Mar. 14, 2012
Did The Office Screw Up the Florida Arc? When the episode “Special Project” ended, I was excited about the future of The Office for the first time all season. It felt like things were […]
Mar. 9, 2012
Listening to the DVD Commentary for The Office, ‘Business School’ Columentary (title sadly not pending) is a weekly feature, in which I’ll listen to the commentary track of a sitcom, and divulge, through […]
Mar. 9, 2012
Yes, Dear < Taxi: What Older Shows Would You Like to See on TV Again? Erik Adams wrote an interesting article for the A.V. Club yesterday, called, “Is television a medium without a past?” It’s about how while the […]
Mar. 5, 2012
Why Community’s ‘Remedial Chaos Theory’ Is the Best Sitcom Episode Ever It’s my responsibility to convince you to vote for Community’s “Remedial Chaos Theory,” which aired a mere five months ago, over “Marge vs. the […]
Mar. 2, 2012
Listening to the DVD Commentary for Community, ‘Contemporary American […] Columentary (title sadly not pending) is a weekly feature, in which I’ll listen to the commentary track of a sitcom, and divulge, through […]
Feb. 27, 2012
What Non-Comedy Songs Make You Laugh? A few days ago, I was listening to “O’Malley’s Bar” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on the subway, and when Cave sang, “I shot Richard Holmes in […]
Feb. 24, 2012
Listening to the DVD Commentary for Home Movies, ‘Get Away From My Mom’ Columentary (title sadly not pending) is a weekly feature, in which I’ll listen to the commentary track of a sitcom, and divulge, through […]
Feb. 17, 2012
What Fans of Abruptly Canceled Shows Talk About I “Like” a lot of shows on Facebook. Why? I could say it’s because I like having my Feed updated with news reports and interesting links about […]
Feb. 14, 2012
Ranking the Anniversary Episodes of The Simpsons This Sunday on Fox, The Simpsons will air its 500TH EPISODE. To put that number in perspective, that’s nearly 100 more than the combined […]
Feb. 10, 2012
Tracing the Origin of the Word ‘Adorkable’ People are finally coming around to enjoying, rather than irrationally hating, Fox’s New Girl. Rightly so, though before I go any further, I […]
Feb. 3, 2012
The Ten Most-Hated Rotten Tomatoes 0% Comedies There’s something special about having a 0% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Like Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star, for instance. What that 0% […]
Jan. 27, 2012
Shit X Says: The State of a Meme at the End of Its Life (Hopefully) It all began on December 12, 2011.
That’s when “Shit Girls Say” was uploaded to YouTube and nearly broke the Internet when it was picked up […]
Jan. 20, 2012
Five Facts on the Most Popular Sitcom Episode of All-Time 1. Fifty-nine years ago yesterday, 44 million people watched “Lucy Goes to the Hospital,” better known as, The Episode of I Love Lucy Where […]
Jan. 13, 2012
Let’s Just Fix NBC’s Thursday Night Scheduling Problem Right Now Last night saw the midseason break returns of Parks and Recreation, The Office, and Up All Night, as well as the season premiere of the sorely […]
Jan. 11, 2012
Ten Sitcoms You’d Be Surprised to Learn Have Fan Fiction I may or may not have a friend, potentially a girl, who’s admitted to me that he or SHE’s read — and quite possibly even written — […]
Jan. 6, 2012
Ten of the Funniest Unaired SNL Sketches Earlier this week, we posted a video of the “Media-Conspiracy TV Funhouse Segment SNL Banned in 1998.” It’s media-opoly, it’s a media-opoly, […]
Jan. 4, 2012
Is It Possible for the Star of a Single-Episode Sitcom to Save Their […] Since 1961, only 10 American TV series have aired for only a single episode. If there is a God, that list will soon increase to 11 when ABC […]
Dec. 30, 2011
Ten Funny People Who Passed Away in 2011 “Let’s all drink to the death of a clown.”
Another year, another group of people funnier than you or I who passed away. Death’s such a bitch, […]
Dec. 30, 2011
The Five Worst Quotes from the Year’s Worst Movie I watched a lot of bad comedies this year. Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, Take Me Home Tonight, Just Go with It, Zookeeper, Big Mommas: […]
Dec. 29, 2011
How the Most Anticipated Comedies of 2011 Fared As the saying goes, hindsight is the shit — or something like that. At the end of 2010, beginning of 2011, there were certain comedies we […]
Dec. 28, 2011
The Best Sitcoms of 2011 Not Named Community, Parks and Rec, or Louie We talk about Community, Parks and Recreation, and Louie pretty much on a daily basis here at Splitsider. Ask any 10 random visitors to the […]
Dec. 23, 2011
From Robots to Bear-Fighting: Sitcoms Sure Do Love Their Bad Ass Santas Sitcoms really only have four ways of handling Christmas: it can either be the Sentimental Episode, the Parody Episode (like all seven billion […]
Dec. 16, 2011
Checking In…with the Mix CDs I Made for Myself as a Teen, Which Included […] Back in the summer of 2002, when Jimmy Fallon released his first and only album The Bathroom Wall, I was at the peak of mix CD-making phase. […]
Dec. 9, 2011
Community Recap: ‘Regional Holiday Music’ “Me so Christmas, me so merry.”
“Regional Holiday Music” wasn’t the last episode of Community, but a part wouldn’t be too sad — more […]
Dec. 8, 2011
58 Reasons Why I Love Community, One from Every Episode Before Community aired its first episode in 2009, Joel McHale was the guy from The Soup, known to most only as “The Guy from The Soup”; Gillian […]
Dec. 2, 2011
Six Recent Examples of ‘Breaking the Fourth Wall’ Trope Subversion When I learned the meaning of the expression “breaking the fourth wall” (which Urban Dictionary surprisingly accurately describes as when “a […]
Dec. 2, 2011
Community Recap: ‘Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism’ For the majority of Community’s two-and-a-half season run, the writers haven’t known what to do with Shirley. Ask fans of the shows what they […]
Dec. 1, 2011
The Nine Greatest Celebrity ‘Muppet Show’ Hosts One of my favorite Not the Nine O’Clock News skits of all-time begins with the Not Team relaxing at home, reading their newspapers. One after […]
Nov. 21, 2011
Which Comedian Had the Greatest Five-Year Span of Films? In the days leading up to the release of Tower Heist, one of the many, many stories I read about Eddie Murphy stated that from roughly […]
Nov. 18, 2011
When Did Great Sitcoms Have Their First Great Episode? Yesterday, not long after Splitsider published an article by Samer Kalaf about the long-term health of network sitcoms with long-term arcs, […]
Nov. 18, 2011
Community Recap: ‘Documentary Filmmaking: Redux’ Shortly before “Documentary Filmmaking: Redux” aired last night, creator Dan Harmon tweeted, “AND, tonight, celebrate Community’s […]
Nov. 15, 2011
So, Which Sitcom Actor Literally Kicked Matthew Weiner In the Ass? Late last week, Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner sat down with Jeff Garlin, of Curb Your Enthusiasm fame, at Largo in Los Angeles to discuss Alex […]
Nov. 11, 2011
Checking In…with the Writers of South Park Not Named Matt or Trey When we think of South Park, which concludes its 15th season next Wednesday (please catch up on Lindsey Bahr’s excellent recaps if you’re […]
Nov. 11, 2011
Community Recap: ‘Studies in Modern Movement’ My friend Kyle and I constantly play a game where we cast our friends, as well as ourselves, as characters from our favorite shows. For […]
Nov. 1, 2011
Is the 2011-2012 Sitcom Schedule the Worst in a Decade? Every year in the fall, and then again in the middle of winter, we get our hopes up for some of the new network sitcoms that are set to […]
Oct. 28, 2011
Checking In…with the Voice Cast of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown “A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality.”
If you don’t like It’s the Great Pumpkin, […]
Oct. 28, 2011
Community Recap: ‘Horror Fiction In Seven Spooky Steps’ (and the Show’s […] “GAYYYYYY MAAARRRRIIIIAAGGGGGEEE”
As shown during the tag of last week’s episode, Britta asked everyone in the Study Group to fill out a […]
Oct. 25, 2011
Kermit Was Kind of a Dick: Dissecting the Worries About the New Muppets […] Ever since Disney announced they were relaunching the Muppets with a new Muppet movie, one that stars my imaginary BFFs Amy Adams and Jason […]
Oct. 21, 2011
Checking In…with the Creators of MTV’s Animated Comedies In t-minus six days, the guys who once called Pavement out on not trying hard enough will be back cornholio’ing our hearts all over again. I […]
Oct. 14, 2011
Checking In…with the Singers of Billboard-Charting Funny Novelty Songs In 1978, America had King Tut fever. The Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibit, which had previously visited Washington DC, Chicago, and Seattle, […]
Oct. 14, 2011
Community Recap: Timeline-by-Timeline Analysis of ‘Remedial Chaos Theory’ “Bienvenido de la casa Chez Trobed.”
There is a lot to go over in last night’s brilliant episode of Community, “Remedial Chaos Theory,” the […]
Oct. 12, 2011
Six Things The Simpsons Could Do In Seasons 24 and 25 to Rejuvenate the […] Late last week, news broke that after seemingly months of speculation, even though it was in reality about a week (a HELLACIOUS week, though), […]
Oct. 7, 2011
Checking In…with the Recurring Characters of Arrested Development You’re probably all sick of this by now, but what the heck? ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT IS (probably) COMING BACK. YAYYY. Almost nothing is known […]
Oct. 7, 2011
Community Recap: ‘Competitive Ecology’ “Your love is weird and toxic.”
I’m a big fan of sitcom episodes where a new, normal character begins hanging out with the main cast of the […]
Oct. 4, 2011
Scenes from Behind the Scenes of The Onion News Network I walk over to Suzanne Sena, the star of satirical news program Onion News Network, which premieres tonight at 10 p.m. for its second season on […]
Sept. 30, 2011
Checking In…with the Cast of 3rd Rock from the Sun Following in the long line of American Splendor and Funny People, the “cancer comedy” 50/50 is released in theaters today. It’s written by Will […]
Sept. 30, 2011
Animated Archer Recap: ‘Hearts of Archness, Pt. III’ “Don’t talk like black people, OK?”
Before I get to any actual recapping: Archers of Loaf reference! Archers of Loaf reference! Archers of […]
Sept. 30, 2011
Community Recap: ‘Geography of Global Conflict’ “Uruguay kindly requests that Somalia stops pronouncing it Ur-a-gay.”
When I think of Annie, I’m reminded of the opening line from the Silver […]
Sept. 28, 2011
The Legacy of Baby’s Day Out, the Only Comedy Movie I’ve Ever Walked Out On I have only walked out of two movies my entire life, and neither one of them was Theodore Rex. In November 1994, being the bad Jew that I am, I […]
Sept. 23, 2011
Checking In…with the Stars of Fox’s Lesser-Known Sunday Night Shows When you think of post-NFL Sunday nights on Fox, you think of The Simpsons and Family Guy first, then Malcolm in the Middle, Married…with […]
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