Roundup: Grandma’s Skydiving Scare, the Best Marriage Proposal & LeBron and Wade Know Fashion
Cheryl Cole … a fantastic marriage proposal … Jenna Jameson got a DUI … great story about a squatter/entrepreneur … “Colorado Springs man shot and killed while looking at guns” … that’s a pretty large great white shark … can I interest you in a documentary about the Gold Dust Lounge? … Gary Bettman thinks the NHL “owns” New Year’s Day … “Man Admitted to Hospital for Kidney Stone, Discovers He’s a Woman” … really sad story about the death of a prominent young writer … “Naked man killed by Police … was ‘eating’ face off victim” … why would you want your genitals in the yearbook? … if you’re curious about Mark Zuckerberg’s wife … what’s happening to all the frogs and turtles? … talking to randoms in a stadium parking lot seems ill-advised … menacing Tiger Shrimp! …
Wade and LeBron know their fashion. [Palm Beach Post]
Baseball fans from the 80s will enjoy this Bob Ojeda story. [NYT]
“Charles Eric Waugh, 31, is jailed in Kentucky for breaking probation by using Twitter to contact an Ohio State recruit.” Report goes to jail to visit Mr. Waugh. [Dispatch]
Roscoe Smith is transferring from UConn to UNLV. The power forward may be eligible to play this year because the Huskies are ineligible to play in the NCAA tournament. [Weekly Seven]
Michigan football players are working out with Navy SEALS. [Freep]
Ed Wesley, the best returning running back TCU has, left the team for family reasons. [Star Telegram]
Good read on the son of former NBA coach (and current radio announcer) Dr. Jack Ramsey. [Buffalo News]
Meet the 6-year-old who will compete in the National Spelling Bee this week. [Wash Post]
Why the Brewers need to spend money to win games – the fans. [Journal Sentinel]
TV spoilers and twitter. [Bad Ass Digest]
Eight months after the death of her husband, Dan, Susie Wheldon went to the Indianapolis 500. [AP]
An editor’s wife, a spa business, prostitution and the sheriff’s drug unit. [Times Union]
Football coaches are crazy! [GQ]
Grandma has second thoughts about jumping out of a plane. Around the :40 mark, you can see why. She did survive, though.
Don’t blink, or you’ll miss this Rex Ryan cameo in an upcoming Adam Sandler movie.
Six weeks old, but still fantastic. This guy’s got talent! [via Nick]
This is what Hollywood looked like by helicopter in 1958.
Three months old, but if you haven’t seen it before …
- Riddick Bowe Promoted His Unsuccessful Muay Thai Debut By Allowing Monkeys to Climb All Over Him in Thailand
- New Zealand High School Rugby Player With the Most Vicious Hit of the Decade [Painful Video and Gif]
- Mario Balotelli Scores Goal, Kicks Own Shoes, Shouts Out Drake; All in a Day’s Work
- The 2013 MLB All-Star Game Batting Practice Jerseys Can be Yours for the Low, Low Price of $99.99
- Manu Ginobili’s Bald Spot Disappears After One Magical Swipe From Tim Duncan [GIF]
- Shining Base Path on MLB At-Bat Music: Ballplayers Love Drake, Pitbull, Metallica and 90s Hip Hop Jams
- scripty on New Zealand High School Rugby Player With the Most Vicious Hit of the Decade [Painful Video and Gif]
- scripty on Riddick Bowe Promoted His Unsuccessful Muay Thai Debut By Allowing Monkeys to Climb All Over Him in Thailand
- TonyToniTone Has Done It Again on MLB At-Bat Music: Ballplayers Love Drake, Pitbull, Metallica and 90s Hip Hop Jams
- TheRealAC on New Zealand High School Rugby Player With the Most Vicious Hit of the Decade [Painful Video and Gif]
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May 29th, 2012 at 8:33 AM
Pic of dude’s eaten face
http://twitter.com/Dant3filth/status/207438840921722880/photo/1
May 29th, 2012 at 8:38 AM
Cheryl Cole
I know people are going to bust on you for a lame Roundup pic, but I’m looking at the silver lining here: even in a poor photo that makes her legs like larger, Cheryl Cole can STILL fucking get it.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:39 AM
im dying laughing over here…it’s like you picked the most unpleasant picture of her on the internet just for us. bravo.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:40 AM
The roundup photo reminds me of every photo I take when on vacation.
/terrible at taking pictures.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:40 AM
even cole’s face looks like she’s saying “you used THAT pic?”
May 29th, 2012 at 8:42 AM
she poop?
May 29th, 2012 at 8:42 AM
Can we talk about Mad Men? Pretty please?
May 29th, 2012 at 8:43 AM
i hope we all have our zombiepocalypse preparedness kit ready to go.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:44 AM
no poop…not seeing the “you’ll see why” tho. she jumped out of a plane…surely she couldn’t have thought jumping out of a plane wouldn’t require also jumping out of a plane, could she? i thought the “you’ll see why” would entail the guy next to her having a chute malfunction or something.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:44 AM
Holy shit that picture is horrible. So is the one of that guy’s eaten face.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:44 AM
that was a pretty bad ass episode, hope it doesn’t mean the end for you know who on the show.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:44 AM
kazzy – glad I haven’t eaten.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/12837613-418/ten-dead-41-wounded-in-weekend-shootings.html
hope all the readers in chicago are OK. sounds like it was a war zone over the weekend.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:45 AM
I thought it was meh, didn’t stay true to the books.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:46 AM
Game of Thrones was so good Sunday I didn’t even remember Mad Men was on.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:49 AM
I bawled at the last scene. I just can’t believe it happened.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:51 AM
i have a hard time believing that she’s gone for good and really hoping her next appearance isn’t a paul kinsey type thing.
i wouldn’t be surprised if she comes back to SCDP after trying the other agency, and don welcomes her back knowing what he lost since ginsberg is a complete wierdo.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:52 AM
that looks like the old “I may have just sharted a bit” look on her face.
sweet thigh tat though…
May 29th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
jamal lewis filed for bankruptcy? my that was quick.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
I want her to come back because I love that character and want to see her every week but I just don’t think it would be in her nature to come back. She had nowhere to go at SCDP. Don really didn’t understand that it wasn’t about the money for her. She needed to be recognized for what she did and she wasn’t going to get that there.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
yeah, it took him longer to get his first 200 yard game against the browns
May 29th, 2012 at 8:55 AM
it took him longer to dial *67. wait…oops.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:56 AM
“Anyone who dies with a clean sword, I’ll rape his fucking corpse.”
/Hound. Legend.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:56 AM
that was a pretty bad ass episode, hope it doesn’t mean the end for you know who on the show.
that was a great episoe. dont the think she is going anywhere, if anything, this is a whole new plot line.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:56 AM
Time to set up another massive coke deal, Jamal.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:58 AM
Cheryl’s giving Minka Kankle a run for her money.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:58 AM
i agree. i mostly hope she comes back b/c there was a fantastic dynamic between the characters and the actors that isn’t anywhere else on the show
i had a twisted thought that maybe that elevator shaft was empty when peggy got in at the end, that would be fucked up though.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:59 AM
He’s a legend during the daytime. At night, with flames? Mehhhhh.
I’ll take me some Bronn over the Hound any day. That scene between the two of them was spectacular.
May 29th, 2012 at 8:59 AM
great scene, but the hound would beat his ass like he owed him money.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:02 AM
she can definitely get, but I guess you chalk this up to a bad Roundup pic day. what’s up with the bard wire tat around the right thigh?
/TNT ……Team No Tats
May 29th, 2012 at 9:03 AM
The photo of the dude who was the other’s dude lunch is just about the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:04 AM
Please. Bronn would just light something on fire and the Hound would go hide in the princess’ room.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:04 AM
yeah that would be way too dark.
I’ve reached my limit with Megan, I think. She whines more than Sally ever has. That line about her saying she’d hate Don forever if she had to pick him over her acting career made me want to punch her.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:05 AM
Got some bad LSD I guess. I heard the guy that was being eaten was a homeless and and is still alive!….albeit in critical condition with 80% of his face gone. this is right out of the Walking Dead.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:05 AM
You know you’re hot when TBL tries to find the ugliest photo of you and you still don’t look like a train wreck. This one would have been better.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:05 AM
looks like the cannibal guy ate around the beard. I’d probably avoid it too.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:05 AM
I am really curious to see what happens with Peggy. Maybe they just keep her story going at the new agency. Maybe when Pete offs himself, Peggy comes back as a partner or something.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:06 AM
Her seriously just expecting Don to have no issue with her being away was ridiculous.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:07 AM
As much as we love Bronn, he never punched a hole through a dudes stomach and ripped off intestines.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:07 AM
Even Russia (RUSSIA!!) came out and said Syria went too far. That’s how bad this was.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:08 AM
Mad Men and GoT have been killing it this season; has there been a better 2 hr block of tv?
May 29th, 2012 at 9:08 AM
So there’s going to be a time where Joan casts a deciding vote in a partners meeting and someone throws out the whole prostitution thing as the only reason she’s there, right?
May 29th, 2012 at 9:09 AM
And he expects her to do whatever he wants, another happy Draper marriage is coming into form
May 29th, 2012 at 9:10 AM
Sweet. Obama and his team are using a “Kill List” for Al Qaeda members.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:11 AM
It’s too obvious Pete would off himself, i cast a vote for Lane (who is likely going to be found out for embezzling) and Ginsberg.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:13 AM
In that picture, she looks like she just woke up on the beach after sleeping one off.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:13 AM
It’s too obvious Pete would off himself, i cast a vote for Lane (who is likely going to be found out for embezzling) and Ginsberg.
god, pete was at his smarmy best last night.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:13 AM
The way they shot the scene with Joan and Don, making you think Don got there just in time to talk Joan out of it, only to find he showed up after was exactly why I love that show. Then, when the agency gets the call from Jaguar and the camera shows Don’s face when he see Joan…awesome
May 29th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
Sopranos/The Wire HBO Sunday nights?
May 29th, 2012 at 9:17 AM
Cheryl’s giving Minka Kankle a run for her money. Clown
Damn it, Clown. I was going to make the cankle comment and credit it to you.
TBL picking horrible pictures of hot chicks may be the greatest meme going on here.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:17 AM
I agree, but I don’t think she’s going to do any better at the new agency. That Ted Chaough guy is a giant asshole and you can just imagine him trying to get info from Peggy on how SCDP does things.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:17 AM
After seeing Paul Kinsey’s transformation Freddy Rumsen showing up looking like Freddy Rumsen was a disappointment
May 29th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
Joe Biden says a lot of dumb stuff, but this was a great speech over the weekend to the families of deceased veterans.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
It was completely ridiculous. She fully understands Don’s needs and behaviors but acts out like a child whenever she doesn’t get her way.
Completely disagree. While he has some controlling issues, he didn’t make her stay at the firm and he gave his blessing with the acting thing. I think it’s completely ridiculous for her to get all pissed off when Don said he didn’t want her to live in Boston for MONTHS! Especially when she’s always insecure about him cheating on her. Megan is full of shit.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
That entire story line with Joan is probably the saddest thing I’ve seen on TV.
And she’s not exactly the most sympathetic character in the world. She knowingly fucked a married man for several years (Sterling) and is selling a story to a guy (Dr. Rapey McDumbfingers) about a child that isn’t his. Joan is far from an angel, and yet I was still really sad watching that scene with her and that fat doofus with the awful Jersey accent.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
mad men and breaking bad were back to back at one point, weren’t they?
May 29th, 2012 at 9:21 AM
Does Sal work at Peggy’s new office? I would love to see Sal again.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:22 AM
Mad Men and GoT have been killing it this season; has there been a better 2 hr block of tv?
Sopranos/The Wire HBO Sunday nights?
I watched 2 hours of Hatfields and McCoys last night. What a freaking mess. Of course, I’m sucked in and will watch the next two nights, but how much money did they spend on Paxton, Costner, Powers, etc… for a damn History channel movie that couldn’t have expected that many viewers anyway. I feel like Dirt when he watches shitty shows just so he can bitch about them.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:23 AM
Pours one out
May 29th, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Felt the same way. It also made me really sad for Don especially after it was revealed his plea came too late. Don has been a real scumbag at times but I think he really loves Joan and didn’t want her to go the route his mother took.
I could seriously choke up thinking about him kissing Peggy’s hand when she left. So devastating.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Never said she was blameless, just that Draper’s on his way to another divorce…Faye Miller should be thankful she escaped that mess
May 29th, 2012 at 9:26 AM
Hopefully Sal’s found his way out of patrolling central park at night for tail and back on track.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
I thought the Joan storyline was one of the more unbelievable in the show’s run, unless Weiner has heard of ad agencies in the past whoring out their own employees that was some soap opera shit that the actors did their best to sell
May 29th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
dammit, is it really that bad? I dvr’d it and was hoping to start watching tonight. I really don’t watch much non-sports TV and I was looking forward to this, I’m going to be pissed if I commit to it and it’s a waste of time.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
That was a very powerful scene…both Elisabeth Moss and Jon Hamm just killed it.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:28 AM
The sad irony of the Joan situation is that Don fired Sal for not banging a client
May 29th, 2012 at 9:28 AM
Cheryl Cole
That pic looks like she just woke up and strolled out to the beach for coffee.
I wouldn’t mind waking up with that. I’ll get your coffee.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:29 AM
I thought the same thing. It looks like she just woke up with a hangover…and she’s still hot. Clown is spot on with the cankles, though.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:30 AM
I watched 2 hours of Hatfields and McCoys last night
Yeah – I DVR’d it too. An attempt (likely futile) to minimize my commitment.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:30 AM
If they found a way to bring Kinsey back, it should be a little easier to put Sal back in.
Women using their sexuality to get ahead in business is not exactly avant garde writing. I’ve seen it on more than one occasion in the work place.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:31 AM
She really became confused when the officer explained she blew a .15
May 29th, 2012 at 9:32 AM
dammit, is it really that bad? I dvr’d it and was hoping to start watching tonight.
The acting of the Paxton and Costner isn’t that bad. Powers Boothe character is good, but barely in the thing. The movie is just all over the place. For six hours of a movie, I wouldn’t think they needed to skip things. I may have also been entirely bored by the entire Hatfield/McCoy girlfriend/boyfriend thing that dragged this first episode down. A lot of it just didn’t make sense. A lot of lazy storytelling. I won’t say what else bugged me since you haven’t watched yet. And, you should watch it. So, we can bitch about it together. I don’t watch hardly any non-sports tv either, so this will be our time to shine.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:32 AM
Clown is spot on with the cankles, though.
yep – spot on.
/Yes. Yes I
wouldwood.May 29th, 2012 at 9:32 AM
That wasn’t what happened though… Her bosses pimped her out to a client.
What the fuck is going to happen when the guys figure out what Lane is up to with the $50K?
May 29th, 2012 at 9:33 AM
I don’t think this face-eating story is quite as awful as that story 2-3 years ago when the chimp went ballistic and ate that woman’s face, but it’s close. Dis-gust-ing.
I also thought the Joan storyline on Sunday night was pretty far-fetched. Not that the car dealer brought it up, but that Pete actually presented the idea as legitimate back at the office rather than trying to redirect the guy. That they actually voted on it and she accepted felt like a real stretch.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:33 AM
That’s different, this was a client asking to bang an employee and them saying sure…even in a world where women are cattle that just seemed a little much (especially Sterling not giving a shit)
May 29th, 2012 at 9:33 AM
I thought the Joan storyline was one of the more unbelievable in the show’s run,
Right. A woman has never slept her way to the top in corporate America.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
People eating faces off >>>> chimps eating faces off
May 29th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
I love hockey and I think the Winter Classic is a great event, but Gary Bettman is kind of delusional.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
I don’t watch hardly any non-sports tv either, so this will be our time to shine.
Oh good gawd that’s sad.
/I’m in.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
i forgot how skeezy joan was while watching last night. i felt bad for her.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
bullshit…nic cage in face/off was tremendous.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:35 AM
Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL
“The first month, he spent just $30, mainly on the occasional trip to McDonald’s “
GREAT STORY.
His $30 budget in 2011 blows away my 1999 $100 budget.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:36 AM
What Peggy seeks, Don never gives-approval for a job well done. It’s just not in his make up. It was perhaps Pete’s creepiest ever…which is weird because he continues to get slimmer each episode. I find it funny how what he wants-an apartment inManhatten so he can slay women there, Allison Brie won’t give in to him. Lane will escape once money pours in with Jaguar. I can see SCDP buying out the firm Peggy goes to and when they do Don makes Peggy Creative Director and still never gives his approval.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:36 AM
And she could have said no. On several occasions. But didn’t. I don’t find this any different than the young girl who fucks a senior manager to get a better job.
Exactly. It happens all the time.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:36 AM
Someone’s going to die in that elevator shaft. It’s going to happen.
I actually thought for a second it was going to be Peggy there at the end. But my guess is Lane or Pete.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Was there an episode where they fired Sal? I thought I saw every episode but I thought he just disapeared between seasons.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
I’m more sunburned than that tanning cooz in Jersey. I need a drink.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
I don’t watch hardly any non-sports tv either, so this will be our time to shine.
Oh good gawd that’s sad.
/I’m in. Squawk
Fuck yeah.
And fuck this damn Pacuiao/Bradley rollover ad at the bottom. USA Today sure knows hot to annoy the fuck out of their customers.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:39 AM
I feel like I should cut and paste this paragraph into any NBA post that purports the NBA is a league of tough guys.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:39 AM
scripty…if you haven’t played sleepy hollow this year, do it. it’s so unbelievably good, it’s hard to describe. the greens man…WHOO. DO NOT LEAVE YOUSELF ABOVE THE HOLE. had 37 putts including a 4-putt…but it was totally fair. you pay a penalty for sloppy putting.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:39 AM
Mad Men and GoT have been killing it this season; has there been a better 2 hr block of tv?
Don’t forget Sherlock Holmes on PBS.
/totally serious.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:39 AM
It was shocking but, surprisingly, I wasn’t irritated Weiner decided to go that way. I really wanted Roger to act the way Don did. He has had so many opportunities to be a good guy and he fails at every step. Except maybe the way he ended things with his latest wife. I think his 1940′s mentality is something he can never get over.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:39 AM
Joan tried to appear as if she was above it all. She went along with the proposal. She’s just as bad as the Jaguar guy in the end. Jon Hamm was great last night, er, Sunday.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:40 AM
Is that movie where he and John Transgendervolta were driving crazily in boats and shooting guns at one another & no one could come close to hitting anyone with a hail of gunfire???
/138 minutes of my life I can never back
//continues to waste other minutes of my life
May 29th, 2012 at 9:41 AM
The Lucky Strike guy made a pass at him, Sal turned him down and since the guy wanted him fired then Don did his bidding…forget if that was part of the reason LS left SCDP though
May 29th, 2012 at 9:41 AM
spencer and ms, I read this over the weekend, thought you would find it interesting based on our discussion last week.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:41 AM
Keep forgetting to record this, dammit. I love reading the original Sherlock Holmes and have read you guys commenting on this. Need to check my DVR tonite when I get home
May 29th, 2012 at 9:41 AM
What the fuck is going to happen when the guys figure out what Lane is up to with the $50K?
A man walks into an advertising agency…
May 29th, 2012 at 9:42 AM
the $50k she was offered originally is the equivalent to about $320k these days. instead turning that into a 5% stake in the company, huge.
I think Joan discovers the embezzling Lane committed and doesn’t say anything b/c Lane told her a 5% stake in the company could be had.
so i don’t think Lane kills himself, or Pete, so that leaves Ginsberg. hopefully.
but in all likely hood no one kills themselves
May 29th, 2012 at 9:43 AM
History Channel is plagued by this disease. Chuck Klosterman said once on Simmons podcast that ideas that History Channel comes up with are lot better than the execution of the said ideas. I totally agree with him. They cheese up their program with unnecessary background music, and cheap production value re-enactments. Same thing can be said for nature shows on Discovery and Animal Planet. American productions comes across as cheap because of their insistence on using overly dramatic music and voice over guys that narrate the story like it’s a movie promo. European produced nature shows are far more superior because they just let the picture tell the story.
I can guaran-damn-tee that Planet Earth would suck if it was an American production rather than a BBC venture.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Indeed.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
get an adblocker, makes this site tolerable again.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Keep forgetting to record this, dammit.
I’m pretty sure they’re done for the season. The last episode with Moriarty was phenomenal!
May 29th, 2012 at 9:45 AM
I’m assuming whoever dies does so accidentally, not realizing he/she is walking into an empty elevator shaft.
Although it’s just so obvious after it nearly happened to Don a few episodes back, maybe nobody will fall down it.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:45 AM
st.bear…thanks brotha. got some more ammo for the afternoon print’n'poo. much appreciated.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:45 AM
We’ve looked into Sleepy a bunch. I played there a few times as a young teenager but I cannot recall much outside a few tee shots. The issue is Sleepy can get booked far in advance. I will have to add it. Before the course boom in the 1990′s, Sleepy was perennially on the short list of top OH public tracks.
Im taking FRI off, looking to play in the morning. This might be my Hawthorne Valley day. I just got locked in for double rounds at Mayfield and Sand Ridge. I think we’re gonna due Mayfield once walking with a caddie.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:45 AM
It did suck as an American production, because they used Ripley’s voice for some fucking reason.
Still haven’t watched the new Sherlocks, but again BBC America can go fuck itself for not broadcasting them. Gotta give all the airtime to Nerdist TV and Star Trek, I guess.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:46 AM
Wait does Mad Men seriously have an elevator shaft plotline?
GROUNDBREAKING TELEVISION
May 29th, 2012 at 9:47 AM
yea…so in that sense, the fact they never hit either of each other with said hail of gunfire is the most realistic thing in that movie. it always drives me nuts watching bond or borne and seeing them hit targets with one shot with a pistol while traveling at high speeds.
which is why sniper with tom berenger always gives me a smile…when he rips billy zane for a one-shot/kill from a helicopter with a huge 4x scope. no way he’d do that…and berenger let him have it. hooray realism!!!
May 29th, 2012 at 9:48 AM
One shot, two kills.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
No it didn’t. It was still good.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
i lolled.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
my morning is made.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
No. A few episodes back Don Draper hit the button to take the elevator down, then the doors opened and he nearly walked through only to discover there was no elevator, just an empty shaft. The whole scene probably took 15 seconds and that was that. But since then I’ve been assuming the malfunctioning elevator will come back into play at some point.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:50 AM
If Lane cooked the books as well as he can, I’d guess only a deep dive like a 3rd party would find his crap. I’d say old Cooper would have been the most likely to find the error, not Joan.
In Weiner style, I’d venture that once the second passes where it looks like Lane will get off the hook, some stupid little error unravels his whole plan. But he’s a great character outside of the Draper/Sterling mold, so it’d be better to keep him around a while. If they just did January, did 1967 America use the normal fiscal calednar? Would that be when it gets exposed.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
that ideas that History Channel comes up with are lot better than the execution of the said ideas Der
That is exactly it. I thought a Hatfields and McCoys movie, while totally unnecessary, would be really cool. And maybe it gets there in the next couple episodes, but the storytelling is so hamfisted. It is quite apparent there must have been 26 writers on this show.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
There’s no reason to watch the Discovery version. Best Buy sells the BBC versions. They dumbed it down because people are stupid, granted most Brits don’t watch that stuff and are busy watching Geordie Shore anyway so they just let it fly under the radar.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Game of Thrones and Treme, last season. Sopranos/Wire and Sopranos/Deadwood was pretty boss, too.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:52 AM
Wasn’t Planet Earth in HD great for the enhanced mellow crowd?
May 29th, 2012 at 9:53 AM
ive played sand ridge a few times…it’s a fun track. fair, but challenging.
sleepy’s completely jammed. there were about six groups backed up (stupid 2nd and 3rd holes…) when we made the turn sunday. gotta reserve a time a week ahead…but if you can, DO IT. can’t recommend it more in it’s current shape.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:54 AM
veep is a great palate cleanser for GOT.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
It really is.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
John Matrix has no idea what you’re talking about.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
i didn’t care who was narrating it, i was busy watching wild dogs hunt in a co-ordinating pack, and seeing how the birds of paradise strut their stuff with John Leguizamo’s voice as their own.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
Deadwood was awesome.
Fuck you, HBO, for killing it.
/SWEDGIN!
May 29th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
I like when guys sit there and bust off 45 shots from a glock without reloading, while hitting their target 80% of the time from long distances and driving at high speeds.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
that show is getting better every week.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
THAT’S WHAT THE MONEY IS FOR!!!!
May 29th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
All of this. Bitching about the narration is complaining for the sake of complaining.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
to be fair, if anyone can hit 50% of their targets with a machine gun held with one hand, it’s john matrix.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:59 AM
THE MONEY IS FOR!!!!
yep.
May 29th, 2012 at 10:01 AM
Yeah, Planet Earth is up their on my list of all-time favorite TV shows. Great production value and for the most part they just let the action do the talking.
Have you guys seen Frozen Planet? I was a bit disappointed to be honest with you. The variety of animals just wasn’t there. Got a bit tiresome looking at polar bears, whales, penguins, and seals over and over again. Obviously you film what is there, but it felt like they stretched that series about 3 episodes more than they needed to.
May 29th, 2012 at 10:02 AM
Thanks for the update, I will have to check On Demand and see if PBS listed this show/episodes. Would love to see this.
May 29th, 2012 at 10:03 AM
Got a bit tiresome looking at polar bears, whales, penguins, and seals over and over again.
Needed more sasquatch.
May 29th, 2012 at 10:03 AM
i liked it, but i’m a sucker for super high quality HD nature shows.
if i had my say, i wouldn’t have had them break up the seasons the way they did. i wasn’t a fan of that, and it almost got confusing since it felt like they just talked about that in the previous episode
May 29th, 2012 at 10:05 AM
I caught a bit of the David Attenborough narration of Frozen Planet on one of the nature channels, really placed in stark contrast how wooden and bad Alec Baldwin was
May 29th, 2012 at 10:07 AM
National Geographic and Animal Planet are the two channels that I watch the most. I’m not an animal lover (never owned a pet and never will), but boy do I love a lioness taking on 10 hyenas by herself.
May 29th, 2012 at 10:08 AM
i feel like they should get more creative with narrators. sigorney weaver? alec baldwin?
can we get seinfeld to do one? “what’s the deal with diver scallops? how can they dive WHEN THEY’RE ALREADY UNDERWATER?”
May 29th, 2012 at 10:08 AM
Orcas pack-hunting seals is still the coolest thing I’ve seen this year
May 29th, 2012 at 10:09 AM
the only shows where i really notice and remember the narration are the shows about the universe and space travel. mostly because aside from watching, i have no idea what the theories are and need some explanation as to what they are talking about with their computer images.
nature, on the other hand, doesn’t matter who is narrating since watching a seal, exhausted from fending off a killer whale pod, gives up and lets itself be pulled underwater by the tail w/o a fight is haunting enough.
May 29th, 2012 at 10:11 AM
Anybody ever watch Frontline? I’m a current events guy and I’ve always heard those were well done.
/finally got around to watching “Too Big to Fail” the other night, enjoyed it thoroughly
May 29th, 2012 at 10:14 AM
veep is a great palate cleanser for GOT.
When Mike dropped the “It would be best for her legacy for her to be assassinated before she starts to show.” line I was in tears laughing. I don’t think any other show makes me laugh that hard right now.
May 29th, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Anybody ever watch Frontline?
Yep. Here is my favorite one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i9iTYe6tEk
May 29th, 2012 at 10:17 AM
mike is my favorite character…when selina ran out of the room in last week’s episode and mike was just still going on with proposals, i lost it. that and the devil’s advocate scene…awesome.
thought the most recent one was a little weaker tho compared to the earlier ones.
May 29th, 2012 at 10:18 AM
I’ve heard of it, but never watched it. Just did a quick google search, and wow, I’m really going to watch it from now. You can go to their website and watch previous shows, including a guy who spent 10 days with an Al-Qaeda cell. Damn work! I wish I was home right now.
May 29th, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Selina: I could move more air by farting.
Gary: I’m sure you could, ma’am.
May 29th, 2012 at 10:20 AM
I was considering shutting it off halfway through, not sure why I can’t get into the show but the awkwardness just doesn’t register as funny most of the time
Agreed that Mike is hilarious though
May 29th, 2012 at 10:20 AM
mike is my favorite character…when selina ran out of the room in last week’s episode and mike was just still going on with proposals, i lost it. that and the devil’s advocate scene…awesome.
thought the most recent one was a little weaker tho compared to the earlier ones.
Mike is awesome but I think Jonah is my favorite. His “I get 8s, consensually” line may have been the best of the season. But yea this weeks was kind of weak, only because they made Gary into a cartoon character this week. He was funnier when is idiocy was more believable.
May 29th, 2012 at 10:21 AM
that was a great line but my favorite was “ma’am, you need to kill that dog…not literally, but if it comes to that, then yeah…you gotta kill that dog.”
May 29th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
“a FUCKLOAD of bread”
May 29th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
From the US version:
“This is a tree. The tree is used to make Big Mac containers. This is a polar bear. The polar bear is like a white Grimace. You must never hug a white Grimace.”
May 29th, 2012 at 10:24 AM
“That’s like using a croissant, as a fucking dildo.”
May 29th, 2012 at 10:24 AM
Last week’s episode was fucking brilliant. The one from two days ago was good, but not nearly as good as the two episodes before it.
May 29th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
“That’s like two grain silos fucked!”
May 29th, 2012 at 10:26 AM
if anything for the simple fact they went to a show for a death metal band that didn’t have a name.
May 29th, 2012 at 10:27 AM
“a FUCKLOAD of bread”
“That’s like two grain silos fucked!”
Amazing scene. I will say the dude from Super Troopers/Beerfest making a cameo this week was great. He had some great lines too. The redeye line and the “if you want to torture me, don’t rip off my fingernails just feed me this crap.”
May 29th, 2012 at 10:28 AM
a high school friend’s son proposed to his girlfriend over the weekend by filming her at the family holiday cookout while she looked at his band’s advance copy of their new album (he fronts Miss May I) . he asked her in the cd’s liner notes and thank you section. i miss the olden days of hiring skywriters…
May 29th, 2012 at 10:33 AM
BBC version shown on BBC America = Standard def
Discovery = HD
Game, set, match, Discovery
May 29th, 2012 at 10:33 AM
honestly, was expecting a little more.
it’s all good tho…anytime i see farva without a mustache i think of this scene from beerfest.
May 29th, 2012 at 10:33 AM
STOP COMPLAINING FOR THE SAKE OF COMPLAINING
May 29th, 2012 at 10:38 AM
That proposal was fucking epic. Best one of those I’ve seen.
May 29th, 2012 at 10:38 AM
It was shot in HD. Irrelevant for retail purposes.
May 29th, 2012 at 10:41 AM
Discovery replayed the David Attenborough versions during a marathon leading up to the finale.