I’m impressed with the composure on display here. If this was me, I would almost certainly be rolling around like a baby and getting the station thrown off the air with my language.
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Jeopardy Should Steal An Idea From Itself
I’ve noticed watching the Jeopardy College Tournament the last few nights that I like the way the game flows a little better than I do on regular Jeopardy. It’s a small thing, but I wouldn’t mind seeing the show proper drop the extra commercial break in the middle of the Jeopardy round. It’s always felt …
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This Means War…Or Something
Yes, Christmas is over. but I just saw…whatever the fuck this is and I just had to share it. At the lighting of the new Christmas tree, Fox News contributor Rev. Jacques DeGraff declares: "I’m here because these colors do not run. 80 years ago this week, they tried to extinguish the darkness in a …
Alan Kalter’s Celebrity Interview
I was sad to hear a couple of months ago that Alan Kalter, David Letterman’s announcer for most of his CBS run, had died. I always enjoyed him, as I do a lot of classic announcers. Sadly you don’t hear many voices like those anymore. Digging through some old things just now that I hadn’t …
Mmmmm…Creamy, Chocolatey Death
“Forensic Files II is brought to you by Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups” is a very weird sentence. Attention-grabbing I’ll grant you, but weird. Not sure if it’s the direction I’d have gone, but hey, if it works it works.
Very Hard Jeopardy! Questions
Here’s some fun. 20 of the Hardest ‘Jeopardy!’ Questions of All Time They call them some of the hardest questions of all time because none of the three contestants answered them correctly. Hard is a very subjective description, obviously. Anyway, have a look at the clues on that list and see how many of them …
You Have 1 Million Channels, Not 1
I should know the answer to this, but I don’t. TSN has five channels. Sportsnet has six. I know that part of their purpose is the ability to shift programming to different time zones or broadcast things only to specific regions, but much of the time they aren’t doing that. In fact, there are plenty …
And I Mean It!
This TV commercial keeps coming on, and is yet another example of an ad that doesn’t say what it’s for. But it’s a campaign ad, and for some reason, that bugs me even more. The viewer can sort of discern that it’s NDP because of the talking points, but how do they know for sure? …
1-800-Got Nightmares
There’s this commercial that comes on for 1-800-Got Junk that says something about “Call 1-800-Got Junk. We’ll be there before you hang up the phone.” If I could link to it, I would, but it’s not anywhere I can find. Every time I see it, I can’t help but think of the bit called “No …
The Jays Have Real Radio Broadcasts Again
Sportsnet restores Ben Wagner as radio play-by-play voice of Blue Jays, for now Thank god. Dan Shulman did his best, but anyone with a clue knew that this simulcasting garbage was never going to work especially with him not calling every game. Buck is what he is, but what he clearly isn’t is a radio …
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