ScoobyDoo-related stories
Posted Nov 10th 2009 11:05AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Animation, Commercials, Children, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free, TV Squad Ten
Marge Simpson's spread in Playboy was a groundbreaking moment for cartoon women everywhere. Her sensual skin pics paved new ground for the "feminine-animated."
She told the world that the women of animation aren't just vehicles for humor or straight characters to set up punchlines for the males on the paper. She helped us realize they have thoughts, feelings, emotions and yes, even urges that make them unique, infinitely interesting and utterly fascinating. They are, as Dr. Frasier Crane so eloquently put it, "like a fine wine: always intoxicated, ever surprising and only getting better with age."
And so, for the cause of gender equality and female empowerment, here are the ten cartoon chicks who should pose naked because it would be righteously awesome.
Continue reading TV Squad Ten: Cartoon women who should have Playboy centerfolds
Posted Feb 10th 2009 1:31PM by Debra McDuffee
Filed under: OpEd, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free
The
new fall pilots don't excite me very much, what with all of the cops, doctors and lawyers. But I know networks, and original ideas aren't exactly the "in" thing.
So, why can't we design some spin-offs? You know, the networks might go for some ideas based on hit shows, and we can make them a little bit unique, right? Let's add in some elements that excite us to some familiar characters and see if we can't create some new spin-off pilots better than the actual ones.
Continue reading Six spinoffs you'll probably never see ... but sure would be fun
Posted Aug 2nd 2008 10:23AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Reality-Free
Just in case the first two
Scooby Doo movies left you with unanswered questions, there is some good news.
A third movie is in the works and this one will be direct-to-TV-and-DVD.
The new movie is intended as a prequel and will be called
Scooby Doo: In The Beginning. It will star lesser-known actors (and by lesser I mean virtually not known at all) since the original actors
have moved on with their careers. It will be about the Scooby Gang solving mysteries together for the first time.
Continue reading Live action Scooby Doo coming to TV and DVD
Posted Jun 7th 2007 8:00AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Traveler
(
S01E03) I don't know that any of us can ever really understand the machinations that go into making the network schedule. After watching the first three episodes of
Traveler though, I'm left scratching my head wondering just what it was that kept this one tucked away for so long. I'll give in where
The Nine is concerned, because the pilot was very good. But how this one got passed over for
Six Degrees, Men In Trees, and the collection of little sit-coms that couldn't is beyond me.
Continue reading Traveler: New Haven
Posted Oct 10th 2006 9:02PM by Brett Love
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Celebrities, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Sarah Michelle Gellar says that she doesn't think she could ever do a one hour series again because it is
too exhausting. The former
Buffy star goes on to say, "A movie is an hour and twenty minutes, and we were filming almost that every week." By almost that she means 45 minutes. It's possible that she may have vowed to never take another math class at some point too.
I don't put a lot of weight behind her proclamation though. Sarah Michelle is having a
good run of it with the movies right now. With
The Grudge 2 in theaters, three other movies in post-production, and two more in pre-production, her plate is awfully full. And I am really looking forward to
Alice. Still, those runs have a way of drying up, and we have seen all manner of movie stars come back to the small screen. A few years from now maybe, if the choice is random drama on random network or
Scooby Doo 5, TV might look pretty good.
Related: Unaired Buffy pilot on YouTube
Mercedes McNab's Playboy shoot - NSFW Retro Squad reviews Buffy season onePosted Oct 2nd 2006 11:54PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Cable, Late Night, OpEd, Animation, Adult Swim, The Venture Bros.
(
S02E11) This was, without a doubt, the bloodiest, sickest episode of
The Venture Bros. yet. Even the bit before the title sequence was distinctly dark, but it wasn't until the very end that I realized the cause behind this dramatic shift in tone... This episode was penned by the one an only Ben Edlund (from
The Tick fame). He contributed that shitty "Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner?" story (sorry, that was such a downer on the season) but I think he really redeemed himself here.
Personally, I prefer the pop culture reference-laden episodes by Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer, but Edlund did a fair enough job here, offering his own take on the
Venture world. Very enjoyable (and gross) indeed.
Continue reading The Venture Bros: ¡Viva los Muertos!
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