Bones - The Corpse at the Convention

[Note: As stated last week, Big Bang Theory conflicts with Bones, so I'm going to be watching/blogging about it later.]

Booth doesn't know what Schrodinger's cat is, and for once someone is fawning over Angela and calling her a genius. Go Angela!! That non-scientist mystery writer who Brennan hates is also at this conference (that's a blast from the past!), and then a very rude fire alarm interrupts Brennan's speech. There's a body on fire in a stairwell and she freaks out about the fact that the evidence is burning - rather than being concerned for her own safety. Typical Brennan.

Also, this week - WENDELL'S BAAAAAAAACK!!! Let's take a brief moment for some Wendell appreciation:

I think he approves.

I had to use this one again, it's too priceless. And I realized he looks very concerned. Which is adorable.

AND HE HAS NO CANCER!!!! Because Brennan managed to get him into a clinical drug trial. Awwww... I'm not crying. You're crying.

It's kind of hilarious how many people are trying to push their crime-scene investigation products on the team. Within the space of two minutes, Aubrey mentioned Beyonce and Booth mentioned the Kardashians - we get it, Bones writers, you're young and hip and whatnot. Shockingly, the author-lady is using the dead person to promote herself. (That was sarcasm).

Turns out that the dead girl was actually the entomologist that Hodgins had argued with earlier in the day. And as he so furiously pointed out, that's the third time he's been a murder suspect.. Given his temper, I coulda sworn it was more.

I love how Aubrey is turning into a mini-Booth, they even have a similar kind of voice/accent.

Apparently it's possible to just remove giant sections of concrete stairways when examining the body attached to them. And Cam's signature messy-bun is back! I wish my hair always looked that perfect when I pull it back 'casually'.

Although let's be honest, Cam look flawless approximately 100% of the time.
Even when examining icky gross crime scenes.

Without fail, the sight of Booth eating pie at the diner makes me want pie. Ooh! Band-aid found at the scene has DNA on it that belongs to none other than... Hodgins. Damnit Hodgepodge, stop leaving your DNA on things!! And now Aubrey and Booth have to interview him (not that that's a conflict of interest or anything). He and Aubrey like each other (aww) so Aubrey asks him to please not be the killer. Right, because that's how that works.

Turns out the guy running the convention was having an affair with the dead lady - and before that, he was having an affair with the author lady. Crap, I've lost track of who they interviewed second. They interviewed the dishwasher guy, then Hodgins, then this guy. But I can't remember if there was someone before or after the dishwasher. And now Hodgins, despite being a suspect, is still allowed to work on the case. That's so silly. I guess it's because they don't have any other lab people to do all the science for him.

Damnit, Wendell hasn't returned from his appointment for medication... THIS IS NOT OK! Bones writers, if you kill him too, I SHALL NEVER FORGIVE YOU!!

This is not a good look for him! No more of this!
(Even though it's obviously a bald cap, cos ain't nobody touching MGT's hair!!)

Hodgins and Cam figure out that there was a chemical time-release that set the fire, and therefore caused all the suspects (including him) to lose their alibis. But at least they got to do a little experiment. One with fire this time!

Oh, and apparently all the ten minutes of worrying over Wendell is dismissed with "He called Booth, he's fine." That was semi-pointless. Except now he's at the bar and all sad and pensive because one of the other people in the trial suddenly got worse and died. So now he's worried that his cancer's suddenly going to come back. Which Booth takes as a reason to tell a war story - haven't heard one of those in a while. And he calls Wendell his 'brother' and I teared up a little. I want to hug him. He needs a hug. And so do I.

Turns out the killer was one of those forensic-tool-salespeople. Booth cannot say 'thermocouple' and Bones has to be reminded not to compliment the murderer. Turns out the dead lady was also sleeping with him - and stealing his product design. Just like she did to Hodgins (the plagiarism part, not the sleeping-with part). She wasn't a very nice person.

OK I like the Schrodinger joke - and Booth's moon one - but it didn't really warrant the hysterical round of laughter it got from her audience. It was more of an 'lol' not a 'LMAO'. And come on, all those scientists, and no one thinks the moon one is funny?! Lame.

Schrodinger's cat: inspiring paradoxes since 1935.

OK that's all for this week - but stay tuned, I'll be posting the Big Bang Theory blog sometime soon. Also, Elementary is returning tonight (yay!) and I'm not blogging about it, but I will probably be live-tweeting, so feel free to come find me here: https://twitter.com/emmycsi :)

I'll leave you with just one more adorable Wendell (since we probably won't see him for a while now). I've got a whole arsenal of these.

Look how dapper he is. I bet he'd be fun at parties.

NCIS: LA - Black Budget

It's a really odd and unfortunate coincidence that there are two of my shows which revolve around mass shootings this week, following the shooting in Ottawa last Wednesday - last night, preceding the new episode of CSI, CTV actually aired a modified warning that 'in light of recent events, this episode may be disturbing to some viewers'. I know it's pretty irrational (especially considering I'm from Canada), but mass shootings are one of my biggest fears. What a depressing world we live in.

Callen and Sam have to go to Mexico to find an accountant guy who managed to escape the shooting at his office, and then fled the country for some reason. And I love it when Hetty calls Eric and Nell 'you two', it's almost like she's their mother.

Such cuties. They're definitely the 'children' in this weird NCIS family.

Literally right after they pull up in Mexico, a bunch of gang guys come out of nowhere and steal their guns and keys and phones. Now that's just bad luck. HAHAHA it's ok, he's actually a DEA agent and he doesn't want the boys to compromise his operation, but at least he gives them some crappy 'untraceable' revolvers to use, and a lemon of a car.

Well, ok. It wasn't as bad as this one. Theirs had windows.

Kensi is capable of translating Deeks' words when he has food in his mouth.That takes some skill. I'm not sure I could do that.

Sam is capable of coming across as insanely creepy when he's 'in character'. Callen is a little surprised by this. And I don't think Sam pulling his gun at the obvious bad guys who just walked into a bar is really the BEST idea he's ever had... Not to draw attention to yourselves, or anything. Somehow they manage to miss him with their semiautomatics, but he has no luck with his revolver either (that's a new one).

One of the girls from the bar/brothel (barthel? Using that word now) was harbouring the escapee (Milton, what a typical accountant name) at her sister's house. And they tell Callen and Sam that he's engaged to the sister, and Callen gets extremely sarcastic, which is one of my favourite things ever - he even sounds a little like Shawn from Psych.

Girl: "He's my fiance. We're going to be married."

Callen: "Yeah, that's usually what 'fiance' means." Sarcastic Callen is the best Callen.

The girl he rescued from the barthel starts hitting on him once she finds out he's never been married, and Sam starts laughing. The accountant guy is still really suspicious of Sam and Callen.


Deeks tickles Kensi's 'conspiracy bone'... Which is an odd way of phrasing things.

The bad guys from the barthel naturally show up at the house - in big black SUVs, the obvious car of choice for bad guys. They've cut the phone lines and toss in a walkie for communication. Sam thinks they're the delta unit that Milton had figured out stole a lot of money from the government. Which is why they wanna kill him. And they have the typical military pissing contest of 'our guns are bigger than yours mwahaha'.

Conveniently, Hetty and the others at Ops manage to figure out the bit about the stolen money at about the same time as Granger figures out that the team in question is in Mexico. He pulls out some bureaucratic language on an uncooperative army sergeant, and then demands for a helicopter to Mexico.

Deeks knows a lot of words beginning with 'L' and he manages to act like a game show host/infomercial guy while talking about prison. But he and Kensi determine that Milton was actually working WITH the bad guys.

Deeks would make an even better salesman than this dude.

The mother of the two Mexican girls thinks Sam is sexy and asks 'who am I, Zorro?' when she's given a machete to defend herself. YES. BE ZORRO. ZORRO IS AWESOME.

When I was a kid, my Dad was Zorro for Halloween. His sword was a stick covered in tinfoil. True story.

Callen has a touching moment with the one girl, whilst the house is surrounded with bad guys. Now is totally the time for that sentimental crap. And then Callen and Sam reach the same conclusion as Densi - a moment too late cos Milton has a gun aimed at them.

Then the girls' grandmother pops out of nowhere and hits him over the head with a frying pan, because old ladies are badass.

I couldn't resist.

But even though the bad guys wait patiently outside while they tie Milton up and the girls kick him a few times for double-crossing them, the bad guys still want them to send him out. For some reason. And Sam tries to talk on the walkie-talkie in Spanish, as though the Delta guys wouldn't be able to understand him - c'mon Sam!! Use your head!!

OK I'm confused now. If Milton was working with the bad guys, why did he take off? Did he double-cross them? And if he didn't, and he just fled the country with his money before he was implicated as a thief, why did the bad guys come after him?? [Edit: it's later revealed that he was the one who transferred the stolen money, so they wouldn't be able to access it without him] Apparently Delta operatives are even scarier than Navy SEALS. Although I gotta say, the name 'SEAL' (even though I know it's an acronym) has never been the most intimidating word...

I MEAN LOOK HOW CUUUUTE!!!

Sam manages the shoot the ONE guy they sent to go through the door, and the girls throw homemade Molotov cocktails at a few more. And then the mother proves she is, in fact, Zorro (or at least has seen Friday the 13th) and takes another one of them out. Sam and Callen decide to have some playful banter in the middle of a firefight about who's the better shot, because that's what they do best. And I thought they'd be faster at reloading their weapons.

'Sexyman' (the mother's words, not mine) takes the machete so he uses Milton as a hostage and then just when things get tense - BAM! Granger shows up at just the right time, and the last guys are dead. Because the REAL Delta team showed up and killed them. One of them looks like Ryan Reynolds. I approve. You know, I should have known they were impostors when they had such bad aim at the barthel. And none of them had beards.

The Mexican girls (apparently not caring that their house had been DESTROYED) keep flirting with Callen and say that Sam informed them he was a very lonely man. I concur. But Granger cuts in and says Callen needs to get back to the States right away. Because he just wouldn't be Granger if he didn't suck the fun out of everything.

Granger's here to do two things: Kick some ass, and ruin your fun. And he's all out of asses to kick.

Also, that should be his catchphrase. Someone put that line, with his face, on a T-shirt.

SNL - Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey is one of my favourite funny people. He's Canadian, which is awesome of course, and he cracks me up so much, what with the voices and the faces and the improvisation. Full disclosure -  because he's on the show promoting the new Dumb and Dumber sequel, I decided to watch the original one today (I'd never seen it before).

...What the hell is he wearing??? A red jumpsuit and devil horns... Singing. Bobby's face is creepy. Apparently he's 'Helvis' hahaha I'm so confused.

That's quite the getup, dude.

 The first fauxmercial took me a few seconds to realize it wasn't an actual commercial - Jim does a surprisingly incredible impression of Matthew McConaughey. They parodied that car commercial he does. Although I don't get why he does. And neither does Matthew/Jim, apparently.

 

Also I wanna wish congrats to Leslie Jones, who's officially a new cast member!! Yaay!! This is clearly along the lines of that family reunion sketch that Christopher Walken did back in the day. HE DID 'ALLLLRIGHTY THEN!!!' And Keenan does an AMAZING impression of him - Kyle's isn't bad, either! Vanessa and Beck have the Ace Ventura hair and it's pretty awesome. And THEN JEFF DANIELS SHOWS UP!! And asks him if he 'wants to hear the most annoying sound in the world' which made me laugh so hard because a) I'd just seen the movie today and b) apparently Jim improvised that line in the movie, and knowing that, Jeff's reaction face was hilarious.

It's the real Harry, playing a guy named Lloyd, talking to the real Lloyd. I'm so confused.

Lincoln commercial Part 2 - his kids in the backseat tell him he's only driving 5 miles an hour, and he asks whose kids they are.
I definitely thought the next sketch was going to be one of those 'Merryville Brothers' sketches - the music was the exact same! But I guess they didn't have Bill anymore, so it wouldn't be right. Anyway, it was still pretty funny - all these creepy figures in a cemetery where Sasheer and Pete are hanging out, and two of them are just random dead guys named 'Paul and Phil' (Jim and Taran) and they just keep singing their own names instead of the creepy song, so all the other things get mad at them. Especially Keenan - as a tree.

Paul and Phil! He wants none of your crap, guys.

 Once again, they fooled me with the commercial thinking it was a real one - until Keenan as the Allstate Insurance guy started talking. And then Jim/Matthew drove out of his driveway and ran him over. Whoops. *Lincoln* 

Iggy Azalea...MUTE MUTE MUTE MUTE. Can't stand her. Incredible that they've had 4 episodes and already managed to put on the two musicians that I hate the most right now. If they have Miley or Beiber by Christmas, I'm done.

UPDATE TIME!!! This just in: Ebola is silly, everyone freaks out over it. And Colin is a homebody just like me (teehee). Vanessa is brought on as their new 'romantic comedy expert' and she manages to enact a stereotypical meet-cute rom-com in like 2 minutes with Michael (70 seconds, according to him).
[Side note - is romantic comedy expert a real job? Because I would totally do that. I would be amazing at that job.] Colin's laughing at his own jokes this week and I'm loving it.

DRUNK UNCLE!!! YAAAAY!!!! But I'm so sad he isn't interacting with Colin - NOBODY EVER INTERACTS WITH COLIN!! Nevermind, he's now interacting with Colin, and apparently he likes him better. "More like 'whoreoween'" for once I agree with him a little bit... And he would like to apologize for not being 'a graveyard smash' - with a spot-on voice. And Colin prevents him from being racist. Well done, Colin.

Yeah, little bit.

The next sketch is a 'Secret Billionaire' show where Cecily has to figure out which of 4 guys is actually rich. And Jim is an old guy and it's hilarious. But a little creepy. He's a secret member of the Illuminati (oops).

DAMMIT these fauxmercials are TOO CONVINCING, I keep stopping paying attention. Taran is leading a team of people to check out a haunted house. And Leslie is just like 'nope, there's no such thing as ghosts' and then she's the first one to take off. Aaaand lock herself in the car. To be honest, that'd totally be me in that situation. All the scoffing when it's safe, then as soon as there's a noise, I bust out my not-at-all intimidating karate moves and scream.

I missed the beginning of the next sketch (I was making popcorn, sorry...) but it's a kinda Walking Dead thing where Jim's son Pete is a zombie but he keeps trying to convince the other people that he's not actually - and keeps hitting him with things - I think Pete is gonna start laughing. And then he bites Jim (who else saw that coming?) and he kinda sounds like Scooby Doo when he says 'Brains?'

Pete's dreams are coming true right now. (That bat was totally foam)

The next bit is a costume party where Kate is dressed as the girl from the Sia 'Chandelier' video - and so is Jim - and then they just dance around the whole studio!! Including with Iggy haha and Lorne! Lorne who starts laughing and looks like he doesn't know what to do. Jim is so tall and gangly and I definitely didn't need to see him in a leotard....

Ooh guess what! Commercial for Dumb and Dumber To!! I can't wait, it looks so funny... And how did Jim get the rights to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey when introducing Iggy for the second time?? (MUTE MUTE MUTE). I mean I hate the Leafs (Go Habs Go!) but I like that a red-blooded Canadian represented our national sport - and our national laughingstock at said sport - on an American show.

Cecily and Vanessa playing what they do best - gum-chomping ditzes advertising things. And Jim's the Halloween Store owner who was possessed by a demon. That was relatively short and pointless. But the bumper card right after was him leading a llama through a lobby. And that was pretty awesome. (I'll post it here once they throw them up on their FB page in the next few days.)

LLAMA!!! Reminds me of the MB20 video for 'Real World' where Rob is leading a camel through a bowling alley.

All in all, this was a hilarious episode. I love Jim, and the sketches were better than normal! Happy Halloween everyone, I'll see you next week for Chris Rock and Prince! :)

Happy Halloween!! I can't tell which is the real Jim...

NCIS: LA - The 3rd Choir

NCIS is so nice to us fans, having the episode title immediately after the opening credits. Makes my job easier. [Unrelated, this is my 200th post on this blog! Yaaay!! I'm not sure if that's an accomplishment, or just a sign that I have too much time on my hands. I'm going with the former.]

And Nate's baaack!! It's always a good day when Peter Cambor guest stars.
But here's the thing - obviously he's there to help Nell deal with shooting someone. But at the end of last episode, Callen says 'she'll be fine'. Guess not.

Also, does anyone else miss Hetty's giant Harry-Potter-esque round glasses?

"I never look back, darling, it distracts me from the now." 

Callen is taking money out of a vault in a cemetery. This is weird. Also, Eric's mom called him 'Beale'. And Eric likes eating cereal! Me too! ... Now I want Mini Wheats.

Deeks didn't get a bimbo pregnant - and Kensi guesses his stripper stage name is 'Dirty Deeks'. And the two of them doth protest too much when Granger asks to talk to them. Be cool, guys, be cool!!! There's no sign of the bad guy Mattias - or Nell. This isn't good.

Apparently it was Callen's own money in the cemetery vault. He does what he wants, regardless of Granger's opinions. They go on Hetty's version of 'code red' and lock down the Ops room to have secretive discussions about how they can't trust anyone outside of the team.

The pig-headed guy running the hearing tells Hetty that her people are 'not her family' so she just walks out. What a boss. And then they try to lock down the building - so she activates the fire alarm and jumps out a window. It's possible, she says, that she's getting too old for this. Never! I say.

Hetty might be a fan of Lethal Weapon.

Eric is such a sweetie and calls Nell asking if she's ok... Awwww. And then there's a knock at her door (repeatedly, impatiently) and IT'S NATE!!! Shit, she really must be scared, she answered the door holding a gun!! I love the friendship they have - although I find it weird, since they weren't really on the show together for very long (she showed up at the beginning of Season 2, he left at the beginning of season 3, and has reappeared about 7 times since then). I also think it's interesting that they use the sweet little innocent girl to represent the fact that the 'bad guys' they kill are actually people.

Deeks hates cockroaches. This is a hilarious turn of events. Hetty stowed away on an airplane full of soldiers. She also has a message for the congressman - she thinks he's an ass. What a lady.

Oh yes, ONE guy with a ringing phone in the middle of a crowded boardwalk is clearly incriminating - although they were right, and then get shot at by a sniper. Why has nothing blown up yet this season?

Friendly reminder: G Callen does what he wants. Granger told Sam to 'keep him under control' and I have to laugh, because honestly, do you think Callen cares? I really hope Granger turns out to be the bad guy - he's so annoying.

Scary clipboard lady is back, and is hitting on Sam a little bit - then he tells her he's married, and she's surprised. Awkward. He's amused. And so is Callen. They're hilarious. I love their dynamic.

Granger doesn't believe in the idea of the soul, but Nate does. And Granger's rushing Nell's return to the field, which is incredibly stupid.

Nate is smart. We listen to Nate here, Granger!!!!

Kensi is as excited to see him as I am - also he's well aware of the Densi dynamic. Hetty is also concerned about Nell and the fact that she's stayed home from work, which is kind of sweet.

Callen is stupid and rushes into a gang member's house because they supposedly were holding the bad guy as a captive as a favour to Callen and Sam - and all the gang guys are dead and there's a grenade and FINALLY there's an explosion!! *Cue dramatic diving out the window from several different angles*

Somehow the bad guy tracked their car, so he found the boatshed, and knows where Ops is too - Eric freaked out when they told him, and he didn't have time to divert Hetty before she showed up there, and Mattias did too. But he doesn't even know Eric's right there?! She's scarily calm and he threatens to inject her with something - until clipboard lady shows up at a most inopportune time, and gives Hetty a chance to shoot him, but he injures clipboard lady in the process (and then shoots her again as she's lying injured, because he's an asshole like that). Nell shows up at a convenient time and gets Hetty out of harm's way, then the rest of the team shows up out of nowhere and surround him.

She offers up her own version of 'I never look back, darling' - "That's your problem, Mattias. Too much nostalgia". She shoots him in the knee and blames it on a 'touchy trigger' (yeah no one is buying that Hetty, but nice try). Then Nate is randomly there, and Nell nods at him which somehow means she's now fine. *Magic* Hetty gets the final word, as always, that it's 'Nice to be home' and I'm sure I speak for all of us when I say we're glad to have her back!!

But who was the supposed 'leak' in their security?? And while we're at it, asking questions about this show that will likely never be answered -

WHAT THE HELL IS IN THAT BOX?!!

The Big Bang Theory - 'The Expedition Approximation'

Friendly reminder - beginning next week, the Big Bang Theory is airing at 8:00 on Thursdays. Which means, since it's on at the same time as Bones, that I will be forced to only live-blog one (probably Bones) and wait until the other is posted online to watch and blog about it (Probably BBT). This will wreak havoc with my page views, I'm sure... It'll also make my Monday nights a lot less exciting.. but at least I still have NCIS: LA and that new show I'm really loving, Scorpion!!

Sheldon thinks that the most exciting thing to ever happen to dark matter is him beginning to research in the field. He also hates being able to tell when people are making fun of him (you and me both, buddy!)

Penny sold the car that Leonard gave her, so she gave him back the money he spent. And took a picture of them with the car and put it in a pink frame with puffy paint that says 'Best fiance ever!' He's insisting on her keeping the money, but she is earning plenty of money at her new job, so she doesn't want his money - and I think they're both being stupid, IT'S FREE MONEY!! If they don't want it, I'll take it!

I need one of these shirts. Except I couldn't afford it...

Leonard is very insecure about his insecurities. Raj and Sheldon are going to hang out in a steam tunnel (with Amy's help) to prepare for working in a mine. As a Canadian, the temperatures they're using (in Fahrenheit) make no sense.

Leonard and Penny turn to Howard and Bernadette for advice on their money thing, and they instead start fighting too. Way to go guys.

Sheldon thinks Miley Cyrus is a man. Raj educates him about Hannah Montana. The comparison to Superman makes me laugh. 

He combed back the curlicue! Clearly, he's a different person!

Apparently Howard gets an allowance, and that's just awkward (although now he's behaving like a child, so maybe it's fitting).

Sheldon is also having second thoughts about the whole dark-matter thing, and Raj inspires him with a speech about the space probe Voyager, then Sheldon freaks out because there are rats and he abandons Raj in the tunnel. Amy (and I) are impressed that Sheldon lasted a whole eleven minutes.

Apparently the solution to the whole money thing is to lay all the cash out on Penny's bed and have sex on it...  Ew

I totally would have gotten it in coins and then done this.

Raj totally blows up on Sheldon and I'm surprised, because that must have taken guts!

Alrighty, that's it for this week (seemed very short for some reason) I'll see all you BBT fans next Thursday, October 30th!

 

Bones - The Geek in the Guck

Hello Bones fans, I come bearing good news!! WENDELL IS BACK NEXT WEEK!!!! I am so incredibly excited about this, you have no idea. My favourite baby squintern! I've missed him!!

Look how bashful he is - 'Aww, you missed me?' Yes. Yes we did.

Until then, we've got the red-headed lady Miss Warren that Sweets slept with that one time - who I also realized, is played by the same actress (Laura Spencer) as Raj's current girlfriend Emily on The Big Bang Theory. She must love playing scientists. That also makes 2 squints who've been on both shows (our favourite Brit Ryan Cartwright/Vincent Nigel-Murray was the other).
Also, I read some rather-vague articles that imply that James Aubrey is going to become a series regular, to which I say YAAY!! He's too adorable to just vanish into the abyss.

Christine is scarily like Brennan, and Bones gets yet another breakfast dead-body call. Are all the bodies found at the same time of day? Or do they just wait patiently for her to get dressed and eat with her family before calling her in?

Aubrey is smart, but not squint-smart (and he's not afraid to admit it!) He also dropped this little gem: "To me, if you're interested in something, you get smart at it". Makes sense.

Angela just said that she was going to have a hard time IDing the body with 'no lips, eyes, ears or nose' but uhhh she's done exactly that with just a skull.

All the parents are now talking about sending their kids to kindergarten... I don't get all these 'choices'. In Canada you either go to public or religious school. There isn't really much choice (and therefore less headache).

Someone else with a virtual-presence device! Hetty from NCIS: LA used one too, once, but since I can't find any pictures of that...

Sheldon's virtual-presence device has a shirt. Does YOUR virtual-presence device have a shirt??!!

Aubrey is geeking out about all the cool stuff and video-game production at the dead guy's company. And he thinks Booth is into gardening. He's so precious.

EXPERIMENT TIME!!! They don't do enough of these anymore... And naturally, Cam is pissed. Until they let her pull the lever.

Aubrey and Angela finally get a scene together! She realizes that he's totally a computer nerd, and then tells him that size does matter.. He has no response to this. (They were talking about laptops, what'd you think they were talking about?)

Booth and Aubrey go back to where they're filming the motion-capture for the video games, and one of the guys threatens Booth, so he kicks his butt. Aubrey refers to Miss Warren as 'that cute squint' and I facepalmed. DO NOT GO FOR HER AUBREY I BEG OF YOU, HAVE BETTER TASTE IN WOMEN THAN SWEETS!!! For some reason, he always went for the ones that annoyed me... Or maybe they annoyed me because he went for them?

The victim was apparently secretly seeing his roommate's girlfriend. Who has since moved towns and changed her name.

Bones just told Christine to 'lower her center of gravity' on the swing hahaha this reminds me of 'phalanges!! Dancing phalanges!'

Best. moment. ever. Definitely using this when I have children.

Turns out the girl didn't even know the roommate... And I'm really confused. So is Aubrey, by the looks of it. Booth figures it out first - the dead guy created a girl online, using the picture of the real girl, and catfished the roommate. They'd never actually met. But now they have and they're hitting it off in the interview room! Awww...

Apparently he was killed on the motion-capture stage... So there was motion-capture footage of the murder weapon (but not the people because they weren't wearing the suits) and it was... The second lady they interviewed. Damn the predictability of this show lol... She was the programmer who worked for him, and had dated the roommate before, but then he started dating the online girl and dumped her and she figured out the catfish plot and got mad.

Miss Warren is totally crushing on Hodgins, of all people, and then she starts crying because of the squintern sub-plot of the educational commune/cooperative where she grew up is closing. And Angela decides to 'adopt' her which is so sweet, I love these people.

NCIS:LA - Praesidium

LOOK WHAT FINALLY CAME FROM AMAZON!!!!! I'M SO HAPPY!!! (They were all 4 seasons for 40 bucks, I couldn't resist.)

I'm not obsessed. You're obsessed.

Anywho...

Some guy in a big house (I'm assuming Hetty's) stops an armed intruder, then gets shot himself.

Deeks and Kensi are sleeping in the same room - but both on couches so I have no idea where they are. Damnit Callen cut his hair again - I love the long fluff!

Hetty has a dozen different houses (and a boat!) and the guy who got shot was her security guard (at her house). Nell is worried, but says that Hetty always told her to 'leave the worrying to your enemies'. Good advice. She has the answers to everything

Deeks has suggested he and Kensi move in together and she disagrees. Then she either calls him a dog or a mutt (Monty is the other one). And he fires back by calling her a 'dirty little hoarder'. Sam and Callen find a pair of bad guys at Hetty's beach house, and shooting ensues.

White picket fence... Should be safe, right? NOPE.

The lady who wants to interrogate everyone is back, and is getting fed up with Nell and Eric. I'm also starting to think Granger has a sense of humour. This is a nice change.

OHH SHIT Hetty just collapsed! It's the thing that was in the promos, but she didn't say it as dramatically as she did in the commercials - disappointing! I'm sure she did this as a diversion.. right?!! Then Nell rushes into the boathouse and tells Deeks and Kensi about it, all dramatically, then it shows their shocked reactions and flips to commercial. But I don't know why they did that so dramatically, we already saw it...

Callen's onto it just like I am - he knows she doesn't actually faint. But he wants to go to DC to help her, and I think they need to stay in LA, because clearly the bad guys are there! And they need to take them out!

NOOO the evil government lady took Eric's tablet and headset!! What will he do with his hands now?!! Apparently he'll recount, in great detail, his epic loss at a video game. Clearly a stalling tactic, but I'm so proud of him!! He's so dramatic - AND HE TOOK HIS GLASSES OFF!! Then he hugged the guy interviewing him - this is priceless.

Hetty totally was faking it when she passed out - and Sam and Callen get caught by the official-lady when they were chasing down a suspect. She gets in Sam's car as he chases down the bad guys and freaks out about his driving (also the guy shooting at them). Then Sam tells Eric to do something but HE CAN'T HEAR YOU!!

Goddamnit lady, you can't just chase them down and stick them all in one room when there's shit to do!! But Sam can make her goons step out of the way after threatening them bodily harm. Cos everyone's scared of Sam.

HETTY DON'T GET INTO VANS WITH STRANGE MEN!!! Callen is a genius for going through the hole in the floor in the interview room in the boatshed - although that begs the question, how do criminals never find and use that?!

Dripping wet Callen is dripping wet.

Bonus shirtless Callen! But then he says something that Deeks would say and he and Sam get concerned that he has brain damage.. Deeks and Eric clearly went to the same school of stalling. Boo-hoo, the money that was used to rescue Kensi could have been spent on bombs and guns and more things to kill people.

Nell gets dressed up as Hetty and Sam and Callen sneak her into a house. A SMART assassin would know that's a decoy, cos she's a good three inches taller than Hetty!

This is clearly not the same person.

Scary lady doesn't need to talk to Deeks - which he takes as an insult. And Kensi does not want to talk about it, and that bothers him too. Touche but she's really upset, and refers to the two of them as 'partners' and he hugs her and awwww I can tell just from looking at him that he gives good hugs and she's crying and he tells her she's tougher than he is and that right there makes me so happy and even if Densi as a couple don't do anything for the rest of the season, that moment there was enough to give me all the warm fuzzies.


The guys who coerced Hetty into their car take her to some kind of big room with a dinosaur skeleton in it, and then who should show up but the ever-present Vance. He tells her that there's a leak in the operation, but of course we won't learn who it is tonight, because there are ten minutes left in the episode and that's not how NCIS rolls.

Spooky.

Nell is stupid and doesn't put her phone on vibrate, Hetty calls her and says 'bugger' when she learns about the situation - that's how you know it's serious! Then they destroy the house and Callen figures out that they've been ambushed and the guys aren't there to kidnap Hetty, they're there to kill Callen and Sam! Nell killed someone and is all freaked out and Callen finds her and she shows him a secret passageway - because of course Hetty would have one of those!! "Who do you think put the trapdoor in the boatshed?" And Sam's too big for the passageway. But then Kensi and Deeks show up too and the bad guys are outgunned. They wisely put down their guns once Kensi tells them she's 'had a bad day already'. Attagirl.

You do not mess with a pissed-off Kensi. Especially when she's got a gun aimed at you.

Nell has never killed someone before, and Granger thinks she's going to have problems because of it - Callen assures him this will not be the case. I must admit I'm a little concerned for her mental health, but she's pretty tough herself. Eric, notsomuch. Him, I'd be concerned about (side note: I hope the two of them have a really sweet moment soon where they talk about it... my Densi-shipping-self is really happy with this episode, but Nellric has been leaving a lot to be desired lately!!) 

Callen gets the last words of the episode (a rare occasion, usually that honour goes to Hetty) when he and Sam realize that Mattias (the bad guy from Season 2) is back in the US and they need to hunt him down... And kill him.

*Cue dramatic music*

Big Bang Theory - The Focus Attenuation

Raj thinks Leonard 'tricked' Penny into getting engaged - and apparently he's almost done a pullup!

My friend gave me this awesome shirt for my birthday so I'm wearing it in honour of tonight's episode:

I might piss off some Trekkies... But I don't really care :P

Sheldon's hatred of travel destinations appear to all stem from various movies. 'I don't want to go to a lake house, have you seen The Lake House??'

Sure, nothing bad happens to THEM... The bad thing happens to me for having to watch this for 1.5 hours.

The girls are going to Vegas! This ought to be good... 

Surprise, surprise, Howard's only ideas for inventions are things you can have sex with. And now they're going to try to create the hover-board from Back to the Future 2.

The girls' trip is disrupted by Penny having to do work stuff.

Sheldon just referred to Leonard as his 'boy' lol I'm not sure what to make of that... And they're all quibbling about the proper tense to refer to things that changed the past after doing something in the future.

Drunk Amy keeps going on and on about how hot Bernadette is, and apparently she also has a divot in her spine! Their hotel room is SO NICE, man this happens every time people from a sitcom go to a hotel. 

GHOSTBUSTERS!!!! Bill Murray got wrong the meaning of 'negative reinforcement' in the opening scene (which I surprisingly didn't notice, even though I learned about that in my Psych class).

'You have a gift!!'

This episode seemed really short... Raise your hands if you're still astonished by the fact that Big Bang Theory is on its EIGHTH season. I mean holy crap.

SNL - Bill Hader

Disclaimer: Former cast members hosting SNL is my favourite SNL-related thing. Ever. So expect a lot of fangirling this post. Sorry in advance. ON WITH THE SHOW!!! Tonight is also the exact 39-year anniversary of the premiere of SNL. Couldn't think of a better way to celebrate!!!

Bobby makes a hilarious Kim-Jong Un, talking about how athletic he is while being extremely short and telling one of his soldiers to punch him. Side note: I never noticed this, but Beck Bennett looks a lot like a young Darryl Hammond. I'm actually very curious as to where Kim-Jong Un actually has been the last few weeks. North Korea is weird.

BILL!!!!!!! He looks so skinny!! Maybe that's just the suit. And he's nervous, awww... Apparently Megan Mullalley is the one who discovered him and told Lorne to hire him - THANK YOU MEGAN!!!! We owe her so many laughs!!! KRISTEN!!!!!!!!!! She wants Bill to sing - and now I kinda do, too. "Don't make me sing!" This is not a Bill monologue! I was looking forward to a Bill monologue and it's all just Kristen singing... Oh well. I'm glad to have them both back. And then he sings and sounds like Harvey Fierstein... Who is now there too! Ohh how I love Bill's facial expressions... I wasn't at all surprised that Kristen showed up, I mean 1) they have that new movie coming out together and 2) she's everybody's favourite and 3) They are so amazing together and obviously besties.

That stache is legendary.

Herb Welch is back!!! Yaaay!! And he's interviewing Pete who's playing a highschooler who's taking a virginity pledge - and Herb thinks Taran is a mannequin. Who did they used to get to do the newsanchor for this sketch? Sudeikis? What the hell has he been up to lately? And how about Will Forte? I love that guy! Where has he been??

This next sketch is too funny - it's a mock-trailer that's a combination of all the young-adult post-apocalyptic franshises (Divergent, the Hunger Games, the Maze Runner, The Giver etc.) Bill is someone like Effie Trinket from the Hunger Games and talking in a high voice that reminds me of the Knights Who Say 'Ni' from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Pete is the main character, the 'chosen one' in this sketch - I'm so glad they're using him so much this week, he almost disappeared the last episode.

Funniest. Movie. Ever.

AND JIM CARREY IS HOSTING ON THE 25TH WHAAAAT!!!! Probably promoting the new Dumb & Dumber movie - which reminds me, I still need to watch the first one...

Kate MacKinnon does an excellent impression of Jane Lynch (although she's not nearly tall enough). Beck sound exactly like, but looks nothing like, Nick Offerman (I mean, they could have at LEAST given him blue contacts! Come on, people!) And more of Kristen!! We've reinforced what Bill said in his monologue - he only does impressions of people over 70. Al Pacino this time - who was apparently the first impression he ever did on the show.

The next fauxmercial is kinda awkward... They're making fun of those commercials where they ask for a really small amount of money to feed some people in a poor country - 'Why 39 cents??' But hey, Leslie Jones is back!

This is kind of sweet, they're showing an old sketch as tribute to Jan Hooks. Do they do this every time an ex-cast member dies? This one is really sad though, because it's her and Phil Hartman, and they're both dead now.

I've never heard of this guy Hozier before - but holy crap, that voice!!

WEEEEKENNNND UUUUPDAAAAATE!!!!! More Pete, this time as 'a hip-hop fan' explaining the new no-guns policy at the BET awards. He's so dry, too... Could give Colin a run for his money. Apparently he's 6 foot 3, 145 pounds and has a problem with wind. And he slouches. He's so cute.

He says he has bad posture because he hates himself... But look at that FACE!!!!

Billy Crystal was just accused of robbing the Yogi Berra museum! Wonder if he's going to take this! I also find it hilarious that Colin laughs at a lot of Michael's jokes, but none of his own.

I mean, he's got enough Yankees memorabilia... Right??

STEFON!!!!!!!!! YESSSS!!!!! (I totally called it, but STILL!!!!) He called Michael and Colin 'Barack and Mitt' hahaha he's cracking up, OF COURSE, I mean can you blame him?? And apparently Seth couldn't come, because he's 'at home, practicing how to sit behind a desk'.

I'd say he does a pretty good job of it.

WHAT THE HELL is that noise he just made?? I have no idea. I can't handle this. The rest of the episode could just be Stefon talking, and I would die happy. I really wish he'd interact with Colin, though - he's sitting beside Michael so they're just going back and forth. Apparently Stefon is pregnant!!! Hahaha COULD YOU IMAGINE how cute their kid would be??!!!

We need to send a huge thank-you to John Mulaney for creating Stefon (and making Bill crack up every time!!)

Now they're doing that sketch that I'd forgotten about, with the puppets where Bill's is a really scary army vet. Now with smoke coming out of the mouth!

(Commercial break) Holy crap I just realized that iPhone commercial with the two guys competing are voiced by JIMMY FALLON AND JUSTIN FREAKING TIMBERLAKE!!!

KYLE!! He hasn't done a weird-skater-guy sketch yet this season now he's hosting an 'inside SoCal' news-type show and I don't understand what's going on, but he's so cute so I don't care. Also, there are a lot of pre-recorded sketches this week.  Bill is being one of the other young dudes on the show and I don't buy it... Probably because his character is not over 70.

This Hozier guy has really strong eyebrow game.

The last sketch of the night was Aidy and Pete being adorable children who summon the Cat in the Hat (Bill) to come play with them and he knew their mother... *knew* their mother... But she's now married to Thing 2 who goes by 'Jonathing' now. (Side note, I had a cameo as Thing 2 when I helped backstage at my school's production of Seussical the Musical. True story.)

I wasn't lying.

Bill got so emotional at the goodbye, awww... and holy crap, Hozier is really tall.
My one criticism: THEY DIDN'T DO WHAT'S UP WITH THAT!!!! Although I guess too many of the people they used in that one are now gone. Sad Emily is sad.
But oh well, this was a wonderful episode and bless this show and bless all the people on it. And bless you all for reading, and bless Bill Hader for existing. (It's Canadian Thanksgiving this weekend, so I'm very grateful for things!) Goodnight to you all, and I'll see you on the 25th!

Bones - The Purging of the Pundit

I call bullshit on those two girls who found the body. They should be running and screaming, not just standing there staring...

Bones is channeling Sweets somehow, and spouting psychology, which is a pretty interesting departure from the norm. And damnit Booth, now I want pancakes. I have a serious question - do the two of them actually go to work in the morning? Or do they just sit around waiting for a phone call? It always seems that they get the call during breakfast...

Aubrey showed up at the crime scene and started gagging and it was hilarious. He's not impressed by the little weasels (literally) that were eating the evidence.

What the hell is this?? Another new squintern?!! Oh wait. No. This is the Cuban guy, he was on one episode last season but I forgot. Cam says no crying, that will contaminate the remains. I would have thought that was common practice in the lab, but apparently not!

The body is identified as a radio personality - a really aggressive and obnoxious one, apparently. Sounds like Rush Limbaugh. Aubrey also blames himself for Sweets being dead. Apparently his being there is the reason Sweets was killed. I'd just like to throw this out there:

Aubrey is Egon, Booth is Venkman. But it's okay, I forgive you buddy.

"So clean he's practically Canadian" is apparently a stage of criminal-record-having.

They're two for two in the last episodes with obnoxiously patriotic suspects.. "Haven't you ever heard of the fourth amendment?" "Yeah, it's great for people who have something to hide."

Booth keeps pushing Aubrey away, even though he just wants to help - this seems oddly familiar...

One of their suspects who wrote angry letters to the radio host is making a bomb because he's a crazy Neo-Nazi and I just want to punch him through the TV. But Booth tricks him into making a false confession by saying something that wasn't true, and the guy enthusiastically agreed.

Apparently the victim was really into BDSM and apparently Booth likes it when Bones bites him... Hahaha he says he'd maybe get to 'two shades of grey' but he wouldn't make it as far as 50.

Side note: Excellent Halloween costume

Angela and the Dr. Fuentes are discussing ball gags and it's awkward  because she's sorta-flirting with him but then is like 'no wait' and backpedals.

Apparently his dominatrix left him bound up to the chair, but didn't smash in his nose (which is what killed him because he couldn't breathe). Well that's... helpful.

Booth references a Rolling Stones song (which I am now going to have stuck in my head...) and Aubrey grew a backbone during the last commercial break and confronts Booth about how he has trust issues. I'm impressed. Especially since he said that "Sweets trusted me to work with you. So when you're insulting me, you're insulting Sweets." Wow.

They found deer fur on the body, and Bambi is not a murderer, but the bad guy's boss is - he's a deer hunter, and confessed to finding the victim dead, and then trying to dispose of the body. Brennan gets a few zingers in about how he doesn't believe in climate change and how SCIENCE is what got him caught because he was too stupid to properly dispose of evidence. 

Thank you Jesse

Booth is getting pissed off because Bones keeps using psychology and she's giving him a history lesson. And she also tells him to trust Aubrey because she "I know a good man when I see one. I picked you, didn't I?" Touche!

Turns out the co-host of the radio show is the one who killed him, because he was actually on the political 'left' and got fed up with the host's opinions. And Aubrey is good at regurgitating scientific words Bones gives him. Awww and then he shows up at their house and gives them a bottle of wine, and Booth admits that he likes Aubrey (but wouldn't to Aubrey's face, of course).