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April 15, 2007

Flipit Talks to Bill O'Reilly Via Satellite!

billoreillysbrokenheart.gifBill O'Reilly won't return my calls. I was the best intern I could be, but he has officially dropped me like a hot potato. Being the tricky dick that I am, I got in touch with my good friend Mike Wallace over at 60 Minutes and snagged one final interview.

If finding out Bill's one nasty SOB is gonna hurt your delicate sensibilities, this exchange might not be in your best interest. Otherwise, feel my pain after the jump!

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January 1, 2007

MTV's New Year's F***ing Eve

So what were they serving at MTV's New Year's Eve bash? You'd figure with all that experience on TRL, Times Square champagne sponge Vanessa Minnillo would know to hold back the f-bomb on live TV-- no matter how much bubbly she was guzzling with her cohost boyfriend.

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December 8, 2006

Worst Christmas specials and TV movies ever?

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It's that time of year. It seems like a month since ABC ran A Charlie Brown Christmas and tonight we'll be around the Tabloid Baby flatscreen watching Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, but not everything can be as timeless and high quality as those two, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and A Very Brady ChristmasWhile many of our TV columnist buddies are already gearing up their 10 Best and 10 Worst of 2006 lists, our good pal Dave Larsen at the Dayton Daily News in Ohio has stepped forward with his list of The worst Christmas specials and TV movies ever. Ever!

Here's the list. See if you agree with our man in Middle America. Or if you have anything to add-- more of the worst-- or the best:

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November 29, 2006

Behind the True Story Biography of a Log

If you grew up within viewing distance of New York City television, you know The Yule Log. For forty years (except for a small 11-year gap from 1990 to 2000), WPIX-TV has run a three-hour loop showing a burning fireplace. While soothing holiday music tinkled, the fire crackled on. It's a hypnotic, mesmerizing show that gets even more hypnotic if you happen to be college-age and have something burning on your side of the screen, as well. Watch the log burn. Try to figure why it doesn't burn out. Look for the tape edit...

The Yule Log always wins its time slot. And now, like the true star it is, it's getting the Biography-Behind The Music-True Hollywood Story treatment.

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November 23, 2006

Match Game special fills in the blanks

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We've been hearing so many good things about a documentary special that's airing Sunday night, that we can't wait to sit in front of the television and ____. The Real Match Game Story: Behind The Blank goes behind the scenes of the wild Seventies TV game show that played out more like a drunken swingers cocktail party and, as it turns out-- was!

In other hands, the Game Show Network's hour could be a Confessions of A Dangerous Mind or at least a Behind The Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Three's Company-- the material's that good. The Match Game was a run-of-the mill 1960s afternoon game show with host Gene Rayburn having civilians and celebrities match fill-in-the-blank questions. After the show was resurrected in 1973-- with the same host and same bland material-- it faced cancellation by CBS, until the writers began adding risqué humour to the questions (and the writers included Dick DeBartolo and other jokers from Mad magazine).

"Every morning, John puts ____ on his cereal" became "Every morning, John puts butter on his ____." The outrageous suggestiveness paid off and the show became the highest-rating afternoon show in history.

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April 15, 2007:Flipit Talks to Bill O'Reilly Via Satellite!
January 1, 2007:MTV's New Year's F***ing Eve
December 8, 2006:Worst Christmas specials and TV movies ever?
November 29, 2006:Behind the True Story Biography of a Log
November 23, 2006:Match Game special fills in the blanks