Television

Arrested Development Birthday Bash!

By now you’ve realized that we love to celebrate birthdays at UnderScoopFire. Perhaps it’s the cake and ice cream, or maybe it’s just another reason to drink alone! Either way, today we toast not one but TWO alum of the greatest show in television history – Arrested Development! For the 3 years AD was in […]

Here’s Why You Should Celebrate MacGyver Not Only Today, but Everyday

by Joe Zicari @SharePointJoe

Today we celebrate never using a gun. Today we celebrate the mullet. Today we celebrate my love for hockey. Today we celebrate our love of the 80s. We celebrate Richard Dean Anderson’s birthday. That’s right. Everyone’s loveable hero MacGyver is 62 years young today. Some fancy doctor at some fancy University has deemed January […]

How Betty White became America’s Sweetheart

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

Picture it. Rochester, New York. 1988. I was 12 years old and The Golden Girls were smack in the middle of their successful 7 year network TV run. Most of the humor and storylines in The Golden Girls were a bit above my pay grade at age 12, but I got just enough enjoyment out […]

Where Are They Now? Winnie Cooper

by Corey Chapman @chapmanrunner

If you are a red blooded male who grew up in the 80s, you compared every possible girlfriend to Gwendolyn “Winnie” Cooper, Kevin Arnold’s love interest on the hit ABC series “The Wonder Years.” She was sweet, smart and loyal, and if you dont agree, you may not have a pulse. The character was created […]

The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret

by Philip Chiappini

How many times have you watched Arrested Development? Actually, a better question might be: How many times have you become fed up with what passes for comedy on TV lately and then decided to re-watch Arrested Development? I was getting geared up to restart Arrested for the umpteenth time when Todd Margaret waltzed into my […]

UnderScoopFIRE Podcast #17 – American Horror Story

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

Questions and answers need each other. Like Peter Parker and Norman Osborn, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow, one is simply not as compelling without the other. We all want that payoff. Were all of your American Horror Story questions answered? In this episode: we discuss the first season of FX’s American Horror Story. Was it […]

Where Are They Now? Craig Kilborn

by Corey Chapman @chapmanrunner

Right now, Craig Kilborn should be backstage at the Ed Sullivan Theatre, waiting for long time host of Late Night, Mr. David Letterman, to introduce him as his next guest. They should banter back and forth, discussing topics they covered in a pre-interview, from the economy to Occupy Wall Street to the NBA Lockout. At […]

Texas Forever (Friday Night Lights video)

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

Somehow I hadn’t seen this clip until today. This is the Friday Night Lights Emmy Awards Trailer. If you were a fan of the show, you might not get past the 4 minute mark of this video without a tear coming to your eye. The Riggins/Street history and everything to do with Saracen and his father […]

When Coach Taylor Spoke, We Listened

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

Friday Night Lights has a way of captivating me like only a few shows ever have. Mid-way through season 5, the East Dillon Lions earned a hard-fought victory over a dirty rival squad, the South Kingdom Rangers. Maybe it was the build-up of the long bus trip to the game, or perhaps it was the […]

@BluthQuotes Interview: “What a Fun, Sexy Time for You”

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

The quote in the title of this article is one of the countless brilliant iterations that emerged from the greatest television show of all time, Arrested Development. For a quick summary of my true feelings, go here. Arrested Development is one of the most quotable shows ever, as its recognizable one-liners are easily spotted by dedicated fans. Last […]

I’m ‘LOST’, why no spinoff?

by Philip Chiappini

It has been more than a year since the story of Oceanic Flight 815′s survivors came to an end, and I still find myself afloat in the vast sea of mediocre network television; lost and searching programing worth some kind of emotional attachment. I have lived through some very iconic series finales: Seinfeld, Cheers, Quantum […]

How the Enron scandal was responsible for the best TV show of all time (My love letter to Arrested Development)

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

Summer 2002- Ron Howard (actor, director, producer extraordinaire) had an idea for an original scripted comedy that felt somewhat like a reality show but followed an intricate comical script. He got together with a handful of television executives and vice president types, and together they met with a few writers. He proposed a story about […]

Arrested Development Movie Plot Rumor

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

Thanks to the fine folks at Screen Rant, we have some fresh Arrested Development news to chew on for the day. Supposedly the plot has leaked for the upcoming Arrested Development movie. Here is the quote from Screen Rant: “Ron Howard is making a movie about the Bluths using an A-List cast. But Dr. Tobias […]

Arrested Development Paper Dolls

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

These are awesome. Thanks to long-time friend and talented author Ford Collins for sending them my way. Head on over to BuzzFeed to check out the complete collection. Make sure to use their inventive ranking system that places their posts into categories based on reader votes. Personally, I voted ‘LOL’ and ‘Win’ for these Arrested […]

Five Good Reasons to Start Watching Mad Men (now streaming on Netflix)

by Corey Chapman @chapmanrunner

Yesterday Netflix, the American provider of on-demand internet streaming video in the US and Canada started streaming all four seasons of the AMC hit series Mad Men. Now, you have absolutely no excuses. The show is available to watch on AMC On Demand, DVD and Blu Ray, and now Netflix. For those of you who haven’t been able to find this gem […]

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