Television
CategoryAmerica’s Next Top Model Recap: The Art of the Booty Tooch
Top Model may already be a handful of eliminations into its current Americans versus Brits season, and while editor Becky Lang and I have ..
Things Gene Siskel Used to Say That Make Roger Ebert Secretly Glad Siskel’s Dead
“Hey, four-eyes! How’s it going? Oh, come on. Don’t be like that. Call me ‘Baldy’! Here, rub my head. Like, give me a noogie. Come on!..
“How I Met Your Mother” and The Death of the Sitcom
How I Met Your Mother is a strange show. It’s kind of like an Apple tape player, or a McSweeney’s phonebook. Something that young, hip..
Why Relationships On “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” Aren’t That Different From Real Life
The beautiful people tend to win.
Notice how the best-looking suitors are always the ones who make the final rounds? Does that remind y..
How “The Misfits” Does Everything “Lost” Tried to Do, and Does it Better
I watched every single episode of “Lost” just to make sure that I was informed in my decision to rate it as “sucky.” Out of boredom, I..
What Your Favorite TV Shows Can Do for You
Glee
At last, a show for the socially isolated dreamer! Don’t stop believing; despite your “geekiness,” you can rise to the top of ..
How 30 Rock Redeems Celebrities and SNL Destroys Them
One of the first things that amazed me about “30 Rock” was that it was able to make Alec Baldwin cool again. Before he was on that sho..
“Chopped” Judges Work Through Some Personal Issues
Appetizer
Judge #1: You’ve seared the salmon just perfectly…just the way my father used to do it, back when things were good. But..
Major Themes We Can Glean from Last Night’s Super Bowl Commercials
If You Want to Make Clichéd, Vast Generalizations About American Exceptionalism-on-the-Rebound, Please, Use Detroit. In the last few y..
Pitches for Other “America’s Got ___ Shows”
• “America’s Got HPV” – Preteens sing their favorite Disney Channel tunes and then get vaccinated and told they’ll get HPV anyway.
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Super Bowl XLWHTEVR: Is the Mass Audience Still Relevant?
50 years ago, entire academic disciplines were being built on the basis of concerns that TV, movies, and the radio were turning humani..
Rejected “Family Feud” Categories
Reasons to collect your urine in jars
Politically incorrect terms for racial/ethnic groups that are stil widely used by Baby Boomer..