Category: TV
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The Economics of Infomercials
This is an interesting article on the economics of informercials.
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The Once and Future … Wait, What?!
I’m 20 minutes into NBC’s new Merlin series, and WOW have they taken some strange liberties with the story. I’m trying to get past it. The story is the teller’s to tell, and if they want to mix it up, that could be interesting. Still, if you’re going to scramble the mythology that much, why…
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30 ROCK is a rip-off of THE MUPPET SHOW!
Man, after reading about how 30 ROCK is a rip-off of THE MUPPET SHOW!, I don’t think I’m ever going to be able to see the show the same way again. http://bloglynch.blogspot.com/2009/06/30-rock-is-rip-off-of-muppet-show.html
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Star Trek — The Opera
How much do I LOVE Robot Chicken? I would totally go see an Opera about the Wrath of Kahn. In fact, somebody should really get on top of producing that one because it is dripping with 13 kinds of awesome. Le Wrath di Khan
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Shocker, Knight Rider is Fun
After I watched the debate tonight (great night, can’t wait to see the polls coming out of that), I got on my exercise bike and watched the new Knight Rider show. I was watching it as a lark since the movie from earlier in the year was so dumb, and I’d heard that the new…
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Shatner Woo Remix
The Shatner Woo Remix is 10 kinds of awesome. The David Bowie and Cher Medley is 10 kinds of something else.
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Lynda Carter on The Muppet Show
I don’t know how long This Video of Lynda Carter on The Muppet Show will be left up, but it’s great. Check it out while you can.
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Out Damn Embryonic Ear Worm
Last week, I was deleting an episode of Gilmore Girls that Tivo recorded for me. As I was deleting it, I noticed the episode title, “One’s Got Class and the Other One Dyes”. That struck a chord with me. It sounded so familiar that I thought maybe it was a pun on a song lyric…
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Get Ready to Shred
The Colbert Report’s Countdown to Guitarmageddon was awesome. Who knew that Kissinger could rock that hard?
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Wow, That’s Bad
OK, so we won’t go into why I was watching Saturday Night Live. Suffice it to say that if you can watch the show on a TiVo, it isn’t too painful, and I typically don’t have a lot of shows to watch on Sunday morning when I wake up anyway, so the season pass doesn’t…