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Comedy

“My Name Is Earl”: Frank’s Girl

It’s Conjugal Day at the prison! Frank (Michael Rapaport) is in the hot box for biting someone’s earlobe off, so he won’t be able to meet his girlfriend Billie (Alyssa Milano) for Conjugal Day. Frank shows Earl a nude photo of Billie, who has a tattoo of angel wings, uh, down there. Billie shows up for Conjugal Day, but Earl has to tell her that Frank won’t be coming. Billie’s upset that Frank got tossed in the hot box, but then becomes even more upset when Earl reveals that he saw her nude photo. Billie breaks up with Frank, and […]

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Magazine Archive

Life Among The Dead Returns For Season 2

I don’t know about you, but the thought of having the gift of “I see dead people” is something I’m not all that upset about being slighted on. Seriously — would you really enjoy having your relaxing bath being interrupted by an aggressive spirit who plunks himself down on your toilet seat and demands to talk? “A bit inappropriate,” muses Lisa Williams, but as a clairvoyant it’s just part of her job. The spunky redheaded Brit returns to Lifetime for a second season of Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead, beginning Oct. 12. Here’s what Williams had to share about […]

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Reality TV

Survivor: China: Week 6 Recap: Perfect Plan … Genius Idea … Smashed.

This episode had: Schemes! Thwarted schemes! Nudity! Product placement! Snarky quotes! Brutal honesty! The eating and spitting up of gross food! Even a commercial showing an animated bear getting scraps of toilet paper (Charmin Ultra Strong toilet paper — as used by the Survivors!) vacuumed off his butt! Behold — reality TV at its finest: * Todd tells Amanda that there’s a hidden immunity idol, and that he knows three clues as to its location. * The Fei Long tribe wins the reward challenge and kidnaps former tribemate James. On the reward (which takes place at the Charmin TeaHouse. This […]

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Drama

Dexter Episode 4: Secrets and Lila

One of the measures of a series’ success comes when it begins attracting stars in cameo roles. This season, we’ve already seen Keith Carradine as Special Agent Lundy. Now JoBeth Williams joins the cast as Rita’s surreptitiously toxic mom, who sizes up Dexter and says, “That man is hiding something.” He warms up to her when she tells him that if the Bay Harbor Butcher is only killing evil people, Miami ought to give him a medal. Some in the city, and a lot of the BHB’s victims, agree. Unfortunately, Lundy is not one of them, and as the hunt […]

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Reality TV

ANTM: The Girl Who Gets a Mango Recap

We begin this week’s modeliciousness with Ebony. A collage of Ebony pondering all the different ways the judges do not like her. We then cut to Ambreal talking to her dad on the phone. I’m sure these two girls discussing their respective fates has nothing to do with what will surely come later in the episode. I do a little superior dance that I will not be a casualty to Top Model‘s obtuseness. OMG! OMG! It’s Tyson Beckford! Sorry, I just turned into a 12-year-old zitty girl with glasses & bad posture. Just like the rest of the Top Models! […]

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Sports

World Series: Rocks & Sox On FOX

Sorry about the headline. You’ll see/hear that a billion freakin’ times before the series ends. The Colorado Rockies and Boston Red Sox play Game 1 of the World Series tonight at Fenway Park on FOX/FOX HD at 8:35pm ET. Should be a good series, with the Rockies on some freakish winning streak and the Red Sox coming off their usual ALCS comeback. Boston is probably the superior team, but the Rockies have silenced all the doubters before (and they have Jesus on their side). Part of us is pulling for the Rockies to finish the fairy tale and take some […]

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Comedy

Countdown To Extinction Week 4: A “Cavemen” Recap

Like “The Onion” once did with John Leguizamo’s abysmal sketch show “House of Buggin’,” we’re going to provide weekly recaps of “Cavemen” until it gets canceled. If you watched the first three episodes of Cavemen (come on, I can’t be the only one) you know that Nick’s work ethic is a bit lacking. So, when “The Mascot” begins with him getting ready for his new job as a substitute schoolteacher, it’s a momentous occasion — one that requires the taunting by his roommates. But, as it turns out, Nick’s not the only one looking for work: Andy has put together […]

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Action

“Chuck” Recap: Chuck Versus The Sizzling Shrimp.

When JD and Turk leave our moving picture boxes after this season of Scrubs, Chuck and Morgan look to be next in the Hetero-lifemates TV Character Line. Yes, that’s a real line and it forms to the left. No skipping. That means you, Sam and “Sock” from Reaper. Obviously dealing with separation anxiety, Morgan has organized “An Evening Of Morgan” with Chuck. And the second Sarah appears wearing her work uniform, we know Morgan’s evening is doomed. Morgan’s idea of the ultimate evening turns out to be shrimp. And lots of it. Unfortunately, the restaurant that houses the greatest sizzling […]

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Drama

You “Cane” Always Get What You Want — A Recap

Posted by Sarah This episode could’ve been titled “Alex’s Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day.” That, or, “Someone Found Their Santana Collection and Decided to Play Every Song.” We start out in a meeting between Frank and Alex, which is normal enough until we start seeing it in green, and with the sound quality of a wiretap. Interesting. Cop-voiced cop comes into the room (there goes theory #1) and gives Alex back his gun, telling him it’s clean. Well, duh — you think Alex was going to have Quinonez shot with his own gun? The bad news is that a […]

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Comedy

“How I Met Your Mother” Recap: How I Met Everyone Else

Posted by Mike Last week I complained about the decline in the physical appearance of the show’s central cast. Well, I’m happy to report that at least Robin and Ted cleaned up nicely for this episode and actually looked like the Robin and Ted we know and love. Lily still has bad bangs, but it seems a little unreasonable to complain about something like that when an episode is as good as this week’s show. So let’s get on with the recap. As Future Ted tells his kids the story of yet another one of his girlfriends, he can’t recall […]