It’s an oft heard lament that the real meaning of Christmas has been lost under a tsunami of mindless gift giving, with the average person more concerned with what they’re getting than what they’re giving. The Middle decided to tackle that sentiment in their season 2 festive episode, “A Continue Reading
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On the 8th day of Christmas … I listened to Nerina Pallot’s We Made It Through Another Year EP
There is a fitting wistfulness to Nerina Pallot’s just released Christmas EP We Made it Through Another Year. Not so much because of the British artist herself whom I have found over the course of many LPs and EPs, and in everyday Twitter conversation, to be every bit as Continue Reading
On the 7th day of Christmas 2013 … I watched “Tis the season to be murdered” (Hart to Hart, S2 E5)
“Oh Jonathan! What a lovely day. This is going to be the best Christmas ever.” And with those words, Jennifer Hart (Stefanie Powers), who by this stage in season 2 of Hart to Hart (1980) should know better, dooms the Harts to another festive season littered with murder and mayhem. Continue Reading
‘Twas the couch gag before Christmas: The Simpsons’ title sequence gets its festive on
SNAPSHOT Springfield is inundated with holiday revelers after the nuclear power plant springs a radiation leak, causing snow to fall all over town. When the tourists drive up Christmas shopping prices, Marge (Julie Kavner) opens up the Simpsons’ house to boarders in the all-new “White Christmas Blues”. If there Continue Reading
On the 4th day of Christmas 2013 … I watched “Christmas Scandal” (Parks and Recreation, S2 E12)
If there is one episode that illustrates just how far Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) had come from the ditzy if eminently capable Pollyanna-esque figure of season 1 to the still wide-eyed and optimistic but far more capable and intelligent figure of season 2, it’s “Christmas Scandal”. It’s not simply Continue Reading
You will falalalala and you will like it! So says Amy Poehler and Billy Eichner as they go a-carolin’!
Quick! Sing the entire first verse of “Deck the Halls” for me! Now! Yes now! No? OK how about “O Come All Ye Faithful”? … “Jingle Bells”? … “12 Days of Christmas”? Nope? Nothing? Well you’re not alone! In a special edition of Billy Eichner’s hilarious “Billy on the Continue Reading
On the 3rd day of Christmas 2013 … I decorated my tree with Goofy, Bugs Bunny, The Jetsons, Tigger, UP ornaments
ParagraphKalexanderson viaphotopincc There’s a better than average chance you may have guessed this by now, but I am a man obsessed by pop culture in all its myriad forms. I love movies, cartoons, cartoon movies, books, music, plays, and the way society is reflected through them and I am more than Continue Reading
On the 1st day of Christmas 2013 … I looked forward to the Doctor Who Christmas Special “The Time of the Doctor”
SNAPSHOT Orbiting a quiet backwater planet, the massed forces of the universe’s deadliest species gather, drawn to a mysterious message that echoes out to the stars. And amongst them – the Doctor. Rescuing Clara from a family Christmas dinner, the Time Lord and his best friend must learn what Continue Reading
You shall not pass! But you can eat a cookie says Sesame Street … eventually
SNAPSHOT The Cookie Monster plays Gobble, the last known holder of the most powerful dessert recipe in Monster Earth. He must remember the recipe in order to bring cookies back to the land, but his own memory and lack of self control stand in the way. (source: mashable.com) Is Continue Reading
Get a whole new sense of Community: first season 5 trailer debuts
It’s back to school we go with Community and this time everything’s back to the way it should be! Dan Harmon, creator and showrunner of NBC’s Little Sitcom That Could Get #sixseasonsandamovie, for the first three seasons, is back in the creative saddle after a fairly lacklustre season 4 Continue Reading