Shows I Miss

This doesn’t have to do with knitting directly, but I do knit while I watch TV. I’ve found that when you knit while you watch TV instead of eat while you watch TV, there’s a greater chance of fitting into your skinny jeans tomorrow. I also think that knitting while watching TV is more productive because I get bored with patterns quickly and having something to watch makes that boredom go away. Another major factor in this post is the invention of Netflix.



Gilmore Girls
This show ran for seven seasons and it was their time to end the show, but I still miss it. I miss all the quick-witted lines and characters that always had the right, culturally relevant, witty remark or comeback for whatever situation they were in. I miss Lorelei and Rory’s movie marathons and boy problems and endless supply of Pop-Tarts. I miss Sookie’s wild cooking habits, her obsession with getting all her food just right and her undying support and excitement for all of Lorelei’s plans. I miss Luke’s baseball caps, pies and dry humor. I miss the town meetings that always ended with a bang and the creative fundraisers for the Old Muddy Bridge. Most of all I miss the show as a fixture in my life. Every Tuesday night at 8:00 my mother and I would sit down and watch the newest occurrences in Star’s Hollow. It was one of the only shows I remember watching religiously and I thought I would be watching it in college.

Veronica Mars
Veronica was a teenage PI in training. We find her months after the death of her best friend, Lily Kane, and Veronica’s fall from popularity. Her father, Keith Mars, was the sheriff, but lost his job after he made an unpopular decision in reference to the Lily Kane murder. I liked this show because Veronica was a tough, determined girl who went after things no matter what. Her narration of her life in this slightly sepia toned world was genuine, it was written from a teenage point of view. Juxtaposed with this were her larger than life connections and circumstances. If she needed an audiotape, a surveillance video or a fake ID, she knew where to go. She sat on stakeouts with her camera and dog, Backup, and always knew the next move to make when trouble followed her. The constant conflict with the "oh 9ers" made gave this show a little bit of an OC feel that made it even easier to watch for those of us that like a little bit of junk food in our TV (guilty as charged). Every time I see Kristin Bell I think of her as Veronica (in fact I watched Forgetting Sarah Marshal last night, and that spurred my nostalgia). Every Christmas we watch The Year Without a Santa Claus and I think of how Veronica and her Dad watched the same movie on Christmas.

Pushing Daisies
It has been 2 years, 1 month, 2 days 18 hours and 55 minutes since the last episode of Pushing Daisies aired, and I feel this show was cheated out of it’s potential. It ran for two seasons, and I think this fantasy, Technicolor world had a lot more steam. It was narrated by Jim Dale (the same guy who narrated all the Harry Potter books), and he is the man that narrates my life because his voice has the ability to make Snookie’s new book sound like poetry. Ned, the pie maker, had the ability to bring dead things back to life by touching them. He used this ability to bring back his childhood sweetheart, Charlotte “Chuck” Charles, but he could never touch her again because if he did she would go back to being dead. Ned owned the Pie Hole and Kristen Chenoweth played Olive Snook who worked there as a waitress. Emerson Cod was a private detective and one of the only people who knew about Ned’s gift. Emerson used this gift to his advantage by having Ned touch murder victims and ask how they had been killed. Emerson was a secret knitter, Chuck’s aunts, Lilly and Vivian, were retired synchronized swimmers, Digby was Ned's dog who Ned brought back to life and Chuck raised bees. How much cuter can it get? With character names like Dwight Dixon, Mother Superior, Charles Charles and Alfredo Aldarisio and murder cases that involve taffy, jockeys and lighthouses this show seemed like the perfect mix of sci-fi, comedy and romance. With triple berry pie to boot!