28 posts tagged “tv”
When I was just a kid, there were a series of Coke commercials that aired in the US featuring a strange, stuttering, and profoundly bizarre character named Max Headroom. The character has the ability to randomly appear and interact with people near his television set, and soon became the main character of his own TV show (as well as the single-episode talk show that became the basis of the US TV series).
The show lasted eleven episodes before being canceled, but Max’s popularity remained for several years afterwards. Recently, British Television’s Channel 4 launched a campaign promoting its upcoming Digital programming featuring Max Headroom as its spokesperson, albeit a slightly older version.
Actor Matt Frewer portrays both the young and old version of Max. An interesting bit of trivia: The original Max Headroom was in fact NOT computer animated. Technology of the time prevented full-person rendering, so they “tricked” the viewer by dressing Matt Frewer up in a latex and foam rubber costume and cell-shading the geometric lines and shapes that appear behind him.
For more on Max Headroom, see Wikipedia’s article here
The above is SNL’s Digital Short from this last Saturday’s episode starring Bon Jovi with Foo Fighters as the music guest. I don’t know why this is so damn funny, but even with the sound off I was cracking up.
The ending makes no sense.
Bravo, Samburg.
BELIEVE IN YOUR DREAMS!
Conforming to Hollywood’s recent trend of raping our childhood memories, E! Network’s The Soup gives us an exclusive look at the next big blockbuster based off of another classic cartoon from the 1980’s: Rainbow Brite.
I predict already that it will outsell Transformers and Spider-Man 3 COMBINED. The casting decision to play Rainbow Brite herself is genius, and I couldn’t have picked anybody better.
I think i’m gonna have a nightmare about it tonight.
Via David Wain’s MySpace page, solid news has finally been broken concerning the classic MTV Sketch Comedy Show, The State, coming to DVD.
The State was a comedy show that ran in the mid-90’s featuring Reno 911’s Thomas Lennon, Ben Garrant, Kerry Kenney-Silver, Ed and I Love The 90s Michael Ian Black, and several other comedians featured in hundreds of projects since The State went off the air after two seasons.
The set will feature 5 DVD’s with every episode of the first season, and also includes never-before-seen sketches and plenty of DVD Commentary from the improv troupe. No release date has been set as of yet, only the ubiquitous “Coming Soon to DVD.”
Oh, and I’m Doug, and I’m outta heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere.
Source: David Wain’s MySpace Blog
The amazingly underrated FX sitcom Always Sunny In Philadelphia returns for a third season on September 13, 2007 with the full cast including Danny DeVito, who joined in the second season as the father of two (or is it three?) of the characters.
Enough simply cannot be said about how hilarious this show actually is. The show plays out like Seinfeld on crack–lots of funny interactions between characters doing horrendous things to each other with no remorse. Every character is almost close to being a sociopath, completely devoid of human feeling and compassion for those around them, including each other.
FX is currently re-running the first and second season at random times, and you can pick up the first season on DVD right now, and a combination of Season 1 & 2 on DVD on September 4, 2007.
Source: TV Squad
The clip above is from an MSNBC morning news show that broadcasted today. It features three of the newscasters reporting on the day’s stories, as usual, but when journalist Mika Brzezinski is supposed to start off with the “lead story” she immediately apologizes for the content, then after a second thought flat out refuses to discuss the topic.
What was the topic that she refused to report on? Paris. Effing. Hilton.
The clip jumps a few times, showing Mika getting more and more frustrated with both her fellow newscasters and the producer (which I assume is shouting obscenities in her ear) who still try to get her to do the story. She even goes so far as to steal a lighter out of one of the other newscasters pockets and attempts to BURN the damn story on live television. Before she can set fire to MSNBC’s studios they wrestle it away from her, but not before she rips the copy to shreds.
The producers even go so far as to print out another copy, which she promptly stands up and shreds in a nearby waste bin.
Kudos to her. If only everyone else in the media would do the same, Paris would lose all her powers and die on a coke binge somewhere. The media not paying attention to her is like Kryptonite to Superman.
Source: Perez Hilton
“Here’s a song by a gay guy.” - Brian
This video is taken from last season’s Family Guy where Peter wants to relive his teenage years and gets Death (played once again by Adam Corolla) to send him back in time. What ensues is a cross between Back to the Future and It’s A Wonderful Life, with Family Guy’s own special twist.
The scene above is at the homecoming dance where Peter and Lois are supposed to kiss and fall in love (a la George & Lorraine McFly), with Brian playing guitar after the band’s original guitarist was injured. Since the story takes place in the early 80s, instead of Brian doing Chuck Berry, you get Marvin Astley.
The best part:
“Hey Rick! It’s your cousin, Marvin! Marvin Astley. You know that mediocre generic sound you’ve been looking for? Well listen to THIS!”
BONUS: The origins of Peter vs The Chicken.
DOUBLE BONUS, BITCH: And for those brave enough, or want to relive those precious childhood memories, here’s the original Rick Astley video in all its suckery. Apparently this video has been made into an internet fad called “Rickrolling” which is done by mislabeling a link to something exciting.
Click here for exclusive leaked footage of Spider-Man 4!!!1!
Did you click on the link? If you did, you’ve just been Rickrolled. I love the Internet.
Bruce Campbell is so awesome. Who else can sing Duran Duran’s “Hungry Like The Wolf” poorly, but still appear cool as hell anyway? No one. That’s why he’s the king, baby.
The second batch of Saturday Night Live’s MacGruber debuted last weekend on Molly Shannon’s episode. I was expecting more gross sex jokes, but they surprised me by going with the whole alcoholic storyline for Will Forte’s MacGuyver knockoff. The payoff is the last sketch which features the ultimate punchline, MacGruber going “Hasselhoff” style on that hamburger.
Dead Like Me was a two-season show that ran on Showtime a few years ago, about a group of grim reapers who acted more like social workers than the typical cloak and scythe type we’re all familiar.
Moviehole.net is reporting that Dead Like Me is returning in a direct-to-DVD movie, hopefully featuring the entire cast returning. This is great news for fans of the show (like myself) when Showtime canceled the series after only two seasons.
In addition to having a top notch cast that included Mandy Patinkin, Ellen Muth, Callum Blue, Rebecca Gayheart, and Jasmin Guy, the series also had excellent scripts and direction as well. The story centers around 18 year old Georgia who lived a shallow slacker life, dropping out of college, and living with her overbearing mother until on her way to a temp job she gets nailed by a toilet seat that had fallen from a Russian space station. Hell of a way to go.
George (as she’s called on the show), or Peanut (as Rube called her), then has to live the rest of her existence as an 18-year old Grim Reaper. It’s not as traditional as you might think–other than the opening credits, the a-typical Death doesn’t actually appear anywhere in the show. Instead the “Grim Reapers” are supposed to take the souls of those that are about to die to spare them the pain of their own death.
Unfortunately for poor George and the rest of the crew, it’s a non-paying job. Who would you collect a check from, anyway? I don’t see any banks cashing checks from GOD, or even Death for that matter. So they must make due with crappy temp jobs, or as Mason (Callum Blue) does, which is petty theft and mischief to make ends meet.
Source: MovieHole.net
