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Comedy

The Office: Customer Survey

Synopsis: The results of the annual customer survey are in and, surprisingly, both Jim and Dwight have performed badly. Dwight suspects sabotage and, for once, his paranoia is justified. It seems Kelly falsified the negative responses to get back at Jim and Dwight for blowing off her America’s Got Talent season finale party. She gets caught but keeps her job because of Michael’s empathy for her situation. He has a really hard time getting people to come to his parties and he’s got the leftover guacamole to prove it. Through all of this, Jim communicates with Pam via the world’s […]

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Comedy

Droided Up: Seth Green And Matt Senreich Get Geeked About "Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II"

Posted by Ryan “I still can’t believe any of this is happening in my real life,” says Seth Green. “I am so amazed that we’re getting to do this. I just don’t want anybody to wake me up.” For Star Wars fanatics Green and Robot Chicken co-creator Matt Senreich, doing a Star Wars-themed episode of their stop-motion animated comedy was, to quote Luke Skywalker, “like something out of a dream.” So getting a sequel greenlighted must’ve felt like a Jedi mind trick. But it’s no Bantha poodoo: Adult Swim presents Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II on Nov. 16 at […]

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Drama

“One Tree Hill”: The Slippery Slope NEVER ENDS 9

Posted by: haro1d I’m starting to get really impressed with OTH’s ability to present week after week of filler episodes. I think what’s going on is that there simply are getting to be too many characters and plotlines, and they’re all having to be serviced, so the overall effect is that it feels like not much happens from episode to episode, even if that might not be the case. If you look through the last few synoptic blog entries I’ve written for OTH, you’ll notice that they’re getting longer and more fragmented as things get increasingly complicated and the volume […]

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Comedy

How I Met Your Mother: Not a Father’s Day

Posted by Mike Synopsis: At the beginning of the episode, Barney receives the worst news a guy like Barney can get — he is going to be a dad. Or at least he thinks he is, since he is too awesome to not have impregnated someone. He’s relieved to find out that he’s wrong, however, and in celebration he decides to create a new holiday: Not A Father’s Day. With all the talk of babies, Lily and Marshall decide that they want one — that is, until Lily shows up drunk at Marshall’s office ready to get the project started, […]

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Sports

"E:60" Season Finale: Dwyane And Jolinda Wade, Adam Bender, D.J. Gregory, And Wingsuits

Posted by Cubicle QB Features on the Nov. 11 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60: Dwyane Wade He’s the 2006 NBA Finals MVP, a four-time NBA All Star, and an Olympic gold medalist. But Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade’s proudest moment was this spring when he helped dedicate the church he bought for his mother, Pastor Jolinda Wade, in Chicago — the culmination of an emotional journey, watching his mother’s life turn around from the ruins of alcohol and drug abuse. Now sober for seven years, Jolinda Wade turned to drugs and alcohol following her divorce from […]

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Magazine Archive

Kaitlin Olson Is Living On The “Sunny” Side Of Life

Life rarely goes well for Kaitlin Olson’s character on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. This season alone, the FX comedy has seen her being made to believe she was a cannibal, undergoing waterboarding by urinal and seeing her embarrassingly pathetic video diary become an Internet sensation. Offscreen, however, Olson couldn’t be happier. She’s in her fourth season playing Dee “Sweet Dee” Reynolds, and the show has been picked up for an additional 39 episodes beyond the current run, which ends Nov. 20. The outrageous sitcom — about a group of ne’er do-wells who run a dive bar in the City […]

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Comedy

“My Name Is Earl”: Sold A Guy A Lemon Car

Earl and Randy have a new neighbor at the motel, a creepy guy named Lloyd (played by Courtney Gains, who was Malachai in Children of the Corn) who makes a ruckus with hammering and welding into the wee hours of the night. Joy recognizes Lloyd as the guy who she and Earl sold a hillbilly tuned-up lemon to. Lloyd wanted to take a cross-country drive, but he didn’t get out of Camden County before the car broke down. The incident scarred Lloyd emotionally, and he lost his faith in human goodness. Earl suspects that Lloyd is building a bomb in […]

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Animation

Family Guy Season 7 Episode 5 Recap: The Man With Two Brians

After Peter and the gang watch Jackass and are inspired to new heights of jackassery, Brian has to save Peter from drowning in the river. In doing so, he hurts himself, and everyone attributes it to his getting old. Lois points out that when you figure in his drinking and smoking, Brian is 79 in human years. To take the burden of being the family dog off of Brian, Peter goes out and gets a New Brian. Great idea, no? No. The New Brian wakes Peter and Lois up with a flute serenade. He listens to Meg’s problems and vows […]

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Magazine Archive

Television’s Cute Kids Grow Up And Rock Out

“Former child star.” It’s almost impossible not to start thinking of words like “troubled,” “wayward” and “busted” when you hear that phrase, isn’t it? The roads out of Hollywood’s childhoods are littered with stories sad and tragic, of lives fractured or destroyed. But a number of once-young TV and movie darlings have gone on, in adolescence or soon afterward, to form bands that at least helped them transition out of their child-star perceptions, and at most gave them a chance to rub those perceptions in the dirt. Some of their careers have been short and some definitely hit the rough-and-tumble […]

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Reality TV

Whale Wars: OMG! Somebody’s gonna die!

By ElaineB Ice Road Truckers and those hunks on Deadliest Catch, move over. The scrawny crew of vegans on the Sea Shepherd have the REAL dangerous job. And they don’t even get paid to do it. Led by eco-warrior (or eco-terrorist, depending on your perspective) Paul Watson, the Sea Shepherd vessel Steve Irwin (Irwin’s widow christened the ship) travels the Antarctic waters in search of whaling ships that they will then disable or, if possible, sink. In the past, they have gone after illegal whalers, a perfect target for Watson and his crew as no government would bring charges for […]