Marc Maron’s sitcom about his life has gotten picked up by IFC, and has sent me into a masturbatory meta hole. A sitcom about a guy who does a podcast…starring the guy whose its based on…who does a podcast…what if there’s a podcast about the sitcom about the podcast…

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Us 21st Century Star-Children-Viewers watch our favorite shows across a variety of devices. Web browsers, and phones, and gaming consoles, and piston-powered steampunk machinations (wut?). Even as us Star Children have evolved both our minds and viewing habits, the way for measuring what is being watched has remained overly archaic. Good news! for those who have wept at the bedside of broken and dismissed television shows. Help is (maybe) on the way.

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[face of a franchise presents two individuals that’ve fulfilled the same role. your task — choose the better of the two and defend your choice in the rancor pit that is the comments section]

Those who try to tell you that we’re living in the year 2012 are wrong. Well, they’re not so much wrong as they are missing the bigger picture. When you step back and look at all of the technology at our disposal — instantaneous global communication, metal eagles that carry us in their hollowed-out torsos, 4D movies — there’s no denyin’ where we’re living.

The future.

As residents of the future, it’s our duty to make sure that the next generation will continue to revere not only technological advancements, but also the sciences that create them. Kids’re all sorts of crazy-good at playing video games and sending text messages and even making music videos, but they don’t usually want to know how all this shit is possible. And they won’t listen to their parents! They think that parents just don’t understand! Consequently, we must seek the assistance of those folks that kids actually trust.

Television personalities.

But a new question quickly emerges – which wacky television scientist reigns supreme? While there’re plenty of contenders, two have baking-soda and vinegar’d their way to the forefront. Let’s take a look, shall we?

From 1992 to 1997, Beakman’s World graced Saturday morning television with equal parts scientific discovery and zany comedy. Each episode saw the titular Beakman (portrayed by Paul Zaloom) performing all sorts of experiments in an attempt to learn the kids a lesson or two. However, Beakman’s laboratory was a haven of hilarity, attracting such veritable characters as his female assistants (the strangely attractive Alanna Ubach during the golden age known as season one) and Lester, the anthropomorphic lab rat.

Hyperkinetic, crude, and wild-haired, Beakman is the perfect mad scientist to teach the kids about the wonder of science.

On the other hand, from 1993 to 1998 Bill Nye the Science Guy offered a more academic exploration of physical properties and empiricism and all that other jazz. Host Bill Nye did his best to foment keen interest, using kid-friendly television techniques like fast-motion and kooky graphics. Unlike Beakman, Nye steered clear of theatrics and fart-jokes, preferring to keep his laboratory and bathroom separate. Which isn’t to say that Nye was a stick in the mud, as nearly every episode ended with a gut-bustin’ music video parody.

Dignified, jocular, and kempt, Bill Nye is the role model empiricist that we hope our children become.

So, who’s the better television scientist — Beakman or Bill Nye?

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Hark! The angels sing! Community  returned last night, and it did so with some solid ratings. I’m proud of all of you.

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After a long day of being accused of corruption and murder, Raylan likes to kick back, have a beer, and hide the weapon used to frame him.   All in a day’s work for our favorite US Marshal.

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Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog sequel update! Shazam!

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Tonight! It returns.

I have been going goddamn insane for David Cronenberg lately. Like waking up from some sort of stasis with a rapturous desire to catch-up on It All, I’ve been crushing his backlog. So this news comes at a point where just the idea has a bit of the ole loins-writhing kicking into action.

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Yet another  trailer for the second season of Game of Thrones. This with a little heavy-handed pimp slap action courtesy of Cersei on Joffrey. Wow that’s an awkward sentence. Whatevs.

Hit the jump to check it out.

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This week of Justified starts moments after last week’s episode.   Sammy gets a call that is presumably faked to tip off the feds that Raylan may be dirty.   We then go to what would be a forced shot of Raylan sitting in a bar listening to music, however it is interleaved with Quarles and Duffy disposing of Gary.   Goddamn I love the editing of this show.   Quarles shoots and kills Gary and leaves him on the front doorstep of Winona’s house.   Looks like tomorrow might not be Raylan’s best day ever.

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