I watched the Invasion Iowa finale tonight...like Joe Schmo, the producers did a great job of bringing out a lot of raw emotion from the cast and the great people of Riverside, Iowa. Also liek Joe Schmo, the finale had me in tears- even in a short period, you feel you sort of get to know all of these people just like the cast did, and you have fond feelings for them as well. When you see the cast crying and talking about how touched they've been by the "townspeople," and you see the people from the town talking about how great the cast was and how they loved all of them, it's just too much. I couldn't help but tear up. Scotty Riggans- man, I'd go to Riverside, Iowa just to meet that guy, funny as all heck during this 4 part series, a solid man's man, just a great guy in general. Jim Pinkerton with his neverending product placements and advertisements (just for men...priceline.com has over 1, 300 blah blah blah), Rath or however you spell that old guy's name with the raccoon penis for good luck. Heck, I feel like I know a number of people from town, and I've never been anywhere near Iowa. I always think when a program can make you feel this stuff, it's got to be good. And Invasion Iowa, overall, was very good. I even got to like Shatner so much, I put one of his books and one of his cd's on my amazon.com wishlist.
So, like I said, I was all sitting there tearing up, with a big smile on my face as they were handing out gifts that were very much personalized for the various people in town (Shatner gave what I assume was money to one woman, in order to help her adopt her grandson, Scotty got his trip to Hawaii, Brooke got money to be able to have her horse with her in the area, Jim got his trip to Paris, and so on...) Television is at its best when it makes you feel real emotions for real people. What more can I say?
Anyhow...so I always record the interstitial programming on TBS. They often times run short on time with movies they air overnight, so instead of filling it all with a ton of promos and ads, they run this thing called Blotter TV. It's a faux cops sort of thing with a force of bumbling police officers in, what I would assume is a fictional town, called Gordieville, which I believe is in Georgia. It's fairly funny most of the time- not ever hilarious, but it's cute and the characters are fun to watch. It's been running for some time, but I wanted to get them all now so I could put them on DVD since I have the DVD recorder and all. I have a bunch of them, and hope I can get them all...they sometimes air the same ones a few nights in a row, depending on how much time they need to fill. Long story just to explain that I have started recording COSBY, which is that show that aired from 1996-2000 on CBS. I never watched it before, but I watched a bit of it last night, because it airs right after this Blotter thing and the DVR recorded part of the episode as well. So, I caught it in time and recorded the entire episode and have it set to record the entire series. It looks funny from what I've seen. Makes me wonder if the Cosby created Nick at Nite series, Fatherhood is getting more episodes or not. I need to check on that.
They didn't have sonic bug repellers at wal mart, which was a surprise, so I had to by this bug/spider/ant spray that I hope works. I saw a big spider yesterday morning, and I wasn't too happy about that. Gross. I will still buy one (or maybe 2) of those sonic repellers, even if I have to order them from amazon.com. While I was at wal mart, I felt veerrrrry nervous. Sucked. There were tons of people there, and I guess, in the end, I wouldn't usually be able to do that...not a couple of years ago, I would have waited till 2 or 3 am no matter what, but it was 10 30 when I went, so, that's a step up I guess. Didn't much feel like it at the time tho, not even much so right now...
Did I mention I got Shaun of the Dead off ebay for 12 bucks total, and I am hoping to get the Wayans Bros season 1 dvd set for under $10 tomorrow? I checked for the Wayans Bros dvd set at wal mart when I went tonight, but they didn't have it.
It's 4:40, so I guess I'm going to sleep now. Will fall asleep to Robo-Babies, I guess...
I (sort of) remember Blotter TV. I think I only watched one or two shows. I remember going to a web site they advertised and wrote down a number they had on the site but never called it.
If you do manage to create a dvd of the show, I would like to buy a copy from you.