of the footage from Duel clearly shows one person driving the car and Johnson's script requires two people to be in the car most of the time (although he finds interesting ways to make his actors disappear from sight).
Even if the inserted footage worked perfectly you are still left with a bad story: David meets a girl and they steal a truck. There is a chase. They get caught and end up back where they started. But they escape. So there's another chase along the same stretch of road, with them in a car this time. End of episode.
Jennifer Darling is wonderful, of course, but she can't save the episode.
The Closer. Season 5, Episode 4. "Walking Back the Cat" Fritz asks Brenda to do him a small favour. Quietly.
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. A side-splittingly hilarious episode of The Closer where all of the comedy is driven by the characters. The chemistry between Brenda and Fritz drives much of the laughter, the chemistry between Provenza and, well, everybody else, drives the rest...
It's a joy to watch something this good. It really is.
And the ending is funny, clever and romantic. It hangs on the idea that Fritz really understands his (crazy) wife.
NewsRadio. Season 3, Episode 13. "Led Zeppelin Boxed Set" Matthew inadvertently hits Bill, and becomes... King Of The Office.
The subplot involving Jimmy and Three Card Monte is nothing to get excited about, but the main story (where Matthew becomes a jerk) provides a few good laughs.
Highlight? The Closer (funny)
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