October 2009
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WatchSometime last year, my girlfriend and I started having a friend over to watch Gossip Girl, a truly terrible prime time soap opera for teenagers. (Naturally, I really enjoy watching it.) When the season ended, we decided to continue watching programming made for children and settled on Make It or Break It, another drama, this time about gymnasts training for the national championships. While many...
September 2009
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Hugo Chavez Not A 'Family Guy' Fan
The United States is always chastising Venezuela for its conduit role in the trafficking of illicit drugs. What’s Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez to do? Why, of course, criticize Family Guy.
Venezuelan state TV [on Sept. 22] broadcast an excerpt from “Family Guy” as an example of how the U.S. promotes drug use. The clip features Stewie… singing a song extolling the...
WatchOne of my great joys in life is watching R-rated movies edited for broadcast television. (I have a boring life.) Such movies are usually hilariously edited to confirm with broadcast standards; for example, the FX version of Grandma’s Boy, a stoner comedy, almost completely eliminates the pot smoking from the movie. (Again: A boring life.) My favorite, though, is when — instead of just...
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Mankind's Best Accomplishment
Most stuff sucks. We all know that. Even when that stuff is something that’s relatively fun to watch (professional American football), a majority of it still sucks. Consecutive false start penalties, injuries on kickoffs, punts that go out of bounds, extraordinarily long replay reviews, running plays into the line for a yard on 1st and 10 and, of course, the dreaded commercial...
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