Kiersten Essenpreis created this painting of 99 references from the Seinfeld series. Can you name them all?
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Superiority of Japanese TV shows demonstrated once again in this clip: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHdEbRDdMiI&fmt=18]
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Director Victor Solomon spliced together every curse uttered in every episode of the Sopranos in chronological order. This seems significant and genius, but in what way I'm not quite sure of yet. [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/2998698]
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Ms. Adela Lupse, a presenter on a live phone-in quiz show in Romania goes berserk when no one calls in to her show. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp1sBkKzuJM&fmt=18]
And then she said "George Bush doesn't care about black people."
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I got nothing else to say about this segment from a Japanese game show featuring an Asian slip-n-slide. Why don't you come up with the caption. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfLZNkIHGHE&fmt=18]
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This Price is Right contestant is good. REALLY good. Maybe too good? Anyway, notice host Drew Carey's underwhelming reaction. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dYjAjOHaTc&fmt=18]
[Thanks Andrew!]
This promotional cake for the TV show Prison Break included, predictably a key hidden inside.
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The epic romance between Jim and Pam in the popular TV series The Office finally, FINALLY comes to an end. Give it a little time for the payoff. It's pretty hysterical. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iv8suLyJ9s]
DAMMIT, I LOVE THIS SHOW!
[Thanks Moye!]
Wikipedia has a long list of the various methods utilized by MacGyver to solve obstacles and various crisis, although the pullout method did not work quite as well as he was hoping. More successfully:
MacGyver defuses a highly advanced nuclear warhead using a paper clip to short circuit the timing device.
The paper clip! Of course!
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JbaM1xNIis] Conspiracy theorists (CT) believe that the NASA moon landing didn't actually take place and was instead a huge hoax created in some secret sound stage. CTs point to various supposed discrepancies as evidence of a grand NASA and government hoax. It's so asinine and yet it has persisted (sort of like the "we should teach creationism, er intelligent design in our science classes!"). Mythbusters decides to resolve this once and for all.
Faked photographs!
The shadows in the NASA photographs of the landing shows non-parallel shadows that suggests multiple light sources instead of just one: THE SUN! Right?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wym04J_3Ls0] Myth BUSTED!
CTs point to this photo of Neil Armstrong who appears WAY too lit, especially when it appears that he is standing in...a shadow! It must be a studio "fill" light. Right?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtWMz51eL0Y] Myth BUSTED!
Moonwalk!
Astronauts can't leave distinct footprints on the moon in the vacuum of the moon's surface which lacks moisture that is required, CTs claim, for a boot imprint.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5taIxlNA_Lw] Myth BUSTED!
The flag waves!
The flag hoisted onto the surface of the moon waves! Flags aren't suppose to have movement in the vacuum of space. That is from a breeze in the "studio." Right?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMBCfuKs9i8] Myth BUSTED!
I can't wait to watch this new UK sitcom No Heroics centered around the various city superheroes who hang out in a bar. I'm stoked about the casting of Patrick Baladi ("Neil" from BBC's The Office ) as the resident jackass superhero. And also, the guy who can look 60 seconds into the future has a hysterical super power. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3zpMTKvvgk]
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Nancy Franklin reviews Wipeout, the silly competitive game show imported from Japan, that involves contestants of all shapes and sizes running through an obstacle course meant to highlight our bodies clumsiness at its worst.
While watching the ABC competition show “Wipeout” when it premièred six weeks ago, I became at moments a truly happy idiot, and I could hear my brain cells, one after another, packing their suitcases and walking out of my head, saying regretfully but firmly, “I’m sorry, I just can’t live here anymore.” Well, fine. Go, then. Still, it’s not as though I’m addicted to stupidity, so after a couple of episodes I forgot about “Wipeout” and moved on to Bill Moyers. Then, scanning last week’s onscreen TV schedule, I was stopped by the description of “Wipeout” and was pulled back in: “Obstacles include Foamy Launch Pads and Killer Surf.” That’s all I needed to hear.
It's not the most meaningful of TV shows, but as Franklin concludes "you'd have to be a fool not to appreciate that kind of stupidity." I typically catch this show at the gym and it causes me to be that annoying guy on the treadmill who can't help but guffaw loudly. Idiocy is so hilarious sometimes.
Received the following mass e-mail from N who proposed the following regarding the current season of Real World which is being taped in Brooklyn.
$100 to the first person in the house$500 to the first person to do something inappropriate in the hot tub of said house.
On like Donkey Kong.
This American remake of that popular wacky Japanese game show featuring a challenging yet comical obstacle course has its moments. I've only watched a few segments and that only at the gym, but it does crack me up. However, this one particular episode below really had me dying particularly contestant Margie Stubbs. Watch her around the 5:25 mark in the clip below for the f'n hysterical pay off. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H82oVFBbuTg]
Whoever said laughter is the best medicine meant to actually say that laughter as a result of someone's misfortune is the best medicine. Thank you America.
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