Television
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Written by Mark Hill
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Wednesday, 14 April 2010 13:02 |

I want to watch the new HBO show Treme, but not until I learn how to pronounce it, which means I need to actually hear someone say the word, instead of just reading it. But I don't think anyone knows how to really say it, so no one will, then we're all fucked.
Well, they've already been picked up for a 2nd season, so we have plenty of time before it gets cancelled, and HBO airs another show about one of America's worst cities and/or states. They've already done New Jersey, Baltimore, and New Orleans, so my guess for the next place would be...Houston, Texas. |
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Written by Russ Crandall
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Thursday, 25 February 2010 19:20 |

My wife and I are catching up on some TV, and started watching season three of Chuck tonight. In the first episode, they play Frightened Rabbit's "My Backwards Walk", from their stellar 2008 album The Midnight Organ Fight. The best thing is that the closing line of the song (which is sung several times) is "you're the shit and I'm knee-deep in it", and it slipped by the censors for millions of Americans' unsuspecting family-values-tweaked ears. I found that to be pretty funny. Also, they play a Pains of Being Pure At Heart song, so bonus points! |
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Written by Russ Crandall
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Monday, 22 February 2010 22:19 |

Faithful reader and occasional Twovue writer Kim turned us on to this fairly entertaining website - neverseenlost.wordpress.com - in which someone who has never seen an episode of LOST writes about their experiences while watching the final season of our favorite TV show. You'll see some funny things like mishearing Jack's name as "Jake" for an entire episode, or some pretty spot-on racial profiling. It's spoiler heavy for anyone that isn't keeping up with the episodes *cough* Mark *cough*, but it's worth checking out for a few minutes. |
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Written by Steven McKay
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 18:22 |

Here in the UK, we have a television show called Harry Hill's TV Burp, in which the host, Harry Hill, goes over bits of the previous week's television shows, and rips them to shreds in the most sarcastic way he possibly can.
Now I personally have been a huge fan of Harry Hill for a number of years, and his ultra-sarcastic sense of humour rarely fails to crack me up. However, what I want to know is: do you, the reader, find his antics funny?
Check out the video below, and leave a comment to let me know whether you think this is funny or not.
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Written by Russ Crandall
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Saturday, 20 February 2010 20:29 |

Something, Something, Something, Dark Side is many things. It's the season eight finale of Family Guy. It's a spoof of The Empire Strikes Back. And it's the sequel to Family Guy's season six finale, which is a spoof of A New Hope, called Blue Harvest. These episodes are so popular that they are released as standalone DVDs, so I decided to check this one out. I liked Blue Harvest when it came out in 2007; as much as I have grown tired of Family Guy's constantly berating pop culture references and side jokes, I love a good Star Wars spoof.
It's funny, because The Empire Strikes Back is easily the best Star Wars film, yet somehow the people behind Family Guy couldn't make this episode very funny. There are seriously only a handful of truly funny moments in this episode (like use of the Cookie Monster as the cave-dwelling monster on Hoth), and though that might be okay for an hour of TV, we are also faced with 58 minutes of moments that are not funny. This imbalance left me looking forward more to the end of the show than the next joke.
Maybe I've just grown tired of this series as a whole, but it really felt like Family Guy was grasping at straws, even with a foundation of content that's ripe for the picking. |
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