[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb4X2DuLisc] Watch Patrick Stewart channel his best Hamlet in this clip from Sesame Street. Although if I was a kid, I'd be so confused and intimidated by the letter "B" after viewing this that I would avoid using this letter at all cost.
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This "situation" is so surreal. Also, I'm enjoying how MTV's Jersey Shore has reignited the Long Island versus New Jersey battle in the comments of my most recent entry about Jersey Shore.
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The first season of Parks and Recreation in my humble opinion was abysmal. I mean, I laughed more watching Antique Roadshow. But this second season, wow. I don't know if the P&R writers started taking funny steroids or what, but its sophomore season has been phenomenal. All the characters are developing in such a natural yet hysterical manner, especially Ron and Tom (played by Aziz Ansari), who slayed me with this line in a recent episode when trying to give Christmas gift advice to Mark:
Women love diamonds, even the super left-wing chicks who saw Blood Diamond and cried. When they get one, they’re like "Yea! Give me more blood diamonds. Make them extra bloody."
Dare I say it, but I actually prefer Parks and Recreation over the comparative The Office.
Thank god for unemployed people available to watch daytime programming on the tube in order to capture brilliant moments from television such as this one.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysIzPF3BfpQ] The Muppets perform Ringing of the Bells.
I've left my reality TV obsession days behind me, but The Internet is telling me that I need to watch MTV's new series Jersey Shore like, right now. If this screenshot which really highlights the ass in asterisks is any indication, then I may just come out of reality TV retirement and start following this show like I'm a Star Wars Trek geek and it's Wil Wheaton's Twitter.
Contestants on this funny segment in this Japanese game show must sprint as fast as they can while grabbing food items from each checkpoint. Never knew legs could turn so fast. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHXksVhtZr8&fmt=18]
During a recent podcast Bill Simmons and his guest Dave Jacoby discuss the antics of MTV's Real World and they lists all the "issues" that have been covered on this reality TV series over the years.
AIDS, anorexia, binge drinking, cutting, cystic fibrosis, homosexuality, domestic violence, alcoholism, drug abuse, driving while intoxicated, sleeping with roommates, child abuse, rape, environmental issues, trans gender, depression, cross dressing, racism, and abortion.
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Time's TV critic James Poniewozik ponders this question (I shared the Susan Boyle clip over at Sundance Channel). He writes that the spread both online and in "replays on talk shows, news shows, and on and on" of dowdy Susan Boyle's appearance on Britain's Got Talent eclipses a behemoth such as the Super Bowl audience and suggests that "the growing Boyle phenomenon...shows that mass-media experiences still exist in the fragmented-media era—they're just different."
The 30 second sound bite has now been replaced by a 30 second video moment that "tell a story in a short time [with] a character, conflict, triumph and resolution in scant minutes."
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