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What did we do to deserve this? Really? I mean, between Work It managing to piss off almost everyone on ABC and Rob aiming for the sensitive family audience with grandmother rape gags and shitty jokes about Mexican immigrants, it feels like the networks are really trying to punish us for some imagined sins with the latest suite of sitcoms. Rob looks dire, if you need to be told that. It's also kind of a dumb name, just because it makes your show effectively un-googleable (and difficult to find here on Screened, to boot).

So, I doubt we'll be talking about it much. I think ABC has five episodes of the show in the bag, and we can all do our part to make sure that that's all the Rob that ever exists by not watching any of them. OK? OK.

Anyway, tonight is also the Critics' Choice Awards at 8 PM on VH1, for some reason. I guess we all got our egalitarian, democratic rocks off last night with the always-awful People's Choice awards, and now we get all snooty and monocled as we listen to the critics as they have their say. Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close somehow managed to get a Best Picture nomination, but apart from that most of the nominations seem to be pretty reasonable. We'll have a writeup of the winners for you tomorrow morning, hopefully!

Apart from all that, tonight's network television is effectively all-new; I don't see a single repeat on the schedule. So enjoy some sitcoms, I guess!

	The Finder FOX 9 PM: SERIES PREMIERE! "Iraq veteran Walter Sherman helps a teenage boy locate his missing father, a military pilot who vanished while on a mission; Leo and Walter keep a watchful eye on a teen parolee." This is apparently a Bones spinoff of some sort, which is probably why it follows a new episode of Bones that airs at 8 PM. It's about a guy who finds things, hence the name.
	30 Rock NBC 8 PM: SEASON PREMIERE! "Jack questions the family value of the network's new talent competition; Tracy gets frustrated at his inability to upset Liz; Kenneth prepares for the Rapture." After taking time off for Tina Fey to have a baby or something, 30 Rock returns to launch a night of entirely new episodes on NBC; it's followed by new Parks & Rec, The Office, Up All Night, and then a new episode of The Firm.
	The Big Bang Theory CBS 8 PM: Great conversation starter: go onto any internet messageboard that caters to young people and ask why anyone would ever watch The Big Bang Theory. It really gets people talkin', I'll tell you what! (I have no opinion on the show, myself.) Followed by the series premiere of Rob! and new episodes of Person of Interest and The Mentalist.
	Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory HBO 9 PM: HBO airs the third film in the Paradise Lost series of documentaries about the West Memphis 3. Now that the trio have been released from prison, it's unlikely that any more Paradise Lost films will be needed, one would think.

Never has that message been met with more relief.

Thankfully that Rob Schenider video is region blocked, so I'm spared from my curiousity.

Haha, yeah, I was also spared the agony. Being a Canadian finally pays off.

I'll be watching some of the NBC lineup, followed by The Best Show on WFMU podcast.

Ha Ha Hispanic!

Yay! I can't watch it either.

Doesn't The Office and Parks and Rec return tonight as well?

I've never understood the whole "ugly comedian with the hot-as-fuck wife" aspect of sitcoms. I mean, I guess I do get it, but I just find it kind of silly.

@cexantus said:

I've never understood the whole "ugly comedian with the hot-as-fuck wife" aspect of sitcoms. I mean, I guess I do get it, but I just find it kind of silly.

I get even more bothered when this occurs in real life, as apparently it did with Rob Schneider.

Hey Extremely loud and personally close getting a nomination, isn't as bad as In the land of Blood and Honey or the tourist getting golden globe nominations simply because they have Angelina Jolie involved with both.

Also, I don't think there will ever be a person who wants to "Dig Deeper into Rob Schneider."

@activatetheasset said:

@cexantus said:

I've never understood the whole "ugly comedian with the hot-as-fuck wife" aspect of sitcoms. I mean, I guess I do get it, but I just find it kind of silly.

I get even more bothered when this occurs in real life, as apparently it did with Rob Schneider.

Women have no taste. But we all knew that when we saw Mark E. Smith's wife.

Rob Schneider is... The Non-Mexican Son In Law, coming to CBS.

I watched the Finder's backdoor pilot last year. It had almost like an Uncharted vibe that I really liked, but now from the promos it kind of looks like any other cop show (even though it doesn't involve cops).

And Parks and Recreation, HELL YEAH.

The Office? Parks and Rec? 30 Rock? Big Bang Theory?

Hell yeah!

Seeing the commercial for "Rob" a few nights ago immediately made me cringe. Who's footing the bill for it? His widdle butt buddy Adam Sandler?

OK I am jealous simply because he will be making more money not contributing to society than anyone with a real job does. Plus he gets tang so there's that. $ talks bullshit walks.

The guy in that picture for The Finder looks like Nathan Drake with glasses

Btw, I bet Rob will be insanely successful. Something about CBS' comedies, with their forced "edginess" (read: lazy, racist jokes) and bland humor, REALLY seems to resonate with the "your parents and older" set. It's shocking how much enjoyment that group gets out of Two and a Half Men and Big Bang Theory. Those shows are just so...lazy. They're like Disney Channel sitcoms in their derivativeness...and the people who watch them have regressed mentally to the point where they're about as smart as your average tween, so there you go. I'm just waiting for CBS to greenlight a sitcom about Jeff Dunham and Carlos Mencia as wacky roommates. *shudder*

Who the fuck funds shit like this!?!?

EDIT: Also as a Hispanic, I am very ashamed this show even exist...

I thought Rob Schneider's relevance eclipsed like...a decade ago or something.