Grid Effect

Helluva evening of television last night, obviously we’ll get to much of it later next week. For now, here’s the least of it in text, kind of.

You know, one almost has to assume that at least either Rob McElhenny (sp?), and/or Glenn Howerton and and/or Charlie Day are fans of Arrested Development, because this isn’t the first time I’ve watched an unknowing character date someone who’s mentally handicapped. Then again, since it turned out Dee’s boyfriend wasn’t actually retarded, I suppose that’s a slight modification.

This photo instills more fear than any horror picture I’ve ever seen.

Dee’s dalliances were only half the episode. The other half featured Frank and Mac trying to start a band while rotating front men between Charlie and Dennis. I can’t think of four people more ill-suited to form a band, forget that they can’t play any instruments, the personality issues might be a little too temperamental to stay together. I did like how each member had their own concept as to what the band should look like. Charlie wanted the soul searching, introspective Bob Dylan image, Mac wanted the death metal, head banging persona, Dennis wanted the David Bowie gender ambiguous style of the 80’s, and Frank wanted to dress in vibrantly colored suits and name the band the “Pecan Sandies”.

Obviously, this didn’t go anywhere. Somehow they filled Paddy’s to the brim and much to Charlie’s worst fear, managed to bomb in front of a large crowd. Twice. I suppose Dee’s “hot local rapper” boyfriend was the reason, in which he proved on stage that he wasn’t mentally challenged.

A few highlights from the episode were Mac and Charlie revealing to Frank that they paid for the hotel room they destroyed with his credit card. Charlie “baring his soul” to Mac and Mac completely ignoring him, coupled with Charlie wanting to be behind a curtain or divider of some sort while on stage. Other than that, it was a fairly bland episode. Nothing entirely unpredictable, really. Just five morons acting insanely.

If you watched the rerun episode following it, however, then you saw the episode “100 Dollar Baby”, which, not to take away from the bulk of the episode, had the funniest two minute sequence in the history of the series when Mac and Charlie meet him at his apartment and greet him by throwing a plastic trash can at his head. Now that, is classic television.

A recap of last night’s The Office and last week’s season premiere of Friday Night Lights later today.