Blog O’ Obscurity

And while we’re on the topic of online quizzes. Here is the best online quiz absolutely ever.

Troy McClure Film or Actual Terrible Movie

“You may remember him from such hits as Christmas Ape and Christmas Ape Goes to Summer Camp, but how well do you remember Troy McClure’s other projects? Can you tell which of the following titles come from the filmography of Springfield’s favorite screen icon and which are the real-life dregs of IMDb?”

And no fair checking IMDb or any other database for the answers.

My personal score first time through the quiz was 11 of 15.

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And not just your general cartoon knowledge full of Spongebob and Pixar, but your true cartoon IQ, your 80’s cartoon IQ.

An 80’s Cartoons Quiz poses 15 questions from many of the most popular and awesome cartoons of all time. The Voltron question was pretty easy, and I’m a little embarrassed about being familiar enough with Care Bears and Rainbow Brite to make a good guess. (I had two sisters, okay!)

My score: 13 of 15. Beat that Sucka’s.

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The Muppets have always held a dear, dear place in my heart. Right next to, in fact, my Star Wars heart place. Once again the two have been joined for an amusing music video featuring Vader repeatedly singing, “MANAMANA.” It’s funnier than it sounds, and definitely better the second time watching it. Not as good the fourth time, but much funnier the fifth.

And yes, that was Spock. And yes, Artoo and Threepio do a great job as Statler and Waldorf. And no, I’m not ‘losing it’. And yes, the 14 second mark is the funniest thing ever.

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I didn’t come into watching FX networks ‘The Shield’ until about the fourth season, but once I started watching, I was hooked. It’s a unique cop-drama with deeply flawed and unstable characters. This final season has finally seen the sins of the past catching up to Vic and his cop cronies. Each week I sit riveted and wondering how things will finally play out.

My personal guess is the “Hamlet” ending. Everyone dies.

With about three more episodes to go, we’ll all soon find out the final fate of the Strike Team.

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It’s fall again (though still over 100 degrees in the desert) and yet again Showtime is thrilling us with the addictive and twisted show Dexter.

Dexter Morgan is a forensic scientist that also searches out those criminals in society that have slipped through the cracks unpunished and slice them up into little pieces.

The new season features some new characters, new actors (Jimmy Smits), and even a big new twist in the first episode.

So far this is my favorite commercial-free cable TV program. That may change if HBO releases “A Game of Thrones” (hint, hint). I look forward to the rest of season 3.

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Before you continue reading, you better have a seat.

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You all know that I’ve been praising the awesomeness of George R. R. Martin’s epic ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ series. Earlier this month Martin posted on his website that HBO has just exercised their option and purchasd the television rights to the series. This means that shortly we could see the first book in the series, “A Game of Thrones,” as the first season of the series in just a couple of short years!

This isn’t a done deal yet, and it’s still not definite. But, this is the next step in the process to bring the series to the small screen. Earlier HBO had purchased the option. Now they’ve exercised the option and have purchased the rights. Looks like they may film it in Spain or the Czech Republic.

A short note to HBO. Please make this series. I just have basic cable right now but will become a subscriber to the Home Box Office when they bring this series to their network. Heck, I’ll forever remain a subscriber if this comes to the screen.

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Now that everyone has an iPod and some sort of digital camera built into their cell phone, it’s about time that we as consumers revisited the camcorder market. There are definitely two ways to go with modern camcorders. Get one that’s really tiny. Or get one that’s fully HD.

Either way that you go, you can just about guarantee that you’ll get the best deal online. They don’t have any store employees to pay. So when you go and buy that camcorder, look for the one that fits your needs best. Make sure you have an HD TV before you go out and get an HD camcorder.

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Wow! Now that’s a nice TV stand.

That was my first reaction after going to this site featuring high-end tv furniture. There are many different types of cabinets and other furniture to hold your brand new big screen flat panel television. Even more impressive is the set of TV lifts for the foot of your bed. These elegant pieces of furniture hide away your television and then let it rise when it’s time to watch the tube.

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So I’m not quite finished with the first season of Prison Break yet, but I have like what I’ve seen so far.

I do like how long-running TV shows can extend the plot to cover much more than you could in the average feature film. However, there are times when it feels like the writer’s are trying to pad things out to make through a full season without totally blowing all of their story ideas. Plus it is only a TV show with a limited budget, and it is cheaper to film people talking than to film things blowing up.

The characters have yet to actually break out of prison yet, but you can tell that they’re getting close. Great concept and so far pretty good delivery of the concept. Even my wife is hooked.

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Now that I’ve moved to a region that has the G4 network on basic cable, I can’t get enough of Ninja Warrior, a Japanese game show where contestants move through an extremely difficult obstacle course. Over the past ten years, there have been 20 competitions of Ninja Warrior. Each competition features 100 athletes. That makes an even 2000 competitors. Now here’s the thing. Only two people have ever completed the obstacle course.

It changes every year and usually becomes more difficult. The insanity of many of the obstacles is just incredible. That’s one difference between cultures. This show would never have started in America. We have to have a winner at the end of the competition. It wouldn’t be good enough to have everybody lose. The popularity of the show is growing dramatically in this country, so maybe we will have an American version of this show soon. That would be really cool.

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