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Morning Oatmeal: The Best TV Lines of 2011

Posted in Lists, Television, tagged , , , , , on March 5, 2012| 2 Comments »

I’m the one who knocks.

Bacon and Eggs.

Fallopian Tubes.

These are the best lines of 2011 compiled by the Huffington Post.    Check them out below.

The Best TV Lines of 2011

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A Cartoon Intellects of the Round Table

Posted in Television, tagged , , , , , , , on February 24, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Adam Withers got a commission [got paid to visualize an idea] to draw this collection of cartoon intellects.  When I originally saw this image, I could only identify about half, Velma, Dexter, Edd, and Nigel Uno.  When I visited his deviantart page, I soon realized that Jimmy Neutron is stud in the leather biker jacket.  The other two are apparently from TV shows called Daria and Johnny Test which I think we’re a little after my time.  Regardless, this is a genius collection of  cartoon intellects that with they’re combined knowledge, they could create world peace…or the means to destroy it.

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10 Reasons I Watch Television

Posted in Articles, Lists, Television, tagged , , , on February 24, 2012| 2 Comments »

I left yesterday on a sour note when I was discussing movies vs televison.  I tried to end on a conclusion describing why the reason the imbalance of 3:1 occurs, but it was my birthday and I had to deal with academic issues.  So I’m tying up some loose ends with this post, describing why I watch television as a whole.  This isn’t a post to describe why television is better than movies, because in reality, they’re just two separate entities that is similar to comparing apples to oranges.  So here’s a list on how I justify watching so much television that is probably related to anyone who has ever turned on a TV.

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Squirtle, Jay, and Kay Know What’s Up

Posted in Maintenance, Television, tagged , , , , , , , on February 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Little did you internet people know, today is my birthday.  And here I am continually writing stuff for you on a day where I should be relaxing and not worrying about stuff.  Sheesh, the things I do for you.  Nah, I’m just kidding.  I love this and writing for you guys is my vacation from the Hell hole of a school that I attend [JK, it’s not THAT bad].  So that wraps up today.  I’m 20 years old now.  Goddammit.  I’m old.  It felt like yesterday when I watched this television show and this movie.  But low and behold these are from the goddammed 90s!!  Sweet mama pajama.  Okay, enough with me facing my own mortality.  Someone get me a shot of something strong.

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My Television Watching/ Movie Watching Ratio is an Interesting Number

Posted in Articles, Lists, Television, tagged , , , , , , , on February 23, 2012| 1 Comment »

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Recently, I’ve been crushing so much television. Caught up with FX’s Archer and Justified. Looking into Life’s Too Short and Extras. Then there’s The Walking Dead that’s returned [one more episode till I decide my verdict on whether this show is still worth watching]. Awake and Game of Thrones come mid spring. And then a dry summer just gets us amped for Fall television. I’d say it’s almost a one year anniversity before I started taking television seriously. I remember a long time ago, my friends saying, ‘do you watch Parks and Recreation?’ ‘did you see last night’s Office?’ I was always left out of these conversations, trying to sway them to talk about movies for something I could possibly geek out about. Around this time last year, I finally started digging into television. Soon enough I had NBC’s Community, Parks and Recreation, and the Office entire series under my belt. Then Friends. Then suddenly I started craving more and more, catching up on Dexter, Firefly and more until the point where I’ve devoured everything from Arrested Development to more obscure TV shows like Better Off Ted. Now I find myself watching tons more hours of television than movies. I honestly say the ratio hours spent looking at a screen for television to movies is about 3:1. That’s maybe 3 hours of tv for one hour of movies. Translate a two hour movie, that means I watch 7 hours of television for 2 hours of movies. 7 hours of television either translates to 20 30-minute block, or 10 one-hour blocks.

Read below for a weekly take down in of my watching schedule and my thoughts on it.

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The Community Board Game: The Quest for Priority Registration

Posted in Television, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »

USDIRECT.com created this sweet boardgame that pitches the study group against each other for priority registration.  Roll the dice and battle through hilarious trivia, references, and jokes in a Candyland-esque fashion as you make way for priority registration.  Check below for the entire image as well as click on it to get a full version.  You may want to save this to print out later for an actual board game.  TV kudos to anyone who actually does this.

In other Community news: Community is reschedule to come back March 15th at 8:00 pm.  Unfortunately this pitches it up against Thursday night powerhouse Big Bang Theory, but in the state of NBC, I’m sure it will remain one of the stronger candidates for renewel.

In other, other Community news: I recently watched The Descendants [wait for my review next week along with Hugo], and I saw Jim Rash aka Dean Pelton was one of the main accredited writers.  I would love to see a Jim Rash acceptance speech, but not over a Kristen Wiig acceptance speech.  But in all honesty I would just love it if any of those two showed up and held one of those statues.

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The Barkside: The New Volkswagen Commercial

Posted in Movies, Television, tagged , , , on February 21, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Ugh, still all about those Super Bowl Commercials? Get over it.  In case you missed it or international and don’t get the Superbowl: This circled around a couple of weeks ago and was instantly a hit.  The sequel to the famed The Force Volkswagen Commercial, seen here, it begs the question, what does this new commercial have to do with cars?  At least the other one had a Volkswagen car in it.  Is Volkswagen going to be making AT-ATs now??!?!!? Because that’s the only vehicle I saw.  Anywho, if you didn’t catch it at the Superbowl, here’s the video again for you to enjoy.

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The True Modern Day Marshall: FX’s Justified

Posted in Reviews, Television, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on February 21, 2012| Leave a Comment »

When I first tried to get into this show, I actually had to Google the difference between the US Marshall Services and the difference between the FBI, State, and Local Police.  You’d think at first glance they’d solve crimes like the people on Dexter, CSI, Law and Order, generic crime show.  But the US Marshalls deal specifically with tracking down federal fugitives and escorting government-important personnel.  So here I am, all caught up with the shenanigans of US Deputy Marshall Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) and criminal mastermind Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins).  Givens is a wise cracking, cowboy hat wearing, southern twang talking, Han Solo-esque men of men who tracks down the baddies while protecting the ones he cares for with his favorite pistol by his side and a conflicted sense of morality.  Crowder is a spiritually conflicted man who has used his wit to slither his way through the crime rings of Harlan County, Kentucky, as he tries to take back the town his family once owned. Combined with cultural insight to southern lifestyles, an amazing cast, and a surprisingly central and amazing storyline, Raylan Givens and company give us one of the most badass shows on air.

Raylan Givens has recently been transferred from the US Deputy Marshall service in Miami back to his hometown in Kentucky for seemingly gunning down a drug lord in plain sight in the light of day.  The chief is hesitant to add him to his team for Givens’s unorthodox and trigger happy methods, but can’t deny that Givens brings results when it comes to tracking down Kentucky’s most wanted.  As Givens returns home, he encounters his criminally estranged father, the step mother who raised him, a sour ex-wife, an old crush, and his old friend from his coal mine who has turned into one of Kentucky’s most dangerous terrorists, Boyd Crowder.  Raylan deals with himself, these people, and Kentucky’s most wanted as he gunslings everywhere from Lexington to Frankfurt to Harlan County.  Minor spoilers ahead, keep reading for more detail.

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Award Show Photobombs

Posted in Character Profiles, Movies, Television, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on February 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »

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There’s something about the nice attire, sincerely superficial attitude, and general ass kissing aura that makes the award show photobomb much better than a regular celebrity photobomb.  Here’s a gallery of some hilarious photobombs during some of the most inopportune times.  It almost makes them seem human…

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A Serious Debate: Should I Read the Song of Ice and Fire Series?

Posted in Articles, Television, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 17, 2012| 4 Comments »

There’s a very strong debate swinging in my head. In anticipation for Game of Thrones season 2, I’ve already made the conviction to read the book A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. This was to gain insight to some of the ulterior moves of some characters and I’ve been told time and time again that the television show, while a great adaptation, holds no comparison to the book. Seeing as I’ve already seen the series on television, there will likely be little spoilers as I read the book.

Now here comes the debate. As soon as I finish the first book, Game of Thrones season 2 is heavily based on the George R.R. Martin’s second book, A Clash of Kings. The debate is whether or not I should read the book before/during season 2 and spoil the television series. Hit the jump for some back story to help you get some perspective on the situation. Incredibly spoilertastic to those who haven’t watched the series, but no spoilers for those who kept up with the book series. Before you comment, please no spoilers for the upcoming Season 2 or the book A Clash of Kings. I will end you if you dare spoil me.

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Doug: The Movie

Posted in Television, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 16, 2012| Leave a Comment »

A while back, I posted a grown up trailer for Nickelodeon’s Rugrats that depicted the show as a creepy psychological thriller.  Here’s more 90’s cartoon nostalgia with Nickoldeon’s Doug to be portrayed as a Indie-Dramedy.  A couple of things I liked that they maintained the actual skin colors of some of the characters as well as portrayed some of the series deeper inside jokes.  Truly only 90’s children will understand every quote and scene referenced in the series.

And someone seriously needs to teach Patty Mayonaise how to wear a bra.  Those things are all over the place.

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Morning Oatmeal: The 64 Biggest Entertainment Related Things to Look Forward to in 2012

Posted in Articles, Character Profiles, Lists, Movies, Television, tagged , , , , , , , on February 15, 2012| Leave a Comment »

AV Club has created a rather monstrous list of awesome entertainment news that’s going to hit us this year.  We have movies, television, books, video games, the whole spiel.  Being as it’s February, some of these things have already happened and it’s cool to see if what they expected matches what was received.  Check out the link below.

The 64 Biggest Entertainment Related Things to Look Forward to in 2012

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Happy Valentine’s Day from Banana Feed

Posted in Television, tagged , on February 14, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Happy Valentines Day everyone!  A day of romance merits these awesome valentines day cards featuring famous popular culture characters.  Check out the rest of the College Humor entries here.  Have fun cozying up next to your love one.  I won’t be. LOL

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Morning Oatmeal: NBC Stock is Rising, SNL was Pretty Good

Posted in Television on February 13, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Katy Perry hosted SNL last weekend, oops, I mean Zooey Deshanel hosted SNL last weekend.  And it was actually quite an enjoyment.  They played a lot on her strengths and the addition of Jean Dujardin and Nicholas Cage provided very strong laughs.  Hader’s Eastwood was an absolute delight and Taran Killam continues to hold a lot of comedic luggage and shows to be a promising member.  Check out much of the recap I agree with at the link.

NBC Stock is Rising, SNL was Pretty Good

 

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Zooey Deshanel is Hosting SNL This Weekend

Posted in Television, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 10, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Can this adorable, beautiful, hipster pull off comedy?  Sure she’s got the indie-weirdo down, but what about sketch comedy.  I personally don’t think so.  She should stick to what her typecast scripted shtick, but the SNL writers are gonna go in one of 2 directions.  Make the entire show fit her personality [which they should do every show, but not ever host is able to keep up with that], or stick her in copy and paste characters that make the actual castmates do their redundant and tired out sketches [black musicians by Kenan Thompson get very old, very fast].  I don’t think Deschanel’s ballsy enough to carry the weight.  But like with last week, I was fairly surprised at Channing Tatum’s effort, which makes me actually reconsider him as a meat head.  Too early to call, but based on the promo….well.  Gyah…

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Maya Rudolph is hosting  February 18th

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Keeping Up with the Greatest Spy in the World: F/X’s Archer

Posted in Reviews, Television, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on February 10, 2012| 1 Comment »

With numerous people constantly smacking me on the hands for not watching one of the greatest TV shows ever, I finally got into watching F/X’s Archer.  Once again, I’m kicking myself in the ass for not finding this comedic gem sooner.  I have said this about many shows, but I’ll gladly stand behind saying Archer is one of the best things on television.  The quick witted, often self-referring jokes, the stellar cast, and one of the most lovable douche bags on TV, Archer has every element to be a casual comedy to keep up with.  It doesn’t matter if you’re alone in a room or in circled by friends, Archer will surely bring you the laughs every Thursday night.

Sterling Archer (brilliantly voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) is feared by all governments for being the most dangerous field agent out there.  He’s got all the best qualities of James Bond: deadly with a pistol, a taste for fancy drinks, and a tendency to flirt with all sorts of women.  The difference?  He’s completely aware of how awesome he is and selfishly rubs it in everyone’s face.  Working for the government agency ISIS, with his alcoholic mother (Jessica Walter) at the helm, Archer engages in different missions each episode.  With the help (or without in most cases) of his co-workers, he always manages to finish the mission.  Or at least, comes out of it alive.

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The 50 Greatest Viral Videos

Posted in Television, tagged , , , , , , , on February 9, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Not completely entertainment, tv, or movie related.  That’s okay, this is still a very interesting video.  I’d imagine 50 more viral videos just sprang up  in the nine minutes it takes to finish that video, but regardless, this is still an excellent way to waste 10 minutes of your life.

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5 Incredible Television Opening Sequences

Posted in Lists, Television, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on February 9, 2012| 8 Comments »

The opening sequences to television shows provide the thematic sequences that set the underlying tone to the rest of the show.  The strength of these sequences often creates the memorable calling card of the show.  Here I’ve got compiled 5 of my favorite openings to television shows.

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NBC Goes for Broke with the Superbowl

Posted in Television, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 7, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The superbowl was last weekend, and I know I didn’t do much to hype it up.  By hyping it up, I meant talking about commercials and the sneak previews for movies coming down the tube.  Here we have the gracious network host of the Superbowl, NBC, promoting themselves during this time of absurd viewership.

I wrote the following message on the facebook wall of a friend who promoted this clip for Community’s likely return:

NBC is quite the disaster. They put all their eggs in that commercial. And it’s still an ugly looking basket. The last place major network uses its lucky break aka the Superbowl to promote everything it had to offer. Which probably only includes NBC Comedy Thursday and maybe SNL in my opinion. Whitney and Chelsea Handler be damned and all the other TV shows that I and America didn’t recognize. #Sixseasonsandamovie

I’m mainly upset for the whole ‘let’s put Community on hiatus’ deal, but let’s honest.  Besides NBC Thursday night comedy and possibly SNL, I, as a decent representation of what the 18-25 demographic of an average American, do not recognize nor do I care about any of those shows.  Their dramas easily lose out to other big networks like Fox and ABC, and even a smaller network like F/X has some seriously formidable programs.  Soak up your fame as you had it NBC, as the boycott on your network continues as long as Whitney and that Chelsea Handler show lives and Community remains on hiatus.

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Channing Tatum is Hosting SNL this Weekend

Posted in Television, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 3, 2012| 1 Comment »

I don’t know what to make of this.  I’ve personally seen probably none of his movies.  If I did, he was probably a supporting character or an extra.  The most I know about him was that he starred in some eagle movie that looked like Centurion and that he’s playing a male stripper.  I wouldn’t call him a household name, so his hosting SNL can bring one of two things: 1) he actually has comedic chops and took his job  as host seriously enough to actually put an effort.  2) Be a January Jones and deliver one of the worst episodes ever.  And judging by his promo with the loathesome Fred Armisen…well shit man, good luck to ya.

Next week, Zooey Deschanel hosts.  Another pro/con sceneario next week..

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[Update] If you didn’t get the January Jones joke, it’s because she once hosted SNL, and it was a complete disaster.  Completely void of any laughs.

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