Category: TV

There’s this episode of Friends where Chandler buys Kathy — Joey’s flavor of the week and the girl he is completely infatuated with — an “early edition of The Velveteen Rabbit“. Joey asks if there was “any change from that $20”, to which Chandler snarkily replies “no, it came to an even $20”.

So, of course, I looked it up. The Velveteen Rabbit was published in 1922. I figured an “early edition” would be anything published before 1950, but in my travels I could only find First Editions from ’22 and then issues no earlier than 1975.

The cheapest first edition I could find, of course, was $17,436.69. I guess rent control in that building is better than I ever knew.

OK, I have a few things I need to get off my chest:

• How in the hell is it possible, in any way, for all the college acceptance letters to arrive on the same day?! I know that we like to push the boundaries on reality from time to time, but this is too far.
• Have you ever seen a big envelope for a rejection??? Everyone knows that big envelope means acceptance, little envelope means rejection. What the hell else was in that big envelope?
• There’s a sweatshirt party two days after the acceptance letters supposedly come? Even, if by some preposterous possibility, everyone would have made up their mind by then, how do you get a sweatshirt in two days from, say, BROWN! I guess FedEx had a busy two days.
• Did these people only apply to one school? What does Cohen do now? What the hell!
• Hey, we’ve been dating three weeks! Let’s move in together! We’re 18! Oh, that isn’t going to work! Well, I guess we better break up! Because every relationship in high school should have some future goals, right?

Man, I love TV. (Donna Martin graduates)

My Pal “Psychic Susan“, of Y100 Morning Show fame, has a new TV show called “The Psychic Next Door” starting this week on TLC. Check it out if you can — she’s quite quirky and funny. It should make for some good entertainment.

It is on starting Monday 3/27 at 1:3o PM and repeats at that time every day this week, so set your DVRs. If it does well, perhaps TLC will pick up a full season.

As someone who watches Seinfeld as much as I do, even the smallest of new revelations are extremely welcome. I had one tonight when watching “The Muffin Tops“, from Season 8. This is the episode where Kramer starts his “Peterman Reality Tour” (based on Kenny Kramer’s NYC “tour”), and at one point attemps to take Elaine and Mr. Lippman’s muffin “stumps” to the dump.

If you’re a fan, you’re probably aware that he was unsuccesful dumping the muffins. This, however, is not the important part of the episode. The dump that Kramer visits is “Jiffy Dump”, which looks suspiciously like “Jiffy Park” (where prostitues were turning tricks in the parking lot) from “The Wig Master“, an episode that aired in Season 7, 26 episodes and over a year later! Same logo, same attendent, same “office” (the booth where the parking attendant, or dump attendant hangs out). Incredible.

Taking this connection even further, the fabulous attendant (Chaim Jeraffi) has pretty much the same lines. In “The Wig Master”, he says to George, “can’t do it” when he wants to take his car out of the lot and advises him to “take it up with Consumer Affairs” when George complains about the hookers in his car. In “The Muffin Tops”, he tells Kramer “can’t do it” when Kramer tries to unload the unruly stumps, and Kramer yells “maybe I will take it up with Consumer Affairs” as he gets back on the bus with the bag of stumps.

One other note: At one point, Slippery Pete, of “Frogger” fame, is on the Peterman Reality Tour. He’s the guy who says: “What is this? A piece of pound cake?”