The Hardy Boys 2.0
Updated 2006-04-04 17:00:00
First, a short lesson. There are these things called maps. On maps you can find a lot of information. One type of information you can find is whether or not a town is small and rural. Usually, you can find this information by noticing whether there are other little black dots representing towns near the town you are interested in. Also, when a town is actually part of what they call "the metroplex" of one of the largest cities in the United States, that means that that town is not small OR rural. One other thing to know is that Texas is a huge mothereffing state. There are lots of small and rural towns in Texas. You could pretty much figure out the name of a small town in Texas by closing your eyes and farting in the general direction of a map. And another thing: if I have to hear one more time that...huh? Who? What? Sam? In just a towel? A man? With man muscles? Being manly? Thump.
Anyhoo, this "jokey" episode finds the boys in "Texas" checking out a local haunted house inhabited by a ghost who spends way too much time on the internet. Let that be a lesson to us all. The boys's hunting style is cramped by the attentions of two smug paranoiac nerds, characters once again performed in the key of Buffy. The ghost is totally obsessed with what gets said about him on the internet, going so far as to actually change his whole shtick every time someone writes in to say what she thinks about said shtick. So...the ghost is really a blogger? I'm confused. They sort of kill it, but also sort of don't. Not a whole lot happens. Except they play a lot of pranks on one another and laugh a bunch. Somehow, with the blogging, and the pranking, and the giggling, I sort of feel like I just watched a show about me, a Wednesday night, and my best pal, beer.