Ep. 37: Feeling Adventurous

Hi! My name is Terry J. Aman and this installment marks my 37th episode of "VideoFuzzy," my twice-monthly progress report on cataloging more than 2,700 VHS transfers and digital recordings. In this installment, titled "Feeling Adventurous," I open with my Friday Night Feature, discussing the pilot episode of "The Sarah Jane Adventures," which turned up in my collection on disc 560. The show, a spinoff from "Doctor Who," aired for five seasons, and while I was in the Who-niverse, I took the opportunity to talk a bit more about "Doctor Who" as well.

Shifting to my classic VHS-to-DVD collection, I found a few episodes of "Eli Stone" and "Medium," and a few frames of an episode of "Samantha Who?" which, since it has not turned up in my catalog before now, may have been lost forever.

In my current direct-to-DVD recordings, I talked about the fourth season finale of "Better Call Saul," the continuing ethical conundrums they're facing on "The Good Place," the pilot episode of the "Charmed" reboot, brief comments on "BoJack Horseman," "Superstore" and "American Horror Story: Apocalypse," and I'm officially done bothering with "Murphy Brown." Enjoy!

VideoFuzzy

Catalog Post #037

Classic Collection

0559 
  Desperate Housewives S4x12 "In Buddy's Eyes"
  Brothers & Sisters S2x13 "Separation Anxiety"

0560
  The Sarah Jane Adventures S1x01 "The Invasion of the Bane"
  The Simpsons S19x16 "Papa Don't Leech"

0561
  Samantha Who? S1x12 "Butterfiles" [scrap]
  Medium S4x13 "A Cure for What Ails You"
  Boston Legal S4x17 "The Court Supreme"
  Eli Stone S1x10 "Heartbeat"

0562
  Eli Stone S1x10 "Heartbeat"
  Eli Stone S1x11 "Patience"
  Eli Stone S1x12 "Waiting For That Day"

  Eli Stone S1x13 "Soul Free"

Current Collection

X191
  Title 1: Syfy presents "Insidious 2" (2013)
  Title 2: Doctor Who S11x01 "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"
  Title 3: FX presents "Hotel Transylvania 2" (2015)
  Title 4: Bob's Burgers S9x02 "The Taking of Funtime One Two Three"
  Title 5: Sundance presents "Spaceballs" (1987)

X192
  Title 1: commercial: anti-Cramer SMP: Tariffs
  Title 2: Supernatural S14x01 "Stranger in a Strange Land"
  Title 3: The Good Place S3x03 "The Snowplow"
  Title 4: AHS Apocalypse S8x05 "Boy Wonder"
  Title 5: BoJack Horseman S1x03 "Prickly Muffin"
  Title 6: Superstore S4x02 "Baby Shower"
  Title 7: Will & Grace S12x02 "Where in the World is Karen Walker?"
  Title 8: Better Call Saul S4x10 "Winner"
  Title 9: Syfy presents "Insidious 3" (2015)
  Title 10: Murphy Brown S11x03 "#murphytoo"
  Title 11: commercial: pro-Cramer, town halls
  Title 12: commercial: anti-Cramer, tariffs, SMP
  Title 13: Bob's Burgers S9x03 "Tweentrepreneurs"
  Title 14: commercial: Amazon, the small business
  Title 15: commercial: anti-Heitkamp: Two Heidis, Senate Leadership Fund
  Title 16: commercial: pro-Armstrong: family farms

X193
  Title 1: Bob's Burgers S9x04 "Nightmare on Ocean Avenue Street"
  Title 2: commercial: T-Mobile, bears
  Title 3: Doctor Who S11x02 "The Ghost Monument"
  Title 4: Doctor Who S11x03 "Rosa"
  Title 5: commercial: pro-Cramer; family
  Title 6: commercial: anti-Heitkamp, immigration SLF
  Title 7: commercial: pro-Heitkamp, adoption & family
  Title 8: commercial: pro-Armstrong, business climate
  Title 9: commercial: anti-Cramer, trade issues
  Title 10: commercial: pro-Heitkamp, independent voice
  Title 11: commercial: anti-Cramer, trade issues, SMP
  Title 12: Superstore S4x03 "Toxic Workplace"
  Title 13: The Good Place S3x04 "Jeremy Bearimy"
  Title 14: Will & Grace S12x03 "Tex and the City"
  Title 15: The Good Place S3x05 "The Ballad of Donkey Doug"
  Title 16: AHS Apocalypse S8x06 "Return to Murder House"
  Title 17: AHS Apocalypse S8x07 "Traitor"
  Title 18: Superstore S4x04 "Costume Competition"
  Title 19: Will & Grace S12x04 "Who's Sorry Now?"

X194
  Title 1: Charmed  S1x01 "Pilot"
  Title 2: Supernatural S14x02 "Gods and Monsters"
  Title 3: commercial: The CW "Open to all"
  Title 4: Supernatural S14x03 "The Scar"
  Title 5: Full Frontal S3x25 Mailbombs • Migrant caravans • Trump removing protections for trans people • 
                  Vermont governor race
  Title 6: BoJack Horseman S1x04 "Zoës & Zeldas"
  Title 7: BoJack Horseman S1x05 "Live Fast, Diane Nguyen"
  Title 8: Syfy presents "American Psycho II: All American Girl" (2002)
  Title 9: Murphy Brown S11x05 "The Girl Who Cried About Wolf"

Ep. 36: The Podcast That Fell to Earth

Hi! My name is Terry J. Aman and this installment marks my 36th episode of "VideoFuzzy," my twice-monthly progress report on cataloging more than 2,700 VHS transfers and digital recordings. In this installment, titled "The Podcast That Fell to Earth," I open with comments and reactions to the 11th season premiere of "Doctor Who" featuring new Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, in What I've Been Watching.

In my Friday Night Feature, I explore my reactions to a fourth-season episode of "Boston Legal" I found on disc 557, in which Jerry Espenson is accused of sexual assault, Nantucket wants a nuclear warhead and Shirley Schmidt explores end-of-life care options for her ailing father.

My classic VHS-to-DVD collection turned up a scrap of dialogue from a 2007 episode of "The Shield" in which Internal Affairs investigator Jon Kavanaugh is accused of sexual assault by Vic Mackey's ex-wife, which was interesting on a couple different levels. I also found a few more episodes of David Tennant's "Doctor Who," which touched off my renewed call for Whittaker's Doctor to go searching for her daughter.

In current direct-to-DVD recordings, I rip on a few Nerd Shows I recorded, one which appears to have been cobbled together from a couple different programs, and another, "StarTalk" with Neil deGrasse Tyson on National Geographic, which needlessly superimposes a comic talk show structure on advances in scientific inquiry.

In other viewing, I took in episodes of Netflix property "BoJack Horseman" as edited for rebroadcast on Comedy Central, the "Murphy Brown" reboot on CBS, "Superstore," "The Good Place," "Will&Grace" and the season 14 premiere of "Supernatural" -- lots of moving parts on that one.

And shoutout to the script archive hosted at www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk, where I double-checked some of the dialogue I recreated for this recording. Enjoy!

VideoFuzzy

Catalog Post #036

Classic Collection

0553
  The Shield S5x06 "Rap Payback"
  The Shield S5x07 "Man Inside"
  The Shield S5x08 "Kavanaugh"

0554
  The Shield S5x09 "Smoked"
  The Shield S5x10 "Of Mice and Lem"

0555
  The Shield S5x10 "Postpartum"
  The Shield S6x01 "On the Jones"
  TDS (4/17/08): Final debate between Obama and Clinton • "No disrespect" • The question of "elitism" • 
     Uma Thurman
  TCR (4/17/08): Hillary Clinton takes on technical difficulties 

0556
  TCR (4/17/08): Final debate between Obama and Clinton • calling out Obama's patriotism • Rep. Patrick Murphy • 
     Sen. Barack Obama puts "Manufactured political distractions" on notice
  Battlestar Galactica S4x03 "The Ties That Bind"
  Reaper S1x13 "Acid Queen"
  The Riches S2x05 "Trust Never Sleeps"

0557
  Boston Legal S4x16 "The Mighty Rogues"
  Medium S4x12 "Partners in Crime"
  Doctor Who S3x13 "Last of the Time Lords"

0558 
  The Shield S6x02 "Baptism by Fire"
  Torchwood S2x13 "Exit Wounds"
  Doctor Who Christmas Special "Voyage of the Damned" (2007)

Current Collection

X187
  Title 1: FX presents “Ghostbusters” (2016)
  Title 2: Breaking Bad S5x04 “51”
  Title 3: commercial: pro-Heitkamp: anti-human trafficking
  Title 4: commercial: anti-Heitkamp: illegal immigration
  Title 5: commercial: pro-Cramer: tax cuts=economic growth
  Title 6: commercial: anti-Cramer: pay increases while on PSC
  Title 7: commercial: anti-Heitkamp: Concerned Women for America anti-abortion
  Title 8: commercial: American Standard self-cleaning toilet
  Title 9: AHS Apocalypse S8x03 "Forbidden Fruit"
  Title 10: BoJack Horseman S1x01 "BoJack Horseman: The BoJack Horseman Story, Chapter One"
  Title 11: Full Frontal S3x23 "Carrie"-ing re: Kavanaugh hearing • equal rights for NFL cheerleaders • 
                   Enthusiasm gap during midterms • Zendaya is Meechee and voting is cool now
  Title 12: Better Call Saul S4x08 "Coushatta"
  Title 13: The Good Place S3x01 "Everything is Bonzers"

X188
  Title 1: Murphy Brown S11x01 "Fake News"
  Title 2: TNT presents "Alice Through the Looking Glass" (2016)
  Title 3: LSSC: Kavanaugh allegations, calendar • Rosenstein job status • Flight of the Conchords "Father and 
                Son" • Trump at the U.N. • Cosby sentenced • Stephen shaves • Cruz heckled • Chik-fil-A offers 
                centenarian free food for life • Mascot bloopers: Gritty • America Ferrera • Nas "Adam and Eve" • A few 
                laughs at the U.N. • Kavanaugh hearings • Trump's press conference • axe-throwing bar regs • name 
                change at Dunkin' Donuts • Candice Bergen • Jon Batiste "Hollywood Africans" • Dr. Ford/Kavanaugh 
                testimony • Trump's press conference • Seal throws an octopus • Gosars campaign against their 
                brother • "Who's Boat is this Boat?" published • Jeff Bridges as Trump's attorney • Kristen Bell • 
                Nik Dodani
  Title 4: Bob's Burgers S9x01 "Just One of the Boyz 4 Now for Now"
  Title 5: Family Guy S8x07 "Jerome is the New Black" (scrap: Quagmire goes off on Brian)
  Title 6: commercial: anti-Cramer three ads, three lies, Majority Forward
  Title 7: IFC presents "Wayne's World" (1992)

X189
  Title 1: Better Call Saul S4x09 "Wiedersehen"
  Title 2: How The Universe Works S6x08 "The Strange Lives of Dwarf Planets"
  Title 3: The Planets and Beyond (How the Universe Works S1x08) "Moons" (aka "Alien Moons");
                 "Jupiter: The Sun's Secret Twin"
  Title 4: Star Talk  S3x05 Neil deGrasse Tyson interviews Brian Greene; discussion with Maeve Higgins and 
                 David Chalmers; man on the street conversations with Chuck Nice, insight from Bill Nye
  Title 5: Superstore S4x01 "Back to School"
  Title 6: Will & Grace S12x01 "The West Side Curmudgeon"
  Title 7: IFC presents "Wayne's World 2" (1993)

X190
  Title 1: AHS Apocalypse S8x04 "Could It Be … Satan?"
  Title 2: BoJack Horseman S1x02 "BoJack Hates the Troops"
  Title 3: Murphy Brown S1x02 "I (Don't) Heart Huckabee"
  Title 4: The Good Place S3x03 "The Brainy Bunch"
  Title 5: TCM presents "Murder on the Orient Express" (1974)
  Title 6: LSSC: FBI investigation on Brett Kavanaugh • Trump insults female reporters • Eric Idle • Kavanaugh 
                throwdown post UB40 concert • Trump family finances • Trump mocks Dr. Ford • Trump text • Jodie 
                Whitaker • Cat Power "Woman" • FBI report on Kavanaugh investigation • Senate vote scheduled • 
                Lady Gaga • Kavanaugh beer commercial • Trump announces USMCA agreement • Melania overseas 
                visit • EPA standards • Hurricane Florence aid • Sam Elliott
  Title 7: commercial: Heidi Heitkamp armwrestling ad