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A beautiful grind: Some of the best jokes on The Grinder come from composer...
Every year, there's a bunch of "funniest shows you're not watching," and Fox's The Grinder (no relation to the gay dating app Grindr), which hasn't exactly been pulling in Empire season 1-type numbers...
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Yo, CDC, there are far cooler pieces of music to time your hand-washing with...
Writer's block is a problem I've been afflicted with since the days when I had to churn out college term papers, and it took me 17 years to realize that film and TV score albums--the kind of album I...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: The Venture Bros., "Hostile...
(Photo source: Venture Bros. character and prop design supervisor Chris George)Occasionally on Friday, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: The Venture Bros., "Maybe No Go"
Occasionally on Friday, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week. Stream "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," my one-hour mix of...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: The Venture Bros., "Faking...
Occasionally on Friday, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week. Stream "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," my one-hour mix of...
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KDFC is pronouncing "Varèse Sarabande" three different ways, and only one of...
A current storyline on CW's The Flash centers on Jay Garrick moping--and then doing some more moping--over the loss of his ability to run at superhuman speeds. Jay fought crime under the name of the...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: The Venture Bros., "Rapacity in...
Occasionally on Friday, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week. Stream "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," my one-hour mix of...
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I Can't Believe I've Never Seen Them Till Now!: Conan the Barbarian (1982)...
"I Can't Believe I've Never Seen It Till Now!" is a series of posts that appear sporadically here on the AFOS blog rather than weekly. In each post, I reveal that I never watched a certain popular...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: The Venture Bros., "Tanks for...
Occasionally on Friday, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week. Stream "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," my one-hour mix of...
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I Can't Believe I've Never Heard It Till Now!: Arturo Márquez's "Danzón No. 2"
The "Danzón No. 2" sequence from Mozart in the Jungle"I Can't Believe I've Never Seen It Till Now!" is a series of posts that appear sporadically here on the AFOS blog rather than weekly. In each post,...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: The Venture Bros., "It Happening...
Occasionally on Friday, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week. Stream "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," my one-hour mix of...
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I present the Guac Samson, a Swedish meatball sandwich with guacamole, in...
There are three phases of Bruce Willis. There's the Willis who occasionally gives a shit, like the farcical Willis during the early part of Moonlighting's run (before he and Cybill Shepherd got so...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: The Venture Bros., "A Party for...
Occasionally on Friday, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week. Stream "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," my one-hour mix of...
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Beats, rhymes and Phife: A look back at the late Phife Dawg's travels with A...
Phife Dawg, who passed away at the age of 45, was a huge part of the soundtrack of my teen years, and he continues to be a huge part of the soundtrack of my current years. The following is a reposting...
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The best thing about Pee-wee's Big Holiday is that it will introduce a new...
"You ever been in a fight?," wonders Joe Manganiello--who stars as himself in the new Netflix original movie Pee-wee's Big Holiday--to Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens), the Magic Mike star's new best...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: The Venture Bros., "Red Means Stop"
Occasionally on Friday, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. The 130th edition of the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week happens to focus on the final episode of...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Archer, "The Figgis Agency"
Occasionally on Friday, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week. Stream "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," my one-hour mix of...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: Pitchfork.tv, "A Brief History of PG-13"
Even though it's been nearly a year since the demise of Pitchfork Media's smartly written film discussion site The Dissolve, the now-defunct site's animated short about PG-13's negative effect on the...
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The most intriguing part of The Magicians isn't the magic--it's the material...
The following contains spoilers for the first-season finale of The Magicians.So Syfy's bawdy and foul-mouthed The Magicians, which wrapped up its first season earlier this week, is Harry Potter for...
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May U live 2 see the disc: Prince's out-of-print Sign o' the Times movie...
I never got to see Prince perform live. But every time the eccentric musical genius and consummate guitarist performed live on TV (instead of lip-syncing on TV, aside from earlier appearances on The...
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