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Turn Off Your TV Week

April 23-29 is TV-Turnoff Week.

TV-Turnoff Network, formerly TV-Free America, is a nonprofit organization that encourages children and adults to watch much less television in order to promote healthier lives and communities. … TV-Turnoff Week is a grassroots project that works. More than 65 national organizations, including the American Medical Association, the National Education Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, support or endorse TV-Turnoff Week.[Source]

Uh. These people do know Lost is on tonight don’t they?!

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Stars Wars IV after seeing I, II and III

If you are a Star Wars fan then you might enjoy this writeup about the continuity of the story. When we watched the first Star Wars movie we made assumptions about what preceded the story. Eventually, George Lucas let us see the back story. Now, Keith Martin has laid out exactly what that back story means to the first, er fourth, movie and how things change in light of those revelations.

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Scrubs++

So last night on Scrubs, Zach Braff as Dr. John ‘J.D.’ Dorian is watching television and identifies The Janitor (Neil Flynn) as the transit cop in The Fugitive going on to analysis him as bitter over having to do janitorial work since acting hasn’t worked out. So, not being one to take things at face value, I look up Neil Flynn in the IMBD and sure enough, he was the transit cop that gets shot in The Fugitive! His credits are fairly lengthy including voiceovers in two Ratchet & Clanks (meaning we hear him everday and never knew it), the voice of XR in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, and most amusing to me, the janitor in It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie.

Kudos to Scrubs and Neil Flynn!