This season Project Runway has had the unfortunate luck of airing on Thursday nights, an evening that is already jammed with enough quality programming to make a DVR sweat. Add in the fact that in its first season on Lifetime the production quality as arguably slipped (the additional switch or production companies from Magical Elves to Bunim-Murray perhaps having something to do with that), the questionable talent of this season’s designers (no one has demonstrated any real mastery or vision yet), the presence of an overwhelming number of tampon and birth control commercials (thank you, Lifetime), and that DirectTV does not offer Lifetime in HD, I have not been as excited to watch Runway as I had been in seasons past, and thus viewing has often slipped until the weekend or even the following week. That was the case with latest episode, which I finally got around to watching last night. Again, the designs and execution were rather disappointing, with a surprising number of hideous messes, and the judges again overlooking an appealing offering from Carol Hannah (girl still has not been in the top 3!). But, what was more interesting than the offensive fashion was what I realized after show when doing my customary post-viewing research. Continue reading
Category Archives: Makes You Think
Project Runway’s Logan Rips Off Project Runway’s Logan (Badly)
Filed under Analysis, Century 21 Reality, Makes You Think
Hulu Doesn’t Trust Me? Or They Just Don’t Want Me to See ‘The Jay Leno Show?’
A few weeks ago it was pointed out that if you do a Google search for The Tonight Show the first result is, in fact, the new smash hit* The Jay Leno Show. A dig at Conan? A dirty attempt to point viewers to the floundering 10pm program? Part of Leno’s contract? Google Conspiracy? We’ll probably never know.
However, I recently noticed a few results that pointed to opposite motives. If you type “hulu” and “jay leno” into your Firefox toolbar, as I often do to find videos of Leno humiliating himself on his new show, you’ll instead be brought to The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien Hulu page. Curious. Even more, if you type Jay Leno into the Hulu search box the first show result is Leno’s Tonight Show, and his new venture is hidden beyond an adjacent tab. Are they trying to keep us from seeing clips of the disastrous The Jay Leno Show, distracting us with his former, actually no more entertaining show?
Well, probably not, as NBC probably doesn’t care who watches the show or if it’s actually funny, just as long as its profitable. And the truth is the top result is probably just related to search statistics, not to any conscious corrupt decisions. But it’s fun to speculate that people have horrible intentions, right? Right.
And how ’bout that David Letterman? It wasn’t enough to just consistently beat The Tonight Show for the first time in years, he decided to up the ante by admitting to a sex scandal and then top a whole night of NBC programming. Man, the dude is just killing it!
But it’s okay, Conan has proven that while you can knock him down he’ll always get back up (just give him a weekend to recover).
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*insofar as a “smash hit” could be defined as a show that is devoid of any legitimate entertainment value but pulls in enough viewers to make it more profitable than a Law & Order spin-off.
Filed under Makes You Think, Talkies
Yikes.
So I was checking my blog stats (yes, I am curious) and noticed that the top search that leads to this site is “miranda cosgrove,” the 16 year-old star of iCarly whom I referenced in my post about the VMAs. This is kinda concerning because either a) her legions of teen fans are scouring the web looking for more information on Miss Cosgrove or b) her legions of adult fans are scouring the web looking for more information on Miss Cosgrove. I really hope it’s option A.
Should I even tag her name here, or is that just inviting more trouble?
Filed under Count Bleh, Makes You Think
The Edge is Really Serious About Being The Edge
This past week’s Entertainment Weekly included a Q&A with U2’s The Edge about the new documentary It Might Get Loud, in which he appears with Jack Black and Jimmy Page. When asked if he has a favorite White Stripes song he responds,
“…I wrote this sketch of a song, which I was really excited about. I went over to my brother’s house and told him, ‘Dik, I gotta play you this new tune!’ After about 16 bars he says, ‘Edge, that is ‘Seven Nation Army.’ I said, ‘What? Get out of here. Is not!’ I went back and listened, and it wasn’t exactly, but it was way too close. I played it for Jack, and he was like, ‘Mmm, it’s a bit close, isn’t it?'”
Okay, so The Edge wrote a “Seven Nation Army” ripoff, no big deal. But more importantly, The Edge makes his brother call him, “Edge?!” You’d think between brothers “David” or “Dave” would be fine. But I guess not. Not only that, but The Edge gets to be The Edge while his brother remains “Dik.” Doesn’t seem fair.
I wonder what Bono’s brother Sheldon* calls his bro.
*This name is made up. I don’t know if Bono even has a brother.**
**Oh, he does, and his name is Norman.***
***And according to Wikipedia Bono’s family has been referring to him as his stage name since adolescence. Well, there you have it.
Filed under Count Bleh, Makes You Think, Tyranasaurus Sex
Jumped The Snark 
