Wikipedia’s evil twin. Also: Burt Reynolds, Betty White, and Norman Fell!
Entries Tagged as 'TV'
Trikipedia
March 31st, 2010 · 3 Comments
Tags: History@Play · Teaching · TV
Secede, Suppress, Survive
January 13th, 2010 · No Comments
Not especially funny as Onion articles go, but it actually could be a TV show: New Alternate Reality Series on Island Where South Won Civil War.
Tags: Alternate History · Asides · TV
Alternate Holiday Specials
December 21st, 2009 · 2 Comments
John Scalzi calls them “The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials,” but they read like alternate TV history to me.
Tags: Alternate History · Asides · TV
The New Frontier
September 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments
I did not see the new G.I. Joe movie this summer… …but I love the direction they took with the art direction and character designs. Edit: Artist Dave Perillo‘s site.
Old News: Philo Philes
September 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments
As soon as I said, “But nobody can name the inventor of television,” the class shouted in unison: “Philo!”
Tags: Books · Old News · Technology · TV
Channel Ocho
November 26th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Or, television without context. Warning: may be creepy. Will be weird.
The Coffee Achievers
May 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Is this real? Bowie, Vonnegut, Pat Benatar, and Cicely Tyson shilling coffee in 1984? Really? For real? Is it? (Hat tip.)
Tags: Asides · Found History · TV
History and Appliances: I Love the Gilded Age
April 25th, 2007 · 8 Comments
Turkelectronics, a worry free histo-tainment experience, that episode of The A-Team where Boy George played himself.
Tags: Favorites · Gilded Age · Technology · TV
The Bochco Code
April 25th, 2005 · No Comments
Painkillers, hallucinations, and Hill Street Blues.
Tags: Favorites · Old Blog · TV
Blame Canada
December 23rd, 2004 · 3 Comments
Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson vs. Canada. Nobody wins.
Tags: Canadian Content · Favorites · Old Blog · TV
