I was going to blog about the very exciting day at the Tour de France, with Lance Armstrong engaging in some impromptu cyclocross action, but, then, well, I was watching an episode of "Sports Night" on my TiVo. Well, I gotta tell you, I have mentioned this show before, but I'm not sure that I can describe to you how brilliant it is. Tonight, I watched the pilot episode. Quite honestly, the only flaw with this episode was that the laugh track just didn't seem to fit in very well. But otherwise, it's one of the most brilliant episodes of one of the most brilliant sitcoms I have ever watched. I laughed. I cried. I'm serious, there was a tear streaming down my face and my heart rate was all sped up.
If you have Comedy Central, watch for reruns of "Sports Night." If you don't, get it. Or go to the video store - the entire run of the show is available in a box set DVD. If you're a really fabulous person, you'll buy a copy of the DVD set for me. And if you do that, you'll have to face my undying love. But I still won't have sex with you if you're a girl. I may be a sports fan, but I'm still a big ole gaybo.
Unlike IA who may just be a metrosexual.
Posted by Jon at July 15, 2003 03:50 AM | TrackBackSPORTS NIGHT was originally broadcast on ABC without the laugh track. That was added later when the show was rerun on Comedy Central. Leave it to Comedy Central to not trust viewers to recognize when something is funny.
But I agree...it was brilliant, all of it.
Posted by: Jere at July 17, 2003 04:12 PMActually, most of the episodes shown on Comedy Central don't have laughtrak as far as I remember... I noticed it as, really, the only main difference between the pilot and any other episodes.
Posted by: Jon at July 18, 2003 12:23 AM