A weekly thread devoted to the discussion of TV
January means it’s Cannell-ary again over at the Couch Avocados column. Remember the creepy Stephen J. Cannell Productions joint that was called Profit? After you watch Profit, you will never look at a cardboard box the same way again. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – Cannell-ary 1, 2026
American Dad!‘s series of Christmas episodes is, when it’s at its funniest, the most fun TV holiday tradition TV critics have not been jizzing their khakis over. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – American Dad Alert! December 25, 2025!
Each week on the original Night Court, the coverage of the cases of Judge Harry Stone was gavel-to-gravel. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – December 18, 2025
If you miss the true-crime parody Trial & Error, Stumble, which comes from one of Trial & Error‘s creators, is as funny as Trial & Error, but it’s about bumbling cheerleaders instead of a bumbling legal team. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – December 11, 2025
Warning: Today’s post about the Mad Men 4K debacle is full of fake vomit and terrifying Aphex Twin faces. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – December 4, 2025
It’s the final week of New Dimension November. Every Original TV Score Selection of the Week this month has been a hip-hop instrumental from Samurai Champloo. The month ends with “Counting Stars” by Nujabes. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – New Dimension November 27, 2025
New Dimension November continues with one of the greatest instrumental hip-hop tracks ever: the music from the battles between Mugen and Jin. Now if it was Raygun vs. Jin, you would have to put on “Yakety Sax” because what the hell is Raygun thinking. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – New Dimension November 20, 2025
New Dimension November at the Couch Avocados column continues with Nujabes’s extremely fly “Aruarian Dance.” Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – New Dimension November 13, 2025
It’s the first week of New Dimension November. Every Original TV Score Selection of the Week this month will be a hip-hop instrumental from Samurai Champloo, starting with—what else?—”New Dimension.” Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – New Dimension November 6, 2025
It’s cool how Robert Patrick always looks intense when he runs, whether as Doggett or as the T-1000. Meanwhile, when Roger Moore runs in the Bond movies, he looks like a white man having a leg cramp while butchering the Biz Markie on Soul Train. Continue reading Ouch Avocados: TV Disembowelment Dread – October 30th, 2025
Did McGarnagle really have to break so much furniture? Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – October 23rd, 2025
The immensely funny The Neighbors ought to be on Disney+, but like its alien family that has waited 10 years for instructions from its homeworld on when to leave Earth and return home, it has been totally forgotten. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – October 16th, 2025
One of the best things about Tron: Uprising is that it has zero Jared Leto. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – October 9th, 2025
People who can’t spell “Chekhov” correctly when they say, “Peacemaker uses Chekhov’s Helmet,” should be forced to wear a dunce cap shaped like Peacemaker’s helmet. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – October 2nd, 2025
Tim Meadows’s continual inability to tell that the bird in the above thumbnail is an eagle is one of the highlights of Peacemaker this season. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – September 25th, 2025
“Hello out there from TV Land” was Nick at Nite’s longest-running tagline. Jim on the Move hasn’t watched NAN since 2002. He thinks its tagline should now be “Want Ridiculousness all day long? That’s MTV. Ugh, it’s nonstop Sheldon over here.” Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – September 18th, 2025
The Nelvana bear should stop gazing up at the stars and start mauling a bunch of Corus Entertainment execs. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – September 11th, 2025
Graham Greene, who passed away earlier this week, was perfect as a deadpan medicine man on Northern Exposure. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – September 4th, 2025
Meatloaf, smeatloaf, double beatloaf. Hank Hill loves meatloaf. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – August 28th, 2025
The man with the narrow urethra is back. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – August 21st, 2025
Just maybe think of Loni once in a while. It’s time to look back at 10 worthwhile WKRP in Cincinnati episodes where the late Loni Anderson shined as Jennifer Marlowe. Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread – August 14th, 2025
