Ep. 43: Studio Six Feet Under

Hi! My name is Terry J. Aman and this installment marks my 43rd episode of "VideoFuzzy," my twice-monthly progress report on cataloging more than 2,700 VHS transfers and digital recordings. In this installment, titled "Studio Six Feet Under," I discuss the pilot episode of "Six Feet Under" and outline the series' counter claim to "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" as the mystical center of my media collection. I also draw connections to "Veronica Mars" and "Dead Like Me."

In my classic collection, I found a bunch of fun music videos, one of my very favorite Monty Python's Flying Circus sketches, "The Trial of Harold Larch" and a National Geographic production called "Stonehenge Decoded." I comment on "The Doctor's Daughter," "Fear Itself" and "MI-5," and a funny thing happened on the way to a "Desperate Housewives" episode.

In my current collection, Garner and Rowlands' touching performances in "The Notebook" spark some personal reflection. Also, comments on "Suicide Squad," "The Magicians," "Deadly Class," "A Million Little Things" and "Miracle Workers." Plus, comments on T-Mobile's Wall of Text.

Finally, last time I'll mention it here, I'm still looking for assistance with crowdsourcing Exhibit E, sketch comedy featuring young women in medieval times. Photos posted here. Thanks!

VideoFuzzy

Catalog Post #043

Classic Collection

0626
  MPFC: It's • "It's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" • Famous deaths: Genghis Khan, Bruce Foster, Admiral Nelson •
     Italian language classes • animation: Whizzo butter commercial • It's the Arts • Film commentary with Eddie
     Baby • Off the rails with Two-Sheds • Picasso painting whilst cycling • The Funniest Joke in the World
  TDS: Wyatt Cenac tracks Democratic primaries in Montana, S.D. - so BORING
  The Shield S2x11 "Inferno"
  South Park S12x06 "Over Logging"

0627
  MI-5 S4x03 "Divided They Fall"
  TDS: Barack Obama named Democratic nominee • reactions from Clinton, McCain's • Clinton supporters' reaction
  The Shield S2x12 "Breakpoint"

0628
  Bones S2x05 "The Truth in the Lye"
  Criminal Minds S2x02 "P911"
  Ugly Betty S1x01 "Pilot"

0629
  Grey's Anatomy S3x02 "I Am a Tree"
  Close to Home S2x02 "A House Divided"

0630
  NUMB3RS S3x02 "Two Daughters"
  LNDL Top Ten Lists "Top Ten Signs You're Watching Too Much Television"
  LNDL Nathan Lane f/ "Lane, Lane, Lane & Lane"
  Desperate Housewives S3x02 "It Takes Two"

0631
  Prison Break S2x07 "Buried"
  Heroes S1x02 "Chapter Two: Don't Look Back"

0632
  Studio 60 S1x03 "The Focus Group"
  Six Feet Under S1x01 "Pilot"

0633
  Six Feet Under S1x02 "The Will"
  Plain White T's "Hate (I Really Don't Like You)"
  Eureka S1x12 "Once in a Lifetime"
  TNT presents "Underworld" (2003)

0634
  TNT presents "Underworld" (2003)
  All American Rejects "Move Along"
  The 69 Eyes "Lost Boys"
  Fall Out Boy "Dance, Dance"
  System of a Down "Hypnotize"
  Yellowcard "Lights and Sounds"

0635
 00000 The Strokes "Juicebox"
 00405 Him "Wings of a Butterfly"
 00719 Death Cab for Cutie "Soul Meets Body"
 01047 Desperate Housewives S3x06 "Sweetheart, I Have to Confess"
 05257 Prison Break S2x08 "Dead Fall"

0636
  Heroes S1x05 "Chapter Five: Hiros"
  Friday Night Lights S1x05 "Git'er Done"
  The Shield S2x12 "Breakpoint"
  National Geographic presents "Stonehenge: Decoded" (2008)

0637
  National Geographic presents "Stonehenge: Decoded" (2008)
  Fear Itself S1x01 "The Sacrifice"

0638
  The Shield S2x13 "Dominoes Falling"
  Doctor Who S4x06 "The Doctor's Daughter"

0639
  Battlestar Galactica S4x09 "The Hub"
  MPFC: It's • Teeth • Art Gallery • Art Critic • It's A Man's Life • Army recruitment complaint #1 • Changing
   at the beach • All Male Revue • Army recruitment complaint #2 • Self-Defence Class • Fop goes bathing • Army
   recruitment complaint #3 • Bookstore sketch / Dental spies • Lemming of the B.D.A. • Army recruitment 
   complaint #4  
  MPFC: It's • The Larch • The Trial of Harold Larch • The Larch • Mr. Bicycle Repairman • anti-Communist rant •
   Storytime • animation: bunnies • Restaurant Sketch: Dirty Fork • animation: Purchase a Past • Luring milkmen •
   BBC newsreader kidnapped • The Horse Chestnut • kids-on-the-street interview • Nudge, Nudge
  Robin Hood S2x06 "For England … !"

0640
  Nip/Tuck S4x06 "Faith Wolper, PhD"
  30 Rock S1x01 "Pilot"
  20 Good Years [Tambor/Lithgow sitcom with laughtrack] S1x01 "Pilot" [scrap]
  Criminal Minds S2x04 "Psychodrama"
  CSI: NY S3x04 "Hung Out to Dry" [scrap]

0641
  The Nine S1x02 "Heroes Welcome"
  Late Night with Conan O'Brien: Sarah Michelle Gellar
  Ugly Betty S1x03 "Queens for a Day"

0642
  Grey's Anatomy S3x04 "What I Am"
  Close to Home S2x04 "Deacon"
  NUMB3RS S3x04 "The Mole"

0643
  Six Feet Under S1x03 "The Foot"
  Six Feet Under S1x04 "Familia"

0644
  Dead Like Me S2x10 "Death Defying"
  Dead Like Me S2x11 "Ashes to Ashes"
  Veronica Mars S3x02 "My Big Fat Greek Rush Week"

Current Collection

X213
  Title 1: Full Frontal S4x01 SOTU • Elliot Abrams • Black History Month
  Title 2: LSSC: Paul Simon "Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War" • Taraji P. Henson • 
               Steve Buscemi • Sasha Sloane "Older" • Chris Pratt • Glenn Close • Bryon Bowers
  Title 3: A Million Little Things S1x13 "Twelve Seconds"
  Title 4: A Million LIttle Things S1x14 "Someday"
  Title 5: The Magicians S4x02 "Lost, Found, F***ed"
  Title 6: The Magicians S4x03 "The Bad News Bear"
  Title 7: The Magicians S1x01 "Unauthorized Magic"
  Title 8: The Magicians S1x02 "The Source of Magic"

X214
  Title 1: The Magicians S1x03 "Consequences of Advanced Spellcasting"
  Title 2: The Magicians S1x04 "The World Between Walls"
  Title 3: Deadly Class S1x03 "Snake Pit"
  Title 4: Deadly Class S1x04 "Mirror People"
  Title 5: I Am The Night S1x02 "Phenomenon of Interference"
  Title 6: Bob's Burgers S9x13 "Bed, Bob and Beyond"
  Title 7: Twilight Zone S4x01 "In His Image"
  Title 8: Twilight Zone S4x18 "The Bard"
  Title 9: Will & Grace S10x09 "Family, Trip"
  Title 10: Will & Grace S10x10 "Dead Man Texting"

X215
  Title 1: Freeform presents "Saving Mr. Banks" (2013)
  Title 2: I Am The Night S1x03 "Dark Flower" [part 1]
  Title 3: How the Universe Works S7x04 "How Black Holes Made Us"
  Title 4: Miracle Workers S1x01 "Two Weeks"
  Title 5: TNT presents "Suicide Squad" (2016)
  Title 6: T-Mobile ad: We'll Keep this Brief

X216
  Title 1: Family Guy S9x01 "And Then There Were Fewer" [part 2]
  Title 2: I Am The Night S1x03 "Dark Flower" [part 2]
  Title 3: TNT presents "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice" (2016)
  Title 4: USA presents "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" (2016)
  Title 5: Full Frontal S4x02 Green New Deal • Obesity care • Billionaires in politics
  Title 6: LSSC: John Oliver

X217
  Title 1: LSSC: BlackPink "Ddu-du Ddu-du"
  Title 2: A Million Little Things 1x15 "The Rock"
  Title 3: Deadly Class S1x05 "Saudade" [part 1]
  Title 4: LSSC: Jeff Goldblum • The Marcus King Band "Goodbye Carolina"
  Title 5: Supernatural S13x03 "Patience"
  Title 6: TNT presents "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" (2016)
              The Verve "Bitter Sweet Symphony" [cuts in] 
  Title 7: Supernatural S14x12 "Prophet and Loss"

X218
  Title 1: Supernatural S14x13 "Lebanon"
  Title 2: The Magicians S4x04 "Marry … F**k … Kill"
  Title 3: The Magicians S1x05 "Mendings, Major and Minor"
  Title 4: The Magicians S1x06 "Impractical Applications"
  Title 5: The Magicians S1x07 "The Mayakovsky Circumstance"
  Title 6: Syfy presents "No Escape Room" (2018)
  Title 7: Will & Grace S10x11 "The Scales of Justice"

X219
  Title 1: Freeform presents "The Notebook" (2004)
  Title 2: Bob's Burgers S9x14 "Every Which Way But Goose"
  Title 3: A Million Little Things S1x16 "The Rosary"
  Title 4: The Magicians S4x05 "Escape From the Happy Place"
  Title 5: Deadly Class S1x06 "Stigmata Martyr"
  Title 6: Miracle Workers S1x02 "13 Days"
  Title 7: LSSC: Colin Quinn

Ep. 42: Life, This Podcast and Everything

Hi! My name is Terry J. Aman and this installment marks my 42nd episode of "VideoFuzzy," my twice-monthly progress report on cataloging more than 2,700 VHS transfers and digital recordings. In this installment, titled "Life, This Podcast and Everything," as I break into my fourth binder of DVDs, I discover the second half of the pilot episode of "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," which I assert is the mystical center of my personal media universe: Despite its having aired for only one season in 2006-07, it is remarkably easy to highlight connections between this show and just about everything else in my media collection.

In my Classic Collection, I highlight significant episodes of "Dead Like Me," a mess of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" episodes and the goofy fourth season premiere of "Wire in the Blood" as well as "The Shield," "Nip/Tuck," "South Park," "The Simpsons" and the 2007 documentary "Prison Nation" on National Geographic.

In my Current Collection, I talk about "I Am the Night" on TNT, "Surviving R. Kelly" and "Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story" on Lifetime, with comments on "grown-ish," "A Million Little Things" and "The Good Place," as well as Syfy presentations of "The Magicians," "Deadly Class" and an episode of "The Twilight Zone" featuring Carol Burnett. Also, I discuss my approach to spoilers.

Finally, I'm still looking for assistance with crowdsourcing Exhibit E, sketch comedy featuring young women in medieval times. Photos posted here.

VideoFuzzy

Catalog Post #042

Classic Collection

0601
  Wire in the Blood S4x03 "Hole in the Heart"
  My Name is Earl S3x21 "Camdenites: Part 1"
  My Name is Earl S3x22 "Camdenites: Part 2"
  Moonlight S1x16 "Sonata"

0602
  The Shield S1x11 "Carnivores"
  MI-5 S4x02 "The Special - Part 2"
  Samantha Who? S1x08 "The Car"

0603
  The Shield S1x12 "Two Days of Blood"
  South Park S6x12 "A Ladder to Heaven"

0604
  LOST S4x13 "There's No Place Like Home - Part 2"
  The Shield S1x13 "Circles"
  The Shield S2x01 "The Quick Fix"
  - "Blue on Black" music bed - Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band 1997

0605
  The Shield S2x02 "Dead Soldiers"
  The Shield S2x03 "Partners"
  - "Breakdown" music bed - Tantric 2001
  The Shield S2x04 "Carte Blanche"

0606
  The Shield S2x05 "Greenlit"
  The Shield S2x06 "Homewrecker"
  Doctor Who S4x05 "The Poison Sky"

0607
  The Shield S2x07 "Barnstormers"
  The Shield S2x08 "Scar Tissue"

0608
  The 4400 S2x06 "Life Interrupted"
  The 4400 S2x07 "Carrier"
  South Park S8x12 "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset"
  - The Whore Off, Butters is a Bad Bear
  The Sarah Jane Adventures S1x10 "The Lost Boy - Part 2"

0609
  Robin Hood S2x05 "Ducking and Diving"
  Battlestar Galactica S4x08 "Sine Qua Non"
  Reaper S1x17 "The Leak"

0610
  The Simpsons S10x13 "Homer to the Max"
  The Simpsons S19x04 "I Don't Wanna Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"
  The Simpsons S19x20 "All About Lisa"
  Reaper S1x18 "Cancun"
  The Simpsons S10x14 "I'm With Cupid"

0611
  The Simpsons S10x16 "Make Room for Lisa"
  SciFi presents "Timeline" (2003)

0612
  The Shield S2x09 "Co-Pilot"
  Wire in the Blood S4x01 "Time to Murder and Create"

0613
  Wire in the Blood S4x01 "Time to Murder and Create"
  The Simpsons S10x18 "Simpsons Bible Stories"
  The Simpsons S19x13 "The DeBarted"
  The MTV 2008 Movie Awards, hosted by Mike Myers

0614
  The MTV 2008 Movie Awards, hosted by Mike Myers
  - closing credits: Rihanna's "Please Don't Stop the Music"
  In Plain Sight S1x01 "Pilot"
  South Park S6x03 "Freak Strike"
  National Geographic "Prison Nation" (2007)

0615
  National Geographic "Prison Nation" (2007)
  The Shield S2x10 "Coyotes"

0616
  Beyond Theology S1x10 "A Congress of the World's Religions"
  Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip S1x01 “Pilot” [part 2]
  TDS: Sept. 18, 2006 - CSPAN Washington Journal Robert Novak • Gays in the military • Pres. Bill 
      Clinton and the Clinton Global Initiative
  TCR: Sept. 18, 2006 - Whitney & Bobby Brown breakup • War on Terror • The WØRD: Torture • 
      Tek Jansen animation
  Dead Like Me S2x04 "The Shallow End" [missing a chapter]
  - The Church Scene

0617
  Dead Like Me S2x05 "Hurry"
  Eureka S1x10 "Purple Haze"
  Nip/Tuck S4x03 "Monica Wilder"
  - Mario Lopez shower scene, Peter Dinklage joins the cast

0618
  MADtv S8x15 scrap: Christina Aguilera song parody "Virginal"
  Desperate Housewives S3x01 "Listen to the Rain on the Roof"
  Tenacious D "The Pick of Destiny"
  Prison Break S2x06 "Subdivision"

0619
  Heroes S1x01 "Chapter 1: Genesis"
  Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip S1x02 "The Cold Open"
  - "The Very Model of a Modern Network TV Show"
  TDS: Pat Buchanan "State of Emergency"

0620
  Dead Like Me S2x06 "In Escrow"
  Dead Like Me S2x07 "Rites of Passage"
  Eureka S1x11 "H.O.U.S.E. Rules"

0621
  Nip/Tuck S4x04 "Shari Noble"
  - Melissa Gilbert, Dean Norris
  Dead Like Me S2x08 "The Escape Artist"

0622
  Dead Like Me S2x09 "Be Still My Heart"
  Nip/Tuck S4x05 "Dawn Budge"
  Bones S2x06 "The Girl in Suite 2103"

0623
  Criminal Minds S2x03 "The Perfect Storm"
  The Nine S1x01 "Pilot"

0624
  Ugly Betty S1x02 "The Box and the Bunny"
  Beyond Theology  S1x09 "Mysticism and the Perennial Philosophy"
  South Park S4x04 "Quintuplets 2000"
  TDS: Fred Snyder reads excerpts of Scott McClellan's "What Happened" • I2K8: Dems discuss voting regs •
   Scott McClellan's "What Happened"

0625
  MPFC "The Money Programme" • Opening sequence • Erizabeth (performed with culturally insensitive 
   Asian accents) • Inspector Leopard of the Yard! (film critique) • police animation • domestic sketch / dead 
   bishop / church police • oh shut up animation / bounce • Jungle Sketch / BBC1 announcer cutaway • Ken 
   Russell's Gardening Club with furries and nudity (1958) • Jungle Sketch part 2, with script issues • British 
   Explorer's Club, with more script issues • Jungle Sketch part 3, with production issues • Inspector 
   Baboon of the Yard! (film critique) • closing credits • BBC1 announcer cutaway • Argument sketch • 
   Flying Fox of the Yard! (film critique) • Flying Thompson's Gazelle of the Yard! • It's a fair cop
  MPFC Mr. & Mrs. Brian Norris' Ford Popular: The Quest for Surbiton • Public school students nicked for 
   pyramid scheme • "How to Do It" • domestic sketch: Things blow up all the time • Doctor: Explosives as 
   treatments • animation walks off the edge of the cartoon • Tchaikovsky expert addresses Farming Club: 
   Just an old poof who wrote tunes? • 04341 Escape artist • Trim Jeans Presents … slenderizing to 
   Chekov • The Great Escape from unsightly inches • animation: announcer runs at the mouth • Fish 
   Slapping Dance • animation: fishy interrogations • sinking the Titanic: Women and children etc. first • 
   stowaways interrogated by the Venezuelan police and BBC budget considerations • adaptation of 
   Puss in Boots • dramatic read interrupted by BBC flat repo operations • BBC landlords • closing credits 
   on notepaper • It's, the Talk Show
  MPFC Njorl's Saga - Iceland 1126 • Opening credits • Apologetic murderer • animation: pursuing prisoner 
   into his own body • recounting Njorl's Saga / getting tangled up in begats • Njorl's Trek to North Malden 
   • Court case against bosh dismissed • Calling Erik Njorl to the stand / police brutality / resuscitating 
   defendant • prisoner animation callback • Stock Market Report • Pepperpot pet disposal and philosophy •
   Ask Sartre! • Njorl's Saga: Pepperpots visit Paris by way of Iceland • Sartre settles an argument • 
   Whicker's World: Whicker Island • Closing credits
  MPFC It's • Sheep • French People • I Got Three Cheeks! • I Got Three Cheeks (continental version) • 
   Man With Two Noses • Creepy announcer • Arthur Ewing and his Musical Mice • Marriage Counsellor Sketch 
   • The Private Life of Wacky Queen Victoria • Generation Gap: Son's a miner • Scotsman on a Horse • A 
   Man with Three Noses • The Epilogue: A Question of Belief • animation: nasty pram • 15140 "And Now: 
   Music!" • The World Around Us: The Mouse Problem • Flying Sheep • Closing credits

Current Collection

X208
  Title 1: Sherlock  S1x03 "The Great Game" [part 3]
  Title 2: Sherlock  S2x01 "A Scandal in Belgravia"
  Title 3: Sherlock  S2x02 "The Hounds of Baskerville"
  Title 4: Sherlock  S2x03 "The Reichenbach Fall"
  Title 5: Surviving R. Kelly S1x01 "The Pied Piper of R&B" [part 1]
  Title 6: The Good Place S3x10 "The Book of Dougs"
  Title 7: LSSC: Bradley Whitford • Gary Clark Jr. "My Land" • James McIlvoy • Trump popularity suffers in 
               shutdown • White House hosts Clemson Tigers • Mueller investigation • Rep. Steve King
  Title 8: Surviving R. Kelly S1x05 "All The Missing Girls" [part 1]

X209
  Title 1: Surviving R. Kelly S1x05 "All The Missing Girls" [part 2]
  Title 2: Surviving R. Kelly S1x06 "Black Girls Matter"
  Title 3: The Good Place S3x11 "Chidi Sees the Time Knife"
  Title 4: A Million Little Things S1x11 "Secrets and Lies"
  Title 5: LSSC: Sarah Paulson
  Title 6: Supernatural S14x10 "Nihilism"
  Title 7: Lifetime presents "Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story" (2019)
  Title 8: How the Universe Works   S5x03  "The Secret History of Pluto"
  Title 9: How the Universe Works   S6x08  "The Strange Lives of Dwarf Planets"
  Title 10: Bob's Burgers  S9x12 "The Helen Hunt"

X210
  Title 1: The Good Place S3x12 "Pandemonium"
  Title 2: The Magicians S4x01 "A Flock of Lost Birds"
  Title 3: Deadly Class S1x01 "Reagan Youth"
  Title 4: Deadly Class S1x02 "Noise, Noise, Noise"
  Title 5: A Million Little Things S1x12 "The Day Before …"
  Title 6: Lifetime presents "Aaliyah: Princess of R&B" (2014)
  Title 7: LSSC: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) • Better Oblivion Community Center "Dylan Thomas" •
            Michael Moore • Dermot Kennedy "Power Over Me" • comedian Samantha Ruddy

X211
  Title 1: Supernatural S14x11 "Damaged Goods"
  Title 2: TNT presents "The Accountant" (2016)
  Title 3: How the Universe Works S4x04 "The Edge of the Solar System" [part 1]
  Title 4: How the Universe Works S4x04 "The Edge of the Solar System" [part 2]
  Title 5: How the Universe Works S5x01 "The Mystery of Planet 9"
  Title 6: How the Universe Works S6x10 "The Mystery of Spacetime"
  Title 7: How the Universe Works S6x06 "The Secret History of Mercury"
  Title 8: How the Universe Works S6x04 "The Death of the Milky Way"

X212
  Title 1: How the Universe Works S6x02 "Twin Suns: The Alien Mysteries"
  Title 2: How the Universe Works S6x07 "The Quasar Enigma" [part 1]
  Title 3: How the Universe Works S6x07 "The Quasar Enigma" [part 2]
  Title 4: How the Universe Works S7x01 "Nightmares of Neutron Stars"
  Title 5: Freeform presents "Allegiant" (2016)
  Title 6: I Am The Night S1x01 "Pilot"
  Title 7: Twilight Zone S3x36 "Cavender is Coming"