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Fenton's Naked Mom

So, we were watching Home Movies last night, specifically the episode where Brendon walks in on Fenton's mom in the bathroom, camera running and all.

At the end of the episode, Coach McGuirk puts the video on and says "let's see what we have here." As the credits roll, you can hear a phone call where he's placing an order for fentonsnakedmom.com.

Needless to say, someone has registered the domain and linked to various sites and people involved with Home Movies, including Brendon Small himself.

Turns out Brendon is going to be speaking at NYU on March 22nd and it's open to the public. Anyone want to go?

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Degrassi Askew

Kevin Smith + Jason Mewes are making an extended appearance on Degrassi! This is big enough, strange enough news to make it onto my blog already, especially considering we've seen every episode of Degrassi:TNG since we got The-N with our first digital cable package.

What's really mind-bending for me is that this news has made it all the way up to BoingBoing! I thought we were the only ones that even knew about the show!

"It's like When Worlds Collide, y'know? I'm a big fan of things like when Spider-Man and Daredevil meet. I go ape-(bleep) and bust a nut," said director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy), who is finally getting his chance to take part in the cult series he idolizes [See, we're not crazy!] by starring in a three-episode arc on Degrassi: The Next Generation.

In a hilarious and profane press conference here yesterday with past and present Degrassi cast, creator Linda Schuyler and her creative team, Smith confirmed that he and pal Jason Mewes (aka "Jay" from Clerks and Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back) will start filming their parts next week through mid-November.

The episodes, which will air early next year, have Kevin Smith playing himself directing the next Jay and Silent Bob movie, "Jay And Silent Bob Go Canadian, Eh?" In the fictional film, the slacker duo come to Toronto because they need to get a high school diploma and no school in America will take them.

Read the article where Kevin talks about his long standing crush on Caitlin Ryan dating back to the first Degrassi (Caitlin has become a recurring character in the Adult cast of TNG)

Stolen from BoingBoing who got it from Amanda

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Jack and Bobby

The WB is airing a new series titled "Jack and Bobby" starting this Sunday at 9.

When I first saw the poster on a bus, my brain immediately played the word association game and shouted out "Kennedy" in my head. Upon seeing the tag-line "In 2041, one of them will be president," I was intrigued. Was it a show about the Kennedy's as young boys? How could it be if it was set in present day?

Here's the show's writeup from theWB.com:

If "greatness is thrust upon us," as Winston Churchill once said, then it's equally true that those who are destined for greatness are rarely aware of it. Take Jack and Bobby McCallister, for example: two bright young brothers growing up under the watchful eye of their eccentric single mother. Her personality is a force of nature destined to shape both of these young men's lives and secure one a place in the history books - as future President of the United States. Set in present day, with flash-forward interviews of future-President McCallister's White House staffers and first lady, it's a snapshot of a young man being molded to beat the odds and become the mid-century's greatest presidential leader.

Looks like it might be interesting.

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Seth MacFarlane, Creator of Family Guy, Hosting Adult Swim

Seth MacFarlane, Creator of Family Guy and also the voice of Peter Griffin / Stewie Griffin / Brian Griffin / Glen Quagmire / Tom Tucker / Various Voices, will be hosting Adult swim July 11-15th, with possible clips from the new episodes.

For those that don't know, Family Guy will be returning to the airwaves Summer 2005 as a direct result of it's success on Cartoon Network and on DVD.

Sidebar: I Ripped this story from TvTome - the IMDB of TV. It's amazing how quick this site has become an invaluable resource, even surpassing IMDB at times as it provides complete episode breakdowns, anecdotal information, and news feeds about tons of shows.

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Early Game Over for UPN's Aptly Titled CG Animated Show

Walking in Times Square last night, I noticed a billboard for a new computer animated prime-time show called "Game Over." I'd never heard of it before, and I was kind of excited by the idea of CG animation breaking into prime-time.

The premise seemed a bit like a reboot ripoff but the characters looked like they might be interesting enough, and if it had as much madcap humor as it was touting it might have done well.

Amazingly, the Times Square billboard seems to have outlasted the series by a couple of months. Imagine the advertising cost of getting that thing up there, and then the face they're losing for every person who goes looking for the show only to find it gone. Case in point, I was going to blog here about the "New show" and instead I'm highlighting UPN's idiocy.

It seems that if you're going to put something like a TV show on your network, you have two choices. Either decide that it is brilliant and then stand by it, waiting through the inevitable low ratings until people warm up to the show, or decide that it is crap and can it. Somehow the network exec's are missing this entirely, canceling good shows and endlessly plying new crap on us each season to see if we miraculously like some of the drek.

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You've got Degrassi and Rosco at 8 - The N Has Got It.

The N is starting up it's summer schedule this week, with new episodes of many shows, including "Degrassi - The Next Generation." Nearly everyone who knows us has heard us sing the praises of this cheesy little TV show as being the new "My So Called Life," the holy grail of Teen Dramas. Ironically, The N has also started running My So Called Life, you can compare and contrast the two.

They're running "every episode ever" all week, with season four starting this friday at 8, 10, and 12.

Unfortunately most of America won't get to see the show as it's running on Canadian TV and exclusively on The N here in the states which is generally only included in Digital Cable lineups. Known as "Noggin'" during the day, The N (the-n.com) is a new breed of cable station, pulling in a highly specialized programming schedule to appeal to a very tight demographic. Amazingly, they have yet to (and hopefully never will) leverage that marketing pull, choosing instead to only show station-branding commercials and fun little in-betweeners. We originally started watching for the Daria reruns, and got pulled in by their other shows.

If you're not up to date on the show and have some time to kill, watch the marathon this week, and then tune in for the new episode. Call me a dork, but I've been waiting all winter! Bring it on!

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The Sunday Stew Is Back.

MTV is bringing back the Sunday Stew.

Wildboyz - Viva La Bam - Punk'd - Needless to say, we're excited.

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Petition to Save "Home Movies"

Sign the petition to save cartoon network's "Home Movies"

Sara and I have been recording "Home Movies" with MythTV since I finished the system around Christmas, and we both love the show. It's subtle and funny in a fantastically tongue-in-cheek way, and I'd put it up there, as many others have said, as one of the best shows on TV right now.

Anyway, online sentiment is increasingly becoming a potential sales barometer for corporate execs, and can sometimes make a difference, so this can't hurt.

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Invader Zim Goodies of DOOM!

Ok - I swear this is the last link for tonight. While looking for the Zim quote in the last article (deja vu?), I found this awesome site, which has this neato mini-comic by Jhonen himself, and announces that the Invader Zim DVD is out on May 11th. Whoo!!!

I love the moose on the first page, with the arrow pointing to it that just says "FLOATIN'!!".

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Creepy Picture, or Foreshadowing of Headlines to Come?

Gothamist has a crazy, "what the hell is this?" captioning contest going on for this oddball snapshot of the the dueling baby michelles. Some of the write-ins are pretty hillarious.

Link to picture + captions


Gothamist.com

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When Did MTV Get Cool Again?

Okay... So I remember going to college, and just about 3 days after I got there, I stopped watching Television. Of course, with that, I stopped watching that most influential station of our youth - MTV.

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