My Four Favorite Commercials from Super Bowl XLV

One week ago, like many other people I was watching Super Bowl 45 between the Packers and Steelers. I was at a Super Bowl party with about 30 people and I was probably the only one there who actually cared about watching the game. As much as I enjoy watching the game I do love the commercials. Here are my favorite four from this year's Super Bowl, why four?, because that's all I liked.


The first one was an NFL commercial. It combined two of my favorite things: TV shows and football.



Next is this Volkswagon commercial. It's just super-cute, simple and has some humor.



The next one is a Budweiser commercial. I haven't liked a Budweiser commercial since the "Budweiser Frogs", but this was funny and I like the song "Tiny Dancer"


The final one that I liked was this Chrysler commercial. It makes a clear point, you know what they're selling (which is more of an issue in some ads than you'd think) and it uses Eminem and one of his excellent songs.

This Day in Sports History - 1/19/1998

Legendary Los Angeles Lakers play-by-play announcer Chick Hearn, credited with inventing the phrases 'slam dunk', 'charity stripe', 'triple-double' and 'air ball', broadcasts his 3,000th consecutive game. The streak began in 1965 and will eventually reach 3,338 consecutive Lakers games before ending midway through the 2001-02 season when Hearn undergoes cardiac bypass surgery. Hearn also appeared as an announcer in several movies and was the voice on the castaways' radio in the TV series Gilligan's Island.

Look Alikes 11: My Favorite TV Show Edition

In a recent post I gave you my Top 10 TV Shows that are currently on TV. Here is are look-alikes based on the list.


Firstly we have NCIS LA's LL Cool J and Top Chef's Tre Wilcox



Next is Top Chef's Jeff McInnis and actor Jesse Spencer

Next up is Psych's Maggie Lawson and actress Alicia Silverstone

Next is Friday Night Lights' Taylor Kitsch and actor River Phoenix

Next is actress Sarah Paulson and Parenthood's Monica Potter

Next is actor Sam Elliott and NCIS' Mark Harmon

Next is actor Zach Braff and Men of a Certain Age's Ray Romano

Next is Friday Night Lights Kyle Chandler and NHLer Chris Drury

Next is Friday Night Lights' Connie Britton and Top Chef's Casey Thompson

Next is NCIS' Joe Spano and NFL Coach Joe Gibbs

Next is Royal Pains' Mark Feuerstein and actor Reed Diamond

Next is Parenthood's Dax Sheppard and NBA player Steve Nash

Next is NBA player Jordan Farmar and NCIS LA's Peter Cambor

Next we have comedian Carmen Lynch and NCIS' Cote De Pablo

Next is Top Chef's Tom Colicchio and MLB Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr.



Next is Parenthood's Peter Krause and soccer player Alexi Lalas

Finally we have NFL Owner Pat Bowlen and Psych's Corbin Bernsen

My Top 10 TV Shows Currently on TV

Enclosed is a Top 10 list of TV shows that I watch. To Qualify for the list the shows either have to be in the middle of a season, recently finished a season, or a new season is coming up soon. I'm posting this today due to the fact that tonight one of my favorites, Psych, will be returning to continue their 5th season.

1. NCIS: Starring Mark Harmon
2. Psych: Starring James Roday & Dule Hill
3. Friday Night Lights: Starring Kyle Chandler & Connie Britton
4. Parenthood: Starring Peter Krause & Lauren Graham
5. NCIS: LA: Starring Chris O'Donnell & LL Cool J
6. Royal Pains: Starring Mark Fueurstien
7. In Plain Sight: Starring Mary McCormack
8. Men of a Certain Age: Starring Ray Romano, Andre Braugher & Scott Bakula
9. Outlaw: Starring Jimmy Smits
10. Top Chef: Hosted by Padma Lakshimi & Tom Colicchio

Related Posts:
1. The Icky Shuffle: NCIS Season 7 Recap

2. The Icky Shuffle: Psych Season 4 Finale Commentary

3. The Icky Shuffle: Psych Live 1/25/10

4. The Icky Shuffle: TV Show Characters

NCIS Season 7 Recap

This Tuesday, May 25th 2010 will be the Finale for Season 7 of NCIS. A lot has happened and here is a short video recap of what has occurred so far.

My Ten Favorite Family Guy Characters (not including the family)

10. Evil Monkey - "he wasn't always evil"
9. Mr. Weed - R.I.P., died in the episode "Mr. Saturday Knight"
8. Tom Tucker - I wish he did the news here in Monsey
7. Death - nothing like scaring Peter Frampton into singing for Peter
6. Mort Goldman - "Please flush twice, once for the bulk and the rest for the remainder"
5. The Chicken - if he'd be on more often he probably would be higher up on this list
4. Dr. Hartman - his shtick is great, they should have more storylines for him
3. Cleveland - "you are the height of just-to-muchery"
2. Mayor West - I would love Batman to be my Mayor
1. Ollie Williams - "It's gon' rain" WE WANT MORE OLLIE!!!

TV Show Characters

I love to watch TV. I enjoy many TV shows. There are many shows who have great main characters. Others have a good group of characters. Here is a list of my favorite characters from some of my favorite TV shows. Most people who will appear on this list will not be the main characters, but without them the show would not have been as enjoyable.

1. Wilson from Home Improvement: Wilson is the neighbor that everyone would love to have, never seen and only heard when you need him.
2. Margret from The West Wing: The West Wing is packed with characters who have better story lines, but Margret is wonderful as the Secretary to Leo McGarry and then to C.J. Craig.
3. Van from Reba: I'm embarrassed to say that I have watched Reba, but the only reason that I continue to watch it is because of Van.
4. Detective John Munch from Law & Order SVU: Richard Belzer does a great job in SVU. Only in Law & Order can a Jewish comedian be partners with the "Original Gangsta" Ice-T.
5. Greg Warner from Yes, Dear: Greg had to deal with his brother-in-law at home and work, which made for some very funny episodes.
6. Buddy Lembeck from Charles in Charge: With Scott Baio who is 2nd to Ted McGinley in killing shows (check out jumptheshark.com to see what I'm talking about here) Charles in Charge needed some comedy to it. Enter Willie Aames as Charles' fun loving sidekick Buddy. It's just a shame he didn't get a spin-off.
7. Dr. Cox from Scrubs: He is the cynical and sinister doctor on Scrubs.
8. Radar O'reilly from MASH: Radar was just a boy when he entered the show, but became a man right before our eyes, even though he was still drinking grape sodas and Rosie's.
9. Mr. Richard Belding from Saved by the Bell: Growing up with this show Mr. Belding was the Principal I always wanted. For a total dork he was always there for the students, even when Zack Morris did anything stupid (like in every single episode, you'd think that he'd learn what not to do by the time he was a Senior but no he kept on doing all the stupid stuff).
10. Eric Matthews from Boy Meets World: Cory was the main character, Shawn was the "Rebellious one", Eric was the funny one.

Well this is my list. Of course there are so many more I could have added like the ladies from the Golden Girls, and that monkey from Friends, but had I added them where would it have stopped, so sadly not everyone was able to make the list.