Tonight at 10p on TBS, Sullivan & Son decide to try ladies night and they wind up attracting The Big Bang Theory’s Kunal Nayyar.
Nayyar does a complete 180 from Raj in this role and you are going to love seeing him play the ultimate playa! He will hit on the ladies like only his infamous character wishes he could do when he is drunk. Yeah he is that much of a stud and he will actually land a lady tonight. Who is she? She is the bar’s tom boy Melanie and she transforms for the special night.
But ladies night isn’t only about Nayyar, Hank also meets his soul mate and they have more in common then you would ever guess that they do. Think you know what it is? You won’t, but you will thoroughly love the storyline! It is funny and very touching at the same time. Which is why I love Hank’s character so much.
Yesterday I was on a conference call with Kunal Nayyar and he talked about playing this role. Since he’s playing the King of Pickup Lines; when he was asked what his favorite one was on the show, he said it was “I like to go for the crazy girls. You know, crazy in the head, crazy in the bed.”
Something you would never ever hear him say on The Big Bang Theory, so what is it like for him to play such an opposite role from the one we know him for. He said, “It was liberating. It was a lot of fun, you know, it’s always fun to play characters who don’t have a filter because, you know, in society you have a filter. Everyday you have a filter in your life. We live by these rules that are governed on us, you know, whether it’s family rules or rule of friendship or rules of etiquette or rules of manners.” Then he added, “It’s really fun to play a character who just throws all of the rules out of the book – out of the door and just says what’s on his mind and is sort of liberated and trying to pick up women this way and then completely lies about his ethnicity.” And since he was playing an American on the episode, he couldn’t use his natural accent, so he would have a problem getting some of the words out. In fact when he does an Indian accent on the show, he was told not to use his real accent. And he let us know what that was like for him, “Like, so it was funny. I was playing, like, opposite-opposite of myself.”
Even though this role is not something he has ever done on camera before, it was something he had done in his private life. He shared with us this little tidbit, “I know it’s a silly thing but my friends talked about having a big Ed Hardy party where we would just dress from head to toe in Ed Hardy and skulls and, like, walk around and just pretend to be these type of guys. And so, that’s, like, where it came from. I was like I know how to be this kind of guy because we talked a lot about pretending to be this guy and it was fun, you know.” In fact he told us he might’ve enjoyed doing the role a little bit too much because he said, “It was really fun to just go for it. You know, I didn’t censor myself and I wasn’t self conscious about it. I really, really enjoyed it. Maybe too much. I’m not sure my wife was very happy.” While she might not be happy with it, I promise you will be because he will have you in hysterics. So much so if you have any liquids in your mouth you will be spitting them out just to laugh! So tune in to Sullivan & Son tonight at 10p on TBS!
Rizzoli & Isles is back on TNT at 9p and tonight they are getting political. Well not them, but the case they are investigating. A local politician is shot ala JFK style and now they have to figure out who did. All signs point to the husband, but is he the one who did it?
Since this is Rizzoli & Isles we also focus on their personal lives. The episode takes place weeks after Isles’ kidney transplant surgery and she is still dealing with the physical and mental effects from it. Has she reunited with her mother and her sister or did they take the kidney run? Then Rizzoli gets a huge surprise when Casey comes back to see her. Is she ready to take him back? You will have to tune in to find out.
I can’t quite place my finger on what does show does so well, but it is one of the very few police procedurals that actually gets it right.
Have you ever judged a television show by its first appearance; and then after you made your assumptions about it, you decided not to watch it. Well that is kind of what Sullivan & Son is all about tonight at 10p on TBS. When our favorite bar gang since Cheers realize they are all alone on a Saturday night, they decide to make some changes. They have decided they will not be so judgmental about the people they are going out with. So Melanie (Valerie Azlynn) sees a cute guy sitting at a table and she decides to go out with him. He has an annoying habit, but the guys convince her to see past it. Then there is Owen (Owen Benjamin), who says he will go out with the first girl who walks through the door. When a beautiful woman is that person, he wants to turn her down because she is older than him. Again the guys convince him to do it. The two of them really relate to each other, and it might not be a good thing that they do. Finally it is Steve’s (Steve Byrne) turn and he has met his perfect woman. But no one is perfect, so what is her flaw?
The moral of tonight’s show is being picky is a good thing, except when it comes to Sullivan & Son unless you pick to watch the show every week on TBS!
Oh and I highly suggest not drinking anything when you watch this show because you will wind up spitting it out when you are laughing so hard at some of the jokes!
Franklin & Bash are back on TNT tonight at 9p and Peter (Mark Paul Gosselaar) & Jared (Breckin Meyer) will be naked by the first commercial break.
The two lawyers go on Piers Morgan Tonight with Rachel King (Heather Locklear) and they lose more than the pride when they lose a bet to her. Stanton Infeld (Malcolm McDowell) is so impressed with her that he brings her on-board to manage the boys and she won’t be gentle on them. Will she be able to control them or will they run amok as always? You will just have to watch the first two episodes at 9p and 10p of the season to find out. If you love this show, you won’t want to miss what havoc they cause tonigth!
Sullivan & Son is back on TBS tonight at 10p and you want to check out this bar where nobody knows your name, but they sure do know every joke about your race.
On tonight’s season premiere Steve’s (Steve Byrne) sister, Susan (Vivian Bang) asks him to teach her uptight doctor husband (Ken Jeong) to relax and that is a challenge he doesn’t want to accept. Eventually Steve gives in because he has no other choice. After one sip of beer and a piece of pizza, Jason (Jeong) is a changed man. That is something Steve and Susan’s Tiger Mother doesn’t approve of and she will do everything in her power to get her prodigal son-in-law back? Will she succeed or will she have two worthless sons in her life now?
But it isn’t only about them, Melanie (Valerie Azlynn) discovers that the men of the bar don’t know anything about sports. So she decides to teach them a thing or two about the games they pretend they know so much about. As payback they will teach her something that every woman knows, but her.
I have seen three episodes of this season so far, the two TBS sent out and a taping on Tuesday with The Big Bang Theory’s Kunal Nayyar; and I have to say that this show is even funnier and wronger this season.
Steve is still adjusting to life at the bar and being a single ex-lawyer. His dad (Dan Luria) is still a beaten down man, but makes us crack up with his expressions. His mom (Jodi Long) is one tough cookie, that you don’t want to f*ck with. Carol (Christine Ebersole) is still very much a slut and will do any man that comes into the bar. Hank (Brian Doyle-Murray) is still the racist with a heart that steals every scene he is in. Owen (Owen Benjamin) is as naive as ever and that is why you love him as much as his mom, Carol. Well not as much as her because those two have a really weird relationship. Ahmed (Ahmed Ahmed), Roy Wood (Roy Wood Jr.) and Melanie are full of one liners, and they are the type of people you totally want to hang at a dive bar and have a beer with. So why not grab a stool and join them tonight and every Thursday at 10p.
Sullivan & Son is not your warm and fuzzy family sitcom and it is not a smart one that only the elitists like; it is a sitcom with real people at a real place in real situations telling real jokes and because of that it is a real funny show!
