My TV Alphabet

The lovely Getter over at MettelRay has made a wonderful TV alphabet and encouraged us to participate. So....let's do it.

And make as much as possible of it about Bill.

Here are the rules:

So here we go:

# - 30 Rock

This show is really funny but what makes it really worth watching is Alec Baldwin's hilarious performance. I hope I'll get to rewatch it some day. The cameos and guest appearances in it are seriously wild.

A - Ally McBeal

This could be released today and it would still be ahead of its time. I always say this about it. I cannot wait to finally make time for a rewatch. It's one of the funniest, moving and well written shows out there, with just the perfect amount of crazy. And the characters! Richard Fish, John Cage, Ling Woo...they are some of my all time favorites.

B - Barry

Bill Hader's incredible series follows a hitman who is depressed about his life, until he starts taking acting lessons and decides to become an actor. It's a wacky premise but Hader - who directed and wrote so much of it - finds such an incredible balance between drama and comedy. For a comedy series, his acting in it is some of the best dramatic acting I've ever seen. The scene that  I'm certain won him an Emmy last year, from season's 1 penultimate episode, is just magnificent.

C - Comedy Central's Roast of James Franco

I think I watched this Roast 10 times by now. It's the best one they ever done with nearly everyone being hilarious. Bill Hader laughing so hard that Andy Samberg actually had to stop talking for a moment gets me every single time.

D - Deadwood

My favorite drama series of all time. Enough talking about it, just watch it, guys!

E - Everyone's Waiting (Six Feet Under 5x12)

The most perfect series finale of all time.

F- Friends

For all the complaints and ridiculous "woke checking" the show gets these days, it was actually really progressive for its time and it remains incredibly warm and hilarious, now that it turned 25 years old.

G - Girls' Night Out (Ally McBeal 4x02)

It's one of my all time favorite episodes of the show. It includes a KILLER closing from Cage talking about the double standards between how sexually-forward men and women and perceived. The closings the lawyers used in the show were always some of the deepest, most accurate and wisest lines in the entire series. Just an all around beautifully written moments in such a clever show.

H - Jim Hopper

Oh, daddy.

I  - The IT Crowd

One of the funniest TV series of all time. Roy's "I'm disabled" never fails to slay me.

J - Janice

OH
MY
GOD.

K - Michael Kelso

That's 70's Show is one of my favorite comedy series and Kelso is without a doubt the most iconic character on it.

L - Love Labor's Lost (ER 1x19)
There are so many series now receiving praise but to be completely honest nothing on TV these days comes close to Ally McBeal, The West Wing and ER at their best. Yes, we have huge TV series these days, that rival blockbuster movies. Yes, we have edgy, unique, original series. But for me nothing ever beat traditional stories but told in such an amazing and emotional way that it was the events and the characters that made an impression and not the gimmick surrounding them. If you watched this particular episode, all you need is a title or a picture from it to remember it. It's one of the most harrowing TV episodes of all time. Everyone remembers it. There has been a number of stellar, stand out episodes on this show but this is the first one that absolutely broke everyone's hearts.

M - Mad Men

I couldn't come up with anything for M. But Mad Men is a good show. I find it very depressing though, so I only watched it once.

N - Eric Northman 

Oh. I kept watching True Blood just to witness this man.

O - "Oh baby, that's sad" story

P - The Punisher 

Oh Netflix. Why did you take Frank Castle away from us?

wild remote / Pine Barrens (The Sopranos 3x11)

My favorite The Sopranos episode. No matter how many times I watch it, it always makes me laugh. Paulie's "his house looked like shit" was seriously too much. I had to pause it because I laughed so hard.

wild remote / That Pug

Can someone please ask Bill if he is OK after this?? Like, you know, medically? Did he, like, wash his mouth 15 times after this? Can someone just bring up, during all those panels when they talk about Barry for hours, that time he did that? Because there are questions to be asked here. Like, is he OK? And also WHY. And also - did that dog just find him so dreamy or was there peanut butter involved. I mean, I know it's the former, I just need someone to address this. Also thank you because as you can see from that link that inspired some serious twitter filth. Yes, we have no shame, but neither does Bill, clearly, and yet he is an awesome person.

Q - Queen Elizabeth

The Crown is one of the best shows on Netflix and in large part it's thanks to amazing performance by Claire Foy. I cannot wait to see what Olivia Colman does next.

R - ronny/lily (Barry 2x05) / wild remote - 2019 release

This episode came out few months ago and I already saw it 6 times. Every time I rewatch this series, and I do it a lot, I have to watch this episode twice. The whole show is brilliant but this episode, which Hader directed and wrote almost entirely on his own (I think the only thing the other writers added was the superglue thing) is so brilliant, so unique and so amazing I cannot believe how just one person came up with all of that. I truly hope Bill wins everything there is to win for it tonight at the Emmys (as well as the second Emmy for his acting in the series). It is one of the best things I've ever seen.

S - Stranger Things

Netflix' best series and already one of the best series of all time. This year this show has given us the best blockbuster fun we had all summer. It's lovely, warm, emotional and just so, so well done.

T - The Thick of It

The funniest series of all time. If you didn't see it, you literally didn't see the funniest series of all time. As funny as the spin off movie In the Loop - and another show from Iannucci Veep - are, this is 100 funnier.

U - USS Callister (Black Mirror 4x01)

One of the best Black Mirror episodes.

V - Vinny Vedecci

My second favorite character Bill played on SNL. This whole sketch is so ridiculous and it's impossible not to lose it when the camera shows Fred and Will eating Italian food. And Bill is saying complete gibberish but he sells the shit out of it. And don't get me started about that time the snakes fell down on the table. I couldn't stop laughing for 10 minutes.

W - Herb Welch

Hands down, my favorite character Bill played on SNL. I cannot go through those without laughing out loud, especially when Bill breaks. "Lay it on me, my man, what went down?" has nearly killed me.

X - The X-Files

This is embarrassing but I only watched few episodes of that show.

I'm sorry I literally couldn't use anything for Y and Z. But I did use wild remote 3 times so there's still plenty choices here....even though 30% of them is related to one person.