As 2010 comes to an end, it’s time to look back at the approximately one million hours of TV I watched this year. This year, a Top 10 wasn’t enough, so I’m doing a Top 20, broken into two installments. And let me tell you, even that required some tough […]
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The First Annual Spunky Awards – Part One
Welcome! We’re interrupting your regularly scheduled Moments of Joy for this special presentation – the First Annual Spunky Awards! We’re looking back at the most notable shows, events, characters, performers, and fruit-based injuries of 2010. So if you wouldn’t mind helping us roll out the red carpet, we’ve got a […]
Sarah Palin’s Alaska: “Rafting and Dog Mushing”
This episode was probably the clunkiest yet of this series, but it still boasted some pretty impressive scenery and a few impossibly cute shots of little Tripp and Trig playing in the yard. Fun facts this week: Sarah and Todd met in high school, on a basketball court, and Sarah […]
TV’s Moments of Joy — Savage and Stark
Welcome to another spunkybean Friday. We’re having the standard last-minute holiday panic attacks at the moment. For example, we thought we were done buying gifts and then realized that we actually forgot certain family members. Did you know that we have a brother? Why didn’t anybody remind us sooner? And […]
Sarah Palin’s Alaska: The Palins Meet The Gosselins
Last week on Sarah Palin’s Alaska, Sarah, her dad and Todd’s friend Becker (who, unfortunately, is still not Ted Danson) went on a $42,000 Caribou hunting trip just to “fill their freezer”. The theme of the whole episode was how people can be tough, independent and self-sufficient, and it totally […]
TV’s Moments of Joy – Christmas Attack Zone!
Welcome to another Friday! We’re currently hip-deep in holiday shopping. Frankly, we may be going a little heavy on the pop-culture themed gifts this week. In fact, now that we think about it, our grandfather doesn’t even own a DVD player, and if he did, he wouldn’t necessarily enjoy Season […]