"Well, at one time, you've got it, and then you lose it, and it's gone forever. All walks of life: George Best, for example. Had it, lost it."
I didn't want to title the post, "jumping the shark" or "when Robert Patrick enters a drama"...but I figured the title quote will do. So, after watching the third episode of Lost season 2 last night and reading the comments of CSI, the Wing, etc...started thinking about how every TV show or any continuing annual entertainment vehicle inevitably hits the pinnacle and then slowly dwindles to something of a caricature of its former self, and how long can you milk the cash cow before destroying your franchise. Memorable examples of this phenommenon that I will call the "Robert Patrick effect" are:
1) obviously X-files post David D.
2) Wing post Lowe and Sorkin
3) Star Wars post Solo
4) Cowboys post Johnson
5) Bugs post Blanc
6) me post flava-sava
The point: can you actually notice when this is happening, and does it come down to one exact moment where you know the "Robert Patrick effect" just took hold of your seriers or whatever. Or is it more a gradual desceleration that eventually ends with "Jonie loves Chachi?"
I'm not about to label Lost with the Patrick tag quite yet, still a little early and with the addition of Adebese from OZ, we could have the UC scale go through the roof, but for some reason I'm not sensing that it will. Now if only we could get Beecher, the other Siad, O'Reilly and McMannus on the island we could contend with the CSI takeoffs.....OZ: Love on the Island with a Cocunut.
So I suggest you name your top five Patrick Effect moments of all time in any genre. And allow me to ridicule and make light in a satirical way.
posted by Jimbo at 10:24 AM
5 Comments:
Well I'm goin' to comment on the top five TV debacles
1) NYPD post Jimmy Smits
2)ER post Clooney
3)Lowe post W Wing
4) Shelly Long post Cheers but then they got Woody so it's a wash
5)I'll say post Mulder on X-Files - but some of Doget episodes I liked...so I'll put an (*) in it's place.
Top 5 – Shark Jumps
1.A-TEAM: Right after the epic 4 part episode where the team is captured and put on trial. The team escapes but the show doesn’t. At that point they start working for the mysterious General Stockwell played horribly by Robert Vaughn. The General send them on missions to foreign countries and missions that have no heart. I mean I need more of the rescue the small town family that is getting bullied by the local sheriff plot with an intense scene of the team building an armored car out of an old tractor and some barbed wire all while locked in a barn. Oh and once they introduced Frankie “dishpan” Santana. You know the greasy Mexican guy who was just feeding off the teams success and getting facemans leftovers.
2.QUANTUM LEAP: The show leaped when Dr. Sam Beckett returned home to his childhood farm for a 2 part season ending cliffhanger. He managed to work things out with his dad, win the basketball game oh, and save his brother from dieing in the Nam. After that the introduced an evil leaper and I think he played a retarded kid or something…
3.NYPD BLUE: When Zach Morris became a New York Detective
4.SAVED BY THE BELL: Could not have jumped any higher when they went to college and Bob Golic entered the picture
4½. MOONLIGHTING: All the fun ended when David Addison hooked up with Maddie Hayes.
5. ER: When Goose kicked the bucket
Bound for Glory
Jimmy could this show already have the Robert Patrick effect?
Half of this weeks show is dedicated to the Cheerleaders and the Miami Heat drill team? HELLO???
I am happy Morgan Singletary is back....what a name, an the Spartans get their 1st win
Top 5 Robert Patrick Moments
1) Obviously Robert Patrick joining the Xfiles
2) SNL. 3 words. Anthony Michael Hall. While it made a comeback it forever changed my need to stay up on Saturday night
3) Twin Peaks. Solving the Laura Palmer Murder. Once that happened, where do you go? You end up with James Hurley hooking up with a gap toothed chick for 2 episodes.
4) Cheers. Kristy Alley. No one was funnier/more annoying than Diane Chambers
5) NFL on CBS. No Brent Musberger? "You're looking LIVE at RFK stadium....NEXT on CBS!!!!
Bonus Robert Patrick Moment that has been corrected.
NFL Primetime
Robin Roberts? If I had to hear her say "git on wit-cho bad self" I would kill myself
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