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Cartoons are an under-appreciated art form that most dismiss as either childish or immature. To those people, you’re stone-cold wrong; take their musical numbers, for example. Many times, a silly cartoon will feature complex tunes, performed by a full orchestra, that would rival some of the best “legit” pieces of music out there. Here are [...]

The Simpsons is one of the most popular and enduring shows on television, with several hundred episodes under its massive belt. In that time they’ve featured more background characters than the Lord of the Rings trilogy. With that many characters, some of the more interesting back-stories sometimes go overlooked, along with the fact that many of [...]

Good television is good television. The medium is not important. There are moments that choke you up just thinking about them and animation is not an exception to this. As you may come to realize, televised animation may well be the rule. Read and enjoy the top 10 tearjerkers in televised animation. Just have a [...]

Ten years have passed since the United States was attacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001.  The event was a defining moment in U.S. history.  After it was discovered that the attacks were orchestrated by Al-Qaeda, the information sparked intense debate in the political world.  Former President George W. Bush decided to pass a [...]

The Top (and Bottom) 10 TGIF Shows of the 90′s:  In Order of Memorability From the late 1980s to the mid 1990s Friday nights actually had SOMETHING on TV to watch. And, for the most part it was aimed toward kids and teens because ya know, mayhem and illegal activities were unknown to the 10 [...]

Although they’re great for killing time, most people don’t think of games as being especially dramatic. Sure they may be exciting to play and they may occasionally expose long simmering family resentments, but mostly they’re just a bit of fun when there’s nothing else to do. Nobody wants to watch other people playing them, right? [...]

Once upon a time, just about every man in the world felt it was his sworn and solemn duty to grow a mustache. Boys would long for the day when the space above their lips sprouted the thick, beautiful hairs that would tell the world they were men. Mustaches may have fallen out of fashion [...]

Like a cinematic version of Where’s Waldo?, classic movie fans delight in spotting the rotund Alfred Hitchcock in cameo appearances in over half of his films – a body of work spanning half a century. The Master of Suspense tipped his directorial cap to influential filmmakers D.W. Griffith and Charles Chaplin, both of whom stepped [...]

Product placement has become downright pervasive in movies and TV, but that doesn’t mean that every brand we see onscreen is something available in stores. When licensing real world products isn’t possible, filmmakers often resort to using made up brand names in their place. Some of these have become director trademarks, while others have become [...]