Watching Sitcoms

So the doctor talk got me to thinking about another of my favorite sitcom doctors, Doogie Howser. Well, that and the fact that I just spent the last week watching Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog over and over again. Dr. Horrible stars Neil Patrick Harris as, well, Dr. Horrible. And we all know that as a youngster, he was everyone’s favorite teen doc, Doogie.

I gained a whole new appreciation for Neil Patrick Harris with Dr. Horrible. He’s a very expressive actor, he’s funny and he can sing and dance.

So I went looking for him as Doogie, and I found him on hulu.com. The first two seasons are there, plus you can purchase DVDs of all four seasons. I took the time to watch through the pilot ep and I’ll definitely be watching more. The show is more serious than funny (its referred to as a comedy-drama or dramedy), although the entire premise of a 16-year old doctor was probably supposed to be funny, even though the show itself doesn’t have lots of jokes. Interestingly, Harris was actually 16 years old when the show started (in the pilot, Doogie is celebrating his 16th birthday), but he looked really young, as he still does. He’s now 35 years old, but he has that little baby face. I’ll bet he hates that.

I guess this means I’m gonna have to start watching How I Met Your Mother, now, which is unfortunately not on hulu. Oh, and if you haven’t seen Dr. Horrible yet, it’s well worth the $3.99 fee for the whole thing on iTunes.

So I was messing around online checking things out. You know. Doing my serious research to write this informative blog. Actually, it was research for my blog watchingcw.com. But, anyway, I’m not sure how I missed these before, but I guess I’ve been living in a ditch since Thanksgiving. Possibly longer.

I found these youtube videos (part 1 and part 2) of Mutant Enemy Day at the strike. Wow, I had absolutely no idea. I didn’t realize that hundreds of people would show up from all over the world to support the strike. If I had given it any thought, I guess I should have known that Joss’s fans would rally en masse to support him.

I’ve been sitting around bemoaning what a nuisance the strike is cause I’m missing my shows and cause I need stuff to write about in my blogs. I don’t know if I’ve ever actually voiced an opinion one way or another, but I am in support of the strike. I’m not generally a big supporter of unions, mostly because I think a lot of people use the union to gain stuff they probably don’t need. I’m not trying to judge, just voicing an opinion. When you read about the beginning of unions in this country, with the advent of the industrial age, you can see that these people were fighting for something that was necessary. They worked 12+ hour days for very low wages that they then were forced to spend entirely in the company’s store, so that they were continually in debt to the company they worked for and they could never get out from under it. Nowadays, it seems like unions are fighting for stuff like half hour breaks every hour or whatever. OK, that was a generalization, but hopefully you get my point.

If I correctly understand what the writers want, its really just what they are due for the work they’ve done.

So I’ll just end this blog by asking you to visit unitedhollywood.com and repeating Joss’s final words on the video, “You people are causing a disturbance. Thank you so much for causing it.”

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