"All those times you said you were out getting drunk, you were really killing people?" "I was getting drunk, THEN killing people!"

I was actually so bothered by tonight's TV, that I had to post it here:



A few decent one-liners aside, I was really, really disappointed in this year's Treehouse of Horror (number 18, for those of you keeping score at home). None of the three plots was really a funny idea to begin with (the writers' can't think of more recent films to parody than E.T. and Mr. and Mrs. Smith?), and each one made less sense than the one before.



For a little while, I was thinking that maybe The Simpsons was getting back on the right track - even if it wasn't as funny as the Golden Age of Simpson Comedy (seasons 4-7), it was quality humor that at least tried to be good. Now, I might need to reconsider.



Family Guy itself wasn't necessarily good tonight, but the episode was preceded by a clip show hosted by Seth McFarlane himself. The clips were a good reminder of some of the show's better moments - including the immortal "Rock Lobster" gag - even though most of the clips were jokes that were completely irrelevant to any plot or character development. This is Family Guy's specialty, the one-off non sequiturs and random references; Simpsons (and to a greater extent, Futurama) combined funny asides with multi-dimensional characters the audience could actually connect with.



In more pertinent news, this weekend was The Dog's 'birthday.' We celebrated by: 1) taking Dog to the vet for vaccines and a checkup, 2) trying to figure out why The Dog was completely freaked out from 4:30 AM to midnight on Saturday (I'm still convinced she say Ghost Ninjas), and 3) repeatedly brushing The Dog because she insists on sleeping in the flowerbed mulch.



So happy birthday Dog - hopefully, you'll require cheaper upkeep this second year.