TGIT Drinking Game

Well, I don't have one of my summer posts ready yet and feel that I won't have time to do that later. I should be working on a lot of future updates and will be doing some minor changes in how this blog is updated. While you will see these Saturday updates as usual for the time being, you will see random updates on other days in the future. I had a cheat for this blog that I had moved to another blog. Well, I'm moving that cheat back to this blog and hopefully things won't change too much in the future that would cause me to move it to another blog altogether. Now I said that I would post a drinking game if no other posts were ready to be published, so let's get to this one.

TGIT is a line-up of shows on Thursday nights on ABC right now. All of them are produced and thus have some sort of connection to Shonda Rhimes. There are a lot of things in common with them, so I figure that it only makes sense that a drinking game relating to them would work. Well, here's my idea for what a drinking game with any TGIT show would be like.

• Drink any time two or more characters are fighting
• Drink whenever people are having sex
• Drink at any sexual moment whether it be people talking about sex, people being naked, or the discussion of private parts
• Whenever gay characters show up, take a shot
• Any tense moment of any sort is a shot
• When things are not what they may have first appeared, take a shot
• Any type of yelling is a shot
• Every cliffhanger is a shot
• Characters disagreeing is a shot
• People keeping secrets from another is a shot
• People suddenly learning secrets is a shot
• Troubling things coming to light is a shot
• A group of all women talking about men is a shot
• Any character of any importance dying is a shot
• A betrayal of any kind is a shot
• A character is hurt in any way, be it physical, psychological, emotional, or otherwise, is a shot
• Any OMG moment is a shot
• Family issues of any kind is a shot
• Show is in some way unrealistic is a shot

Golden Huckleberry Award Nominees: 2016-2017

Well, it’s time for me to work on the nominees for the worst of television from this previous season. I’ll have to do some research into this. Before I get much further, I’ll mention two notes. I then will get to the nominees and the winners (or losers, technically) will come later. Sorry if there is any of the usual confusion based on when the awards are set. June of 2016 to May of 2017 can be considered the timeframe of when these awards take place.

I’ve decided that the award called worst cliffhanger resolution will be retired and replaced with an award called worse season premiere. This will always be kept separate from worst pilot as no new show can be nominated for worst season premiere.

When an actor from Glee died, I decided not to nominate Glee that year for any awards in this show, nullifying whatever nominations I had accidently given it already before the winners were finalized. Since an actor from Training Day has died, you will not be seeing it in this year’s nominees, despite my distaste for the show. In case you hated the show too, this is why it is not on the list of awards.

Main awards: Worst season premiere: NCIS: New Orleans

Worst title: American Gothic, Scream Queens, The Mick, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Zoo, Mistresses, Black-ish, The Real O’Neals, Life in Pieces, American Housewife

Worst ending to a TV series: Notorious, Son of Zorn, BattleBots, Ransom, The Blacklist: Redemption

Worst acting: 2 Broke Girls, Uncle Buck, Dr. Ken, Last Man Standing, American Gothic, The Odd Couple, Lucifer, The Carmichael Show

Worst writing: The Great Indoors, The Bachelor, Mom, Life in Pieces, Scream Queens, The Mick, The 100, No Tomorrow, Star, The Vampire Diaries, American Gothic, Dr. Ken, Last Man Standing, Late Night with Seth Meyers, 2 Broke Girls

Worst plot: American Gothic, Mom, Life in Pieces, The Vampire Diaries, The 100, Dr. Ken, Last Man Standing, 2 Broke Girls, The Real O’Neals, Criminal Minds, The Odd Couple, Zoo, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, No Tomorrow, The Mick, Star, Lucifer, Scream Queens

The good riddance award: Last Man Standing, Nancy Grace, 2 Broke Girls, Last Man Standing, The Real O’Neals, The Vampire Diaries, The Odd Couple, Scream Queens, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders

Why do people care award: The Real O’Neals, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Mom, Nancy Grace, Lucifer, 2 Broke Girls, The 100, Black-ish, The Bachelor

Worst idea for a show: American Gothic, Nancy Grace, Mistresses, Dr. Ken, Last Man Standing, The Real O’Neals, 2 Broke Girls, Zoo, Mom, Criminal Minds, Life in Pieces, The Mick, Star, Scream Queens, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders

Biggest waste of time: Late Night with Seth Meyers, Last Man Standing, The Vampire Diaries, The 100, American Dad

Most forgettable: American Gothic, Star, Black-ish, The Odd Couple, The Great Indoors, Zoo, Life in Pieces, The Real O’Neals, Dr. Ken, 2 Broke Girls

Bonehead decision of the season: The Great Indoors

Worst pilot: No Tomorrow, Man with a Plan, The Great Indoors, Star

Worst drama show: Zoo, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, Aquarius, Scream Queens, Lucifer, The Vampire Diaries, Criminal Minds, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Star, American Gothic

Worst comedy show: The Real O’Neals, Superior Donuts, The Great Indoors, Dr. Ken, Last Man Standing, Uncle Buck, Black-ish, 2 Broke Girls, Man with a Plan, The Odd Couple, Mom, Life in Pieces, The Mick, Superstore

Worst new show: No Tomorrow, The Mick, Superior Donuts, Man with a Plan, The Great Indoors, American Gothic, Star

Why is it still on award: Zoo, Life in Pieces, Mom, Superior Donuts, Man with a Plan, The 100, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Star, The Mick, Lucifer, America’s Funniest Home Videos, The Mick, Criminal Minds, The Bachelor, Black-ish

Most overrated show: Mom, The Americans, Black-ish, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, 2 Broke Girls

Weakest Characters: 2 Broke Girls, Dr. Ken, The Great Indoors, The Real O’Neals, Black-ish, Mom, Life in Pieces, Zoo, Man with a Plan, Superior Donuts, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Lucifer, Scream Queens, Taken, American Gothic, Star

Worst reason to cancel a good show: The Great Indoors

Why was it created award: Star, 2 Broke Girls, Zoo, American Gothic, Last Man Standing, Dr. Ken, The Great Indoors, Man with a Plan, Superior Donuts, Black-ish, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, Mom, Life in Pieces, America’s Funniest Home Videos, Scream Queens, The Odd Couple, Criminal Minds, No Tomorrow, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Lucifer, The Mick, Nancy Grace

What were they thinking award: Star, The Mick, Scream Queens, Lucifer, Mistresses, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Zoo, Mom, Life in Pieces, The Odd Couple, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, American Gothic

Why do people like it award: Nancy Grace, Last Man Standing, 2 Broke Girls

Worst retooling of a show: NCIS: New Orleans

Jumped the shark award: Family Guy

Most obvious cancellation: Secrets and Lies, The Odd Couple, No Tomorrow, Scream Queens

What’s it about award: Star, Scream Queens, American Gothic

Time to stop watching award: no nominees

They’ve stopped caring award: The 100

Most average show award: Man with a Plan, Superior Donuts, Secrets and Lies, Superstore, The Great Indoors

That’s actually a show award: Star, Scream Queens, Lucifer

Not worth a second viewing award: Scream Queens, American Gothic, The Real O’Neals, Secrets & Lies, Star, Superior Donuts, The Great Indoors, Man with a Plan

Weirdest show: Star, Scream Queens, Lucifer

Worst show on FOX: Star, Lucifer, Scream Queens, The Mick

Worst show on ABC: Mistresses, Uncle Buck, Dr. Ken, Secrets & Lies, Last Man Standing, When We Rise, America’s Funniest Home Videos, The Real O’Neals

Worst show on CBS: American Gothic, 2 Broke Girls, Criminal Minds, Life in Pieces, The Odd Couple, Mom, Life in Pieces, Zoo, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders

Worst show on NBC: Caught on Camera with Nick Cannon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Last Call with Carson Daily

Worst show on the CW: No Tomorrow, The Vampire Diaries, The 100

Worst show on every other network: Nancy Grace, American Dad, The Americans

Worst syndicated show: The Wendy Williams Show, The Jerry Springer Show, Maury, Inside Edition

Worst show on television nominees: pending

Other awards

Worst story arc: Flashpoint from The Flash, April’s pregnancy from Chicago Med, the season’s ending arc from NCIS: New Orleans, the irrelevant baby on The Big Bang Theory, Jane’s fling from Jane the Virgin

Worst plot twist: Brody quits from NCIS: New Orleans, The person Hook killed on Once Upon a Time, The flipping on the proposal from The Flash, Ichabod selling his soul on Sleepy Hollow, killing Michael on Jane the Virgin

Worst new character: Paulie from Big Brother

Biggest moron: Paulie from Big Brother, Taylor from Survivor, Jane’s fling from Jane the Virgin

Most hated character: Paulie from Big Brother

Worst character transformation: Bishop the killer on NCIS, Pride the revenge seeker from NCIS: New Orleans, Jeff Varner on Survivor

Most overrated character: no nominees

Most obvious twist: Reynold turns on the heroes on Grimm

The underdeveloped character award: Shinwell from Elementary

Why are they still alive award: Fish Mooney from Gotham

Most worthless death: Shinwell from Elementary

Most accepted death: no nominees

WTF death: Riana from Nashville, Anna Popplewell’s character from Reign, Sam’s wife from NCIS: Los Angeles, Michael from Jane the Virgin

Most useless character: Taylor from Survivor

Worst Villain: Malcolm from Sleepy Hollow, Lucifer Morningstar from Lucifer, the dominators from Arrowverse

Dumbest scheduling choice: CBS putting Ransom on Saturday

Worst episode yet: The Tinder episode from Family Guy

Worst episode this season: All Hail Son of Zorn from Son of Zorn, Ua Malo’o Ka Wai from Hawaii Five-0, The Tinder episode from Family Guy

Episode not worth a rewatch award: All Hail Son of Zorn from Son of Zorn, Whitehall: Conclusion from The Blacklist: Redemption, The Tinder episode from Family Guy

Dumbest character departure: Meredith Brody on NCIS: New Orleans, Michael from Jane the Virgin, Sam’s wife on NCIS: Los Angeles

Weirdest plot choice: The manufactured romance between Percy and Chris on NCIS: New Orleans, Trapping Gail in an elevator on The Last Man on Earth, The Flash creating Flashpoint on The Flash, Jane having sex on Jane the Virgin, Bruce Wayne already becoming Batman on Gotham, recycling villains on Legends of Tomorrow, The framework seemingly recreating the movie The Matrix from Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Worst romance: Nick and Adeline from Grimm, the two leads on The Catch, Percy and Chris from NCIS: New Orleans, Jane’s fling on Jane the Virgin

Worst commercial: Shake and Steak’s Happy Hour, Huggie’s pull-up’s time to potty everyone, Hydro’s razor with boobies commercial,  Ford Truck Month, Sheba commercial where the guy gets distracted by the wrong pussy

Worst season yet: NCIS: New Orleans season 3

Notes on the Upcoming CBS Schedule: 2017 Version

Well, here’s my newest blog post on what the upcoming CBS schedule will be like. As always, I’m ignoring the summer part of the schedule as it is not part of the main season. I might as well make certain notes about this blog and others before continuing.

Before I continue, I should note that there are other blogs that I have that could and will affect this blog in the future. This is because two blogs that I have are about TV shows that have ended and I am keeping people updated on what the cast of the show is up to now. This will affect this blog so I can keep you updated on which shows have what people in them. I will still give CBS shows priority in nearly all cases. I could wind up with more blogs about more of these shows in the future.

Things are confusing with CBS especially since they have Thursday Night Football now. This could lead to short term replacements in terms of what has aired versus what could air. Basically, Mondays and Thursdays are a bit confusing because of all of this. There are random notes that I’m leaving in. Maybe you’ll wonder what they are, but I’ll admit that sometimes I leave things in posts that are just for me. I’m not sure what else to say regarding that.

Here are the notes that I’m doing relating to other blogs. What was Pure Genius became Training Day, then The Amazing Race, and will be S.W.A.T. next season. The Great Indoors will now be Young Sheldon. Elementary is gone until midseason and will be replaced for now by Wisdom of the Crowd.

Before the season ended, Code Black became Doubt before it was replaced by Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders. When Survivor was on hiatus during the winter, it was replaced at first by Undercover Boss, then later by Hunted. MacGyver left a bit early this season so that Undercover Boss could finish its run. In the early summer, NCIS: New Orleans was replaced by 48 Hours: NCIS.

You might be wondering what all of the CBS shows are that are returning for next season. They are Survivor, Madam Secretary, 60 Minutes, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, Kevin Can Wait, Superior Donuts, Scorpion, Bull, Criminal Minds, The Big Bang Theory, Mom, Life in Pieces, MacGyver, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods, and 48 Hours. Other shows that will return later some point at midseason are Elementary, The Amazing Race, Undercover Boss, Code Black, and Man with a Plan. There was never a decision made about Hunted that I know of so I declare it officially dead since no decision typically means cancelled, just not officially.

What are all the new shows that will be airing next season on CBS? Well, the new shows are Wisdom of the Crowd, Me, Myself, & I, 9JKL, Seal Teal, Young Sheldon, and S.W.A.T. Those are all the new shows that will start sometime in the fall. Meanwhile, the new things that will be at midseason are By the Book and Instinct.

Elementary is gone until midseason, being replaced by Wisdom of the Crowd; 2 Broke Girls is now Me, Myself, & I; Man with a Plan is gone until midseason, being replaced by 9JKL; Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders is now Seal Team; The Great Indoors is now Young Sheldon; The Amazing Race is gone until midseason, being replaced by S.W.A.T.

Hunted filled the gap of Survivor, Hunted is gone now; Undercover Boss filled the gaps of Survivor and MacGyver; The Odd Couple became Superior Donuts; Pure Genius became Training Day became The Amazing Race is now S.W.A.T.; Code Black is gone until midseason, being replaced first by Doubt then by Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders is now Seal Team; 48 Hours: NCIS briefly replaced NCIS: New Orleans more for the summer season than anything else, can be disregarded given it being more of a special part of 48 Hours than anything else

I think that I did this differently than usual and might have gotten a bit confused by what I was writing. Hopefully all of this post will make sense to you. There’s not much else to say so I might as well finish this post until next time.

Christmas Commercials 2016

You might be wondering where this post has been all this time. Surely, now that I’m updating this blog on a more regular basis, I should have seen all I needed to regarding all the shows I watch and the Christmas commercials that have aired with them before the start of Advent, right? Well, there was just one tape of stuff that I share with someone else and we never had time to get caught up on it until very recently. That was one of the major changes regarding this TV season. I hope to never have this particular post this late again, but I can’t make any promises. Anyways, let’s get to the post at hand that I do every year.

Well, Kmart is at it again. They aired an early Christmas commercial. At least they waited until after October started this year. But they earn my annual Christmas boycott as they have every year except last one when Best Buy took the spot. So here I am hoping that at least the terrible onslaught of Christmas commercials can be held back until after all the stupid political commercials have stopped. As much as I hate Citizens United, let’s just stick to the number of Christmas commercials that aired this year. As always, I remind you of counts from previous years.

In 2012, the official count of Christmas commercials before October was 0. The official count before Halloween was 27. The official count before the Sunday after Thanksgiving was 200. In 2013, the official count of Christmas commercials before October was 5. The official count before Halloween was 30. The official count before the Sunday after Thanksgiving was 600. In 2014, the official count of Christmas commercials before October was 3. The official count before Halloween was 26. The official count before the Sunday after Thanksgiving was 700. In 2015, the official count of Christmas commercials before October was 0. The official count before Halloween was 13. The official count before the Sunday after Thanksgiving was 530.

Christmas overrun for 2014-2015 is 28 commercials. Christmas overrun for 2015-2016 is 14 commercials. Christmas overrun means that after Christmas and in a bit of January, you will see Christmas commercials of some type. I’m keeping track of them, although they will always be separate from the main list.

I noticed in August that there were Holiday bonus points commercials that aired from Nissan. There were 12 of them to be precise. While I’m not sure if they actually count (mostly because there was enough in it that refuted the whole link to being an actual holiday commercial), I still think that I will include them in this separate count from the actual list.

In 2016, the official count of Christmas commercials before October was 0. The official count before Halloween was 45. In 2016, the official count before the Sunday after Thanksgiving was 386. After finally getting caught up on all the tapes, this is the final count that I have.

Christmas overrun for 2016-2017 is 55. As you can see, this is the highest of this count that I have yet recorded as it seemed like from after Christmas early into January, there was a lot of them still airing on all that I watched.

A lot of the changes this year as compared to other years probably relates to a presidential election happening. Maybe that’s why the Christmas overrun was as high as it has ever been. But the pre Halloween commercial count was also the highest this year, which seems strange since all the political commercials would have been before the November transition. The overall pre Christmas season count was low compared to other years. I guess that we will see for sure what could change with this in future years. But will there be new highs? Maybe I should track the highest each year.