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Seth MacFarlane is bringing back Carl Sagan’s PBS series Cosmos in a new form to FOX in primetime? Great. I guess human beings really are complicated and fascinating and you can never truly know what they are all about.
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Dane Cook AND Seth MacFarlane in one day? Forget it. I choose to continue to hate one. Guess which.
I was really torn when I heard this. Cosmos, yes! But there better not be any fucking fart jokes. I’m looking at you, Seth.
On a serious note, I was surprised to read that Carl Sagan’s widow is a part of the creative process on this? Huh. I’m not sure what to think.
And Neil deGrasse Tyson is hosting! This is somehow full of good decisions and doesn’t look like it’ll be a train wreck at all. Are we being pranked?
I love this guy. He’s so fun on the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. I will absolutely watch this, even if Seth McFarlane had to write a big check to get it made… which, for the love of a non-existant athiest non-deity, I hope is the extent of McFarlane’s involvement.
for real. plus, check out his vest!
cool.
Six degrees of Videogum: I saw NdeGT at The Bell House, the self-same venue where I have several times seen comedy shows featuring Gabe and friends. And while Tyson’s talk was more edu-tainment-tional (also: longer), he was as hilarious, and at least as drunk, as some comics I have also seen on that stage. What I am saying is: when does Neil DeGrasse Tyson headline Mr. Coconuts?
Nah, we don’t have to like him now. This is pretty cool, but there are still billions and billions of reasons to dislike him.
Exhibit A, from the article: “MacFarlane, who is currently in the process of remaking The Flintstones”
What’s next? He’ll remake Dinosaurs? Seth MacFarlane, if you even think about going near Dinosaurs I will fucking end you.
MacFarlane’s decision to make the Great Attractor gay is groundbreaking.
Next you’ll be telling me Gwyneth Paltrow wants to pay off my student loans. What will I do then, huh?????
Remember the time that star collapsed?
If you wish to create Seth Macfarlane from scratch you must first create the universe.
Don’t know who made this. Good job, whoever did!
I never pictured God to have a mustache.
I still reserve my right to hate Family Guy.
The thing about Seth McFarlane is that he usually comes off pretty smart in interviews. I hate the Family Guy so very very much and don’t even get me started on the Cleveland Show (has that been cancelled? just say yes), but when I read or saw a piece on him in which he talked about why he created American Dad… it was pretty sound reasoning and that show can be funny. And if FOX is throwing money at you, making a parody of jingoistic post 9/11 America is pretty kick-ass. Plus no one pulls out a Paul Lynde character any more and Roger is Paul Lynde, just as an alien.
And his politics are pretty progressive and he has made some decent social satire if not out and out liberal propaganda fed to the masses, even if it’s housed in terrible crap jokes and not nearly as well done as South Park but he HAS used his very mainstream show that appeals to people who don’t use sound logic in their voting via ballot or through their purchases (i.e. your dollar means more than your vote) to explain to mouth-breathers the dick people they’re putting in office are terrible for the country and the world in general. Plus his Bush-bashing was so needed.*
And he gives money and work to Seth Green and Mila Kunis, which is great if you forget that the show they’re on is awful. And he was on the Gilmore Girls a few times, which was weird, but kind of makes me think he’s a smart guy making bad material so he can make a lot of money and then make stuff like this. (If this, is in fact, good.)
*Still very angry about the debt ceiling shenanagoats of the past few months. So. angry.
So I’m not being a Seth McFarlane apologist, because 99 percent of what he does is annoying, but I like his politics and right now this country is jacked up so we need as many people fighting for social and environmental progress as possible. Sorry, I am still really mad about the secret (well, essentially, hidden) provisions in that insane bill that will deregulate industry back into the mid 1800s. Bottle your water now, guys. Bottle your air too.
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Actually I don’t know if the Cleveland Show got cancelled, I just got carried away and am slightly drunk sorry.
A Seth McFarlane ‘apologist’ is exactly what you’re being.
It’s like the guy who didn’t know what a blind item was in the comments the other day. Although that was super charming.
Ugh. BradyShow’s right, an apologist is exactly what you’re being. Seth MacFarlane’s a fucking bloated, self-important, dickbag propagandist.
Tired of recycling jokes, Seth MacFarlane is going to try his hand at recycling SCIENCE.
If you wish to make a reboot of Cosmos from scratch you must first invent a talking animal sidekick.
Oh my god, am I too late to talk about my creepy Carl Sagan obsession? Just ask Kornfeld, he can tell you.
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