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Back to Work: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Congress and How It Gets Things Done (and Often Doesn't) Season 1, Ep 5
When the Center for Disease Control has its funding temporarily cut, Luke attempts to reach a compromise to have the money reinstated, but Red's political machinations undermine him at every turn. [more inside]
BrainDead: Wake Up Grassroots: The Nine Virtues of Participatory Democracy, and... Season 1, Ep 4
Laurel and Rochelle try to persuade Laurel's friend Abby to get an MRI so they can uncover the real cause of the strange behavior taking over Washington, D.C. Also, Luke attempts to reopen the government through a secret deal with the Republicans.
BrainDead: Goring Oxes: How You Can Survive the War on Government Through Five Easy Season 1, Ep 3
Agent Onofrio's investigation of a deadly incident on live TV causes Laurel, Gustav and Rochelle to delve deeper into the bug mystery. Luke tries to hide his affair with Scarlett. [more inside]
Movie: Dick
The Internet Movie Database has the movie described as follows: "Story of two girls who wander away from a White House tour and meet President Nixon." Ah, but it's so much more. [more inside]
Movie: Young Frankenstein
An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that he is not as insane as people believe, travels to his family's home country and discovers the process that reanimates a dead body. [more inside]
Movie: The Cable Guy
A lonely and disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend. His target, rejects him, with bad consequences, but not before creepy karaoke, awkward family game nights, and other hijinks ensue. Relatively early appearances of Jack Black, Owen Wilson, and Bob Odenkirk, among others. [more inside]
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee: “The people we’re incoherently yelling about” Season 1, Ep 2
Samantha Bee travels to Jordan to speak to Syrian refugees and the State Department about the kind of vetting that refugees have to go through to enter the United States. [more inside]
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee: Premier Episode Season 1, Ep 1
Samantha Bee's "Full Frontal" almost late-night show (10:30pm) premiered on TBS and other Turner properties. Satiric targets included the press, the debates, “Elected Paperweight of the Month," and a filmed piece about the Jeb! campaign. [more inside]
Movie: Get Shorty
A mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job. [more inside]
Podcast: Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4: The News Quiz (23 Oct 2015)
A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp. Jeremy Hardy, Holly Walsh, Yasmine Akram and political sketch writer Michael Deacon are Miles' guests this week. [more inside]
BBC News Quiz?
Is anyone interested in trying a few News Quiz posts? [more inside]
South Park: Where My Country Gone? Season 19, Ep 2
Mr. Garrison, a straight-talking American who just wants to make his country great again, wants to build a wall. But damned if the Canadians don't build one first, designed to keep us out.
Movie: Death to Smoochy
When Sheldon Mopes, aka Smoochy the Rhino, is hired to replace kids show host Rainbow Randall, he doesn't realize that children's entertainment is anything but child's play. [more inside]
Movie: Wag the Dog
[From IMDB] Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal. [more inside]
Movie: The Host (aka Monster 괴물)
A monster emerges from Seoul's Han River and focuses its attention on attacking people. One victim's loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches. [more inside]
Movie: The World's End
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
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