Across the Ist-a-Verse
What’s new and/or interesting in TV this week.
Ocean of Fear: Worst Shark Attack Ever (Tue, 8PM-9PM, Discovery)
It’s Shark Week on Discovery Channel, meaning that you can expect a lot of shows based upon people getting killed or nearly killed by Great White sharks. If this is your sort of thing, and you can only catch one show, this would have to be it. Remember in Jaws where the old sea captain tells the cop and the dude from Mr. Holland’s Opus about how he and his navy buddies dropped off the bomb that ended up obliterating Hiroshima and then their boat crashed and a ton of sharks showed up and ate all the Navy dudes? Well, this show is about that story!
Law & Order (Tue, 9PM-10PM, TNT)
In a riff on the Mel Gibson debacle, Chevy Chase plays an unemployed TV actor who goes on a racist diatribe when pulled over during a DUI. Get it while it’s hot, people! This show is, like, NEVER on TV!
Top 5 Reasons You Can’t Blame… (Wed, 9PM-9:30PM, ESPN Classic)
This show takes a look at huge moments in sports (i.e., Bill Buckner’s error during the 1986 Mets-Red Sox World Series or Mike Tyson’s 1990 loss to Buster Douglas) and gives alternative reasons for why you can’t blame the easy target. The topic of this episode? The top reasons why you can’t blame Mitch Williams for blowing the 1993 Phillies-Blue Jays World Series. Watch, listen and decide if you would like to egg Mitch Williams’ house again anyway.
Eagles ’08: The Road to Tampa (Thurs, 11PM-11:30PM, Fox 29)
Strictly for the masochists. Bottom line: The running back is pissed, the quarterback is fragile, the wide receivers still suck, and the coach is the same dude who stubbornly directed the team to an 8-8 season last year by throwing ten million times in driving snowstorms. This team ain’t going to Tampa unless they buy a ticket to Busch Gardens.
Classic Bull Riding – RRCA Xtreme Bulls from San Antonio (Fri, 11PM-12AM, ESPN Classic)
I don’t really have an explanation for this. I just like to watch this stuff…and root for the bull.
The Great Dictator (Sat, 9:30PM-12AM, TCM)
Charlie Chaplin’s first talkie features him targeting Hitler as a mad man years before the United States decided to enter the European front. It is most likely the film that ended up getting him banned from the country. Watch the film and give props to a revolutionary filmmaker/social commentator while pissing on J. Edgar Hoover’s legacy in the process. A total win-win.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (Sat, 10:45PM-12:15PM, IFC)
For this one, Phillyist is conducting a little social experiment: Watch it, let us know if you laugh or even crack a smile at any time during the movie, and we will have a cop car sent out to your home to have you locked up for the good of the public.
Image Credit: Flickr user Cubbie_n_Vegas.
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That episode of Law & Order aired back in 2006.
A Law & Order joke gone awry. Dah well. They can't all be gutbusters.
Chevy Chase playing an unemployed actor? Sounds like a stretch.
hey now, do i sense some eagles snark?
you can't snark before the season starts.
Right on, Miss Bee. Instead of dwelling on the woes of one football team, we should celebrate the triumphs of the other!
It's Philly. We snark on all of our teams.
But we snark because we care.
We do? The Eagles are treacherously close to being dead to me.