Top 5 Episodes of 1991

I have a shit ton of long posts to do for this blog and a few here and there for other blogs. I have to get a set of annual posts done and pretty much only big projects are left. Anyways, I am going with this post out of all of them since this was exactly 30 years ago that this year happened and it was relevant. I think that I will do something like this every year from this post forward. I was going to do a top ten, but I could not remember enough episodes of shows to work so a top five will have to do. Anyways, here we go with the five best episodes from this year. Each show will only get one episode. Here we go:

 

#5 Percy’s Promise from Thomas the Tank Engine: There isn’t much to say about why I liked this episode out of all of them that aired in 1991 from this show. It was possibly the best episode that year because it took a simple promise and showed the determination that Percy took to get it done. There wasn’t any accident to teach them a lesson or anything too over the top. It was also kind of simple so not worth a spot higher on this list.

 

#4 The Way We Was from The Simpsons: With a lot of potentially good episode to choose from, it seems that this was the best of them since it was the first flashback episode which sought to explain more of what was going on with The Simpsons family from back in high school regarding how they met and then became who they were today. I enjoy a lot of the flashback episodes of this show, at least from early on when they didn’t contradict too much of themselves (versus today’s flashback episodes).

 

#3 The Parking Garage from Seinfeld: I almost went with the episode with them at a Chinese restaurant instead, but this episode is practically the epitome of a show about nothing. The characters are lost in a parking garage and lots of weird things happen. But it is also a great story to see in the end.

 

#2 Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: With almost a great nod to all of the British shows that end a season with a Christmas episode, we see the last official adventure of Pooh and friends as they await Christmas. While they are all set to receive gifts, it is then revealed that Pooh never asked for one. He seeks to rectify this, but the letter gets lost. He then wants to play Santa to give all of his friends their gifts himself. After things go awry, they realize that friendship is more important as they still get the gifts they wanted to in the end.

 

#1 The Defense from Matlock: In my mind, the best episode of Matlock, we get deep questions that just aren’t seen as much in shows back then. What if killing someone was the only way to save someone else? That question is at the heart of the trial as a man seeks to justify killing his father in order to protect his mother from her husband’s abuse and almost death. While people seek to find a way to get justice for those involved, it is nice to see the serious topic of domestic abuse being brought up even back then in an episode much ahead of its time. Some exceptional episodes of today wouldn’t have been seen without something like this as a guideline of what to do.

 

That’s it for this blog post. Like I said in the introduction, there are a lot of huge posts for this blog that I have put off doing and now I will need to do all five of them in the end with only a short one among the five of them with a sixth needing to be done for next year right away. I don’t expect all of this to make sense to everyone. Now the cheat that used to apply to this one isn’t in it anymore which is why you did not see this last week if that wasn’t already explained. Anyways, here’s the last of this post.

Vague Promos

 Just a quick note that you will be seeing the last of the cheats that I have for this blog as of this post for now as I will be moving these cheats to my Madam Secretary blog on Saturday also meaning that you won't be seeing a post of this blog on Saturday as usual. Now with that out of the way, let's get to the regularly scheduled (well, not in advance) blog post.

Do you ever watch a show and see the promo for it not really reveal much of anything about the next episode in question? What’s up with that? If you want to see what a show’s next episode is like, they should reveal this on the first promo of the show with the episode. Some might offer more details on future promos, but other than that, don’t say much of anything.

 

If more of a show is going to air, which it probably is, then I’d like to know more about it. I’m sure that every fan of the show would like to see it. So why air a promo that is so vague that it reveals nothing about the episode in question? More should be known about it.

 

And there are even worse problems from time to time. Throughout nearly all of Madam Secretary’s final season, there wasn’t even a promo for the next episode at all. What was up with that? I do want to see a promo and I want to get a general feel out of what it is and means. What will happen in the episode? It could be that one thing happening or something like that. What kind of promo is that?

 

Basically, there is nothing else to really say about this problem as they just need to say more about what will go on in an upcoming episode without revealing too much or having a spoiler known in it. I can’t say too much else about it as I just need to know something.

A Lament of the Loss of tv.com

There was a site relating to TV that I liked a lot for a while. The site was tv.com. I actually found it by simply typing it into a computer and I found out that it was, in fact, a website. I liked going to it from time to time and even had an account there at one point. It was a great place for a time.

 

Sadly, this site doesn’t exist anymore. Everything that I ever posted on it is gone. I posted reviews there the likes of which you wouldn’t see in this blog. I’m pretty sure that everything on it is gone and more than likely can’t come back.

 

What happened? I’m not entirely sure of what all went down. It was in March of 2019 when they had stopped doing lots of updates of it. It soon became hard for any user to get on their account, but I still was able to at least once at some point. Soon, all that happened when I tried to log in was the word: forbidden. It became clear that there was no point trying to get on this site anymore.

 

Some of this is what they did to themselves. There were too many connections to TV Guide’s website to the point of wondering why one would do both sites. I think that everyone from one site is on the other site and it some ways, nothing was really lost. But it is still hard to think of what’s all gone now.

 

There isn’t too much else to say. I’m sure that I’m not the only one who noticed or cared that the site was gone from the web. At least part of it still exists in the current site that TV guide has. But it is still hard to think that any work that anyone ever put into that site is gone forever.

Why We Should Feel Bad for Broadway

It has been a while since Broadway is back with their plays and plenty of others. It was among the first things shut down during the pandemic and is one of the last to reopen. Many might wonder why we should care about a multi-million dollar industry being shut down for so long. After all, they could just find work considered essential that would work instead, right?

Well, that’s not how I feel it should be how people feel. After all, you’d probably feel worse for someone who temporarily lost their job during the pandemic than you would for someone who was more well off beforehand. Well, I think that we should feel bad for Broadway and its loss of revenue over the past year and a half. After all, we’d feel bad over the others who weren’t able to work, right?

People forget just how hard it is to find certain work and jobs over the course of time. They just dismiss the poor as lazy or think that those on unemployment as the really rich ones. While Steve Harvey was never on Broadway, I doubt he thinks of the days of him living in his car as the good times that he would want to relive. And while those on Broadway never lost as much as they could have, it was still quite bad that they couldn’t do what they are good at and like to do. 

With so many jobs going away and never returning, it would not be good for one of the most well known to disappear forever. There have been lots of problems with the world today and it is hard to keep track of everything. But we should feel bad for the time that the lights went out on Broadway, even if they now shine brightly again.