The Jeff Foxworthy puppet is eerily accurate.
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Sesame Street asks: Are you smarter than an egg layer?
You know you've reached a certain place in pop culture when Sesame Street does a parody (Mad Men is getting one later this season). This one is a take-off on Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?
The Jeff Foxworthy puppet is eerily accurate.
The Jeff Foxworthy puppet is eerily accurate.
Sneak Peek: Adam Richman eats hot stuff on a new Man vs. Food
The new season of Man vs. Food starts tomorrow on Travel Channel. If you've never seen it, host Adam Richman goes around to various eating establishments across the country and eats stuff. Not just anything on a menu, we're talking about giant hamburgers, a 13-pound pizza, 12 egg omelets, stuff like that. In tomorrow's episode he eats a burger so hot he has to wear gloves.
Jamie Oliver: Killer of cute baby chicks - VIDEO
You're probably not going to see this on Martha Stewart.
British chef Jamie Oliver made a point recently about the way that chickens (and other animals) are treated and killed in the manufacture and processing of food. Oliver has been an activist for years and really wants people to understand where their food comes from. He brought out a bunch of fluffy, cute baby chicks and let a studio audience pet them and get to see how they cute they were. Then he took the baby chicks and gassed them, live on stage. Then he fed one to a big snake.
It's a little disconcerting, with the wacky music and the audience oooooing and ahhhhhhing. Then the killing comes and the audience cries (though I wonder if they know that you have to kill chickens and cows and other animals you see dancing in Pixar films to make the food we love to eat). Video after the jump (though you won't actually get to see the snake eat the chick, you ghouls).
By sheer coincidence, I'm having chicken tonight.
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Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates Eggs
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As a change of pace, I asked TV know-it-all Paul Goebel to write a rebuttal to today's review. Goebel is an actor and comedian who appeared as the "TV Geek" on the short-lived Comedy Central quiz show Beat the Geeks and has appeared on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ally McBeal, Will and Grace and other shows. He currently hosts a show at the UCB Theater in Los Angeles, and does a weekly podcast with his pal Jim Bruce called "The Paul Goebel Show." If you like TV, you should check it out. His response is after my review.
Ever since Linda Lavin helmed the CBS Schoolbreak Special "Flour Babies" in 1990, the idea of students being assigned fake babies has been spoofed numerous times. The winner for best spoof goes to the Strangers with Candy episode "A Burden's Burden" in which Jerri and her classmates are assigned actually babies. There's also the South Park episode "Follow That Egg" that manages to tackle both gay marriage and child custody battles when the kids are given eggs and told to treat them like real babies.
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Moral Orel: Offensiveness
(S02E05) You can never predict what might offend some people. I've expressed opinions on this blog and elsewhere, convinced my views would raise the ire of certain readers, and been greeted by the Web equivalent of chirping crickets. In contrast, it's usually the stuff that seems completely innocuous that manages to stimulate some section of a person's brain dedicated to making everything sound offensive.
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Enjoy your ad-filled breakfast, courtesy of CBS
I reported this over on AdJab, but I figured the folks here would like to hear about this, too: The New York Times reports today that CBS will begin having ads etched on 35 million eggs, which will be distributed and sold nationwide. The etching, a laser-based process created by the company EggFusion, will consist of the network's eye logo, the name of a show or a featured lineup day, and an egg-related tag line. Some of the ovum-centric bon mots will include "CBS Mondays: Shelling Out Laughs", "CSI: Crack the Case on CBS", and "Shark: Hard-Boiled Drama". Yeah, I'm laughing on the inside, too.Anyway, the eggs will also have expiration dates on them, which is what the etching technology was designed for in the first place. Apparently, the etchings can already be done on fruit, which will most definitely lead to the day when I'm biting into Katie Couric's face on an apple. When that day comes, I may just move to the mountains and check myself off the grid for good.
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It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown on ABC tonight
I have a very deeply ingrained love for Charles Schulz and his Peanuts creation.
If I were so inclined, I could bore you to tears right now with all the reasons I admire it so much, but I won't. I did
want to let you know, however, that It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown will air on ABC this evening at 7p.m.
CST. This particular Peanuts special doesn't quite stand up to It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and
A Charlie Brown Christmas, but it's still a fun special with lots of great gags, especially the one involving
Marcie trying to make Easter eggs and having no idea how to do it. She tries frying them, boiling the yolks, and at one
point cracks some eggs into the toaster. The plot is similar to Great Pumpkin, except this time Linus tries to
convince everyone the Easter Beagle is coming to give eggs to all the children. There's also a subplot in which
Snoopy tries to build a new home for Woodstock. Not as much of a "must see" as Pumpkin and
Christmas, but still worth checking out if you're a fan of such specials.
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