SmallWonder-related stories
Posted Mar 15th 2009 2:02PM by Eliot Glazer
Filed under: OpEd, American Idol, Video, Commercials, Web, Adult Swim, Children, Dancing With The Stars, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free

It goes without saying that television from the 80's - as a decade - tends to stand on its own as having provided some of the oddest junk we may ever see: the glorification of cat-fights (see:
Dynasty), the existence of
Twin Peaks, and an alien as the star of his own sitcom (see:
Tony Danza Alf).
Of course, classically cheesy schmaltz like
Dancing With The Stars and
American Idol continues to thrive, keeping viewers fastened to their couches amid every note sung or dance move executed by someone in a fedora or boa, respectively.
Continue reading 80's sitcom intros that now look like self-parodies - VIDEO
Posted Dec 15th 2006 10:05AM by Jay Black
Filed under: The Simpsons, Watercooler Talk, In Defense Of

I spent about 15 minutes last night reading a ridiculously detailed summary of the 8(!?) separate
timelines that spring into and out of existence throughout the course of the three
Back To The Future movies. It just so happened that during my study of "timeline 1985(a)" that my wife happened into my office to ask me what I was up to. When I told her, she sorta sadly shook her head and left muttering something about me "having no life."
Okay, I admit, trolling Wikipedia for the latest breakdown of a 19-year-old movie franchise ain't exactly what Henry David Thoreau meant when he spoke about "sucking the marrow out of life", but there's at least one person in the world who has even less of a life than I do: the guy who wrote the friggin' article in the first place.
And you know what? Thank God for that guy...
Continue reading In Defense of: Obsessive internet fanboys