Monday, September 18, 2006

Jason Ritter: one class act

It really makes uncomfortable that on "The Class" (both the advertising and the actual show) they keep reiterating that it's a "third grade class reunion," because who actually would call it that? Most people go to at least the same elementary school, and that's usually first to fifth grade. It's not like your classmates are that different from third grade to fourth grade. You would call it an "elementary school reunion," right? It's not like a ten year high school reunion is a "12th grade reunion." The show wasn't that great, either.

"How I Met Your Mother" was cool, though, and it's refreshing to see a sitcom - at least temporarily - try and shake things up. Unlike, say, "Two and a Half Men" or "The New Adventures of Old Christine," which both pain-stakingly went back to their (not that great) status quo after threatening to tinker with them on the season finales.

There was a time in my life when I considered myself way too cool for CBS sitcoms. Sigh.

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