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Worldly Distractions: Community 4.13 - Advanced Introduction to Finality

EDIT: Since this episode aired, I have learned that the show has been renewed for Season 5. It just goes to show, never say never. Great success! What can you say about a beautiful series that died? That it loved genre subversion, pop culture parodies – and me? Yes, that is a facetious reference to 1970’s incredibly trite Love Story, but at its heart there is some truth. Community was a show that loved its fans. It didn’t condescend to them, it included them, and always offered p
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Worldly Distractions: Modern Family 4.22 - My Hero

Odd, that heroes have become such a theme in sitcoms of recent weeks. I’m sorry for the late Modern Family recap, but will try to have The Big Bang Theory and Community (ack, final episode) up by tomorrow. May also add a book review once the current TV Seasons have mostly finished (in other words, next week). I won’t say what, but will tell you to get your pirate gear and colanders ready. Back on topic, we are watching the second-last episode of Modern Family Season 4. Will Phil do something
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Worldly Distractions: How I Met Your Mother 8.23 - Something Old

As we approach the end of this season, we also get closer to The Wedding. Barney and Robin are finally tying the knot. With “Something Old†and “Something Newâ€, the final episodes of Season 8, we mirror Season 2’s “Something Borrowed†and “Something Blue†for Lily and Marshall – and get one step closer to Ted’s inevitable meeting with The Mother. We flash back to 1994, where Robin and her dad take a “father-son trip†to New York. Strolling through Central Park, sh
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Worldly Distractions: The Simpsons 24.19 - Whiskey Business

From the title, this sounds like yet another episode where Moe reinvents his business. I know it’s hard to come up with storylines after twenty-four years, but could we at least do plotlines that have only been explored like, once or twice instead of every couple of seasons? We’ve seen a gay bar, an English pub, a hipster bar, a family restaurant, Flaming Moe’s...wait, before I get into too heavy a rant I should probably actually watch the episode first. Let’s go.   Couch
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Worldly Distractions: Mad Men 6.6 - For Immediate Release

Many critics and viewers seem to agree that last week’s episode was a triumph, portraying the reaction surrounding Martin Luther King’s assassination in a manner both reminiscent of the show’s great early seasons and yet cultivating the new modern climate of 1968. This week’s title, “For Immediate Releaseâ€, suggests the potential for an episode just as eventful. Let’s see what goes on in the land of Draper. The preview certainly suggests a Joan-heavy episode – which can only be a
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Movie Review: The Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down

This lapsed Catholic turned Unitarian has a confession to make. I sometimes have very low standards when it comes to entertainment. Give me a cheesy, sleazy guilty pleasure movie, and I am as happy as Michelle Duggar with a positive pregnancy test. And if these movies are crass, low brow and do not elevate Biblical womanhood, all the better! Here is a movie review for a charming flick that is "Jingerite tested and fundie disapproved." Do you want to know why it’s better to snort coke off
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Worldly Distractions: The Big Bang Theory 6.22 - The Proton Resurgence

Thursday brings us The Big Bang Theory, with nerds and romance and some of the silliest jokes under the sun. Sheldon and friends have made us laugh for six years now – let’s see what they have to offer this week. At the Cooper-Hofstadter residence, Leonard teaches Penny how to point a nerf gun using only her computer. Within seconds, it is fired at an irate Sheldon. Despite this, he is not deterred from telling them who he just found online. After hinting that they’re lucky heâ€
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Worldly Distractions: Community 4.12 - Heroic Origins

Sorry for the late arrival of the Thursday recaps, guys. There are two reasons for this. One, ever since my triumphant return West we have been inundated by relatives bearing delicious seafood feasts, giving me little time to slip away and watch TV. Two, I am extremely reluctant to go through the end of Community. This is the second last episode ever, guys. It’s like losing 30 Rock all over again. No matter. Next week I will undoubtedly be a basket case, but by gum, the show must go on. Let’
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Worldly Distractions: Modern Family 4.21 - Career Day

Back on the West Coast and up for yet another insane recap. Let’s join the Pritchett clan and see what tomfoolery has transpired. We interrupt Cam and Mitchell in what appears to be the middle of an argument. Nope – turns out they’re just shushing each other so as not to wake Lily. She lost her first tooth, and they are thrilled to have the opportunity to play tooth – fairy? Wow, that’s awkward. In an interview sequence Cam recalls how he lost his first tooth. It involved a
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Worldly Distractions: How I Met Your Mother 8.22 - The Bro Mitzvah

Tomorrow I am leaving Toronto forever, and tonight we had the accompanying goodbye party. As a result, this review may be a little less than coherent. Bear with me, and we shall journey through together. As HIMYM ends its penultimate season, let us join Barney as he partakes in the holy sacrament of matrimony. Naturally, this will include the bachelor party to end all bachelor parties.   Bob Saget-Ted begins by telling his kids that this is the story of how Barney’s life comple
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Worldly Distractions: Mad Men 6.5 - The Flood

I don’t know why I keep posting Megan as the episode’s picture. Google Images, thou art a cruel mistress. Is it just me, or does this episode’s title bring to mind Season 3, Episode 5, “The Fog� Probably coincidence, but who knows, maybe they’ll throw us a few nice anesthetic hallucinations. Previously on reminds us: The encounter between SCDP and CGC (you know, one whole episode ago), Trudy giving Pete an epic smackdown (two episodes ago...our memories are not that short,
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Worldly Distractions: The Simpsons 24.18 - Pulpit Friction

Hey everyone, CFK’s unsuccessful date frees her up for another recap! Lucky you. Watch out for Edward Norton as a guest voice this week. Alley-oop. We skip over basically all the opening credits. Couch gag: everyone parachutes out of a plane, but Homer’s chute fails to open. He crashes onto the others’ parachutes and takes them down with him. They crash through the roof of their house, past Grampa taking a bath in the bathroom, and onto the couch. The springs on the couch pop up
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I Read It So You Don't Have To: The Flipside of Feminism-What Conservative Women Know and Men Won’t Say by Phyllis Schlafly and Suzanne Venker

Oh those irksome feminists with their abortion parties, man hating conventions and false accusations of rape. Feminists focus so much on frivolous things like equal pay for equal work, voting rights, domestic violence, and sexual harassment. Feminists, who are so hell-bent on power, they control the media, the workplace, families, government, education, Hollywood, sports, and religion. Feminists want to destroy! Destroy, I say! Well, I don’t think feminists want to destroy much of anythin
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Worldly Distractions: The Big Bang Theory 6.21 - The Closure Alternative

After a long hiatus, we are back with our favourite gang of nerds. Sorry for the delay (but in the meantime I finished undergrad – in your face, academia!), and I will keep on schedule as much as possible for the rest of the TV season. Let’s see what Sheldon and his friends have been up to since we saw them last. Thanks to a blip in scheduling, Sheldon thinks there’s something wrong with the DVR. First he accuses Penny of recording her (presumably terrible) television on the sly
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Worldly Distractions: Community 4.11 - Basic Human Anatomy

Heads up, everyone – it’s my last week of university, and I’m moving across the country to boot, so I’m overrun with exams and packing and goodbyes. As a result, some of my recaps next week might be a day or two late. This includes tonight’s Big Bang Theory, unfortunately. Sorry in advance. For now, let’s enjoy this week’s episode of Community, even as it slowly approaches its end. After a middling season, maybe they can pull off something great at the final hour.  
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Movie Review: Girls Rock

Music seems to be an important part of a fundie girl's proper matriculation. It's not rare to see photos of our fundie faves playing the piano, cello, harp or violin. But what about girls who desire to get behind a drum kit or play electric guitar? Fortunately, for these "miscreants" there are rock and roll camps that allow them to channel their inner rock star and learn other lessons not found at the SODRT. "Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up that's all." - Joan Jett At
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Worldly Distractions: Mad Men 6.4 - To Have and To Hold

I am burned out from a gruelling TESOL course this week (successfully completed, by the way), but have emerged from my semi-consciousness to bring you Mad Men’s latest. After last week’s bevy of shattering domestic moments, the “Next week on†sequence suggests that this will be an office-heavy episode, always a welcome look into the high-stakes world of advertising. And maybe we’ll even  get a real Joan story. Let’s do this. “Previously onâ€: Don tells Sylvia he wants to
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Worldly Distractions: Community 4.10 - Intro to Knots

Four months later, we finally get the annual Christmas episode. These are generally fun – with the highlight almost universally acknowledged to be last year’s incredible Glee parody – and have some unusual twist on a classic to brighten up our holiday season. This year, it comes just in time to brighten up – exam period? Post-Easter chocolate binge? Well, for the sake of continuity, let’s just assume it’s Christmas right now. Put on your ugly sweater, warm up some eggnog, and let’s
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Worldly Distractions: How I Met Your Mother 8.21 - Romeward Bound

-DARY! Phew, that was a long wait. After a lacklustre episode a few weeks ago, it was nice to get a break, but I’m glad to be back with Ted and the gang (well, the gang – who’s ever glad to be back with Ted?). Let’s see where the mind of Mosby will take us next. We begin with a quick recap of Lily and Marshall’s life. Lily is doing wonderfully as the Captain’s art consultant, Marshall is an awesome lawyer, and everyone’s happy – even baby Marvin. Leave it to Lily’s bo
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Worldly Distractions: Mad Men 6.3 - The Collaborators

Worldly Distractions: Mad Men 6.3 – The Collaborators After an intriguing if not terribly eventful premiere, we are back with Don and the gang in early 1968. The “previously on†reminds us to remember the following: Heinz beans, Joan being pimped out for Jaguar, Peggy getting a job with Ted Chaough, Pete being miserable in a cab after he and Don went to the whorehouse last season, Sylvia grabbing Don’s hand at the end of last week’s episode. Gotcha. After the beautiful opening cred
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Worldly Distractions: The Simpsons 24.17 - What Animated Women Want

What can I say about the longest-running primetime sitcom? Are there any of you out there who aren’t at least marginally familiar with our favourite family? Hell, this is the Internet – most of you can probably quote entire episodes. Current debate rages over whether The Simpsons should have ended twelve seasons ago or whether it should have ended ten seasons ago, but they’re still going and will probably outlive each and every reader of this blog. I say, a world with The Simpsons is bette
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Meet samurai_sarah

German-born, based in the UK. I accidentally migrated to the UK to attend university, and found the British Library. So, I decided to call it “home”, and stayed. Books are my catnip, especially when they deal with history, but I’ll read anything. Unlike Lori Alexander, I actually do love learning; and the implicit idea that knowledge might be dangerous, baffles me. I came to reading Christian fundamentalist blogs after stumbling across the word “quiverfull” in a newspape
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Worldly Distractions: Community 4.9 - Intro to Felt Surrogacy

How is it that we’re only four more episodes away from the end of Community, forever? Each time a new show airs, I’m happy to see another adventure with Jeff and the gang, but at the same time I mourn a little. The ratings alone make it highly unlikely that we’ll get a Season 5, even though it’s still technically “on the bubbleâ€, but the departure of several luminaries doesn’t help. Six seasons and a movie shall never come to pass, but we can stand together as honorary Greendale stu
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Worldly Distractions: Modern Family 4.20 - Flip Flop

Okay, I’m getting really bored with the “Claire and Cam Flip a House†storyline. There were some fun times playing the two of them against each other, and the appearance from Pam was gold, but it should have been finished an episode or two ago. There’s only so many times you can make Cam into a diva about interior decorating and send Claire into a “Mommy to the World†state of control-freakishness. Perhaps with this episode, the house-flipping will finally be at an end, and we can get
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Worldly Distractions: Mad Men 6.1/6.2 - The Doorway

After a long year of waiting, the King of Television has returned. With Season 6 on the horizon (likely the penultimate season), the show is still going strong. Even Mad Men – yes, even Mad Men – has been the recipient of “it’s been on too long now it sucks†whining. To which I say, shove it! Mad Men is king and I would love to be Jon Hamm’s queen. Ahem. Okay, guys, we're in for the long haul, but bear with me. I don’t expect anything particularly shocking from this episode. Us
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