A few lines the TVaholic found funny in the past week on TV.

Dialogue of the Week

Show: Four Kings (NBC)
The Setup: Barry has brought home his date, a girl he and Ben had a crush on in high school named Jessica. Barry has gone to get something from the kitchen and Ben comes into the room.
Ben: Wow! It’s been forever. How are you? What’s going on?
Jessica: You know. I got my Masters in Russian Literature.
Ben: Wow.
Jessica: Work in a lamp store.

Some Others

Show: Gilmore Girls (WB)
The Setup: It is the Stars Hollow Winter Carnival. Zach sees his former girlfriend Lane smiling, laughing and having a good time with another guy. That guy and Zach are at the knock the bottles over by tossing balls at them game. Zach starts throwing his as hard as he can at his bottles and the other guys. When he is done he turns to the other guy.
Zach: Welcome to the S.H. bitch!

Show: Related (WB)
The Setup: Bob and Ginnie have sat down with Richard who works for Ginnie at her law firm. They are going through a questionnaire regarding their Will. When they get to the disposition of their remains they both want to be cremated.
Richard: My Wife wants to be frozen, but I’m not going to do it.
(Bob and Ginnie look at him strangely.)
Richard: She won’t know.

Show: Two and a Half Men (CBS)
The Setup: Charlie and his girlfriend Mia are setting at the end of his bed kissing. She is going back and forth on whether it is the right time in their relationship to go any further.
Mia: I’m sorry. I’m confused. That’s why you’re going to have to make this decision for the both of us.
Charlie: That’s like asking the fat kid to guard the pie.

What were your favorite lines from last week?

Tonight you will find one of each from the Law & Order franchise. CBS has repeats followed by a new 48 Hours Mystery. ABC has a movie. Fox has Cops and America’s Most Wanted. In some areas, like here in Seattle, you may find a repeat of this week’s Veronica Mars on your UPN affiliate. This was one of the best episodes of this show. If you like mystery with twists and turns then look for it tonight. It is better than anything else that is on tonight. What will you be watching?

Prime Picks

Cold Case (CBS): Repeat where drawings are found at the gravesite of a girl murdered in 1993.

NUMB3RS (CBS): The team tracks an assassin after a code is found during a raid. Repeat.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC): Repeat of the Storm episode.

Solid Selections

Law & Order (NBC): Repeat of Life Line episode.

Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC): Repeat of the episode where Det. Logan and his new partner Det. Barek gets his first case at Major Case.

48 Hours Mystery (CBS): When a love triangle ends with murder a bodybuilder is suspected.

Other Options

Road to Perdition (ABC): A mobster played by Tom Hanks takes his son along as he avenges the deaths of his wife and his other child during the Depression. Runs a commercially interrupted 180 minutes.

Cable Choices

Emeril Live (Food Network): Get some ideas for snacks for the big football game next week.

Trading Spaces (TLC): Doug and Frank redo a kitchen and a guest bedroom respectively.

Wild Weddings (TLC): A bride gets the hiccups, rings end up in a pond and unity candles that won’t light are just some of the bloopers you will see tonight.

Sports Notes

ABC has the Winter X Games in the morning and then later you will find more coverage on ESPN from Aspen, CO. CBS has third round coverage of the Buick Invitational golf tournament.

Late Night

FOX has a new MADtv tonight. Saturday Night Live on NBC is a repeat of the Dane Cook hosted show with musical guest James Blunt.

The WB has a full comedy lineup tonight as opposed to the last couple of weeks. It is sci-fi Friday on the Sci-Fi Channel with new eps of SG-1 and Battlestar Galactica. The CBS lineup is all new tonight as well. The finals of the Women’s side of the Australian open are tonight. UPN has the WWE Friday Night SmackDown! as usual. The Book of Daniel is no longer as it has been canceled. That was a show with just too much going on and not much of it good. What TV shows will you be watching this Friday night? Comedies, dramas, celeb-reality dance results or will you just go by the NUMB3RS?

Prime Picks

What I Like About You (WB): Well you finally get to see that Vic is all right and when he comes home from the hospital Val has to do everything for him.
Living With Fran (WB): Fran tries to get a reporter to write a story about her family in hopes of getting some free pub for her design business.

In Justice (ABC): A man has spent six years in jail after the death of an unborn baby, which happened during a struggle with an intruder.

NUMB3RS (CBS): An immigrant dies while trying to sell one of her kidneys. The team then tries to break an organ trafficking ring.

Solid Selections

Ghost Whisperer (CBS): I am going to guess that a ghost is helped to crossover.

Reba (WB): Reba find out that the last five years of her marriage with Brock is going to be audited by the IRS.
Twins (WB): Well you got to watch something for the rest of the hour.

Law & Order (NBC): Repeat of the House of Cards episode.

Other Options

Dancing With the Stars (ABC): Find out who is no longer dancing after last night competition.

Close to Home (CBS): A young woman is raped in Annabeth’s neighborhood and a recently released sex offender who just moved into the area is the prime suspect.

20/20 (ABC): ABC News investigative reports.

Cable Choices

Stargate SG-1 (Sci-Fi Channel): The worst is feared when Teal’c disappears.

What Not to Wear (TLC): A real estate broker gets a wardrobe makeover.

Monk (USA): Mr. Monk and the Captain’s marriage.

Sports Notes

ESPN has the Cleveland Cavaliers against the Indiana Pacers in the early game and the Los Angeles Clippers versus the Denver Nuggets in the late game. ESPN2 has the Women’s Finals of the Australian Open tonight.

What will you be watching tonight? The big deal tonight is who dies on Smallville. What is the deal with shows always wanting to kill off their characters? Can’t they find something else to make the shows interesting? This seems to be the latest and greatest in TV land. Not that is hasn’t been done before. It just seems more prevalent as of late. The idea that at any time one of your favorite heroes or villains could disappear and with them so can the ratings. Sometimes the audience stays interested like so far on Lost. Sometimes they don’t like when Vaughn on Alias was dispatched. I have even heard the idea bandied about as a way to breathe new life into CSI, which seems to be the only one in that franchise that hasn’t lost a main character in someway. How about that? New life for a TV show by killing someone off. What do you think about the idea of the killing off characters on TV shows to change things up or to try and grab some ratings?

Prime Picks

Smallville (WB): Clark tells Lana his secret. The senatorial election is decided. Oh yah and someone close to Clark dies. Who do you think it is? I have not read any spoilers or any info on the subject and don’t really care to as I would like to see what happens as it happens. I have seen the ads for it though and it looks like the person dies in a car crash and who drives a red SUV? That would lead you to believe that it is Lana along with the fact that Clark tells her the truth about himself and Chloe drives a VW Bug. If you look at it from how you know the future story of Superman goes then it is not Ma or Pa Kent, Lois Lane or Lex Luthor. That leaves Lana or Chloe as title characters that don’t really show up much later in the Superman story, as I know it. Although Lana Lang was in one of the Superman movies with Christopher Reeve, Annette O’Toole played her. So that leaves me with my first thought that it is Chloe and not Lana. She is somewhat extraneous to the overall Superman story once again as I know it.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS): Faye Dunaway guest stars as a former showgirl with ties to the mob who writes a tell-all book and at a party for it someone dies.

Without a Trace (CBS): The team searches for a missing teacher. As they investigate it starts to look like she was having an inappropriate relationship with a student.

Solid Selections

That ‘70s Show (FOX): Jackie gets a job on a talk show and finds that showbiz is not at all what she thought is was like.
Four Kings (NBC): Jealousy between friends over a former high school crush. This show looked to have some potential after the pilot episode. Unfortunately the next two episodes have squandered all that potential quite badly. Will the fourth be the charm for these kings?

My Name is Earl (NBC): Earl decides to make a friend’s last day before jail something special.
The Office (NBC): Someone stains the carpet in Michael’s office leading him to question his relationship with the staff.

ER (NBC): Repeat of Nobody’s Baby. Starts a minute before the hour.

Other Options

Dancing With the Stars (ABC): It is an option, which many people seem to be taking. Do you watch? If so, why? Runs 90 minutes.
Crumbs (ABC): Comes on right after all the star dancing.

Primetime (ABC): ABC News investigative reports.

Cable Choices

Emeril Live (Food Network): Emeril teaches Gumbo 101 in this repeat.

Patriot Games (USA): The movie starring Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan the hero from the Tom Clancy booked that the movie is based on. Runs two hours and 58 minutes.

Sports Notes

TNT has a NBA double header tonight. The early game is the Phoenix Suns at the Miami Heat. That game is followed by the Dallas Mavericks visiting my hometown Seattle Supersonics. Seems that you are only allowed one good sports team in your city at a time. Right now it is the Seahawks, last year it was the Sonics and a couple of years ago it was the Mariners.