Diet Coke-related stories
Posted Jul 8th 2009 6:30PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Reality-Free

This isn't something I would particularly care about, but consumers in England can buy special
Ugly Betty Diet Coke bottles. The bottles are pink and come with stickers so you can decorate the bottle any which way you want. Not sure if it will also be available in the U.S. at some point. Coke seems to be
doing a lot of stuff with Ugly Betty over there.
I would like to see a
Mad Men-inspired Diet Coke bottle. I'd buy around 10 six-packs of those.
[via
TV Tattle]
Posted Aug 18th 2008 1:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, In Plain Sight
(S01E12) It feels to me that a big chunk of the first season of
In Plain Sight was Brandi's great adventure, and tonight's show was the big finish. In a twist that was both surprising and satisfying, the loose ends were tied up and the air was cleared for the show to return for more chapters in the Shannon family saga. And all that other stuff that Mary's been doing with the Witness Protection Program, too.
After nearly eleven hours (give or take) of Mary's frustration with her mother and sister, it all came to a head. Directed by John Badham (
Saturday Night Fever), this was an episode heavy on the drama, and he did a great job balancing the FBI investigation, Marshall and Stan's efforts to save Mary's career, and the family dynamics. From the first scene between the Shannons, there was no question that this was not going to be a warm and fuzzy examination of their feelings. Mary dropped the hammer when she told Jinx and Brandi how much trouble they were in.
Continue reading In Plain Sight: A Fine Meth (season finale)
Posted Sep 24th 2006 12:14PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Programming, Web
The stars from Nobody's Watching, the pilot, turned YouTube posting, turned NBC show, are back. This time around they spoof one of the staples of the ever-growing video posting site.
If you were ever a visitor to YouTube you have probably seen one of the seven thousand videos that show what happens when you add Mentos to a bottle of Diet Coke. Not to spoil the surprise, but you get a Diet Coke fountain (don't ask me the science behind it. I did poorly in Chemistry; hence the reason I'm a writer.). Well, Taran Killam and Paul Campbell, the stars of Nobody's Watching, have taken it a few steps further and experimented with other combinations of food added to beverages. For instance, mixing Sweettarts with Sprite produces a baby chicken. Go figure. And, when they mix something like a Mike & Ike (the actual name of the candy escapes me) with a carton of milk they get transported to a leather bar. Wow, I probably don't want to try that experiment!
The best combination they work with is the first one where they add a candy corn to a one-liter bottle of root beer. I don't want to ruin the results because they are a bit surprising. You can watch all of the experiments after the jump.
Continue reading Candy corn + root beer = another Nobody's Watching short -- VIDEO
Posted Mar 18th 2006 3:06PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Talent, Web, Celebrities

If you've been following the celebrity encounters that
writer Paul Davidson has been chronicling for the past couple of years, you know that he has encountered everyone from
Mr. T to John Tesh to Kristy McNichol. Now comes his best sighting of all.
Davidson went to see
Thank
You For Smoking the other night and found himself in line at the concession stand, right behind...Matthew Perry!
When Perry ordered just a diet Coke and nothing else, Davidson took it upon himself to
explain a few things about how the
body works.