So, I'm watching TV tonight. My wife and I are addicted to "Eureka" on Sci-Fi. And, as the credits roll, we notice that tonight's episode was directed by Tim Matheson. If the name isn't familiar, he was Otter in Animal House.
That's not weird. He's been doing a lot of TV directing lately... most recently doing a lot of it on shows that air on cable channels owned by NBC/Universal. He's got 2 episodes of "Psych" and one of "Burn Notice". Both of those air on the USA Network, and the USA Network and Sci-Fi are both owned by NBC/Universal. If he can get an episode of "Queer Eye" or "Top Chef" under his belt, adding Bravo to the mix, he's scored the NBC/Universal Basic Cable Trifecta.
Now that's weird. But it's not the weirdness that I experienced tonight.
The weirdness I experienced tonight was that we watched "Eureka" on the DVR, so we ended at around 11 p.m. instead of the normal 10 p.m. end time. When it was over, my wife was flipping around the basic cable channels and landed on "The Bill Engvall Show", which was just starting on TBS. And, by the way, TBS is a TimeWarner property, not NBC/Universal, so that's not the freaky part.
The freaky part is that we caught the opening credits and it was directed by James Widdoes. You're thinking... "oh no, Mr. Pembroke from 'Charles In Charge' is directing TV? It's the 3rd and 4th signs of the Apocalypse rolled into one!" Okay, maybe you're not. Maybe you're thinking... "Who the heck is James Widdoes?"
James Widdoes is Hoover, another star of Animal House. Two TV shows in a row, selected completely at random, and each is directed by a different star of Animal House? Doesn't that sound odd to you? Doesn't that sound improbable? Isn't that a really strange coincidence?
Or as my wife put it... "Isn't it even stranger that such an odd coincidence would happen to one of the few movie geeks who could actually spot it in the first place?"
So now I've got the theme from the X-Files in my head and can't get it out. Great.
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