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‘Wedding Crashers’ and ‘500 Days’ teams behind NBC’s ‘Friends with Benefits’

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

What do you get when you combine the director of Wedding Crashers, the writers of 500 Days of Summer, and the producers of Arrested Development? What sounds like a kick-ass show: Friends with Benefits, which NBC has just picked up…

Slap Bet, the game!

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Forget discounted Wii games and DVDs — what you want to buy this Black Friday is Slap Bet!

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Humpday Silly: “Confrontation”

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

No, it’s not another Robin Sparkles hit, though I’ve heard that we have at least one more coming to us by next year… I discovered this gem last year, before I had started watching HIMYM. We’ve since learned that at…

Faceless Narrators on TV

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

In the past few years, there’s been a growing trend toward bracketing a successful TV show with narrators who we never actually see in person. This, of course, is different from the voice actors who narrate movie trailers or pop…

The Most Ridiculous Plotlines on TV

Friday, October 16th, 2009

What, no One Tree Hill?? Believe it or not, this might inspire me to watch more of these shows. Some of my favorites from the list of deliciously-warped TV:

9. 90210
Most of the plots on this show are preposterous…

Halloween Countdown: Costume Inspiration

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

Although we’ve got two more months left of 2009, the year has presented us with some visually-memorable characters, from scary to comedic. These are by no means classic, time-enduring ideas; just some new material to try for original, but still…

Halloween Countdown: The Spookiest TV Episodes

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Rabbit rabbit — happy October. We’re feeling it here, as the weather has experienced an unexpected dip from warm and drowsy to biting cold. But we’ll go with it, because the sudden chill perfectly presages Halloween. And to kick off…

‘Mother’ and ‘Sunny’ reflect raunchy nature of modern sitcoms

Friday, September 25th, 2009

by John Stahl
How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM) is one of the few current sitcoms that I enjoy. Much of the good humor, as the September 29 blu-ray and DVD release of the fourth season of this show will…

‘How I Met Your Mother’ Premiere Goes Back to School

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Sorry that my recap is coming a day late — and while I won’t be doing weekly recaps of most shows, this premiere was still worth telling others about. “Definitions” is especially relatable to Millennials because it shows thirty-somethings feeling…

The ‘Mother’ Mystery — Yea or Nay?

Friday, September 4th, 2009

I’m really liking this new TV forum, Clique Clack, for their choice of unexpected topics for TV debate. Take, for instance, Bob Degon’s claim that How I Met Your Mother’s MacGuffin/metastory/titular topic is largely unnecessary.

Maybe I’m alone in this…