Thu, Jun 05, 12:14 AM

169 Californication Isn't Just a Shitty Chili Peppers Song

My lack of cable over the past couple of years has left me relying on Blockbuster to send my favorite cable series in the mail. Recently I decided to take a chance on a Showtime series called The Tudors. (Yeah, I know, welcome to last year. Sorry, the DVDs weren't out then.) That series is captivating, but the surprise came on Season 1 Disc 4. There, in the bonus features, Showtime decided to pimp some of their other programming. And that's where I found Californication. Becca: "Father?" Hank: "Daughter?" Becca: "Can I ask you something?" Hank: "Anything, my love." Becca: "Why is there a naked lady in your bedroom?" Hank: [pause] "You wait right there, OK?" Becca: "There's no hair on her vagina. Do you think she's okay?" Hank: "I'll check." And that's just in the first two minutes. How did this manage to slip entirely under my radar? Considering that The X-Files was the best series ever to hit television, and I've rented every rancid bomb that Duchovny has been in since, I can't believe this riotously funny bit of programming has been around for more than a year and I've quite simply never heard of it. More fodder for the rental list, I guess. This shit's funnier than Weeds, and there's some great gratuitous tits in the first episode. I can't imagine it gets any worse.