Big Shots"Car Trouble"
Original Air Date: November 1, 2007
Shawn P - TwoCents Staff Writer
It took me quite some time to figure out how to start this (tardy) review. We end up here:
Dear Diary: Here we are. Episode Six: Car Trouble. I considered using this space to debate to what scale of car trouble the experience of watching this Big Shots episode was most akin. Was it like getting in a fender bender, where maybe your rates rise but you’re not hurt? Or was it like a rear-ender where you’re fine, but your car is toast? I settled on this one: exactly as it happens in this episode, the meta-experience of watching this episode was like sitting in the garage with the motor running, thinking of all the cumulative failures of your life, waiting for the sweet final embrace of death. Not painful like ripping your fingernails out or holding your genitals over an open flame, but completely senseless, tragic, and pathetic all the same.
What can I say except Thursday’s on ABC got it goin’ on!
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Original Air Date: November 1, 2007
Shawn P - TwoCents Staff Writer
It took me quite some time to figure out how to start this (tardy) review. We end up here:
Dear Diary: Here we are. Episode Six: Car Trouble. I considered using this space to debate to what scale of car trouble the experience of watching this Big Shots episode was most akin. Was it like getting in a fender bender, where maybe your rates rise but you’re not hurt? Or was it like a rear-ender where you’re fine, but your car is toast? I settled on this one: exactly as it happens in this episode, the meta-experience of watching this episode was like sitting in the garage with the motor running, thinking of all the cumulative failures of your life, waiting for the sweet final embrace of death. Not painful like ripping your fingernails out or holding your genitals over an open flame, but completely senseless, tragic, and pathetic all the same.
What can I say except Thursday’s on ABC got it goin’ on!
Honestly, I always have mixed emotions after watching this show. Sometimes I think it could be decent if they could just get the tone right drop the Henny Youngman punchlines. Sometimes I think the producers should be euthanized for the good of the human race. Sometimes I think Vartan is likeable and Bobby Donnelly always raises his material. Sometimes I think Chris Titus should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.
Eh, it is what it is, but I always think Cam should get her own show. She was in this episode for maybe thirty of the thirty-eight minutes. Maybe that’s why I’m so grouchy. NOT ENOUGH!!
Anyway, in the grand words of Warner Wolf: let’s go to the videotape!
Previously on Big Shots, Karl got lucky with his wife for a change. This week, Wendy decides to use Marla as a surrogate and every woman in the Mixworthy storyline continues to be played for (and like) a fool. Next week Congress passes a law preventing anyone whose name appears in the credits from breeding.
In the last five episodes, Duncan gradually blew it with his ex but gained ground with Cammy. This week he tries to claw his way back into Liz’s life. By claw I mean buy. Yup, you read that right. He buys her a car. Does that work? Yup. You read that right too, only that one’s not true, but it would have been a whole lot funnier if it was. Instead he gets drunk and ends up accidentally staging suicide attempt. Which totally makes Liz all hot and bothered. SICK-O! Duncan’s a total stalker now, by the way. Sad but true. Give up the ghost, buddy, because she’s marrying Terrance. Speaking of stalking, there’s a few Cam moments this week! THANK GOD!! Hi Cam!!! Cam’s new hire is witty and charming, but doesn’t make a move on her. So he’s obviously a eunuch. Because she’s a mighty fine woman. So she fires him, until she learns new hire guy is her brother (maybe). Next week Duncan gets picketed by the National Organization for Women but cheered by Sean Kemp and Travis Henry, and Cam sends me personal coded messages through my television.
Last week, James beat up a superhero. This week he tells Nia Long to shake her moneymaker then hits on the DA from Law & Order, who was originally on Angel (we call that career path a “Caruso”). James decides he likes the DA (Liz Rohm) only after she totally slams him on her Money Honey show. Because he’s an idiot. Next week I order a psychiatric evaluation on Vartan, Nia Long takes a job at Hooters to regain some dignity, and Elizabeth Rohm probably appears on Two and Half Men, proving that when you hit the floor and think there’s nowhere to go but up, you can always get a shovel and start digging.
I say a rosary for this episode, then two more that the writer’s strike prevents any further episodes from airing. Alas, TV Guide tells me fat chance.