You can thank everyone for picking UK shows for this being available. I seriously was going to take it this round, I LOVE the Muppets. I have the first 3 seasons, 2 "Best of" discs, The Muppet Movie, The Muppets Take Manhattan and Muppet Christmas Carol on DVD. I even loved Muppet Babies as a kid.
But with only one UK show left that I watch I had to grab Coupling. No Muppets for me make me sad. Grrr.....
Sorry HD! I also have the first few season of DVD. I love the Muppet Christmas Carol, I'm trying to hold off on watching it again until it's closer to Christmas. My cousins and I just recently watched The Great Muppet Caper on DVD for the first time in years. We used to watch it at my grandparents all the time when we were younger. I didn't remember it being as cracked out as it was. And I still have the 30th Annivesary Special we taped off the tv when I was a kid.
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With our seventh selection in the 2008 Calgary Puck Television Draft, we here at the Patterson Corporation are pleased to select for our lineup on our new channel MQS-TV, a sci-fi drama that made us wonder what the future will be like. Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, and Brent Spiner; this show went on winning 18 Emmy awards with 58 nominations. Filling our Science Fiction* category, we here at MQS-TV humbly select from the Columbia Broadcasting System, Star Trek: The Next Generation.
*line-up slot subject to change.
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Team Vandelay Industries is proud to select in the comedy category...
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS
Flight of the Conchords follows the trials and tribulations of a two man, digi-folk band from New Zealand as they try to make a name for themselves in their adopted home of New York City. The band is made up of Bret McKenzie on guitar and vocals, and Jemaine Clement on guitar and vocals.
Bret and Jemaine have moved to New York in the hope of forging a successful music career. So far they've managed to find a manager (whose "other" job is at the New Zealand Consulate), one fan (a married obsessive) and one friend (who owns the local pawn shop) -- but not much else.
Man, the picks are coming fast and furious in this draft! Well done everyone.
Muppets...just great stuff. Comedy for the adults and kids.
Somewhat related true story:
A couple of years ago I woke myself up laughing. I could not stop. It was that kind of laughter that actually hurts you. The reason? I was dreaming and without going into too much detail, my wife was going on some covert operation and her objective was to blend in with the muppets. I said (in my dream) "Jody, they're going to know you're not a muppet."
I was crying from laughing so hard. Woke her up with my laughing. She didn't think it was as funny. How the hell does something like that crawl into one's brain?
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The greatest cartoon ever created! Namely, The Transformers!
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The Transformers is an American animated television series depicting a war between giant robots who could transform into vehicles, animals, and other objects. Written and recorded in America, the series was animated in Japan and South Korea. The entire series was based upon the line of transforming toys originally created by Japanese toy manufacturer Takara, which were developed into the Transformers line by American company Hasbro.
This could be the most excited I've been for any pick in any draft so far. I have been tempted to take this since round 1 and simply cannot afford to let it slip any further and risk not snagging it for The Mustard Inspectors. About 2 months ago I was watching a couple westerns a week, trying to find a gem for the movie draft. I came across this mini-series, and although I wasn't sure if it would be eligible, I was reading reviews like "the best mini-series ever made," "one of the best westerns of all-time, period," and "6 hours that feels like 2- a classic movie series that everyone will fall in love with."
So I decided I should devote some time to this one and watch it. Am I ever glad I did- I will say right now Lonesome Dove is in my top 10 films of all-time, if you choose to classify it that way (as a "film" and not a mini-series). As a mini-series, it has few if any equals, and is without a doubt at the top of my list there also. This is a masterwork in every aspect of its being, an epic western/drama that drew me with its intense characterizations, lush scenery, and memorable story.
From Wiki:
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Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae (Robert Duvall) and Captain Woodrow F. Call (Tommy Lee Jones), two famous ex-Texas Rangers, run a cattle ranch called the Hat Creek Cattle Company and Livery Emporium in the small dusty Texas border town of Lonesome Dove. Gus is a romantic figure whose happy-go-lucky nature and good fortune with women and prostitutes, especially Lorena Wood (Diane Lane), prohibits him from doing much real work around the ranch. Call, however, is a no-nonsense, hard-working taskmaster, though his industrious nature has not rubbed off on Gus in the thirty years they've been together.
Working with them are Joshua Deets (Danny Glover), a black man who is an excellent tracker and scout from their Ranger days, Pea Eye Parker (Timothy Scott), another former Ranger who works hard but isn't all too bright, and Bolivar (León Singer), a retired Mexican bandit who is. their cook. Also living with them is the boy Newt Dobbs (Rick Schroder), a seventeen-year-old whose mother was a prostitute named Maggie and whose father may be Call.
The story begins as Jake Spoon (Robert Urich), a former comrade of Call's and McCrae's, shows up after an absence of more than ten years. He is a man on the run, having accidentally shot the dentist, and brother of the sheriff, of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Reunited with Gus and Call, Jake's breath-taking description of Montana inspires Call to gather a herd of cattle and drive them there, to begin the first cattle ranch in the frontier state. Call is attracted to the romantic notion of settling pristine country. Gus is less enthusiastic, pointing out that they are getting old and that they are Rangers and traders, not cowboys. But he changes his mind when Jake reminds him that Gus' old sweetheart, Clara, lives on the Platte, which is on their route to Montana. Call prevails and they enlist the Hat Creek crew and some new hands to rustle a herd from south of the border, and then they begin the long drive north. Along the way, the Hat Creek boys revisit old regrets and losses and come to terms with their past.
I really don't know what else I can write here that will get some of you to go to Blockbuster and seek this one out... How about this- skip that step, just head to Amazon, buy the recently restored DVD version, and set aside a weekend afternoon. Huddle up with the wife/girlfriend/family, make some snacks, grab some tissues/pillows, plant yourself on the couch, and pop this in the DVD player. Lonesome Dove is truly a special piece of work, and I am so glad I discovered it. Again, I am not exaggerating when I say it is one of the best pieces of filmmaking I've ever seen, and worthy of the first overall pick in either the TV or the Movie Drafts!
With our seventh round selection, Team Sequoia is proud to select, in the Sci-Fi Category, Star Trek: Voyager.
From memory-alpha.org:
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Launched in the year 2371, the Intrepid-class Federation starship USS Voyager was a ship built to return to Starfleet's founding principle of scientific exploration. It was fitting that the ship's captain, Kathryn Janeway, rose up through the science ranks rather than command. On the ship's first mission, which required it to find and capture a Maquis vessel that disappeared into the treacherous Badlands, the crews of both Voyager, and the Maquis ship it was pursuing, were swept clear across the galaxy and deep into the Delta Quadrant. This was the doing of a powerful alien being known as the Caretaker. The 70,000 light year transit cost the lives of over a dozen crew members. Captain Janeway was forced to destroy the massive alien array that housed the Caretaker. In doing so, she saved an alien race, the Ocampa, but stranded Voyager and the crew in the Delta Quadrant.
But not all was lost. United in a common purpose, the surviving Maquis rebels joined with Janeway's Starfleet-trained crew on Voyager. Though a journey back to the Alpha Quadrant would have taken more than seventy years through unknown and treacherous territory, the crew of Voyager was well served by Janeway's skilled leadership and their own steadfast determination. Ultimately, Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant in seven years.
Of course, the crew's return home was far from boring. Voyager made first contact with over 400 completely new species in the Delta Quadrant, discovered links to Earth's early space exploration history, utilized and even pioneered new technologies, and engaged in countless other adventures that would astonish the mind.
The crew encountered species ranging from the violent and ruthless Kazon, the Phage-afflicted Vidiians, the colorful Talaxians and the ephemeral Ocampa. The crew's other encounters included run-ins with the temporally-sophisticated Krenim, the predatory Hirogen, the toxic Malon, and the scheming Hierarchy. The crew picked up passengers along the way including the wily but extremely resourceful Talaxian, Neelix (who would serve at times as Voyager's Ambassador, morale officer, and even head-chef), and the Ocampan telepath, Kes (who, as a parting gift to the crew, used her powers of telekinesis to thrust Voyager 10,000light years closer to the Alpha Quadrant).
Most memorably, however, were Voyager's repeated clashes with the dreaded Borg. While each encounter posed grave danger, Voyager was able to prevail every time. At one point, Janeway actually negotiated a temporary peace with the Borg when they perceived a common threat in a mysterious alien species yielding from fluidic space. At other times, she was able to liberate Borg drones from the Borg collective including Seven of Nine and Icheb. Other instances pitted Voyager against not only the Borg, but also against the nightmarish Borg Queen herself.
While hardly alone in the Delta Quadrant, several years after Voyager's dissapearence, Starfleet Command learned of the starship's fate. Thanks in large part to the efforts of the eccentric Starfleet officer, Reginald Barclay, the Pathfinder Project was established to help guide Voyager back home. The entire Federation celebrated when Voyager made a triumphant return to the Alpha Quadrant by utilizing and then destroying a Borg transwarp conduit to hurl them back to Earth in 2378.
I'm really happy that Voyager is still available to me, seeing as it's been my favourite of the Star Trek series. I was never been a huge fan of the first couple of seasons (that featured a lot of Kes), but once Jeri Ryan came aboard as Seven of Nine, the series seemed to take a turn for the better.
This is the cast that I'll always favour as the best:
Some Clips:
The Doctor "hides" in Seven of Nine's body while they're captured by a race of aliens who are at war with holograms. Jeri Ryan does a great job portraying the Doctor's speaking style and mannerisms.
Voyager returns home.
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in the pre 80's category, Team Abe Vigoda is proud to select:
Barney Miller
Loved this show when I was a kid. I even remember how sad I was when Jack Soo died. Here's a summary stolen from wiki:
Captain Miller tries to remain sane while leading the 12th Precinct's detectives: crochety, nearing-retirement Jewish-American Philip K. Fish, naive but goodhearted Polish-American Stanley "Wojo" Wojciehowicz, ambitious, arrogant African-American Ronald Nathan Harris, philosophical, wisecracking Japanese-American Nick Yemana, and Puerto Rican Chano Amanguale. He also has to deal with his unapologetically old-school superior, Chief Inspector Frank Luger, and diminutive (and obsequious) Officer Carl Levitt, who passive-aggressively badgers Miller constantly about being promoted to detective. Amanguale was replaced by intellectual Arthur P. Dietrich from the third season on.
The show's focus was split between the detectives' interactions with each other and with the suspects and witnesses they detained, processed, and interviewed. Some typical conflicts and long running plotlines included Miller's frustration with red tape and paperwork, his constant efforts to maintain peace, order, and discipline, and his numerous failed attempts to get a promotion; Harris's preoccupation with outside interests, mainly his novel, and his inability to remain focused on his police work; Fish's incontinence and reluctance to retire; Wojciehowicz's impulsive behavior and love life; Luger's nostalgia for the old days with partners Foster, Kleiner and Brown; Levitt's (eventually successful) quest to become a detective; the rivalry between the precinct's resident intellectuals, Harris and Dietrich and continually - but reliably - bad coffee.
