Long after you’ve become too old to enjoy after school cartoons, their theme songs continue to bounce around your brain. TIME …
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The Flintstones Hit 50
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As you may already know from having visited Google, it’s The Flintstones’ 50th anniversary. I watched Flintstones reruns—and various later spinoffs—as a kid, but I hadn’t revisited Bedrock until a couple of years ago, when the Tuned In Jrs. went through a brief Flintstones phase. …
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Paging Archie Bunker: Can Scripted TV Still Move the Culture?
My post on Modern Family’s Big Gay Kiss Episode this morning reminded me of a discussion Jaime Weinman of MacLean’s and I had at his blog yesterday, in a post of his partly inspired by a post of mine on the death of Lone Star. Essentially, he makes the argument that big mainstream broadcast hits still exist and still matter–because …
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The Morning After: West Coast Chung-Chung
There is something in me that is just constitutionally unable to appreciate yet another cop procedural, even or especially when it’s another Law & Order. (I can appreciate why people loved the original, for instance—I just can’t feel it and am not interested in faking it.) So you won’t be surprised that I didn’t love last night’s …
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Modern Family Watch: Lips Service
Although I knew it was coming, I actually missed the kiss between Mitchell and Cameron the first time I watched last night’s Modern Family. (I’m considering that a non-spoiler, seeing as how widely the smooch was reported and discussed in advance.) I looked down for a second, probably typing down some quote, and it was there and gone, …
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Greg Giraldo Dies at 44
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Greg Giraldo, whose sharp and searing standup was familiar to fans of Comedy Central and Last Comic Standing, died Wednesday from the effects of a prescription drug overdose. Giraldo, a former lawyer, brought an intelligent and combative style to Comedy Central’s roasts as well as the panel of …