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Cancelled Shows 2010: TBS cancels My Boys

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my boys cancelled renewed tbsWe are reviewing all the cancelled shows and renewed shows of the season.

And in this case, after four long season in the air, TBS cancels My Boys.

The announced cancellation of My Boys came a little bit after Fourth season finale, which ultimately turned out to be Series finale of My Boys.

Jordana Spiro, the lead actress who needed to give up a role in the upcoming NBC show Love Bites is not getting quite lucky since she ended uo without both gigs… although maybe it´s still time for her to reclaim the role at NBC.

Cancellation for My Boys by TBS shouldn´t be taken as such bad news, since the show had quite a long run and could explore many storylines.

TBS opens up a spot in its roster. Who will fill the void after My Boys cancelation?

What was My Boys About? – Plot

PJ Franklin (Jordana Spiro) is a professional sportswriter  looking for love within her world, which is dominated by her group of male friends. Her “boys” are her family, which sometimes hinders PJ’s dating life, as the men she tries to date don’t know how to react to her unconventional interests and the all-important men in her life.

Her tomboyish, upfront approach to relationships tends to intimidate potential suitors, which leads her only female friend to advise her to dress and act more feminine. Being “one of the guys” can mean a lot of great things: poker games, pick-up softball games, watching sports or just hanging out at a favorite bar. But for PJ being a girl who’s one of the guys can be challenging.

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Complete Recap and Spoilers of My Boys 03×09 – Spring Trail

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My Boys is one show that amazes me it´s still on air and on a third season while so many great sitcoms get the cut. I just can´t get it that they cancelled Samantha Who and My Boys kept rolling… but hey, I´m no exec. And here it is… filled with spoilers of My Boys…

Complete Recap and Spoilers of My Boys 03×09 – Spring Trail

“Even things we love can become stale and predictable. Sometimes we need a fresh perspective.”

Well, a fresh perspective was certainly brought to the weekly poker game. Stephanie was playing in place of Bobby…and winning, of course. (BTW, Kellee, if you actually read these things, you looked really hot in the green top you wore for this scene.) The gang misses Bobby, but work must intrude, and he is in Mesa, Arizona, covering the Cubs’ spring training. On the good side, P.J., Brendan, Mike, and Kenny will be joining him there soon. Kenny and Mike (more Kenny than Mike) is on a work trip to get some autographs of alumni Cubs on some of his memorabilia. (“Do you have to knock little kids out of the way to do that?”) Brando decides to go because he wants to relive Spring Break. He feels slighted not being able to have that kind of fun because he’s no longer in college. (also be the oldest guy in the dorm, very creepy, and have a name for his bong.) Stephanie managed to make it a spa business trip, writing an article for Travel and Leisure Magazine.

Arriving at the hotel in Arizona, P.J. and Bobby reunite, Stephanie flaunts the executive suite that she gets to stay in, and Kenny is on the floor while Brando and Mike get the beds. (shocking) Andy calls from Chicago, wondering why they were down in Arizona this week and not next week like they said. Well, the scotch he was bogarting from P.J.’s cabinet might have gotten the words a bit turned around. P.J. has a column to write, but she has yet to come up with an idea. Perhaps she should write about the guys’ inflated ego at the hotel bar having a woman to man ratio of around 20 to 1. At least, until some of the Dodgers show up.

At spring training, P.J. wants to interview the Cubs’ management about not signing an important free agent. That story was even better when Jack Briscoe wrote it around 1988—and every year since. Waxing philosophic over the “star-crossed lovers from the Tribune and the Sun-Times, like Romeo and Juliet (would have been funnier if he had said “Joliet”), he bursts P.J.’s bubble by saying that every possible article about spring training has already been written. On the bright side, P.J.’s smart enough to only drink in places where they serve food so she can expense it to the newspaper. (Did the same thing as a computer trainer in the 90′s.) You do have to give P.J. credit, though. She interviewed players, managers, umpires, vendors, families, kids, guys with their shirts off that really shouldn’t do that, even the guy who drives a cart with rakes on it. Of course, all of these people have been interviewed before, so there’s still no “fresh angle” for her story.

At the bar/restaurant (since P.J. is charging this to the Sun-Times) Brendan has CONSIDERABLE luck with a woman who likes his Irish name and hopes he’s a leprechaun. (Women are always after his lucky charms, aren’t they.) Mike, on the other hand keeps striking out. (Probably because he mispronounced the name of the Cubs spring training facility.) He doesn’t see what these baseball players have that he doesn’t—other than youth, muscles, looks, talent. He thinks he can strike out a major-league baseball player. The whole gang calls B.S. on him. All his experience as a pitcher at Naperville Central High School (Go Redhawks!) makes him qualified, in his mind. This is probably the reason Kenny doesn’t want Mike going with him to O’Donoghue’s to get Ron Santo’s autograph. Kenny leaves VERY awkwardly, especially when saying goodbye to Stephanie (they already got it on in her suite, didn’t they). Of course, no woman thinks any guy in the group is hot, not even Brando, unless something is wrong. In the case of Connie, the one who hit on him, there is a problem: Cubs’ 2nd baseman Mike Fontenot. Otherwise known as Connie’s boyfriend.

At breakfast the next day, Stephanie really needs to talk to P.J., and it’s not about the salt scrub she had yesterday that really hurt. (The woman works for a living, folks!) However, Bobby interrupts it (you would think he’d encourage Stephanie and P.J. to keep talking…huh) and has an idea for P.J.’s column: just go to the game as a fan. P.J. hasn’t attended a game without working for a very long time, and she decides that it might be a good idea to join Bobby. And Mike. And Kenny. And Brando. On the good side, she can now cheer and enjoy some alcohol, which seems to be $8 now. Yikes! But at least she’s in a better spot than Brendan, who apparently slept with Connie without even knowing it. Connie’s plan was to make Mike Fontenot jealous because he’s in baseball mode this time of year, so Connie already told Fontenot she and Brando had sex last night. And here’s the sympathy he gets from the gang…

MIKE: “You slept with Mike Fontenot’s girlfriend?”

BRENDAN: “Yeah, Mike, I did. Right there in line. Here’s your nachos.”

MIKE: “Eww, I don’t want them anymore.”

BOBBY: “You don’t want Mike Fontenot mad at you. He swings a bat for a living.” (I think Brando’s safe: Fontenot is only batting .219 right now)

P.J.: “All right, here’s a story I’m getting sick of: ‘You guys, I’m totally in love with this crazy hot chick. Oh, wait a minute, dudes. I think she just made soup out of my shoes.’ You know, there are a lot of beautiful, sane women out there. Stop shopping at the crazy mall!”

Brando can take solace in the fact that Mike Fontenot probably doesn’t even know who he is. Until Fontenot comes out of the Cubs’ dugout and points at him in a menacing way. The good news is, Fontenot comes up to him at the end of the game. Brando explains Connie lied to make him jealous, and Brando is in the same boat with crazy women on a constant basis. Fontenot can sympathize: his last girlfriend set his car on fire.

BRENDAN: “You know, there are a lot of beautiful, sane women out there. We got to break the cycle. We got to stop shopping at the crazy mall.”

FONTENOT: “Dude, you get me.” (they hug it out)

By the end of the game, nobody wants to be there, except Bobby and P.J. The Cubs are losing 13-4 and the regular players are out of the game. However, P.J. has a column brewing. Owen Scott, a minor-leaguer the gang met the previous night at the bar, needs a home run to hit for the cycle. After taking a wicked swing for strike 1, he parks the next pitch over the center field fence. The players go wild (at least the ones trying to make the team), and Bobby and P.J. dance and hug in the stands. (“It takes something special to make two jaded reporters spill beer on their shoes.” But two good things come of it. 1) P.J. has her column, and 2) one of the great debates can now be answered. Yes, that’s right. The Cubs come out to see if Mike can strike someone out. About 40 balls over the fence later, Mike gives up. (or at least we don’t get to see if he actually did it)

Back in Chicago, following Andy’s humiliating turn as Gandalf the Wizard at his daughter’s birthday party, Andy insists on hugging P.J. (and the guys) and refuses to let go until they promise never to leave him again. P.J.’s column was a complete success, going by the bottle of 18-year-old Scotch Jack Briscoe gave her. Owen Scott also made the team. As she and Bobby go out for beer (leaving the guys with Huggy Andy), she thanks him for inspiring the column. She also remembers Stephanie wanting to tell her something, but they never got around to it. Well, the answer can be right in front of you sometimes. In this case, Kenny and Stephanie kissing on the street (and saying “I love you”) might be it.

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Complete Recap and Spoilers of My Boys – 3×07 – Facebook the Past

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My Boys is one show that amazes me it´s still on air and on a third season while so many great sitcoms get the cut. I just can´t get it that they cancelled Dollhouse and My Boys kept rolling… but hey, I´m no exec. And here it is… filled with spoilers of My Boys…

Complete Recap and Spoilers of My Boys – 3×07 – Facebook the Past

“It seems like everyone today is part of two worlds: the real world and the virtual world.”

Kenny “The Bald Weasel” Moritorri wants you to join his mob. He’s friends with the Dalai Lama, and he enjoys a cat sneezing. Of course, we’re talking about Facebook, with which Kenny is obsessed. To be fair though, the entire gang has accounts, except for Bobby. He just can’t figure out the appeal of the social networking site, but Mike insists it is “de rigueur” these days. Stephanie is impressed with Mike’s verbiage, and P.J. is even more impressed Bobby’s Merriam-Webster “Word of the Day” calendar was a good gift investment. Even Andy is on it, but he was obliged to join by Meredith for family reunion purposes. P.J. is upset that Andy doesn’t update his Facebook account with pictures of her niece and nephew, not even realizing she can go to his house and see the ACTUAL niece and nephew. (This is why I NEVER bugged my siblings for pictures of their kids. That’s exactly what they’d say.) The sneezing cat video was provided by one of P.J.’s exes, Matt. Mike loves the concept of a guy’s night out; where the guys can do anything they want. (“Poker?” “Sounds good.”) Of course, no matter how cute the cat is, there’s no way it can top the video of Mike in high school as the Major General in “Pirates of Penzance.”

ANDY: “Free booze to the first person who provides a laptop.” They’re all on it.

The fact that there were only about 40 students in Mike’s all-boys high school would explain how he got the lead in the musical with a whiny, off-pitch, flat singing voice. (To quote another TV show, if cats could sing…they’d hate it, too.) Thankfully, we’re spared his performance in Annie (as the lead, of course) by Brando’s entrance, panicking that Kenny is watching a train wreck. 1) Kenny updates his Facebook status about every 2 minutes or so and 2) they ARE watching Mike’s performance, aren’t they? Brando is definitely a Facebook client with over 700 friends. Being a club manager tends to get you a lot of Facebook friends of the female variety, but Mike doesn’t see this as a major problem.

At the weekly poker game, the guys contemplate Facebook. Andy suddenly finds the advantages of it for a 5th grade reunion that is in the works. (Yeah, you had that flesh-crawling feeling too, huh.) But it turns out 5th grade was a great time for Andy because of his first girlfriend, Erin Radabaugh. He’s regrets letting someone get away who had an Atari and a trampoline. Mike’s “one that got away” had an above-ground pool. Brendan was ticked when P.J. broke up with Matt when they were freshmen in college, since he had the first PlayStation. (Now THAT hurts!) Bobby, who can’t find the on-ramp of the information superhighway, is surprised that P.J. is keeping in touch with Matt, even though they only dated the one year and “you’re allowed to have more than one boyfriend in college; this isn’t the 40′s.” The boyfriend train continues with Thorn (“Thoooooorrrrnnnnn!!!”), although Bobby avoids jealousy by stating that P.J. took HIM, not Thorn, to Italy.

BOBBY: “It’s fine. You can have your virtual friends. I’m quite fine with my real ones. By the way, posting a funny video does not make YOU funny.” (Yeah, you know where this is going already.)

At John’s Place, Mike does not need a status update from Kenny right before he goes to the bathroom and certainly DOES NOT need one after he’s done.

KENNY: “My life is an open book.”

BRENDAN: “Close it.”

An opportunity for Mike opens up at the bar. Yes, with a woman. Yeah, I’m shocked, too. Veronica, a very attractive regular at John’s Place and looks like a hotter version of Stephanie if you look closely enough, seems to be responding to Mike’s version of flirting, which ironically requires a two-drink minimum in most places. However, Brendan seems to have an interest in her as well. Mike sees this as a challenge, as he can find out about Veronica through studying her Facebook status. This is a method Brendan finds a icky and lazy (in other words, just like Mike). Brando decides he can get Veronica through conventional methods. The challenge is on: man vs. machine. Of course, Brando already knows her last name, so he’s up 1-0.

Bobby promotes himself to the mid-2000′s and joins Facebook. After P.J. accepts him as a friend (apparently you can’t accept someone as your boyfriend on this thing), Bobby pokes around in her profile (which is NOT a euphemism, sadly) and discovers that, along with having a lot of her exes as Facebook friends, she plays Word Twist with Hank. Yeah, that Hank. The one she dumped because he couldn’t stand her friends. He’s not happy, and she’s not happy he’s snooping around. He doesn’t like the fact that P.J. seems to be collecting exes online like Hummel Figurines (???), and he is really not happy that she will actually be meeting one of them, Matt, for dinner this weekend. A person whose update is “contemplating his second cookie,” and sending P.J. beignets and green chili (I gotta take Bobby’s side on that last part).

P.J.: “Facebook is great at bringing people together…and pushing people apart.”

Stephanie also seems to be taking Bobby’s side here. Granted, she may be influenced by the frustration of knowing that Andy is going out to dinner with the gang from St. Aloysius (there actually is one in Chicago). However, since P.J. is certain that it’s an innocent dinner and really hasn’t done anything wrong, that ought to be OK. Of course, none of Stephanie’s exes are still friends with her, at least not the ones whose current girlfriends told her to stay away. (“I take that as a compliment.”)

Let the Mike vs. Brando competition begin! Brando is trading on his good looks and personable demeanor (not to mention saying he was a radio DJ), and he seems to clearly have round 1 in the books. However, Mike decides to take the opportunity to enter…wearing a shirt that says “Idaho. No, You-Da-Ho!” Of course, it’s TOTAL coincidence that he’s wearing that shirt, and Veronica is from that state. The fact that it’s purple, her favorite color, is a complete coincidence as well. Brando tries a little ****-block, asking here Mike is from in Idaho. Mike proudly announces Boise, shocking even Kenny that he got an Idaho city correct. She’s from Pocatello, but to Mike, a four-hour drive means they’re practically neighbors. (I’ve sat in Chicago traffic; that’s not as crazy as it sounds.)

P.J. and Bobby arrive, and Bobby is still pretending not to be jealous that P.J. is meeting Matt (“Handsome Matt,” according to Kenny). P.J. queries Kenny and Brando if they’re still friends with any of their exes. (“Nope.” “Not really.”) But even if the romance didn’t work out, P.J. thinks they could still be friends with good exes. (“Nope.” “Not really.”) Bobby theorizes it could be women who do that, but P.J. can’t wrap her head around the math. (Unfortunately, I can, which may explain why I have a lot of female friends but no girlfriend.)

BRENDAN: “There must be that one REALLY sensitive guy out there who broken up and stayed friends with thousands of women.”

KENNY: “That dude’s had a lot of lunches.”

BRENDAN: “Oh, he’s done some cat-sitting.”

KENNY: “That dude’s sat through a LOT of stranger’s weddings.”

P.J.: “Oh! This guy makes me sad.” (Good Lord; I’m a sitcom character.)

Bobby demands why he is required to stay friends with his exes. P.J. turns it on him by saying that he may end up doing the same thing to her if they broke up.

BRENDAN: “That’s not true. Bobby, wouldn’t you stay friends with her if you broke up?”

BOBBY: “Mmmm, I don’t know.” (OOPS! Wrong answer!) You know you screwed up if even KENNY wouldn’t have given that answer.

The next night, Mike’s knowledge of Veronica clearly has him in the lead. Even Brando and Kenny think Mike’s research is genius. Mike knows that she’s half Blackfoot, so he’s been on a spirit walk, as far as she knows. He knows that her favorite author is Sherman Alexie, and he even gets her favorite book right. She is thrilled to go to a book reading at the local library…with Brendan. Brando trading books back and forth with his mom was so sweet to her. Mike does all the work, but Brando still gets the date. (The Mike slam that follows you HAVE to see, just YouTube it.) But don’t feel too bad for Mike, if the attractive woman wearing the “Two Out Rally Souvenirs” shirt ordering a Scotch on the rocks is any indication.

At the weekly poker game, sans P.J., the guys are more than happy to give Bobby crap about her non-date with Matt, as the paella is wonderful, the Jacuzzi place nearby the restaurant rents by the hour, and there’s nothing like makin’ love on a belly full of rice. (That was Brando, by the way.) They are enjoying life without P.J., which is her prompt to return from the date. She bites and thinks about what would happen should she and Bobby break up. Bobby calls Andy in the divorce, over P.J.’s protests…never mind. She calls Kenny, Mike decides to go with P.J., and Brando is last pick. Bobby vetoes a trade of Brando for Kenny and Mike, even though Brando rooms with P.J. However, Bobby declares all of this irrelevant, as he is now Facebook friends with 4 of his ex-girlfriends, including Suzanne, who is single, hot, works at the White House, speaks 4 languages, and is having coffee with Bobby this weekend. (“Is she the Deputy Secretary of Yowzah?”) Now it’s P.J.’s turn to not act jealous. But Brendan is right: Facebook makes the world a bit smaller, but is that really a good thing? Andy doesn’t think so, as EVERY boy in his class thought Erin Radabaugh was their first girlfriend. Although Jerry Pasquali got to be her girlfriend at the reunion, to the surprise of her husband. Mike claims he didn’t get anybody through Facebook, even though Laura clearly did research on him. Suddenly P.J. thinks it’s a good idea to break up with Bobby, just to see how this whole thing shakes out. She could also try to introduce Matt to Suzanne and get them to be a couple, but Bobby doesn’t think Matt is attractive enough for Suzanne. (ouch!)

“It can be a lot of fun having virtual friends, but nothing beats the real thing.”

Author: murphtones for IMDB

Complete Recap and Spoilers of My Boys 3×05 – Carpe Burritoem

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My Boys is one show that amazes me it´s still on air and on a third season while so many great sitcoms get the cut. I just can´t get it that they cancelled Arrested Development and My Boys kept rolling… but hey, I´m no exec. And here it is… filled with spoilers of My Boys…

Complete Recap and Spoilers of My Boys 3×05 – Carpe Burritoem

“Everyone has that friend who doesn’t necessarily know what best for themselves. That would be my friend, Brendan.”

Prosecution’s Exhibit A: Brendan walks into Crowley’s after driving his scooter there. In the middle of winter. A Chicago winter. Even I’m not that stupid, and I wear t-shirts on 5 degree days without a coat. (and buy a chocolate shake at McDonald’s) Of course, with Brendan compounding the fact that he doesn’t even know how to ride one, we get the classic “If I had a dollar…” line from P.J. The obligatory debate on P.J.’s potential investment is cut short by the fact that Kenny has a new band: The Kenny Moritorri Band. He has a gig at Brando’s new club. (“Technically, it’s an open mike night.”) However, the band needs a new bassist for their gig (open mike night), so Andy steps up to the plate. It turns out that Andy was in a high-school band called “Skank.” Clearly, the name “We’ll Never Get Any” was taken. Andy is slightly insulted that he has to audition for the gig (open mike night!), but Kenny decides that beggars can’t be choosers. The good news is, they can use Andy’s minivan to transport the drums to the gig. (“IT’S NOT A GIG!”)

Stephanie arrives to announce her latest edition to the Cosmo Klatch: she is giving a seminar based on her “You’re a Great Guy, But…” book. Women bring their girlfriends who need to break up with a guy to be coached by Stephanie. However, she needs one of the guys to act as a “dumping dummy” so that these women can practice breaking up with their toxic boyfriends….you’ve already guessed Mike, haven’t you. Yeah, the gang can’t even come up with “dummy Mike” jokes; sometimes they hand you the lines too easily. Mike is hesitant, but Stephanie points out that there will be a lot of single women who just broke up with their boyfriends and are a little buzzed on wine. (Wow, her stock just went up a few points for being superficial in the good way.) Mike is in.

MIKE: “Fish in a barrel, meet Sexy Mike!”

BOBBY: “RUN, FISH, RUN!!!!”

P.J.’s financial total on Brendan is $12, based on some of the incidents she listed where he made bad decisions in her presence. When Brando walks in after having done his best Gary Busey imitation on the scooter, we’re now up to $13. P.J. has an idea to help him avoid kiwi schnapps, blue socks, 3rd bowl of pretzels, and the homemade toothpaste made of baking soda and egg whites. (refrigeration optional) She will make his decisions for a week and see how much better things are for him. Brando actually considers this a good idea (like having a little P.J. on his shoulder) and agrees to it. Probably should have agreed before eating the three-week old yogurt, but at least P.J. is up to $14 now.

At the weekly poker game, little P.J. seems to be having the desired effect. The clothes she picked out for Brendan are much nicer, his injured wrist is healing thanks to a visit to the doctor, and she 86′s the microwave burrito he was about to have. Mike is only too happy to consume the burrito for him…and promptly has to leave the table. Kenny even uses this new arrangement to borrow some time at Brando’s bar to practice for his gig (open mike night!) that Brando originally rejects. Andy needs the rehearsal time during his lunch hour, but Kenny is already thinking ahead. He thinks the band needs to practice 20 hours a week so they can get to the next level. (writing, album, summer tour with Wilco)

ANDY: “When you say ‘next level” that kind of implies we’re on some sort of level. But…we’re not. We’re nothing.”

At Stephanie’s seminar, a woman is lamenting the problems with her career-minded boyfriend. Stephanie encourages her to break up with Ethan…via Mike. (“Ethan, you’re a great guy…but we’re through.”) Success! Even Mike is proud of her. However, Mike seems to forget a golden rule: no booze when you’re on the clock. After several ladies have practiced breaking up with him (complete with a face slap and issues that would keep Freud busy for weeks), a few glasses of wine loosens him up and brings out his inner stand-up comedian. (In his defense, Jamie Kaler is supposed to be funny as hell in stand-up.) After one woman thinks her “boyfriend” is more in love with himself…

“Well it’s hard. When you got a body like this, how can you not love it?? C’mon ladies! You know it! You see it! I’m like a thoroughbred! I gotta run! You can’t keep me in the paddock, lady! I gotta get out on that grass and start dancing!”

STEPHANIE: “Time for a break!”

In spite of Mike’s best efforts, his humorous charms actually work on a woman, Robin, who asks him out on a date. Mike hasn’t had this much of a self-esteem boost since throwing up on himself in the 6th grade.

At the Kenny Moritorri Band’s rehearsal, everybody is ready to go, but Kenny needs a band meeting. He wants everybody in the band to write 5 original songs by next week and come up with 10 different names for their first album. The one they haven’t even made yet. Once the meeting is over, it’s time to jam. The only problem is that Andy has to get to a deposition in 20 minutes. The guitarist, who clearly never minded the bollocks, can sympathize. His last one did not go well. (At least Andy has a new client.)

Of course, since it’s Brendan’s bar, he is there working. Fortunately, the comfortable shoes P.J. picked out for him helps him with all the standing…to say nothing of the baby powder! A woman comes in to drop off flyers for her band: Downward Spiral. She looks like a cross between Hilary Duff and Liz Phair…minus about 50 I.Q. points. In other words, Brando’s in LOVE! Fortunately, you have me here to actually listen to what she’s saying.

GWENDOLYN: “Amazing. My psychics agreed I was going to meet an ‘R’ and an ‘N’. Wow, Brennnn-daaannn. We’re supposed to spent multiple lifetimes together. Wanna get started?”

At Crowley’s, while Kenny questions Andy’s loyalty to the band, mainly because he didn’t show up at the merry-go-round for the album photo for the CD that doesn’t exist yet, Brando wants to talk about how wicked Gwendolyn is. Boston wicked, Witch wicked, doesn’t matter. It also doesn’t matter that her band stinks; he is smitten with the wicked rocker chick. Well, technically she’s a singer/bassist, but P.J.—and the rest of the planet—agrees she’s psycho/crazy. (Also the original name of Skank, BTW.) P.J. immediately calls for the veto, saying she’s a microwave burrito with blue socks driving a scooter. Only problem is, Brendan invited her over to Crowley’s. Brendan promises that he’ll only buy her a beer and talk music. The hot kiss Gwendolyn plants on him seems to suggest she agrees moving Lollapalooza to Chicago was a good idea. She’s running off to Tulsa and wants Brendan to meet her there in the morning. (“Tulsa? That’s one LONG scooter ride.) P.J. IMMEDIATELY nixes that idea, saying you don’t start exercising by running a triathlon. Brando goes to get them a pitcher of beer…and sprints out the door.

BOBBY: “We’re not getting our beer, are we.”

Mike’s first date with Robin went very well. He never realized that being funny was his “in.” (Yeah, me neither.) The second date is a very important test: a date with friends. However, his one-liners don’t seem to go as well with her friends.

MIKE: “You had an emergency at the hospital? What, did you lose your patience (patients)?”

JILL: “A school bus crashed.”

Well, in Mike’s defense, making fun of someone wearing a Bluetooth headset in Colonial Williamsburg was a little less tasteless. However, it certainly didn’t endear him to Robin’s friends.

At the next band rehearsal for the Kenny Moritorri Band, Andy needs to talk to Kenny. It seems he talked to the rest of the band and feels they should go on without Kenny, since they have more fun just playing instead of listening to him. That’s right: Kenny Moritorri has been thrown out of the Kenny Moritorri Band. What term do you use for the complete OPPOSITE of irony?

Stephanie has a problem: Brando was supposed to be the “dumping dummy” for tonight before going Richard Kimble on everybody and Mike has to wait for a call from Robin. She asks Bobby, but he wants to stay to hear the group formerly known as the Kenny Moritorri Band. P.J. tells Stephanie he’ll do it, but Bobby takes offense.

BOBBY: “Whoh, wait. I think you got me confused with Brando, Peej. See, I’m not the guy you get to make all the decisions for.”

P.J.: “Oh, you’re right. I’m sorry. (winks at Stephanie)

STEPHANIE: “Of course you’re not, Bobby. I’ll see you at eight.” (cough–WHIPPED–cough)

At the seminar, Bobby is very helpful with the first woman. The woman is Robin, who is practicing to break up with Mike. Sure enough, she gets on the phone and dumps Mike during the seminar, right in front of Bobby and Stephanie and a roomful of strangers. (“HANG UP, MIKE!! IT’S A TRAP!!!”)

Back at Crowley’s, everybody consoles Kenny for being kicked out of the Kenny Moritorri Band. Truthfully, Mike can’t garner much sympathy after thinking Robin dumped him for being too funny. Almost on cue, Brendan walks in sporting an “I Love Tulsa” sweater and looking like he just completed a two-day meth binge.

BRENDAN: “That woman is in—-sane! We partied in a quarry. We had sex in a nursing home. I got pushed in a river, we broke into a zoo! I had to take a bus home because somehow she got me on the no-fly list!”

BOBBY: “Tulsa has a river?”

Brendan doesn’t smell too good either, as Gwendolyn cleansed his spirits with turtle urine. She’s sort of a cross between Phoebe Buffay and Glenn Close from Fatal Attraction, wouldn’t you say? P.J. is forced to relent…

“Sometimes you can only do much to protect someone from themselves. You can show them the dangers, but…”

BRENDAN: “Sometimes P.J., you just gotta eat the burrito.”

Good advice, as they go out for an Awful Burger, which is a double-cheeseburger, grilled onions, covered in chili, deep-fried hash browns with an egg on top. (For the healthier version, you can skip the egg.) P.J. throws caution to the wind and joins them. At least now she can get them for half-price!

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Complete Recap and Spoilers of My Boys 3×02 – Private Eyes

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My Boys is one show that amazes me it´s still on air and starting a third season while so many great sitcoms get the cut. I just can´t get it that they cancelled Arrested Development and My Boys kept rolling… but hey, I´m no exec. And here it is… filled with spoilers of My Boys…

Complete Recap and Spoilers of My Boys 3×02 – Private Eyes

Kenny and Bobby are completely shocked. They have never seen anything like it before in their lives. But the club is opening soon, and Brendan MUST work. He’s been poring over blueprints and working with the “guy in the hard hat,” which IS his official title. Even the smallest change has a profound effect, as P.J. explains when she enters.

P.J. (voiceover) “When something changes with your friends, it’s like dropping a pebble in water. You think it’s a little thing, but there is a ripple.”

This is the cue for Mike to enter, still sporting his mustache, whilst the other guys have reverted to being clean-shaven. This for Brando is a return to his permanent 5 o’clock shadow. Of course, in 20-30 years, Mike will be sporting the Wilford Brimley look—in mustache AND weight, most likely. He doesn’t care. His mechanic takes him more seriously, the guy at the newsstand tells him stories about Vietnam, and he actually met the type of women who would enter a wet t-shirt contest. Mike is wondering where Bobby was, as he wanted to set up Bobby with one of the ladies in a wet t-shirt. Bobby is not exactly ready to jump back into the dating pool, but P.J. teases him by saying he should just jump into bed with the first girl he sees. Suddenly, P.J. gets beeped: the Cubs are pursuing a new free agent. She takes off, while Bobby wonders why he didn’t get paged. Then he gets paged. Of course, dating Bobby is like throwing a Buick into the pond instead of a pebble, so P.J. had resorted to the work subterfuge and set up the pages. Around the corner, Bobby and P.J. kiss, and he apologizes for choosing to jump into bed with the first girl he sees, which was her.

P.J.: “See, that’s why I’m with you. You were the only one in there who heard a word I said.”

BOBBY: “What?”

Two more items of surprise take place in P.J.’s apartment the next morning: she’s walking in and Brendan is actually going to work. (Can a Cubs World Series be far behind? I mean, really.) Brendan has to meet the electricians at 8AM, and P.J. tries to cover by saying she was at the gym. Of course, she’s not whining about it, and she’s still wearing the same clothes. As it stands, P.J. is a horrible liar but very good at turning the conversation away from her.

“Oh, hey. I hear those electrical workers are notorious for being on time.”

“Shoot, I gotta go! Do you think Starbucks will be open this early?”

At Crowley’s, Mike retains his mustache, and now we know Kenny no longer watches 70′s porn because of it. Andy joins them, disguised as a loving and caring husband. Creepy, huh. He’s actually cooking dinner (or at least picking it up), and he is bringing Meredith flowers. He’s trying to be the Ultimate Husband by being as supportive as possible and picking up the slack. This is how he is able to deal himself a night off each week from it. Brendan has to spill his guts: he thinks P.J. is dating somebody, based on her morning walks of shame. He was able to catch P.J. because of the crazy hours he’s been up. It’s like he has a job. As Kenny and Mike do their traditional 7th grade “OOOOOHHH’s”, Bobby covers for himself much better than P.J. did. “Would it be so terrible if P.J. had a boyfriend?”

BRENDAN: “Dude, if she’s hiding this guy, he’s a total tool and she’s ashamed of him. Or, he’s totally awesome and she’s ashamed of us. Either way, I’m offended.” (logic that is simultaneously flawless and pathetic)

Something is clearly going on, although Andy thinking that P.J. is still dating the botanist probably isn’t it. Kenny notes that she has smelled slightly different lately, and Brendan noted that she bought a fresh pack of those Venus razors. “It’s like shaving with honey.” (Mike’s mustache seems a lot less weird all of a sudden.) Thankfully, Kenny knows who to ask. They just need to take their shoes off in her new apartment. Stephanie, who seems to have gotten her decorating ideas from Charlotte of “Sex and the City,” is just as astounded as the guys are. Stephanie hasn’t been told anything, and the last person she discussed with P.J. ended in Stephanie telling her that she was crazy. The guys can’t believe that Stephanie doesn’t know anything, but Stephanie insists that P.J. hasn’t been at her place in weeks. The smoking gun!

STEPHANIE: “Oh, my God! Do you know what this means?”

BRENDAN: “That you haven’t met him because he’s even worse than us?”

STEPHANIE: “That means she is seeing someone and she didn’t even tell me! That little tart!”

Kenny convinces the guys to leave before Stephanie gets on a roll. That, and the ballpoint pen in his pocket is about to ruin Stephanie’s white leather couch.

Bobby and P.J. meet at the coffee shop, because apparently this show doesn’t get enough comparisons to “Friends.” Bobby is confused as to what to say when everybody thinks P.J. is dating. P.J. is actually uncertain if she and Bobby ARE dating. Well, they are seeing each other, they’re not just hooking up, so that would likely mean they are dating.

BOBBY: “So, we are dating. So, I should I tell the guys?”

P.J.: “No, no, no! Those guys are like a school of piranhas. They will take the baby deer that is our relationship and they will tear it to bits.”

BOBBY: “What is a baby deer doing in the Amazon?”

P.J.: “It’s lost its way?”

Bobby has to concede that P.J. is right. She gives the example of how Brendan has his dream job, and is being teased mercilessly about it. Bobby agrees, because watching Brando work is like watching a bear try to fold a map. (“Wow! I’m doing it, too! What have they done to me?”)

Bobby would like to put the situation aside for now, but a van decides to pull up instead. Mike, who apparently watched the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” video too many times as a kid, gets him in the van and hands him a walkie-talkie. All of them are going on a stakeout to discover P.J.’s new boyfriend. Bobby…correction, “Little Bear”…is not exactly thrilled. They pull up to the restaurant where P.J. and Stephanie are having dinner. While Stephanie tries to pry the new guy’s name, the boys contemplate who the guy could be. There’s the philanthropist with the Porsche, the food critic at the Sun-Times, the triathlete from the gym, or Jeremy Piven. The stakeout seems to be falling apart, though. Brendan has to run to the club for an emergency, Bobby doesn’t even want to be there, and Andy can’t seem to get a pizza delivered to four guys parked in a gray minivan across from a grade school. (can’t imagine why)

Fortunately, Stephanie has better luck with P.J. Of course, she completely reverses her prior advice to P.J. about how dating Bobby is crazy. Certainly no crazier than carrying a walkie-talkie into the restaurant with her. She seems to be playing the Nina Meyers to P.J.’s Jack Bauer. Thankfully, nobody gets killed, but the guys in the van must depart immediately, as “the Jackal” has ratted them out (although she wanted to be “Lady Danger”).

P.J. decides she must tell the truth before things get more ridiculous, like Bobby grilling her on all these men she seems to be dating. It would seem Bobby’s been brainwashed by the guys, because he agrees to be the new “inside man” and find out about P.J.’s date. Thankfully, reality sets in and he sees what is going on. He agrees with P.J. to just tell the truth and let the chips fall where they may. No need to call; Mike busts in on them full of paranoia about P.J.’s “boyfriend.” P.J. tells Serpico to radio the other guys and come on up. After a slight communication problem on how to communicate, P.J. communicates that she and Bobby are dating.

KENNY: “What Bobby?”

P.J.: “This Bobby! Right here.”

The guys try to come to grips with this information. Of course, Mike wants to know if they are…well, it’s hard to say the term he uses, but it ends with “Sheboygan,” for some reason. The guys are stammering for what to say.

P.J.: “Okay! You can ask one question!”

BRENDAN: “When did it start?”

MIKE: “Does she put out on the first date?”

KENNY: “Are her feet soft?”

However, as Bobby points out, the guys can ASK questions. There was no rule about answering them. Fortunately, Andy wants to get the poker game going, but since everybody has to work tomorrow, including Brando, they’ll only have one tournament tonight.

P.J.: (voiceover) See? Eventually, the ripples go away and things return to normal. Until the next pebble.”

Author: murphtones for IMDB

Complete Recap and Spoilers of My Boys Season Premiere 3×01 – Welcome Back, Kalla Fötter

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My Boys is a sitcom about a female sports columnist in Chicago deals with the men in her life including her brother, her ex-boyfriend, her best friend and a sportswriter for a rival publication. Yesterday a new season of My Boys premiered. Here are all the spoilers

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