Catalog Post #053

Classic Collection

0727
  TDS: I2K8: DNC Biden • Obama • Obama video • Sen. Evan Bayh (D)
  TCR: Denver “The Shining” references and brownies • FOX analysis • Cultural divide • The WØRD:
      Acid Flashbacks • DNC roll call • speeches: Bill Clinton • Biden • Richard Brookhiser “Founding Father: 
      Rediscovering George Washington” • Brownies
  TDS: I2K8: DNC Obama acceptance speech • Jon Oliver reviews the DNC • John McCain announces
      running mate Sarah Palin • The Best F’n News Team on the Planet • Moments of Zen
  TCR: Stephen jams out “Rocky Mountain High” • John McCain names Sarah Palin as his running mate
      • Terrell Davis • Dems invoke God’s blessings • Lori Lipman Brown Secular Coalition for America • 
      John McWhorter “All About the Beat” • Stephen vs. Giant Styrofoam Cup
  MPFC: Iceland 1126 • The Nude Man • It’s • Opening Credits • Sentencing the ineffably charming serial 
      killer Michael Normal Randall • Animations: Jailbreak • Njorl’s Saga: Part II • BBC Head of Drama 
      Saga takes him to a North Malden tourism video • Battle with the Knights of Malden • Njorl’s Saga:
      Part III • BBC ratings consciousness on trial • The Trial of Erik Njorl • Reading the Charges • Police
      brutality by Police Constable Pan Am • Animations: Jailbreak • Stock Market Report: Very Naughty • 
      Animations: Confusing the Elderly • Pepperpots at the Laundry • Philosophical discussion of freedom
      Ringing up Jean-Paul Sartre … in French • More North Malden promotions • Njorl’s Saga: Part IV •
      Pepperpots in Paris • Consulting Jean-Paul Sartre about his thoughts on Freedom: confirmed, it is 
      an allegory for commitment • Whicker Island: The Island of Lost Interviewers • Closing Credits 
  MPFC: Mr. & Mrs. Brian Norris’ Ford Popular • Exploring potential traffic between Surbiton and Hounslow 
      • The Story of EBW 343 by Wrong-Way Norris • Opening Credits • Pyramid Scheme at a public school
      • How to Do It • Pepperpots: Baby Talk to Minister for International Development and spontaneous
      explosion • Sales vicar • Animation: Walking off the edge of the cartoon • Farming Club on The Life of
      Tchaikovsky

0728
  MPFC: Farming Club presents The Life of Tchaikovsky • Trim Jean’s Theater • Animations: Loose Lips •
      Fish Slapping Dance • Animations: Fish Interrogations • Titanic sketch: Women and children first •
      Venezuelan interrogations • BBC economizing • It’s Puss! • Interrogations • Issues with the landlord •
      Closing credits • It’s
  South Park S7x04 “I’m a Little Bit Country”
  South Park S11x04 “The Snuke”
  Primeval S1x04 “Episode #1.4”

0729
  Scifi presents “Painkiller Jane” (2005)
  Eureka S3x05 “Show Me the Mummy”

0730
  Evolve S1x05 “Skin”
  The Simpsons S11x22 “Behind the Laughter”
  HBO presents “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry” (2007) [part 1]
  24 S5x01 “Day 5: 7 a.m.-8 a.m.”

0731
  24 S5x02 “Day 5: 8 a.m.-9 a.m.”
  24 S5x05 “Day 5: 11 a.m.-12 p.m.”

0732
  Medium S2x13 “Raising Cain”
  The West Wing S6x03 “Third Day Story”

0733
  24 S5x06 “Day 5: 12 p.m.-1 p.m.”
  HBO presents “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry” (2007) [part 2]

0734
  HBO presents “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry” (2007) [part 3]
  Graham Norton Show: Sandy Thom “The Devil’s Beat”
  Skins S1x04 “Chris”
  The Simpsons S12x03 “Insane Clown Poppy”

0735
  Mad Men S2x06 “Maidenform”
  Prison Break S4x01 “Scylla”

0736
  Prison Break S4x02 “Breaking and Entering”
  The Closer S4x08 “Split Ends”
  Raising the Bar S1x01 “Pilot”

0737
  Love Monkey S1x01 “Pilot”
  Buffy the Vampire Slayer S7x16 “Storyteller” [scrap: “We Are as Gods”/+reprise]
  Close to Home S1x06 “Parents on Trial”
  Close to Home S1x15 “Reasonable Doubts”
  Nip/Tuck S4x08 “Conor McNamara”

Current Collection

X267
 Title 1: Pose S2x08 "Revelations" [part 2]
 Title 2: FX presents “Heat” (2013)
 Title 3: Legion S3x08 “Chapter 27” [part 1]
 Title 4: Legion S3x08 “Chapter 27” [part 2]
 Title 5: KXNews story on Rescue dogs Phoenix & Easy
 Title 6: Preacher S4x03 “Deviant”
 Title 7: commercial: Google Nest Hub / Amazon Prime
 Title 8: BoJack Horseman S3x01 “Start Spreading the News”
 Title 9: BoJack Horseman S3x02 “The BoJack Horseman Show”
 Title 10: Full Frontal S4x20 NYT links Jerry Falwell Jr., Trump endorsement, Michael Cohen
              and ... The Pool Boy? • Reproductive Justice movement in the South • Betty Who
              “Language” • Maybe candidate de Blasio should focus on New York

X268
 Title 1: BoJack Horseman S3x03 “BoJack Kills”
 Title 2: Claws S3x10 “Finna”
 Title 3: Claws S3x09 “Melba Toast”
 Title 4: Pose S3x09 “Life’s a Beach”
 Title 5: Pose S3x10 “In My Heels”
 Title 6: Preacher S4x04 “Search and Rescue”
 Title 7: FXM presents “The Perfect Guy” (2015)

X269
 Title 1: Pearson S1x05 “The Former City Attorney”
 Title 2: Pearson S1x06 “The Donor”
 Title 3: IFC presents “The Campaign” (2012)
 Title 4: Freeform presents “Norm of the North” (2016)
 Title 5: A Million Little Things S1x01 “Pilot”
 Title 6: A Million Little Things S1x02 “Band of Dads”
 Title 7: A Million Little Things S1x03 “Save the Date”

X270
 Title 1: A Million Little Things S1x03 “Save the Date”
 Title 2: TCM presents “The Bishop Murder Case” (1929)
 Titles 3 & 4: TCM presents “Woman Times Seven” (1967)
 Title 5: Sundance presents “The Bone Collector” (1999)

X271
 Title 1: FXM presents “Dragonwyck” (1946)
 Title 2: FXM presents “I Wake Up Screaming” (1941)
 Title 3: FX presents “Spider-Man: Homecoming” (2017)
 Title 4: BoJack Horseman S3x04 “Fish Out of Water”
 Title 5: Preacher S4x05 “Bleak City” [part 1]

X272
 Title 1: Preacher S4x05 “Bleak City” [part 2]
 Title 2: MTV 2019 Video Music Awards
 Title 3: TCM presents “Agatha” (1979)
 Title 4: BoJack Horseman S3x05 “Love and/or Marriage”
 Title 5: FXM presents “Hangover Square” (1945)

Ep. 52: Metaphysical Zoological Hallucinations

Hi! My name is Terry J. Aman and this installment marks my 52nd episode of "VideoFuzzy," my twice-monthly progress report on cataloging more than 2,800 VHS transfers and digital recordings. In this installment, titled "Metaphysical Zoological Hallucinations," (following some spoiler-y corrections on "Claws"), I highlight a half-dozen episodes from Aaron Sorkin's "The West Wing," archived from a fan-voted top ten episode Labor Day 2004 marathon on Bravo as part of the series' syndication on that channel.

In Cross Connections, I trace "Studio Six Feet Under" connections from a collection of movies that aired on FXM Retro and which I pull up for comment under "VideoFuzzy at the Movies," including "Journey to the Center of the Earth," "Wizards," "The Man Who Wouldn't Die," "23 Paces to Baker Street," "Quintet," "11 Harrowhouse," "Mister 880," "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" and "The Third Secret," highlighting Ed Begley Jr's multiple appearances throughout my collection, as well as appearances by Laurie Metcalf, Jason Manzoukis, Mark A. Sheppard and Barry Corbin.

In my Classic VHS-to-DVD Collection, I talk about a few "West Wing" episodes I tracked down in my back catalog in preparing for my feature commentary, archive recordings of speeches by Joe Biden and Barack Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, including an unfortunate camera mishap involving a streamer cannon. Also, comments on Monty Python's Flying Circus royal episode, Monk prop issues and Simpsons meme synchronicity.

In my direct-to-DVD Current Collection, comments on the series finale of "Legion," as well as "Preacher," "Pose," "Pearson," "Archer 1999" and I listed out the menagerie they pulled in for a fun little [adult swim] bumper headed "Metaphysical Zoological Hallucinations," including the Motaur by Progressive, Gritty the hockey mascot, a cutie cthulie (an octupus) and a platypus, which they caption a "weirdo duck." Fun!

In VideoFuzzy at the Movies, I highlight Bravo's presentation of "La La Land," comments on the FXM Retro movies I listed up there under Cross Connections, and a comment on the late Peter Fonda. Finally, in Upcoming Shows, Comedy Central is airing third season episodes of "BoJack Horseman." Enjoy!

VideoFuzzy

Catalog Post #052

Classic Collection

0716
  Psych S3x06 "There Might Be Blood"
  MPFC: Queen may be tuning in • Opening credits [Royal] • Coalminers' sketch • News report • 
      Toad Elevating Moment: Talking in a roundabout way, speaking parts of words • Animation: 
      Crelm toothpaste - Washing powder - Fortified truss undergarments • Fish Talk • Implied
      naughtiness • collecting bird-watchers eggs • collecting butterfly hunters • raising pigeon
      fanciers • Animations: Balloon bomb • giggly Union Jack • The Insurance Sketch • Queen tunes 
      in • Queen switches over to newsreader • Exercising your invalids • St. Pooves ART therapy • 
      • St. Nathan's Hospital for Young, Attractive Girls Who Aren't Particularly Ill • St. Gandalf's 
      Hospital for Very Rich People Who Like Giving Doctors Lots of Money • Mountaineering Sketch 
      • The Exploding Version of the Blue Danube • Public School Girls' Dorm • The Naughtiest Girl 
      in the School • Documentary Time: D-Day Invasion of Normandy presented by girls' school • 
      Pepperpot submarine sketch • Letter of complaint from a poof • Lifeboat sketch • Letter of 
      complaint re: cannibalism • Animation: Cannibalism • Undertakers sketch • Audience riot • 
      closing credits
  Primeval S1x03 "Episode #1.3"

0717
  Mad Men S2x05 "The New Girl"
  Skins S1x03 "Jal"
  The Simpsons S11x21 "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge"
  The Simpsons S19x12 "Love, Springfieldian Style"

0718
  Saving Grace S2x07 "You Are My Partner"
  The West Wing S4x02 "20 Hours in America: Part 2"

0719
  The West Wing S1x10 "In Excelsis Deo"
  The West Wing S2x17 "The Stackhouse Filibuster"

0720
  The West Wing S3x21 "Posse Comitatus"
  The West Wing S2x22 "Two Cathedrals"

0721
  The West Wing S2x01 "In The Shadow of Two Gunmen"
  Monk S4x08 "Mr. Monk and Little Monk"
  Monk S4x09 "Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa"

0722
  TCM presents "The Red Shoes" (1948) [scrap]
  Monk S4x10 "Mr. Monk Goes to a Fashion Show" [letter goof]
  Monk S4x11 "Mr. Monk Bumps His Head" (f/ Laurie Metcalf)

0723
  Monk S4x12 "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage"
  Monk S4x13 "Mr. Monk and the Big Reward"
  Ugly Betty S1x05 "The Lyin', The Watch and the Wardrobe"
  Grey's Anatomy S3x01 "Time Has Come Today"

0724
  Grey's Anatomy S3x01 "Time Has Come Today"
  Saving Grace S2x07 "You Are My Partner"
  The Closer S4x07 "Sudden Death"

0725
  The Middleman S1x11 "The Clotharian Contamination Protocol" (f/ Mark Sheppard)
  TDS: I2K8: Democratic National Convention coverage from the University of Denver
      Guest: Tim Kaine
  TCR: razz'n the DNC • guest: Bob Barr • Scott McClellan "What Happened"
  Rescue Me Minisode: Ladder 62 "Smoke"
  TDS: I2K8: Democratic National Convention coverage from the University of Denver
      Hillary Clinton's address • guest: Howard Dean
  TCR: razz'n the DNC • Hillary Clinton address • Great economy for repo men •
      Guest: Mike Huckabee • Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones
  C-SPAN: DNC2008 address: Joe Biden accepts vice presidential nomination
  DNC2008 introductions: Roy Gross, Monica Early 

0726
  C-SPAN: DNC2008: Barack Obama video
  DNC2008 address: Barack Obama accepts presidential nomination
  DNC2008: Pastor Joel Hunter
  DNC2008 address: Nancy Pelosi adjourns DNC to strains of "Born in the USA"
     bizarre image: streamers caught on a camera
  C-SPAN: Taking calls in reaction to Obama's address
  C-SPAN: Discussion of political blogs and live chats
     commercial: RNC: John McCain congratulates candidate Barack Obama
  C-SPAN: DNC2008 address: Al Gore
  TDS: I2K8: DNC "Live" coverage • tabbing the delegates • Melissa Ethridge sings • white
       guys calling out McCain (eventually): Kerry, Clinton • Obama's war hero uncle • Bo Biden 
       • Joe Biden

Current Collection

X263
  Title 1: Legion  S3x06 "Chapter 25"
  Title 2: Full Frontal S4x18 CNN second Democratic Candidate Debate • Border crisis: Decriminalizing 
                               migration • Ky. Democratic Senate candidate Amy McGrath • Gender reveal parties
  Title 3: FXM presents "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1959)
  Title 4: FXM presents "Wizards" (1976)
  Title 5: MC presents Lana Del Rey "Doin' Time"
  Title 6: FXM presents "The Man Who Wouldn't Die" (1942)
  Title 7: promo: FXMRetro

X264
  Title 1: FXM presents "23 Paces to Baker Street" (1956)
  Title 2: Archer: 1999 S10x09 "Robert De Niro"
  Title 3: Pose S2x07 "Blow"
  Title 4: Pearson S1x03 "The Union Leader"
  Title 5: Claws S3x08 "What is Happening to America?"
  Title 6: FXM presents "Quintet" (1979)

X265
  Title 1: [adult swim] Metaphysical Zoological Hallucination bump
  Titles 2 & 3: Legion  S3x07 "Chapter 26" [part 1 & 2]
  Title 4: Preacher  S4x01 "Masada"
             Preacher  S4x02 "Last Supper"
  Title 5: FXM presents "11 Harrowhouse" (1974)
  Title 6: Bravo presents "La La Land" (2016)
  Title 7: Full Frontal S4x19 Responses to mass shootings • White nationalist terrorism • 
                                Millennials are SO ready to vote • NYT headlines

X266
  Title 1: FXM presents "Mister 880" (1950)
  Title 2: FXM presents "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" (1957)
  Title 3: FXM presents "The Third Secret" (1964)
  Title 4: Pearson  S1x04 "The Deputy Mayor"
  Title 5: Pose S2x08 "Revelations" [part 1]

Ep. 51: A Night in SubUrbia

Hi! My name is Terry J. Aman and this installment marks my 51st episode of "VideoFuzzy," my twice-monthly progress report on cataloging more than 2,800 VHS transfers and digital recordings. In this installment, titled "A Night in SubUrbia," for my Friday Night Feature I talk about a comic British teen drama that turned up on disc 711 in my Classic Collection called "Skins," the show's second-ever episode, centered on Cassie, a teen girl with an eating disorder.

In Cross Connections, I trace "Studio Six Feet Under" connections from "Skins" through "Game of Thrones" and "Dark Phoenix," Colin Farrell to a Capitol Shakespeare production I got to and "Parks and Rec" to "Superstore," "The Simpsons," "Brockmire" and 2020 presidential campaign efforts.

In "Into the Vaults," I watch a commercial VHS copy of "SubUrbia" that's been sitting unwatched in my media collection since about 2010, highlighting heretofore unexplored portions of my media collection.

In my Classic VHS-to-DVD Collection, I encountered "Battlestar Galactica's" pilot episode, noting the absence of the beautiful Sanskrit chant in the opening sequence for that one, highlighting similarities between my discovery of this series and my discovery of the 2002 Labor Day FOX marathon presentation of "24." Finding that episode gave me hope I'll find the pilot episodes of "The Middleman" and "Commander in Chief." Also, comments on "Psych," "Criminal Minds" and the "Raisin Brahms" Americans for the Arts promo.

In VideoFuzzy at the Movies, comments on Kids in the Hall "Brain Candy," "A Night at the Roxbury," "Napoleon Dynamite," John Waters' 2007 production of "Hairspray," "Bee Movie," "The Full Monty," "Solace," "The Girl on the Train" and "Gone Girl."

In my direct-to-DVD Current Collection, I've archived and cataloged all seven seasons of "Parks and Rec," noting the frustrating absence of the Funniest Line Ever Delivered in a Situation Comedy. Also, comments on "Pearson," "Archer: 1999," "Pose," "Claws," "Legion," "Psych" and "Full Frontal," featuring Samantha Bee and her Wacky Lists of Things! In Nerd Shows, I dedicated a disc to three two-hour PBS presentations of Roger Smith's "American Experience: Chasing the Moon," that production timed to observe the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Mission.

In What I've Been Watching, I took in Capitol Shakespeare's production of "The Winter's Tale," and in Upcoming Shows, looking forward to "Preacher" and this fall's season of Bravo's "Project Runway" remix featuring Christian Siriano. Enjoy!

VideoFuzzy