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free Planet Earth download!

whitney — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:44:19 +0000

it’s earth day and you know what that means—free polypropylene bags with logos on them and unsolicited hugs from hippies all day!

also, itunes is giving away the first episode of Planet Earth, ‘Pole to Pole’ today.

(offer void if the earth consumes itself in a massive earthquake.)

get your free download here.

“we only smash stuff outside.”

whitney — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:12:31 +0000

ahh, the immortal words of a snot-nosed hipster on the wrong side of the law. there is very little funnier than watching vapid hipsters try to sound not-stupid in a courtroom. it’s like watching a walrus try to drive a car, only funnier. here, kate levitt of teeth mountain and jonathan coward of shams battle it out over three smashed broken tvs and a dead cat, a casualty supposedly quickly buried in a shoe box by a drunk levitt. witness the judicial system at work while shedding a tear for our future.

in all of this, i have to wonder, is this is a prank, some brilliant publicity stunt, a rip on the modern justice system, a rip on daytime television masquerading as the modern justice system?? because if it is i wholeheartedly love these people now. the world just got a lot brighter since entertaining the idea that maybe these dumb kids aren’t so dumb after all.

The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret

whitney — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:16:22 +0000

Otherwise known as “Welcome back to My TV-Shaped Heart, David Cross and Will Arnett!”

After what seemed like months, and was in fact months, you can now stream the british pilot in three parts.

unfortunately the videos have been yanked. i guess this does mean that i’ll have to move to the UK to watch the show.

PART TWO

PART THREE

so does this mean i’m going to have to move to the UK to see this in real time? cuz i can totally start practicing knocking back pints and passing out in vestibules if so.

Perfect Strangers opening remake

whitney — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:50:45 +0000

seattleites christopher bange, cory calhoun, and ian fraser remade the ‘perfect strangers’ opening shot-by-shot, but this time setting it in seattle instead of chicago. i love this idea! hopefully it’ll inspire other remakes in alternate cities. who’s got duluth, guys??!

david cross and will arnett: welcome back to TV!

whitney — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:59:13 +0000

UK’s channel four has just aired a new comedy starring the dearly missed david cross and will arnett. the show is called the increasingly poor decisions of todd margaret and it looks HILARIOUS.

it’s nearly impossible to watch in full in the states, but keep it on your digital radar, cuz it’s gotta pop up somewhere in full eventually.

US comedian David Cross plays Todd Margaret, a hapless office drone who flukes his way into a top management job heading up the British division of a US multinational. All he has to do is sell a dozen container loads of dodgy Korean energy drinks before his psychotic boss, played by Will Arnett, visits in a week’s time. It doesn’t help that he knows nothing about the UK or selling things.

What’s more, he only has one very unhelpful employee, played by Russell Tovey, to assist him. Needless to say, it doesn’t go well and Todd’s spectacular failure to impress beautiful café owner Alice, played by Sharon Horgan, only makes things worse.

USA: FORGET THE FLEDGLING ECONOMY, WE NEED YOU TO PICK THIS UP ASAP.

OMG freak bitch androids have hair???

whitney — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:15:49 +0000

i’m afraid not even hair can make her “real.”

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go mad men yourself!

whitney — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:08:41 +0000

here’s yours truly:

you can either style yourself as don draper or peggy, or you can attempt to make the show interesting for once by being the only overweight black lesbian double-smoking, equestrian-fetish employee in a 1960s ad agency. now that’s entertainment!

illustrations done by dyna moe.

make yours here!

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Spaced featuring simon pegg streaming on hulu!

whitney — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:06:56 +0000

today is my dream day for i found out that Spaced, the brilliant and hilarious brit-com starring simon pegg and jessica hynes, is streaming in its entirety over at hulu! seriously, i love this show and have already watched both seasons twice and am already blocking out time to watch it a third time.

the show is about two jaded and aimless 20-somethings who masquerade as a couple to gain tenancy of an apartment in london, and then, well, hijinx, lulz, and biting wit ensues.

for those who haven’t seen it, waste NO time and go go go! to hulu right now. it’s quirky and british and hilarious and dark, all the things i generally love in a tv series. check out the first episode below and then get ready to fritter away the next 14 hours of your life on primo comedy:

and while we’re on this simon pegg kick together, definitely check out his sketch show from the late 90s called Big Train. you’ll recognize a few people from Spaced and that same surreal humor that makes you wet your screen in little droplets.

HBO's comedyfetish.com

whitney — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:35:53 +0000

i ran across these promos on oneplusinfinity for HBO’s newly launched comedyfetish.com and was shocked to see that they’re all fronted by my ex-roommate george basil who was a great guy with the downfall of having a batshit looney girlfriend (no longer together, so knock yourselves out, ladies).
comedyfetish.com is a campaign launched by HBO that allows viewers to watch clips of HBO comedy series before purchasing or downloading the series. it’s an interactive site that aggregates clips by show and also by a fetishized comedy theme, as in ‘Hardcore Awkward Silences,’ ‘Nasty Comebacks,’ and ‘Uncomfortable Climaxes.’ Some of the shows featured on the site are Eastbound and Down, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, Flight of the Conchords, and Summer Heights High.

Here are a few of the promo spots, starring george basil, who is a genuinely hilarious SOB:

Arrested Development documentary??? COME ON!!

whitney — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:43:03 +0000

ever since Arrested Develoment was canceled in 2006, there have been numerous rumors about a movie allegedly in production. as just one of many rabid AD fans, I CERTAINLY HOPE SO! but in the meantime, we do have proof of the next best thing: an Arrested Development documentary.
apparently a number of people, including myself, are trying to wrap their heads around why such a briliant show was canceled after only three seasons. the obvious, of course, is that no one watched it, but that’s the true mystery: WHY?
even after winning six emmies, a golden globe, and being dubbed The Best Show That No One Watches, still the ratings couldn’t save it from the axe. In the documentary, everyone involved with the show is interviewed to speculate as to why it never received the attention its genius deserved. was it poorly marketed? was it too ridiculous? did it appeal to too small a demographic? was a shirtless david cross just too offensive after the second season?

it’s most likely a combination of many factors, but i’m looking forward to hearing all those involved discuss their own cancellation.

you can follow their progress on the Arrested Development documentary blog.

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