MTV's 120 minutes archive

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George Meyer Interview

A great interview with George Meyer, one of the writers for the Simpsons. He has been with the show from the beginning and is considered to be the one guy who shaped the show into what it is.

GM: I don’t remember a lot of what I write. I try to release it after it’s out there so that I can be fresh again. I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don’t work well together. When I’ve done my best work, I’ve been in a trance-like state. I write jokes that are more by-the-numbers, but they tend to have a flat, pedestrian quality compared to the dizzying flights of silliness that we occasionally achieve. That said, I’m pretty sure I wrote “Pray for Mojo.” Do you remember that line?

BLVR: Weren’t those the dying words of Homer’s helper monkey?

GM: Uh-huh. It’s almost like an epitaph for Western civilization.

LINK to interview.

Found via this Metafilter thread.

The Japanese Chinese explain the Jay and Conan dispute....

80's local news promo is 80's

Beany Babies

EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE

Really, really, good compositing

I guess the demands of a weekly TV show, with scripts that require a worldwide shot list, necessitated that most of these shots be composites...and you can't tell.





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Japanese creepy/funny MRI

I'll say it again: We're years behind the Japanese when it comes to entertaining TV.

Battle of the Network Stars "77

If you can sit through this intro, you will have some valuable insights into my psyche.

amazing Yoga video

Plug-In America

Plug-In America is my colleague's concept to raise awareness for electric vehicles, meet some great people, and create an awesome documentary. He needs money to accomplish his goals. Please donate whatever you can!

Futurama mashups

In the "Bender's Game" DVD extras, there is a DNA combiner of various characters. Pretty much anything that you mix with Zoidberg, Hypnotoad, Bender, or Farnsworth is gold.

All Aboard the Freedom Train

TO: NBC
RE: get off yer ass

Dear Sirs,

Upload the skit where Neil Diamond and Bigfoot shill for their new duet album "All Aboard the Freedom Train." You can do it NBC, you fuckers.

Warm Regards,
Dave

•••UPDATE!•••

Apparently the desire to see this clip reached a threshold and convinced some dude to rummage through his old VHS cassettes...here it is!

Big Foot & Neil Diamond - watch more funny videos

big ups to BigHutch!

all the Knight Rider turbo boosts

Not once did I see Michael wearing a seatbelt. And, since you already have a metal band name from the Mack Bolan post, now you have readymade tour visuals...just need to learn how to play.



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Roku box rocks

I bought one of those Netflix TV boxes ...it's friggin' sweet as Peter Griffin would say.

The compression on the movies is pretty good too. The only time I saw it really struggle was on very dark, shadowy or smoky subject matter. Otherwise, looks better than broadcast to me.

Yesterday I watched a little bit of "Silver Streak", which sucks so I had to turn it off....a movie called "SixtyNine" no, not a porno, but a thai film noir which was awesome...and started Spiderman 3, which kinda sucks so far as well.

Okay, so it looks like I'll have to choose more wisely, right? Wrong! It doesn't matter what I put in the queue..it's all FREE and UNLIMITED (with a netflix account)...so if it sucks, just move on to something else!

Japan is alive...

...and I will stop trying to decipher your commercials.

Space 1999

I have very fuzzy memories of this show, but one thing I do remember was that the design was pretty cool...sort of like the design for "2001". I stumbled on this huge cache of screen grabs of every episode. Sweet.
LINK to Season 1 images
LINK to Season 2 images

Erin Gray

I don't know how it happened but two of my boyhood fantasies have collided. Sheena Easton sings to a montage of Erin Gray (from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century). This guy won't let me embed...click the link.





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MST3K boys reminisce...

God, I miss that show. I distinctly remember every Thanksgiving, when Comedy Central would run a MST3K marathon. Here's a link to an interview with Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, and Jim Mallon, who were the originators of MST3K.

It doesn't sound like they're going to start another series, but they have this project, Cinematic Titanic, where you can download and burn DVDs.

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What I've been watching all week

Really, you can only take Tim and Eric in small doses. The show is so dumb and over the top that it gets me every time. It's like you're falling asleep on the couch in front of the TV, and you have a fever dream that was shot with a tube camera. Oh, and then someone went apeshit with photoshop filters and clip art.

Link to loads of Tim and Eric clips.

Will Forte's "Lazy Horse" mattress commercial

More of the "Lazy Horse" nightmare sequence

Cinco "Facts" machine "Makin' it E-Z!" Why send faxes when you can receive FACTS!