Quotes of the Week: Desperate Housewives & Modern Family

I didn't write for a few weeks, so I'm doing two quotes this week. One from an old favorite and one from a show I just started watching.

"All our friends are white. You didn't want me to teach the girls Spanish!"

 "Because I don't understand it and  I didn't want you guys plotting behind my back!"

 —Gabriel to Carlos, Desperate Housewives, January 10, 2010

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"You're not mad at me, you're mad at the old balls and chain."

 —Jay to Mitchell, Modern Family, January 13, 2010

Peace Solution to the Talk Show Wars: The Jay Leno "Special"

The peace solution to the so called Talk Show War, or as it should be referred to, because this has happened before, Talk Show War II: The Laugh of Letterman is simple (and is what should have happened last year): Conan should stay put at 11:30, and Leno should produce and star in periodic prime time "Specials."

I'm going to assume everyone knows about what happened in 1992-3 between NBC, Jay Leno and David Letterman, resulting in Dave leaving NBC for CBS; that was the first Talk Show War. It was much more significant because way fewer people had cable, there were  fewer cable stations anyway, FOX was a kindergartner and CW was yet to be. The 11:30 time slot was far more important to the network's overall profitability (and networks are far less profitable now than they were in 1992).

Of course the irony is that NBC made the deal that Jay would step down and Conan would take over to avoid what happened in the ’90s from happening again, but something changed  Jay's willingness to retire in 2009.

In any case, here we are with The Jay Leno Show doing poorly, Conan saying he'll quit if he loses his time slot and Letterman laughing ass off because, as Whoopi pointed out on the View today, NBC treated him like, "dirt under the shoe."