Not So Subliminal Advertising
Check out this jaw-dropping scene from this week's episode of the new Hawaii Five-0 on CBS, and see if you can spot the "subliminal advertising." (HINT: It's a 50-second commercial for SUBWAY!!! EAT...
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Recaps for Poor People, Especially The Ones Who Watch 30 Rock and Parks and...
Hi, best friends! Excuse me, I mean, hello secondary friends. (Television is my best friend.) I think that a lot of you watch these shows on Hulu over the weekend and cannot participate in my recap...
View ArticleCat Soup Almost as Good or Better than Real Soup
So I get what they're trying to do here: The Soup (which stars Joel McHale, and is one of my "must watch" shows every week) is perpetrating a parody of its own show called Cat Soup, starring David...
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Recaps For the Mildly Interested: NBC Put My Neighborhood on the TV, Guys!
Some months ago, I came home to find a yellow flap of paper attached to the door outside my apartment. “Grimm will be filming in your area!” said the paper, and proceeded to announce that a portion of...
View ArticleYou're a Creep, Charlie Brown!
While I'm not usually a big fan of "reality" (TOO DEPRESSING!), I did enjoy this mashup of Charlie Brown clips set to the music of Radiohead's Creep (as sung by Swedish girls' choir Vega, and edited...
View ArticleBrooklyn + Portlandia = Brokelandia
So Brokelyn.com—a site devoted to young, broke, hipster-livin' in Brooklyn—is obviously very enamored with Portlandia... enough so they've decided to make a "tribute" video called Brokelandia. In it,...
View ArticleMichel Gondry Directs Japanese Commercial; May Have Foot Fetish
Fancy-pantsy director Michel Gondry—yeah, that Michel Gondry—directed the following TV commercial for a Japanese department store. And while I respect Japanese department store's selection of...
View ArticleGood Morning, Thursday Night TV News! (Added Bonus: Ridiculing Creationists!)
Here's some Thursday Night TV news! Ready... GO!! Some are reporting that Rainn Wilson's Dwight character from The Office is scheduled for 2013 spin-off into his own "family-centered" show!...
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Fashion Star
Yet again the icy hand of reality fashion TV has touched our shoulder. Don't worry, there isn't a Portland resident competing on NBC's Fashion Star—it's not that bad. But Seattle contestant Lizzie...
View ArticleYou Are Number Six
The Prisoner is one of the coolest TV shows that ever was or ever will be. And now, via Google Maps, you can go to the Village. You should probably go there now. (Via io9, which also points out some...
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Relax, America! Contestants on Fear Factor WILL Drink Donkey Semen
This just in from TMZ: Apparently the show Fear Factor—yes, the same Fear Factor that was canceled back in 2006 and resuscitated with abysmal host Joe Rogan intact—almost had to kill their "Donkey...
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Recaps for Poor People, Briefly.
Hey guys. I’m keeping things short today because I am busy. And aren’t you? Don’t you people have jobs? What are you doing on Blogtown all day? Sheeeeeeeeesh. (JK! Please never leave.) 30 RockA...
View ArticleFriday Afternoon Quicky
If you've seen the Sherlock Holmes series on BBC (and you should because it's created by Steven Moffat, which is code for excellent), then you'll enjoy this music video, which perfectly syncs up shots...
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Sorry, America! NO DONKEY SEMEN FOR YOU.
As I mentioned on Friday, NBC was all ready to broadcast an episode of Fear Factor tonight that featured contestants drinking a glass of donkey semen, chased by donkey urine. Unfortunately for...
View ArticleRuPaul's Drag Race Returns! TONIGHT!
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Today in "Donkey Semen": The Story I Refuse to Let Die
"Gulp."As repeatedly mentioned here and here, the NBC show Fear Factor (hosted by unfunny human tool Joe Rogan) was supposed to showcase contestants drinking a glass of donkey semen, chased down by a...
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In TV News You Don't Care About: Simon Cowell Cleans House (Read: Fires a...
UNNGHHH!!! I hate all singing reality shows—HOWEVER! I did get a malicious hateful glee out of occasionally tuning in to Simon Cowell's X-Factor, primarily for the following reasons. 1) I like to see...
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Everybody Loves the Tim & Eric Movie!
TIM & ERIC'S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE "Hey, where are all those people going?" Haha, jk. About a third of the audience walked out of Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie at Sundance. As the movie...
View ArticleEastbound & Down Season Three Trailer!
Here's the funny extended season three trailer for Eastbound & Down, which seems to suggest a "love" triangle of sorts between Kenny, Stevie, and Kenny's new best friend—as well as "sunsets that...
View ArticleToday in "Learning Your Primary Colors"
Primary colors can be confusing!! There's no shame in that. That's why OK Go! has furnished Sesame Street with the following clever music video that not only easily explains what happens when primary...
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