Hey, it’s Oscar week! The seemingly unending award season finally wraps up on Sunday with the Academy Awards. We’re pretty excited this year, because so many of our TV favorites are up for acting awards. (And so is Batman.) James Franco of Freaks and Geeks, Homicide’s Melissa Leo, John Hawkes […]
The Best Shows on TV
The Venture Bros. – “Tag Sale – You’re It!”
Hey, do you feel like seeing the episode that introduces a whole bunch of major characters to the Venture Bros. universe? Well, “Tag Sale – You’re It!” is the episode for you. In this half hour, we meet four major characters, a couple of solid B-listers, and a handful of […]
The Venture Bros. – The Retro-Recap Project
On the surface, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of point in recapping TV shows from five years ago. And yet, I’m going through the first season of Venture Bros. and providing long-winded recaps of those early days when the Monarch was single, Hank and Dean hadn’t hit puberty, […]
TV’s Moments of Joy – Complisults and Explanabrags
In tribute to Len Lesser, who passed away this week, imagine us opening this week’s installment with a hearty, Uncle Leo-style “Hello!” He was Jerry Seinfeld’s most beloved uncle, and he was always funny, whether shoplifting batteries or taking extreme offense at perceived slights. This would be a good weekend […]
The Venture Bros. “The Incredible Mr. Brisby”
At first glance, “The Incredible Mr. Brisby” seems like a bit of a throwaway episode – unlike most of the Season One Venture Bros. episodes we’ve been watching, it doesn’t introduce any major characters and we don’t really see the important players in this episode ever again. But even though […]
TV’s Moments of Joy — Bob Bobinson Bobert
Welcome to another Friday here at spunkybean! If we were old-timey sportscasters, we’d call this week “a real humdinger”. Sadly, we are not old-timey sportscasters, which means that we never get to talk excitedly into big round microphones. But hey, that’s our problem and we don’t want to drag you […]