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The 50 Greatest Simpsons Movie References

The 50 Greatest Simpsons Movie References - there are quite a few that I didn't recognise.

Video: Weird Japanese Advert

Japan seems to be a place where you'd actually look forward to watching adverts.

Video: T-Mobile Trafalgar Square Karaoke Advert

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T-Mobile invited thousands of people to Trafalgar Square to record the follow up to the 'Liverpool Street Station' advert

T-Mobile provided the crowd with microphones and then got them to sing along to a number of tunes including Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby One More Time", The Foundations' "Build Me Up Buttercup" and "Hey Jude".

The event was hosted by Vernon Kay [video] and was attended by Pink [video].

The advert will be broadcast during Britain’s Got Talent on Saturday May 2 at 9pm on ITV1.

Related: Photos from the event on Flickr

Update: Extended full advert

Video: James Earl Jones Recites The Alphabet

A younger James Earl Jones recites the alphabet for Sesame Street. Until he got to 'Z' he was doing so well ;) [via]

Ned Flanders Quiz

How well do you know Ned Flanders? I only managed 5 out of 13. [via]

Video: New Simpsons Opening Sequence

What do you think of the new Simspsons opening sequence?

Sri Lankan Watches TV For 72 hours To Set World Record

Suresh Joachim, a Canadian Tamil, has watched TV for 72 hours to beat his previous record of 69 hours, 48 minutes, set in 2005.

"I feel fine, I drank between 25 and 30 cups of coffee," Joachim said Sunday.

Joachim, who also has 53 other records to his name, watched three seasons of 24 during the 72 hours. Link

Video: Cadburys Dairy Milk Advert - Moving Eyebrows

Tonight was the first time that I had seen the latest advert for Cadbury's Dairy Milk and it's as good as the others.

Porn Clip Interrupts Super Bowl Broadcast

Superbowl fans in Arizona got a surprise when their TV coverage of game was interrupted by a pornographic film.

Only fans of Tucson-based KVOA-TV saw the clip which parent company Comcast says was the result of an isolated malicious act.

TMZ has the (censored) footage.

Donald Duck's Family Tree

Donald Duck's rather large family tree. [via]

Superbowl XLIII Ads

A preview of some of this year's Superbowl ads. At around $3 million per 30-second slot, some of the ads running this year (e.g. Dreamwork's Monsters vs. Aliens) could cost around $9 million! [via]

Video: Mr T 'Gay' Snickers Advert

An advert for Snickers featuring Mr T that was taken off the air after receiving just 2 complaints.

The real reason that the advert was taken off the air was because a U.S.lobby group called the Human Rights Campaign the campaign even though it hadn't aired in the States.

The group criticised Mars – which makes Snickers – for condoning ‘the notion that the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community is a group of second class citizens and that violence against GLBT people is not only acceptable but humorous’.

This is despite the advert, as well as another featuring Mr T being received positively in the UK. [via]

'Pause' Advertisements

I'm glad we don't have anooying advertisements like this over here...yet! [via]

Video: Channel 4 Broadcasts Live Television Advert By Honda

Channel 4 have broadcast an ambitious advert by Honda which shows a group of 19 professional skydivers spelling out the company's name live from the skies above Spain. The team had just three minutes and 20 seconds to execute the advert and managed to do it without a hitch.

The advert itself is pretty uneventful but it was the first live television advert to be broadcast in Britain. I was unaware that it was going to be broadcast so was little confused when it appeared.

The Guardian has more about the advert and Idents.tv has the advert in a variety of formats.

Simpsons Continuity Errors

MovieMistakes.com has 143 Simpsons continuity errors and I don't think I've noticed a single one.

Video: Every Version of The Simpsons Couch Gag

(Almost) Every Simpsons couch gag. According to the guys that made this compilation there are 6 couch gags missing. If you want to watch the couch gags at regular speed, here's a 19 minute version. [via]

20 Ridiculous Real Weathermen Names

20 ridiculous real weathermen names featuring such names as Mike Wankum, Flip Spiceland, Dallas Raines and Storm Fields (above).

Related: 6 gorgeous women in weather (videos)

Simpsons Intro Panorama

Part of The Simpsons intro that goes too quick to see made into a panorama. [via]

Futurama Meets The Simpsons

Click for bigger. [via]

The Simpsons' Ralph Wiggum to Run for President

If I lived in America, or in The Simpsons, I'd vote for Ralph.

Game: Name That Theme Song

How well do you know your (US) TV theme songs? Not knowing many I had to play using a process of elimination. [via]

The New K.I.T.T. Car

Autoblog is reporting that the car in the upcoming Knight Rider TV series is going to be a Shelby GT500KR.

K.I.T.T.'s trademark running red light bar has been relocated up and into two nostrils that sit atop the GT500KR's hood. It's a natural fit, though we have to question the silver stripes that, while a trademark of the GT500KR, are totally harshing on K.I.T.T.'s blacked-out super stealth persona.

The 9 Most Racist Disney Characters

9 Disney characters who were unfairly characterized by their ethnic background.

Video: Wonderbra Cadbury's Gorilla Spoof

So much better than the original. [Thanks Russ]

Guess The Theme Tune

Any idea what TV show theme tune was inspired by this song? [via]

Interview With The Gorilla From The Dairy Milk Advert

The Sun has an interview with Garon Michael, a 'professional gorilla impersonator', who played the gorilla in the well-known Cadbury Dairy Milk advert.

Prison Break: Cherry Hill

Fox is developing a spin-off series of Prison Break, which would be set in a women's prison.

The Hollywood Reporter says that the series is tentatively titled 'Prison Break: Cherry Hill' and would focus on Molly, a character who will be introduced later in the new series of 'Prison Break'.

Molly is an upper-middle-class wife whose family is destroyed by The Company and who travels to the Panamanian prison where Michael (Wentworth Miller) and Lincoln (Dominic Purcell) are held in her quest for revenge.
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'Cherry Hill' would find Molly serving life in a women's prison for her acts of vengeance.

She has accepted her fate until she discovers that some of her family may be alive.

If the new series doesn't get the green light, Molly will continue as a regular character on 'Prison Break'.

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Video: Countdown Numbers Game

Whilst American game show contestant are making idiots of themselves on Wheel of Fortune, us Brits are solving difficult maths problems on Countdown.

[via]

Simpsons Scenes and their Reference Movies

66 stills from various episodes of The Simpsons, each one beside the still from the movie scene to which they refer. Very cool! Link

LocateTV

LocateTV is a new site that aims to help you search for your favourite TV shows and see when they are being broadcast. Rather than searching through a TV guide looking to see when your favourite shows may be on, you can use LocateTV to quickly view all channels that the programme is being broadcast on and information about each episode.

At present the site has TV listing for the UK (including regions), Ireland and the US (by ZIP code). It is currently in closed beta but they will be launching soon. If you would like to take a look at the site before it launches, let me know and I'll get an invite sent to you.

Video: Cadbury's 'Gorilla Drummer' Advert

How cool is this advert for Cadbury's Dairy Milk? I saw it for the first time tonight and had no idea what the advert was about and was trying to work out if the gorilla was real or fake.

The 90 second advert is part of £6.2m campaign for Dairy Milk and was launched last Friday during the Big Brother 8 final. It was written and directed by Sony Bravia 'balls' creative director Juan Cabral of Fallon London.

The Simpsons Star Wars

A cool Star Wars version of The Simpsons intro. [via]

Interactive Springfield Map

This map of Springfield has been around for years but this is the first time that I've seen an interactive version. [via]

Simpson Family Values

The August issue of Vanity Fair has a great article about the history of The Simpsons and what made them a pop phenomenon. [via]

Joox - Watch TV Online

joox has got a load of movies, cartoons, music videos and TV shows that you can watch online. [via]

Video: Weird Advert

Adverts were never this weird in the UK. If you are from Chicago can you remember it? [Thanks Dragun]

Video: Old McDonald's Commercial Featuring The Original Ronald McDonald

An old McDonald’s commercial featuring the original Ronald McDonald. I'm not sure when the advert aired but it if this history of the McDonald's logo is correct then it wouldn't have aired before 1968.

Family Guy Starts Web Only Episodes

Web only Family Guy episodes are to be released on MySpace. The first episode features Stewie and Brian as late-night talk show hosts. Future 10 minute episodes will be released periodically throughout the year as part of a viral marketing campaign. You can view the first episode here.

Heroes Character Map

Here's a link for Heroes fans (myself included). It's a map showing relationships between the different characters in the show (up until episode 17). [via]

Video: Russian Big Brother

Celebrity Big Brother would have been so much more interesting if they battled it out like they did on Russian Big Brother rather than just bickering. [via]

Battle For Craggy Island Title

Only Father Ted fans will find this article interesting. It's about two Irish islands that are feuding over the right to compare themselves to Craggy Island from the show Father Ted.

The largest of the two islands, Inis Mor is holding a "Friends of Ted" festival next month in a bid to help it win the title. Events will include a Father Jack Cocktail Evening, the Father Dougal Breakfast Movie Charades, the Lovely Girls Contest and Charity Auction and A Song for Europe.

Also featured on the bill are the Toilet Duck Comedy Awards, Crazy Golf, Hide A Nun and Seek, Ludo Aerobics, Buckeroo Speed Dating and a Ferrero Rocher Quiz Night.

Ad Free TV

I've already posted a link to Ad Free TV but it appears that the site has had a bit of an overhaul and now includes even more content.

Video: Disney, Silly Symphonies - The Skeleton Dance

A bizarre, yet entertaining 1929 cartoon from Walt Disney in which skeletons dance around and use each other as musical instruments. [via]

Video: CSI: Miami Oneliners

CSI: Miami fans will find this collection of Horatio Caine one-liners amusing. How do the writers manage to come up with so many cheesy lines? [via]

AdFreeTV

AdFreeTV has a ton of links to TV shows, documentaries and cartoons that you can watch for free. An interesting documentary that I watched last night was Supermarket Secrets which discusses how supermarkets have affected the food that we eat. [Thanks Michael]

Video: Family Guy - 40 Deleted Scenes From Season 4

40 deleted scenes from Family Guy Season 4. I can see why they decided to delete them. I@m a big fan of Family Guy but most of them weren't funny at all. [via]

Video: Burger King Snake Advert

This advert doesn't make me want to eat that burger. [via]

The Sexiest Newsreader In The World?

If you want to get more people watching the news you need to recruit someone like Mélissa Theuriau. [via]

Video: Black Adder II Full Episode

PistolWimp has posted a full episode of Black Adder II. If you want to see classic British comedy at its finest go here and watch.

Choose And Watch Sent Cease And Desist

Choose And Watch, one of the better TV sites, has been issued a warning from the MPAA asking them to close the site within 72 hours or face legal action. They have chosen not to close the site stating that they are linking to channels and not streaming them from our servers.

It makes sense but legally I'm not sure where they stand. They are not linking to illegal content although it may bethe sites providing the streaming content may not allow the content to be linked from an external site.