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copy©unts Posted by zenzenzen

Image courtesy of Loan Sameli

Because sometimes an idea is so awesome, those cheeky monkeys in advertising turn them into bad commercials. Always the original far outweighs in awesomeness than the cruddy TV ads. Sometimes they even re-do them so badly that you just can’t watch the original without thinking of the product!

Who can seriously enjoy scrimping these days since the Honey Monster got in on the act? You wonder if these ad execs want to ruin it for all of us with their lame campaigns – and what’s to stop them? They already use skateboarding, ponies and boobs to sell everything to everyone…
Well fear no longer as crusaders from all around the world now have a platform to alert people of injustice! Men, women and kids of the world unite and read copy©unts.

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Best cancelled TV shows: Life Posted by Gargleman

Life is an American cop show with a difference. Or rather, it WAS a cop show with a difference, because like many of the best shows, it got cancelled after 2 seasons and is currently dying a second slow death in the UK on ITV3.

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Pre-Millenial Television: Baltimore Po-lice Posted by Gargleman

Bayliss: You never say please. You never say thank you. Pembleton: Please don't be an idiot. Thank you.

Det. Stan Bolander: It’s hard to meet single woman on this job. You meet plenty of widows, but the timing just don’t seem right.

Before The Wire, there was Homicide: Life On The Street.

Now The Wire is widely regarded as the best TV show ever made, so its going to take quite some nostalgia trip to find something better, but the lead contender has to be Homicide: Life on the Street.

Also set in Baltimore, and created by The Wire creator and writer David Simon, Homicide was gritty, grim and hardly watched when it originally aired back in the 1990s. It also featured many of the same supporting cast.

It was quite different from The Wire, though – it was all about the police, though there were recurring villains like Luther Mahoney, as well as some rather dodgy cops. › Continue reading