Category Archive: Comedy

Animated Reason

Tim Minchin’s Storm (Not safe for work)

What I’m Watching, May 2011

What I'm Watching, May 2011

As I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, we don’t have cable and we live too far out in the country to pick up any digital signals with our antennae, even with a converter box. So, we watch things on video and through Netflix instant streaming. (The instant streaming is awesome, by the way. It’s no extra …

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New Entertainment Discoveries

When we moved to Maine, the husband and I decided not to get cable. This was before the digital conversion so when the weather was right we could sometimes get the three major networks to come in, but this was rare and it was always static-y. After the conversion, and even with a digital converter, …

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The art of silent comedy

From the 6th season episode “Three Valentines” from the situation comedy “Frasier.” Featuring David Hyde Pierce

“Stealthy as a socialist, it slithers up our shores…”

Reefer Madness Poster

Not really a Halloween movie, but continuing with our recent theme of the dangers of ignorance, we recently rented Reefer Madness The Movie Musical (2005) through Netflix. I’ve been meaning to see this movie ever since I heard about it. First of all, it’s a musical – not too many of those being made anymore. …

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Halloween Movies 2, 3 and 4

Over the weekend the husband and I watched three October-appropriate films – An eighties slasher flick Happy Birthday to Me, an eighties horror-comedy House II: The Second Story and the more recent The Batman Vs. Dracula animated direct-to-video movie. Let’s start with the animated movie: Movie 2:  Saturday October 2, 2009 Film Title: The Batman …

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In the meantime…

I do plan to restart this blog soon. In the meantime, check out this great Twin Peaks parody:

Beaker is the Piccolo

When we're together darling, every night is Halloween

Halloween is both mine and my husband’s favorite holiday so naturally we got married on Halloween. It makes sense because one of the most – if not THE most – romantic couple in all of television history is Gomez and Morticia Addams. Happy Halloween everyone!

More Bloodsuckers

Back in 1990 there was one-season television series titled simply ‘Dracula – The Series.’ I had never even heard of it until just a few years ago when my husband happened across a DVD in a bargain bin. He had seen a few episodes on television and was curious to see it again. It’s a …

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