26 June 2008

Trio Trophy - Day Seventeen

Last matches for the week, the remaining pair of quarterfinals will go up Monday.

From the Turn On bracket:

(1) Sports Night v. (5) Buffalo Bill

HOW THEY GOT HERE:

Sports Night
Round 1: defeated Idiot Savants, 7-2
Round 2: defeated The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., 5-2

Buffalo Bill
Round 1: defeated Lateline, 6-0
Round 2: defeated The Dana Carvey Show, 3-2

POINTLESS CONNECTION: Jay Tarses earned producer and writer credits for Buffalo Bill. His son, Matt, would earn producer and writer credits for Sports Night, which first aired on ABC when Jamie - Jay's daughter and Matt's sister - was head of programming for the network.

From the South of Sunset bracket:

(1) Police Squad! v. (5) Andy Richter Controls the Universe

HOW THEY GOT HERE

Police Squad!
Round 1: defeated Bakersfield PD, 11-0
Round 2: defeated Love, Sidney, 7-0

Andy Richter Controls the Universe
Round 1: defeated Greg the Bunny, 5-1
Round 2: defeated Crime Story, 4-1

POINTLESS CONNECTION: Andy Richter's character works for a Mr. Pickering, who is his boss even though he is 170 years old and dead. That would make Pickering a contemporary of Abraham Lincoln, who appears in each episode of Police Squad!.

3 comments:

Greg said...

Sports Night - while the show is still nowhere near deserving of its accolades, It did manage to make Teri Polo look better than she's ever looked. Which takes some doing.

Police Squad! - could this show coast to the title without a single vote against it?

Anonymous said...

Sports Night

Police Squad!

The Grim Reaper said...

Yeah, Teri Polo, that's a reason to vote for Sports Night. Greg should go back to not watching TV. Vote here is for Buffalo Bill. Sports Night's second season meta-plotline of the show within the show fighting for its life started well, but got overdone. And then the white knight buying the network for its undersea cable? Couldn't find a cow to catapult in or go to movie sign when the loose ends didn't come together? Buffalo Bill remained an unrepentant bastard to the end.

Because nothing should go undefeated, Andy Richter. Police Squad did get its due on the big screen, meanwhile, I just downloaded a couple old episodes of Andy Richter, and got lots of looks from my staff as I cackled through lunch hour watching. Although is it just me, or is there something inexplicably weird about Paget Brewster's face? Not ugly, just sum'n ain't right.

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