Archive for the 'television' Category

On my video

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

The above is 30 minutes of openings for cartoons from the ’80s spliced together into one overwhelming montage. If there’s one lesson that can be taken from this, it’s that synthesizers are awesome. While I had never seen a good number of these, I have fond memories of a number of them. My favorite […]

Gay Guy Love

Sunday, December 10th, 2006

The Onion AV Club has a short piece titled “Awful Things Zach Braff Is (Probably) Responsible For,” which references the above video.
I’m not really a big fan of Scrubs, but I’m especially not a fan of these types of “No way, dude, we’re totally not gay” jokes. The problem being, of course, that this […]

Turn on Wisteria

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

I received in the mail yesterday a review copy of Reading Desperate Housewives: Beyond the White Picket Fence. The book is part of a series of books on reading contemporary television. While this sort of timely academic work is just the sort of thing I’m fully in support of (at least in principle), the cover […]

The Hoff is on the loose

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

David Hasselhoff got his ass taken out of Wimbledom for parading around sloppy drunk and totally annoying. While that’s mildly amusing, what makes the story hilarious is that he was saying things like, “Do you know who I am? I’m the Hoff.”
I remember reading that Sammy Hagar’s answering machine says something to the effect of, […]

Paging Dr. Bob

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

As a child, I loved “The Bob Newhart Show.” I’m not sure why, exactly, though the fact that he lived in a city and worked as a shrink and drank after work probably seemed deeply romantic at the time.
Anyhow, I just got pointed to this amazing send-up to Dr. Robert Hartley and his fabulous […]