Some musings on my recent TV intake:

• The Colbert Report is funny. My favorite thing he does: "I'm putting you on notice." Oh yeah, and it's got David Cross on it!
  
  
• Mr. Show on DVD. (Jonathan Frome showed me a single episode years ago, so I added it to my Netflix queue when we subscribed.) I love the pythonesque links between sketches, and the regular return to the beginning of the episode. (My favorite recognition moment so far: the "expert room" featuring a young Jack Black.) At the end of that same episode, the show featured Cross and Odenkirk watching a TV depicting themselves watching TV, and being murdered. They thought it was funny.
  
  
• There was a bit of self referentiality on Law & Order: Criminal Intent last week -- Eames revealed that when she first met Goren (D'Onofrio's character), she didn't like his odd tics or unconventional style. After spending time with him, though, she's come to realize that he's a good detective. Tee hee! That's how we all felt, Eames!
  
  
• Sherlock Holmes. I bought a 5 DVD set at Target for $10 last weekend--a full run of an American SH TV series from the 1954. It's great! Watson plays like a buffoon and Holmes is kindly toward him. Each episode is only about 25 minutes, so they haven't got time for anything too deep. We just watched one episode and I'm hooked. It taps into the same part of my psyche that used to like watching Dragnet on Nick-at-Nite.