What's Alan Watching?: There is a new blog logo. Discuss.

Monday, April 26, 2010

There is a new blog logo. Discuss.

Another week brings with it another logo, this one with a theme submitted by reader Bryan Farris.

As always, this post has links to, and explanations for, all the previous logos.

31 comments:

Anonymous said...: Um. They're all JAGs?; 9:30 AM, April 26, 2010
Andy said...: Supporting cast members more popular than the lead?; 9:30 AM, April 26, 2010
Unknown said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 9:31 AM, April 26, 2010
floretbroccoli said...: Something to do with dancing?; 9:34 AM, April 26, 2010
BS said...: I second Andy's guess.; 9:37 AM, April 26, 2010
Tausif Khan said...: characters known by a single name?

minority actors in supporting roles?; 9:54 AM, April 26, 2010
Cindy said...: All were plucked from relative TV obscurity, then went on to TV careers. Faison from Clueless, Bell from Dream On, Anderson from Home Improvement, and Kaufman from the Dick Van Dyke Variety Show? (of course, this argument could be used for just about any lineup of actors...); 9:54 AM, April 26, 2010
Zach said...: It's not dancing to Poison by Bel Viv Devoe, or Alan would have automatically linked to the Turk video in the lead of the story.

I'd say they all have moles on their faces, but a link to Cindy Crawford would have been up there.

Let's guess characters known by just one name?; 9:56 AM, April 26, 2010
Tausif Khan said...: characters primarily known by a nickname; 9:59 AM, April 26, 2010
Unknown said...: favorite characters on shows that jumped from one network to another?; 10:05 AM, April 26, 2010
bad dad said...: Seth FTW.; 10:17 AM, April 26, 2010
Rinaldo said...: I'll modify Seth's to say simply "shows that changed networks":

Scrubs: NBC -> ABC
JAG: NBC -> CBS
Baywatch: NBC -> syndication*
Taxi: ABC -> NBC

*not a network, obviously, so we could add "or equivalent" to the sentence.; 10:19 AM, April 26, 2010
BF said...: Rinaldo wins!

(My original suggestion had "Buffy" instead of "JAG").

Thanks, Alan.; 10:25 AM, April 26, 2010
Hatfield said...: I was gonna say they all provide public services, but that's a stretch. Good job, Rinaldo.; 11:48 AM, April 26, 2010
Schmoker said...: Well, all of them are people I think are hot. Does that count?; 11:52 AM, April 26, 2010
Rinaldo said...: Seth really deserves the credit, for coming up with the crucial link. All I did was copy off his paper. :); 11:57 AM, April 26, 2010
Billiam said...: Apparently jumping networks is more common than I thought. I can also think of "Family Matters" and "Futurama" (which returns with new episodes on Comedy Central in June).; 12:27 PM, April 26, 2010
BS said...: Medium jumped networks too.; 12:30 PM, April 26, 2010
Unknown said...: thanks Rinaldo. At first I thought it might be even more specific, like shows that thrived after a network change, but that did not seem to apply to Scrubs or Taxi...
Good stuff.; 12:32 PM, April 26, 2010
Anonymous said...: Huh. How/Why did JAG go from NBC to CBS?; 1:26 PM, April 26, 2010
Alan Sepinwall said...: Huh. How/Why did JAG go from NBC to CBS?

NBC and Don Bellisario were at odds over the tone/style of the show (they wanted action-adventure, he wanted courtroom drama), and they also worried that the audience skewed too old, so they canceled it after a season. CBS is/was less concerned about older viewers, and it ran a decade for them.; 1:58 PM, April 26, 2010
Unknown said...: Congrats on the new job at HitFix.com.

Does this mean more podcasts?; 2:01 PM, April 26, 2010
Jessica said...: They're all secretly Scientologists?; 7:30 PM, April 26, 2010
Anonymous said...: Life War Piece Death; 12:01 AM, April 27, 2010
Matt S. said...: is it wrong that my first thought was that they all had some sort of disease---you know Turk had diabetes and Pam Anderson had Hep C and Kauffman "died" from cancer.... in retrospect the network jumping show thing makes much much much more sense. (esp given that Turk is the character and not the actor.); 12:14 AM, April 27, 2010
LA said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11:38 AM, April 27, 2010
LA said...: If you have a backload of banners you can't take to HitFix.com, why don't change the banner daily for your last week here on blogspot? I rarely get here in time to guess the theme before it has been solved, but I love playing the game just the same. Just an idea.; 11:40 AM, April 27, 2010
Alan Sepinwall said...: I've actually used up the logo inventory, since I stopped making more once the HitFix talks heated up.

I have one final one that I'll post next Monday that will sit here as kind of the guardian of this version of the blog once I've moved on to HitFix.; 11:46 AM, April 27, 2010
BF said...: Let's play "Guess What'll be in Alan's Last Logo!"

- Lester Freamon
- Tony getting the Star-Ledger
- Charles Irving Bartkowski
- Sipowicz; 12:07 AM, April 28, 2010
Unknown said...: Obviously bringing back, 4 people who have never been in my kitchen.

Barring that: Tony with the Star-Ledger, Chuck&Sarah, Homer in a Mumu, Don Draper.; 6:05 PM, April 28, 2010
LP said...: "CBS is/was less concerned about older viewers, and it ran a decade for them."

Not to mention it spun off NCIS which itself spun off NCIS: LA.; 7:35 PM, April 30, 2010