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We’re Team Conan!
NBC is Run by a Bunch of Talkin’ Monkeys. Like Ferris Bueller once said, “Life moves pretty fast; if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it.” Never has this been truer than in the case of the evolving NBC late night debacle. Just […]
spunky Forum: How to Fix NBC
Recently, Myndi, EJ, and Don got into an e-mail discussion about NBC. Most of our favorite shows are on the network, yet they’re regularly in fourth place, and they have a history of making baffling programming decisions. What follows is a transcript of the discussion, highlighting problems, suggesting solutions, and […]
Mad Men Roundtable: “Shut the Door. Have a Seat.”
EJ – The finales for the first two seasons of Mad Men weren’t exactly what I’d call “rousing”. Lest we forget, Season One ended with Don Draper weeping alone on the stairs of his empty house, and Season Two brought us Pete Campbell cradling his shotgun on the eve of […]
Mad Men Round Table: Season 3, “The Gypsy and the Hobo”
Myndi – Wow. Can you believe that episode even happened?! We found out that Roger once got dumped, Joan broke a vase over her husband’s weaselly head and Betty finally confronted Don in a way few could have imagined. The few moments of levity were provided by Roger’s storyline, in […]
Mad Men Roundtable, Season 3, Episode 10 (Oct 22)
DON (Not Draper) Old photos. Moments in time, captured forever, serving as a window to a point in time that was better or worse than the present. It was clever of Mad Men this week to use a few old photos in the same way Peggy masterfully brainstormed the Western […]