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Guest columnist: Daria 'Ratbat' Sigma
THE GOOD
Family Guy - The animated adventures of the Griffin family, far less of a Simpsons rip-off than you might like to think. An assembled viewing at GBU Outpost R resulted in laughter to the point of pain. It's not for the faint-hearted, but it's bloody funny.
Come Together - Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees' he said/she said novel. Bloody hilarious (dare I say, engaging), and bound to remind you of Nick Earls. Who cares if the plot isn't exactly new? All the love stories have been told anyway, the meat's in how ye tell 'em.
The Straight Dope - The world's Smartest Human Being (so he says, and he ought to know, what with being so smart and all), Cecil Adams, brings column after column of answers to all kinds of ludicrous questions on just about anything.
The Nude Olympics - Held this week at Adelaide's Maslin Beach. Now, boys and probably eventually girls of the recent nudie runs can have something to aspire to.
This One's From The Heart - James Darren has appeared in more TV sci-fi series than Jack the Ripper, and his recent Vic Fontaine role on Deep Space Nine inspired him to record this new album full of classic lounge songs. Get this and bring a little class to your disc collection.
Who Killed Bill Gates? - The premise behind a new Blair Witch-style faux documentary about the fictional murder of the one and only (thank God) Bill Gates. Big Bill himself isn't happy about the movie, which isn't a surprise. No-one really cares that he's not happy, which isn't a surprise either.
THE BAD
Family Guy - Not only because the Seven Network gave it the arse (though you can still see it on Foxtel), but that some of the jokes will make you, between laughing, say, 'That's very wrong.'
The end of Transformers: World's Worst Fanfic - The Transformers parody to end all Transformers parodies (and inspire our own World's Worst Arse-Enders Adventures) has just ended itself. No more 'blow it', no more Soundwave speaking blaxpolitation, no more sexually-preoccupied. Bye bye.
Dungeons & Dragons - Almost bad enough to be good. Based on the game internationally popular with twelve-year-olds, it gives Jeremy Irons a chance to show that he really can act badly if he wants to. Of course, he plays second fiddle to heroes played by the likes of the stoned guy from Scary Movie and the second Jimmy from Lois & Clark.
Last night's At Home With the Braithwaites - The human mind just isn't designed to cope with hearing Peter Davison dying for a shag or threaten to rip off his underpants (in so many words).
Taking your hands off the wheel - This proved bad for a Dutch truck driver this week, when he did it while simultaneously driving and reading a dirty magazine, causing him to crash his truck directly thereafter. As for why he took his hands off the wheel? We can only assume it was to turn the pages, right?
THE UGLY
Family Guy - Said jokes sometimes so so wrong. Anyone who's seen the breastfeeding scene will know what we mean. And cringe.
Popstars II - I swear I'm not making this up.
Forgetting to send a cover letter - As a clumsy Australian magazine did recently. Specifically, they didn't post them ones with the 12000 questionnaires that asked their subjects if they've ever had sex with such beings and things as prostitutes, food or animals. Imagine how many of these guys were shocked, how many thought it was a prank, and how many just thought, busted.
These four weeks of GBU - All Sigma, all the time.
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