Catalog Post #040

Classic Collection

0576
  Battlestar Galactica S4x05 "The Road Less Traveled"
  Bones S3x12 "The Baby in the Bough"
  Boston Legal S4x18 "Indecent Proposal"

0577
  Samantha Who? S1x13 "The Gallery Show"
  Medium S4x04 "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
  Terminal City S1x09 "Episode 9"

0578
  The Universe S2x15 "Wildest Weather in the Cosmos"
  The Universe S2x07 "Astrobiology"

0579
  The Universe S2x16 "The Biggest Things in the Universe"
  The Universe S2x17 "Gravity"
  The Universe S2x18 "Cosmic Apocalypse"

0580
  MI-5 S3x08 "Celebrity"
  The 4400 S2x04 "Suffer the Children"
  Robin Hood S2x02 "Booby and the Beast"

0581
  Reaper S1x15 "Coming to Grips"
  The Simpsons S10x09 "Mayored to the Mob"
  Brothers & Sisters S2x15 "Moral Hazard"

0582
  Dexter S1x11 "Truth Be Told"
  Bones S3x13 "The Verdict in the Story"

  Medium S4x15 "Being Joey Carmichael"

Current Collection

X203
  Title 1: Bob's Burgers S9x08 "Roller? I Hardly Know Her!"
  Title 2: Supernatural S14x07 "Unhuman Nature"
  Title 3: LSSC: Stephen Colbert Edition: Jon Stewart, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Jake Tapper,
             Kerry Washington, Charlamagne tha God 
  Title 4: BoJack Horseman S1x10 "One Trick Pony"
  Title 5: LSSC: Sarah Burrellis "Armour" • Michelle Obama "Becoming" • Common "Glory"
  Title 6: Doctor Who S11x08 "The Witchfinders"
  Title 7: A Million Little Things S1x08 "Fight or Flight"
  Title 8: KXNews "Cold Pets"
  Title 9: The Good Place S3x09 "Janet(s)"
  Title 10: Doctor Who S11x09 "It Takes You Away"
  Title 11: Bob's Burgers S9x09 "UFO No You Didn't"

X204
  Title 1: Bob's Burgers S9x10 "Better Off Sled"
  Title 2: Doctor Who S11x10 "The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos"
  Title 3: A Million Little Things S1x09 "Perspective"
  Title 4: A Million Little Things S1x10 "Christmas Wishlist"
  Title 5: BoJack Horseman S1x11 "Downer Ending"
  Title 6: BoJack Horseman S1x12 "Later"
  Title 7: FX presents "Rise of the Guardians" (2012)
  Title 8: Full Frontal S3x29 Mueller investigation • Women's MMA fighters unionizing •
            Jeff Goldblum Christmas on I.C.E. special promo
  Title 9: Full Frontal S3x30 FOX Nation • Ashley does a podcast • Christmas on I.C.E. promo

X205
  Title 1: Supernatural S14x08 "Byzantium"
  Title 2: Supernatural S14x09 "The Spear"
  Title 3: Superstore S4x08 "Managers' Conference"
  Title 4: Superstore S4x09 "Shadowing Glenn"
  Title 5: Will & Grace S10x07 "So Long, Division"
  Title 6: Will & Grace S10x08 "Anchors Away"
  Title 7: The Magicians S1x08 "The Strangled Heart"
  Title 8: The Magicians S1x09 "The Writing Room"
  Title 9: The Magicians S1x10 "Homecoming"
  Title 10: The Magicians S1x11 "Remedial Battle Magic"

Ep. 39: A Million Little References

Hi! My name is Terry J. Aman and this installment marks my 39th episode of "VideoFuzzy," my twice-monthly progress report on cataloging more than 2,700 VHS transfers and digital recordings. In this installment, titled "A Million Little References," I talked about a musical stage production of "A Christmas Story" we got to that they're running for another week at the FMCT -- go see that if you can, they do a fantastic job.

For my Friday Night Feature, I talked about a fourth season episode of "Doctor Who" called "The Fires of Pompeii" that I really enjoyed. It feels like most of the time when I talk about "Doctor Who" I'm complaining about this or that, so I wanted to just revel in the positives, not least of which this preunion of David Tennant, Catherine Tate and Peter Capaldi as 2-1/2 Doctors, along with a pre-Pond appearance by Karen Gillan as a soothsayer -- outstanding!

In my Classic Collection, along with a bunch of the usual, I discovered episodes of "Terminal City," a strong if unfortunately interrupted performance by George Michael in the first season finale of "Eli Stone," the BBC America counterterrorism production of "MI-5," several first season episodes of "The Sarah Jane Adventures" on Syfy, as well as Syfy's presentation of the 1995 "Ghost in the Shell" Puppet Master anime.

In my Current Collection, I managed to completely empty out my DVR and catalog most of my current collection, up to disc X202. I watched my season 5 pileup of AMC's 10th year anniversary reairing of "Breaking Bad," which figured heavily in the backlog. Unfortunately, this interfered a lot with progress on my Classic Collection, contributing to the lateness of this installment.

Along with "Breaking Bad," I archived episodes on either side of midterm elections from Samantha Bee's "Full Frontal" and "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" I'll have to go back and catalog properly. I also brought in episodes from season 1 of Netflix original "BoJack Horseman" as rebroadcast on Comedy Central, as well as episodes of "The Good Place," "Superstore" and that ABC production of "A Million Little Things" my friend Jesse Zimmerman talked to me about in Episode 38 and which I was only able to watch three or four episodes of that, but maybe ABC will put the whole thing back on demand at some point. Speaking of missing episodes, I couldn't find the "Doctor Who" season 11 episode "Kerblam!" anywhere, but I think they're planning a marathon from the current season in the run-up to the Christmas episode so ... keeping an eye out. And in other Nerd Shows, comments on "Hacking the Universe" and "How the Universe Works."

Finally, in What I've Been Watching, Ralph and I got over to watch "Ralph Breaks the Internet," which was awesome. Be sure to stay to the end for the preview of "Frozen 2"!

VideoFuzzy

Catalog Post #039

Classic Collection

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

0563
  Eli Stone S1x13 "Soul Free"
  - George Michael sings "Feelin' Good"
  The Shield S6x03 "Back to One"
  Ugly Betty S2x14 "Twenty-Four Candles"

0564
  Grey's Anatomy S4x12 "Where the Wild Things Are"
  LOST S4x09 "The Shape of Things to Come"
  The Riches S2x06 "Dead Calm"

0565
  Doctor Who S4x01 "Partners in Crime"
  Battlestar Galactica S4x04 "Escape Velocity"
  My Name is Earl S3x18 "Killerball"

0566 
  MI-5 S3x04 "A Prayer For My Daughter"
  MI-5 S3x05 "Love and Death"
  MI-5 S3x06 "Persephone"

0567
  MI-5 S3x07 "Outsiders"
  Bones S3x11 "Player Under Pressure"

0568
  Terminal City S1x05 "Episode 5"
  Terminal City S1x06 "Episode 6"
  Terminal City S1x07 "Episode 7"

0569
  Terminal City S1x08 "Episode 8"
  The Sarah Jane Adventures S1x01 "Revenge of the Slitheen - Part 1"
  The Sarah Jane Adventures S1x02 "Revenge of the Slitheen - Part 2"
  The Sarah Jane Adventures S1x03 "Eye of the Gorgon - Part 1"

0570
  Robin Hood S2x01 "Sisterhood"
  [12 seconds of dead air for … reasons]
  The Simpsons S10x07 "Lisa Gets an A"
  Reaper S1x14 "Rebellion"
  The Simpsons S19x17 "Apocalypse Cow"

0571
  Desperate Housewives S4x13 "Hello Little Girl"
  Dexter S1x10 "Seeing Red"
  Brothers & Sisters S2x14 "Double Negative"

0572
  The 4400 S2x03 "Weight of the World"
  The Simpsons S10x08 "Kidney Trouble"
  SciFi presents "Ghost in the Shell" (1995) [part 1]

0573
  SciFi presents "Ghost in the Shell" (1995) [part 2]
  The Universe S2x14 "Nebulas"
  Medium S4x14 "Car Trouble"

0574
  The Riches S2x07 "The Lying King"
  LOST S4x10 "Something Nice Back Home"
  Ugly Betty S2x15 "Burning Questions"

0575
  Grey's Anatomy S4x13 "Piece of My Heart"
  Doctor Who S4x02 "The Fires of Pompeii"
  Sarah Jane Adventures S1x04 "Eye of the Gorgon - Part 2"
  Sarah Jane Adventures S1x05 "Warriors of Kudlak - Part 1"

Current Collection

X195
  Title 1: Syfy presents "American Psycho" (2000)
  Title 2: AMC presents "1408" (2007)
  Title 3: Superstore S4x05 "Delivery Day"
  Title 4: Doctor Who S11x04 "Arachnids of the U.K."
  Title 5: Full Frontal S3x26 Upcoming Midterms • anti-Semitic shooting and anti-Semitism in general  • 
                  Rep. Steve King racism • prosecutorial reform in Philadephia
  Title 6: BoJack Horseman S1x06 "Our A-Story is a 'D' Story"

X196
  Title 1: AMC presents "The Dead Zone" (1983)
  Title 2: Will & Grace S12x05 "Grace's Secret"
  Title 3: The Good Place S3x06 "A Fractured Inheritance"
  Title 4: AHS Apocalypse S8x08 "Sojourn"
  Title 5: Supernatural S14x04 "Mint Condition"
  Title 6: LSSC: Trump on 60 Minutes
  Title 7: LSSC: Megamillions

X197
  Title 1: LSSC: Caravan
  Title 2: Family Guy S11x09 "Space Cadet"
  Title 3: Bob's Burgers S9x05 "Live and Let Fly"
  Title 4: Superstore S4x06 "Maternity Leave"
  Title 5: Full Frontal S3x27 Midterm Eve Special
  Title 6: Full Frontal S3x28 Midterm Reaction Special [Part 1]
  Title 7: Full Frontal S3x28 Midterm Reaction Special [Part 2]
  Title 8: LSSC: Midterms
  Title 9: Doctor Who S11x05 "The Tsuranga Conundrum"
  Title 10: IFC presents "Hannibal Rising" (2007) 

X198
  Title 1: BoJack Horseman S1x07 "Say Anything"
  Title 2: Supernatural S14x05 "Nightmare Logic"
  Title 3: LSSC: Midterms eve
  Title 4: LSSC: Acosta
  Title 5: Sundance presents "Stargate" (1994)
  Title 6: Hacking the Universe w/ Brian Cox S1x03 "Are We Alone?"
  Title 7: How The Universe Works S4x01 "How The Universe Built Your Car" 

X199
  Title 1: How the Universe Works S5x07 "The Dark Matter Enigma"
  Title 2: Hacking the Universe w/ Brian Cox S1x02 "Why Are We Here?"
  Title 3: Hacking the Universe w/ Brian Cox S1x04 "What Is Our Future?"
  Title 4: Hacking the Universe w/ Brian Cox S1x01 "Apeman Spaceman"
  Title 5: Breaking Bad S5x05 "Dead Freight"
  Title 6: Bob's Burgers S9x06 "Bobby Driver"
  Title 7: Bob's Burgers S8x02 "The Silence of the Louise" [cuts in]
  Title 8: Superstore S4x07 "New Initiative"
  Title 9: Will & Grace S12x06 "Kid 'n Play"
  Title 10: The Good Place S3x07 "The Worst Possible Use of Free Will"
  Title 11: The Good Place S3x08 "Don't Let The Good Life Pass You By"
  Title 12: BoJack Horseman S1x08 "The Telescope" [part 1] 

X200
  Title 1: BoJack Horseman S1x08 "The Telescope" [part 2]
  Title 2: AHS Apocalypse S8x09 "Fire and Reign"
  Title 3: AHS Apocalypse S8x10 "Apocalypse Then"
  Title 4: Doctor Who S11x06 "Demons of the Punjab"
  Title 5: LSSC: Trump in Europe
  Title 6: Supernatural S14x06 "Optimism"
  Title 7: FX presents "Joy" (2015)
  Title 8: Breaking Bad S5x06 "Buyout" [part 1] 

X201
  Title 1: Breaking Bad S5x06 "Buyout" [part 2]
  Title 2: Breaking Bad S5x07 "Say My Name"
  Title 3: Bob's Burgers S9x07 "I Bob Your Pardon"
  Title 4: LSSC: Melania Trump
  Title 5: BoJack Horseman S1x09 "Horse Majeure"
  Title 6: A Million Little Things S1x05 "The Game of Your Life"
  Title 7: A Million Little Things S1x06 "Unexpected"
  Title 8: A Million Little Things S1x07 "I Dare You"
  Title 9: Archer  S1x01 "Mole Hunt"
  Title 10: Breaking Bad S5x08 "Gliding All Over"
  Title 11: Breaking Bad S5x09 "Blood Money"

X202
  Title 1: Breaking Bad S5x10 "Buried"
  Title 2: Breaking Bad S5x11 "Confessions"
  Title 3: Breaking Bad S5x12 "Rabid Dog"
  Title 4: Breaking Bad S5x13 "To'hajillee"
  Title 5: Breaking Bad S5x14 "Ozymandias"
  Title 6: Breaking Bad S5x15 "Granite State"
  Title 7: Breaking Bad S5x16 "Felina"

With my Breaking Bad season 5 episodes archived,
I'd finally -- if momentarily -- cleared out my DVR!

Ep. 38: Shows I'm Not Watching

Hi! My name is Terry J. Aman and this installment marks my 38th episode of "VideoFuzzy," my twice-monthly progress report on cataloging more than 2,700 VHS transfers and digital recordings. In this installment, titled "Shows I'm Not Watching," I chat with Jesse Zimmerman of The Average Movie Nerd blog about, well, shows I'm not watching, including "FBI," "SEAL Team," "S.W.A.T.," "Archer," "This Is Us," "A Million Little Things," "Castle Rock," "Charmed" and the "Magnum P.I." reboot. We also chat a little bit about "Supernatural," which I am watching, but I left it in anyway.

I've been watching a lot of TV lately and have gotten the DVR boiled down into the 25 percent range, with good prospects to get it completely cleared out over Thanksgiving weekend -- just in time to actually start watching "A Million Little Things" because Jesse made it sound amazing. While I have yet to catalog all of this viewing, I have recorded my 200th DVD in my current collection.

All of this has put a crimp in my overall cataloging efforts recently. However, in What I've Been Watching, this past week I took in the eighth season finale of "American Horror Story: Apocalypse," so I shared a few spoiler-y comments on that.

Finally, I gave shoutouts to a couple podcasts I've been enjoying lately: Chris Cooling's "Forgotten TV," and Matt Triest and Jon Waugh's "Damn That Television." I'll include a couple of links in my show notes. Enjoy!

Forgotten TV
Damn That Television

VideoFuzzy

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