Wednesday, December 17, 2008

That cat looks scared. And a cat should not be eating spaghetti.

I've had the good fortune of knowing of Nerf Herder, and in turn Parry Gripp, for several years now thanks to WSBU including the song "Sorry" in their regular rotation. I was reintroduced to Parry Gripp's music my senior year of college when somebody in my class made a music video to one of his jingles on his album "For Those About to Shop, We Salute You".

Well it seems Parry is still making jingles, but now he's taking aim at Youtube fads. On that note, I give you a few of the finer selections after the jump.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

"Anybody who can blast his friend in the face and get him to take the rap for it is my kind of citizen!"

Tomorrow marks a sad day: the series finale of Boston Legal. I've got to admit that I've come on late in the game on watching the show, but I've grown to love it rather quickly. The writing is simultaneously poignant and irrelevant. A show that can masterfully weave topics such as gun control, euthanasia, and every other issue of controversy you can think of into a series that features characters like Denny Crane who suffers from Mad Cow and likes to shoot bad guys deserves to stay on the air for as long as it wishes.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

I’d Really Like to See…Dirty Harry 6

This originally appeared as part of Zoom In Online's weekly "I'd Really Like to See..." blog series.

Considering this is my first contribution to Zoom In, I realize this is a bold statement to make. After all, not a lot of people have been very keen on old timers revisiting signature roles from their prime, including Schwarzenegger reprising the T-800 and Stallone coming back to Rocky and Rambo. Even though he has a couple decades on both of them, Clint Eastwood is an entirely different story. In fact, when Gran Torino was announced and rumored to be a new Dirty Harry film, I thought it would be great. Of course, Eastwood immediately shot those rumors down, saying, “Dirty Harry would not be in the police department at my age.”

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Catch phrases: they won't stop coming (that's what she said)

Yesterday's NY Post had an article talking about the lost art of the television show catch phrase. While the analysis does have a few good points, I beg to differ on this matter. Sure, we don't exactly have many characters worth making a talking plush doll out of (see: Bart Simpson, Urkel), but while we hear less of "eat my shorts," there's still plenty of Family Guy's "Giggity giggity" to go around and annoy the shit out of me.

For example, had this author ever seen The Office? Because if they had, they would know exactly where I'm coming from with the title of this article. Even if they haven't, it's not like you need to see a TV show to recognize a catchphrase. I've never seen a single episode of Entourage, but I get where "Hug it out, bitch" comes from.