the show that dare not speak its name
what to do when you Google someone in an attempt to locate their contact info for something work related only to find out that they write JAG fanfiction? you can't exactly pick up the phone and call without giggling. i've so far resisted the urge to share this information with co-workers but i guess i'll just have to send an e-mail and pray that we never meet face-to-face.
did you know that JAG consistently pulls in ratings/shares of around 6.5/11. that means that over 6 million households are watching this show. now, the t.s.o.a. crowd tends to be a bit provincial, but do you know anyone who watches this show? it's been on for 10 years! perhaps they all keep themselves intentionally anonymous, like the Masons or the Klan or something. i guess it's popular enough for fanfiction but i couldn't even bring myself to read any of it.
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When I was working with Kroner last winter, I would occassionally find him watching JAG in the middle of the day. He claimed that TIVO recorded it for him based on his viewing habits, but I wasn't buying it.
Not to call out Phil, but as much as he's talked about TV watching, I would think he's caught an episode here and there.
I admit to looking at cheesecake shots of Catherine Bell in magazines like Maxim. Doesn't make me a fan of the show, though.
Posted by: jake | February 10, 2005 01:24 PM
Jaked nailed it: the appeal is due to four words:
Anglo Iranian Catherine Bell.
Growing up on air bases, most service lawyers I knew spent their time dealing with drunk airmen battling DUIs or charges relating to vomiting inside the engine casing of a Chinook HC1. Who knew the US Navy and Marines were such hotbeds of crime and constutional law precedent?
Posted by: WisdomWeasel | February 10, 2005 01:43 PM
Kevin recently told me that this complete freakshow from highschool was currently writing Anime and Manga fanfiction and had pages and pages of the stuff online. Creepy yet perfect.
And speaking of Kevin, he recently cut a phone call short so he could go watch the second half of NCIS, but he called it Navy Nicks. I had no idea what the hell he was talking about.
Posted by: crispin | February 10, 2005 04:10 PM
Wouldn't Navy Cissies make more sense with that acronym?
Posted by: jake | February 10, 2005 04:18 PM
My NASCAR watching sister-in-law Dawn watches it, or at least she used to. She thinks the leading man, Lt. Darren Jag or whatever his character's name is, is quite a dreamboat.
Posted by: David | February 10, 2005 06:36 PM
AAHHH!! Erik watches "JAG"! aaahh! funniest thing ever.
We've had a lot of real-life JAG issues on our campus lately. GW Law is one of the only schools who have publically acknowledged that they do not support military recruiters on campus since they descriminate against gays. They're welcome to come here, but we ain't helping them do anything. It was a fairly big item in the news recently w/ the 3rd Court of Appls. saying the Solomon Act is unconstitutional (the Solomon Act says schools barring military recruiters will lose federal funding). Anyway, now a bill just easily went through the House saying you can not bar military recruits b/c it's a matter of Nat'l Security. Duh. Anyway, GW Law students, LAMBDA, are protesting some recruiters this weekend. Go gay law students! Tell those JAGs to shove their lame ideas up their tight asses. As Carrie said so well last night on "ER", "With all of the things wrong in this world, starving children, diseases, are you really that concerned with who I love?" Oh, TV, I love you! (*just not "JAG")
Posted by: Claire | February 11, 2005 09:56 AM
Actually, I am proud to say that I've never seen an episode, even tho my history of bad-tv-lovin would indicate otherwise.
I'd write more, but Joan of Arcadia is on :)
Posted by: Phillip | February 15, 2005 09:55 AM