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Television: TV’s Cheesiest Intros of the 80s

Ah, the 80s.  If you wanted original programming you had your three networks (until Fox came along at the end of the decade and HBO jumped into original shows around the same time) plus PBS. Nowadays you’d have to go to the likes of the Sci-Fi Channel… oh excuse me, SyFy to see the level [...]

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TV: Would You Like Extra Cheese With That? Cheesiest 80′s TV Shows

Compiled By Noah Mallin The 80s were an innocent time — a time of arms-for-hostages, junk bond scams, and Pac- Man. It was also the last great age of cheesy television before programmers discovered a new innovation the world would come to call ironic distance. Here are a few of the best 80′s cheesy Television [...]

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TV: The Sweet, Sticky Curse of Gilligan’s Island

Gilligan and Mary-Anne check out the Professor’s kind bud Of all the characters on Gilligan’s Island who I could picture getting stoned, naive man-child Gilligan and sweet girl-next-door Mary-Anne are at the bottom of the list. Now the Professor sure, but mainly for experimental purposes. Ginger? Hell yeah, probably while partying with Bobby Kennedy. The [...]

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Design News: Boyd Coddington Dead at 63

Boyd Coddington, who brought precision machining and an unsparing eye for design to the world of custom cars and hot rods, died this morning. The cause of death has not been released. Coddington trained scores of future hot rod designers and fabricators in his shop and turned out several classics of hot rod art. More [...]

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TV: Is Bitch The New Black? Tina Fey Throws it Down on SNL

Tina Fey: My kind of bitch Cool chick who graduated Tina Fey returned to her Saturday Night Live alma mater this weekend and just had to take a turn at the anchor desk. She used her spot to make a hilarious and impassioned plea on Hillary Clinton’s behalf. Her shootdowns of the anti-Hill arguments were [...]

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