Season 3 | Episode 3 | “A Rock and a Hard Place Walks Into a Bar” Aired October 16, 2015

As the writers of Undateable continue to settle into the rhythm of a weekly live show, a pattern has emerged consisting of the ingredients needed for this cast to slam dunk 22 minutes of comedy. Here’s what you need in order to be a huge success:

Embrace social media.
Not only does Bill Lawrence Periscope table readings, but the entire cast and crew bombard social media in the minutes leading up to and during the live show. The audience feels like we are part of this great moment and it’s glorious.

Invite a different musical guest each week.
If you’re not big enough to land a gig on Saturday Night Live, Undateable is the venue for you. Kodaline was the lucky band who had the chance to showcase their talents in front of a live audience — and anyone who may be watching NBC on a Friday night.

Always remind audiences thatUndateableis live.

This episode, Shelly decided to see what was on NBC. He flipped on the television and his own face stared back at him. Burski informed Shelly that he wasn’t watching NBC, but a security cam. Cut to a “random crowd” cheering. Say hello to the Undateable live studio audience. The same goes for Shelly’s insistence that TV characters need catch phrases. #TakeItToChurch

Mention a current, trending news item.
Brett: Did you guys read the news? Playboy is not doing nudes anymore.
Burski: Does the Internet still exist?
Brett: Yeah.
Burski: I think I’ll be fine.

Write a bit that has Brent Morin and Chris D’Elia “fighting.”
Danny is upset that Candace convinced a girl he met on Tinder named Jenny (her name was Judy) to not sleep with him because Danny didn’t know Jenny-Judy’s last name. Danny thinks that Justin needs to set his woman straight . When Justin waffles, Danny challenges him and Justin retorts by holding up his dukes — meet Marvin and Gaye. Morin and D’Elia banter back and forth for a solid two minutes, including a little obvious improv for good measure. I could watch this all day long.

Troll Bill Lawrence’s cell phone for a celebrity guest.
Sarah Chalke of Scrubs fame visits the bar this week. She drinks her chardonnay in her Elliot Reid white doctor’s jacket and stethoscope around her neck. Danny makes fun of her for wearing a costume from a show that ended five years ago. Chalke dares him to keep his little show running for nine years and see if he doesn’t wear his signature leather jacket when he goes out for a drink. Hot blonde doctor for the burn win!

Justin experiences a meltdown.
Candace is irritated that Danny asked Justin to talk to her about Jenny-Judy. She cuts to the quick by calling Danny middle-aged. Justin begins to panic when he sees his roommate and girlfriend at each other’s throats. When they ask him to choose sides he officially breaks and hides in his office.

Bring Danny to tears.
Candace apologizes to Danny for ruining his evening with Jenny-Judy. Danny understands that Candace was looking out. You know, girl power and everything. Candace admits that doesn’t care about Jenny-Judy. She just wants Danny to find a nice girl. (This elicited an “awwww” from the audience and a perfect “come on” look from D’Elia.) Danny fights the tears when Candace goes for the jugular, telling Danny that she likes who he is as a person. He pushes through the emotions for a solid minute.

No one can resist a sing-a-long.
Candace knows the only way she can get Justin out of his office is if she starts singing “Summer Lovin'” from Grease. When she belts out the first verse, Justin pokes his head out and finished the line. Even though he’s participating in the sing-a-long, he still won’t come out unless Danny joins in — with feeling. Cue the entire cast performing their bar version of the beloved hit.

The only thing that is missing from this recipe is another appearance by TV’s Scott Foley. Let’s get on that Bill Lawrence. I know you’re reading this.

Pickup Lines

Justin: I’ve always dreamed of this–me with my boo, you with yours. If this keeps up, four tickets on a Disney Cruise!
Danny: Don’t make me say the four words you’ve always wanted to hear. You’re my best fr…
Justin: Stop it! I don’t want it like this!

Season 53 | Episodes 137–141 | Aired Oct 12–16, 2015

Are we preparing for another round of “Who’s the Daddy?” on General Hospital? First, Sabrina is hesitant to tell Michael about her pregnancy. Then she flashes back to Carlos kissing her. Throw in her offhand remark about how long it took her to realize she was pregnant. Carlos and Sabrina last saw each other in mid-May, after he killed Duke and she gave him refuge for the night. At the time, there was no implication that they hooked up, nor was the kiss she recalls visible on screen (if memory serves, it was only a hug). Sabrina and Michael first made love back at the end of June. Given soap-opera time (one day = weeks), the time frame is certainly plausible, but …

Sabrina is already a fringe character at best. Friends with Tracy and dating Michael, she has no other revealed ties to the General Hospital canvas. Carlos is a presumably dead (as much as anyone in Port Charles is ever truly dead) mob enforcer with no family in town. Michael is a legacy character with ties to nearly everyone in town. If the character of Sabrina is staying put, please let this baby be Michael’s.

Michael is by no means a perfect character, as his renewed hero worship of Sonny has proven. Hopefully Sonny’s mandate that his sons stay out of his mob business will take hold, as I’d much rather see Michael back to talking about the A.J. Quartermaine Clinic than looking like the kid accidentally sat at the grown-up five families’ table. Sonny appears to be on the road to recovery, sans feeling in his legs, as he surprises Carly with the third attempt at their fifth wedding in the hospital chapel. The less wondered about how Sonny and his recent surgical incisions got into that tuxedo, however, the better.

Sonny and Carly are wed once again, and there isn’t a dry eye in the house, although there may have been a few eye rolls from the audience. New Josslyn (Eden McCoy) may still love all things corn, but her rendition of the “Wedding March” on her recorder was certainly not the hellion child we last saw before her lengthy visit with Jax.

Lulu quickly rebuffs Dillon’s kiss and makes a beeline to tell her husband. Dante is furious, but conflicted when Lulu likens it to his “kiss” with Valerie. Dillon goes out for a stroll with Maxie, and the two stumble across a floater in the water. Police arrive and, thanks to a handy-dandy wallet, the body is identified as Carlos Rivera. If viewers recall, Sloane had Carlos’ wallet locked away with Anna’s gun in a safety-deposit box, so it’s fairly safe to assume that the decomposed body is actually Sloane’s, with a few Paul-planted items. Anna is completely unnerved, and Paul practically delights in toying with her fragile psyche. With Jordan present, Paul reveals to Anna that the autopsy results match Carlos’ dental records and that the time of death is one to two weeks ago. This sends a frazzled Anna running to Patrick for sleeping pills. And Jordan reminds Paul that autopsy results should come to her, not him. Might this be the first crack in Paul’s good-guy image? Then again, viewers have no clue as to how Paul went from reluctant mob guy to full-on criminal mastermind, so a little more detail is greatly desired.

But back to the Falconeri mess: Dante corners Dillon at the PCPD and demands he stay away from Lulu. Dillon makes it known to Dante that he is well aware of his indiscretion, but is keeping his mouth shut. Maxie, giving her “finding a dead body” statement, confronts Valerie about the unopened pregnancy test she found in the trash. And Valerie rightly rips into her for jumping to conclusions. Seriously folks, the test was still in the box, in the trash, in a somewhat public room. Maxie fills Nathan and his unbuttoned shirt in on the Lulu-Dillon situation. Maxie thinks Nathan should now share his secret, but he rightly points out that Maxie pretty much proved that she can’t keep her mouth shut, especially where Lulu is concerned. Meanwhile, Lulu has moved on from the Dillon kiss and meets with the fertility doctor about giving Rocco a sibling.

Drunk Kiki gets her time to shine, as she sees Morgan and Ava chatting at the Floating Rib. First she blasts Ava for leaving her newly acquired offspring with a babysitter in an unfamiliar home (fair point). After ordering a drink to throw in Ava’s face, Kiki is cut off by the bartender. So Kiki goes to snag the bottle from behind the bar, breaking it and injuring the bartender. Kiki’s shenanigans get her arrested, putting a snag in Franco and Nina’s planned sexy time. Franco tries to get Kiki released from the drunk tank, but she’s being held for assault. Nina steps in and pays off the bartender and gets the charges dropped. Franco is grateful, but a skittish Nina puts the kibosh on sex for the night and requests raincheck. Franco promises Nina that when it eventually rains for them, it will pour. Let’s take a moment so you can all grab some bleach to clean that image from your collective minds.

Olivia stuns Dante with her adopted-baby scheme, and he wonders if it’s really plausible enough to work. And while Julian may have lost enough brain cells to buy the story, Alexis is clearly skeptical from word one. Alexis queries Olivia on all things adoption-related and doesn’t appear pacified by the vague answers she receives.

The Jake-is-Jason reveal continues to trudge along at its glacial pace. Despite a sprained ankle, Sam, Jakeson, and the flash drive are able to sneak back out of Wyndemere unseen. Seriously, where did they dock their boat? Of course, the files are encrypted, so Sam calls her secret weapon into town. Spinelli arrives and takes mere moments to find out that Nikolas ordered a DNA test on Jakeson some months back. Sam suggests that Spinelli hack into the DNA lab to find out who Jakeson’s DNA was tested against, but Spinelli’s newfound moral compass of fatherhood gives him role-model pause … for about three seconds, as the Fair Samantha talks him into it. Spinelli continues to note how much Jakeson reminds him of Jason, as nobody puts the pieces together or even questions the idea. They’re all going to feel pretty stupid when the truth comes out.

Hayden continues to not let on that she overheard Nikolas and Laura talking. Hayden pushes Nikolas to tell her why he was so angry, but otherwise plays her cards close to the vest. She goes to GH for some tests, leaving Nikolas outside as Patrick tells her there is no medical reason that her memories haven’t returned. Elizabeth keeps Hayden in the exam room after Patrick leaves and confronts her, assuming the memory loss is a convenient lie. The two women don’t come to blows, but the tension is palpable, as Elizabeth’s focus on covering her own butt becomes more and more desperate. Outside, Nikolas asks Patrick about Hayden’s condition, and Patrick breaks every HIPAA law as he says that he expects her memories to return. Back at Wyndemere, Jakeson storms in and demands answers from Nikolas about the DNA test.

It’s really a race to the finish line as to who will reveal that Jake is Jason, isn’t it? Whom do you think the truth will come from?

Season 6 | Episodes 4 | “Ka Papahana Holo Pono” | Aired Oct 16, 2015

I hope you’ve been paying attention to those Hawaii Five-0 recaps, folks, because a lot of stuff from last week’s case is coming back, including Sad Steve, counterfeit money, and Yakuza woes. So let’s dive in!

Adam is leaving therapy when he walks right into the least-subtle elevator abduction since Captain America 2: The Winter Solider. Adam is taken to a stereotypical empty warehouse where he’s introduced to Tom Bishop of the Yakuza.

Bishop tells Adam they know he had nothing to do with the men murdered outside his house, but the money Adam owes is still a problem. The Yakuza is getting anxious; it’s been weeks since Adam lost their money to Gabe. So they’ve taken the situation into their own hands.

They kidnapped Aaron Jones (Gabe’s partner in crime), and they want Adam to torture Gabe’s whereabouts out of him. Adam tries to talk to Aaron first—he was also recently abducted and tortured—but Aaron says he doesn’t know anything.

Bishop tells Adam to get a move on with the violence, so Adam rolls up his sleeves and starts hitting. But unfortunately, Aaron doesn’t know where Gabe is, so Bishop cuts his losses and kills him. Then he hands out a warning to Adam: The clock is officially ticking on his debt. He needs to get them their money by any means necessary—soon.

In our case of the week, a couple is raiding the Makua Forest Reserve for expensive plants when it starts raining money. But naturally, it’s too good to be true. The money is actually blowing out of the bag of a dead man with an arrow in his chest who is lying nearby.

So what does this couple do? They bury the body and try to buy a car with the money. But the money is fake and they’re arrested, so they finally tell the authorities about the dead body in the forest. Better late than never, I guess?

The counterfeit money traces back to Miko, our vic from last week. How did our current John Doe get it? His clothes and Vitamin D deficiencies suggest that he’s been hiding out for the last 30 years. Max runs a photo to see how the victim would have looked back then and Chin recognizes him.

Our victim is Hawaii’s own Howard Hughes, a man named Harrison Crane who was the richest man in Hawaii before he dropped off the grid. No one knows what happened to him. (Jerry of course fills them in on the details since he’s a main contributor to Crane’s Wikipedia page.)

Luckily the murder is easily solved: it was a hunting accident. But there’s still that money to worry about. Prints on the bills point Five-0 to Gerard Hirsch (Willie Garson), the crooked art appraiser Five-0 put away last season.

Kono and Steve track down the recently-released Hirsch at a hotel where he’s drawing caricatures. He admits he sold some art to Miko (which is where he got the fake cash). Crane had contacted him to sell a painting quick and cheap, cash only. So that’s how Miko’s fake money got to Crane.

The rest of the team heads to Crane’s place. The housekeeper tells them Crane hasn’t left the property in 15 years. She’s never even been inside; she leaves everything outside the door for him.

The team heads in and notices some recent photos of a young woman. If Crane hasn’t left in 15 years, who is she? They find out her name is Laura, but she’s not answering her phone and she didn’t show up to work. Coupled with the fact that Crane got a call from a burner cell and then frantically tried reaching Laura, it looks like Laura was kidnapped and Crane was headed to a ransom drop when he was killed.

Crane’s lawyer tells the team that Laura’s mom had been Harrison’s one true love back in the day. After she died, he took it upon himself to take care of her daughter, and he and Laura grew fond of each other.

When news of Crane’s death leaks to the press, the kidnapper calls Hirsch. He wants the painting in exchange for Laura. But Hirsch already sold the painting to a Russian crime lord, so Five-0 has to get it back.

After a car chase and a game of Frogger as Steve runs across the busy road, they retrieve the painting and Hirsch heads to the drop, with Five-0 as backup. Hirsch hands over the painting, and the kidnapper nearly gets away, but then his car gets T-boned. The kidnapper is dead and Laura is still missing. Luckily, the team is able to track down his partner—his mother, and Crane’s housekeeper. Laura is found, mostly safe and sound, on Crane’s property.

In team bonding this week, everyone knows how sad and lonely Steve is after Catherine left him. (I mean, has anyone ever looked so sad about seeing someone’s old toothbrush before?) So Lou wants to take him out on the town and keep him busy. Steve says he’s fine, but come on, the toothbrush.

But Steve gives in, and the whole team—sans Danny—meets up for drinks. And who do they run into but Jerry Rice, apparently a really famous, talented football player! (Thanks for the rundown, Lou. I needed it.) Steve gets Danny an autograph and they take a group photo. Yay for athletes!

Where was Danny, you ask? Why he was at the hospital with Charlie! Yes—we finally have an update on Danny’s recently-discovered, sick son! Hallelujah! Steve visits Danny in the hospital (my boys are so supportive), and informs the team that the surgeries went well, and Danny and Charlie should be out of the hospital in a couple of days. So we can all rest easy. Little Charlie has not be forgotten.

Hawaii Five-0 airs Fridays at 9/8C on CBS.

The previous episode of Star Wars Rebels ended with those dreaded words: “TO BE CONTINUED ….” Thankfully, we don’t have long to wait (this is me trying to be positive), and we’ve gotten a little something to tide us over until Wednesday.

This new clip shows one part of the mission completed (yay!), but it’s definitely looking like an “out of the frying pan, into the fire” sort of scenario (not so yay).

There are also a few hints from these new images:

1) Don’t make Zeb angry. You wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.

2) I don’t care what Thane Kyrell manages to do it Claudia Gray’s Lost Stars, AT-AT’s are still intimidating as all get-out.

3) Sabine has a very big and menacing firearm. This is never a bad thing.

4) Could we be getting our first look at the Fifth Brother?

Having had a chance to see this episode at the recent Star Wars Rebels press day, I can tell you that it’s one you definitely don’t want to miss. Both the story and animation are amazing and left me breathless.

Star Wars Rebels airs Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m.ET/PTon Disney X D.