TV Stuff

For a while, I’ve been touting the humor I find in a cartoon called Chowder. It is damned funny. And for nearly as long, Garvey and a few other others have been trying to tell me that another cartoon, Flapjack, is also hilarious. I was always a little dismissive, basically because every time I watched the show, I’d see a lot about a whale that isn’t very funny. But man was I wrong and I apologize. Flapjack is the deal. It might even be funnier than Chowder, in the right lighting, after a few drinks…

Secondly, Psych, the heir-apparent to Monk on USA Network, had an excellent episode recently where a mentally unstable person believed he was a werewolf. It was filled with several campy horror film references, but there was also a recurring theme on an 80’s classic. Without spoiling the episode:
1. The psychiatrist who had the man as a patient was played by David Naughton
2. When the afflicted character awoke naked in the woods in the classic “not again!” moment every lycanthrope knows well, he fled back to the Psych office for refuge. He showed up covering himself with two bunches of balloons. I get it!
3. The next episode made the reference complete with a gigantic American Werewolf in London poster in Sean Spencer’s apartment.