Combined Couples Names

I’m not a big fan of the combined couple names that have become so popular in the past couple of years. Names like “Jasam” for Jason and Sam of General Hospital. They began in the news and magazines. Now they have made their way to television. This month I’ve started seeing a combined commercial for [...]

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The Huggies Jeans Commercial

Did you ever see that Huggies Jeans diapers commercial? I wasn’t looking at the television the first time I heard it. I heard dramatic techy sort of music and then the words. The first sentence made me turn around to watch. The commercial features a little boy walking. His wardrobe is simple, he’s wearing a [...]

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Seinfeld The Check

The episode “The Checks” aired in 1996. After Jerry receives tons of checks from a brief appearance on a Japanese television show. They discover that the checks aren’t nearly as impressive as they might seem, since the conversion rate is low. Kramer, who’s had a hot tub installed in his apartment, takes some Japanese businessmen [...]

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Dragon Tales

One of the shows that my son CJ never tires of is Dragon Tales. He gets excited as soon as the opening song comes on. He loves it when the extended selection of dragons on the wallpaper star start flying around the room. Then the kids are in Dragon Land. He doesn’t seem to really have [...]

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Movie Laundry And Mr Mom

Laundry isn’t usually a funny topic. Many shows don’t even get into laundry. A movie that we watched this past week gives a hysterical look at a man’s first experience with laundry and it’s hysterical. The movie is Mr Mom. Mr Mom came out in 1983 and it’s just funny. One of my favorite male [...]

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Maid In Manhattan

Are you a J Lo fan? I mean J Lo as an actress, not a singer. I’ve seen a couple of her movies and have enjoyed the ones that I’ve seen. One movie was Maid In Manhattan, which was on again today. In Maid In Manhattan J Lo is Marisa, a relatively poor, working class [...]

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Legally Blonde

Have you ever seen the movie Legally Blonde? It’s the story of Elle Woods journey to law school. Elle is a wealthy California sorority girl who’s planning on marrying her high school sweetheart Warner. Warner dumps her right before he goes to Harvard. Elle decides she will go to Harvard to win him back. While [...]

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Do Commercials Reflect The Economy Or Need?

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Pondering Pooh

I love Winnie the Pooh. Pooh is one of my favorite animated Disney characters of all time. I’ve seen all of the movies and all of the television episodes. There’s something I always wondered. The characters parents are never mentioned. Obviously that doesn’t include Roo, as his mother Kanga is also a character. There was [...]

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The Arrival Of Disney Junior

The day is drawing nearer when you won’t hear Soapnet commercials coming out of my home theatre system speakers. Months have passed since the announcement that Disney is replacing the Soapnet channel with Disney Junior. This week I received an email officially announcing the new Disney Junior – “The new place on TV and online [...]

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