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Saturday, February 25, 2012
 Image via WikipediaThe name “Snooki” may be one of the most recognizable names in the United States today. When someone says Snooki, most people immediately think about the petite bronzed Italian girl on MTV’s Jersey Shore. Her real name is Nicole Polizzi, which many people wouldn’t recognize. Here are seven other fun facts that fans of Jersey Shore may or may not know about this fun-loving reality TV star.• Jersey Shore isn’t Snooki’s first appearance on the TV screen. Before MTV shot the pilot for Jersey Shore, Nicole Polizzi made an appearance on another MTV show called “Is She Really Going Out with Him?” The show as about a variety of nice girls and the jerks that they were dating. She was on episode 14 in the show’s first season and her boyfriend was Justin. • Since her initial appearance on TV, she has made several other guest appearances because of the popularity of Jersey Shore. In 2010, Snooki was one of the award presenters at the CMT Music Awards. Yes, that’s the Country Music Television awards, which seems like a mismatch but it just goes to show how popular she is. • If you have an iPhone, you can download an app that will “Snookify” your pictures. Upload pictures of you or your friends and use the app to make the picture look more like Snooki than you ever thought possible. • In college, Snooki’s major was in veterinary tech. • According to reports from people close to her, Snooki has never written a personal check in her entire life. However, as a result of her popularity in recent years, I’m pretty sure she has cashed some fairly sizable checks and she’s probably rather proficient in doing so by now. • Snooki is adopted. However, she does not have any plans in the near future to track down her biological parents. • For you Avon representatives, you may like to know that she is a big fan and user of your products. Depending on your clientele, this may be a major selling point or it may hurt your sales, so use your judgment if you want to use this fact in your Avon selling endeavors.  Labels: CMT Music Awards, Country Music Television, Jersey Shore, MTV, Nicole Polizzi, Snooki by: TV Store Online 0 Comments 
Thursday, February 23, 2012
 Everybody’s favorite show that has not been on TV is coming back on TV. Arrested Development!!!! No, we already talked about that. But Community is back! Yeah, I know, it’s not as exciting, but at least it’s something funny that’s coming back, and not just a reboot of an already not funny show with a younger more annoying guy with longer hair and old ex-wife who does too many drugs.Community has been a solid show over the last couple years, but for ratings issues and some schedule testing, NBC plac  ed it on the disabled list for a few months. Parks and Recreation has really come alive in the last year, and 30 Rock is back to its old awesomeness, so it’s conceivable that NBC now has some more confidence in their viewership. Community is set to return to the lineup on March 15th, after being gone since the middle of December.NBC is also throwing in some new shows to help out the roster. A new show called “Bent”, starring Amanda Peet, will duke it out with ABC’s “Modern Family”, which clearly shows some confidence in the show from NBC, since Modern Family is one of the most popular network shows, and it doesn’t seem to be waning one bit. Community is one of those great shows that mixes it up each episode, much like Modern Family. They don’t really follow a formula, which may cause issues for some viewers, like those who watch CBS shows religiously, but it makes for a great show to throw on whenever. You don’t really need to know too much about the characters to enjoy the comedy, although if you do know the characters there are also a lot of great inside jokes. One drawback to Community coming back is the great surge from Parks and Recreation will be lost for a six week hiatus after March 8th. The Thursday lineup will consist of Community coming before 30 Rock, then “The Office” and then “Up All Night”. NBC also will be inviting the new show “Best Friends Forever”, which apparently is some kind of female buddy comedy. Good News for that is that Fred Savage is an Executive Producer on it, so hopefully he keeps his solid track record going. Needless to say, NBC is charging ahead making moves mid-season to spice up their lineups and keep things fresh. It’s a good approach considering the only time people really watch NBC is Thursday night, and they’re always kind of scratching up against the other networks despite such a solid ratings day.  Labels: 30 Rock, Amanda Peet, Community, Fred Savage, NBC, Parks and Recreation by: TV Store Online 0 Comments
Saturday, February 18, 2012
 For more than three decades the folks over at Saturday Night Live have been working their tails off by ensuring that their miniscule and typical one or two week deadline to concoct a hilarious show of various and often adlibbed comedic sketches results in a parody that is beloved by the masses. Of course, when thinking about Saturday Night Live, we all remember that there have been good years and bad years. Generally speaking, the good years are best remembered for the famous cast members that made the delivery so iconic that you couldn’t help but chuckle. The bad years often are replete with miscues and poor delivery, most often occurring when previous starring cast members left the show in pursuit of their careers. Today, we choose to remember the good times at SNL – and in par with this notion, we will also relive a few of the most memorable sketches to ever be created for live performances on Saturday Night Live. “Celebrity Jeopardy”: This easily one of the most memorable sketches from SNL ever. The episode starred Will Ferrell, Darrell Hammond, Tobey Maguire and Jimmy Fallon. Easily, Hammond was the most memorable as Sean Connery, and Ferrell as Alex Trebek. When a drunken and malodorous Connery won’t play along, charities are deprived of key funds due to celebrity idiocy and bickering. “Schweddy Balls”: The best play on words ever. Host Alec Baldwin along with cast members Molly Shannon and Ana Gasteyer delivers a comedic bit that revolves around two boring and dull radios talk show hosts that are interviewing a meat packing plant owner about his new product: “Schweddy Balls.” The play on words made this sketch pretty damn funny and memorable.   “More Cowbell”: We have already talked about this scene in prior blog posts. However, when recanting the top sketches from SNL, this episode that starred Jimmy Fallon, Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Chris Parnell, Horatio Sanz and Christopher Walken is easily the most hilarious one of the bunch. When the band, Blue Oyster Cult, struggles with a cowbell player while cutting “Don’t Fear the Reaper,” Bruce Dickinson (played by Walken) helps the band come to terms with the fact that the prominent cowbell heard in the actual record is a staple to the song. “Buckwheat Sings”: Go back in time to the reign of Eddie Murphy on SNL and you will have the number two sketch ever. When Buckwheat decides to cut a pro record called Buh-Weet Sings, the vocal fathoming by Murphy is simply timeless, particularly in his version of “Looking for Love,” which is mumbled and barely comprehensible, but certainly laugh-out-loud funny. “Chippendales Auditions”: Our top nod for the day goes to the timeless sketch that was made possible only by Chris Farley, who starred in it alongside of host, Patrick Swayze, and cast members, Kevin Nealon and Mike Myers. When a tubby and rotund Farley tries to outdo the ripped and chiseled Swayze for a spot at a premier male cabaret lineup, what ensues is simply one of the funniest, most awkward and uncomfortable sketches ever.  Labels: Ana Gasteyer, Chris Farley, Eddie Murphy, Horatio Sanz, Saturday Night Live, Sean Connery, SNL, Will Ferrell by: TV Store Online 0 Comments
Friday, February 17, 2012
 Image via WikipediaThe artistically named, combat perfected turtles known to what should be just about everyone as The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or just Ninja Turtles for short, are making a much anticipated cow-a-bung-back. That was too much with the word play, but it also seemed like the right thing to do. Initially a cult favorite comic book from the 1980’s, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have gone through just about every media medium. There were the comic books early on, the very popular cartoon TV show, (One of my favorites as a kid) the movie franchise, the action figures, and one of my favorite old Nintendo games. The Turtles have made their way around town, but with all the reboots and surge of comic book based movies, it’s actually been surprising how little the Teenage Mutants have entered into the spotlight in the last decade. It’s possible they were a bit overplayed in the 80’s and 90’s. The franchise may have jumped the shark at the same time Vanilla Ice did, and who to blame is still up in the air. Vanilla Ice of c Today we can look forward to a reboot of the franchise coming out of Paramount Studios and directed by Jonathan Liebesman. Liebesman is the director of the much promoted Wrath of the Titans set to come out on March 30th. We can also look forward to more than a few explosions and probably some less than stellar story representation since Michael Bay will be one of the producers. I know it’s become almost cliché to hate on Michael Bay, but who cares, it’s easy and fun. Just like his movies. The writers are coming off of Paramount’s Mission Impossible– Ghost Protocol, so they’re also no rookies when it comes to action based, popcorn flicks. I actually think there’s potential in this franchise still, but as we learned from Superman Returns, it all comes down to that first installment in the reboot. If it sucks, we may not hear from the Turtles for another decade. However, if it’s good, prepare to strap on your Spiderman and Batman shoot-it-until-it-dies-3D-fun-never-stops plastic glasses. I really hope it’s good, because the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were my Harry Potter and Twilight growing up. Only instead of lots of pale white, there was lots of green.  Labels: Harry Potter, Jonathan Liebesman, Michael Bay, Paramount Pictures, Superman Returns, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Wrath of the Titans by: TV Store Online 0 Comments
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
 Image via WikipediaMiami Vice was one of the most innovative shows in television history and it revolutionized the prime time crime drama into what it is today. One of the things that made Miami Vice popular was the choice of music that was played during the episodes. Here are some of the songs that you may remember hearing from this 1980s crime drama that featured hot women, drugs and boat chases. In the Air Tonight One of the most popular episodes of Miami Vice was one in which Phil Collins made a guest appearance as a high ranking drug dealer. But his music was also featured in several episodes. His song In the Air Tonight was a perfect choice for the episode “Brother’s Keeper” and it helped the former Genesis drummer catapult his solo career. This also happened to be the pilot episode which helped launch the career of Don Johnson. Dirty Laundry Don Henley’s song Dirty Laundry was a perfect fit for the episode Rock and a Hard Place in which two music executives try to ruin a singer’s comeback by telling people she is married to a drug dealer. I Want to Know What Love Is Foreigner’s I Want to Know What Love Is is a song that is as recognizable as almost any other song. It was used in the episode entitled Rites of Passage in which Tubbs runs into a former love interest, played by Pam Grier. You Belong to the City Glenn Frey’s iconic song You Belong to the City was one of the best things to come out of the 1980s and the Miami Vice soundtrack. In fact, it was used in two episodes, one of which was titled Smuggler’s Blues. This episode had Crockett and Tubbs going undercover as drug smugglers to help expose dirty law enforcement members who were killing drug dealers and their families. Little Miss Dangerous Who would’ve ever thought of having Ted Nugent on a show that takes place in Miami? In addition to a couple of his songs, including Little Miss Dangerous, being featured on the episode entitled Definitely Miami, Nugent also has a guest appearance on here.  Image via WikipediaThese are just a few of the great songs that were featured on Miami Vice along with some of the artists making guest appearances on episodes when their song was featured. There aren’t too many TV crime dramas that have matched Miami Vice’s raw subject matter and combined it with popular culture. This formula may never be recreated again.  Labels: Crockett, Don Johnson, Glenn Frey, Miami Vice, Pam Grier, Phil Collins, Ted Nugent by: TV Store Online 0 Comments
Saturday, February 11, 2012
As far as innovative comedy is concerned, NBC’s 30 Rock is one of the leaders in the field. One of the many things that makes 30 Rock such a funny and successful show is the characters. The people that have been chosen to play these characters is a stroke of genius which only adds to the comedy effect for the show. Here are some of the funniest characters on this NBC show and what makes them give viewers belly laughs several times each episode.
Leo Spaceman You may not know this character by name, but you might know Leo Spaceman, played by Christ Parnell, as the “doctor of all trades” on 30 Rock. Over the years, he has played the doctor, the child psychiatrist, an addiction relief professional and even a fertility specialist. Parnell’s delivery of his lines make the character three times as funny as it already is. How can you not laugh when he tells Jack Donaghy that there is no way to tell where a person’s heart is because, according to him, “every human is different”? Kenneth Parcell The naïve page steals pretty much every scene that he is in with his high pitched voice and stories of his family back home. His childlike nature is refreshing but it is also great fodder for setting up jokes and making fun of his character. Even though he doesn’t get a ton of screen time, he still has the highest ratio of laughs than any other character on the set. Tracy Jordan Nobody can argue that Tracy Morgan’s delivery is anything less than genius. If you didn’t know better, you’d think that Tracy Morgan was playing himself because he is so comfortable in his character’s skin. Sometimes I sit there and wonder where the writers come up with lines for him to say because more often than not, they make absolutely no sense, which makes them even funnier. If this list had a fourth option, it would be Liz Lemon. Tina Fey is absolutely wonderful in the character that she plays and her self-deprecating humor takes comedy to a new level. If you’ve missed out on 30 Rock, get the DVDs of the previous seasons to get caught up and then you won’t want to ever miss an episode and the huge laughs.  Labels: 30 Rock, Jack Donaghy, Kenneth Parcell, Liz Lemon, Tina Fey, Tracy Jordan, Tracy Morgan by: TV Store Online 0 Comments
Friday, February 10, 2012
 Image via Wikipedia If you’re anything like us, you were excited to hear that Beavis and Butthead were making a comeback late last year on their home network – MTV. With the programming changes since the less than dynamic duo last appeared on TV, there weren’t many choices for music videos that they could make fun of. But their return was still something that I thought would never happen. It will be hard to recreate some of the classic Beavis and Butthead moments of yesteryear, such as the following favorites described below.
Recreating David Letterman’s Late Show
Beavis’s Nosebleed
Leave it to Beavis
No Laughing
Check out all of these classic Beavis and Butthead moments by getting the series on DVD. And don’t forget to look fat our Beavis and Butthead shirts.  Labels: Beavis, Butthead, Kurt Loder, Lacuna Coil, MTV by: TV Store Online 0 Comments
Thursday, February 9, 2012
 Cover of Lucille BallI Love Lucy is one of the most iconic and recognized shows in the history of television. Regardless of a person’s age or generation, they know what you are talking about when you say those three words – I Love Lucy. The show’s popularity is due to the chemistry between Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, William Frawley and Vivian Vance. But there were also many guest stars that appeared on the show throughout the years to make it even more popular.John Wayne The tough-as-nails star of many western movies made a very famous guest appearance on I Love Lucy during the season when they were living in Hollywood. The name of the episode was “Lucy and John Wayne” and the storyline involved Lucy stealing John Wayne’s footprints from the Grauman’s Theater. Lucy had to get the footprints back to where they belonged before anybody noticed. With Ricky’s help, John Wayne created another set of footprints to get Lucy out of her dilemma, but she ends up breaking those. It’s one of the more memorable episodes in the entire series. Harpo Marx Any fan of I Love Lucy remembers the scene when Lucille Ball and Harpo Marx are mirror images of each other. Lucy decides to dress up as Harpo Marx in order to impress one of her friends, but she didn’t know that the real Harpo had showed up. Harpo also plays his harp in this episode. Rumor has it that only Harpo was asked to be on the show because Lucille Ball didn’t get along well with the other Marx Brothers. Orson Welles The man who created a nationwide panic with his War of the Worlds radio broadcast is also famous for two other things: Eating 18 hot dogs in one sitting and making a guest appearance on an episode of I Love Lucy. In “Lucy Meets Orson Welles,” Lucy is trying to push her way into Welles’s show which also features Orson Welles. When Welles hires her to be a part of the show, she wants to rub it in the face of her high school theater coach. But Lucy doesn’t know that her role is really just helping Welles with a levitation routine during his magic act. I Love Lucy will probably live on in syndication for as long as TVs continue to broadcast over the airwaves. True fans can also get the seasons of I Love Lucy on DVD so they can enjoy their favorite episodes any time that they want.  Labels: Desi Arnaz, Harpo Marx, I Love Lucy, John Wayne, Lucille Ball, Orson Welles by: TV Store Online 0 Comments
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