The 2.0somethings crew is gorging on football and food today. While we are gone, check out the best scene of the best Thanksgiving episode of any show ever.
Happy Thanksgiving!! I am personally thankful for everyone who reads and supports this blog (though I think I have thanked all of your personally at this point).
It is a Father’s Day week in review! We came back from a too-long vacation and roared into the beginning of the week, but then we slacked off and really failed to close. That, my friends, is what she said.
We got a new generation of the iphone. Can world peace be far behind?
We leveled with you, TV this summer is going to be brutal.
There is a new Sigur Ros album! I don’t like them as much as Jeff does but I thought it was funny he referenced the shorts from Monday.
Going into tonight’s game it looks like the Celtics have things pretty well wrapped up. I am a complete bandwagoneer, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t appreciated some great basketball.
Don’t forget to call you Dad and Granddad and have a great rest of your weekend.
A few weeks back Comedy Central put every episode of “South Park” online. You can now see the modern day classics (“An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig,”) in their entirety and without breaking any of those pesky copyright laws. This got me thinking, what other shows have put every single episode online? I am not counting the fact that you can get any show that has ever existed anywhere via bit torrent (Helllloo “Land of the Lost”). Hulu has an impressive-looking catalog, but some of the shows they list don’t even have complete episodes. Going through Hulu and a few other sources I manages to pull together a loose list of TV shows that you can watch from pilot to often-too-soon finale online:
Seems that the majority are shows online are either shows that were canceled without enough episodes to make a decent DVD box set or shows that wouldn’t do that well on DVD. There are, of course, exceptions to that rule. “South Park,” “Arrested Development,” and “Firefly” are all shows that do pretty well on DVD. I guess they assume that those shows have fans who are rabid enough to watch them online and buy the DVDs.
I am sure I missed some shows, and I didn’t look in all that many sources. Anyone is free to add to this list in the comments.
Though Jeff does the TV work around here, I had to chime in with a recommendation for what to watch tonight. At 8:00 pm EST, BBC America will have its American debut of the new season of Top Gear. It is my understanding that I am bit late to the internet nerd party in being obsessed with this show, but I caught a few episodes last week (BBC America repeats things a lot), and it is absolutely amazing. Apparently the show has been around since 1977, but for most of its run was a traditional car magazine show (sort of like anything you would find on the Speed Network). In 2002 it relaunched with a sense of humor about itself. I don’t know when they started, but the current hosts are Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May.
The show has the feel of a cable access show run by a group of friends that somehow managed to hit it big. The show is more than just “look at how awesome this [insert Italian motorcar] is.” During each episode, the hosts undertake special projects designed to test the limits of what cars can do. For example: converting a car into a reusable space shuttle. In May 2007, two of the presenters even became the first men to reach the magnetic north pole in a car. Throughout the entire process, they mock each other mercilessly.
Bottom line: watch this show if you like cars, gadgets or all things British.
The show has 8 millions viewers in Britain and an estimated 350 million viewers worldwide. It is one of the most pirated television shows in the world. That made it really easy to find clips to embed. Check out what sold me on the show after the jump.
