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Premium Cable:
DEXTER – 39 (-3)
GAME OF THRONES – 52
TORCHWOOD – 39
HOMELAND – 50 (+1)
THE NEWSROOM – 45
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM – 43 (+3)
BOARDWALK EMPIRE – 9 (-2)
SHAMELESS – 7
THE BORGIAS – 19 (-1)
CALIFORNICATION – 25
SPARTACUS – 14
EPISODES – 33 (+2)
Basic Cable
COUGAR TOWN – 61 (+3)
PERCEPTION – 23 (-2)
THE AMERICANS – 40 (-1)
CONTINUUM – 41
PSYCH – 36 (+2)
THE WALKING DEAD – 31 (+1)
AMERICAN HORROR STORY – 26
FALLING SKIES – 19
WAREHOUSE 13 – 24
DOCTOR WHO – 17 (-3)
BURN NOTICE – 18
RIZZOLI & ISLES – 40
from Psych 3.10:
Shawn: [spelling] T-H-E-S-E-A-L-I-O-N.
Lassiter: Thesealion? Is that French?
Gus: Pinniped.
NBC
THE NEW NORMAL – 6
1600 PENN – 19
COMMUNITY – 63 (+2)
30 ROCK – 48 (+1)
GUYS WITH KIDS – 8
GO ON – 33
DECEPTION – 16
SMASH – 21
DO NO HARM – 11 (-1)
PARKS & REC – 52 (+3)
GRIMM – 23
PARENTHOOD – 31
THE OFFICE – 23
SVU – 6 (-3)
CHICAGO FIRE – 26
REVOLUTION – 67 (-2)
quote from 30R [6.18]:
Tracy: Jenna, I’ve been thinking.
Jenna: Why? You’re famous.
FOX
THE MINDY PROJECT – 20
TOUCH – 49 (-3)
RAISING HOPE – 98 (+3)
NEW GIRL – 10 (+2)
BONES – 27
BOB’S BURGERS – 31 (+1)
THE SIMPSONS – 25 (-1)
THE FOLLOWING – 39 (-2)
from RH 3.17:
Virginia: Hold on there. A working grandmother goes without paying for 24 months and you just take all her stuff?
Burt: [in disgust] Romney!
Virginia: He lost, Burt.
Burt: [in disgust] Obama!
CW
EMILY OWENS – 2 (-2)
NIKITA – 69 (+2)
HART OF DIXIE – 24
SUPERNATURAL – 67 (+3)
ARROW – 63 (-3)
from SPN 3.5:
Sam: Actually, I do have a theory. Sort of.
Dean: Hit me.
Sam: Well, I’m thinking about fairy tales.
Dean: Oh, that’s…that’s nice. You think about fairy tales often?
CBS
BLUE BLOODS – 20
CSI: NY – 26
VEGAS – 3
THE GOOD WIFE – 22
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT – 24 (+1)
THE MENTALIST – 27
CSI – 25
ELEMENTARY – 24
HAWAII FIVE-0 – 3 (-1)
NCIS: LA – 23
PERSON OF INTEREST – 71
MIKE & MOLLY – 35
NCIS – 40
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER – 25 (+2)
2 BROKE GIRLS – 7 (-2)
TWO AND A HALF MEN – 3 (-3)
THE BIG BANG THEORY – 72 (+3)
No more CBS quotes, so here’s one from 30R [5.18]:
Pete: Last time I taught, I was like Robin Williams in “Dead Poets Society” – by which I mean I got fired.
CBS
BLUE BLOODS – 20
CSI: NY – 26
VEGAS – 3
THE GOOD WIFE – 22
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT – 24 (+1)
THE MENTALIST – 27
CSI – 25
ELEMENTARY – 24
HAWAII FIVE-0 – 3 (-1)
NCIS: LA – 23
PERSON OF INTEREST – 71
MIKE & MOLLY – 35
NCIS – 40
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER – 25 (+2)
2 BROKE GIRLS – 7 (-2)
TWO AND A HALF MEN – 3 (-3)
THE BIG BANG THEORY – 72 (+3)
No more CBS quotes, so here’s one from 30R (and the one I kept trying to post wouldn’t work), [3.06]:
Liz: We need to get these guys! Don’t you know the Postmaster General?
Jack: I do, but we had a falling out over the Jerry Garcia stamp. If I wanted to lick a hippie, I’d return Joan Baez’s phone calls.
ABC
HAPPY ENDINGS – 4 (+1)
BODY OF PROOF – 29 (-1)
LAST MAN STANDING – 16
CASTLE – 79 (+3)
THE NEIGHBORS – 18
NASHVILLE – 11 (-2)
SUBURGATORY – 11 (-3)
THE MIDDLE – 85 (+2)
ONCE UPON A TIME – 54
MODERN FAMILY – 40
No ABC quotes right now, so here’s one from Parks [2.6]:
Leslie: …sometimes when you make an omelet you gotta break a few eggs. What’s the alternative, no omelets at all? Who wants to live in that kind of world? Maybe birds. Then all their babies would live.
ABC
HAPPY ENDINGS – 1 (-3)
BODY OF PROOF – 29
LAST MAN STANDING – 16
CASTLE – 80 (+1)
THE NEIGHBORS – 18
NASHVILLE – 13 (+2)
SUBURGATORY – 10 (-1)
THE MIDDLE – 85
ONCE UPON A TIME – 54
MODERN FAMILY – 43 (+3)
CW
EMILY OWENS – 0 (-2)
NIKITA – 66 (-3)
HART OF DIXIE – 27 (+3)
SUPERNATURAL – 67
ARROW – 65 (+2)
ABC
HAPPY ENDINGS – 0 (-1) Eliminated
BODY OF PROOF – 31 (+2)
LAST MAN STANDING – 19 (+3)
CASTLE – 80
THE NEIGHBORS – 15 (-3)
NASHVILLE – 11 (-2)
SUBURGATORY – 10
THE MIDDLE – 85
ONCE UPON A TIME – 55 (+1)
MODERN FAMILY – 43
WAIT Disregard my one above, Christina forgot (-2) so it doesn’t count. I’ll do it right in a sec.
Off Rebecca’s totals:
ABC
HAPPY ENDINGS – 1 (-3)
BODY OF PROOF – 31 (+2)
LAST MAN STANDING – 19 (+3)
CASTLE – 79
THE NEIGHBORS – 16 (-2)
NASHVILLE – 10 (-1)
SUBURGATORY – 11
THE MIDDLE – 85
ONCE UPON A TIME – 55 (+1)
MODERN FAMILY – 40
CBS
BLUE BLOODS – 20
CSI: NY – 26
VEGAS – 3
THE GOOD WIFE – 22
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT – 23 (-1)
THE MENTALIST – 27
CSI – 25
ELEMENTARY – 24
HAWAII FIVE-0 – 3
NCIS: LA – 23
PERSON OF INTEREST – 73 (+2)
MIKE & MOLLY – 38 (+3)
NCIS – 38 (-2)
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER – 25
2 BROKE GIRLS – 7
TWO AND A HALF MEN – 0 (-3)
THE BIG BANG THEORY – 73 (+1)
CW
NIKITA – 63 (-3)
HART OF DIXIE – 30 (+3)
SUPERNATURAL – 65 (-2)
ARROW – 67 (+2)
FOX
THE MINDY PROJECT – 20
TOUCH – 52 (+3)
RAISING HOPE – 100 (+2) The Chances are in The VICTORS’ VILLAGE
NEW GIRL – 7 (-3)
BONES – 28 (+1)
BOB’S BURGERS – 29 (-2)
THE SIMPSONS – 25
THE FOLLOWING – 38 (-1)
NBC
THE NEW NORMAL – 9 (+3)
1600 PENN – 19
COMMUNITY – 63
30 ROCK – 45 (-3)
GUYS WITH KIDS – 8
GO ON – 35 (+2)
DECEPTION – 16
SMASH – 21
DO NO HARM – 11
PARKS & REC – 52
GRIMM – 22 (-1)
PARENTHOOD – 31
THE OFFICE – 21 (-2)
SVU – 6
CHICAGO FIRE – 26
REVOLUTION – 68 (+1)
Basic Cable
COUGAR TOWN – 62 (+1)
PERCEPTION – 26 (+3)
THE AMERICANS – 37 (-3)
CONTINUUM – 43 (+2)
PSYCH – 35 (-1)
THE WALKING DEAD – 31
AMERICAN HORROR STORY – 26
FALLING SKIES – 19
WAREHOUSE 13 – 24
DOCTOR WHO – 17
BURN NOTICE – 18
RIZZOLI & ISLES – 38 (-2)
Premium Cable:
DEXTER – 39
GAME OF THRONES – 50 (-2)
TORCHWOOD – 39
HOMELAND – 52 (+2)
THE NEWSROOM – 48 (+3)
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM – 40 (-3)
BOARDWALK EMPIRE – 9
SHAMELESS – 6 (-1)
THE BORGIAS – 20 (+1)
CALIFORNICATION – 25
SPARTACUS – 14
EPISODES – 33
Basic Cable
COUGAR TOWN – 65 (+3)
PERCEPTION – 26
THE AMERICANS – 37
CONTINUUM – 43
PSYCH – 37 (+2)
THE WALKING DEAD – 32 (+1)
AMERICAN HORROR STORY – 26
FALLING SKIES – 19
WAREHOUSE 13 – 24
DOCTOR WHO – 14 (-3)
BURN NOTICE – 16 (-2)
RIZZOLI & ISLES – 37 (-1)
Premium Cable:
DEXTER – 36 (-3)
GAME OF THRONES – 50
TORCHWOOD – 39
HOMELAND – 53 (+1)
THE NEWSROOM – 48
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM – 43 (+3)
BOARDWALK EMPIRE – 8 (-1)
SHAMELESS – 4 (-2)
THE BORGIAS – 20
CALIFORNICATION – 25
SPARTACUS – 14
EPISODES – 35 (+2)
from Psych 3.10:
Shawn: And I’ve been doing something I liked to call “stalling”. And Rutger Hauer calls “schtalling”.
Jack: Why?
Gus: Because he’s Dutch.
NBC
THE NEW NORMAL – 9
1600 PENN – 19
COMMUNITY – 64 (+1)
30 ROCK – 47 (+2)
GUYS WITH KIDS – 8
GO ON – 35
DECEPTION – 13 (-3)
SMASH – 21
DO NO HARM – 9 (-2)
PARKS & REC – 55 (+3)
GRIMM – 22
PARENTHOOD – 31
THE OFFICE – 21
SVU – 5 (-1)
CHICAGO FIRE – 26
REVOLUTION – 68
from 30R 4.4:
Jack: …Human empathy. It’s as useless as the Winter Olympics. This February on NBC.