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On ABC, Family Matters: “Fizbo” and “Here Comes My Girl”
“Fizbo” and… “Here Comes My Girl” November 25th, 2009 Thanksgiving is a holiday about family, which when deployed in television does one of three things. The first is to emphasize the cohesiveness of...
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That’s Amoré: Modern Family and Cougar Town do Valentine’s Day
“My Funky Valentine” “When a Kid Goes Bad” February 10th, 2010 When a sitcom does a special “holiday” episode, especially in its first season, it’s the ultimate test of the show’s understanding of its...
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Cougar Town –“Turn This Car Around”
“Turn This Car Around” March 24th, 2010 Earlier this week, How I Met Your Mother did an episode which more or less spoke to one of the more popular readings of the show: people think that Ted is a...
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Cougar Town –“Everything Man”
“Everything Man” March 31st, 2010 I feel as if “Everything Man” was written as some sort of ridiculous joke, fitting for the night before April Fool’s Day. My point is not that the episode wasn’t...
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Cougar Town –“Letting You Go”
“Letting You Go” April 28th, 2010 I am officially nearing the point with Cougar Town where I may make it my personal crusade to travel across the country in order to force every person who gave up on...
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Cougar Town –“Feel a Whole Lot Better”
“Feel a Whole Lot Better” May 5th, 2010 In Scrubs’ first season, J.D. and Elliot were two people who should logically be together: they were clearly attracted to one another, they were both young and...
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Season Finale: Cougar Town –“Finding Out”
“Finding Out” May 19th, 2010 Jules Cobb loves plans. She makes the argument in “Finding Out” that plans make everything better, an argument which is proven correct as an elaborate plan at the end of...
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Season Premiere: Cougar Town –“All Mixed Up”
“All Mixed Up” September 22nd, 2010 I am officially to the point where I am done “defending” Cougar Town: I refuse to accept that anyone who has recently watched the series could think it is anything...
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Cougar Town –“Makin’ Some Noise”
“Makin’ Some Noise” October 6th, 2010 There’s an interesting duality to Cougar Town: the series is more consistently driven by change than any other television sitcom, and yet at the same time it...
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Cougar Town –“The Damage You’ve Done”
“The Damage You’ve Done” October 13th, 2010 When Cougar Town changed (for the better), it could have completely ignored its past: considering that Jules dating younger men was a failure, there was...
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