I haven't done an early 90s sitcom update in quite a while and I think it's high time I got back to it. This ones comes on the heels of some exciting news revealed by Neil Patrick Harris just last week but I'll get to that in one second. Those of you of my generation and nearby will recognize the two in the pic as Doogie Howser MD and his best, and far less genius friend Vinnie Delphino from the hit tv show "Doogie Howser M.D." (1989-1993). The show centered around Doogie just trying to be a normal teenager, but alas, it was quite difficult since at 17 he was already a full-time doctor saving lives, pretending naked girls were only medically interesting, etc. Sigh- the times when it was seen as a sign of genius to write your diary on the computer.(no longer- see, e.g. this blog) So anyway the update on these two is that Neil has reveled that he is gay and now stars in a far less-memorable tv show called "How I met Your Mother," in which, ironically he plays a "womanizer." And Max Casella, the lovable and stereotypically Italian next door neighbor - what of him? As many of your already know, he has now come into his own as a stereotypical Italian and has a reoccurring role on the Sopranos. What a happy ending to an excellent show. Of course my dreams of being a doctor by the age of 17 were shattered when I flunked out of remedial chemistry, but I bare no grudge again the show for giving me unrealistic expectations. Oh no, that grudge is all used up on Mr. Tucker who should have seen it as a latent sign of genius when I tried to burn a hole in the middle of a graduated cylinder with a Bunsen burner. I had it on low heat- goddamnit!Thursday, November 09, 2006
Doogie and Vinni more than just friends?
I haven't done an early 90s sitcom update in quite a while and I think it's high time I got back to it. This ones comes on the heels of some exciting news revealed by Neil Patrick Harris just last week but I'll get to that in one second. Those of you of my generation and nearby will recognize the two in the pic as Doogie Howser MD and his best, and far less genius friend Vinnie Delphino from the hit tv show "Doogie Howser M.D." (1989-1993). The show centered around Doogie just trying to be a normal teenager, but alas, it was quite difficult since at 17 he was already a full-time doctor saving lives, pretending naked girls were only medically interesting, etc. Sigh- the times when it was seen as a sign of genius to write your diary on the computer.(no longer- see, e.g. this blog) So anyway the update on these two is that Neil has reveled that he is gay and now stars in a far less-memorable tv show called "How I met Your Mother," in which, ironically he plays a "womanizer." And Max Casella, the lovable and stereotypically Italian next door neighbor - what of him? As many of your already know, he has now come into his own as a stereotypical Italian and has a reoccurring role on the Sopranos. What a happy ending to an excellent show. Of course my dreams of being a doctor by the age of 17 were shattered when I flunked out of remedial chemistry, but I bare no grudge again the show for giving me unrealistic expectations. Oh no, that grudge is all used up on Mr. Tucker who should have seen it as a latent sign of genius when I tried to burn a hole in the middle of a graduated cylinder with a Bunsen burner. I had it on low heat- goddamnit!
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in that i am a big fan of how i met your mother
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