Some thoughts on the weekend's TV:

• The words "Best of" and "Superfriends" should really never, ever appear together. I say this after watching too much of Friday and Saturday's marathon on Boomerang. Good Lord, it's amazing that show didn't warp my brain even more than it did. The scripts made Bob Haney look like a master of logic, the voice actors didn't seem to want to be there, the villains plans never made any sense, and the animation seemed to exist to find new ways to destroy Alex Toth's elegant character designs and storyboards. Were kids in the 1970s as mental defective as this show thought they were?
  
  I do have to single out the last iteration of the various Superfriends series as being merely dumb, rather than insulting, and having animation several orders of magnitude better than the other series. Although the whole "Darkseid wants to marry Wonder Woman" schtick was kind of creepy. One thing this series did right was replacing the execrable kid sidekicks of the previous versions with two young heroes, Firestorm and Cyborg. I never understood why, if the creators of the show wanted "young characters the young people could relate to," they didn't just use, say, Robin and Wonder Girl instead of creating Marvin and Wendy (whose presence can only be explained if one assumes Marvin is dying of brain cancer, Wendy is his nurse, and the whole thing has been arranged by the Make-A-Wish foundation) and then the Wonder Twins (who I think are supposed to be Donnie and Marie, because, you know, that's what the young people are into).
  
  
• Friday's Monk was a weak entry in the series. Each episode's mystery can be solved by asking which guest star you recognize (in this case, Emma Caulfied), and the real reason to watch is the characterization of Monk in different situations that cause him stress. This week, though, that situation was a new nurse who improbably had not been notified of Monk's obsessive compulsive disorder, his job as a detective, or really anything at all about him. The unlikely situation, combined with a too-far-over-the-top performance by Nicey Johnson of Reno 911, was unbelievable and just plain boring.
  
  
• The new Justice League Unlimited series was terrific. The creators of the series have expanded the roster, cut the episodes down to 30-minute one-parters, and turned the volume up to 11. Here's hoping subsequent episodes continue the background cameos by practically everyone in the DC Universe.
  
  
• Six Feet Under continues to improve this season, as we watch Nate become an irredeemable asshole, Rico screw up everything, and David deal with the aftermath of his abduction. That last plotline was especially chilling this week; they're really bringing the audience inside the character's head at a time where that's not a fun place to be.
  
  
• George Eads was, like, everywhere this weekend: Spike TV's Friday night CSI rerun, voicing Captain Atom on Justice League, and, of course, starring as Evel Knievel on TNT. Hey, who names their kid "Evel," anyway? That's even worse than Sinestro...