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Phasers On Nerds!! CURB/BORAT Writer-Director-Producer Larry Charles Developing NBC Sitcom About Sci-Fi Fanboys!!
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Larry Charles, a writer-director behind “Seinfeld,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Borat” and “Bruno,” is developing an NBC sitcom about a group of small-town fanboys who decide to make new episodes of their favorite sci-fi series after it gets cancelled.
Like “Curb,” “Borat” and “Bruno,” the new series is expected to heavily employ improvisational elements.
CBS' "Big Bang Theory," about big-city sci-fi fanboys, is currently the most highly rated sitcom on television.
Since the 2005 cancellation of UPN’s “Star Trek: Enterprise,” quite a few fan-made productions have been set in the “Star Trek” universe, some featuring scripts from writers who worked on the various “Trek” TV series. Numerous actors have reprised their roles from the TV shows and movies in these homegrown episodes, among them Walter Koening, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Grace Lee Whitney and Alan Ruck.
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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Can't let Big Bang Theory have the nerd monopoly can we?
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is the new first. And it's about time BBT got a stalker. Good show.
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I'm sure it'll be real cute. *cricket* *cricket*
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Media Messiah, GibsonUSAReturns....
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Whether the show plays up stereotypes or not I will be watching. Lets be honest though. I am posting here- verifying my geekhood. I've been to sci-fi and comic-cons for years...I see how we behave, hell, I see how I behave. These stereotypes are based on reality. lol.
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is producing. Keep McG away please!!
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The mainstream is embracing you; embrace it back.
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JUST SHAKE THAT ASS BITCH AND LET ME SEE WHAT YA GOT
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That is all. What we need are good quality genre shows, not shows turning geek culture into more of a joke.
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Shameless, but if its good, I'll watch.
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...a Supernatural endorsement Herc will ever give.
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...a Supernatural endorsement Herc will ever give.
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anime nerds? as an anime nerd myself I can say there is plenty of potential for comedy
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why is always Star Trek/Wars nerds TV shows make fun of? Fucking sports fans are worse. They fucking set cars on fire if their shitty team gets beat.
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That would be weird and shamefull and hilarous all at once.
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give him ginger hair. and make him texan then i'll watch. throw in some longwinded badly put together and error filled and overly personal film reviwes. and im in
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Phase 2 has their first new episode in a year coming out this friday guest starring Denise Crosby as an ancestor of Tasha Yar and written and directed by Trouble With Tribble's David Gerrold.
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"It's like "Big Bang Theory" meeting "Office." I must be psychic to hear that.
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will eventually walk through it. I think Herc is finally coming around to Supernatural as it is among the coolest and bestest television ever made! Of course he's coming around. Wouldn't a starving person who has only known walking through the desert want to sit down for a 5-course Thanksgiving dinner set on a 25 ft long mahogany table at the side of an oasis under air conditioning?
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2) Goddamn I'm late to the party, how many folks can already beat me to the "copying Big Bang Theory" punch? Apparently, quite a few. However, I will go on record as saying that the show does a good job opening up geek life to outsiders a little, even if it is painfully stereotyped. Plus, Leonard is getting laid. 3) Apparently I also got beat to the "Phase 2" punch, although I was gonna say "New Voyages" because I think it's ass that they are using a term associated with true Trek history. And David Gerrold is highly overrated, and it's no stretch getting Denise Crosby to do anything in front of a camera these days.4)Jesus Christ you fuckers are gay for Supernatural. I'm not going to speak on the quality of it as I watched an early ep and found it not to my tastes, but what the fuck? Every Coax talkback have to be a discussion about Herc's opinion on show now?
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As long as it's the kind of Thanksgiving where there's beer, cheeseburgers and loose women, Dean Winchester will be happy.
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and my head exploded. Now I'm gonna sue AICN unless they FedEx me a new head with my tickets to an early Avatar screening and Heath Ledger's frozen bicep
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why not make a sci fi show instead of making fun of people who watch it. its like people just wanna make fun of us because they think we are amusing to them like some circus freaks. fuck you all who watch gay shows like big bang theory.
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also JT, anime is not a fad. Tell that to the millions of people that dress up all over the world and go to animea conventions. Anime is bigger then star trek buddy.
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anime has been around for decades and shows no sign of going away anytime soon, plus go to any anime-con and you'll see thousands of people, not to mention the cons in Japan were you'll see even more, so it's hardly a fad
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that's not to mention that anime is an entire medium that classfies as any animation from Japan, so that means everything from Pokemon and Hello Kitty to Urotsukidōji
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I'm on your side for once. Sports fans eat shit. You don't see sci-fi geeks looting and turning cars over when the latest Lord of the Rings film opens number one at the box office. And why is it cool for sports nuts to paint their faces the team colors and wear their favorite players jerseys? Geeks are mocked for wearing Jedi robes and Starfleet uniforms. Sounds like a double standard to me.
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of course The Lonely Island's "We Like Sportz" makes fun of sports of fun
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"it's no stretch getting Denise Crosby to do anything in front of a camera these days."
She's never returned my calls about "Sex Trek : The Naked Forever" -
so they're stealing base
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Does anyone really think that the craziest sports geek in a hockey sweater looks one zillionth as ridiculous as a geek dressed up in full stormtrooper armor?Plenty of sitcoms have portrayed sports geeks, and not always flatteringly.The fatc that sitcoms have discovered nerds-as-protagonists should be considered high praise to geekdom.
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I'll fucking mock anyone who would wear a jedi robe and starfleet uniform! That's a nerd not a geek :)
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Sad news not yet on main page:Edward Woodward passed away at the weekend.
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that's not a fair compairison, a sports fan wearing his team's jersey is the equivalent of a sci-fi fan wearing a tshirt from their favorite show or movie. the fair compairison would be if sports nuts walked around in full costume for whatever sport/team they love. dont get me wrong, i think they are just as bad as geeks/nerds as far as their obsessivness and all but yeah. the only time i see them dress up is during games and as retarded as that is, its no different than a geek/nerd dressing up at a convention. although thats just as retarded but i digress.
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"They fucking set cars on fire if their shitty team gets beat." .... which is perhaps the exact reason WHY people don't make fun of them.
"Hey jock, you suck .... and please can you put out my Pinto when you get near a fire extinguisher" -
Nov 16, 2009 9:01:03 AM CST
i know someone who loves BBT and loves making fun of geeks
by dioxholsterreturns
this show encourages more discrimination and it should be banned. all it does is give the geek-haters more ammo against us. they enjoy seeing us suffer.
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http://tinyurl.com/y987sut
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they come out of a game bashing anything in their way and harassing reporters. and even violence. and for what, over a stupid match? a match that shows people either running with the ball or kicking it or batting it? thats silly, at least nerds obsess about things that actually change the world and in fact contribute to its advancement. sports is so primitive its not even funny anymore.
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They don't do that when their teams lose. They do it when their team wins a championship.
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They're hilarious.
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Unlike Sci-Fi geeks, whom are usually fairly well educated and often make good money. Sports fans, face painters especially, are the reason the world is destroying itself. The are Universally uneducated...and even if they are usually own shady contractors business and spend their days associating with closeted Klansmen and Organized crime members, prone to violence, domestic and otherwise, due to their often underachieving status, often bigoted and worst of all they are legion...there are literally tens of millions of them...which is why Natty Ice sells so well and ER rooms are money makers for hospitals on Superbowl Sunday. I've seen ONE car with NCC-1701 painted on it...that guy owned a small computer store and was harmless. But I've seen DOZENS of cars with the Raiders or Dallas logo on them...and their drivers were all in the back seat of a police cruiser.
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they should make a fifth Revenge of The Nerds movie where some talkback nerds get revenge on Hollywood for making so many shitty movies and then they film Megan Fox naked in her home, lockesbrokenleg can play the Lamar type character
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that cavemen series from a year or so back
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Thanks for that, I just threw up in my mouth a little.
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I was talking about your earlier post, not naked Megan Fox...
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Now there's a concept for a sitcom!
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Nov 16, 2009 10:55:03 AM CST
Maybe we SHOULD set cars on fire when we see awesome movies?
by royston lodge
THEN we'd get some respect!!!
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Nov 16, 2009 10:56:11 AM CST
Or better yet, set cars on fire after enduring shite like 2012..
by royston lodge
"Why did I set the car on fire? ROLAND EMMERICH is the reason I set the car on fire! BLAME HIM FOR THIS TRAGEDY!!!!"
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They had that movie, it was called Big Fan. There's also The League.
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The backstage world of midget wrestling.
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No one's gonna do a fan boy show better then Spaced. Mostly because it wasn't a 'fan boy' show, the people just happened to have some of the qualities. Larry Charles is great though, so benefit of the doubt must be given.
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Nov 16, 2009 11:24:55 AM CST
Darthsynn-that gave me a great laugh
by supercowbell5thecowbellhasspoken
"Sports fans eat shit. You don't see sci-fi geeks looting and turning cars over when the latest Lord of the Rings film opens number one at the box office."
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Nerds are funny, that's why they get made fun of. Who do you think writes these shows? Nerds. Go watch your anime DVDs and talk about how hot Chloe from Smallville is. LOL
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As a geek and a sports nut I gotta say geek culture is way more hilarious. Geeks watch TV all Friday night, sports fans watch TV all Sunday, no big difference.
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Larry Charles doing an improv show about a sci-fi fan-series? Sounds quite promising...of course, I sure McGinty, (I refuse to call him "McG") will find a way to fuck it up...
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Although that would be on HBO, or Showtime, obviously.
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Why not also include the guys who draw the Little Mermaid getting boned by Peter Griffin? Or the guys who upload poorly framed scenes of them masturbating in front of a mirror to the internet? Or how about people who like to watch "Mama's Family" reruns? Comedy potential pervs, every last one of 'em.
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"Walking Sports Database Scorns Walking Sci-Fi Database," from the Onion's archives...
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Nov 16, 2009 1:49:28 PM CST
How many sci-fi nerds would it take to even flip a car in a riot
by wickedjester
80-85? That's a lot of people to pry away from WoW at once.
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Putting 'lol' in large caps at the end of your post is also pretty nerdy. LOL (see?)
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Also known as the 130 people who still watch anime in the US. They're in the toilet because the anime fad died out a decade ago and no one had the heart to tell them their "Japanimation" interests no longer held any sway with anyone in their own country. I wasn't talking about the Japanese fans, nobody here was talking about why they're not making a US broadcast sitcom about what Japanese geeks do.V'Shael, sounds scary. Perhaps you need to contact her agent, he'd take 10% of that.
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I bet all you Uncle Toms will watch this. Seriously though, I'm glad I'm not the only one to see how much geekier jocks are over nerds. At least nerds move on from Star Trek to BSG or whatever. Jocks spend each and every year obsessing about the same team, playing the same game. That inability to move on makes them infinitely more pathetic.
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Sets car on fire.
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I give you, the Bengals-fan stormtrooper: http://www.geekologie.com/2008/10/stormtrooper_is_bengals_fan_lo.php
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_Maltheus_, you have no clue what you're talking about. Sports are passed down through generations... people have a loyalty to their team through all the ups and downs--sports fans don't bail on their team--every year is a new year. odds are, most parents or normal friends (cause some of us are closet geeks but have typical non-geek friends) won't like battlestar galactica, or especially stargate... geeks are always ready to scream and whine about a show that has gone in a direction they don't like, so they yell for it to be cancelled for no good reason at all (what does the cancellation of a show you don't like or watch do for you? NOTHING. you're not watching it, so it might as well be off the air... not watching a s how and a show that has been cancelled has the SAME effect. By the same logic, will a sports fan get so angry at a team that they want it to go to another city? on this site, geeks insult other geeks because they all think they know whats good and whats not and they expect everyone to agree. and soooo many are extremely immature and come to talkbacks about shows they don't like or have even seen to talk trash for no good reason... i don't like basketball, but that doesn't mean that i go to a basketball team's blog to talk trash on the team even though i don't know shit about it nor do i know anything about the players for the team. i hate other teams, but i understand the rival element and why others like their own team--its cause of where they live, how long they've followed the team, etc. I'm a packers fan, so do i go to vikings or bears blogs to post and post and post in attempts to try to get them to become fans of my team and bail on there's? That's completely unrealistic, and the same thing applies to geeks who, for some unknown reasons, feel the need to attempt to get other talkbackers to stop being fans of shows they really enjoy. Also, watching sports on sunday is something you do for a ton of reasons, and often its a family or friend experience... or people can go OUT IN THE WORLD to a sports bar, sit down, have some drinks and watch the games with others you may not know but you have common ground as sports fans, so even though you don't know the people around you, you all talk the language of sports. what do geeks have that compares to sports bars? FUCKING COMIC-CON where they dress up in costumes...
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These are the top of the pathetic heap. Not only do they disassociate with the actual teams, they geek out over the great Kickers vs Defense debate. Stupid.
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Until they finally decided that kicking people out of school might be a good idea.
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That's pretty funny. Commitment to a team or being a fan of a sport is pathetic? I think not. Achievement and performance are actually quantifiable in sports where as in geek culture shows, comics or any other art is subjective. You really can't compare the objective to the subjective, especially when people's likes and dislikes change so frequently with regards to their geek fare.
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Blind loyalty to your team is the thing I understand least about sports fans. The players move from city to city without a second thought, so what is it you're being loyal to exactly? I can never respect such mindlessness. Geeks who bail on a show after it turns sour hold their form of entertainment to a higher standard than, "OMG, he hit the ball. Wow, he hit it again!"
I suppose I had my boxing phase, but that was as much about the surprise over my reaction as anything else. I might go into a fight rooting for one guy, only to realize he's fighting like a pussy and all of a sudden, I'm rooting for the other guy. But even at the height of my love of boxing, I never felt the urge to placard my cube with pictures of muscular dudes, who never grew up. Good for them, if it brings them joy, I just can't even begin to relate to such an empty, repetitive obsession. -
...or at least an attempt on NBC's part to cash in on the success of The Big Bang Theory, there is room for another take on the fanboy show, preferably one slightly less cliched. So that, plus Larry Charles = cautious optimism.
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http://tvguidemagazine.com/kecks-exclusives/hawkman-swoops-into-smallville-3209.html
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If you can describe a show or a movie in a "something meets something" sentence, you rather not watch it.
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Nov 16, 2009 5:25:47 PM CST
As a GeekI would set cars on fire..in jock fashion...
by chocolatejesusman
But I wouldn't want my "Tom Baker" era Dr who costume to catch fire..that thing was expensive.
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Can't wait to see it and squirm the next day at work when people spot my STAR TREK mug at my desk...
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DeepDiscountDVD to see how they were progressing re: my copy of the Python doc only to discover that their selling Farscape: complete series for only 75.00 when i'd allready bought it from Amazon for $106! D'OH!!!!
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Sports are REAL. Something that happens near you(you can go watch). Sports is a group activity for the most part. Team or fan it happens with other people. Amazing shit happens that not everyone can do. I can't make three outs as a second baseman unassisted but when I see someone else do it I say, "Holy fuckin shit! I may never see that again!" Fandom is the same for anything you can be a fan of. Ryanbraun14. You were close with one serious error. Sports fans are psychotic. Ever hear of sports radio? there are shows, talkbacks, fuck you can't walk down the street in a Mets hat without some Yankee fan calling you an asshole. Sports fanatacism kills movie, comic, anime, tv fanhood anyday. Then you through alcohol in the mix and it explodes. Some dipshit in NJ has forgotten more about the Giants decades upon decades of history than the most dedicated Star Trek fan could ever hope to know about the entire property. I like movies way more than sports but lets not loose our heads here. That aside, Big Bang Theory isn't about geek fans. It's about genius scientists. They throw media references in because talking about string theory on a sitcom would be funny for .0005 seconds.
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I can't believe i didn't include it, but you're right--there are some incredibly psychotic sports fans out there... I know this all too well: I live in Wisconsin so obviously i'm a diehard packer fan... well this whole favre debacle (understatement) has brought out all the crazies. They actually don't see the flaw in their logic when they say "I'm a diehard packerfan, but I'm really hoping they lose to Favre, to stick it to the inept head coach and general manager because if we still had favre, we would have won a superbowl last year." These crazies overlook everything... and now that the favre talk has slowed down, there are STILL people who say they are "die hard packer fans" but they want the packers to lose EVERY GAME from here on out so the head coach and gm get fired. I honestly wonder who these people are, and i desperately hope they don't have children. they are insane.
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i want to continue the analogy to explain why i hate herc so much:Lets say i'm on a sports blog for the entire NFC North division. So i'm there the first half of the season, making friends, making enemies, and laughing at the idiots... so what happens is Minnesota Vikings pull ahead in the division (as they have) and lets say the guy in charge of the blog is a vikings fan. so now the guy in charge of the blog ONLY posts blog topics abou the vikings... so I get pissed because i spent half the season talking to these people, but now there are no blogs to talk about the packers and bears... could i go elsewhere? yeah, but i spent half the season with these people. a ton of them laughed at the packers when they lost to tampa bay, but then the packers dominate the cowboys. So I want to gloat against, lets say, bears fans, who watched there qb throw five interceptions against a team that had lost four straight. i also want to gloat about the packers dominating the cowboys--BUT I CAN'T, becasue the douche who runs the blogs only posts vikings blog topics. I've gotten to knwo those other bloggers and i want to shove their wrong predictions in their faces--i don't know what kind of people are on other blogsNow, hypothetically, lets say the vikings lose some games and the packers get on fire and are closing in on teh vikings who are struggli8ng... lets say there's a few games left and the packers are only down one game--things are getting real interesting and the vikings playoff berth is now in serious question. So i want to discuss this, but guess what: the guy who runs the blogs NEVER reports on the fact that the packers have actually gotten within reach of the division, but the guy who runs the blogs refuses to report on this--because he's already decided that the vikings are going to the playoffs and can do no wrong. so, FUCK YOU HERC.
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Just look at the poor bastards in Buffalo(always threatened that the team will move)loyal as fuck, or Detroit(I weep for Barry Sanders career). I followed Joe Montana from the 49's to the Chiefs and now I'm stuck with one of the shittiest teams EVER! Think I might go back to the 9iner's though since Singletary is behind the wheel. Still I would like to see sports fans fill up a talkback based on the Blu Ray special features of the new release. Trek fans are out of control.
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well said all around macready... there's a reason i hide my comics in a locked closet, while i have a big poster of lambeau field above my tv.
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watch anime on Adult Swim doesn't mean they don't watch anime, Adult Swim only plays a few series any given year anyway, if you watched only Adult Swim you'd never see series like The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya or Lucky Star, which are some of the most popular series among anime fans currently
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Supernatural/Always Sunny thread
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He looked like he wanted rip my eyes out.
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High Pitch Eric has already been cast as "the next-door-neighbor" (Big Daddy Geek or whatever). Remember: rumor. But, Jesus, opt for something less stale. Ever see DVDs from an NBC series called THRILLER (hosted by Boris Karloff)? The second season plunged into the supernatural. Really creepy stuff (still quite palpable). There's an episode called THE HUNGRY GLASS (written by Robert 'Psycho' Bloch) where an old crone's spirit (she survived on vanity) pulls occupants of a haunted house through mirrors. William Shatner and Russell Johnson were pretty damn good. And scarier than anything I've seen during the past 10-15 years. That's one option for TV. But, no, we'll see the next incarnation of Tarzan in the Big Apple or whatever...
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This is a new made up Variety word for me--"shingle." Sad but funny!
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