Look, let's just be honest with each other, because we are all adults here and we no longer fear THE TRUTH. I didn't actually watch any of the TV shows last night. SO SUE ME. The thing is, I... CONTINUE READING THURSDAY NIGHT TV OPEN THREAD»
Posted on February 5, 2010 in ,
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Tags: 30 Rock | Community | Important Things With Demitri Martin | My Morning Jacket | Parks And Recreation | The Office | The Sarah Silverman Program
Despite the fact that most contemporary sitcoms try to set themselves apart from your daddy's STUFFY and OUT-OF-TOUCH old shows with their manipulative laugh tracks and their cheap-looking sets by filming handheld on location and using a cast of... CONTINUE READING THURSDAY NIGHT TV OPEN THREAD»
Posted on January 22, 2010 in
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Tags: 30 Rock | Community | Jarvis Cocker | Parks And Recreation | The Office
They are back! Our old pals! Well, some of them. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and newcomer The League have both gone on hiatus, although the Dick Towel is now available in "black." And there was no The Office... CONTINUE READING THURSDAY NIGHT TV OPEN THREAD: 2010 EDITION»
Posted on January 15, 2010 in
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Tags: 30 Rock | Community | Parks And Recreation | The Office
Night of a thousand Santas! That was exhausting! Each Christmas special was pretty funny on its own, but taken all together is too much! I need a Christmas special just to recover from all these Christmas specials! But, you... CONTINUE READING A VERY SPECIAL CHRISTMAS THURSDAY NIGHT TV OPEN THREAD»
Posted on December 11, 2009 in
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Tags: 30 Rock | Community | It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia | Parks And Recreation | The League | The Office
One of the best pieces of news about the sixth and final season of Lost, premiering February 2nd, 2010, is that it's going to air on Tuesdays. I know that I talk about this as if it was something... CONTINUE READING THURSDAY NIGHT TV OPEN THREAD»
Posted on December 4, 2009 in
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Tags: 30 Rock | Community | It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia | Parks And Recreation | Richard Dunn | The League | The Office
There were lots of great laffs and memorable moments last night, not to mention plenty of casual jokes about the environment because in order to save something you must tease it (Hobbes*), but the one thing that people were talking... CONTINUE READING THURSDAY NIGHT TV OPEN THREAD»
Posted on November 20, 2009 in
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Tags: 30 Rock | Al Gore | Community | Fool's Gold | It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia | Parks And Recreation | The League | The Office
I really can't deal with the Rashida Jones aspect of Parks and Recreation. Don't get me wrong, Rashida Jones is very good at having a really pretty face, and I don't mind that she is on TV, or even... CONTINUE READING THURSDAY NIGHT TV OPEN THREAD»
Posted on November 13, 2009 in ,
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Tags: 30 Rock | Community | It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia | Parks And Recreation | The League | The Office
Last night's Park and Recreation really took it to the next level. Between last night's episode and Duke Silver, they have clearly been sitting on a powder keg with Nick Offerman, but instead of gunpowder, it's powdered gold. And... CONTINUE READING THURSDAY NIGHT TV OPEN THREAD, SPONSORED BY DICK TOWEL»
Posted on November 6, 2009 in
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Tags: 30 Rock | Community | It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia | Parks And Recreation | The League | The Office
Who is in charge of the math over in the TV Scheduling Department? Because this is getting ridiculous. Why is most of the week an empty wasteland with almost no laffs at all, and then Thursday night it's a... CONTINUE READING THURSDAY NIGHT TV OPEN THREAD»
Posted on October 30, 2009 in
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Tags: 30 Rock | Community | It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia | Parks And Recreation | The League | The Office
Oh look, it's the new girl group featuring the "beautiful and mysterious" Kelly Kapoor and the "pretty" Erin Hannon. Fiercalicious, indeed.... CONTINUE READING SUBTLE SEXUALITY»
Posted on October 29, 2009 in
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Tags: Ellie Kemper | Girl Talk | Mindy Kaling | The Office
Last night was a classic textbook case of the Thursday Night Difficulty. That is to say, I got home late and knew that I would only have time to watch one show. But which show to watch? There are... CONTINUE READING THURSDAY NIGHT TV OPEN THREAD»
Posted on October 23, 2009 in
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Tags: 30 Rock | Community | It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia | Parks And Recreation | The Office
30 Rock is back! What a great show. I enjoy watching it with my eyes! Last night's episode was...very good. Plenty of strong laffs. "Have you ever noticed how people in St. Bart's eat their lobster like this?" Although... CONTINUE READING THURSDAY NIGHT TV OPEN THREAD»
Posted on October 16, 2009 in ,
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Tags: 30 Rock | Community | It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia | Parks And Recreation | Phoenix | The Office
So, Jim and Pam got married on last night's very special The Office, and I have to say: aww! Up until the actual episode, I really had not cared. I did not visit the Jim and Pam wedding website, I... CONTINUE READING JIM AND PAM GOT MARRIED! AND THURSDAY NIGHT TV OPEN THREAD!»
Posted on October 9, 2009 in
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Tags: Jenna Fischer | Jon Krasinski | The Office
In the spirit of Dave Letterman fucking all those people, it is time for some honesty. I cannot always watch all of the great Thursday night television that is on these days. There is simply too much of it!... CONTINUE READING THURSDAY NIGHT TV OPEN THREAD»
Posted on October 2, 2009 in
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Tags: Community | It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia | Parks And Recreation | Saturday Night Live | The Office
You know, I can sill remember those first tentative steps after double-hip surgery, just after my 48th birthday. You spend years thinking that this is just the way the the world needs to be: all pain, all suffering, all the... CONTINUE READING THURSDAY NIGHT TV IS STILL BACK!»
Posted on September 25, 2009 in
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Tags: Community | It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia | Parks And Recreation | Radiohead | Saturday Night Live | The Office
Awww. I always fake cry at a make-believe wedding! (You know they are not a real couple and they are not really getting married, right, you guys?)... CONTINUE READING THE FIRST WEDDING PICTURES OF PAM AND JIM»
Posted on September 24, 2009 in
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Tags: Jenna Elfman | Jon Krasinski | The Office | Them Crooked Vultures | Wedding
It's been a long summer (no it hasn't, come back, summer!). NYC Prep was great and everything (NYC Prep was the worst show ever), but it's just nice to have our old pals back. "Have our old pals back"? That... CONTINUE READING OH MAN, THURSDAY NIGHT TV IS BACK!»
Posted on September 18, 2009 in
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Tags: Community | It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia | Parks And Recreation | The Office
The summer is a time for lots of things. It is the time for beaches, and barbecues, and camping, and swimming, and sunscreen, and for making boring lists of obvious things that everyone already knows. But it is not... CONTINUE READING VIDEOGUM SUMMER SCHOOL NOW IN SESSION»
Posted on July 16, 2009 in
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Tags: 30 Rock | Friday Night Lights | Lost | Mad Men | Spoon | Summertime | The Office | The Wire
The Hollywood Reporter has some interesting roundtable discussions with the Emmy-nominated showrunners Matthew Weiner (Mad Men), Shonda Rimes (Grey's Anatomy), Greg Daniels (The Office, Parks And Recreation), Alan Ball (True Blood) and Katie Jacobs (House, M.D.), and Jenji Kohan (Weeds)... CONTINUE READING MAD MEN CREATOR: "DEATH TO ALL SPOILERS"»
Posted on June 10, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Alan Ball | Greg Daniels | Grey's Anatomy | House | Jenji Kohan | Katie Jacobs | Mad Men | Parks And Recreation | Shonda Rhimes | The Office | The Sopranos | True Blood | Weeds
Mindy Kaling ("The new Tina Fey, except regular Tina Fey is still cool too."- Me) was on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night via webcam, where she talked about taking hip hop classes "to keep things fresh," and demonstrated... CONTINUE READING MINDY KALING DEMONSTRATES HER WEB CAM SEXY DANCE»
Posted on May 15, 2009 in
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Tags: Jimmy Fallon | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Mindy Kaling | The Office | Vampire Weekend
Is there anyone better right now than Mindy Kaling? Just two days after the news broke that NBC has signed Mindy to a multi-year Tina Fey-style development deal, her character Kelly Kapoor engaged in a hilarious dance-off with Ed Helms's... CONTINUE READING MINDY KALING'S SEXY VICTORY DANCE»
Posted on May 8, 2009 in
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Tags: Dancing | Ed Helms | Kelly Kapoor | Mindy Kaling | The Office | Twitter
The new promos running for Thursday's NBC lineup contains an odd moment in its 30 Rock tease: "Tina gets played...": While this could have been a boneheaded decision by NBC executives ("Call her "Tina"! Tina has more name recognition!") it's... CONTINUE READING EVEN NBC GETS TINA FEY AND LIZ LEMON MIXED UP»
Posted on April 27, 2009 in ,
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Tags: 30 Rock | Liz Lemon | Parks And Recreation | The Office | Tina Fey
Parks And Recreation, the show about you already know everything it's about starring you already know who it stars, premiered last night. (If you missed it, the full episode is on Hulu.) It seems like the general consensus is "This... CONTINUE READING SO WHAT DID WE THINK OF PARKS AND RECREATION?»
Posted on April 10, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Amy Poehler | Aubrey Plaza | Aziz Ansari | Parks And Recreation | Rashida Jones | The Office
This is a British viral marketing attempt video for some sort of Human Resources software program for offices. At least they went all out: While on the one hand it's cringe-worthy for a company to make their viral video campaign... CONTINUE READING THE POOR MAN'S POOR MAN'S THE OFFICE»
Posted on March 10, 2009 in
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Tags: David Brent | Michael Scott | Phoenix | Ricky Gervais | Steve Carell | The Office
Last night's special SuperBowl episode of The Office was typically-for-this-season medium-funny, but the subplot that involved Pam, Jim, and Andy watching a pirated upcoming movie, "Mrs. Albert Hannaday" starring Jack Black, Jessica Alba (barely), and comedy's current favorite old lady... CONTINUE READING THE OFFICE: JUST THE MRS. ALBERT HANNADAY PARTS»
Posted on February 2, 2009 in ,
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Tags: Cloris Leachman | Jack Black | Jessica Alba | The Office
