On the west coast there was a three hour difference. MTV2 was live, MTV was the recorded and retransmitted feed.

Boring people should be interrupted. I was stuck in line behind some boring guy at the burrito wagon, and I couldn't help but step in while he was ordering. "No cilantro? Man, everybody knows that cilantro is the GREATEST EVER!"

It seems as though directors will often either re-write the screenplays they're working on, or they'll hand it over to a pet-writer friend of there's. I always wonder if that's because they look at the original script and think it's unfilmable, or if they just want to put their stamp on it. After all, if they just…

Last minute replacement
Can't Activision just work their compumagic to replace Cobain's likeness with Che Guevara's? Maybe then the rest of us can on with our lives?

Ted Danson
Man, after reading the description of Bored to Death, I just suddenly pictured Ted Danson as a weary, easily annoyed mentor character, standing next to a food cart, picking at a gyro, telling Jason Schwartzman how he's doing everything wrong.

A third McFarlane show is sure to mess up the mix they've got going. When American Dad has a good season, Family Guy is weak (and vice versa). It seems like they don't have enough writers to go around as it is.

Bloody Panda is a metal name. It's trying to desecrate something that's supposed to be off-limits to desecration. Of course, metal used to be about abasing religious icons, but nobody believes in that stuff any more, whereas everybody believes cute things like pandas and whatnot.

The dinosaurs from Primeval nod in agreement!

Swing and a miss
I like how, of the two leads, Patricia Heaton is described as the possible "deal breaker" on The Middle.

Oh man, Conan's been pulling some low-wattage celebrity guests — I can't wait until Jay siphons away even those meager dregs. (Even though I've always thought the interviews are the weakest part of any of the late night chat shows.)

It made Tony Shaloub's career!

Except for the furry lobster.

Nobody in the world ever gets what they want, and that is beautiful.

Is it Jim?

Hmm… I guess their recent albums were alright, but the Else was really a huge improvement in my opinion.

You know, I've heard that when no one is looking, Mr. Whipple likes to have a little squeeze.

I don't think the staff was claiming that the show was good, after the leads got together. I think they were saying that it was lousy for reasons other than the fact that they got together. (Writers' strike, leads with health problems, The Return of Bruno, etc.)

It's a guilty pleasure, but I always liked those sitcoms set in the scary, crime-infested hellhole that was late 70's/early 80's New York. Taxi, Barney Miller, Night Court… there was a real sense of dissonance that just worked for me.

NewsRadio was a good show, but having the two leads hook up so quickly didn't seem all *that* innovative, to me. It just set up a similar, if reversed kind of tension. I remember wondering during the first episode when those two would get together. By the second I was wondering when they would split up, and the…

They've had ads all over Comedy Central, too. But then, maybe G4 and CC have overlapping demographics.