How I Met Your Mother – Recap & Review – Who Wants to Be a Godparent?

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How I Met Your Mother
Who Wants to Be a Godparent?

Original Air Date: Oct 15, 2012

Caitlin –Staff Writer
caitlin@thetwocentscorp.com

Through progressive seasons, HIMYM has become the kind of sitcom that’s willing to take on drama as well. It makes sense to acknowledge that, though we’d probably never see it, something tragic could take Marshall and Lily away from their son.

However, the show is of course still a sitcom above all, and so we can’t make things overly serious. How do you avoid that with a topic like this? Turn the discussion of godparents into a game show. No, I mean a literal game show.

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Comic Book Men – Recap & Review – Stash Bashes

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Comic Book Men
Stash Bashes

Original Air Date: Oct 14, 2012

Jeff L – Señor Staff Writer
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Well I’m back, TwoCents readers and so are The Comic Book Men. Let me re-introduce you to the gang: Kevin Smith is the owner of The Secret Stash, Walt Flanagan is the ornery manager, Michael Zapcic is the second in command and Ming Chen and Bryan Johnson are semi-employed by the store and part of Smiths SModcast empire.

We open on Mike telling the guys he used to dress up as Aquaman when he was a kid and pretend he could talk to fish. Bryan assures him fish would probably be the only friends a 7 year-old Mike Zapcic, dressed as Aquaman, would be able to find. That’s the kind of cutting humor you’ll find throughout Comic Book Men – season one just became available on Netflix so check it out if you haven’t already. I’m, admittedly, a huge fan of the gang at The Secret Stash, but I’ll try to be objective as I recap and review the 16 half-hour episodes this season – up from 6 hour long outings in season one.

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The Good Wife – Recap & Review – Two Girls, One Code

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The Good Wife
Two Girls, One Code

Original Air Date: Oct 14, 2012

Patricia Morris Buckley — Sr. Staff Writer
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Two couples danced around each other this week, swinging between hate to love. One I enjoyed, the other I didn’t. Isn’t that like real life?

The episode opened with a real shocker—a reporter seems to have evidence of Will and Alicia’s affair. And with Peter running for office, you know that’s going to come out. Alicia is justifiably freaked out. But in the end, it turns out reporter Mandy Post (once played by Kristin Chenoweth before a set light bashed her on the head) really has evidence that Peter had an affair with a campaign worker.

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The Walking Dead – Recap & Review – Seed

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The Walking Dead
Seed

Original Air Date: Oct 14, 2012

Rachel – Sr. Managing Editor
rachel@thetwocentscorp.com

When last we saw our heroes, the Ricktatorship had begun. He had just killed his best friend and his wife was livid at him for it. The group was splintering and they were all going to get picked off one-by-one. OK… No more Mr. Nice Guy. Rick informs them it is no longer a democracy. They are to all stick together and find a place where they can start over. He’s done taking suggestions.

Season 3 opened several months later with the group, employing clinical precision, entered a house, dispatched the Walkers inside, and took a moment to rest. Everyone has their roles and they perform them without saying a word. It seems that they have been doing this for so long that they don’t need to talk to one another. Or perhaps they don’t want to talk to one another. They are all exhausted, jaded, and in Lori’s case, very pregnant. When Carl starts to eat a can of dog food, we see just how low they have sunk. Rick doesn’t like it and he’s just about to speechify on it when T-Dog spies some Walkers out the window. Time to move on. Again, without a word, they all do their thing. Scavenging as they go, they jump into their vehicles and head to the next house to look for more supplies.

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Robot Chicken Gets 7th Season

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Adult Swim announced today it has ordered another season of Robot Chicken, the Emmy® winning series by creators and executive producers Seth Green and Matthew Senreich. Season six is currently airing all new episodes on Sunday nights at midnight (ET/PT) on Adult Swim, featuring an all-star voice cast. Robot Chicken season seven will premiere in 2013.

Robot Chicken uses stop-motion animation to bring pop-culture parodies to life in a modern take on the variety/sketch show format. The Emmy Award®-winning series began airing in February 2005 and remains among the top-rated original series on Adult Swim. Robot Chicken is created and executive produced by Stoopid Monkey Productions’ Seth Green and Matthew Senreich and their Stoopid Buddy Stoodios partners, Buddy Systems’ John Harvatine IV and Eric Towner, who also serve as executive producers, and Janet Dimon as supervising producer. Green and Senreich also write and voice and Zeb Wells directs the multiple Annie Award-winning series. Robot Chicken head writers/co-executive producers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root are joined by season six writers Matthew Beans, Rachel Bloom, Mike Fasolo, Jessica Gao, Breckin Meyer, Jason Reich, Mehar Sethi, Tom Sheppard, Erik Weiner, and Wells.

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666 Park Avenue – Recap & Review – The Dead Don’t Stay Dead

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666 Park Avenue
The Dead Don’t Stay Dead

Original Air Date: Oct 14, 2012

Keith G – TwoCents Reviewer
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At the onset of this episode, Jane is trapped in a small room in the basement, the door having slammed on her at the end of last week’s show. After hearing noises in the room and finding shelves of creepy old dolls, something grabs her ankle, frightening her. Henry opens the door, finding a scared Jane screaming. Henry helps calm her down, telling her that the vent in the room is amplifying voices from other parts of the building and that she must have rubbed up against a doll. As they leave the room we see a small child run behind them and then crouching next to a chair, holding one of the creepy dolls.

Brian is in the laundry room, talking to Annie (played by the beautiful Aubrey Dollar), a journalist who has been stuck writing obituaries. After leaving the laundry room, Annie runs into Gavin. She tells him that she would do “anything” to get off the obituary desk. NOT a good thing to say to Gavin. He says “maybe I can do something”. We flash to Annie’s apartment where she is writing an obituary. She stars embellishing his story and ends up making him an ex-CIA agent hero. We later see her stuck in traffic in a taxi. The traffic is apparently coming from a diplomat who died. Annie jumps out of the cab, realizing that it is the obituary she wrote while seeing a flash of it on the TV in the car. She goes and talks to Gavin, inquiring if he had something to do with it. He answers the question in a shifty way, neither confirming nor denying that he had something to do with it. He only tells her that the man must have been a CIA agent, because she had written that it was so. It seems that anything she writes is becoming true.

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ABC Family’s “13 Nights of Halloween” Starts October 19

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ABC Family scares up 13 NIGHTS OF HALLOWEEN for the 14th consecutive spine tingling year, with programming filled with chills and thrills as you countdown to Halloween. The popular programming event, starting Friday, October 19, and concluding on Wednesday, October 31, features a brand new episode of “Pretty Little Liars” featuring special guest “glampire” Adam Lambert, and the season finale of “Switched at Birth.” The stunt will also include the basic cable premiere of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” the ABC Family feature film premiere of “Monster House,” and “Poltergeist III,” and a massive mix of Halloween-themed programming airing for the 13 nights leading up to Halloween.

Following is a listing of frightastic programming taking place October 19-31 during ABC Family’s 13 NIGHTS OF HALLOWEEN.

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Once Upon a Time – Recap & Review – Lady of the Lake

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Once Upon a Time
Lady of the Lake

Original Air Date: Oct 14, 2012

Wyner C – Senior Reviewer
wyner@thetwocentscorp.com

Parents are supposed to put their children ahead of their own needs. It’s a selfless job – no real benefit other than constant worrying. Who wants such a position? Millions of masochists, that’s who. More power to y’all.

In Fairytale (pre-curse), Charming’s battle camp is being raided by King George’s men. After promising to meet at the cabin of Charming’s mother, Snow and Charming split up – ‘cause that’s always a good idea. Snow gets captured….by Lancelot. By the way? Heeellllllooooooo Lancelot. Dude is Hotty McHotStuff!!

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The Amazing Race – Recap & Review – “There’s No Crying in Baseball!”

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The Amazing Race
“There’s No Crying in Baseball!”

Original Air Date: Oct 14 , 2012

Ryan O – Associate Staff Writer
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The Amazing Race is notorious for having teams eliminated due to bad luck with taxi driver. It doesn’t seem fair but it’s the nature of the race. It can sometimes lead to bad TV. In this episode, a bad pedicab driver creates a very exciting finish.

The episode also features one of the more unusual tasks: cooking eggs via a flaming coconuts on the racers’ heads.

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Revenge – Recap & Review – Confidence

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Revenge
Confidence

Original Air Date: Oct 14, 2012

Keith G – TwoCents Reviewer
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The surprising return of Victoria to the Grayson house and the death of the white-haired man left questions swirling in our minds after last week’s episode. Who was the white-haired man? Why did Emily trust him, knowing that he killed her father? What are Victoria and Conrad up to? What is Emily’s real relationship with Aiden?

At the onset of this episode, we are four years in the past. Emily and Aiden are running, being chased by large dogs, in what seems like a garden or maze. They are trapped by the dogs, but climb over a wall with Aiden falling on the ground with an apparent leg wound. Emily leans over to help him and he rolls off to the side, grabbing a white flag and, therefore winning some sort of completion. Emily is not amused, but Satoshi Takeda tells her that Aiden won because he exploited her weakness – the key to Revenge.

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