Television

Bob’s Burgers – Sacred Cow

It’s a very special day at Bob’s Burgers as Bob is on track to cook his 100,000 burger. He has the kids join him in the freezer to make the special announcement and display the meat that will be used. After Bob’s announcement the kids each take turns going around the room making announcements of their own. Tina starts them off by announcing that her bra is chaffing her followed by Gene’s declaration of his love of house music. Louise announces that she’s finally getting her gun license; this is followed by a genuine congrats from Tina and Gene’s disgust by the fact that she had to wait three days to get it. Linda ends the banter when she busts out the banner that they had printed from their “old computer”. The gag is that it’s from a dot-matrix printer and has the dotted edges that still need to be torn off. She finishes by saying that they should have hit 100,000 a long time ago, but were way off.

Smallville – Fortune Review

Have you ever had a night that was so awesome, so mind-blowing, that you couldn’t remember it the next day? Well, you should definitely watch The Hangover. After that, watch this episode of Smallville. There are only seven episodes of the whole series left after this and it’s their last chance for some goofy fun before Darksied comes to kill everyone. Was it as terrible as the concept sounds? Was it as funny as the trailer made it look? Well…

The
episode opens up with Lois’s hen party with Chloe and Tess while Clark
goes on his Bucks night with Ollie and Emil. What they didn’t see coming
was that Zatanna had roofie-charmed the Champaign and no one, not even
Clark, can remember what happened the night before. They wake up to find
that they’re all in a ton of trouble. Clark apparently married Chloe
under the supervision of a lemur, Lois wakes up with the wrong shoes and
her engagement ring gone and Emil has been mistaken for the thief of an
armored truck after becoming Metropolis’s number one Elvis
impersonator. Even Tess gets in on the action when we see that she and
Emil made a sex tape. While this episode could have fallen flat on its
ass, it didn’t. Nearly all the jokes work. If you watch the episode
twice, you’ll notice jokes you didn’t see before. Clark stealing the “L”
in Luthor Corp was great and had me rolling on the floor. The lemur was
a nice touch and seeing Tess take a break from being a hard ass bitch
was a refreshing change of pace.

30 Rock – TGS Hates Women

This week on 30 Rock, Jack got a new nemesis in the form of a fourteen-year-old girl, and I spent the entire episode wondering where I’d seen the teen actress who plays her, then I caught her name in the credits and… holy crap!  It’s Chloe Moretz!  Hit Girl from Kick Ass!  After playing an unstoppable killing machine in one movie and a twelve-year old vampire in Let Me In, it’s great to see Chloe doing some comedy.  As we learn in the plot twist, she’s still playing a bad-ass, but this kid is really demonstrating some talent.  30 Rock has found an excellent use for this rising star.

The Office – Todd Packer

The Office has been on a pretty good roll lately, but last
night’s episode unfortunately felt a lot like a pretty typical example of a
show that might have exhausted most of its best ideas by now. There was just
something a bit listless and tired about the whole thing. I laughed a few
times, but it just wasn’t that great of a showing by anyone.

Archer – The Double Deuce

Archer continues its recent trend of backstory episodes by giving us the
origin story of Woodhouse and even setup some interesting stuff with
Malory. Couple that with the regular hilarity we’ve come to expect from
Archer and we’ve got another killer episode. Not the best episode this
season, but still good.

Bob’s Burgers – Crawl Space

Linda’s parents are coming to visit for the weekend which has put her into a cleaning frenzy. She begs Bob to fix their leak in the roof because she doesn’t want her mother commenting about the ten or so pots they have catching the water. Bob agrees after he realizes he doesn’t want to hear her voice on the subject either. Before he heads to the attic he and the kids have to decide which room the in-laws are staying in. At first Gene’s room is chosen because it smells like farts and he’s transferred to Tina’s room. Tina’s fine with it, but Tina has night tremors and gets up every night violently punching and kicking the air. Tina goes on to explain that it’s due to watching Night of the Living Dead when she was eight, but now due to her budding sexuality she’s making out with the Zombies that are attacking her. Bob quarantines Tina to Louise’s room and puts the other two into Tina’s room.

The Cape – The Lich Part 2

Last week ended with a cliffhanger ending.  The Cape’s sidekick Orwell had fallen into the clutches of a terrifying new villain named The Lich.  The Cape had been out fighting The Lich’s army of sorta zombies in order to prevent them from poisoning the city during the big Palm City Founders’ Day Parade and… you know what?  None of this actually matters, because the zombie powder poison thing pretty much went right out the window in this episode.