Ep. 16: Enjoying a Big Reveal

In this installment, I clean up a little old business regarding those "unrecoverably absent" portions of SciFi's three-part miniseries "Tin Man" from last time and rule out a possibility on Crowdsourcing Exhibit C, the crowd scene in the French Quarter of New Orleans. My Friday Night Feature explores a season 1 episode of "Samantha Who" and a bombshell revelation from season 1 of "Pushing Daisies."

VideoFuzzy 1.0 - a folder packed with longhand listings and printouts of what's on all of my VHS tapes from back when they were all VHS tapes. This little gem surfaced as part of transferring files to our new PC when I found a file from 11 years ago, 23 pages listing as far as I'd gotten in my VHS collection at the time. Now it's all on DVDs, and the cataloging ... continues.

My Classic Collection traces the 1.0 version of this video cataloging project, episodes of NBC's "Life" and "The Universe" on the History Channel, and ABC's presentation of Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events." My Current Collection has logged nearly a score of "Supernaturals," a few more "Fawlty Towers" and closed out my collection of "Archers" and "Brockmires." I saved a standout episode of "The Family Guy" and determined that I'm going to go back in and recatalog my episodes of "The President Show" to make them easier to navigate. Finally, in What I've Been Watching, I can't say I stayed spoiler-free on "Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi," but I can say it's absolutely worth a view.

VideoFuzzy

Catalog Post #016

Classic Collection

0369
  Monk S6x10 “Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa”
  Psych S2x10 “Gus’ Dad May Have Killed an Old Guy”
  My Name is Earl S3x12 “Early Release”

0370
  Heroes S2x11 “Powerless” [part 2]
  Life S1x10 “Dig a Hole”
  Tin Man S1x02 “Search for the Emerald” [part 1]

0371 
  Tin Man S1x02 “Search for the Emerald” [part 2]
  Nip/Tuck S5x06 “Damien Sands”
  Boston Legal S4x08 “Oral Contracts”
  Life S1x11 “Fill It Up”

0372 
  Kathy Griffin: Everybody Can Suck It – June 5, 2007
  Tin Man S1x03 “Tin Man” [part 1]

0373
  Tin Man S1x03 “Tin Man” [part 2]
  Reaper S1x10 “Cash Out”
  Dirty Sexy Money S1x10 “The Nutcracker”
  Ugly Betty S2x10 “Bananas for Betty”

0374
  Monk S5x14 “Mr. Monk Visits a Farm”
  Journeyman S1x11 “Home by Another Way”
  Samantha Who S1x09 “The Break-Up”

0375
  Saving Grace S1x11 “This is Way Too Normal For You”
  Nip/Tuck S5x07 “Dr. Joshua Lee”
  Boston Legal S4x09 “No Brains Left Behind”

0376
  Pushing Daisies S1x09 “Corpsicle”
  The Universe S2x03 “Mysteries of the Moon”
  The Simpsons S19x09 “The Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind”

0377
  Saving Grace S1x12 “Is There a Scarlet Letter on my Breast?”
  Moonlight S1x10 “Sleeping Beauty”
  Journeyman S1x12 “The Hanged Man”

0378
  The Universe S2x04 “The Milky Way”
  Nip/Tuck S5x08 “Duke Collins”
  Journeyman S1x13 “Perfidia”

0379
  Boston Legal S4x10 “Green Christmas”
  Saving Grace S1x13 “Tacos, Tulips, Ducks and Spices”
  ABC presents “A Series of Unfortunate Events” (2004)

0380
  The Universe S2x02 “Cosmic Holes”

Current Collection

X071
  Title 1: Fawlty Towers S1x03 “The Wedding Party” [part 2]
  Title 2: Supernatural S9x20 “Bloodlines”
  Title 3: Better Call Saul S3x06 “Off Brand”
  Title 4: Supernatural S9x21 “King of the Damned”
  Title 5: Supernatural S9x22 “Stairway to Heaven”
  Title 6: Supernatural S9x23 “Do You Believe in Miracles” [part 1]
  Title 7: Supernatural S9x23 “Do You Believe in Miracles” [part 2]
  Title 8: Supernatural S10x01 “Black”
  Title 9: Archer  S8x06 “Dreamland: Waxing Gibbous” [scrap]
  Title 10: 00000 Supernatural  S10x02  “Reichenbach” [part 1]
            02510 Fargo  S3x05 “The House of Special Purpose”
  Title 11: Archer  S8x07 “Dreamland: Gramercy, Halberd!”
  Title 12: Brockmire S1x08 “It All Comes Down to This” [scrap]

X072
  Title 1: Brockmire S1x08 “It All Comes Down to This”
  Title 2: Bob’s Burgers S7x21 “Paraders of the Lost Float”
  Title 3: Family Guy S15x20 “Dearly Deported”
  Title 4: Family Guy S16x01 “A House Full of Peters”
  Title 5: Doctor Who S10x06 “Extremis”
  Title 6: LSSC: The XX “I Dare You”
  Title 7: Fawlty Towers S1x04 “The Hotel Inspectors”
  Title 8: Better Call Saul S3x07 “Expenses”
  Title 9: LSSC: Rachel Maddow
  Title 10: LSSC: Ben Flatt “For Forever”
  Title 11: The President Show  S1x04 “Intelligence”
  Title 12: CSPAN2: President Trump meets the Pope at the Vatican – May 23, 2017
            transitions into Secy. of State Rex Tillerson briefing
  Title 13: Ghost in the Shell S1x16 “Chinks in the Armor of the Heart: Ag2O”
  Title 14: Swinging Grandma Jimmy Johns’ commercial
  Title 15: Fargo  S3x06 “The Lord of No Mercy”
  Title 16: Archer  S8x08 “Dreamland: Auflösung”
  Title 17: LSSC: Paul Simon & Bill Frisell “Questions for the Angels”

X073
  Title 1: The Simpsons S14x17 “Three Gays of the Condo”
  Title 2: The Simpsons S18x07  “Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)” scrap
  Title 3: Class S1x06 “Detained”
  Title 4: Heidi Heitkamp commercial: B-52 Bombers
  Title 5: LSSC: White House reporter April Ryan
  Title 6: TNT presents “Tammy” (2014)
  Title 7: Spike presents “I Am Heath Ledger” (2017)
  Title 8: Doctor Who S10x07 “The Pyramid at the End of the World”
  Title 9: Class S1x07 “The Metaphysical Engine; or What Quill Did”
  Title 10: Fawlty Towers S1x05 “Gourmet Night”

X074
  Title 1: FX presents “Marvel’s The Avengers” (2012)
  Title 2: The President Show  S1x05 “My Journey”
  Title 3: Supernatural S10x02 “Reichenbach” [part 2]
  Title 4: Supernatural S10x03 “Soul Survivor”
  Title 5: Supernatural S10x04 “Paper Moon”
  Title 6: Supernatural S10x05 “Fan Fiction”

X075
  Title 1: Supernatural S10x06 “Ask Jeeves”
  Title 2: Supernatural S10x07 “Girls, Girls, Girls”
  Title 3: Supernatural S10x08 “Hibbing 911”
  Title 4: Supernatural S10x09 “The Things We Left Behind”
  Title 5: Supernatural S10x10 “The Hunter Games”
  Title 6: Supernatural S10x11 “There’s No Place Like Home”
  Title 7: Syfy presents “Source Code” (2011)

Ep. 15: Adventures in Absentia

In this installment, my Friday Night Feature on "Tin Man" opens onto what appears to be a puzzling, unrecoverable absence of missing media, and while talking out my next move I comment on MTV News and anti-piracy efforts. My Classic Collection offers up a few more Kathy Griffin stand-up specials, and my Current Collection sparks some commentary on "Bob's Burgers."

In What I've Been Watching, I spend a weekend clearing movies from the DVR including "Dark Shadows," "Insidious," "Pulp Fiction" (one of my many, many recordings), "Guys and Dolls," "ParaNorman" and "Cabin in the Woods," tho I am thwarted yet again in my viewing of "Hocus Pocus."

Also, I draw some parallels between Pixar’s brilliant Dia de los Muertos epic "Coco" (go see it -- go see it now) and Laika's "Kubo and the Two Strings" from last summer, and I close out with some comments on Carol Burnett's delightful 50th Anniversary special.

VideoFuzzy

Catalog Post #015

Classic Collection

0364
  Desperate Housewives S4x09 “Something’s Coming”
  Tin Man S1x01 “Into the Storm” [part 1]

0365
  Tin Man S1x01 “Into the Storm” [part 2]
  Chuck S1x11 “Chuck Versus the Crown Vic”
  Heroes S2x11 “Powerless” (staticky)

0366
  Tin Man S1x03 “Tin Man” [part 3]
  Grey’s Anatomy S4x10 “Crash Into Me (2)”
  The Closer S3x14 “Next of Kin (1)”
  The Closer S3x15 “Next of Kin (2)”

0367
  The Closer S3x14 “Next of Kin (2)”
  Kathy Griffin: “Is … Not Nicole Kidman” – Aug. 3, 2005
  Kathy Griffin: “Allegedly” – Nov. 30, 2004

0368
  Saving Grace S1x10 “It’s Better When I Can See You”
  Kathy Griffin: “Strong Black Woman” – May 9, 2006

Current Collection

X068
  Title 1: Bob’s Burgers S7x20 “Mom, Lies and Videotapes”
  Title 2: Supernatural S9x12 “Sharp Teeth”
  Title 3: Better Call Saul S3x05 “Chicanery”
  Title 4: Supernatural S9x13 “The Purge”
  Title 5: Supernatural S9x14 “Captives”
  Titles 6&7: LSSC: Daily Show special: Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Samantha Bee, Rod Corddry, Ed Helms
  Title 8: Brockmire S1x07 “Old-Timers Day”
  Title 9: Archer  S8x06 “Dreamland: Waxing Gibbous”
  Title 10: LSSC: Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds “Samurai Cop”
  Title 11: Fargo  S3x04 “The Narrow Escape Problem”
  Title 12: The Simpsons S23x05 “The Food Wife”
  Title 13: LSSC: Dan Auerbach “Shine On Me”

X069
  Title 1: Full Frontal S2x08 “Architecting Corruption”
  Title 2: The President Show S1x03 “Mother”
  Title 3: Sundance presents “Pulp Fiction” (1994)
  Title 4: FX presents “Horrible Bosses” (2011)
  Title 5: Doctor Who S10x05 “Oxygen”
  Title 6: Class S1x05 “Brave-ish Hearts”

X070
  Title 1: Fawlty Towers S1x03 “The Wedding Party”
  Title 2: PPTV presents “Chaplin: The Legend of the Century” (2014)
  Title 3: Ghost in the Shell S1x15 “Time of the Machines: Machines Désirantes”
  Title 4: Supernatural S9x15 “#THINMAN”
  Title 5: Supernatural S9x16 “Blade Runners”
  Title 6: Supernatural S9x17 “Mother’s Little Helper”
  Title 7: Supernatural S9x18 “Meta Fiction”
  Title 8: Supernatural S9x19 “Alex Annie Alexis Ann”