Mr. Popper's Penquins.

As I said in Gloria's Day I watched this at Donald's
house on Thursday evening. It was advertised to be
shown later Thursday night (about 8 p.m.) but Kirsten
said there was a copy there and we could watch it
now at 6 p.m.

I quite enjoyed it, the only thing I have a question
about is how did Mr. Popper afford to buy the Tavern
on the Green Tea Room? His company offered Mrs Van
Gundy (Angela Landsbury) $100,000,000 for it and she
knocked them back. Shesaid she was looking for the
"right" person to sellit too, so that means she did
not GIVE it to him so how much DID he pay for it???

Top 25 T.V. Shows Of The Past 25 Years.

This list was complied by a panel of 12 people.
The results published in The Age newspaper on
Thursday 13th Sept. 2012. One of the main
criteria was that the series in question had to
have been made after 1987.

Thus why "Dr. Who" was not included in the list.
Obviously the hundred or so people who complained
it was not on the list did not read the criteria.

I will rewrite the list here. Starting as they did
with the 25th place leading to number 1.

Then I will comment.

25. Phoenix/Janus (1992-93/1994-95)
24. Law and Order (1990-2010)
23. Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009)
22. Six Feet Under (2001-2005)
21. Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000-present)
20. The X Files (1993-2002)
19. Blue Murder (1995)
18. The Office (2001- 2003) British series.
17. Deadwood (2004-2006)
16. Summer Heights High (2007)
15. Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
14. Frasier (1993-2004)
13. The Larry Sandersv Show (1992-1998)
12. Twin Peaks (1990-1991)
11. Lost (2004-2010)
10. Homeland (2011 - current)
9. Breaking Bad (2008 - current)
8. The Simpsons (1989 - current)
7. Frontline (1994-1997)
6. Arrested Development (2003-2006)
5. The West Wing (1999-2006)
4. The Wire (2002-2008)
3. Seinfeld 1990-1998)
2. The Sopranos (1999-2007)
1. Mad Men (2007 - current)

I have never heard of numbers 25,21,19,18, (The US
Series is shit. watched one episode and thought it
a waste of time!) 17,13, 9 7, 6, 4, and number 1.
Not bad that out of 25 shows I have not heard of
11 of them!

As for the following:
24. Stopped watching this late last year as I felt
it was just the SOSO stuff.
23. Now this entry was really confusing as I had
quite enjoyed watching this in 1978-79 with
Lorne Greene. Remember the criteria no show
before 1987? that was why Dr. Who was ruled
out so why was this include as it is the story
continued just like Dr. Who is???
22. Thought a show based in a funeral palour would
be too sad to watch.
20. Really enjoyed this, still say to this day..
"Is there anybody out there."
16. Who would want to watch a show where a 30 year
old man dresses up as a teenage girl???
15. What a great show!!!
14. At one stage I was writing down every word of
the show, but I alwyas thought that Frasier and
Niles were too neurotic to be psychiarists.
12. Who did kill Laura Palmer? liked it at the time
but can barely remember it now.
11. Lost me half way through the second season, a
show has to hold it's audience by having them
think it is believeable not matter how unbelieveable
it actually is. It utterly failed to do this.
10. Watched 3 episodes but it failed to hold me. I
had started to watch it as I had enjoyed Damian
Lewis so much in "Life." This was not as good.
8. Watched the first season and thereafer a couple of
episodes but no one ever ages, it is about time
they did.
5. Really enjoyed Martin Sheen in this.
3. Seinfeld, they did not lie, watched one episode
and it was about nothing and therfore I was not
going to waste my time watching any more of it.
A decesion I have never regreted.
2. I don't usually watch gangster type shows but I
liked the fact it was more about the relationships
between people than the violence of the mob scene.

There were a number of shows that were nominated but
did not make the final cut but I will talk about those
next time.