Television

Time to Play DVR Bouncer: What Late Night Talk Show Guests are You Letting into Your Exclusive Club?

This is the list of invitees that your own private DVR bouncer has attached to a clipboard, flipping through the pages with his thumbs that are wider than my biceps, checking for names.

This is the “short list” of celebrities who we are letting into the ultra-exclusive DVR Club.

10 Reasons MTV’s Teen Wolf is Surprisingly Not Awful

26 years and two widely-panned cult classics later, MTV has reincarnated the Teen Wolf franchise as a television series that is surprisingly not completely wretched. Hooray!

6 Movies and TV Shows that Make Even Non-Smokers Want to Fire One Up

by Jason Gross @SockofFleagulls

Smoking on camera has decreased over time, but that doesn’t mean I still notice when characters still light up. Here’s my list of movies and TV shows over the years that make me want to fire up a cigarette.

Memorygasm – The Haunted Toys R Us on That’s Incredible!

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

In 1980 Time Magazine named That’s Incredible “The Most Sadistic” show on television, perhaps due to stories like the one below.

Arrested Development Season 4 – Five Questions Left Unanswered

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

Arrested Development rewards the patient fan- not that we have a choice. We’ll all have to be patient as we wait to see when or if we’ll ever get answers to these open-ended season 4 plot points.

“Super Breaking Bad” art brilliantly collects 98 pixelated Breaking Bad characters

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

Can you find and identify all 98 characters from the hit AMC show?

[PRIZES] Play the Netflix Arrested Development Prediction Game and Win!

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

We’re not here to talk nonsense to Bob Loblaw. We’re here to introduce the “Predict the First Occurrence of the Recurring Jokes” Game!

G2 Force – “Golden Girls Action Figures” Commercial

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

If you’ve spent any time on this website you know I love the Golden Girls and action figures as much as trolls love Ritz Bitz and hate speech. Put those two things together and you’ve got my attention, which is how I stumbled upon the YouTube video below. Check it out, and join me in […]

First image of ABC’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” + sneak preview this Sunday

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

Deadline is reporting the official news – ABC has picked up “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” and will air a sneak peak this Sunday during the season finale of Once Upon a Time. Checkout the first official cast image here: The official description of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”: Clark Gregg reprises his role of Agent […]

Where Everybody Knows Your Name: 15 of the Most Memorable Sitcom Sets and Props

by Joe Zicari @SharePointJoe

You know how much we love lists here at UnderScoopFire. So I brainstormed and tried to find a list no one has covered. I scoured the interwebs and came up with nothing. Seriously, take my word for it. The internet is barren. You won’t find anything. Moving on… This particular list has to do with […]

Netflix reveals winning fan-written tagline for official Arrested Development poster

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

Netflix and Arrested Development ran a contest recently, having fans submit potential taglines for the poster seen below. There were some great entries (that can be seen on their Facebook page), but none so perfectly captured the feel of the almost-moment combined with an in-joke quite like this one: Some honorable mentions include: “The Mother(boy) […]

‘Breaking Bad’ & ‘The Walking Dead’ Intro Themes – 90s Style!

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

A few clicks from the brilliant “Breaking Bad as a LEGO video game” link took me to these gems- a couple of our favorite AMC shows’ opening themes reimagined as 90s era tv themes. No detail was spared in the making of these parody videos, down to the “VCR playback” effect. See below for the […]

The 10 Greatest Sitcom Character Nicknames

by Howie Decker @HowardTheDeck

It’s May 1st, otherwise known as “May Day”. Work with me here. There’s three things every child of the 80s remembers about Cheers‘ Sam Malone: He was a world class womanizer He was a former Boston Red Sox pitcher His nickname was “Mayday” In honor of Sam “Mayday” Malone, we celebrate May Day with 10 […]

Irrefutable Proof that Television Lied to You: TV Weddings

by Kevin Hellions @TeamHellions

There are many great things about being young and single: drinking, being hung over, pissing through money to name a few. Possibly the greatest of them all: complete enjoyment of television shows without any debate. Back then I could hold anything I saw on TV as the gospel truth. Problems were solved in half an […]

The 20 Most Memorable “Marijuana Episodes” in TV History

by Count Marzo

We’ve mentioned them before– the classic TV tropes that we’ve all come to know and love. Nestled among the “visit from the in-laws”, “loss of a job” and “keep the bad grades a secret” episodes of 70s, 80s and 90s television was the marijuana episode. How each show tackled the subject varied greatly- mainly based […]

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