So after finding out that My Own Worst Enemy was canned after just nine episodes, I finally decided to watch that series premiere that had I had gotten through a thoroughly legal means. It wasn’t all that bad, but I can see why NBC made their decision.

You can only make so many ads of Christian “Broken Arrow” Slater slowly turning around with his hair flying about in the wind. That only worked with Uncle Jesse and ER (he had some fantastic hair on Full House). Plot-wise, there’s no logical reason to make a secret agent have a split personality just to keep his cover. Maybe governments like to do nonsensical stuff for fun. After all, the main tech guy in the show was playing WoW on a Minority Report-style screen for no reason. But their attempt to fool me into thinking Mr. Slater had a cool thumbprint scanning remote control was the worst offense. I mean, come on! Who are they trying to kid? Take a look at the evidence when compared to my Harmony 550.

So I have proposed a new title card for the series!

Someone really needs to tell Flo Rida to stop doing “the steering wheel” dance move.

A simple shot of the sharp looking groomsmen at Calvin’s 2007 wedding. #

Season 5 episode 6. Wow, it has been a long time since my last episode recap. But I am back in (small) force with one of the best scenes of the series. Here, we see Michael helping Jim and Dwight improve their sales pitches to their clients after they receive poor customer reviews.

NEVER BEEN LOWER.

Unbelievable! No one sings like that anymore. I think this Jerry-Kramer conversation from the episode "The Opera" sums it up pretty well:

KRAMER: So, what do you think?
JERRY: About what?
KRAMER: About the opera.
JERRY: Nah, I don’t wanna go.
KRAMER: You gotta go.
JERRY: I-I-I don’t like the opera. What are they singing for? Who sings? You got something to say, say it!
KRAMER: Jerry, you don’t understand, that’s the way they talk in Italy. They sing to one another. (Kramer starts to sing in bad Italian.)
JERRY: All right, all right.
KRAMER: That’s the way it was, you know. You listen to the language, its got that sing songy quality. It’s the language Jerry, the language.
JERRY: So why don’t they talk like that now?
KRAMER: Well its, uh, well its too hard to keep up, you know. They were tired.

We’re tired of your singing, Neal!

Who do you think won?