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Written by EJ Feddes
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 10:00 |
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You know, Summer just isn’t as much fun for us indoorsy types. We have allergies and a severe lack of pigmentation, and a game of beach volleyball could, frankly, prove fatal. We’d like to think we’re not alone, so that’s why we’ve set out to find some great DVD box sets that you can enjoy, while staying inside where it’s comfortable. Because, after all, Who Needs Fresh Air?
This week, we’re looking at a long-awaited recent release, Andy Richter Controls the Universe: The  Complete Series, collecting all 19 episodes, including five that were never aired on FOX.
The series originally aired for two short seasons in 2002-2003, and then disappeared in a fog of network incompetence. This is seriously one of my most wanted box sets for years. I’ve been making do for the last few years with recorded copies of the series as it ran on Canadian television. It turns out that Canadian TV stations aren’t really that careful with sound sync. Also, they fill the bottom of the screen with weather bulletins as often as possible. It’s just glorious to be able to watch the show without a radar map of Ontario taking up valuable real estate.
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Written by Don Kowalewski
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 11:02 |
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 Here's a name I keep hearing all around the pop-culture world. "Zach Galifianakis". As a mainstream kinda guy, I keep thinking, "well, certainly this guy will pop up somewhere I'd see him ...on American Idol, in an episode of The Office, or in a commercial airing on Disney Channel." Or, maybe, I thought, I'd see his 3-year-old stand-up act on Comedy Central some random Friday night and be like, "oh ...wow ...he is funny ...now I'm a fan, too."
But sitting passively on the pop-culture sideline has proven fruitless. Is he the hot new thing? Is he a comedian's comedian? Is he a Mad TV alum, because I know I haven't seen him on South Park. And I don't recognize him from old episodes of Mr. Show or Reno 911. So, what's his deal? How can someone rise to such popularity and universal appeal if he somehow has escaped my personal pop-culture drag net?
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Written by EJ Feddes
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Wednesday, 01 July 2009 10:00 |
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It’s an All-Batman week over here at “A Beautiful Gory Display”! That’s our favorite kind of week, frankly. This week, I’ll be reviewing all of the Batman: Reborn books. Yeah, June’s been a big relaunch month with a new Batman and several new series. I’ve already reviewed the awesome Batman and Robin, in an earlier column, so that leaves us with five Bat-Books to review. How’s Dick Grayson working out in his first month in the Bat-suit? Let’s find out, together! Well, I guess I had to find out first so I can write about them. But the rest of you can find out together, at least.
Batman 687 (DC) – Writer Judd Winick (who you know from that season of The Real World with  Puck) returns to Batman with this issue. Strangely, he pretty much ignores the disappointing Battle for the Cowl, which ended up with Grayson as Batman. He basically rewrites the whole series here, with a Dick Grayson who’s not convinced that he, or anybody, should take the reins. It’s much more enjoyable than the mini-series, largely because everybody remains in character.
Winick tends to be controversial – he takes a lot of flack for inserting his pet causes into his work. I’ve never been that bothered, personally. He had a tendency to sermonize, but he does a good job of balancing it out. And frankly, there are worse things in the world than devoting an issue of Green Lantern to having the title character smack around some violent homophobes, you know?
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Written by spunkybean staff
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 10:00 |
We at spunkybean hope that your week was suitably awesome. Sure, we hope that awesome things happened to you. Maybe you found love or got a raise or something like that. Of course, we can’t  watch you all the time, so we don’t have any way of knowing whether or not anything like that happened to you. We can, however, watch a whole lot of TV and share the awesome things we saw. It’s what we do. No need to thank us. Just enjoy.
Now, we know it’s summer and that new programming has been at a premium. Sure, Conan O’Brien is back and this makes us happy. However, considering he had Billy Mays as a guest last week, just a couple days before the legendary pitchman died, we’ve retroactively felt kind of creepy about last week’s shows. And yes, last week was a rough one, between Mays, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson. It was a bad week for icons. If only somebody blew something up and punched people to make us feel better. Oh, that’s right, somebody did…
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Written by EJ Feddes
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Monday, 29 June 2009 05:00 |
 Hi all! I hope everybody had a fine week. Me, I’m gearing up for the return of Big Brother on July 9. It’s been so long since the hamsters have paraded for my amusement. Also, the first season of Eastbound and Down comes out on DVD Tuesday. I will be demanding that you watch it, so that we can have fun tossing Kenny Powers lines back and forth. It will make us better friends, I promise.
America’s birthday on Saturday! Buy a present!
Here’s what you’ll be watching this week.
8-10 THE BACHELORETTE – Hometown dates! Imagine how disappointed all of the families are going to be. “Her? Really?” Also, somebody makes a shocking return, and people keep talking about Wes’ (imaginary?) girlfriend.
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