Hock Show Weekend Top 5 for January 3rd – 9th, 2009
1. It’s Playoffs Time! God help me but I love the NFL Playoffs, and while my team is playing X-Box and getting drunk on a boat (in the middle of winter) there were actually some games on this weekend. Mostly a bunch of blowouts (including the Patriots getting schooled), but one instant classic between the Packers and the Cardinals, that started off as a blowout, and ended up as the best offensive game I’ve seen in a long time that ended on a defensive score.
2. Jay Leno Is an Idiot, but NBC Is Even Stupider. How do you resolve the fact that basically nobody wants to see Jay Leno anymore (going by the ratings of his 10 p.m. “This Is Totally Not the Tonight Show” show)? Reward him by giving him his cushy old job back, and shoving Conan O’Brien either out on the streets or back to his old time slot of doom. Sweet deal, guys! For their next trick, they’re going to string Jimmie Fallon up by his ears.
3. TNA Nitro Relaunched. You know what will help reboot your wrestling federation? Bringing in twenty guys who haven’t been on TV in a decade, and immediately making them a bigger story than anybody you’ve worked years to build up. Then, try really hard not to laugh when you say you’re doing this all for “the young guys.”
4. The Simpsons Is Old. The Simpsons celebrated their 450th Episode and 20 years of production this week, making it the longest running (animated) series on television. How long will the show keep running you might ask (what, you might!)? Until Fox stops canceling all their decent shows and puts something together to replace it, I imagine. So…never.
5. Movies Coming to Another Machine You Won’t Watch Them On. Perhaps as a way to stave off flagging hardware sales now that everybody owns a Wii, Nintendo has cut a deal with Netflix to sponsor a Netflix channel in the Wii Store. Because the one machine you want to watch movies on is the one that doesn’t have integrated HD. Brilliant!