I don’t know if you’ve seen this commercial yet. It shows a little girl asking her mother about if Cheerios is healthy. The mother responds that yes, the cereal is healthy. So the little girl pours a box of Cheerios on her father, who is napping on the couch. Cute. Of course, that’s not the…
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Good grief, Peter Robbins is a blockhead…
Peter Robbins is a 56-year-old man from Oceanside, California. He was dissatisfied with the plastic surgery breast augmentation that his girlfriend Shawna Kern received; his disappointment turned to anger and frustration at his having to pay over $12,000 for the procedure. So Robbins started stalking and harassing his ex-girlfriend. He called her house dozens of…
Read More“pop up” – the NBC Saturday morning “how to read” TV show!
I cannot believe that I found this clip. Even better – I found the entire 18-episode run of this series. Back in 1970, NBC had the decent Saturday morning cartoon lineup – heck, I could watch the Bugaloos and H.R. Pufnstuf all day and be happy. Now here’s the waycool thing. During the commercial breaks,…
Read MoreX Factor Auditions: Mitchell Wahl, thank you!
Okay, how many of you are fans of the X Factor? Nice, I see some hands go up… And how many of you remember that the X Factor was the launching pad for Susan Boyle, the feel-good story of a girl whose stage presence belied her fantastic singing voice? Yeah. I see some nods of…
Read MoreThe strongest Mousketeer of all
I remember watching reruns of the original 1950’s-era Mickey Mouse Club in the mid-1970’s. And thanks to cable television at the time, I could watch episodes on the New York City independent television station WNEW-5, as well as on Boston’s independent WSBK-38. And then, eventually, the Mickey Mouse Club was picked up locally by WAST-13,…
Read MoreGame of Thrones meets the Godfather of Soul
My friend and former Goldmine magazine co-columnist Lisa posted a link to this YouTube mashup clip on her Facebook page. Now if you know me, you know I love mashups. I also am a fan of the Game of Thrones TV series, and I totally love the Godfather of Soul, James Brown. So when I…
Read More“School of Thrones” – prom night is coming…
Okay, only a few weeks to go before we see the debut of the third season of the HBO series Game of Thrones. Everybody psyched? Yeah, me too. Which is why I got a kick out of this. Someone created a webseries in which the entire Game of Thrones universe is condensed into a high…
Read MoreThat number is BR-549…
I swear, it happened by accident. One night while I was at an event, I could have sworn I heard someone humming a melody from my memory. And instantly, I remembered the words. “Where, oh where, are you tonight?” The other person stopped humming. He looked at me. And he said the next lyric. “Why…
Read More“Amish Mafia” Episode Review: Amish Exorcism
Amish Exorcism. Yeah. I swear by all that’s holy, if I hear one note from Mike Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells” during this episode, I’m going to throw a pitchfork through my flatscreen. But it’s time once again for everybody’s favorite trashy faux-reality “docu-fiction” show, the show that mixes the Sopranos with the bucolic, pastoral world of…
Read MoreThe return of Lebanon Levi and the Amish Mafia
Remember Amish Mafia? The TV series on the Discovery Channel that purports to tell the story of an Amish / Mennonite band of protectors of the Plain faith in Lancaster County, Pa.? You know, the show with “Lebanon” Levi Stoltzfus and his crew of enforcers? The show that brought new meaning to the term “Amishploitation”?…
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