Oh just this:
Vodpod videos no longer available.KILLING IT.
Via our friend Blair’s Facebook status. And she’ll never read this so there’s really no reason to give her credit. Oh, well, too late.
What Was It We Were Mentioning About ‘Late Night With Jimmy’ Fallon Killing It?
Filed under Best Show You're Not Watching, Good Humor, Talkies
‘The Office’: Eee Party
In last night’s The Office episode, “Viewing Party” Michael comes to view Gabe’s presence as a direct threat to his power, and subsequently sabotages said viewing party of Glee. But wasn’t Michael Scott all in a dramatic tizzy a couple weeks back because he felt that Darryl was challenging his authority? That just happened, right? And he had the same reaction to Charles Miner (the indomitable Idris Elba) a couple of seasons ago, didn’t he? And last year he grew petulant because co-manager Jim gave Phyllis permission to dress as Santa for the Christmas party, in turn sending Michael on a holiday cheer sullying temper tantrum. Which is to say, we’ve seen it before, and, we think, we’ve seen enough.
Filed under Analysis, Dillon Panthers, Dunder Mifflin, this is Pam, Must See TV
Tremendous Boomer Esiason Spit-Take: Was That in the Cincinnati Bengals Circa 1988 Playbook?
Sometimes life just hands you a gift, whether it’s turning on the TV in the morning to find Regis inadvertently giving Meryl Streep a heart attack, or turning on the TV at night to witness Anderson Cooper absolutely destroy an opportunistic, insipid politician. So this morning, while brushing out teeth, we flipped on the tube to see what was happening with WFAN’s Boomer & Carton, simulcast on the MSG Network, and, well, our birthday present came early:
TOUCHDOWN!
Enlighten us, Boomer: which play was that?
And speaking of spit-takes, here’s this. And speaking of uncontrollable laughter, there’s that.
Filed under Good Humor, Local Flavor, Marconi & Cheese, Matt Christopher Books, Reeeeeege
‘Doug’ Movie: Best Thing On the Internet in a Long Time?
We’ve made no secrets about being huge Nickelodeon, and Nicktoons, fans here at Jumped The Snark, so this trailer for a live-action Doug movie just about made our head spin:
Awesome. Thank you, Internet.
And thank you, Doug.
via AV Club
Happy 41st (+ 1 Day) Birthday to Sesame Street!
We rarely miss a story here at Jumped The Snark. But we dropped the ball yesterday, neglecting to acknowledge yesterday’s milestone 41st anniversary of Sesame Street. Our bad.
So in (belated) honor of the day (which, if we’re not mistaken, is the felt anniversary) here’s one of our favorite Sesame Street clips:
And here’s a pumpkin we carved in homage to Ernie (unfortunately, we neglected to purchase black fabric to create appropriate tuft of black hair):
And we think this is a great excuse to, once again, post The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years, which, looking back, is probably what cemented our love for The Muppets. It provided the necessary Muppet history in the same way that Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary Special was a spectacular primer for our nascent 7 year-old brain. We were probably the only kid who listed his two favorite videos as the Muppets 30th anniversary special and 1986 Mets: A Year to Remember.
Congrats, Sesame Street! See you in a year for your 42nd (+ 1 day) birthday! (the glitter anniversary, if we recall correctly)
What Was ‘Perfect Strangers’ Trying to Tell Us About 9/11?
We were on Wikipedia this morning reading about old TGIF shows, as is our Thursday morning custom, and we were stunned to learn that the exterior Chicago shots in Perfect Strangers’ opening title sequence were shot on September 11, 1987.
Normally we might not think anything of this, but after reading this yesterday we’re not so sure. If The Simpsons foretold the events 9/11 four years before they happened, could Perfect Strangers have been warning us fourteen years in advance? What did they know??
Here’s the video in question:
And now think about the lyrics:
Standing tall, on the wings of my dream.
Rise and fall, on the wings of my dream.
Tall? Fall? Wings? C’mon, guys, pretty prophetic stuff.
MIND. BLOWN.
In addition, the USA Network stopped rerunning the show in syndication as of September 11, 1998, eleven years after the opening sequence footage was shot.
BOOM.
Anyone know if Bronson Pinchot is in the Illuminati?
And that’s not all; Wikipedia also notes that Lost‘s Elizabeth Mitchell appeared in the pilot episode of the classic 1980s Nickelodeon show You Can’t Do That On Television. However, the show originated out of Canada, while Mitchell was born in LA and grew up in Dallas. EXPLAIN THAT ONE! Another one of Lost‘s mysteries that will remain unresolved? Or is it part of a greater conspiracy?
Think about it.
You’re welcome.
Filed under Conspiracy Theory, LOST, Makes You Think, TGIF
Riding the Bus with Michael Scott: Brief Thoughts on Last Week’s ‘The Office’
Well the good vibes had to end at some point, and after a string of strong and then stronger episodes, that run ended rather abruptly with last week’s episode, “Christening.” We actually don’t have too much to say about it, which is to expected since it aired a week ago, but also because it was a rather forgettable episode.
And it didn’t have to be, that’s what was so frustrating about it.
More: Michael and Andy drink the Kool-Aid, Jim and Pam drink NyQuil, and Toby gets hosed down with Holy Water
Filed under Analysis, Bad Humor, Dunder Mifflin, this is Pam, Must See TV
‘Survivor Nicaragua’: Very E-merge-ncy
(Nailed that title)
With the new episode just hours away, very quick thoughts on last week’s merge-centric episode of Survivor: Nicaragua:
- We’re becoming very concerned that as the show continues we’re going to end up with the least likable players, as well as some of the weakest. There turned out to be some dunderheads in All-Stars, but at least there were always some Survivors that we enjoyed watching. If this season ends up being Brenda, Sash, NaOnka, Purple Kelly, we’re not sure how entertaining that’s going to be.
- Speaking of NaOnka and terrible people, she threw a hissy fit and stole half of the supplies. Like they wouldn’t notice. And before that she did this:
Classy.
More: Fabio becomes the most desired male, Dan still exists and our A-B-C of the week…
Filed under Analysis, Century 21 Reality, The Worst, Tribal Council, Yasmine Bleeth
Meanwhile, Over On ‘Late Night’…
…Jimmy Fallon just keeps rolling along, delivering the best, most innovative comedy on the long side of midnight. Adding to their already great pantheon of short videos, like “Late,” “6-bee” and “7th Floor West,” Late Night recently debuted the series “Suckers,” which simultaneously parodies/pays homage to Twilight, True Blood, Broadway and probably two or three other works that we missed (Vampire Diaries, maybe? Help us out).
Vodpod videos no longer available.According to Bill Carter’s new book, The War for Late Night, when NBCU Chairman Jeff Gaspin phoned the Late Night brain trust – Lorne Michaels, Fallon, producer Michael Shoemaker – to inform them of the possibility of moving their show back 30 minutes to 1am, they acceded, with Shoemaker telling Gaspin “We love what we’re doing. Don’t worry about us.” And that idea, that they love what they’re doing, is so obvious, and is also contagious. Already somewhat left to their own devices at 12:30am, a move to 1am probably wouldn’t impact them that much, as long as they got to keep producing the same slick videos and playing the same silly audience games. Whereas we argued in an earlier post that while Conan is changing the late night game by moving to basic cable, it’s Fallon who’s genuinely doing something different with his hour. And for all the talk of the Team Coco and I’m with Coco web campaigns, it’s Fallon who has truly embraced new media (launching an online version of Late Night before debuting the broadcast show, hosting one of the best blogs on the net, as a couple of examples). As he’s gone on record saying, Fallon doesn’t really care when his show airs, because his audience will find him on their DVRs or online. Of course, if the product isn’t good, no one will watch, even if the show is readily available through several media outlets. Luckily for Jimmy Fallon and Late Night, their product is real good.
And for more on the subject, you’d be a fool not to read this much more illuminating profile of Jimmy Fallon in this week’s New York Magazine. He also graces the cover, adorably:
‘Splash 2’: Tom Hanks on ‘Conan’
Is there a better guest, nay, a better person than Tom Hanks? We think not.
Vodpod videos no longer available.But what’s with Conan’s propensity for treating Hanks like he’s on a 1980s Nickelodeon show? We guess Conan’s getting Hanks back for spurring the whole Coco phenomenon. You should be thanking him, Coco! Might have saved your career.
Guess they’ll have to come up with a new backdrop the next time Hanx comes around.
Filed under Good Humor, Mancrush, Talkies
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