Filed under: OpEd, Web, How I Met Your Mother, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S04E14) This week we got a bit of a stealthy episode. There were two overt storylines -- Robin's efforts to get a job and stay in the country and why three of the gang still have "weak-ass crap" on their resumes -- but the...

Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Super Bowl, Chuck, Reality-Free This morning, among all its other self-promotional Super Bowl nonsense, NBC's Today show was promoting the 3D experience that fans will see during the game on Sunday. Sobe and the animated movie Monsters vs. Aliens will b...

Filed under: OpEd, Scrubs, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S08E06) This episode was a little better than "My ABC's," but not by much. I don't know what it is, but I just didn't laugh all that much during either of these episodes. At least this one dug into some good character-based stories, from Cox ...

Filed under: OpEd, Scrubs, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S08E05) After four episodes that have ranged from the pretty-decent to the almost-classic, we start this week's double-shot of Scrubs with the season's first real clunker. Which is odd, because you'd think the presence of everyone's Sesame St...

Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free When the folks at The Daily Show announced that they were going to do a live broadcast from Washington on Inauguration Day, I'm sure a lot of people envisioned Jon Stewart behind a desk in some D.C.-area college auditorium, with up-to...

Filed under: OpEd, How I Met Your Mother, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S04E13) Something that's been missing for most of this season of HIMYM is the unique Bays-Thomas method of storytelling. If you're a fan of the show, you know what I'm talking about: you think the story is going one way, you ev...

Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free The big SAG strike news hitting the trades and the rest of the entertainment press today is ... that there isn't any news. A strike vote ballot still hasn't been sent to the members. But, boy, what's gone into the non-news is a hell of a lo...

Filed under: OpEd, Scrubs, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S08E04) This was the better of the two episodes tonight, for a couple of reasons. One, we figured out why Kelso continues to hang out at Sacred Heart, and it's not for the free muffins at Coffee Bucks. But mostly, it's because we had a J.D. /...

Filed under: OpEd, Video, Web, Celebrities, Awards See that picture to the right? That's Mickey Rourke accepting his Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama for The Wrestler... with his hand down his pants. But that's just the beginning of the fun we heard and saw during his acceptance speech, which ...

Filed under: OpEd, Scrubs, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free (S08E02) As I mentioned in the review for "My Jerks" and my season eight preview, if you want to see a perfect example of what Scrubs has done so well over the years, look no further than this episode. It's a deft mix of comedy and drama, with...