The Christmas Experiment 2017 Hours 3&4: Sitcoms and Stuff

Viewing thoughts: Doing some sitcoms because sure, whatever.

Becker: I never really cared for Ted Danson up until The Good Place. His character is a jerk and it's a Christmas episode. His character is in love with a waitress, she's in love with him. It's dumb.. Other than him, I don't know a single person on this show or a character either. It's all kind of not never funny.

Wings: Another show I never really watched and have little affinity to. It's a sitcom in a airport that would be outdated 7 years later when 9/11 happened. It's also a very special episode about mental insanity. Meh.

Roseanne: This is on Logo which, on paper, is the LGBT channel. In reality, it's kind of become a second TVLand. Then it's not. Anyway, this is the episode where Fred Willard marries Martin Mull so I guess it is kind of fitting that it would be on Logo. Roseanne plans a gay wedding. It's wonderful. Liza impersonators. Shirtless guys. Drag queens. Somehow, Martin Mull's Leon doesn't agree. He sucks. It also has June Lockhart as Leon's Mom which is insane.

Look, I'm going to talk about Logo some more. It also has All in the Family which had like three episode dealing with Gay Rights or even had a gay character on it. Look, I'm just saying that they need to get some better criteria. Also, some gayer commercials. All I'm saying is that they've fallen far from bad reality shows that lack much in the way of interest.


The Golden Girls: Interesting fact: gay guys love The Golden Girls. Don't ask me why. We just do.

This is a Stan episode. It happens. It's also an episode with a St. Olaf story. But yeah, the episode has the women working at a homeless shelter on Christmas while Stan lost all his money.

Non-Viewing Thoughts: I hate that Coke Zero is now Coke Zero Sugar. It's a dumb rebranding.

Late Christmas Ideas: I saw this wonderful Golden Girls coffee table book a few years back. Bet it's cheap now...

Notable Commercials: I keep on seeing commercials for the World Wildlife Fund. It's jarring considering they keep calling themselves WWF which, well, growing up, those letters usually meant sweating men groping each other for me.

There have been three seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars yet we still haven't gotten a second All-Stars season of Big Brother.
 
Tally
Coke Zeroes Left: 18 Cans
Amps Left: 2 Cans
Coffee Left: 2 Bottles
Pumpkin Pie Left: Whole Pie, currently unbaked
Current Sanity Level(1 being  The Nutcracker, 10 getting your... well... cracked.): 3
Puzzle Progress: Not much this time around.

The Christmas Experiment 2013 Hour 3: 90s Sitcom-a-rama

Let's sit down and watch the Christmas episodes of a couple of classic sitcoms. By the way, how annoying is it that the 90s are classic now?

Roseanne, "White Trash Christmas": First off, Dan Connor is a bit homophobic. It's also worth pointing out that this episode features the second Becky. I always kinda preferred the second Becky. Maybe it's the fact that she was later on Scrubs? I dunno. She's attractive for that matter as well.

Anyway, the main premise of the episode is that the Connor's are going for having the tackiest house on the street. I think they got it with Liberache standees, a neon Feliz Natividad sign, and other stuff. This is in addition to miles of lights and some truly ugly plastic figurines. In the long run, it's enough to blind everything in a 30 mile radius.

In the other plot, Darlene is living with her boyfriend in secret in Chicago. Her little brother finds out. Birth control jokes. Okay, it's a sitcom, don't expect anything deep. Roseanne was always good at the drama stuff. I think my favorite part of the entire episode is where John Goodman and Glenn Quinn have a heart to heart on the roof. It's mainly on being a good husband. Also, we get some stuff on making sacrifices and dignity as a woman. See, that's why I love this show. The drama is beautiful and it's still funny.

The Golden Girls, "Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas": Side story. Last year, me and some of my closest friends went to Florida for Springbreak. Roomie Matt 's family has a house that we got to use. Every afternoon, we would watch The Golden Girls together. It was awesome. I might add I'm the only gay one. I still wonder what's so appealing about this show to a bunch of 20-somethings. I mean, women in their golden years, some of them with very active love-lifes. Hell, these are our mothers and grandmothers. Maybe just knowing that they're human is the key to it all.

Anyway, the plot of the episode has the women being held hostage by a guy in a Santa Suit who wants to spend Christmas with people. It works out only for the flights they were taking home to get stalled by a storm. In the end, the girls realize that they're family and will have a great Christmas or something. Also, Snow pops up in Miami. Regardless, it' a wonderful episode.

Non-Viewing Thoughts: I wonder how many of the St. Olaf stories were Betty White improvising? Seriously, Betty White is a wonderful actress and funny to this day.

Late Christmas Ideas: A fake, plastic Christmas Tree. It's something that I've yet to do as a single guy. Sure, there was that year with the tree that never went away but still.

Notable Commercials: Windows isn't thrilled with the Chromebook. They're so concerned that they hired the people who do a Pawn Shop show to tell you why you shouldn't buy it.


I hate these AT&T commercials with the kids acting way too cute. I mean, really annoyingly cute. I know it's precocious and great but there's just something so... manufactured about them.

Tally:
Mountain Dews left: 12
Amps left: 2
Cups of Coffee Drunk: 1
Pumpkin Pie Left: Still There.
Sanity Rating: (1 being taking your kids to see Santa, 10 being seducing Santa):3