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Bluth's Original Frozen Banana Stand in Culver City Today Free Frozen Bananas

If you've been eagerly awaiting the new season of Arrested Development, no doubt you've already made plans today to go to downtown Culver City sometime between noon and 7 p.m. today to check out the frozen banana stand. For the uninitiated, that would be Bluth's Original Frozen Banana Stand, or on ... More >>

An Arrested Development Variety Show

See also: *5 Awesome Album Covers Inspired By Arrested Development *5 Best Arrested Development Artworks at Gallery 1988 *Why Emily Maya Mills Could Be the Next Carol Burnett On Saturday, Silver Lake's Lyric Hyperion Theater staged an Arrested Development-inspired variety hour called Bluth Fest for ... More >>

Cosby's Sweaters Website Changes Name After Bill Cosby Objects

Updated at the bottom with comments from the site's co-founder, who tells us he'd sell the domain to Cosby for $10 million. First posted at 4:01 p.m. Remember in high school when there were the geeks? And then there were the jocks? But never the twain shall meet, unless one was getting his ass kick ... More >>

Best of the Boob Tube

Ryan Quincy Talks About Transforming From Reluctant Voiceover Actor to Creator of the New IFC Show Out There

Emmy-winning animator Ryan Quincy has always dreamed of having his own show. During the decade and a half he spent working his way up to animation director for South Park, he spent his hiatuses creating a world entirely his own, inhabited by hairy but harmless creatures just trying to sort out the d ... More >>

In Defense of New Girl (Hear Us Out...)

Warm-Up Comics Have the Toughest Job in Comedy

Getting sitcom audiences laughing -- by hook or by crook

Garlin and Silverman: America's New Sweethearts?

Equestria L.A.: Southern California Gets Its Own Brony Convention, for My Little Pony Fans

See also: *Top 5 Lessons for Adults From Friendship Is Magic *My Little Pony Project at Toy Art Gallery *Lauren Faust: Profile From Our People Issue *Lauren Faust on Childhood Toys and Pitching Animated Shows My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is the animation phenomenon of this decade. A childre ... More >>

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Our Bluth Period

How to Stage Classic Sitcoms...With Sock Puppets

The dozen or so people gathered at Atwater Crossing on this Wednesday night are watching the first episode of Friends. You remember how it goes: After ditching her fiance, runaway bride Rachel starts a new life in Manhattan with the help of her friends -- uptight Monica, ditzy Phoebe, smarmy Chan ... More >>

5 Best Arrested Development Artworks at Gallery 1988

What's nice about the Arrested Development-themed art exhibit at Gallery 1988 Melrose is that you only need to have watched the first two episodes of the series to get the exhibit's title, "There's Always Money In The Banana Stand." The highly acclaimed but short-lived sitcom about the dysfunctiona ... More >>

Lauren Faust: Let's Hear It for the Girls

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. "I've always looked at my work feeling like I was trying to make stuff for girls," says animator Lauren Faust, "and then accidentally getting guys interested as well." Faust, ... More >>

TV's Greatest [Bong] Hits

The Daily Show on the Park Slope Food Co-op Monday Night's Vote: The Hummus Shall Remain

It is classic Daily Show. An intrepid Christiane Amanpour type diving into a roiling human rights stew. A few foils setting themselves up for easy ridicule with every utterance. A righteous skewering of extremely small-scale activism-gone-absurd in the land of $1,000 strollers. Samantha Bee brin ... More >>

Seth & Ed's Puppet Show

Two and a Half Men vs. Mad Men at PaleyFest: Is it Better to Have Ratings or Emmys?

Sometimes on the red carpet, you overhear things. Such was the case on Monday night during the arrivals for PaleyFest's Two and Half Men event, for which the show's stars (sans the glaringly absent Ashton Kutcher, who participated only in the panel) along with its creators walked the red carpet, pra ... More >>

The Nerdist Writers Panel

Stephen Merchant

Top 10 Simpsons Food Episodes: Tomacco Ribwich with a Side of Guatemalan Insanity Peppers Skittlebrau

​Food writers have been stoked this week about the The Simpsons' upcoming episode on gastro culture. Our own Margy Rochlin interviewed Simpsons Executive Producer Matt Selman, who admits he's a big fan of Jonathan Gold. "We kind of make fun of foodies," he says, "but in real life we actually l ... More >>

An Evening with The League

Jane Espenson's Web Series Husbands at Meltdown's Nerdist Panel: Taking the Gay Sitcom to Another Universe

A. D'AlessandroThe cast of Husbands from left to right: Cheeks, Sean Hemeon and Alessandra Torresani​ "We're here for Jane!" beamed one young couple at Sunday's Nerdist Writers Panel, and by Jane they were referring to Jane Espenson, a female David Milch and goddess among fanboys, revered for ... More >>

An Evening with Happy Endings

Beavis and Butt-Head Returns to MTV October 27: Here's Our Top Ten Music Video Moments From the Old Show

Get More: Beavis and Butt-Head, MTV Shows It's official: The Beavis and Butt-Head re-boot now has a premiere date on MTV: Thursday, October 27th at 10PM. Exciting for fans, but will it be as edgy as it once was? When it debuted in 1993 Beavis and Butt-Head displayed a pathological lack of compass ... More >>

Emmy Nominations Day: 10 Standard Types of Reactions From Award Show Nominees

Tina Fey got nominated this year! (Or at least we assume -- we haven't checked yet)​ Guess what? HBO dominated the Emmys again. Another way the Emmys are predictable: the nominees' reactions. Or at least how they convey their reactions. We don't really know people's real reactions -- we know ... More >>

How Crazy is This?

Community Gathering: Interview With Show's Creator Dan Harmon

Gillian Jacobs and Joel McHale in Community​ Do you watch Community? You should, if you like funny, ensemble-based shows like 30 Rock and Parks & Recreation. Or even if you enjoy Two and a Half Men. Community creator Dan Harmon and the Nerdist folks invite fans and would-be fans to Meltdown C ... More >>

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Will You Watch 'Conan' At 11 Tonight, Or Stick With Jon Stewart?

Pulse2Back up off my slot, Stewart​All the bleeding gingerhearts on Team Coco finally lay down their arms tonight. After 10 months following "The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour," Conan O'Brien fans will gather J.Bieb-style outside the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, w ... More >>

LOVERS AND OTHER DAILY SHOW CORRESPONDENTS

Catch a Risen Star

Flight of the Conchords Robot Cosplayer is Ready for His "Binary Solo"

Check out Siran Babayan's review of Flight of the Conchords live and Timothy Norris' corresponding slideshow. Timothy Norris​ This Flight of the Conchords fan was the star of the audience at the comedy-folk duo's Sunday night performance at the Hollywood Bowl. I saw him a few times over the c ... More >>

Top 10 Fictional T.V. Food and Drink

Previously, we gave you our Top 10 Fictional Movie Food and Drink list. Now we're taking on the T.V. version. Not surprisingly, there were a lot of options to choose from and some of you, we're sure, will feel that a few of your favorites are missing (feel free to let us know). So with apologies in ... More >>

YOU & YOUR FUCKED-UP FAMILY

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LUCKY STRIKE

61st Emmys: Deja Vu All Over Again

Winner-watching with cynicism and subversion

IRONY CAN MAKE FOR A FULFILLING CAREER

Who's Tig? And Who Are Her Friends?

Good Friday? Try GREAT Friday!

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The way we watched

NBC's Kath & Kim: Glamour Girls Gone Kitsch

The other O.C.

Garrett Morris

Mr. Saturday Night

The Karlin Report

Battle of the Network Stars

It’s East Coast 30 Rock against the West Coast heavyweights of Studio 60

Shrugging in Hollywood

Testosterone-challenged Laura Kightlinger’s Minor Accomplishments

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