Mike Schur’s 99th police precinct in NYC’s coolest outer borough takes its last run tonight, as a Dan Brown thriller, a BJ Novak trainwreck, and a pair of animated series for different ages premiere. BRAD’S PICK:Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol [Peacock]When the book of the … Continue reading What To Watch: 09/16/2021
Our Sectional Winners Section A: #1 Parks & Recreation vs. #2 The Daily Show Given the exalted status of Mike Schur’s kind-hearted comedy, it was shocking how close the kings of newsy satire kept this match-up. In voting, the show got off to a slow … Continue reading Sixteen Going On Eight! Here’s the Winners of Our Round of Sweetness!
Since it’s a show that takes it’s name from (a part of) a city so nice they named it twice, and we love this comedy to that level, we figured we’d review Mike Schur and Andy Samberg’s cop show twice in our little daily round-up … Continue reading What To Watch: 08/12/2021
So here we are. It’s the first round where you can vote for every show still in our tournament in one handy place. Recency bias is not just a river in Egypt as 11 of the shows aired episodes within the last decade, while just … Continue reading How Sweet It Is? Just 16 Shows Remain in Our Comedy TV Tournament!
It’s taken months, but we’re almost down to sixteen sweet classic TV comedies in this Battle Royale for the hearts and minds of a dedicated few. In the second half of our Tubular 32, we’ve got the definitive groundbreaking Norman Lear classic, the sketch show … Continue reading Let’s Finish That Sweet Sixteen: Here’s the Final Eight Matchups of the Comedy TV Tubular 32
We’re back and sorry for the delay, but now our championship will coincide with the Fall TV Line-ups (and that’s on purpose… yeah, that’s the ticket!). We’ve narrowed it down from 128 to 64 and now to 32 great half-hour comedies. And you voters have … Continue reading It’s Totally Tubular! It’s Thirty-Two! Here’s All the Shows That Made it to the Third Round of Our Comedy “March” Madness!
The Winners Section G #1 All in the Family vs. #9 The Last Man on Earth As much as we love Will Forte’s unusual (and oddly heartfelt) apocalypse comedy, this one is kind of a no-brainer as Norman Lear’s masterpiece was revolutionary when it debuted … Continue reading The Last of the Scrumtrulescent Become Totally Tubular: The Latest Winners From Comedy “March” Madness Section G&H.
We’ve almost come to the end of our “March Madness” Comedy TV Tournament….’s second round. Oh, no, we have much further to go. Here’s the last ballot for entry into the Round of 32, which may or may not be “Totally Tubular.” On the surface, … Continue reading Will The Madness Never End: Here’s The Final Eight Matches From Our Comedy TV “March” Madness’ Scrumtrulescent 64!
Here’s a rundown of the remaining shows in the competition–and since we believe in recycling, we’ll be using the write-ups from the first round, since, well, it’s not like these shows have changed in the last two months. Most of the favorites have won, but … Continue reading The Scrumtrulescent 64!
#1 All in the Family vs. #16 Get a Life! It’s not that there was no love for Chris Elliot’s quirky (really that adjective doesn’t even come close to covering it) comedy from the early-’90s; it’s more that it was up against a TV Titan. … Continue reading Nuthin’ But a G Thing: Here’s the Winners From our “March” Madness’ 7th District!
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