Summer TV Viewing: The Baby Borrowers on NBC

This is great, great TV. Take 5 teenage couples looking to become teenage parents, add a real baby, and watch hilarity ensue. It's funny when it's other people having to stay up all night and NOT YOU, so yes hilarity is the correct word.

Through the first couple of episodes I've already developed a healthy dislike for the poor, spoiled girl from Georgia (newsflash, honey: when you're really pregnant, you have to haul all that extra weight around ALL THE TIME--you can't just take off the pregnancy belly!) and the skinny girl from Houston who had to go work in the sawmill.

All teenagers should watch The Baby Borrowers; it's abstinence education, but entertainingly so.

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Summer TV Viewing: “Swingtown” on CBS

That was crap. Season Pass cancelled.

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Summer TV Viewing: “Last Comic Standing” on NBC

God’s Pottery?

Are you ****ing kidding me?

I mean, sure, the show left 50 people behind in the auditions who were funnier than the crap that they’ve brought forward, but God’s Freakin’ Pottery still manages to be one of the finalists? WTF?

This year's finals may be full of fail. Bring back Doug Benson, dammit!

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Summer TV Viewing: “America’s Got Talent!” on NBC

So far, I like what I’m seeing. They seem to be doing a better job this season of keeping the cameras on the talent and off of the judges and Jerry, which is as it should be. I wasn’t as impressed with the opera singer as they were—he felt like an echo of Paul Potts, who felt like an echo of Pavirotti—which is why even though Nessun Dorma is a showcase song you have to be damned sure you have the chops to pull it off before you step in front of an audience.

If anyone comes close to impressing me the way that Terry Fator did, I’ll be happy.

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Summer TV Viewing: “I Love the New Millenium” on VH1

So VH1 is moving on to rehashing events from my adult life, but I’m still slurping it up with a spoon.

Michael Ian Black and Paul F. Thompkins are very similar comedians to me, in that sometimes it seems they’re just rambling, but every now and then when they do finally stumble on a punchline, it ain’t bad.

I like mindless television. Hooray!

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Summer TV Viewing Thought for Zoboomafoo

My daughter's not all that interested in television, which is just fine with me, but Zoboomafoo grabs her attention like nothing else in this world. Second place would go to Between the Lions; she really seems to like the puppets.

I might have to become a paying member of my local PBS station. With my subscription to The Nation and my support of NPR, that means I will have hit the liberal media trifecta. Yay for me!

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The Summer TV Viewing Thought for "Wipeout" on ABC

People being beaten to hell and thrown in mud pits = good TV.

And it's nice to see John Henson getting work again.

Put me down for a full season.

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The Summer TV Thought for "Farmer Wants a Wife"

Matt was insane for picking Brooke over Christa. Christa might have had a touch of the witch in her, but I'd rather spend the rest of my life with someone who seems to have a bit of intelligence about her (that'd be Christa) compared to a puppy dog (that'd be Brooke).

Yeah, I watched the full season. Beats grading papers.

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