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Posted Mar 17th 2009 12:12AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, The Big Bang Theory
(S02E18) As much as I love Leonard, tonight's episode of
The Big Bang Theory only further proves that Penny and Sheldon are meant to be. Maybe not in a romantic sense (I still have a hard time picturing Sheldon in a relationship with any woman), but in a platonic life mate sense.
Proving that there is, in fact, a market in everything, Penny manages to start selling her Penny Blossoms, which are really hideous flower barrettes. This obviously means that the guys are going to get involved and geek it up, which they do in a splendid fashion that somehow involves charcoal.
I also learned an important tip: If you're looking to sell something to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered market, design your website like a 13-year-old girl's MySpace page. They are apparently attracted to the same graphic design sensibility -- which Leonard apparently possesses.
Continue reading The Big Bang Theory: The Work Song Nanocluster
Posted Aug 14th 2008 8:04AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, Reality-Free
Sometimes you come across a line in a column, an opinion, an observation, that is so mindblowingly wrong-headed that it leaves your mouth hanging open for a full 30 seconds. That's what happened to me when I read this list of the
Shows That Died Too Young (great one season shows that shouldn't have been canceled) over at
The New York Post. Talking about HBO's
John From Cincinnati, the writer says this:
John [From Cincinnati] was not only the most creative program in the medium's sixty year history, but also some of the most mysterious.Now, the second half of that quote is grammatically baffling, but we get the idea:
JFC was the most creative show that has been on television in its 60 year history. Well, what do you think of that?
Continue reading John From Cincinnati is not the most creative TV show of all-time
Posted Aug 8th 2008 11:04AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, OpEd, TV Squad Lists
Let's face it, science fiction on television is always a challenge, and more often than not, these series fail to find a big enough audience to stick around. That's why the year after
Lost hit it big on just minor sci-fi elements, we had three ratings flops at once with
Invasion, Threshold and
Surface. And all three were good, for different reasons. So my question is why did none of them make
Sci Fi Wire's list of the top 10 sci fi shows canceled too soon? Because Sci-Fi Wire liked
Eerie, Indiana better!
Seriously though, while there were some good elements in their list, and I absolutely agree with their number one choice, there were some real problems and omissions as well.
Wonderfalls ranked way too high and
Homeboys in Outer Space didn't even make the list? Outrageous! So I've taken it upon myself to make my own list of
The Top 10 Sci Fi Short-Lived Sci-Fi Shows That Weren't Pulitzer Worthy But Went Great With Popcorn. And I intentionally didn't include any of the shows on their list, because I'm acting like a spoiled brat and I don't want to play with their toys.
Continue reading My Top 10 list is better than Sci Fi Wire's
Posted Jul 15th 2008 2:14PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Reality-Free
I would even hesitate to call Buffy The Vampire Slayer a superhero. Yeah, she has incredible fighting powers and goes up against various monsters and evildoers, but it's really odd to see her name next to superheroes such as Batman, The Flash, Superman, and Captain America.
But according to readers of Redeye, she's a better superhero than The Dark Knight. (Yup, it's another character showdown over at Redeye.)
Continue reading Is Buffy a better superhero than Batman?
Posted Mar 20th 2007 2:40PM by Jay Black
Filed under: OpEd, The Five, Watercooler Talk
Being a comic book fan sets you up for a lot of disappointment. For one thing, there seems to be a pretty direct ratio between the number of
Atlantis Attacks crossover books you own and the age at which you lose your virginity (ahem19ahem). For another, our only portrayal in the media seems to be Comic Book Guy on
The Simpsons and he is as insulting as he is completely and utterly dead-on.
The worst disappointment, though, is whenever some studio exec decides to "adapt" one of our mylar-enshrined treasures into some big or small screen entertainment. It seems that for every good decision made, there are ten disasters of the "nipples on the bat-suit" variety.
In recent years, movies have faired better than TV when it comes to adaptations, but there are a few gems to be had. The Five best comic book-to TV adaptations after the jump...
Continue reading The Five: Best comic book-to-TV adaptations
Posted Apr 22nd 2006 6:32PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on DVD, Web
No, not the new Michael Douglas/Keifer
Sutherland/Eva Longoria flick (though there is, oddly, a
Desperate Housewives connection). I'm talking
about the 1990s action series
The Sentinel, starring Richard Burgi, who is now on
Housewives.
Show creators/producers Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo have recorded a special podcast commentary for the pilot
episode of the series, much like they recorded a podcast for the series finale of
The Flash when that DVD set
was released. You can find all the podcasts
here.
[via
TVshowsondvd.com]
Posted Feb 3rd 2006 12:06PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, TV on DVD
TVshowsondvd is reporting that several people who have purchased the
first season DVD set of
The Flash have gotten DVDs that are defective. Seems that the pilot episode on the
first disc might skip or freeze. If you got a defective disc, you can call Warner Home Video at 1-800-891-1311 and
they'll send you a SASE envelope for you to return the disc.
Posted Jan 10th 2006 8:37AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: TV on DVD, Video
Every Tuesday morning here on TV Squad , we will highlight the week's TV-on-DVD releases. Some noteworthy releases
today, January 10, 2006:
-
Andromeda - Vol 5.3
- As Time Goes By - Reunion Specials
- Black
Books - The Complete 1st Series
- The Flash - The Complete Series
- Hee
Haw - Collection Vol 5
- The House of Eliott - Series 2
- Men Behaving
Badly (UK) - The Complete Series 3; The Complete Series 4
- Nighty Night - The
Complete 1st Series
- Red Dwarf - Series 7
- Rising Damp - Series
1
- Strong Medicine - The Complete 1st Season
- Urban Gothic - Season
1
- Viva la Bam - The Complete 4th And 5th Seasons
- Wild Kingdom -
Hunters Of The Sky; The African Wild 2
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