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Donna Summer: More than a Disco Queen

Myndi Weinraub — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:27:50 +0000

Today, we lost another of music’s great divas when Donna Summer passed away following a valiant battle with lung cancer at the age of 63. Though it would be easy to write Ms. Summer off as simply a disco queen from a bygone era, it would be wrong. All you have to do is flip on [...]

A Spunky Interview with Eagleheart’s Jason Woliner

EJ Feddes — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:00:58 +0000

There aren’t many people in comedy right now with a better track record of quality than Jason Woliner. He created Human Giant, the MTV comedy that introduced Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, and Paul Scheer to the world. (Which, no kidding, you should watch right now. In five years, people will be talking about Human Giant [...]

COMMUNITY: Karen Gillan Hearts Inspector Spacetime

EJ Feddes — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:13 +0000

One of our favorite shows, Community, has had a lot of fun this season with the show-within-a-show, Inspector Spacetime. Abed’s new favorite program, it’s a loving tribute to / parody of Doctor Who, and it makes us laugh every time it comes up. It turns out that Karen Gillan, who’s wrapping up [...]

The Best Lines from Last Night’s Modern Family – “Tableau Vivant”

Staff — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:00:45 +0000

The penultimate Modern Family of the season brought us living art, alarming parenting practices, and a broken elevator. Oh, also the threat of severe bodily harm. And a fire. Actually, this episode sounds kind of dark when you break it down like that. Trust us, nobody got hurt and it was all really funny. And [...]

American Idol, Season 11: Top 3 Perform

Don Kowalewski — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:41:25 +0000

If you’d have told me 11 years ago that I’d be sitting and watching a singing competition that featured Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez as judges, I would’ve looked you direct in the eye and I’d have said, “um, really? Cool. I would totally watch something like that.” And then I would quite likely have [...]

Dancing with the Stars 14 – The Finalists Revealed!

EJ Feddes — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:07:05 +0000

Previously on Dancing with the Stars: Look, I know that it’s Tom Bergeron’s job to convince us that it’s the best semi-final round ever, but I think this really was the best semi-final round ever. It was seriously a night of really great dances, though I’m a little worried that Katherine Jenkins messed up her [...]

The Bachelorette: Emily (Premier)

Don Kowalewski — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:35:53 +0000

It’s back! And Summer can officially begin! Thank you, ABC. I was starting to lose interest in the medium of television completely and then …The Bachelorette premier. I had started to slip into this weird place where I had nothing to talk about at parties or at work when I’d bump into people in the [...]

Dancing With the Stars Season 14–The Semi Finals!

Myndi Weinraub — Tue, 15 May 2012 04:00:54 +0000

It’s the DWTS Semi Finals! It feels like this season has zipped along, probably because there hasn’t been some awful person we’ve had to endure from surviving elimination unjustly or a bunch of subpar performances. Just about all of the couples could have been a finalist in most previous seasons. As it is, each of [...]

TV Shows on TV – Dream of a Thousand Schedules (May 14-20)

EJ Feddes — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:00:41 +0000

Hi all!

Lots of finales this week! In fact, this is the week when the spunkybean operating statement goes from “How am I going to get all this done?” to “What are we going to write about this week?” It’s a different sort of stress, at least. Look forward to a summer [...]

Mad Men Roundtable – “Lady Lazarus”

EJ Feddes and Myndi Weinraub — Sun, 13 May 2012 21:00:24 +0000

At this point, we shouldn’t be surprised that the funniest episode of Mad Men is named after a poem about suicide written by a woman who later committed suicide. This week’s episode that gave us Rory Gilmore, life insurance, delicious whipped topping, and more – let’s get into the Mad Men roundtable!

MYNDI

OK, first [...]