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That list exists for the sole purpose of starting fights... WKRP at only #47?!? No Adventures of Pete & Pete? NO MY MOTHER THE CAR? (the theme song WAS the best thing about that show - come on, to include Small Wonder and not that?) And including previously-popular songs that got re-purposed as TV themes doesn't seem quite right (Frank Sinatra is still spinning in his grave over Married With Children). If the author ever gets around to doing a separate list of Top Lyric-less Theme Music, I don't think I'll want to know about it... unless Star Trek TNG, Get Smart and M*A*S*H are in the Top Five.
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For a moment, I wondered what the Neatorama bloggers would send in... but now I realize it would end up with half of congress wearing "Game of Thrones" and "Breaking Bad" t-shirts... not that there's anything wrong with that ;)
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I spent most of my adult life within a short jaunt of Trader Joe's locations around L.A. and am a big fan. It was THE place for good cheese that wasn't TOO expensive, had various frozen semi-ethnic goodies well before other places, the best prices for frozen shrimp (until recently), and some of my cheap-wine drinking friends swear by the "Two Buck Chuck". My one experience with Whole Foods was in the mid-90s when Kroger was combining chains in L.A. and left an empty Ralphs market in Pasadena that WF took over and that shopping trip was total sticker-shock. I also love TJ's advertising - the Fearless Flyer is my favorite junk mail, mixing pitches for seasonal products with self-effacing humor and very-old illustrations (a sample of which is on TJ's website: http://www.traderjoes.com/fearless-flyer/index.asp )

One other thing: way back in the 1970's when I was in College Radio and trying to break into Commercial Radio, their radio advertising was all "live copy" with wordy product descriptions, puns and tongue-twisters that half of L.A.'s radio people loved and the other half hated. I got copies of a few of the scripts and included one in every audition tape I made, just to show I could do it.
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It's worth noting to those not clicking through to the pictures that most of the better #davecalls show them holding something that is NOT a phone to their ears. Toothpaste tube, pizza, an (ouch) iron.

And everyone knows this is who Dog was actually talking to...
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I thought the issue of Roquefort vs. plain-old-Blue cheese was a long-settled deal and you couldn't call it Roquefort unless it came from that Roqueforty place...

As for some other name 'adjustments', you can change Muenster to Munster... even put Fred Gwynne's face on the package...
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Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists are too large to govern. And it's no coincidence that this plan will create 10 more Senate seats, at least 6 of which will go to the GOP. This is gerrymandering at its worst and as blatantly partisan as the initiatives promoted by Darrel Issa before he became California's most corrupt Congresscritter. I see a bright political future for Draper, long after this gets rejected by the people who vote.
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I was disappointed the site didn't auotplay the AC/DC song "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap", but then, they aren't cheap. Maybe Steely Dan's "Dirty Work" with some altered lyrics...

"You're a fool to do your own Dirty Work, oh no...
Let us do all of your Dirty Work, oh yeah..."

I do jingles for all kinds of semi-legal businesses...
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I'd say that Daft Punk, the Earons and every other pop/rock act that kept their faces hidden 'borrowed' the idea from The Residents whose most memorable 'helmets' were in the form of giant eyeballs. Everything after that was "yeah, big deal"...
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You and your artists have achieved an incredible catalog of every possible pop-culture mashup... I mean Joy Division and Pokemon? That's a Venn Digram with a teenytiny overlap. Also a little late for "Brianweenie" since MacFarlane and company already resurrected him (a great concept with a very short shelf life). But you can't cover the field like you do without a few things dropping off the ends of the earth... great stuff!
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I've been following this comic for a while and have become absolutely certain that the title "Statistic Fact" is intended VERY ironically. So feel free to make future attributions appropriately (via [supposedly] Statistical Fact).
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As a past owner of dogs who'd eat anything that doesn't move, I found it quite impressive, but quite believable. So PLEASE try to avoid Upworthy-style titles unless you're being very very very ironic about it. They are, if not a plague, a pox upon the internet and one that will leave significant scarring.
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For the record, I am old enough to have enjoyed the Original 1960's black-and-white Astroboy (considered the Granddad of All Anime and never remade nearly as well) and some of the other forgotten early imports to American TV, and reaching the age to turn rather "meh" for the Original Speed Racer. I mostly ignored Anime until Cartoon Network's Adult Swim started showcasing it, found Cowboy Bebop to be surprisingly not-totally-Japanese (but still not quite riveting) but was gobsmacked by FLCL, the 6-half-hour miniseries with aliens, spies, baseball, guitars, scooters, underage unrequited lust, robots growing out of lumps on the protagonist's head and a secret factory shaped like an iron (for ultimately obvious reasons). A beautifully animated headtrip executed with a totally straight face. Then, with my appreciation for the intentionally ridiculous, I gravitated toward things like Tokyo Pig, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Samurai Pizza Cats (the antidote to too much Ninja Turtles) and the intentionally-parodying-everything Excel Saga (and more recently the very-dirty-but-not-hentai Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt). I'm also looking forward to next year's Space Dandy in which the creator of Cowboy Bebop is apparently getting silly. Anyway, I suspect I should add Girls und Panzer to my list (although I wonder if the objections to the serious movie The Wind Rises for being tone-deaf to World War II may apply even more here).
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