I'd become pleasantly used to watching an old episode of Frasier on the Paramount Comedy channel at six on an afternoon. It was a nice routine. But then, suddenly, they changed the schedule, and now I'm pretty sure they show one of their worthless, dire programmes instead. So, for a little while, my routine was totally thrown out. But then I discovered that Paramount Comedy 2 (which is deserving of praise solely for the promotional trailers they ran for it) shows Cheers in the same slot, not to mention the slot directly before it. I welcomed this change with open arms, because I haven't seen nearly as many episodes of Cheers, and also because it seemed like a natural progression, or at least a natural regression.
Anyway, a couple of episodes ago was the one with Sam's "surprise" bachelor party, and as I watched it occurred to me that I have never, ever seen a surprise party on a television programme that the recipient didn't find out about in advance or inadvertantly trigger by assuming someone's secretive behaviour was because they were organizing one. This seemed a little odd to me, but then I realised that that may well be how it works in real life. I have only ever been to one thing that remotely resembled a surprise party, and I wasn't paying nearly enough attention to know if the surpise was real or not. So if anyone can remember a surprise party that came as a surprise, please let me know. It would set my mind at rest.
And if you can think of one from a TV programme, that's even better.
Friday, March 12, 2004
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