This week in television (March 8-14)

Top 5 moments

5. How I Met Your Mother- I love when we get to see college Ted because college Ted is such a douche. This week's episode featured the line "They were douching it up douche style." Really, two of the best uses of the word douche ever.

4. The Big Bang Theory- The 4 nerds are on a train with Summer Glau! Summer is like a nerd Goddess being a terminator and on a Joss Whedon show. The whole thing is quite hilarious. Summer is a good sport.

3. Friday Night Lights- Matt Saracen lost his starting QB job, but gets a job as a 3rd string receiver. In the first play off game he catches a pass that sets up a touchdown, lays down a block that leads to a touchdown and catches the pass that seals the game. "Clear eyes, full heart, Can't lose," indeed!

2. 24- Unfortunately I knew someone was dying this week, but I guessed wrong. Not only did they kill off a significant character, they did it 11 minutes into the episode! The death paired with Bauer's quiet breakdown over the death backed by the silent clock prove that 24 still has the goods.

1. E.R- I stopped watching this show years ago, but the return of Doug Ross, Carol Hathaway and Peter Benton was cause for celebration. It is awesome of George Clooney to come back to the show that set him on his path to stardom and the episode used him perfectly, but the highlight for me was Eriq La Salle and Noah Wyle having 3 scenes. The Carter-Benton relationship was always a favorite of mine and it was nice to get some closure on it.

The Worst show of the week

The L Word- Showtime did this show no favors by giving it a lame 8 episode final season. Season 5 was so strong and it is sad to see the show go out on such a whimper. Season 5 showed the struggle to make a mainstream lesbian movie and season 6 kind of dropped the ball on the aftershock of that failure. The series finale was way too much about showing us all of these minor characters coming back, but it was messy. I admit that this show was always hit and miss, but it deserved to go out in a much stronger fashion. I never really forgave the show for getting rid of Carmen, but to add insult to injury they put Shane with Jenny for the final season. Not cool The L Word.

Kyle's gratuitous hotness award

Chuck- Sarah and Chuck, in their fake relationship, have to sleep in the same room and for some unknown reason, Sarah has to sleep in pink boy shorts. It is meant to give funny reactions from Chuck, but mostly it is just to make me happy and bring in male viewers for serious hotness.


P.S The CW had issues on Thursday night, so I have not had a chance to see Supernatural from this week. Well, I saw the first 20 minutes and they were awesome, but then the channel went black. BOOO!

P.P.S Joss Whedon has promised that episode 6 of Dollhouse(This coming week) will be a game changer so hopefully that show will get to where I think it can go.