Archive for the 'tv' Category

February 2nd, 2010

The Daily Show

Full Episode | February 1, 2010 – Austan Goolsbee | The Daily Show.
Last night’s Daily show was pretty awesome.  Jon Stewart brought his a game and it was pretty funny.
The moment of zen really was awesome, its from the same roundtable discussion as Krugman calls FOX News ‘deliberate misinformation’ to Roger Ailes’ face

December 9th, 2009

The World Is Just Awesome

The World Is Just Awesome
This is definitely one of my all time favorite commercials.  Granted, it is for one of my favorite channels, but well, the world is just awesome.

The commercial is best when viewed loudly

November 25th, 2009

Gay Pagan Witches Will Abort Your Kids!

A case in point is a recent TV “holiday” commercial for a nationwide clothing chain. In the commercial, young people dance to wild, chaotic music while their bodies assume contorted positions. The commercial encourages customers to buy their Christmas, Kwanza, and Solstice gifts at Gap. Yes, Solstice gifts! (Italics theirs)
Solstice is a holiday celebrated by [...]

November 20th, 2009

Bones

Dr. Temperance Brennan: Can’t you just be satisfied that if I’m wrong about God that I’ll burn in hell?
via “Bones” The Priest in the Churchyard (2007) – Memorable quotes.
I made this post as a draft back in September but I just found it when I upgraded Wordpress.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the crazy right wing [...]

November 17th, 2009

The Ball

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
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Windowless News Van for Kids – The Ball

www.thedailyshow.com

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The ball finally gets inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame after the stick and the cardboard box.
via Video: Windowless News Van for Kids – The Ball | The Daily Show | [...]

November 4th, 2009

Glee

YouTube – Glee Cast – No Air (HQ).
I have a hard time believing that the plot of this show could exist in the real world, but I really love the show.  The music is awesome, the choreographing is phenomenal and the plot twists keep you sucked in to see how they are going to get [...]

September 22nd, 2009

Time Warner Ad

We are watching the daily show and a popup came up on the dvr saying to press the A button to order Observe and Report. We couldn’t see the whole ad because the standard def signals are cropped a bit but I had to pick up the remote to press exit to get it [...]

August 26th, 2009

About Cake

CHICAGO—Though the stock market remains shaky and consumer spending has reached a standstill, the U.S. economy is apparently still robust enough to produce nearly half a dozen television shows about cake. “This flies in the face of basic economic theory,” University of Chicago economist John Holloway said Friday, referring to such programs as Ace Of [...]

August 18th, 2009

Wal-Mart Joins Glenn Beck Boycott

Allergan (maker of Restasis), Ally Bank (a unit of GMAC Financial Services), Best Buy, Broadview Security, CVS, Re-Bath, Travelocity and Wal-Mart join the dozen other companies who previously distanced themselves from Beck. Twenty companies have pulled their ads from Beck’s show in just the last two weeks. The moves come after the Fox News host [...]

August 3rd, 2009

Lady friends

The best part about being a girl is your girlfriends. They keep you happy when you’re sad and make you laugh when you want to cry, and most importantly, tell you what to buy.
via Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Lady friends // Current.
It is funny, watch it silly ladies.

July 31st, 2009

Who Owns What on TV

Kev and I were talking the other day about who owned what on TV, and I finally remembered to try to look it up.  I don’t think they want you to know what all each mega corp owns.
All those hundreds of TV channels may lead you that there’s a true diversity and variety in today’s [...]

July 29th, 2009

New Scientology Commercials

“Its shiny cars, wistful eyes and roast beef for dinner.
Its questions and answers and ‘I dont knows.’
Its finding true love and losing it and finding it all over again.
Its music and sensation and touchdowns and chocolate.
Its spirituality and inspiration and money and traffic jams.
Its disaster and heroism and paper clips and knowing when to breathe.
Its [...]

July 24th, 2009

Iron Baby!

…exciting news from Cat Cora!
The Iron Chef star and her wife Jennifer have welcomed their fourth son, Nash Lemuel Cora.
via OK! Exclusive: Cat Cora Welcomes a Baby Boy! – OK! Magazine – The First for Celebrity News.
Congrats Iron Chef Cora!
Well ya learn something new every day.  Not that it matters, but I did not know [...]

June 4th, 2009

Damn Commercials

YouTube – MATT AND KIM – DAYLIGHT.

Totally catchy song from the newest Bacardi Mojito commercial.

April 9th, 2009

Fake Ad for Fake Problems

The facts indicate that (1) refers to the Benitez decision in California, determining that a doctor cannot violate California anti-discrimination law by refusing to treat a lesbian based on religious belief, (2) refers to the Ocean Grove, New Jersey Methodist pavilion that was open to the general public for events but refused access for civil [...]