Tag / TV shows

by Lexine

40 Of My Favorite Things: #17

Inside The NBA on TNT!

This is the one true Best Damn Sports Show Period. (The Emmys seem to agree, too.) It’s been on air since 1989, but I feel like it didn’t become that show until Barkley joined the crew in 2000. Since then, it became more than your standard pregame/halftime/postgame show. What other sports show would allow segments like Chuck changing a diaper, Kenny spelling “you’re” as “yo’re”, Chuck thinking the Congo is in Europe, Shaq choking up after eating spicy chips, Dyngus Day, “Mr. Sensitive”, “po-lice presence”, Chuck vs. Shaq, Chuck vs. Bavetta, Chuck vs. San Antonio women, “Gone Fishing”, and the always-hilarious annual editions of “Who He Play For?” Other sports shows have tried being like Inside *eyes ESPN’s NBA coverage* but can’t come close.

I’m saddened to hear that TNT will no longer carry NBA games after the 2024-25 NBA season, meaning no more Inside after this season. Not sure if the Inside crew will start something new with NBC or elsewhere, but that deal is proof that all good things eventually come to an end for the sake of money. For a long-time fan of the show, to quote Chuck, it’s turrible. 

by Lexine

40 Of My Favorite Things: #20

The next few entries will be TV-themed, and I’ll start off with my favoritest (I know it’s not a word) show of them all: Married With Children!

It was the first sitcom I watched, although I didn’t watch it for the laughs but for Bud Bundy. David Faustino was my first ever Hollywood crush. As I got older, I started getting its snarky, self-deprecating humor, but little did I know that its brand of funny would not be for the delicate types. I first learned curse words thanks to that show. (Just “ass” and “bitch”, if you were wondering. It was on network TV, after all.) I learned how to clap back thanks to that show. And I also learned to never ever be a shoe salesman in my life. 😆 In a way, MWC “ruined” me for other sitcoms; I tried watching Friends but couldn’t find it funny. I watched a bit of Seinfeld and didn’t find it funny. The Office comes close but I wish they kept Steve Carrell for its entire run; it’s like getting rid of Ed O’Neil (Al Bundy) for the last two seasons–it makes no damn sense!

In my house, MWC remains the GOAT of sitcoms.