Common-sense ruminations on baseball and culture.
- "Saturday Night Live" was pretty decent last night. Steve Carell was a great choice for the premiere, but Horatio Sanz was terrible on "Weekend Update," and the show will greatly miss Maya Rudolph (and Tina Fey) on her pregnancy leave. Amy Poehler, my favorite cast member in a long time, can't possibly appear in every skit, can she?
- SNL also seems to have given up on Chris Parnell ever stepping up his game and being the star of the show that he should be. He was barely involved yesterday, but Seth Meyers (!?) was front and center a great deal. Meyers may not have the goods to take over the shoes of Will Ferrell, etc., but Parnell is never going to be more than the solid second banana.
- TV Land showed 48 hours of "The Andy Griffith Show" this weekend, and it's really amazing how great Don Knotts is as Barney. Never boring, always neurotic, insecure and boasting, and never failing to make you laugh. But how amazing is it that they managed to slip in this secret tawdry romance with the waitress from the diner? He's clearly with Thelma Lou, but is always sneaking out with Juanita. And who is Juanita is this lilly-white town? She never appears on camera, so we never find out what Barney really has going. Barney is, somehow, such a player that he has a girl on the side but no one notices or cares in a small, gossip-filled town.
- Speaking of 1960s television, has anyone aged worse in the history of the world than Mary Tyler Moore without shooting up or being a rock star? Sorry, it's true. And I say that having thought it very cool to regularly walk by the statue commemorating her hat toss in downtown Minneapolis.
Published by James
on Sunday, October 02, 2005 at 4:52 PM. 
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