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Monday, July 30, 2012
The Daily Show: Democalypse 2012 - Do We Look Stupid? Don't Answer That Edition
The opening segment from the Wednesday, July 25, 2012 episode of The Daily Show.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Before there was Hypnotoad, there was...
My Lovely Horse!
I've been rewatching Father Ted for what I think is the 3rd time, and it's been long enough that I've forgotten about a lot of things, including just how great the My Lovely Horse music video is from Ted and Dougal's shared dream.
Anyway.
I've been rewatching Father Ted for what I think is the 3rd time, and it's been long enough that I've forgotten about a lot of things, including just how great the My Lovely Horse music video is from Ted and Dougal's shared dream.
Anyway.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Not Quite Right
Note: I didn't come up with this idea, obviously. I only thought of these, as well as some other ones that I'm still working on, after seeing this:
The A.V. Club: How to offend geeks on so many levels
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
The Science Of TV Watching
Today in the New York Times there's a story about a study on how interruptions affect our enjoyment of TV shows:
Liked the Show? Maybe It Was the Commercials by Benedict Carey
The study's finding of increased enjoyment with a break makes a lot of sense for comedies. The interruption gives you a chance to catch your breath and reset your comedy threshold, and remember the best laughs in the previous segment.
But I would think the difference is either much smaller, or more likely the opposite, for drama shows, most notably LOST. Now that LOST is answering so many mysteries (or at least filling in information necessary to understand them) the commercials seem two or three times longer than they actually are. If they did a study using a first run new episode on 100 Lost fans I think they'd find the interruptions diminished enjoyment of the show. Or maybe not, and the breaks let the new information sink in, giving you a chance to think about the new information and try to piece things together.
One major thing not mentioned in the article is how if you skip the commercials you can watch an hour-long show in less than 45 minutes, which gives you 15 minutes to do something else that makes you happier than the happiness lost by not sitting through the commercial breaks.
Liked the Show? Maybe It Was the Commercials by Benedict Carey
The study's finding of increased enjoyment with a break makes a lot of sense for comedies. The interruption gives you a chance to catch your breath and reset your comedy threshold, and remember the best laughs in the previous segment.
But I would think the difference is either much smaller, or more likely the opposite, for drama shows, most notably LOST. Now that LOST is answering so many mysteries (or at least filling in information necessary to understand them) the commercials seem two or three times longer than they actually are. If they did a study using a first run new episode on 100 Lost fans I think they'd find the interruptions diminished enjoyment of the show. Or maybe not, and the breaks let the new information sink in, giving you a chance to think about the new information and try to piece things together.
One major thing not mentioned in the article is how if you skip the commercials you can watch an hour-long show in less than 45 minutes, which gives you 15 minutes to do something else that makes you happier than the happiness lost by not sitting through the commercial breaks.
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