Pinks on SpeedTV

With the recent finale of The Deadliest Catch, and inbetween the increasingly rare new episodes of Lost, primetime TV pickings have been pretty sparse till now.

My new favorite show is Pinks on SpeedTV [Wednesday nights at 9 PM].

Noodle noggin that I am, Pinks is a show with a premise even I can grasp and understand: two guys show up at the track with their rides, and drag race for the best 3 of 5 races. The winner's then awarded the losing car's "pink slip" [the ownership title]

The loser walks away without his expensive custom-built race car.

It's all or nothing, in other words. No whining, no excuses, no begging for a second chance or a "do-over."

Kinda like eternity, if you stop and think about it.

Laughter is Surprisingly Good Department:
Sometimes I'm surprised how little emphasis is placed on comedy, as though 95% of movies and TV shows drill mindlessly into drama and provocative social themes. And what comedy there is is built on foul language, insults and sexual double entendres.

The past few days I've been re-watching Jeeves and Wooster, a comedy series set in pre-World War II England that ran on British TV between 1990-1993. I found Jeeves and Wooster by accident on PBS's Masterpiece Theater years ago, and one day hope to own the entire DVD 8-pack.
Summary from imdb.com
"Based on the well-loved novels of P.G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse, this British series featuring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, chronicles the misadventures (romantic and otherwise) of the impeccably dressed Bertie Wooster and his trusty and sagacious butler, Jeeves. Peppered with sporting dialogue and memorable, dim-witted and eccentric characters."

There's no swearing, no nudity ... not even so much as a sexual pun.

Call me tuppence short of a shilling, or a sandwich short of a picnic, but Jeeves and Wooster is still the only TV show that still makes me laugh out loud several times during each episode.

And Netflix even has all four seasons available for rental.