Just Shoot Me: A profile of Nina Van Horn

Nina Van Horn (played by Wendy Malick), the original Blush model, was hired by Jack Gallo to as head writer. She is the funniest character on the show as well as Dennis Finch (David Spades), Mya Gallo (Laura San Giamo), and Jack Gallo (George Segal).

Nina loves dating rock stars, but every rock star she dates ends in disaster. She broke up the Eagles and Don Henley hates her (watch Don Henley’s interview). She has an interesting view of the world. I see her like the Kramer of Just Shoot Me. She dates a lot and gives her all, but she only dates men that are 10 years younger and good looking, with some exceptions. I am always curious why Nina and Finch never dated.

Also, it is funny when she is condescending to Mya Gallo, always giving her worthless advice and calling her “unexperienced”, but somehow, Mya still respects her.

Check out Nina Van Horn when you watch Just Shoot Me.

Seinfeld: The Understudy

This is another classic episode. We see Bette Midler make her appearance into the world of Seinfeld as a softball player. The funniest part of this episode was seeing Kramer freak out with his infactuation with Bette Midler, but here’s my question: When Bette asked for the pineapple ices, was she trying to get rid of Kramer? I ask that because pineapple ices??? Come on!!! How often do you find pineapple ices? Look carefully as Bette has a weird look on her face as she told Kramer to get the Pineapple ices. Then, when he finally comes running with the ices, I think she was surprised that he actually found pineapple ices. I loved watching George tell Bette Midler that her movie Beaches sucks and then watching Bette get upset with George. Kramer’s rendition of Wing Beneath My Wings also had me cracking up.

The scene with the Asian girls in the beauty parlor badmouthing Elaine in Korean was hilarious as she had no idea what they were saying about her. I wonder if that is common in beauty parlors owned by good looking Asian women who cannot speak English.

Now, Frank Costanza says he spoke to the Reverend Sung Young Moon and that he had a face like apple pie. People, what the heck does someone look like with a face like apple pie? Show me a photo or something. Please! He reveals to Elaine about his foot odor. Like we really need to hear that, Mr Costanza!!!

Observation: I think this is one of the only few scenes in Seinfeld history where we see Elaine sitting with Frank Costanza.

Also, I loved when the cab driver threw the Jerry, George, and Jenice out of the cab. A typical New York City cabbie with a non-American accent.

Another classic scene was when that obnoxious Asian girl from the beauty parlor screamed out to Elaine “WHAT? NO BETTE MIDLER?”

Family Guy: There’s Something About Paulie

Cool title take off Something About Mary.

This episode goes to show that Peter has his priorities all screwed up, choosing Paulie over Lois and he is not phased by Lois’ potential murder. Then again, that is what makes Peter, well Peter and it is what makes him funny.

Seth McFarlane got this title obviously from Something About Mary, but it was Seth’s way of making a mafia version of this movie.

Obvlious Peter Griffin became friends with him not knowing he was befriending a member of the mafia and almost got his family killed, but in the somewhat violent world of Family Guy, this was actually expected. This could be Family Guy Sopranos Style.

Great episode!

Just Shoot Me – The Haves and Have Mores

This was a great episode where everybody thought Kevin was stalking Nina and Maya. Afterall, he followed Maya to her house, wanted to kiss Nina, and he wouldn’t stop giving them presents.

 What’s funny is that Kevin freaked out and insisted that he wasn’t this psycho monster that they thought we was. The ironic thing was that we looked psycho while trying to convince them that he WASN’T a stalker. Later, he admitted to Nina that he was stalking them and didn’t know how to talk to women. Good job, Kevin! You just became a lady’s man with that kiss to Nina’s head!

Meanwhile, Jack was selected to do a magazine cover with Tom Bradford only if he was allowed to insult the Blush staff and offered .1% of the company to any employee who agreed. Elliot ran out of the room like a schoolgirl and Jack used Finch to play a little on Elliot in order to get him to do the magazine shoot of Jack and Tom. It all ended with Tom drawing an 8 Ball on Elliot’s head (he called Elliot Q Ball) and Elliot drawing cat whiskers on his boss’s head.

Three’s Company: Professor Jack

This is one of the episodes where we get to see Terri nervous. usually she is calm, cool, and collected and sometimes hard around the edges, but when she thinks Jack is giving love lessons, she seems to come upart at the seems. As Jack has always prided himself as a lady’s man, I think he personally marketed himself as a great chef. So, it is very easy to see why people can flock to Jack as a cooking instructor.
As Joanna Latham confronts Terri saying that Jack is great cooking teacher, Terri thinks he is giving her love lessons and money changes some hands in this episode which gives the assumed thought of some sort of prostitution in Terri’s mind. What’s confusing to Terri about this is that Janet seems to accept this and she usually hates any thought of Jack making love to other women. Then, Terri tells Janet that she is not a prude. I loved this episode.On the flip side, Janet thinks Terri’s doctor friend is using her and dumps the paint on his head, but that is typical Janet.

Episode: Bendin’ in the Wind

I love how Bender is a folk singer and better yet, a a washboard player for Beck. If it was not for that can opener and the Planet Express crew egging him on, he never would have had his short stint as the folk singer (Professor Farnsworth called him a dummy, that obnoxius oaf!) Beck loved his 40 minute washboard solo. I wish I could hear what that sounded like. Go Bender!

What was even funnier was watching a 60’s VW van drive around next to hover mobiles. And the Planet Express crew discovers Tie-Die. I l thought the Mobile Dick Whale Oil joke was original and funny.

Three’s Company: A Black Letter Day

Lana is funny when she reads the advice column that a man was living with two women and having an affair with one of them. I find this funny from the beginning, because Lana has a crush on Jack. It seemed to me that Lana wanted to play Janet and Crissy against each other so she can catch him on the rebound (if the girls kicked him out). And of course, Janet, as gullible as she is, believed it right away. Chrissy needed a little convincing on Lana’s part, but it did not take much effort either. So, the two of them are in a battle of wits over who it is. Then, after the girls realize it is not either of them, they have a “teach a lesson” tug-of-war with Jack.

In real life, Janet and Crissy would tell Lana to mind her own business. LOL – What put Janet over the edge was the fact that the man who wrote the article called himself “Cookie”. Could the real guy be a Chef also? We will never find out.

We also find out how satisfied Crissy is life when she gets excited over winning a turkey baster – also a reference to cooking.

On a scale of 1 to 10, I give it an eight.
she decides that it’s the trio. She confronts Janet with the letter and insinuates that it’s Jack and Chrissy. She then talks to Chrissy and decides that it’s Janet and Jack. She sees Larry at the Regal Beagle, shows him the letter and leaves when Jack arrives. Jack finally reads the letter and decides to teach the girls a lesson but it doesn’t work because the girls have finally figured out that it isn’t them at all.

Episode: The Opposite

This rerun aired on Monday, August 21,2006 at 11:00. I love this episode. We see George tell the truth almost all the way through the episode an in a way, it was refreshing for a new side of George Costanza. I thought the “opposite of tuna” argument was very funny. George says the opposite of tuna is chicken salad. Jerry said it is salmon. As a Seinfeld fan, what do YOU think is the opposite of tuna? Feel free to comment on this.

We see George pick up a nice looking girl and THAT is the opposite of all the women he has ever picked up. Have you noticed that most of his girlfriends were not that great looking? Jerry becomes “Even Steven” accoring to Karmer. What would YOU have done if Elaine through 20 bucks out your window? Me? I would have slapped her! Kramer comes out with the coffee table book about coffee tables and I hear Regis Philman use the term “bonkos” to describe Kramer. I would like to hear Regis use “bonkos” from some of those crazy acts on America’s Got Talent, but you have to admit that only Kramer would think of that. I thought the coffee spit on Kathee Lee was funny. And our daring friend Elaine has some bad luck when she gets kicked out of her building and loses her Jake Jarmel. Did you think he overreacted to the JujuFruit thing? I did. She was right there by the counter in the movie theatre. I think it was fine, although I think Jujufruits are horrible how they stick to the back of your teeth. It would have been twizzlers or junior mints (we’ll talk about the junior mint episode another time) for me.

Character: Mean Elaine vs Nice Elaine

I am not sure if anybody noticed how Elaine’s personality changed halfway through the 9 year series. When Seinfeld first aired, Elaine was nice, easy to talk to and usually complained very little. Have you noticed that she became mean around 1995. Her hair color also changed from brown to black and her hair style became shorter. I do not remember her being mean to George early in the series, but toward the last few seasons, she seemed to always be angry or mean to George. I also noticed that it was around this time that Jerry seemed to really separate himself fromt her past relationship once and for all.

Episode: The Nose Job

Once again, Kramer is blunt and tells George’s girlfriend, Audrey, that she needs a nose job. Don’t you wish we can be that bold in life? The interesting thing is that George is relieved that Kramer actually said that since he was too wimpy to come out with it. It’s funny when Elaine calls Kramer “Von Nothing” instead of “Von Nostrand”.

Jerry is dating a stupid girl and cannot break up with her because the sex is so good. I think all men have been in that situation before. So, Jerry’s penis in a match with his brain. If you were in his shows, which would win?