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May 14, 2009

Thankfully, The Economic Crisis Has Spared The FEARnet DVR Description Copywriter

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Everyone has been affected by the economic crisis in some way*. People have watched their 401ks disappear. Homes been had foreclosed. And everyone knows someone who has been laid off. But at least the American hero at FEARnet who writes some of the sickest DVR menu descriptions in the game, is still hard at work. Which makes sense, dude is irreplaceable. You could not have another him in a second. Of course, times is tough, and these days he probably just feels lucky to have a job. If only he realized that his important work is touching tens, literally tens of people. That's right, Videogum has upwards of 30 readers. Jealous?

After the jump, the genius FEARnet DVR description copywriter's latest masterpieces.

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March 11, 2009

Whoever Writes The DVR Descriptions For FEARnet Is A Straight Genius, Son

The shortest short story in existence is widely recognized to be one written by the Guatemalen writer Augusto Monterroso (RIP, Never Forget). It reads:

"Upon waking, the dinosaur was still there."

Fair enough. Monterroso is in heaven now, regaling the angels with the shortest anecdotes. But whoever is writing the FEARnet DVR descriptions of horror movies is also a master of short form writing, and should win some kind of award for being the best. These things are nuts. Six more after the jump. Each one better than the last (as if there's anything better than perfect). Have fun!

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February 10, 2009

SPOILER ALERT: This Is Hilarious

As someone who has held a job sitting in a cubicle typing up character-limited marketing descriptions of products no one wants, I understand how important it is to stay fresh and amuse yourself. I also understand genius when I see it. Whoever wrote this should have their own show. And then write the description of their own show.

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December 16, 2008

Cat Dancers Is A Tragedy

Last night, HBO premiered a new documentary called Cat Dancers, which I was extremely excited about until I learned that it wasn't a documentary about the classic internet meme/joke Dancing With Cats, but was instead a Grey Gardens-style train wreck doc about aging exotic animal performers. I still plan to watch more of it, but on a rainy weekend because it was pretty depressing. Anyway, I found the DVR description of the movie to be highly humorous:

DVR descriptions should all just be spoilers. (Also, don't make fun of my other shows. This was hard.)

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August 12, 2008

Pamela Anderson's Show Description Puts All The Right People In Harm's Way

So there was this on the TV set when I went there last night:

Whoever conceived of that show and wrote that description has made it impossible not to say this: Where's an IED when you really need one?

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April 18, 2008

DVR Descriptions: Teasing Jonah Hill

On today's Ellen Degeneres Show, Jonah Hill is one semi-colon (actually, one dot) away from being the Biggest Loser winner:

And while I'm indulging what will be an ongoing DVR description obsession, they really summed up last week's The Office as succinctly as possible:

Indeed.

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