Posts with tag the wonder years
Posted Nov 26th 2007 3:04PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, Web
I'm one of those suckers who really loves a good holiday episode of a TV show. Whether it's Friends or The Simpsons or The West Wing, I get all choked up when a couple gets together or a family learns the true meaning of Christmas and a carol is played at the end. I still remember the Christmas episodes on Guiding Light in the 80s, with Nick visiting and helping out Philip and Beth and Rick and other Springfield citizens. (Wow, not only do I love Christmas on TV, I love Christmas on soap operas...yikes).
AOL has a 10 question quiz about Christmas TV. How much do you know about The Wonder Years, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Home Improvement? This is the best I've ever scored on one of these AOL quizzes. I got 9 out of 10. Damn you, Grey's Anatomy!
Posted May 2nd 2007 1:57PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: OpEd, The Simpsons, TV Squad Lists
The wacky neighbor is a sitcom staple. Neighbors like Kramer from
Seinfeld, Lenny & Squiggy from
Laverne & Shirley, and Carl Brutanunanadilewski from
Aqua Teen Hunger Force make for great entertainment. They're always part of some wild adventure or providing comic relief. But, let's face it: these people would make terrible neighbors in real life.
The real neighbors you want are ones who are courteous, quiet, and friendly. Or hot. Here are the seven television neighbors you'd want in real life:
Continue reading The seven TV neighbors you'd want in real life
Posted Aug 8th 2006 10:02AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Talent, Celebrities
OK, I guess it doesn't really make me feel old, since The Wonder Years was quite some time ago. But still, little Kevin Arnold is a dad? It probably doesn't help that I already feel old because my nephew had a baby a couple of weeks ago.
Fred Savage and his childhood sweetheart (awwwwww) wife Jennifer Lynn Stone welcomed a 6 pound, 13 ounce boy on Saturday night. Fred and Jennifer got married in 2004, but don't worry fans, he remains good friends with former costar Danica McKellar (Winnie).
Posted Jul 14th 2006 8:02PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Celebrities
Yes, I'm a girl. But I'm not blind. I know that Danica McKellar, the actress who played Winnie Cooper on
The Wonder Years, is drop-dead gorgeous. She's also wicked smart. As you may remember from
Ryan's retrospective earlier this year, McKellar graduated from UCLA with a degree in Mathematics. She's putting that knowledge to work by writing a book for middle-school girls about how to master math. It's called 'Math Doesn't Suck' and it's being published next year by Hudson Street Press. McKellar said she wants to help break the stereotype about how only geeks are good at math. OK. So she probably wouldn't enjoy my headline.
If you're not into math books for middle school girls (and I would totally question you if you were), you can see McKellar soon on the Lifetime series,
Inspector Mom, and on her new Yoga DVDs,
Daily Dose of Dharma. You just saw the word 'yoga' and forgot everything I wrote about math, didn't you?
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TV Tattle]
Posted Jan 6th 2006 8:39AM by Ryan j Budke
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, CBS, TV Royalty, OpEd, How I Met Your Mother, In the Limelight
For just about every guy growing
up in the late eighties and early nineties, Winnie Cooper was your dream girl. She was gorgeous, intelligent, funny and
always kind of had that "damsel in distress" aura about her. She was one of the best parts about tuning into
The Wonder Years, and so was the actress who portrayed her,
Danica McKellar.
Danica started acting early, with a couple
of guest appearences on
The Twilight Zone, before landing the role of Winnie
on
The Wonder Years. The show had a great, award winning five year run, but
once it ended, Danica did what many child stars fail to do: bow out gracefully. Besides doing a few voiceovers for
cartoons, Ms. McKellar spent the next couple of years at UCLA. In 1998, she graduated from there Summa cum Laude, with
a degree in Mathematics. Remember the next time you use the Chayes-McKellar-Winn Theorem, because she actually
discovered that! Yea, I've never used it either and I have no idea what it means.
Continue reading In the Limelight: Danica McKellar
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