Oh, no, you can't touch this

So, in the crazy week of having my basement flood and my mom being admitted to the hospital, the only show on at 2 in the morning was Scrubs. And lo and behold, this show is so chess-tastically funny, that I decided to write about it for my blog entry.

The show centers around four friends that work at a hospital. Three of the characters are medical interns, and the other character is a friend. The show is narrated by J.D, who is 26, and trying to get through his internship. He is best friends with Turk, who is a surgical intern and later falls in love with one of the nurses, Carla. All three make friends with another intern named Elliot.

The show is crazy because it is a typical sitcom that is really predictable, but it's so hilarious that despite all it's negative points it's a good show. Also, there are some episodes that focus on deeper meanings than just making an audience laugh.

The episode I watched had to do with the interns first bout with death while on the job. This sounds like it would be a very somber episode, but it wasn't. I think it mainly has to do with the character, Dr. Cox. He is so sarcastic and crazy, that it makes you think how anyone could really work with him. But he adds to the show the necessary drama and comedic affects to make the show work.

Anyways, what I liked most about this episode was J.D's interaction with an elderly woman. The woman had cancer, but didn't want to go on further treatment. J.D tries to convince her that she should continue to live and go on treatment. He makes a list of things he feels that every person should have done before they die and reads them to her. The woman says yes to all of them and in return asks J.D if he's done any of those things, to which he replies, "no."

I liked that part in the episode the most because it made me think really hard about my own life. Like how many times do I just go through the motions and take things for granted? I think you can be physically alive, but not really live life. As cheesy as that sounded, I do not want life to pass by and regret not truly living. Who knew one episode of Scrubs could make me think all this?

Change of pace

I was watching Gilmore Girls this week and started to criticize how unrealistic some parts of the show are. I think our last paper about reality TV kind of got to me. Even though, I did write my paper to say Gilmore Girls is realistic; I still found some things to be unrealistic.

The episode I watched was of the Grand Opening of the Dragonfly Inn. So, all of the people of Stars Hollow are invited to spend a weekend at the hotel as a test run. I find it funny that the townspeople always consist of the same twenty or so people such as Luke, Babette, Kirk, Miss Patty, etc.

As the episode progresses, Lorelai's ex, Jason, shows up unexpectedly. However, the whole time Luke was at the Inn and flirting with Lorelai. The audience can tell that Lorelai is interested in Luke. Anyways, she gets furious at Jason that he shows up because she knows it'll ruin her chances with Luke.

Ok, snore, and what a bore! Is it really realistic that Lorelai hooks up with a guy, then, goes to Luke, then back to a different guy or to Christ? Come on! Get a new script. The vicious cycle of Max to Chris to Luke to Jason to a maybe with Luke to a definetly with Chris to Luke and back to Chris in marriage and now a divorce and possibly back to Luke. It was exhausting just writing that.

Anyways, I guess most shows need unrealism to let their productions run through smoothly. But it's kind of cheesy that the audience can tell.

The Classics

This week's reading focused on an introduction to film. I particularly liked Ebert's essay about film classics. I would have to say that I agree with Ebert's statement that some of the greatest films are from old Hollywood.

All my friend's think it is really cheesy that I like to watch old black-and-white movies. There's something about old movies that really appeal to me. I think it may be that back then everyone seemed to have a sense of decency toward one another. Also, to me, the plots seem to be very intense because they are so through with the details of the story.

One old movie I really like is The Shop Around the Corner starring Jimmy Stewart. It's the original version of You've Got Mail. So, instead of having e-mails, Jimmy Stewart and his co-star use snail mail to fall in love with one another. If you've seen You've Got Mail, you'll notice that they pay tribute to this movie. Meg Ryan's book store is called The Shop Around the Corner.

I am a sucker for Audrey Hepburn movies as well. Who could forget her stunning entrance in Sabrina? That's the best part of the movie. Hepburn walks into a party the Larbe's are having in this AMAZING dress. And everyone is speechless because she is so beautiful.

It's stuff like that that make classic movies so great. There doesn't have to be so much action or drama. It's just the simple every day life that surprisingly can hold your attention.
I did read once in some magazine that my generation biologically has a hard time watching classic movies because the scenes are so drawn out. My generation is used to something like every 5.3 seconds there is a scene change. Where as in old movie, the scenes usually take a few minutes to pass. That's probably why no one from my generation likes old movies.
But I'm weird like that.

Jerry gay?

Viewing Seinfeld through a homosexual looking glass is something that I never thought of. As a heterosexual, I never picked up on anything that might mean Seinfeld could have gay cues in it. I just thought the show was extremely hilarious.

As a heterosexual, I viewed the characters as always pursuing the opposite sex. But according to the reading, as a homosexual viewing the show, the characters are being homosexual because they fail miserably in their pursuits. Also, it appeals to a homosexual audience because it uses gay slang and innuendos.


One example is that George has a relationship with a woman that fails miserably because it has the quirks of a heterosexual relationship. You then find out that the same woman is having a successful relationship with a woman.


I though the reading was interesting, but I wonder if it's possible to read too much into a plot and discover things that really aren't there. For example, it's funny that their relationships fail or could perceive that the show just has homosexual undercurrents. It just depends on how you look at it. But apparently the author has done research for the essay so from her point of view and since she pointed out all these homosexual subtleties, I would have to say that she is correct.


From her richly expressed and deeply personal writings, the author of this essay does point out extremely interesting facts that as a heterosexual I would have probably never picked up. In today's complex world, the author re-affirms that the things truly that are important in life are precious gifts that can be ours when we open our eyes to what is already there.

Clothes make the woman

This week's episode of Gilmore Girls was the Pilot episode. It was kind of weird seeing how young everyone looked when the show first began. Even the filming of the show was completely different. Everything was in darker colors and everyone work a lot of dark, heavy make-up.

A sixteen year old Rory Gilmore is the genius of her public high school. However, the audience soon learns that she is accepted to the prestigious private school of Chilton.

Rory is in every aspect a typical teenager except for her intelligence. She likes rock music, eats a ton of junk food, and hangs with her best friend, Lane, every chance that she gets. But there is another thing that sets her apart--she is also best friends with her mom, Lorelai.

Lorelai is the fun loving mom, who likes rock music, eats a ton of junk food, and hangs with her best friend, Sookie (hmm...sounds familiar). Even though she may not act her age, Lorelai works hard as the manager of an inn and tries to be the best mom she can be to her daughter.

Rory and Lorelai both share their excitement over Rory's acceptance to Chilton. However, Lorelai realizes that tuition is a lot more than she can afford. This is the first time the audience learns about Lorelai's estrangement from her parents. Lorelai takes a big step to ask her parents for the money.

Lorelai's mom, Emily, is very controlling and always has to have her way. So she says they won't give her the money unless her and Rory attend Friday night dinners with them. Lorelai agrees not too happily, but for Rory she would do anything.

The Pilot episode was where every Gilmore-ism began. The inside jokes about crazy words such as, "Oy, with poodles." It began the coffee addiction 24/7. It began all the crazy love triangles that would form through out the seasons.

I think the writers did a good job the first time around and made all the character memorable. They have made Gilmore Girls into a 21st century icon.

Gilmore Girls Friendships

For this blog entry, I wanted to write about the friendships that take place in Gilmore Girls. I'm not going to focus on just one particular episode, but a collective series of episodes.

The first friendship is between Lane and Rory. They were best friends since high school and have continued to be best friends. You know the saying, "A friend sticks closer than a brother," well in this case, it's true of Rory and Lane.

I like that the show emphasizes how important it is for girls to have strong friendships with other girls. For example, when Lane found out she was pregnant, she told Rory first instead of Zac. She tells Rory she needed to get a woman's reaction first before she could tell her husband. Of course, Rory was extremely happy for her and has even helped her out by getting baby stuff and fixing up her house.

Another example would be when Lane joined a band. Lane's mom would have sent her to a convent if she would have known that Lane was playing rock n' roll music. So, Rory, being the best friend, went to her mom to ask if Lane could practice in their garage. Lorelai is a cool mom so she allowed her to.

Now the show also portrays friendships between the adult women as well. Lorelai's best friend is Sookie. They met back when Lorelai was just starting out at the Independence Inn. Just like Rory and Lane, Lorelai and Sookie have been through a lot together.

Lorelai and Sookie were not only best friends, but also business partners. They worked so well together that they opened up their own inn. Since they know each other's strengths and weaknesses, they have been able to work together through hard times and succeed.

Another example of their "true friendship," is when Lorelai breaks up with Luke, Chris, Jason, etc. Sookie was always there for Lorelai when she couldn't decide who to date. She was also always letting Lorelai cry on her shoulder whenever she went through a bad break up. Only your best friend can comfort you through hards issues like break ups and make everything seem okay in the end.

As a result, many women enjoy watching Gilmore Girls with their best friends because they can identify with all the drama and situations the characters work through.

Lorelai Gilmore

I've decided that each week I will focus one character so when people read my TV blog they'll understand the person I am writing about. It's taken from Wikepedia because I attempted to write my own character guide and failed miserably. Plus, I have 800 other things to get done for today. : )

The first character is LORELAI GILMORE

As a teenager, Lorelai dated Christopher while in high school, and became pregnant right before her society debut, which embarrassed and disappointed her parents. ^[Christopher's and Lorelai's parents tried to convince them to marry, and Christopher was amenable, but Lorelai refused. When she realized she was in labour, she drove to the hospital alone.

After her daughter -Lorelai Leigh Gilmore "Rory" -was born ^[4], she lived with her parents for a year before running away to find a job at the Independence Inn in Stars Hollow. The owner of the inn, Mia (Elizabeth Franz), took her in, gave her a job as a maid, and let her and Rory live in the potting shed (after renovating it). ^[5] Lorelai worked her way up over the years, and was eventually promoted to manager. The inn is where she met her best friend, Sookie, a talented chef.

For many years, Lorelai had almost no contact with her parents, except for visits during major holidays. The rebelliousness of her teen years stayed with her in adulthood, something her parents still resent. As they both grew up, Lorelai and Rory's relationship evolved into something resembling the relationship of two sisters rather than a parent to her child. Lorelai appears uncomfortable playing "the mom card", but will use it as a last resort. It wasn't until she needed to borrow a very large sum of money for Rory's education at the exclusive Chilton Academy that she started seeing her parents regularly again, since a condition of the loan was that Lorelai and Rory join Richard and Emily for dinner every Friday night until the loan was paid off.

Lorelai repaid her parents for the loan when a real estate investment that Richard had made in her name at the time of her birth paid off, but Rory soon made her own bargain with her grandparents for Yale tuition. Lorelai continued to attend occasional Friday night dinners, partly as a way to see Rory while she was busy at college. Lorelai's relationship with her parents is still strained, but she appears to prefer her father Richard over her mother Emily, despite moments showing that she clearly loves her mother.

Besides an on-again, off-again relationship with Rory's father, Lorelai's romantic relationships have included Alex Lesman, an outdoorsy coffee house entrepreneur (for whom she learned to fish), Max Medina, a teacher at Chilton, Jason "Digger" Stiles, and Luke Danes, the owner of the local diner. Despite rejecting his marriage proposals, Lorelai remained friends with Christopher throughout the years, and helped him to cope with the birth of his daughter Georgia, nicknamed GiGi, after his girlfriend Sherry Tinsdale deserted them to pursue a job in Paris. Despite his mistakes, Lorelai's parents like Christopher and have continually pushed her to pursue a relationship with him in their adulthood, so that their family can finally be together and whole. However, Lorelai broke off contact with him after he attempted to break up her relationship with Luke in Season 5, Ep. 13 "Wedding Bell Blues" (granted, Emily manipulated him in that direction beforehand). She proposed to Luke at the end of Season 5, Ep. 22 "A House is Not a Home", and he accepted at the very beginning of the next episode. They plan to renovate and live in Lorelai's two-story home in Stars Hollow. Lorelai fears that the wedding will never take place and has presented Luke with an ultimatum. Her relationship with Rory has been considerably strained after her arrest for the theft of a yacht and leaving Yale, and the two did not speak for several months. Rory was especially angry about Lorelai not informing her about the marriage plans. They have since reconciled.

Lorelai attended Hartford Community College and earned an Associate of Arts degree in business while running the Independence Inn. After the inn burned down, she and Sookie owned and operated The Independence catering Company in order to fund renovation of the Dragonfly Inn, their long-term dream, which opened to rave reviews on May 6 during Season 4.

Lorelai's eating habits are famously unhealthy; she subsists almost exclusively on Pop Tarts and takeout. She and Rory had regular food-and-movie nights, for which they would order enough food for several people and then use the leftovers as food for the rest of the week. A running joke on the series is that food rarely, if ever, makes it all the way to Lorelai's refrigerator.

Lorelai is innately humorous and has a witty remark for every situation, often with a pop culture reference. Often, however, her remarks do come at the expense of others, and can confuse people who aren't familiar with her. As such, most of the characters do not find her amusing. These kinds of interactions with people, among other things, often make Lorelai seem like a case of arrested development - a fully grown adult woman who somehow never quite outgrew her adolescence.

Lorelai tends to isolate herself from friends and family after extremely unpleasant arguments. Rather than try to work through the dispute like a mature adult, Lorelai will simply alienate the other person, whether it's her mother or her daughter, until the dispute is more or less forgotten, indicating that she never really learned how to deal with conflict.

Lorelai is somewhat insecure when it comes to the relationships between herself, her parents, and Rory. Because her daughter gets along better with her grandparents than she herself ever did, Lorelai often feels that her parents prefer Rory over her. She thinks they view Rory, who is considerably more subdued and more classically "feminine" than her mother, as the daughter they should have had. This seemed very evident when, following a rift between Rory and Lorelai after Rory attempted to steal a yacht and dropped out of Yale, Rory moved in with her grandparents, who welcomed her with open arms. Her fears were further cemented when Rory adapted very well to her grandparents' lifestyle.

When it is revealed in the sixth season that Luke has a daughter, April, from his previous relationship with Anna Nardini, Luke and Lorelai delayed their original wedding date again, after having already delayed it once so she could settle her feud with Rory, and continue to postpone as Luke tries to make up for lost time with April. There is no interaction between April and Lorelai until Luke asks Lorelai to help him with April's birthday party, during which time April comments that Lorelai is a lot like her own mother, Anna, and says they'd like each other; Lorelai hoped this would be a major breakthrough in moving things along. Unfortunately, Anna got mad at Luke for asking Lorelai to help him with the party without asking her first, after which Lorelai confronts Anna to assure her she doesn't mean to harm April, and that her relationship with Luke is serious, Anna throws her into doubt because, as she puts it, "people get engaged all the time." Lorelai eventually grows impatient and resentful of Luke taking so long to sort out things with April and in the season six finale, after having avoided him for some time, she gives him an ultimatum - elope with her now or never - and then storms away without giving him time to think it through, perhaps ending their relationship. Lorelai goes to Christopher for comfort and the season ends with a scene of her in his bed the following morning having slept with him. The next day, Lorelai threw out everything that reminded her of Luke, which included almost everything in her house. The day after that, Luke - following the destruction to his diner in a public event planned by Taylor that went horribly wrong - showed up at her home with his truck packed and passionately professed his love for her, only to have her reveal that she'd slept with Christopher after their fight. Without saying anything, Luke slammed the door behind him in his truck and drove away. After Luke verbally took his anger out on Lorelai while her passing her by in the street, Lorelai had to confront Rory on what happened when Rory overheard her father's phone message about "the other night"; Rory angrily berated Lorelai for her actions and left, only to come back later to comfort her mother when she was in tears. Lorelai had a chance encounter with Luke at a grocery store, where he attempted to apologize and summed things up as being that they simply weren't right for each other, but whether or not he really believes that is questionable. When she told her parents she and Luke had broken up, their reaction was strangely subdued to the point of being non-existent, which Lorelai found annoying.

After being unable to get her on the phone, Christopher ran into Lorelai after he had dinner with Rory; she offered him coffee, and Christopher responded by telling Lorelai that he still loved her, had always loved her and would never stop loving her, and that he didn't want to spend the rest of his life without her. Following this and her failed relationship with Luke, Lorelai decides to take a chance on rekindling her relationship with Christopher.

At the start of Season 7, Episode 7 ("French Twist"), Christopher and Lorelai return from Paris, apparently married -- Christopher calls her "Mrs. Hayden." She does not reply, but looks at the ring on her rather sadly, suggesting she is not quite content with the event. They have maintained a reasonably normal married relationship for a few episodes, but it seems as though Luke is not quite out of the picture, much to Chris' chagrin.