I wasn’t going to start watching, I told myself I wouldn’t, but now I’m hooked. I actually think I like some of the plot lines a bit more than Twilight (I know traitor right?) I’m only a few episodes in but it’s a great show.

There’s Stefan, the sexy vampire that’s good. He’s very similar to Edward. But then throw in his brother Dameon and it spices things up a knotch. Dameon is a bad boy in the worst way. He’s wrecking havoc on the town by feeding on its inhabitants. Stefan is trying to stop him, but he’s hard to keep up with. Dameon makes you say what is adhd compared to his constant change of mind and need for entertainment. Unfortunately his need results in the death of the townspeople.

Then there’s Elena the “bella” of the diaries. I love that she’s strong, unlike Bella. She even says “I’m not going to let my world fall apart over some boy.” I love that!

This show is a lot more graphic than the Twilight books or movie, so sometimes it’s scary. It’s also a lot more steamy than her PG books. That can be good and bad about the series. I love the Twilight books, so I guess it’s kind of unfair to compare the two. The show is great because we’ll get more vampire moments, but the books are great for allowing us to use our imagination.

I can’t tell you how many times over the past few weeks it’s felt like D and I were stuck in an episode of Seinfeld. The lastest example has been with D and his new job. He has to go in for pre employee screening drug testing, which is no problem. Last night however, I made my Granny’s famous poppy seed chicken while the grandfolks were in town. We even joked around over dinner saying, “well I hope you don’t have that drug test soon because of these poppy seeds” and sure enough, he has to test today! Ha! But I think it should be just fine. There weren’t that many, and he did tell them he ate poppy seeds with dinner last night. Still, I can’t help but picture Elaine when she has the drug test, and her boss thinks she’s on drugs. “Damn you poppy seed muffin!!”

In this episode, we finally see Ted’s kids again. It’s great to see the look on their faces as Ted reveals that not only did Aunt Robin smoke, but the entire gang. Barney has a classic “I’m not a smoker” speech in which he says the only smokes when he’s with Germans, post coital, coital, and pre-coital. Then Ted says, “So why are you smoking now?” to which Barney says, “I’m always pre-coital Ted”. Love that quote!

It’s so true of smokers though, everyone who has been a smoker always says, “this is the last cigarette ever!” The gang decides to quit together and they all support each other, which lasts about five minutes. Lily develops a creepy smoker voice that’s hilarious; she sounds like she’s possessed.

Ted’s speech at the end is the best part though, when he talks about when everyone really has their last cigarette. For Lily, it was when she started trying to get pregnant, for Marshal it was when their son was born, and for Ted, it was two weeks after he started dating his future wife. And he never looked back. Great episode! Those speechs of Ted’s are my favorite.

And I thought The Ugly Truth was bad! I’m so disappointed in this movie. I wanted to see it because it has Denny (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) from Grey’s Anatomy. You remember him? He was adorable on that show. He’s fairly adorable in this movie, but the content of the story was cringe worthy. Once again, no chemistry between the two lead actors. Uma Thurman is one of the most unattractive women in movies, and this was no exception. Also, Colin Firth (I love him!) was in this movie, but he played a bit of an ass. I just can’t believe Colin to ever be the one not chosen in a romantic comedy. They should have picked someone else.

The main plot of the story is that the main character, Emma (played by Uma) is a relationship expert and has her own radio show. Patrick (Jeffrey Morgan)’s fiancee Sophia calls Emma’s show, and gets relationship advice. Emma advises her to call off the wedding, thus breaking Patrick’s heart. To get back at her, Patrick turns to his tech savvy neighbor, who hacks into the city’s database and makes it so that Patrick is married to Emma. How on earth this benefits Patrick, I still don’t get.
So then of course she turns up to the courthouse to get her marriage license and can’t because she’s already married. Cue predictable meltdown here. Then she finds Patrick, and he pretends not to know what it’s all about. He also acts incredibly weird, and ends up wooing her. He acts like he just won a trip to disney world, not just met the woman who ruined his life. There should have been more conflict between the two main characters. There are no real angry remarks, he never shows that he hated her guts. It’s basically a sappy story of him falling for her (she’s an uptight bitch pretty much the entire movie, so it’s pretty unbelievable) and she falls for him. The story just isn’t good. I’m disappointed once again by the romantic comedy genre. Come on people, I know you can do better than this!

The window of opportunity is a great philosophy. It cracks me up because it’s so true of the serial monogamous. So many girls have such a brief window of being single before they jump into another relationship. For Ted, there is a girl he went to college with who is the “perfect girl next door”. The only problem is he always missing his window of opportunity before she starts dating someone else. This time he doesn’t miss it, and asks her out right after her latest breakup. Unfortunately he has to teach a class that night, and he asks Marshal and Lily to keep an eye on her.

Marshal and Lily take it way too seriously and start to creep out poor Maggie. Meanwhile Barney takes the Overall Challenge. Marshal’s mom has been sending him tons of his old childhood things, and in that box was his old pair of overalls that he wore all through high school. Barney takes the challenge that he can get a woman to sleep with him even looking ridiculous in stone washed overalls.

Back in Ted’s class, he ends up having a heart to heart with his students about the idea of him being ready for a relationship. The students end up giving him advice and it’s all very classic HIMYM hilarity.

Meanwhile in the bar while Marshal, Lily and Maggie talk about their career dreams, Marshal realizes he sold out to the corporate world and leaves to go quit his job. Lily has to run after him and leaves Robin to watch Maggie and make sure no guys hit on her. Robin ends up trying to distract a coworker of Maggie’s and ends up throwing herself at him in the most awkward, cringe worthy way. Then Barney hones in and tries to steal her. Ted, Barney and the coworker start arguing over her and Robin sends Maggie home. They all race to her apartment, only to discover the ultimate girl next door ran into her old guy next door.

Ted realizes through the whole Maggie experience that he’s ready for a relationship again, and wants to find that real love he’s been waiting for. I knew Maggie wasn’t going to be the mother because he told us a few episodes back that the mother was one of his students. As much as I love this show, I’m dying for them to fast forward to the mother!

The Ugly Truth of this movie is that the two main characters had absolutely zero chemistry. I thought this was going to be a sweet lil romantic comedy, when in fact it was ranchy, crude, and downright awful! The storyline had potential, but the casting director had a monumental fail. These two actors have no spark, and so the entire romantic angle of the story didn’t come across. I’m disappointed because I love Katherine Heigl and Gerald Butler, but I couldn’t stand either of them in this flick.

After watching this, I felt like I had wasted my Saturday. I would rather watch an infomercial about a new fat burner product than watch anything like this again. Bring back the great romantic comedies like You’ve Got Mail, While You Were Sleeping, Sleepless in Seattle. They just don’t make movies like that anymore. Sigh…

I’m so happy Scrubs is back for another season! Now it’s not the same ol’ Scrubs we knew and loved, but it is still hilarious. I loved the beginning where they explain why the janitor leaves. Turk is talking to him while he is mopping up the floor tiles in the hospital and the janitor asks him when JD is coming back. When Turk says never, the janitor throws down his mop and leaves. It’s pretty funny. Of course hardcore fans can find the janitor on the new ABC show, The Middle.
I loved how they showed Elliott all cute and pregnant at the beginning of the pilot. I wish she would continue to be on the show, but I know the writers are trying to ween us off of the old cast members and take us into the new version of Scrubs.
My only complaint so far is they haven’t discussed Carla at all. Even if they couldn’t get the actress to come back on the show, couldn’t Turk mention her and that she was home with their children? It just doesn’t make sense. Hopefully she’ll have a few guest spots in new episodes to come.
I love the show now, with Turk and JD still involved, but what will it turn into when they leave? I think the new characters just may be able to hold their own. It will never be as good as the original Scrubs, but it sure beats watching crappy reality tv!