Guys with Kids is Really a Cute Show! You Guys Should Check It Out!

Posted on the 03 January 2013 by Kristy47 @watchingwaytoomuch


The answer to Wednesday's Trivia Question: January Jones plays Betty Draper on Mad Men. FIRST FIVES:Bill McLaughlin, Bobby Aguilera, Katie McCartney, Alex Nagler & James Gabriele
Honorable Mention: Dani Jackel Tuesdays Broadcast Top 5 
Betty White's Off Their Rockers-NBC 1.8/5.6
Parenthood-NBC 1.7/5.2
Betty White's Off Their Rockers-NBC 1.6/5.6
Shark Tank-ABC 1.5/5.1
NCIS-CBS 1.4/9.2 Tuesday's Broadcast Trendrr Top 5
Parenthood-NBC 15,183
Betty White's Off Their Rockers-NBC 10,685
NCIS-CBS 8,470
Emily Owens-CW 8,074
New Girl-FOX 6,420 Tuesday's Cable Top 5
NA Tuesday's Cable Trendrr Top 5 Orange Bowl-ESPN 410,964 Dance Moms-Lifetime 181,922 Piers Morgan-CNN 31,904 Tosh.0-Comedy Central 18,344 Hardcore Pawn-Tru 17,013 Lindsay Lohan really did seem normal on Million Dollar Decorators the other night.  I Tivo'ed it and caught up on the show last night. She bought a cute house and hired Kathryn to find fabric and a home for about 50 pairs of sunglasses and 1000 bags.  Remind me again how she has any money left to buy and furnish a house?  The budget was 250K.  Didn't she spend all her dough on lawyers?  No big reveal yet, because every time she goes to pick out drapes the paparazzi follows her and she has to leave. So funny how Kathryn's son's decided to tag a long with their Mom on these business meetings when they've NEVER gone on any other ones.  Lindsay didn't even seem to mind.  Finally back with a new episode, one of my fave new shows, Guys with Kids.  It's just a simple sitcom that my family can all watch together.  It's easy, funny and cute.  This was a good episode.  A bit "How I Met Your Mothery", but good nonetheless.  Through flashbacks we found out that:  Nick, Emily and Chris all went to Colgate together.  Nick proposed because he got Emily pregnant.  They all met when they shared a hospital room during the birth of their kids. It was Marni's idea to name Emily and Nick's daughter Violet. Chris's ex-girlfriend was a beautiful blond named Sage. Gary ex-Nanny punched him in the mouth which explains the chipped tooth, and Baby Ernie's first word was "Sage" not "Mommy" which killed Sheila.  Oh and did I mention that we still die laughing every time Marni and Gary say their son's name...Yoda?  We do.
I thought Nashville was new last night, but they tricked me with a recap episode, so I went to bed a bit early. Yeah for me! NEWS & INFORMATION
I'm loving the 2012 Google Zeitgeist. 

-Here are the top TV Show search queries with the highest amount of traffic over a sustained period in 2012: 1. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (Oy VEY!) 2. The Voice 3. American Idol 4. Big Brother 14 5. X Factor Top 5 TV Show search queries with the largest volume of searches: 1. American Idol 2. The Voice 3. Breaking Bad 4. Game of Thrones 5. Glee -Tonight is the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.  Playing for the title is Kansas and Oregon which are the teams of choice for Eric Stonestreet and Ty Burrell of Modern Family.  If you haven't seen the promo on ESPN, it's pretty cute, check it out: http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/01/modern-family-stars-ty-burrell-and-eric-stonestreet-fight-over-the-fiesta-bowl.html -Some 2012 Year End Trendrr Stats:

  • Trendrr measured more than 800 million social interactions around TV programs on their day of air
  • Add in chatter that occurred off air and the number increases into the billions
  • August was the most interactive month thanks to 17 days of the Summer Olympics
  • Every month of 2012 drew at least double the number of social interactions than in the same month of 2011
  • Social TV chatter grew 800% on Twitter in 2012
  • As for the Networks, NBC had 150 million interactions, ABC & FOX with 75 million each and CBS with 60 million.  ESPN had 50 million and MTV 40 million
  • The Top 5 shows with the most social activity: Spongebob Squarepants -25 million social interactions, The X Factor-17 million, The Voice-11.5 million, WWE Raw-11 million & Pretty Little Liars-10.5 million
  • Pretty Little Liars holds the record for most social interactions for a single episode with 1.52 million for its mid season finale
-Congratulations to Flipping Out's Jenni Pulos, she and her new husband Jonathan are expecting a baby.  They didn't waste any time did they? Of course all I care about is how Jeff Lewis is going to react to this news.  Hope they filmed it all.

-Some interesting data coming from a study the cable industry and Nielsen did about how people talk about my favorite subject...TV. 

  • 67% of the respondents said that they "always" or "often" talk about TV shows with people in the same room while they are watching something on TV. Uh, that would be me.
  • 62% said the same for face-to-face conversations. Also...me
  • 29%  "always" or "often" talk about TV by updating or posting on Facebook Me, again.
  • 17% do so by tweeting Recently started.
  • 17% via social networking apps Me
  • 13% blog WWTM...duh
  • 13% use check-in apps Do they know I live for Viggle?
  • 12% enlist live chat on Xbox Live. Ok...one thing I DON'T do!
  • 18-34 year olds were more active in using social networks and services to talk about television. Hate to admit this, but I'm not in this demo :(
  • 24% talk about television with friends and family TV and food otherwise, we'd be silent.
  • 11% do so with the public or the web Okay, coming clean...of course I do!
  • 9% with show cast members. I try, but they don't chat back most of the time, if they did, Jimmy Fallon would be at my house by now!
  • 46% started watching a program because of chatter on Facebook Check
  • 14% started watching a program because of chatter on Twitter. At the bottom of the list were social check-in services like Viggle (2%), Foursquare (1%), GetGlue (1%), and IntoNow (1%). Actually, nope to all of these.
  • Facebook is better with females (49% start watching a TV show due to chatter on the social network versus 43% of males), while Twitter holds more influence over males (16% versus 12% of females). I'm a female and yes, I absolutely agree with this stat.
-Last week, 50 million IOS and Android smartphones and tablets were activated and 1.76 BILLION Apps downloaded. I personally activated 2 in my family and have 2 more to do.  At that point the Carruba family (including my parents) will all be on smartphones!  My stepfather is making the big jump from his ancient flip phone to a Blackberry...hey...baby steps right?
-There are 425 million devices connected to the web inside US households. Most are computers (183.8 million connected to the web), but these are decreasing and being replaced by  connected gaming consoles (39 million), Blu-ray players (12.9 million), and TVs (16 million), as well as tablets (31.8 million) and smartphones (133 million).
-Thursday's Trivia Question: A few readers have asked for a few trivia questions to honor Jack Klugman.  I have to admit I'm not a Jack Klugman expert but I do remember a few things...so here's today's...What was the name of Quincy's assistant? WWTM-Kristy http://watchingwaytoomuch.com kristy@watchingwaytoomuch.com kristy.carruba@watchingwaytoomuch.com