HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
A new year is a
great time to make new promises, and put themistakes of the past behind
you to start with a clean slate. So, after readingMovieFan12’s great
article on his goofiest mistakes, and of course the AT4W episodeon his
15 biggest screw-ups, I got to thinking. How many mistakes have I
made?It turns out; quite a few and I wanted to share them with you
today. After all,no one is perfect and making mistakes is how we learn.
Many of these are the result of comments afterthe blog was published.
So, here are my 12 biggest blunders from my first 200 blogs.
#12. It’s Clichés, not Cliché’s!
Ok
so grammar is not my first love. I did an article onsitcom clichés, and
accidentally spelled the word as cliche's. Not sure why Imessed that
up, sometimes spellcheck is your enemy more than a friend, but
theapostrophe was a mistake and a reader was kind enough to message me
and informme of the goof. Ah well, this is how we learn I guess.
Besides, spelling errorsprobably don’t seem odd if you read my stuff.
#11.Sometimes a good idea....isn't
I
couldn't let this go without mentioning my two biggestdisappointments.
The Worst of Trek series which sucked because I created theseries
without any real idea of what I was going to talk about. That caused
meto basically paraphrase other opinions and there was nothing from me
inthere. And of course there was and myarticle on ER. That was a risk,
and it fell. Not sure why, but I will stick totalking about comedies
from now on. And there have been plenty of ideas which Istarted but
rejected, including an article on Lois Lane which was so boring Itossed
it half way through. An averted mistake was my attempt to
claim“TheGreatest American Hero” had a horrible theme song, yeah I was
trying to fillthe article and thankfully came up with something better. I
love “Believe it orNot” it’s one of my favorite songs ever.
#10.Wrong Picture
This
is a small one but still worth mentioning. In myarticle on toys I loved
in the 80's, I posted a pic of Transformers. The problemis that the
photo was the generation 2 toys which were released for the movie,not
the 80's version I grew up. A small mistake but still a mistake. I
justcouldn't tell them apart, and should have left the photo off.
#9.Wings was a 90's show!
Ok,
here is a small on I imagine many missed. I did anarticle on
underappreciated 80's sitcoms, and the one show I really wanted totalk
about was Wings. One small problem, that was on in the 90's! I
didremember and take the blog down, but not before someone was kind
enough topoint it out in the comments so I decided that it was worth
mentioning. So Ireplaced it and the next day created the article on
underappreciated 90's sitcoms.
#8. Designing Women theme over Golden Girls? Really?
In
my attempt to do a sitcom face off with these shows, Itried to make it
fair. But I hate Designing Women and everything was going theway of
Golden Girls. So, I made a case that the theme song for Designing
Womenwas better to give them a point, but that is not only crazy but not
even myopinion. It was in the interest of fairness I guess but I should
have beenhonest and just made it a Golden Girls sweep, or changed the
direction of thearticle. “Thank You for Being a Friend” is a great song
and a fantastic themefor that show and does not compare to Georgia on My
Mind.
#7.It's called a freakin Mogwai!
Another
early lesson, take five second to do research. In myarticle on movies
which scared me as a child, I included Gremlins. I talkedabout how the
main character bought a Gizmo at the store, and then broke therules and
so on. There is only one problem; Gizmo was the name of the
specificcreature not the name of the species. Before they become
Gremlins they areMogwai's, and like a dope I wrote it wrong when it
would have taken me fiveseconds to get it right. Oops. I hoped no one
would notice, they did. When Ireposted it here, I corrected the goof.
#6.Leaving out half a paragraph!
Yeah
another blunder I am not proud of. In my article on thebest and worst
sitcom spin-off's I was talking about the best. Naturally, thatwould
include Frasier since it was as good as Cheers and so on and so on.
Onlyone problem, in my excitement to get the blog out I did not
proofread, and theblog was submitted without HALF THE PARAGRAPH! Even
worst, the section stops mid-sentenceas I was about to make a point.
That is unacceptable! I have no idea how I didthat, but I did go back
and fix it when posting it here. It’s still wrong on TGWTG to this day.
Thefunniest part was that even with the gaff, this article began a very
largediscussion and I think had the most comments ever.
#5.It's a Wonderful Life was A BAD CHRISTMAS MOVIE???
This
was an early blunder and one of the few times I everdeleted a blog and
reposted it. The blog was about Christmas music which comesfrom bad
Christmas movies, or movies that don't really have anything to do
withChristmas save for one scene. I got carried away, and tried to shoe
horn AuldLang Syne from "It's a Wonderful Life". I mean, c'mon! This is
aChristmas classic and even I watch it every year! Plus, I don't thing
Auld LangSyne is considered a popular song, at least not enough to be on
that list.Sometimes you get carried away and go too far, and that is
what happened here. Theworst part is I really liked the way that article
came out, and my exuberancehurt the final product.
#4. But Lando was a great character!
Yeah,
I really wanted to do a Star Trek article in my “FiveThings I Hate
About” format but had to stretch to make it work. So I made funof stuff
like the Cantina scene in the original classic and Lando's character,but
really I was reaching. Some of the stuff I said was true, but I should
havejust taken a different approach since either I was exaggerating or
just talkingabout stuff that had already been discussed in length. In
fact of the 5 pointsonly 2 I really “hated”. I tried to makea case that
Lando was a horrible character, but c’mon! Billy Dee Williams did
agreat job and I liked the character as much as anyone else. It was
kind of me “Worst of Trek” series allover, if you can’t find something
original to say than the article may need tobe rethought especially if
its about something like Star Wars which has serious fans who will call
foul veryquickly.
#3.Um, the winner is????
When
I did my sitcom face off on Night Court vs Scrubs, Iposted it on TGWTG
as always. On there I put pics but sometimes I do not dothat here
because I may not have time and the pictures are not alwaysnecessary. So
I have to write in the things that I use pictures for. In thisinstance,
I forgot to do that for the winner so when everyone got to the bottomof
the article there was no winner! To make matters worse, I was out that
dayand by the time I got back to the computer several people had read
the article,and wondered who won! My fault, and not only will I be more
careful but I havestarted putting pictures on my stuff here more and
more. For the record, Scrubsone.
#2.How did I forget Les Nessman?
This
was a different kind of mistake. I did an article onhow sitcom actors
will get injured or sick, or even worst, but the show stillhas to go on.
I cited some examples of how an actor’s injury will often be
incorporatedinto a show, like when Matt LeBlanc hurt his arm on Friends,
but forgot one of themost famous stories. When WKRP in Cincinnati was
just starting out, RichardSanders, who played Les Nessman, was hit with a
light and suffered a gash tohis head. All they could was cover it up,
so they put a band aid on it and filmedthe episode. The band-aid would
become a trademark of the character after that,he would have one on
somewhere in every episode. I still don't know how Imissed that one, but
there you go! I also neglected to mention that HarryAnderson had to
wear a cast for a couple episode of Night Court, but that ismore
forgivable.
#1. YOU HATED THE MUPPETS??????
Ok,
here is where I have to come clean. When I saw TheMuppets I didn't love
it, but thought it was good. Yeah there were stuff thatbothered me but
overall I did like the film. So I posted an article on mythoughts, and
well let's say I got to negative. It resulted in one of my mostscathing
responses, and to be honest it was deserved. I got carried away,hating
on the opening to hard, insinuating that The Muppets were hardly in
themovie (what a stupid statement to make) and making fun of things like
the overthe top villain and the 4th wall jokes which are a standard
Muppet practice. Istand by my opinion, I hated that love story sorry but
I did, but do wish I hadreconsidered my words better and not been quite
so angry. If I had just talkedabout the good things and not the bad, I
think the article would have come outbetter and had a better reaction.
Thiswas the first movie I had discussed which I saw in theatres, and got
a littlecarried away being a critic. If you want to be a critic you
can’t just whineand nitpick, you need to honestly analyze and interpret.
The truth was that itwas a sweet story with strong characters, and
overall was an enjoyable film. Ijust got the DVD for Christmas, hoping
to watch it soon. I think I was justtrying to strike a nerve, and boy
did I succeed! Lesson learned. The movie isgood. So there, am I
forgiven?
I figured there had to
be a mistake in my Seinfeld episodeguide, but don't remember any. I
guess it's because of how careful I was increating those. There were
others I could mention, but I think those are good.If you remember
something I may have missed, please feel free to comment. Theseblogs are
a process and you have to make mistakes in order to learn. I hope
youenjoyed this, and have happy and healthyNew Year!
Oh, how could I not include this to make this blog compleyte? check the link below
http://youtu.be/KThlYHfIVa8?t=45s
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