Got Smart?

I just watched the trailer for the new movie, Get Smart. I’ve actually just watched it five times, and I laughed every time. There’s something about Steve Carell’s well-timed prat comedy that just works. But I’m really not getting my hopes up for the movie. Those could be the best jokes in the whole film, leaving 88 minutes of farting, and situations that justify farting. I’m still stinging from the promise of the trailer from The Phantom Menace.

So it’s not really the movie that excites me, it’s the parade of old episodes of GS: TOS that Nick at Nite will parade on the air, for me to collect and catalog.

My girlfriend insists I add some details of my recording style: I don’t have a TiVo or other PVR, but I do have a VCR. How about that! I still do all my TV recording with video cassettes and VCR+. Each video gets one adhesive sticker attached to the back of the video. If I don’t stick the sticker on correctly, all video contents must be transferred to a new video and the sticker reapplied. No mistakes shall be tolerated. Pens for writing on the videos have changed throughout the years, and the current writing implement of choice is a Sharpie Ultra-Fine point black pen. I tried pencil once, but shhh, don’t tell anyone it’s hard to read those titles I wrote in the 80s.

But I digress. VCRs always worked for me, why change to that newfangled DVD technology? With all the newly taped GS episodes, I’ll finally have something substantial to put next to my near-complete collection of The Simpsons.

Sanchez

I have great friends. Since we’re all pretty smart, we end up having free-cycles during the day. Shhh, don’t admit that to anyone, especially my boss, because then I’ll have to work harder, not smarter.

In a series of funny emails between me, Jeremy and my friend Rob, we started a discussion, and I just had to say,

“Get the heck out of here Jeremy!”

Oh ho ho, no no, that was just a reference to a really funny comic that my verb named friends and I like.

We did start a discussion, and in the middle of it, Jeremy blurts out:

“Wait, which one of you told me the ‘clean sanchez’ joke?”

Me:

“I think it was me, but I was just quoting Jon Stewart from earlier that week. He had a relevant, topical clip of a government wonk named Sanchez claiming not to have done anything wrong, which he made into that unbelievably wonderful pun.”

Rob:

By relevant, you mean, when it was originally aired and not now with the endless parade of reruns?

Me:

Right, relevant at the time. It was pretty recently that I saw it though, and I don’t remember whether it was current or during reruns…

Ok, a bit of searching confirms that it was from October 19 regarding the retirement of Lt. General Sanchez who had come clean about his opinions of the war. I still don’t remember whether I saw it recently during reruns and reported it to Jeremy, or if I saw it in October and it came up in more recent conversation with Jeremy.

And that’s all that I have to say right now. Sometimes, I just want to be myself, and have you love me even when I’m not funny.