Tag Archives: Television

I’ll Take The Double Bug Burger With Curly Crickets

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Terry Taylor

We’re all going to be living on bugs in a few years; you know that, don’t you? Roaches, scorpions, grubs, crickets, worms, crispy, crawly crunchies, they are the answer to the coming food shortage — and that shortage is coming. … Continue reading →

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E.T. Phone Home While You Can

Posted on April 2, 2008 by Terry Taylor

I’ve often wondered if supposed aliens come here on vacation or is this just a business trip? Maybe you have seen a UFO. Or maybe you have even been abducted and probed or whatever the bug-eyed beings do when they … Continue reading →

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Cheese Grows On Trees?

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Terry Taylor

I have always been a sucker for manufacturing processes and I am virtually hypnotized by watching how stuff is made. It seems there are more and more TV programs that cater to my Jones. Maybe it was started by Unwrapped … Continue reading →

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University of Johnny Carson

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Terry Taylor

Every night for an hour and a half I attended the university. I learned the best way to tell a joke and how to get rid of my hard Southern accent (or scrape as much of it off my tongue … Continue reading →

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Bizarre Foods

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Terry Taylor

Are you going to eat those fried toenails? He will. Tweet This Post

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“Sausages! Sausages! Saaaaausages! Sausage! Sau-sage!”

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Terry Taylor

I have said this for 20 years (if you have worked with me, you know it already): Every commercial should have a dog, preferably a talking dog. Bud Light knows this truth of advertising. Few branders have put as many … Continue reading →

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Dummies

Posted on January 2, 2008 by Terry Taylor

Jeff Dunham and Walter. You’ve seen them, surely. If not, Google them. YouTube them. Click your remote around Comedy Central and a few other channels. Jeff is the straight man, hand firmly up Walter’s keister, moving the dummy’s mouth without … Continue reading →

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Glue #4: Glue Tech

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Ever since digital video recorders like TiVo came out, people have been prophesying the death of commercials because people can fast forward through them to only watch the show they recorded. But reality proves otherwise. Tweet This Post

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Hallowsweat

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Jeff just sent me this website link featuring those old school, cheesy, plastic Halloween costumes like I used to crave as a kid: RetroCrush. These kinds of outfits (as Jeff admitted an affection for as well) smelled like the butt-end … Continue reading →

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“Aunt Bee, Can You Pass Me The Corn, Please?”

Posted on September 26, 2007 by Terry Taylor

I can hear the whistling of that familiar opening tune over black and white images of Andy and Opie strolling down a wooded trail to fish in the lake. I have heard that song all of my life. Now I … Continue reading →

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Hitler was a Vegetarian and I was Speeding?

Posted on September 17, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Vile human that he was – it’s true: The human butcher of the Third Reich didn’t eat meat. Look it up. Google it. Oddity of history, maybe, but does this make you want to swallow a side of beef, eat … Continue reading →

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Rachael and Katie

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Terry Taylor

This has been chewing at me for a while now, so I am going to unload it on you all in hopes that my discussing it will bring some closure and maybe exorcise the conflict I feel about these two … Continue reading →

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Dallas

Posted on June 13, 2007 by Terry Taylor

I didn’t shoot J.R., but I was there – wearing a dead man’s suit. It was hot enough to deep fry a 12-pound turkey under my arm when I got out of the limo in front of J.R. Ewing and … Continue reading →

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Cavemen

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Terry Taylor

I have been hearing about this for a while; the Geico cavemen (created by the Martin Agency under the creative direction of a wonderful un- caveman named Steve Bassett) may get their own sitcom on ABC. Apparently, Martin Agency writers … Continue reading →

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Digital Heroin

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Lev Grossman recently wrote about digital addiction in a piece for Time. He described a point on his commute when people on the train all grabbed their PDA’s and cell phones in pathetic unison as they exited the tunnel and … Continue reading →

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