Although this week will go down in history as the week before Lost Season Five began. Also, the Presidential Inauguration probably. But the Lost premiere is 100% more likely to have polar bears, and thus automatically more awesome. Still, this week was not without its own share of top-quality televisual […]
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Snap Judgements: Celebrity Apprentice Season 2 (Jan 15)
Last week, the eagerly anticipated cast list for the upcoming second season of Celebrity Apprentice was announced! We at spunkybean first enjoyed the show last winter during the writers’ strike, when it was damn near the only game in town. Somehow, we grew attached (despite the presence of Gene Simmons […]
The Most Awesome Thing We Saw This Week (Jan 6-12)
So, we took a break for a couple of weeks. There just, well, wasn’t really anything on TV during the holidays. We’ve been subsisting on The Drinky Crow Show and the Dancing with the Stars Wii game. And while assuredly, both are pretty awesome, we didn’t have enough to fill a feature. But as of […]
Listopolis: Top 10 Obscure Catchphrases
Let’s face it: lists are fun. It’s fun to make a list ranking things, and it’s fun to argue about other people’s lists. Sure, sometimes that involves shaking your fist at the jackass who made a list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters of All Time and didn’t even think […]
The All-Pilot Project: Momma’s Boys and Game Show in My Head
We don’t know if you noticed this, but the networks have been piling on the unscripted pilots over the last few weeks. It almost feels like the Writer’s Strike all over again. We’re going to do our best to wade through them and keep our fingers crossed that there’s some […]
A Beautiful Gory Display: The Spirit
By now, you’ve probably chosen not to see The Spirit. You have made the right choice. It is a bad movie. If this movie somehow took physical form and walked down the street, you would band together with your neighbors to kill it with fire. But it’s important to note […]