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  • Quantum Late
    Quantum Late

    I didn’t want to like this from June of 2016, but some of the attention to detail is too good to resist. The handheld device and the leap effect in particular – and when it goes off the rails a bit it gets even better.

  • Breaking Bad At The Office
    Breaking Bad At The Office

    Turns out there’s a shared universe between Breaking Bad and The Office. Here’s proof. I mean it’s obviously a sketch from the 63rd Primetime Emmys in 2011, but it’s nicely done, and Aaron Paul nails the looks to camera.

  • Jennifer Aniston’s Other Sitcoms
    Jennifer Aniston’s Other Sitcoms

    We’ve talked before on this blog, and on the Comedy Is … podcast about Jennifer Aniston’s role in the much maligned, and quickly cancelled sitcom Ferris Bueller. The season before this though, in 1990, she was cast as a regular in the Fox sitcom Molloy. This was a starring vehicle for the hotly touted Mayim…

  • Matthew Perry’s Other Sitcoms
    Matthew Perry’s Other Sitcoms

    We’ve had a look at the weird history of a Matthew Perry sitcom before, but he appeared in a number of shows before Friends too. His first sitcom experience was an episode of Charles In Charge called The Wrong Guy, so we’ll skip that one. Next he appeared in Silver Spoons, an NBC sitcom that…

  • Lisa Kudrow’s Other Sitcoms
    Lisa Kudrow’s Other Sitcoms

    I expect we all know that before Friends, Lisa Kudrow appeared in the sitcom Mad About You as a character called Ursula. Later, Ursula would be revealed as Phoebe’s twin sister in Friends. Kramer also appears in Mad About You, so these kinds of cross-overs were common. The seed for the twin thing was set…

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    Nineteen 90s Shows

    I wrote another book about television. I like television. I like television so much that the first thing I modelled and printed on my new 3d printer was this … I made some more after that too. There’s a few more, including TVS, ATV, and HTV, but I bought you here to talk about my…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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