5. Amazemom Maya Rudolph impersonates various celebrities singing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.” Her Gwen Stefani is spot on; why did we never see this on SNL?
Jennifer Westfeldt’s new movie Friends With Kids comes out today
Jason (Adam Scott) and Julie (Jennifer Westfeldt) are best friends. They each know that they want kids someday, but they haven’t yet found their one special person with whom to spend the rest of their lives. Also, they’ve witnessed their friends’ romantic lives turned to crap once the kids come along, so they decide that in having a baby with their best friend, they’ll get all the good and fulfilling parenting stuff without all the yelling and fighting that their married friends seem to have. Once they baby is born and they’ve settled into a parenting routine and Julie gets her pre-baby body back, they’ll both be free to date people in hopes of finding the loves of their lives. Read more...
The Brinkleys celebrate Amy’s first birthday! Haven’t seen it yet? Watch it online here.
Chris and Reagan start things off with some party planning for Amy’s first birthday. First things first: guest list, and bitchy moms who have biting babies do not make the cut. As Reagan’s flipping through the baby book, she calls Chris out on wrongly marking down Amy’s first word as “Dada” and then they swarm the baby trying to get her to say their names. Amy either says “Kia” or “kiosk” and is therefore deemed a genius.
As Chris and Reagan get Amy all packed up for a playdate, Chris is ambushed by uncool parents Gene and Terry the minute Reagan runs inside to get something. They note that they hadn’t been invited to Amy’s birthday and suggest a joint party between Amy and Roger. Eeee. Chris is unable to say no. Gene and Terry start a conga line, Reagan is furious. Read more...
Have you seen episode 16? If not, watch online and tell us your favourite part of the episode!
Travel Day starts off with Ava completing her online certification to be a wedding officiant, which she kind of confuses with being a genie. Reagan wants to go to this wedding too, but has basically already admitted defeat with the whole travelling with babies challenge. Meanwhile, Missy’s trying on dresses and warning Ava that since she’s going with Kevin, she’s going to be harassed about when they’re getting married.
At the Brinkley homestead, Reagan and Chris have invited Gene, Terry (the uncool neighbours) and baby Roger over for a playdate. Gene and Terry agree that anyone would be crazy to attempt baby travel, which obviously makes Reagan and Chris want to do it. Read more...
On the Ava Show, her Valentine’s Day shtick is a hunky kissing bandit named Besos. Besos goes in for the kill and starts making out with Reagan, which weirds her out and rightly so. Reagan’s worried that Chris will flip out over the prank. As for Ava’s Valentine’s Day plans, she’s cooking for Kevin (Jason Lee), despite the fact that she doesn’t cook. Insert many obvious she-can’t-cook jokes. Although we did like “Can you get me a ‘bowl’?”
She ends up cooking chili (romantic!) and gets annoyed when Kevin doesn’t seem overly impressed with it. Kevin’s had a tough day at work and gets annoyed with Ava that he can’t talk to her about his day. They yell a bit. Read more...
Whew! That Wednesday to Thursday change is hard to keep up with, but here goes! Since the end of the work week isn’t terribly conducive to TV watching and recaps, we’ll be posting the Up All Night recap and discussion on Mondays. So, all of you who didn’t quite catch it on Thursday night, but DVR’d it or waited for it to appear on your on-demand, or are just waiting for the kids to take a nap or something, Mondays.
In this episode, Reagan and Chris are trying to find a good preschool for Amy, who’s not even 1 year old yet. The fancy pants one, with “tempur-pedic floors” and a focus on analytic learning, is big on parent involvement and money. Since Reagan’s desperate to get Amy in, she volunteers to run the charity auction, signing Ava up as emcee. Read more...
NBC’s moved the comedy from Wednesday to Thursday, so now you can catch it after the Office. We think it’s a good move. It definitely belongs closer to 30 Rock and Parks and Rec than Whitney does.
We’ve got two episodes to recap, so let’s just dive in. Did you watch the New Year’s Eve episode last week? If not, check it out online here.
Reagan and Chris decide to invite Ava and Kevin (Kevin!) over for New Year’s Eve since they can’t get a sitter. Chris suggests movies, but Reagan wants games night. Chris hates games night, but Reagan’s pushy so she wins. They also invite over Ava’s assitant Missy who tells them she’d just planned on spending New Year’s with her lame boyfriend. Read more...
Ah! We’ve missed our favourite show about brand new parents for the last couple weeks! Do you also need to get caught up? Good thing the internet exists!
OK! So a lot of things happened in the last three episodes and despite the title of this post, we are not going through them all. In “First Night Away”, Reagan and Chris are in serious need of some adult fun time. To ensure this happens, Reagan books them a swanky hotel room and they arrange for their go-to babysitter to watch Amy while they’re away. Of course the sitter gets food poisoning and cancels. Ava happens to witness Reagan’s phone call from the would-be babysitter and eagerly volunteers her services. Not wanting to hurt Ava’s feelings, Reagan agrees. Read more...
Chris freaks out over his mortality because his Sports Illustrated lifetime subscription is going to run out in 2032… a mere 21 years away. Mid-freak-out, Reagan’s parents call, she tells him to avoid their call but now that he realizes life is short and precious, he answers their call. Reagan hides. Reagan’s parents, Blythe Danner and Richard Schiff, are planning a visit, despite the fact that Reagan makes up an excuse as to why they can’t.
Reagan’s parents are both psychiatrists and Blythe Danner is being feted at UCLA for her new book, Raising Daughter. (It chronicles all Reagan’s awkward teenage years.) Read more...
We go back in time to sometime just before Amy’s birth. Reagan’s going over her birthing plan and tells Chris that since she can’t do anything she’d normally do, coming up with this plan is the only thing she has control over. If Reagan had only read Megan Pettit’s birth post, she’d know birth plans don’t necessarily go as scheduled.
In order to get ready, the Brinkleys sit down to watch a birthing video. I think we all remember watching a similar video in grade 7 or so? Yeah, terrifying.
Over at the Ava show, Ava’s talking to one of those “I didn’t know I was pregnant” ladies. Reagan, rightfully, calls bullshit. Then Missy tells Reagan she wouldn’t know that Reagan was pregnant… until you look at her swollen, swollen feet. That got an LOL. Read more...
Last night’s episode featured Michael Hitchcock, whom you may have seen in any Christopher Guest movies, as Mr. Bob, and the awesome Missi Pyle as Kayla’s mom.
OK. So Reagan’s been researching baby classes and finds that Mr. Bob is the best. Reagan and Chris are initially a little skeptical (“He’s got a Ph.D in Peekaboo!” “And a Masters in Got Your Nose”) but immediately see that he is indeed the best. Mr Bob gets the Brinkleys to work on their Peekaboo and it seems like it’s really paying off!
At the Ava studio, Ava’s sad/annoyed/angry that Reagan’s at such a different life stage as her what with the baby and all. When Reagan bails after one drink when they’re out to see an all-drag queen Bangles cover band, Ava is not pleased. So not pleased that she dangles an invite to Reagan’s favourite designer’s party in Reagan’s face, but gives the extra ticket (and speech-writing duty) to her assistant Missy. Read more...
This week’s episode starts with Reagan and Chris wanting a beach day with Amy. Chris’ car is in the shop, so they’re loading up Reagan’s convertible BMW and having some serious problems doing so. Then the uncool couple strolls by with the Baby Bjorn and tells them they’ll never get all their beach stuff in that tiny car. They do, but they forget about actually putting the baby in.
At work, Ava’s assistant shows Reagan and Ava that she made a top 10 drop-outs list, inspiring Ava to make the show more serious and “gravitas-y”. The assistant, Missy, says she just read a great book on the economic collapse, so Ava tells Reagan to book the economist for the show. Read more...
