While watching the Bones season premiere with my friend and fellow Bones enthusiast last night, we realized that we STILL have not seen Booth and Brennan “knock boots”. Yeah, there was that one time in a dream. And yeah, we know that they have because of that whole pregnancy thing, but we still haven’t actually seen it happen. In fact, they came closer than we have ever seen them last night as Brennan tore off Booth’s shirt while he had her pinned against the washer and dryer (I know, I’m surprised I was able to type that sentence without screaming, too).
I feel like I was one of the few Bones fans to not be furious and Hart Hanson and Co. for how they handled the depiction and surprise twist of B&B’s initial coitus. First, Emily Deschanel was pregnant and I doubt she was super excited to show too much, especially since Brennan was not supposed to be pregnant… yet. Second, though I waited six seasons for it to happen, I wonder if showing “the scene” would have cheapened it in some way. (Yes! I know they aren’t real).
All that being said, do I love getting moments like the laundry room scene last night? Um, understatement.
Now we are going to open up the floor. Answer our polls below! Keep in mind that Bones isn’t the only couple being shy. (Castle, Psych… what am I missing?)
We here at Fangirly love nothing better than a good movie quote. In fact, many of our conversations consist of nothing but movie quotes. There are some famous lines, however, that are way past their prime. Here, for your viewing pleasure, is a comprehensive list of all the quotes I think should really call it a day.
1) “Run, Forest Run!”– This is just lazy quoting, guys. I have no idea why people insist on shouting this at the top of their lungs every time someone near them breaks into a run or even a light jog, but it’s over people. You’ve taken a perfectly good line, from a perfectly good movie, and ruined it! I hope you’re proud.
2) “I got a fever… and the only prescription… is more cowbell”- I take partial responsibility for this one. Between the ages of 12 and 17 I said this quote so often and with such a pathetic excuse for a Christopher Walken impression that people began to suspect I had a problem. A problem that even more cowbell couldn’t cure. So sorry world. I apologize for my part in ruining one of the funniest sketches in SNL history. I wish I could say it won’t happen again, but…
3) Anything from Napoleon Dynamite– Listen, nobody loved this movie more than I did when it first hit theaters. But I think we can all agree that this movie had a shelf life that ran out about five years ago. It was a great movie that reminded us all just how funny moon boots and hip hop dance routines could be, but this has gone on way, way too long. Let me put this another way: if one more person says to me “Your mom goes to college”, I will in no way be responsible for my actions.
4) “You complete me”- I think what bugs me isn’t the quote itself, but the fact that nobody is ever sincere when they say it. Hey man, if I complete you, why not just say it sans the sarcastic douchery? Seriously, make a lady’s day.
5) “The Master would not approve!”- This quote really won’t mean anything for those who did not grow up watching Mystery Science Theater 3000, because this line happens to come from the classic Manos: The Hands of Fate episode. And while I love this episode more than words can express, I feel like I can’t get though any kind of family function without someone putting this one out there. Don’t misunderstand me; I’m not calling for an all-out ban. Let’s just put it on the shelf for a while, and only pull it out for special occasions. Like fine china, or a Michael Buble CD.
So there you have it folks, my top 5 most overused movie quotes. Do you agree? Disagree? Either way, feel free to go bananas in our comment section!
-Whitney
In case you haven’t noticed, we here at Fangirly take our television very seriously. So seriously that we make Excel spreadsheets to keep track of how we will be setting season passes on our DVRs (to be fair to Whitney, it’s just Ellen that does this), and for the first time ever we are going to share our schedules with the public! This day shall live in infamy.
A few things to mention before we dig in:
– The blue highlighted shows are the ones that we agree need DVR’d, pinks are Whitney specific shows, and purples are the Ellen specific shows
– It may seem like there are a lot more purples, but I included shows that I am going to give a try.
– Looking at the schedule below, a lot of you will be wondering what kind of DVR we have that allows us to record four shows at once. Some nights are just more crowded than others and we will have to resort to online viewing. Wednesday night, for example, is packed. Just know that the blue shows are the most important because we need to be able to talk about them together that night.
– While Ellen has the The Voice and X Factor, which Whitney is consistently giving her a hard time about, let it be noted that Whitney has the equally trashy Dancing With the Stars.
Hopefully our television expertise will be of assistance to you as you try to navigate the crowded waters of the fall television schedule. Check it out below!
Number 1 killer of a lady’s street cred: driving across the campus parking lot, windows down, music blasting, and you forget you have this song on the mix CD your playing…
If there’s one thing we love here at Fangirly it’s a sexy TV nerd, and nobody does nerd better than Andrew Lee Potts on the British sci-fi drama Primeval. With his quirky hipster style, incredible comedic timing, and face like a sexy, anthropomorphized cartoon rabbit, Potts is the natural choice for our Fangirly Crush of the Week. Don’t believe me? Let’s go to the tape.
It’s here! It’s finally here! I feel my life beginning to take meaning again. That’s right everybody, fall TV is upon and with it comes a fresh crop of new shows. Like any sane person would do, I have chosen which of the new shows I am ready to marry, boff, and kill. In other words, which shows I already feel commited to, which I am willing to give one night of passion to for them to prove their worth, and which I will be killing from my DVR lineup. Let’s dig in!
Marry:
The Mindy Project – Having already seen this pilot, I have to say that I was impressed. I typically feel that pilots are a poor test in deciding whether a show will be good or not. It is a strange thing to go back and watch the pilot of a show that you have loved for years, because they usually morph into something completely different. That being said, pilots usually suck so I like to give them some time to grow on me. The promos for this show left me on the fence, so imagine my surprise when I left the pilot almost positive that I was going to fall for this show. Mindy is a funny, smart, and unique female lead and judging from some of her references, I feel like we are of the same people. Definitely the show I am most excited about of this bunch.
Ben &Kate– Like the above, I have already seen the pilot to this show. Though I enjoyed it to a lesser degree, I still saw promise. Do I think it will join the lineup of shows like New Girl or Parks and Rec, shows that I can’t wait to watch every week? No. But do I think it could join shows like Raising Hope or The Middle, shows that I enjoy but have no problem letting pile up on my DVR until I have a lazy Saturday morning? Yeah.
Nashville– It’s got Tami Taylor, y’all! I shouldn’t have to say anything else, but I’m going to anyway. I love a good song and dance number, even when they are country. In general, I tend to go more for comedies, but the dramas I do watch tend to be ones that I can still have fun with, i.e. soapy, slighty over-the-top dramas. This looks like it should deliver in spades. Also going for it, the critics are raving and I am weak enough to buy into it.
Boff: (I’m going to start talking less)
Elementary –I may only have room in my heart for one Sherlock and Benedict Cumberbatch is taking up a pretty large residence. Show me what you got, Johnny Lee Miller!
Arrow –Dear CW,
Nice work with those billboards. You are really proving the boffability of this program. If you have any brains with that brawn, I could see this really working out between us.
Sincerely, Ellen
P.S. Nice work scheduling it with Supernatural.
Revolution –The premise intrigues me, but I don’t know how that plot is going to work on a week to week basis.
Kill:
The Neighbors– Have you seen the promos? I really don’t need to elaborate.
Chicago Fire –I don’t know why this has no appeal to me. The elements are all fine to great: procedural, bulky men, firemen, and oh yeah, FIREMEN! But it still is not working for me.
Beauty and the Beast – Like most things, the 80’s did it better.
If you checked in yesterday, you know that I love She’s All That. I watched all of her filmography, especially The Babysitter’s Club and Josie and the Pussycats (her crowning achievements), and with the exception of that time where she ruined everything on Psych, she’s A-OK in my book.
So it was pretty cool to see her in the Funny or Die video and then to see that it was actually pretty funny. And with Chad Michael Murray of all people! (I never jumped the CMM train).
I have a pretty serious thing for TV lawmen. For the sake of my reputation I’m not going to divulge how many hours I’ve spent watching Law and Order: SVU because I like the way Christopher Meloni looks in a wrinkled shirt and a gun holster, but suffice it to say, it was a lot. So when I heard that FX was premiering a show about a trigger-happy US marshal staring none other than Timothy Olyphant, I was, to put it mildly, interested. And although I’m not a huge fan of FX in general (Louie and The League being the obvious exceptions) I was pretty sure that if nothing else, it would give me an excuse to look at this squared-jawed mug for an hour…
That being said, I was hooked on Justified by the end of the pilot’s opening credits. I mean, not only does someone get whacked in the first four minutes, they go down in one of the coolest televised shootouts in TV history. This is actually part of this show’s charm; while there is a TON of violence it never really feels gratuitous. Well, this scene might have been a little gratuitous…
And to be fair, it’s not all gore and gunfights. There’s also a little bit of romance for the ladies! Yes, apparently our hero Raylan Givens won’t rest till he’s killed all the crooks and bedded all the women of rural Kentucky.
And who could blame him, because from what I can tell, they all look like this…
and this…
My favorite part of this show, however, has to be the killer supporting cast. There’s Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) who, over three seasons, has dabbled in everything from Nazism to organized crime. Another of my all time favorites was the murderous matron Mags Bennett, a role that won Margo Martindale the Emmy for best Supporting Actress in a Drama in 2011. Last but not least there’s Tim Gutterson (Jacob Pitts), the soft spoken, woefully underused deputy marshal who, despite having probably three lines in the whole last season still managed to make his way onto my list of the Most Adorable Men on TV (Ellen will back me up on this).
But this is all just one fangirl’s opinion. For the skeptics out there, I leave you with this clip. If this doesn’t convince you Justified is worth your time, nothing will.
I believe that there comes a movie in every young girl’s life where she finds that one film that takes her into adolescence. That one movie that makes her feel like a cool teenager rather than a little kid. For me, that movie was 1999’s She’s All That.
Conditions were perfect: I was 12 going on 13 when I first saw this movie. Old enough to get some of this movie’s humor (pubes on pizza?! The laughs never stop), but young enough to overlook some of it’s imperfections. Imagine my disappointment when I found that there are not groups of people who break out into choreographed numbers at the school dances! It is for this and no other reason that I never went to one. Also, I had to face the hard truth that Usher’s voice would NOT be coming over my school’s PA system giving the morning announcements. Thanks, but NO thanks, high school.
And luckily, as a spectacled youth with a mother who was sure to tell me that girls in glasses can still be cute, I was wise enough to question why sticking glasses on Rachel Leigh Cook automatically made her a social leper. Maybe it was the overalls?
Despite all these faults that I was a little less aware of then, I still love/loved this movie. My love for this movie mainly stems from having watched it at least 50 times between the years 1999 and 2001. While you may be thinking that I am exaggerating with that exorbitant number, I can assure you that I am not. To this day, I can still quote along with the whole movie. You may be wondering why I nearly wore out my VHS copy of this movie, but really, do you even have to ask?
My 12-year old heart beat so hard for my beloved FPJ. In fact, while trying to find a picture of Zach Syler for this post, I realized that the search results were all pictures I had printed and slathered on my walls. Or they were the featured pictures in the paperback Freddie Prinze Jr. biography that I begged my mom to buy me at my school’s book sale.
While FPJ and I have grown apart (mainly because he is giving me little to work with these days), any time I watch She’s All That I still revert to that prepubescent 12 year old swooning in front of the TV. Who doesn’t want to go back to that every once in a while?
To us here at Fangirly, Marry Boff Kill is so much more than a game. In fact, we firmly believe that you never really know someone until they’ve told you which celebs they would wed, bed, and make dead. Our MBK question this week happens to be something of a sore spot in our relationship. It first came up while on a camping trip more than a year ago, and remains a source of cousinly contention to this day.
Marry Boff Kill: Jon Hamm, Adam Scott, or Paul Rudd.
Whitney’s Answers
Marry Adam Scott- Ha! No brainer. While he’s still smokin’ hot, he’s the least classically attractive of the three so I wouldn’t feel totally inadequate. Also, if I married him I would get to hang out with his Parks and Rec co-stars, which would help me fulfill my destiny of becoming Amy Pohler’s best friend.
Boff Paul Rudd- That boyish face, that sexy grin, and the fact that he’s the funniest guy in Hollywood all lead me to conclude that Paul Rudd would be an awesome boff. Honestly, just look at this picture! (I really hope my parents don’t read this).
Kill…Jon Hamm- Ouch. This one hurts. He’s just too handsome. And every time I look at him all I can think about is his 30 Rock character Dr. Drew Baird, with his hook hands and less than average IQ. Sorry Jon Hamm. It was never meant to be.
Ellen’s Answers
Marry Paul Rudd- I have to. What Paul and I have is lasting and real because I have loved him ever since I was a little girl watching Clueless on VHS, trying to act like I totally got all the jokes. Totally. I like to imagine that he is out there wearing a promise ring, just waiting for me. He may call it his wedding ring that another woman gave him, but whatever.
Boff Jon Hamm – To fully explain my rationale behind this choice, it is important to know my strategy for playing the game. I first decide who will give me a more meaningful relationship. Not just a lover in the nighttime, but a true companion. From there I decide who I believe will be the best boff. Look at that picture. He is literally smoking! To give evidence as to why Jon Hamm is the best choice, I give you the following clip:
Kill… Adam Scott – You have no idea how painful this for me, Adam. It’s not you, it’s me. You’re a great guy, you know I think the world of you. It’s just that someone has to die and it kills me that it’s you. I had to follow my heart in choosing Paul and I had to follow something else in choosing Jon, but know that in choosing to kill you, I’m following a path straight to a night of crying in my pillow. Don’t look at me like that, Adam. You’re only making this harder.
Confession time: The Office is not one of my favorite shows. Not that it’s a bad show, I just felt that it got boring and repetitive as the series progressed. So when I heard that Mindy Kaling, a writer, exec-producer, and one of the stars of The Office, was developing her own show, I didn’t pay much attention. Also, I don’t really love self-referential show titles, so the fact that the show was named The Mindy Project was not a huge turn on either.
Then I actually watched the pilot. And let me tell you, it was awesome. It accomplished everything a pilot should accomplish; it introduced the characters, delivered a hilarious and compelling narrative, and gave us an idea of what the rest of the series would be like. I know what your thinking. “Whitney, an awesome pilot doesn’t necessarily indicate an awesome show”. To which I would respond, “Oh yeah? OH YEAH?!… That’s actually very true. Good point.” But I’ve got a good feeling about this one. So do yourself a favor, haul on over to Hulu, and watch the pilot of The Mindy Project. It might just be the funniest 23 minutes of your day.
In keeping with our quasi-Doctor Who themed week here at Fangirly and because I am on a DW high, I decided to choose from our favorite time-traveling British import for the crush of the week. It, of course, came down to Rory and the Doctor (who else was I supposed to choose? An ood?), but after the season 7 premiere, I had to choose Rory. Did you see the boots and skinny jeans?! I had no choice.
In all seriousness, I love Rory and I was utterly charmed by Arthur at the DW panel at Comic Con. While he is not what some might call “conventionally handsome”, you’ll soon realize that we could care less about that around here.
Are promos for a British period drama supposed to get you this pumped up? I’ve included both the ITV (the network that airs DA in the UK) promo and the PBS promo. I prefer the British version, but then, don’t I always?
Stay strong, Supernatural fans! The season 8 premeire is just a month away. Here is a little something I stumbled across while doing my weekly Supernatural search to tide you over till then.
Believe it or not, we here at Fangirly don’t always agree about everything in pop culture . It’s rare, but it does happen. And instead of settling our differences with a bare-knuckle fist fight or a You Don’t know Jack death match, we decided to take this less-than-healthy debate to the internet. For our first “Agree to Disagree” feature, we’ll be debating a topic that’s a little… sensitive. Here it is folks: Doctor Who’s resident red head Amy Pond: love her or hate her?
Whitney: Hate Her!
1) She’s a Who-pie. Or “Who Groupie”, for those of you not familiar with this term I just coined. She meets the Doctor once as a kid, shares a midnight snack of fish-custard, and all of the sudden he’s the center of her Who-verse! Now, to be honest, who can blame her? If a lanky, bow-tied time traveler showed up in my backyard I would probably show him the crack in my wall too (not a euphemism). But really, Amy, ever thought about a hobby?
2) Sorry Amy, the position of sassy ginger has already been filled. Donna Noble, the tenth Doctor’s third companion, was my favorite of all the show’s leading ladies. Not only was she smart, snarky, and sweet, Donna was one of the only companions who wasn’t in love with the Doctor. Instead they had a really cute brother/sister dynamic that I loved and found totally refreshing.
3) She’s so mean to Rory! One thing Ellen and I can agree on is that Rory Williams is the perfect TV man. He’s funny, sweet, and looks awesome in a flannel shirt. But even with all that waiting for her at home, Amy still decides to run off with the Doctor. Again, we’ve reached a tricky grey area for me, because if given the same circumstances I’m not sure I would make a different decision. And even though they did eventually tie the knot and pop out a beautiful (if psychotic) half Time Lord baby, I still get the vibe that Amy kind of takes her husband for granted. I mean, why does it take half a dozen life or death experiences to remind her what a dream boat Rory is? Sorry Amy Pond, we’re done-zo.
Ellen: Love Her!
1) Um, She’s a Who-pie! Who’s not? How can we fault homegirl? We have already dedicated more than a few posts to the good Doctor and I have no doubt that this will not be the end of it. If anything, I love her more for loving the Doctor because it is something that we can bond over. And just so you can’t use it against her, I’m going to defend her throwing herself at the Doctor. Again, can you blame her? Also, I found it refreshing to have a companion that didn’t care about trying to steal the Doctor’s two hearts. She knew what she wanted and went for it. Bowties are cool… on the ground at the foot of the bed.
2) She’s Sassy! I know that this can be said about most of the companions, but Amy’s got it in spades. She don’t take no crap, not even from the Doctor. If you need proof of this, just look at “The Beast Below” or “Victory of the Daleks” where she basically has to say to the Doctor, “Shut up, you’re wrong. I’ve got this.” Also, where do you think River gets her sass? Rory? Proof is in the gene pudding, Whitney.
3) She Still Chose Rory. Say whatever you want about her running off with the Doctor, etc., but in the end she still married Rory. When both of her boys are in danger, she will still always choose Rory. She still made that half Time Lord baby with Rory (somehow). What’s that? You say you’re still not convinced. YouTube, let’s roll the tape!
Hate to say it, Whitney (actually, no, I love to say it), but I think I win this one. Long live Amelia Pond!
File this one under “Best Thing to Happen to the Internet”. Nay, the world! I especially love the trailer for Ben’s stop-motion movie, any point where Chris Pratt says anything, and any time when Nick Offerman laughs.
While watching the Bones season premiere with my friend and fellow Bones enthusiast last night, we realized that we STILL have not seen Booth and Brennan “knock boots”. Yeah, there was that one time in a dream. And yeah, we know that they have because of that whole pregnancy thing, but we still haven’t actually seen it happen. In fact, they came closer than we have ever seen them last night as Brennan tore off Booth’s shirt while he had her pinned against the washer and dryer (I know, I’m surprised I was able to type that sentence without screaming, too).
