When we started this blog back in the Triassic Age of March 2009 one of the regular features was “Words T9 Doesn’t Know.” As the site has developed, and as we found more entertaining, more useful content to write about, the number of T9 posts dropped (also due to finding less and less T9 omissions [...]
Entries from December 2009
2009/12/28
Muppet Monday: How the Muppets Are Already Improving Your 2010 (And Why Even Disney Knows That Kermit is Superior to Mickey)
We’ve well-documented how the Muppets are just dominating the end of 2009. However, will it continue in 2010? Well, that remains to be seen, but they’ve already made it so your 2010 will be a little better. A few months ago Disney announced their “give a day, get a day” promotion, whereby if you volunteer [...]
2009/12/25
Christmas: The Final Clipdown
SNL might not have always been funny. In fact, it might have never really been funny. But it’s always been topical. Just try to watch the first few minutes of the Community Christmas episode and not get into some (non-denomination) holiday spirit. And before Dwight was Recyclops he would just come into the office with [...]
2009/12/24
Christmas Eve Clipdown: Muppets. Killing. It. Christmas. Style.
On Christmas Eve My True Loves Gave to Me: One awesome Muppet video. As if you didn’t know that the Muppets have just been dominating the last part of 2009, they dropped by Jimmy Fallon to put a festive exclamation point on what has been somewhat of a Muppet resurgence (it was a good year [...]
2009/12/23
Christmas Clipdown: ‘Lil Pete & Rite-Aid Have the Same Goal
Was there a show more ahead of its time, more under-appreciated, than Nickelodeon’s Adventures of Pete & Pete? Freaks and Geeks, you say? Okay, maybe. But Pete & Pete is surely up there, and growing from a string of one-minute shorts aired on Nickelodeon during commercial breaks into a full-fledged 22-min series, it featured some [...]
2009/12/23
Christmas Clipdown: A Seaver Family Christmas
Even though the cast of Growing Pains was made up of two Jews and a Canadian it contributed its fair share of Christmas themed episodes (likely somewhat due to the presence of at least one Jesus freak). To continue getting us in the holiday spirit we present “The Kid” from season 2, in which Ben, [...]
2009/12/21
Entertainment Weekly, You Can Consider My Praise Officially Rescinded
A few weeks back I noted that the cover of Entertainment Weekly‘s annual tribute issue, a look back on all those we “loved” and lost this year, made me feel incredibly mortal and guilty for somehow evading Death’s clutches in 2009. I did, however, look on the bright side and commend EW for at least [...]
2009/12/21
Have We Entered The Age of Kenan?
We’ve talked about the groundswell of support that has erupted around Kenan Thompson for his work on SNL this season, and that “What Up With That?” has perhaps become the premier recurring sketch of the season so far, and while we don’t quite buy into all the buzz, there’s no denying he’s having his best [...]
2009/12/21
Muppet Monday: Take That, ‘The Sing-Off!’
The boys of the Beelzebubs aren’t the only ones who are able to make “beautiful” music with just their voices. Nope. Beaker, Animal and Swedish Chef can hold their own, as shown in the new holiday video from Muppets Studios, the “Ringing of the Bells:” Doesn’t that just put you in the holiday spirit? I [...]
