Raj, The Third Wheel

Big Bang Theory, S06E01

Amy and Sheldon went on their anniversary dinner, but were joined by Raj to Amy's dismay.  Leonard wanted to hang out with Penny to discuss their relationship, but were also joined by Raj to Leonard's dismay.  Howard couldn't decide whether to please his mother or his wife, so he lied to both of them about whether he was moving out of his mother's house.

The worst story, of course, was Leonard and Penny.  Leonard is so transparent about wanting to talk about things that it was sad.  I was really glad when a drunk Raj came along and killed their little date.  I especially liked how he told them how it was with their stupid back and forth relationship.  I hadn't noticed, though, that Penny had never admitted that she loved Leonard.  I actually did want her to look him in the eyes and tell him as such.  Even if I don't want them back together, I would like her to admit she's hung up on him as much as he is on her.  Seriously, will the two of them just stop?  Either they move on for real or they get back together already.

Raj's best intrusion, of course, was when he was at Sheldon's date that Sheldon had "outsourced" him for.  My God, Sheldon takes being a bad boyfriend to such new levels each time.  And as delusional as Amy is about Sheldon (who would latch her ovaries on him if he proposed to her during sex--ha), I feel bad that she cannot get any real emotions out of that robot.  I mean, we wouldn't expect Sheldon to really emote, and yet I still want him to because I am a girl and I feel like a girlfriend should at least sometimes feel special when she's around her supposed boyfriend.  But I can't blame her for accepting Sheldon's quote from Spiderman as a meaningful expression of his love.  You take what you can get from Sheldon.

Speaking of him, he was quite funny when he said that the only sea creature he would want to be eaten by is a Krakken.  I had to agree with his reason because the last thing you would hear would be "Release the Krakken!" which is pretty damn cool.  I used to have an inside joke about that with some of my co-workers, so it was a random, but welcome reference.

Howard's story was kind of funny too because you can't really go wrong with him being bugged by his mother in space.  I mean, her son is doing something that only a handful of qualified people get to do and she's on his case about silly things like moving out of the house and such.  There is no place on earth or outside of earth that Howard can go to escape his smothering mother.  But it was a dick move of him to lie to Bernadette when I can't imagine how difficult it is for her being a newlywed without her husband, but living with his crazy-ass mother.  For that, Howard should be doing every single thing he can do to make her happy.  But he'll pay for it later.  What I really liked, though, was how Dimitri was kind of putting his own two-cents about the situation.  In a place like that there can be no privacy, so you can't blame the guy for being in Howard's business.  And I welcome the intrusion because he's a funny guy.

Finally, there was that scene where Raj and Stewart where kind of having a little moment together while listening to Latin music and drinking coffee liquor.  What??  Then, despite that Raj felt like things were getting weird, he invited Stewart out to hang sometime.  I didn't expect that after Raj quickly decided he needed to leave in the first place.  Huh.  Although, I'm not sure if it's because he doesn't have Howard to fall back on (or his other friends) and just wants someone available to do things with.  And when you think about it, Raj and Howard's relationship has always been a little bordering on a romantic relationship.  However, when Stewart commented that he could do worse by "hanging" with Raj, I felt like if Raj were to be interested in Stewart as more than a friend, Raj could do better!  I definitely think that Raj would be much more successful if he ended up being a gay man.  But I wouldn't want to see him do that with Stewart.  Eww.

This was a pretty good episode, the best being the Sheldon and Amy date.  But I'd like to see Raj do more than be a third wheel for the rest of the season, even if it means that Stewart is going to be his new best friend.  I'd like less of the Penny and Leonard stories--how much longer can we watch them bounce back and forth?  And Howard really is going to have to stay in space because Bernadette is going to kill him.  He needs to come to his senses real quick and realize that he'd be a fool to ruin his marriage before it has barely even started.

Is the Killer Sugar? Or April?

Parks and Recreation, S05E02

Leslie was on the fence about how to vote on a sugar tax after she found out that she might cause some businesses to lay off some employees if it were passed.  Chris and Tom helped Andy train so that he could meet the running requirements to be a cop.  Ben struggled to get the interns at his office in line with little help from April.

There were quite a few good things about Leslie's story.  The first would be the size of the cups, which were ridiculous.  The small was 64 ounces, while the regular size was 128!  They managed to top that with a child size of 512 ounces, which was sized for what a child might weigh if liquified.  I love it because it does echo the insane size of drinks (and pretty much most things) in American fast food.  I also thought the concept of "zero water," was funny because it had 300 calories and the "zero" only referred to the fact there was absolutely no water in it.  I'm pretty sure something like that wouldn't fly in America, but when you think about what is allowed to be sold maybe it could be a real item.  I mean, we do drink and eat a lot of sugar and are the fattest country in the world.  It's nice to see the writers poke at that with humor, but also remind you that it isn't really a joke if you stop and think about it.

Another part of that story that was great was when Leslie was at the forum.  One guy stood up and had a really funny comment:

I think we should tax all bad things.  Like racism and women's vaginas.

I think I really love when she takes an issue to a public forum.  That's when all of the crazies come out to say whatever thing they damn well please.  It's a complete circus.  But unfortunately for Leslie, it made her doubt that she would be doing the right thing by favoring to let the tax pass.  But fortunately for us, it led her to seek counsel from Ron, which is always a recipe for comedy.

No surprise that Ron had tried on numerous occasions to get Leslie fired.  I really liked that he said that one of the reason was because she was bubbly.  Leslie tried to defend herself against Ron's complaints about her going over his head and such:

[Leslie] I was a dedicated public servant.[Ron] Right.  That was the worst thing you were.

You can always depend on Ron to show his dislike of working hard in a government position.  Despite that he was annoyed by her, he respected her conviction and grew to accept her.  Aww.  But something just as funny was when Leslie was talking about how her decision on the sugar tax might have created enemies that could potentially become friends.  Ron's door was open and he shouted:

Let's keep down out there!

before he used a remote to have his door automatically close.  Ron is so freaking cool!  That's on my list of things I would want if I had my own office.  And I would probably be saying the same thing before I shut my door too.

The Chris and Andy story was more sad than it was funny.  I just felt bad for Chris realizing he didn't have what Andy had at all--someone to love him.  But it was great that Tom suggested therapy for him (although, I think Tom could use some too).  Chris, although upbeat and fit, needs to get that mind in check.  Him falling to pieces over something like a fear of dying alone is a serious problem.  I hope that a therapist will actually help him and not make him even crazier than he already is.

The Ben and April story was painful to watch at most times because Ben kept trying to buddy up to all of his young interns.  From the beginning, I wondered why April would help him a little, but she basically had to humiliate him with caricature drawings before she realized what she needed to do.  I like that she tried to negotiate the percentage of effort she would give when 15 was more than a fair amount to ask.  But the best April part was not until the very end when she finally got on Team Ben and told one of the interns what the deal was:

The light kiss and the slap to the face were my favorite part!  Why did they wait until the very end before we got to see April kick a little ass??  But this is a great start to the saga of April working for Ben.  I'm am looking forward to move scenes like this.  April has well established herself as the one in charge there.  Haha.

In the next episode, I wonder if we will see all those lost jobs from the sugar tax.  I can't imagine it just being just an empty threat.  Things don't work out that easily for Leslie.  I'd like to see the results of Chris' first therapy session, as well as April torturing more interns at her job.  However, I don't want to see Ben trying to act like a college student again and quoting decades-old SNL skits.  That's just way to sad to see.

The FOX New Girl Is No "New Girl"

The Mindy Project, S01E01

We were introduced to Mindy last Tuesday night, who is a doctor trying get her romantic life together.  Although she had what seemed like a fateful encounter with another doctor, she was soon ruining his engagement party with another woman and getting herself arrested.  Although she tried to recover and start dating again, Mindy inevitably went back to her bad ways of the convenient hook-up with an attractive co-worker.

I can't say that I fell in love with this show, but I feel like it has potential.  First of all, I feel like most women can relate to her trying to further her career while failing at love at the same time.  It's not anything that hasn't been done before, but I think I'm more interested because Mindy seems to have a lot more flaws than the average person.  Her main flaw is that she tends to talk a lot more than she should.  I also like that she's not super tiny like a lot of the actresses are nowadays.  I mean, I want to see someone curvy and doesn't look like the wind is going to blow them away!  Plus, despite that she's a mess, she's got an attitude and doesn't roll over when someone tries to get her down (like when she liked her sparkly dress, but she did ultimately change it).  I feel like Mindy could win me over if she's put through enough entertaining situations.  So far, she hadn't done anything too remarkable just yet.

I think my favorite thing, besides her really awkward date with a guy before she ran out on him, was when she was being questioned by the officer after being arrested.  Mindy felt that her arrest was a waste of time:

[Mindy] I’m sorry, disorderly conduct?  Aren’t there rapists and murderers out there?
[Officer] When you are disorderly, you are a rapist of peace and quiet.

Besides that, I don't think that I thought it was funny--or at least New Girl funny--but it wasn't all together boring.  I'd like to see what kind of trouble Mindy might get into next week.  I think the pieces are all there, but there just has to be something to keep me invested in the overall concept of the show.  Hopefully this week I can see something like that.

Nick From The Future

New Girl, S02E02

Jess embraced her freedom from employment by creating a few new identities that she used to hook up with a couple different guys.  Nick met a man who claimed to be him from the future.  Schmidt tried to get into the pants of Winston's sister while she and her mother were visiting.

This episode wasn't quite as funny as the first one, but it was still pretty good.  Schmidt and Winston's story was just as about entertaining as Jess pretending to be someone she wasn't all for the sake of what she thought were some no-strings attached hook-ups.  Those weren't horrible stories, but Nick thinking that a random man at his bar was Future Nick was the funniest of them all.

What I liked best about the Schmidt and Winston story was when Schmidt was bragging to Winston how he was going to do disgusting things to his sister and had no idea that Winston's mother was standing in the room.  But points to Schmidt for still being Schmidt and not letting it deter him in the least and hugging Mama Winston right there.  I loved her reaction to that.

[Winston's mother] You gonna take care of this?

[Winston] He's dead to me.

Thankfully, because I think it's creepy for Schmidt to go after Winston's sister, nothing really came out of his advances (so far, I guess).  As far as Jess' story went, all of her lies came crashing down when all of the guys interested in her came together in one bathroom (and you can kinda include Nick in that category as well).  I didn't mind her pretending for the sake of getting some, but what was annoying was that Nick thought that Jess was interested in Bearclaw.  Ugh!  Seriously, Nick??  But it was funny that Nick was so into Bearclaw, in a way, that he was trying to comfort the guy after he found Jess making out with another guy in a bathroom stall.  Nick is such a mess that it distracted me from the mess that Jess was currently in.  However, it was nice that the guy she pretended to meet online was still interested in at least sleeping with her.  A win is a win.  And with her being jobless at the moment, that's better than nothing.

Oh, but I did love at the beginning where Jess showed them a portrait she had done of the guys.  That was creepy in a humorous way, mostly because they guys looked so friendly and happy to be with each other in the picture.  I couldn't even imagine those guys posing for a picture like that unless they were all drunk or high.  It's too bad they all hated it because I think it adds to their apartment, which doesn't have that much style to begin with.

The best thing about the Nick story was simply that the old man was able to convince Nick (as stupid as he is in the first place) that he was really himself from the future.  I mean, what kind of person does that?  Who has the time to stalk someone and then claim to be an older version of them?  Obviously, since the man ran outside to a cardboard-made time machine, he was out of his mind, but the man had a clear understanding of Nick beyond what any stranger should have been able to have.  Then again, maybe it just suggests that Nick's personality is pretty close to one of a mentally disturbed homeless man.  If anything, I think it should make Nick take a hard look at himself and think about ways for improvement again.

I think it was also funny that even I was starting to believe that the guy was Nick from the future (even though it's not that kind of scifi show) when he was able to argue such compelling evidence:

[Future Nick] Well, I know you didn't shower this morning.
[Nick] Good guess--it's a Wednesday.

Then it was strange that Nick found felt like he could see why he wasn't the best conversationalist:

[Future Nick] Hey, tell her you’re sorry.
[Nick] What for?
[Future Nick] You’ll find out.
[Nick] I mean, I’m sure I did something stupid,but what did I do?
[Future Nick] You just tell her you’re sorry.
[Nick] What did I do?
[Future Nick] You did something stupid.  So tell her you’re sorry.
[Nick] Now I know why people get annoyed with me.  It’s hard to talk to us.

I'm almost a little disappointed that he didn't turn out to be Future Nick, but he was nonetheless wise in the case of dealing with Jess.  He might have been crazy, but I think his brand of crazy responded well to Nick's and that's why he was able to give him advice.  I wonder if he'll ever show up again?  I liked that he played with Nick's mind a little bit.

I liked this episode, but I'm about ready for Jess to get herself a new job already.  Realistically, it shouldn't happen with the snap of the fingers, but this is television, so I can expect things to move a little quicker than real life.  I'd love to see more things where Nick is being fooled by obvious lies like a future version of himself coming to see him.  It reinforces that sort of innocent side that Nick has despite his pretty cynical view of the world.  What I wouldn't like to see is Schmidt get anywhere with Winston's sister.  It was hard enough to stomach him doing Cece--I'd prefer his conquests to be more random girls I couldn't possibly care about one way or the other.

Winston Loves Fruity Drinks

New Girl, S02E01

Nick, Winston, Schmidt and Jess returned Tuesday night back in full comedy action!  Jess was fired from her job and did her best to hide how much it devastated her.  Schmidt threw a rebranding party to celebrate the removal of his penis cast.

This was a great episode to start things off.  I was just glad to see things back to normal (after Nick almost left the group last season) with everyone acting crazy.  Of course, with Jess losing her job it seemed that this event might mess up their whole dynamic, but really it's all about Jess acting a-fool in the most awkward way, and she had no problems doing that while unemployed.  My favorite thing, actually, about her getting fired is when she selected a tiny silver glitter hat from the lost and found box.  Nick hated it and tossed it away at one time, but Jess brought it back when she was attempting to do a sexy shot-girl dance toward the end.  But it was nice to see that she didn't give up on being a teacher.  I think that her childlike qualities and weirdness are best suited for dealing with kids, so I wouldn't want to see Jess in a different occupation.  Hopefully she can just get another education-related job, preferably one that causes more situations like that hilarious science fair fiasco from last season.

The best thing about the episode had to do with Winston, although Schmidt's fire dancing that he couldn't quite control wasn't bad either.  Before the party where we saw Winston acting crazy over some fruity drink, there was a good quote between him and Schmidt:

[Winston] I'm a changed man.  I mean, look at me--I'm wearing a suit.
[Schmidt] A suit?  Please, that's something they put on Morgan Freeman when they let him out of Shawshank.

But that was nothing compared to Winston from the first time he took a sip from Nick's special fruity drink.  I don't know if you want to call it drunk or if a special switch had been turned on inside him, but Winston was acting as fruity as the drink he was inhaling at that party.  Nick warned us beforehand that Winston was going to get weird, but he went beyond what I even expected--it was so funny!  Him talking about being "naughty" and his facial expressions just killed me.  I think that Winston sometimes ends up being the funniest now because he's the one who usually stands in the background around all the crazy doings of his roommates, so when he actually falls out of line and starts "joining the party," it tends to be so freaking funny.  My only complaint was that the focus was so much on Schmidt and Cece and Jess' unemployment that there wasn't so much time to see Winston under the spell of his most favorite cocktail.  However, I can't be too mad because there was this great scene where Winston stared at Schmidt's fire dancing while twisting a straw in his mouth:

This was probably one of the best Winston scenes of all time and it was in the first episode!  It's times like this that I can't believe that I didn't like Winston at all.  He's the wildcard on the show, where everyone is pretty unstable to begin with.

This episode would have been fine to start with on its own, but FOX gave us a bonus episode last week to enjoy as well!  But this one was good enough that I couldn't possibly be unsatisfied whether the next one was just as good or not!  It's great to have New Girl back on the air again!

Hello, Martin Channing!

2 Broke Girls, S02E01

Strangely, I was comforted to see this show back on, and I looked forward to the season premiere on Monday (especially because HIMYM wasn't too funny and I checked out a lukewarm premiere of Partners before).  It took me a moment to get used to all the dirty jokes crammed into a thirty minute show, but I was laughing a hell of a lot more watching Max and Caroline attend an estate auction for the Channing house.  They went because Caroline's father wanted Caroline to win an item back for herself.  It wasn't the best story I've ever seen, but after the rest of the crap I had watched on CBS that night, it was pretty entertaining in comparison.

First of all, we got to see Martin Channing's face for the first time.  What I loved most about that was that Max was charmed by him to the point that she was saying things like she would be Caroline's stepmother one day.  Although it's a little creepy for your friend to be hitting on your father, I just love Max in general, so I couldn't help but think that it would be actually kinda interesting if she did seriously go for Mr. Channing.  I hope that they will, despite Caroline being a little disillusioned by him, continue to visit him in prison together so I can see Max bat her eyes at him and promise to do whatever he asks of her.

It would have been nice if there really was money in that trophy that Max and Caroline spent 200 bucks getting back, but that would be a little too good for them.  I mean, the show is about them being broke, so it wouldn't be good if they suddenly had a bunch of money.  I would have said that it was a rip that they had to go to the auction in the first place if it wasn't for them meeting Hamish there.  His character (along with his ridiculous dog, Pickle) were the highlight of this episode for me.  I wish he could appear again because he was an unlikely and pleasant antagonist for the two.  The best line of the episode came from him and Max:

[Hamish] I'm a paddle bitch.
[Max] I'm a bitch bitch.

I was wondering in the first place who would want someone's trophy for their own (I mean, it has someone else's name inscribed on it) until Hamish said he was going to have his dog bathe in it.  Ridiculous.  But I loved Hamish.  Really made me appreciate this show and the random people that Caroline and Max meet.

This episode felt like it took away a bit of the stomachache I got from watching the shows the preceded it last night.  Sure, it wasn't brilliant or really inventive or anything, but it made me laugh a hell of a lot more than anything else.  So happy this show is still on the air--I think it'll be really useful to provide me with a little bit of the comedy that's missing for me on Monday!

Let's Hurry It Up

How I Met Your Mother, S08E01

The eight season premiere started with a look further in the future where Robin and Barney are getting married.  However, the main focus is on a little back in the past where we left off last season.  Ted and Victoria were trying to leave a note for her ex-fiance Klaus, but having difficulty sneaking in.  Barney wanted to keep his relationship with Robin a secret from Quinn, but a sleep-deprived Marshall and Lily made that difficult.

I can't say that I wasn't a little bit encouraged by this episode to keep watching, but that had little to do with almost everything that happened.  My biggest frustration was that they are continuing to do this leap forward in the story, while still talking about the past.  Well, we all know that despite Barney is engaged to Quinn and Robin has a new boyfriend that it's not going to work out.  I think I have no patience left for this show, and I just want them to hurry up and show how Robin and Barney get back together again.  Why fool around with this unimportant piece where they are apart?  Seriously, I wish I could snap my fingers and get to the point.

It was even more torture watching Ted and Victoria scrambling around to leave that note for Klaus.  We know that they aren't going to be together because Ted in the "Barbin" wedding future is sitting at a station where his future wife comes holding that famous yellow umbrella.  Frankly, for all the trouble that he went through to leave that letter for it to be that Klaus didn't even want to get married was annoying.  It absolves Ted and Victoria of looking like assholes for leaving a man at the altar, but it makes me wonder if they could have just gotten together in the end without this dramatic fleeing from the wedding and stupid return to the venue to leave a letter.  Again, I felt like I was being jerked around.  All for a relationship that isn't even going to last the entire season (presumably).

Despite all my complaints there was one thing I did like about the Ted and Victoria story and that was when Klaus thought that Ted knew German because he understood "wunderbar".  He then proceed to go off in German as normal.  This was particularly funny to me because I've had this sort of experience before.  Also, Klaus was telling Ted that he was inconsistent with his knowledge of German since he knew "kindergarten," but didn't know this other ridiculously long German word.  But by that time, it was nearly the end of the episode, and it didn't particularly save it for me.

With all these complaints, you would wonder why I would want to continue to watch.  Well, it's mostly because Ted's wife has finally shown up again.  Now, we're not sure that Ted is going to have a fateful meeting with that woman there at the train station in the next episode, but I hope he does.  If he does, I think I can keep watching.  If she's just going be there in passing just to tease us again, I think I'm gonna be done.  I'll just catch the finale of the last season so I can figure out who he marries.  Because I'm not enjoying the journey anymore.  Marshall and Lily are pretty much done--they have a kid.  Barney and Robin are going to stop going around in circles and get married.  We just need freaking Ted to fall into place.  But I don't think I have it in me to stick around if this isn't going to happen a little faster.

So for now How I Met Your Mother is still within my list of stuff to watch, but it's not out of the danger zone by a longshot.  After all, there may be something better to watch at its time slot on Monday (especially if Regular Show or Adventure Time were to move to that time), so it may not be worth it.  Hopefully, next time we are going to see the first encounter between Ted and the future Mrs. Mosby.

D.C. and BBQ

Parks and Recreation, S05E01

In the season premiere of this show Leslie visited Ben in Washington, D.C. with Andy.  She soon discovered that despite being a councilwoman, she couldn't hardly compare to the tall and "beautiful" women who worked around Capital Hill.  Ron took up the task of doing the employee appreciation barbecue that Leslie had always thrown.  However, his idea to just make it about the meat and no thrills (or vegetables) ended up blowing up in his face.

Leslie's story made a little sad to see her comparing herself to the successful ladies involved in national government.  Especially when one lady commented that her grandmother had the same position as Leslie and it was merely an excuse to "get her out of the house."  Thankfully, Leslie had Andy by her side, who isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but is smart enough to know that no one works as hard as Leslie and there was no reason for her to be putting herself down.  Just love that Andy.  Without him, Leslie might have gotten discouraged that her petition was just going into a pile and not have decided to start cleaning up the river herself.  This story could have gone in a much worse direction, but I was glad it didn't.  I would have hated to see Leslie start to question whether she was good enough to stay with Ben.  I mean, after all, it was pretty much Leslie who got Ben back on his feet and gave him the opportunity to show he could be a good enough to be a Washington-based campaign manager.  For now, we will still get to see Leslie delighting in checking out Ben's ass--haha!

Ron's story was great.  This is just how they needed to start things.  I loved that everyone laughed when Chris said that it was Ron who was leading the meeting in the conference room.  But it was funnier that Ron, who sort of has natural leadership qualities (or at least if he gives a command, you'd expect anyone to listen to him), is actually a horrible organizer.  His policy for absolutely no vegetables at his barbecue cracked me up.  The death stare he gave Jerry when he asked,

Can we at least have corn on the cob?

 made me laugh so hard.  Love that Ron is so dead-set against vegetables!  Later, when things were falling apart, it was amazing that he had really no intentions of doing anything but grilling up some meat (and possibly supplying some beers) when he didn't even supply them with plates!  What the hell...  It showed me a lot that Ron really needs to only be in charge of one single thing in an event and asking him to do more than that is overwhelming for him.  Case in point (during one of my favorite scenes), when the employees were all complaining to him about hunger and peeing and thirst, he just packed up his meat and drove off in a puff of smoke that was trailing from his grill that was still lit!  It's great to see Ron like this because he never had a need to be the answer guy when Leslie was around.  If this is an indication of sides of Ron we'll get to see now that he'll have to do his job, then it's gonna be a great season.

I didn't find Tom and Ann's charade to be that entertaining, but I did like Tom moaning like a child about being hungry.  What was even better than that was when Chris ran up to Tom and Ann, claiming that he had smuggled in some candy for them to enjoy while Ron was cooking the meat.  Tom's voice when he saw that they were just raisins ("nature's candy"--oh, Chris), was hilarious.  Anyway, Rob Lowe in that striped T-shirt sort of made me chuckle too.  He just looked like a goofy kid in that, which matches his character Chris pretty well, though.

This was a pretty good start to the show.  I'd like to see more of April next time, and I'd like to continue to see more of Ron's struggles to do things without Leslie there to help him.  I'm also sort of interested to see what Leslie is going to accomplish first as being a councilwoman.  I hope after her long journey to get there, she really gets to something really special for Pawnee.

This Fall's Shows

What's New This Fall??

Now that most shows that I love will soon be coming back into broadcast, I'll finally come back to this blog.  Actually, I intended to keep posting through the summer, but I felt a little disappointed by a lot of shows, especially True Blood (worst season ever!).  Because those shows underwhelmed me, and I knew that there would be plenty of that going on in the fall, I decided to not bother writing about it.

I'm pretty much going to continue posting on all the same shows I did last time around, except Grimm, which has already started its second season (to my huge surprise).  I may drop some other shows that I recall being quite frustrated with by the time they had come to the season finale, but I'll give them a couple more episodes this season to see if they can turn things around (off the top of my head is How I Met Your Mother--it better step it up!).  The only show I anticipate starting this season is The Mindy Project.  It looks like it could be funny and cute.  I also may try The New Normal.  That already has a few episodes out, but I haven't gotten around to seeing any yet.  So we shall see.

Anyway, I'm most excited to see Once Upon A Time, and that there will be a second season to Suburgatory, a show I'm not so sure so many people liked as much as I did.  Another surprise was that 2 Broke Girls got another season--wow.  I mean, after seeing that Ringer (I never posted on it, but I had enjoyed watching it) got cancelled when I felt it had a lot of potential (and I wanted to see what happened next, damnit!!), it just amazes me what gets picked up again.

This fall I hope that my shows don't disappoint me as much as they did last year and hopefully I can find some new ones that are as good as Once Upon A Time was last year (which I will call my personal Fall 2011 MVP)!