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Ted: You know how everyone has that guy or girl who, no matter what happens, you always remember them being the perfect one for you?
Robin: Mike Schatz.
Marshall: Lily.
Barney: That girl right over there.
(via How I Met Your Mother Source)
If they really want to end the war in Afghanistan, they should put it on Friday nights on Fox.
Hilarious and interesting look at the writing process for one of the best Office episodes so far.
Q. Did you guys come up with names for all of the characters in the game or just the ones we heard?
A. Originally, I only came up with names for a few characters. But the props dept. wanted to make character cards for every actor, so I wrote up some other Southern pun names of which I am both proud and ashamed. They are:
Dick Seeland (Kevin)
Chad Anooga (Oscar)
Jeeves Julep (Dwight)
Barbie Cue (I forget)
George Apeach (Jim)
Paul Metto (BJ)
Connie Federate (Meredith)
Carl Erdgreens (I forget)
Jon Hamm on Between Two Ferns
I’ve already watched Zack Galifianakis’s hysterical “fake” interviews—hey, you never know—with Charlize Theron and Michael Cera before, but I missed the other ones until I saw Jon Hamm’s interview on a someecards post titled If your life is once again completely barren without new Mad Men episodes to watch, here’s a way to fill 3 minutes and 21 seconds of your agonizing 9-month wait for Season Four. Truer words have never been spoken.
But back to the videos. I laughed so hard my stomach hurt. When Galifianakis asked if Mad Men “is a show about people in their early sixties” I nearly died. They’re so realistically awkward I almost cannot believe they’re not actually real interviews.
I highly recommend watching all seven interviews, but find a place to sit where you won’t attract odd glances when you burst out in laughter.
January Jones on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
January Jones was super adorable playing beer pong with Jimmy Fallon even though she lost.
Here’s another video of her helping Pittsburgh Steeler Troy Polamalu demonstrate to Fallon the best way to tackle someone.
(via TV Squad)
Volkswagen GTI
I just saw a Volkswagen GTI with license plates that read “BADWABIT”. Made me laugh. (Because the GTI is the turbocharged version of the Volkswagen Golf Mk5, which was marketed in the United States as the Rabbit, but has now been reverted back to Golf. You got all that?)
On a related note, the ad campaign for the 2007 GTI—handled by the awesome ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky—was ridiculously memorable. An evil, black demon doll known as “Fast” growls at the driver in a deep, menacing basso to not let his girlfriend get in because “he’d rather not carry around that extra weight” in one ad spot. Another has “Fast” growling at someone deciding between pick-up or delivery in the pouring rain, declaring that delivery is for the weak. The rest of the spots are just as hilarious.
“Make friends with your Fast.”
My So-Called Life – ‘In Dreams Begins Responsibilities’
This heartbreaking final scene of My So-Called Life is probably one of the best teen drama moments ever. Devon Gummersall plays Brian Krakow to perfection as a geeky and socially awkward teen secretly in love with a girl who’s too infatuated with another boy to notice. Angela Chase—played by the wonderful Claire Danes—never looks at her neighbor and long-time family friend the way she looked at Jordan Catalano, a handsome, popular, and rebellious slacker who is failing high school—played by the excellent Jared Leto—until she realizes the beautifully profound and thoughtful love letter Jordan had given her was actually written by Brian.
My So-Called Life is one of the rare network television shows that tackled difficult real-life issues in its episodes without pandering to viewers’ likes and dislikes, but unfortunately at the expense of mass appeal and marketability. It is the best and most realistic teen drama I have ever seen, and its short televised run only serves to highlight how moronic and hopelessly stupid most American television viewers are. If you haven’t yet watched this incredible show, I highly recommend checking it out on Hulu.
Last night’s Halloween episode of The Office wasn’t as great as ‘The Lover’, but it still made me laugh.
Creed: “I vant to sell your blood…”
Ryan: “That’s really not the trend of vampires right now.”
Alan Sepinwall’s review of possibly the best hour of television ever. What blows my mind is that this isn’t even the season finale! And as so many others have been saying, if Jon Hamm doesn’t win an Emmy for this episode, there is no justice in this world.
Don Draper: “Bets, I can explain.”
Betty Draper: “I know you can. You’re a very gifted storyteller.”
Caffeine makes me a different person.
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The “Trinity Killer”, Dexter
This episode was fantastic.
