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
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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
Food truck fight! The Muppets Swedish Chef vs. Gordon Ramsey in all new Muppisode
There is one movie I am looking forward more than any other next year, Muppets Most Wanted – for proof see here, here and yes all the way over here – and I am thrilled to bits that the promotional effort leading up to it is every bit as zany, Continue Reading
All I want for Christmas are my UK TV specials: Call the Midwife, Downton Abbey, Still Open All Hours
One of the time-honoured traditions of Christmas in the UK, and to a lesser extent Australia, is the screening of specially filmed one-off festive episodes of TV series, that may or may not be part of that show’s official canon. Tucked in between a blizzard of repeats – which Continue Reading
It’s beginning to look like a scary Grimm Christmas – “Twelve Days of Krampus”
SNAPSHOT After a string of delinquent teens go missing, an old Wesen tale of an evil Santa who brings more than just a lump of coal may be the prime suspect. The investigation intensifies as Nick (David Giuntoli) and Hank (Russell Hornsby) take things a little too far. Meanwhile, Continue Reading