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POP FILTER TOP TEN
THE POP FILTER TOP 40 TV THEME SONGS In which we finally fucking get to 10-1. 10. THE MUPPET SHOW Sometimes the point of a theme song can be to introduce you to the characters, or to the premise of the show. Sometimes it can be nothing more than shit that plays just so the…
Read MoreBreaking Bad Drinking Game
THE THIRST GAMES THE BREAKING BAD DRINKING GAME Breaking Bad is one of those shows that…no, wait, there is no way to finish that sentence. Breaking Bad isn’t like any other show that has ever been. In the last few years, we have seen a plethora of shows whose lead are living…
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HI, I’M MIKE TV Television for the week of June 17th. BUNHEADS (EPISODE 1-** ½ /EPISODE 2-** OUT OF ****) Let’s be up front right away. That is the whole meaning behind the phrase up front, right? To say the main point of whatever you’re going to talk about immediately, so whoever it is…
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HI, I’M MIKE TV Television for the week of April 30th The L.A. Complex **1/2 (out of ****) Imports can have a hard time here in America. People don’t get the references, or the humor is different, or it’s too nerdy or we just can’t get over how dang funny they talk on that there…
Read MoreReality Bites – Comedy Central’s Roast of Charlie Sheen
TV for the week of September 18, 2010 Monday’s roast of Charlie Sheen was the highest rated Comedy Central roast in history with 6.4 million viewers, that’s more than Hugh Heffner, David Hasselhoff and William Shatner pulled. Which makes total sense, the masses have been lapping up the Sheen trainwreck for years now especially…
Read MoreReality Bites: Whisker Wars
What’s more fun than watching grass grow? Watching facial hair grow of course! At least that’s what IFC hopes as its newest reality show aimed at the hipster underground attempts to make people care about drunk hairy guys. Whisker Wars follows bearding Team USA around the country as they battle for hairy glory in preparation…
Read MoreReality Bites: Top Gear vs. Top Gear
Nothing is more maddening than telling a friend about a new TV show you’re into and having them smugly say “oh yea I’ve been watching the British version for years…its way better.†And nothing brings me more pleasure than being that smug douche. So when I heard that the…
Read MoreReality Bites: Jersey Shore
Of all the reality show formulas I hate the people-living-in-a-house genre second most, after the legal prostitution masquerading as dating shows of course. Big Brother bores me to tears and Real World hasn’t been relevant or real since say 1995. But my secret shame, my guiltiest of guilty pleasures is watching the antics of what…
Read MoreReality Bites – Young, Broke & Beautiful
Television for the week of July 25th IFC is like the hipster generations MTV, and like its acronymed predecessor it’s started replacing the films which were once it’s bread and butter with reality based programming having nothing to do with the title of the channel. Young, Broke and Beautiful is IFC’s stylized travelogue following…
Read MoreReality Bites: Man vs. Wild
Television for the week of July 10th In November 2007 the Writers Guild of America got their panties in a bunch about not getting access to the good table at craft services or some shit and went on strike for four months. A lack of new programming left a void bigger than Oprah’s Minge in…
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