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How I Met Your Mother – This episode sucked

(Season 4, Episode 13 – “Three Days of Snow” ) [Editor’s note: This is CliqueClack TV’s 1,000th published post!] This episode is the reason that I don’t watch sitcoms. Yeah, I suppose you could argue that I watch How I Met Your Mother and that it is technically a sitcom, but you know and I […]

by Debbie McDuffee

Management lessons from Michael Scott, Dunder Mifflin Scranton

Dunder Mifflin Scranton’s riding high. While all other DM branches have been hit hard by the current economic storm, the team from Scranton, PA is going strong. CFO David Wallace said it best when he asked Michael Scott, “What are you doing right?” While Michael stumbled out of the gate, a memo has finally been […]

by Aryeh S.

Brothers and Sisters – I feel like a quail at a shoot

(Season 3, Episode 13 – “It’s Not Easy Being Green” ) All right. I admit it. I fell for it. When I saw the previews for this week, I did indeed think that Nora had slept with Roger, Sarah had slept with Ethan, and Rebecca had slept with Kyle. It never occurred to me that […]

by Jen Creer

Ratings Clack – Idol storms back, Patrick Jane doesn’t care

(1/12 – 1/18) Yes, of course, the big story this week was the return of American Idol. It didn’t disappoint, from a numbers perspective. Both installments easily won their nights. We all expected that though, right? The more interesting bit of the Idol story was the effect the show had, or didn’t have, on the […]

by Brett Love

What did Dr. Corday represent in Neela’s dreams?

One of the items I didn’t have a chance to mention in this week’s ER review was the return of Alex Kingston as Dr. Elizabeth Corday.  Though she didn’t have a big part in the episode, Corday seemed to play an integral part to Neela’s dream state. Now Chief of Trauma Surgery at Dartmouth University’s hospital, Corday was in […]

by Richard Keller

Things that didn’t suck this week: Reality stars, ferry murders, duels and workouts

“Marshall’s getting ready to read a big ol’ magazine in the bathroom you share with him!” –Spencer Pratt taunts Marshall from the cover of a magazine on How I Met Your Mother. The subplot on this week’s HIMYM of Marshall not being able to poop at work wasn’t really all that funny to me. However, […]

by Kona Gallagher

The Mentalist – Fake art and real murder

(Season 1, Episode 13 – “Paint It Red”) “Jane doesn’t get sick, Rigsby doesn’t date because he’s in love with you, and the Kings aren’t playing tonight.” – Lisbon, to Van Pelt I loved the start of this episode. When the Pittsburgh Steeler player made that last interception and sealed the game for … oh, […]

by Bob Sassone