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Posts Tagged ‘TV’
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Saturday, April 13th, 2013John Belushi on The Luck of the Irish
Sunday, March 17th, 2013Another bit for St. Patrick’s Day: The late, great John Belushi on “The Luck of the Irish”:
Belushi’s frothing editorials were always among the highlights of the original Saturday Night Live cast. I wish they’d put all of them on a single DVD, maybe paired with the Samurai skits, or else the Ackroyd/Curtain Point/Counterpoint bits.
(Video updated as of 6 PM, March 17, 2014)
(That video is dead as well, here’s a non-embeddable version.)
Random Image Dwight Will Find Amusing
Friday, March 15th, 2013
“Why Doesn’t MTV Play Music Videos Any More?”
Monday, November 12th, 2012And here’s the very NSFW answer:
(Hat tip: Moe Lane)
Halloween Horrors: Brian Visits Hell
Sunday, October 21st, 2012I checked out of Family Guy when it stopped being funny, which was shortly after the OJ Simpson episode. But I must admit, this shroomed-out Brian visiting his own personal hell is nicely creepy.
The moral: Drugs are bad, M’kay?
All Glory [ ]
Friday, October 19th, 2012Random Google auto-completes that amuse me:
All glory…
- …is fleeting
- …to the Hypnotoad
The Sound of Cylons
Saturday, October 13th, 2012The only reason this isn’t perfect is that no one has the pure upper tenor Art Garfunkel has. But right now it’s only a 360 hits. By the end of the month I bet it’s over a million.
Nothing Says “Punk” Quite Like Huey Lewis
Friday, May 18th, 2012I know that when I think “punk,” Huey Lewis and Toni Basil are the first names that come to mind:
I can hardly wait for their forthcoming Heavy Metal collection with Simon & Garfunkel and The Bee Gees.
(To be fair, Devo were considered punk very early in their career, and Billy Idol at least dressed the part and came out of the same scene as The Sex Pistols. There’s a very amusing bit in Glen Matlock’s I was a teenage Sex Pistol in which a suddenly chastised Idol grows apprehensive over having wrecked his father’s car…)
(Hat tip: Iowahawk’s Twitter feed. )
Who better to throw out the first pitch than a horrifying, vengeful ghost?
Sunday, April 29th, 2012Oh Japan, don’t ever change.
But there’s no reason this idea can’t succeed in the U.S. Why not have Freddy Kruger, Leatherface, Jason or Pinhead throw out the first pitch? Granted, this still wouldn’t be enough to get me to watch baseball…
In related news: Hello Kitty Ringu products.
FLCL on Blu-Ray for $18.99
Saturday, April 28th, 2012We now interrupt this blog for some shameless huxtering: Amazon has the complete 6-episode run of the wonderful and completely insane anime series FLCL on Blu-Ray for $18.99.
This is probably my favorite anime series of all time. It’s weird, funny, and endlessly inventive. You spend 5 episodes thinking “This is great, but it makes absolutely no sense!” And then you watch the sixth episode and go “Wait, it does make sense!” It really rewards re-watching.
It’s about a boy a who has a mysterious woman bump into and then start hitting on him. That is to say, bumps into him with her Vespa at full tilt and starts hitting on his head with her bass guitar. After that, giant robots come out of the resulting bump.
Then it gets weird.
It’s awesome. Trust me.
And if a paying media outlet wants an already completed review of FLCL that Locus Online passed on, please let me know…