It was Halloween night and SpongeBob Squarepants was throwing a CSI: Miami themed Party @ the Palms. Someone started telling Tales from the Crypt. The first was about the time Speed Racer picked up The Hitchhiker. The next was about the night after a Baywatch in the Acapulco H.E.A.T. Right before the third was to be told someone went and got The Kids in the Hall. Then we all sat around and listened to the story of the time The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! had on a Ghost Whisperer. We were all frozen with fear as it felt like A Touch of Frost had come over the room. The scariest part was that they were all available on DVD as of today.

Prime TV Show DVD Pick

CSI: Miami - The Complete Fourth Season
There was plenty of standing sideways and the taking off and putting on of sunglasses again in season four. Yet there was a little more to this season of the show. We had the search for the mole in the lab. We had Delco’s sister and soon to be Horatio’s wife. The ongoing battle with the Mala Noche gang. There were many story arcs besides the weekly investigation. The show did stay true to its style with Horatio being the defender and avenger of the little guy, especially the children. The TV show DVD set includes all 25 season four episodes on seven discs. Special features include: six episode commentaries and featurettes on the creating, producing and finishing of an episode. These let you in on the process from start to finish of making an episode of CSI: Miami.

Other TV Show DVD Options

Acapulco H.E.A.T. - The Complete Second Season
Baywatch - Season 1 - Released Oct. 30th.
Baywatch - Season 2 - Released Oct. 30th.
Ghost Whisperer - The Complete First Season
The Hitchhiker, Vol. 3
The Kids in the Hall - Complete Season 5
The Kids in the Hall Megaset
Party @ the Palms - Season 1
Speed Racer, Vol. 5
Spongebob Squarepants - Whale of a Birthday
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Volume 2
Tales from the Crypt - The Complete Fifth Season
A Touch of Frost - Seasons 11 & 12

What TV show DVDs will you be adding to your collection this week? Which ones only rate a Netflix rental? Which ones will never see the inside of your DVD player?

Happy Halloween. Many a show is Halloween themed tonight. Things you will want to see include: Abby’s costume on NCIS, a patient stand up to House, Veronica get robbed but not for long, wacky happenings on Boston Legal and Friday Night Lights if you didn’t watch it last night on NBC. Also this is the first night of the new NBA Basketball season. There are two games tonight on TNT. The rest of the teams get things started tomorrow night. Seems as though it wasn’t that long ago that I was watching the Miami Heat win the NBA Finals and tonight they will be receiving their rings. Time sure flies when you watch a lot of TV.

Prime Picks

NCIS (CBS): New. The team investigates after a Marine gets attacked in his home and the perpetrators take his daughter on Halloween.

House (FOX): New. The case this week involves a married couple that has similar symptoms. At the clinic a walk-in patient stands up to House.

Boston Legal (ABC): New. Denise is looking for her fiancé after she receives some bad news while Alan tries to help Jerry Espenson once again. Coho is sued for defamation stemming from the murdered judge case he won last week.

Solid Selections

Standoff (FOX): New. A boy takes hostages at a hospital in an attempt to force the hospital to perform surgery on his sister. Unfortunately the surgeon is out of town and the negotiators must talk him out.

Veronica Mars (The CW): New. It is Halloween and the underground casino on the Hearst campus gets robbed. The Dean wants to hire Keith to find the biological parents of Mindy’s son.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC): New. Benson is still undercover in Oregon and ADA Novak has called upon her to testify in a rape trial.

Cable Choices

Emeril Live (Food Network): Repeat. Emeril had a Halloween contest.

Overhaulin’ (TLC): New. A 1965 Buick is redone.

Nip/Tuck (FX): New. Sean offers to give some input on a surgical leg-lengthening procedure while Liz wants to go under the knife at the request of her new girlfriend. Runs 66 minutes and plays twice.

Other Options

• Caroline Rhea: Rhea’s Anatomy (Bravo): New. Caroline Rhea (The Biggest Loser, Sabrina) performs a new standup routine.
• Friday Night Lights (NBC): Repeat. If you didn’t catch this episode last night in the Studio 60 timeslot then it will be new to you.
• Gilmore Girls (The CW): Repeat. The season premiere episode, “The Long Morrow,” replays tonight.
• The Hungary Detective (Food Network): New. Restaurants in Atlanta are looked at.
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC): New. Liza Minelli guest stars as the mother of a beauty queen who was murdered and she was the original suspect. When another confesses to the crime the detectives investigate.
• Rachael Ray’s Tasty Travels (Food Network): New. Get some tips on how to spend a weekend getaway.
• Road Tasted (Food Network): New. The Deen boys visit St. Louis to taste the specialties the town has to offer.
• The Unit (CBS): New. It is “Old Home Week.”

Sports Notes

• ESPN has college football with Alabama-Birmingham at Southern Methodist.
• TNT has NBA Basketball as the season tips off tonight with a doubleheader. The first game has last season’s champs, the Miami Heat, playing the Chicago Bulls at home were they will receive their rings before the game. In the second game is the Phoenix Suns at the Los Angeles Lakers.

What looks good to you this Tuesday night?

CBS is all about the repeat tonight. That includes one of my favorite episodes of How I Met Your Mother from last season, the Halloween episode. Everything else is pretty much new tonight across the rest of the networks. NBC is giving Friday Night Lights the third hour of primetime slot tonight instead of a repeat Studio 60 that was originally scheduled. Friday Night Lights is a pretty good show but is one of the new fall shows that is on the bubble. NBC has ordered a few more scripts, which is a positive. Hopefully with CSI: Miami a repeat, a few more people will give it a shot. I would really like to see this show make it for the season and possibly more. If you haven’t given it a go, you should really give it a chance. It is very well done.

Prime Picks

Prison Break (FOX): New. Michael in need of some info on the guy who is pursuing them decides to try and get close to Mahone’s wife while L.J. and Linc have a little trouble on the road. C-Note makes a play for his wife and kid and T-Bag gets a surprise.

Heroes (NBC): New. Hiro and Ando are made a deal they can’t refuse while Claire meets her biological parents. Isaac gets another call that puzzles him. This is one of the best new shows of the season.

Friday Night Lights (NBC): New. The coach has to decide which quarterback to start in the big game. If he loses it could be the end of the road for him as coach. This episode replays in its normal timeslot tomorrow.

Solid Selections

How I Met Your Mother (CBS): Repeat. Last year’s Halloween episode, “The Slutty Pumpkin,” replays. It was one of my favorite episodes of the inaugural season of this funny show.
All of Us (The CW): New. I haven’t even seen an episode of this show as of this writing but it has to be better than the repeat episode of The Class that comes on after How I Met Your Mother. One semi funny moment does not a comedy make. This episode of The Class only really had one of those and if you’ve seen the promo for this episode you have already seen it. So All of Us it is.

Justice (FOX): New. The firm represents the mother of a girl who died while with her rich boyfriend in a plane crash. They are suing the wealthy family for wrongful death.

What About Brian (ABC): New. Adam and Brian put a little money on who can get back into the dating game first while Brian gets used to having Dave bunk in at his place. Nicole is getting ready for her baby shower and looks like she is going to get some bad news based on the promos.

Cable Choices

Emeril’s Tricks and Treats (Food Network): Repeat. Get some ideas for some fun Halloween treats.

Unwrapped (Food Network): Repeat. Get a look at the makings of some of your favorite sweet treats.

The Secret Life Of … (Food Network): Repeat. Halloween is explored.

Other Options

• Friends (TBS): Repeats. Four episodes play including the one where Joey asks the rest of the gang to help him with an interview for Soap Opera Digest.
• Scrubs (Comedy Central): Repeats. Two episodes play including one with guest star Jay Mohr.

Sports Notes

• ESPN has Monday Night Football with the New England Patriots at the Minnesota Vikings.

What looks good to you this Monday Night?

The Quote of the Week last week was a funny Boston Legal quote from Denny Crane. Other funny lines were delivered this week as well. They include old friends reuniting on Veronica Mars, a studio tour aside, the wonderment of waffles and a conversation between uncle and nephew. These funny quotes were heard on TV during the week of Oct. 22nd, 2006. Read on and enjoy!

Quote of the Week

Show: Boston Legal (ABC)
Episode: The Verdict (Season 3)
The Setup: Alan and Denny are talking about the women they have been with recently. Denny has been worried about the onset of Alzheimer’s. He calls it Mad Cow. He thinks that it may be affecting other things as well.
Alan: Denny did you?
Denny: Paul asked me to repair relations with her.
Alan: So you had them?
Denny: Cheap, chubby sex in a witness room.
Alan: Ohh!
Denny: Obviously I didn’t satisfy her.
Alan: Denny have you lost your mind? (Denny looks away) What?
Denny: Nothing.
Alan: Denny we’re flamingos. Something going on?
Denny: (Taps his head with remote) Mad Cow. It hasn’t progressed in my brain but there are other symptoms. Be it blood pressure, it affects me.
Alan: It affects you how?
Denny: (Gets up and leans over desk) I think I have mad penis.

Other Funny Quotes

Show: Veronica Mars (The CW)
Episode: Charlie Don’t Surf (Season 3)
The Setup: Guest star Laura San Giacomo, who used to star with Enrico Colantoni on Just Shoot Me, plays Harmony. She wants to hire Enrico’s character Keith to find out if her husband is cheating on her. Her first scene is walking into Keith’s office.
Harmony: Hi. Um, I don’t have an appointment. Do you remember me, by any chance?

Show: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (NBC)
Episode: The Wrap Party (Season 1)
The Setup: Tom’s parents have come to visit him. He is giving them a tour of the studio.
Tom: It began as a burlesque theater, called The Addison. And later I will show you where Gypsy Rose Lee signed her name on the wall backstage.
Tom’s Mom: What, the stripper?
Tom: The Stripper.
Tom’s Mom: Tommy, tell me you don’t go to those places.
Tom: I don’t.
Tom’s Mom: Because coming in here I saw this neighborhood.
Tom: I don’t mom. I like looking at naked women as much as anybody. I just don’t like it to be a crowd experience.
Tom’s Mom: I don’t like this talk.
Tom: I understand. Anyway…

Show: Two and a Half Men (CBS)
Episode: Apologies for the Frivolity (Season 4)
The Setup: Jake is giving his Uncle Charlie some advice about meeting the children of the woman he is dating.
Jake: All right but if they’re boys, just don’t call them little dudes, okay.
Charlie: Why not?
Jake: There’s this guy mom used to date and every time he would see me, he’d call me little dude. He was an idiot.
Charlie: Okay, okay, that’s good stuff. What else you got?
Jake: No lame magic tricks, no head rubbing and please no high fives.
Charlie: Got it.
Jake: And don’t ask, who wants ice cream? Everybody wants ice cream.
Charlie: I understand.
Jake: Even lactose intolerant kids want ice cream.
Charlie: Makes sense.
Jake: But whatever you do, don’t try to pretend your not sleeping with their mom. We’re not stupid.
Charlie: So, if I do this stuff, her kids will like me.
Jake: No.
Charlie: Why not?
Jake: You’re doing their mom.

Show: Heroes (NBC)
Episode: Hiro’s (Season 1)
The Setup: Ando and Hiro got jumped after Hiro used his powers to stop time and cheat a guy at poker in Las Vegas. They are dumped out on the side of the road near a diner. The following is from the subtitles as they were speaking Japanese the whole time.
Hiro: Wow… Good. I’m starving.
Ando: I’m not talking to you.
Hiro: (Walking into the diner): Do you think they have waffles?
Ando: I said I’m not talking to you. I can’t believe I got beat up because of you. I’ve never gotten beaten up before.
Hiro: I got punched too.
Ando: Once. They kept kicking me! My jaw is clicking, did it used to click?
Hiro: Let’s just eat then get the car back, okay?
Ando: This is all your fault, Hiro. All we had to do was stop time, and we would still have our money.
Hiro: My fault? We got beat up because you made us cheat at gambling. Using my powers for personal gain. That’s the Dark Side.
Ando: Not being broke is the Dark Side?
Hiro: (Opening the menu) Oh, waffles!

What funny Boston Legal quotes or other funny lines made you laugh last week?