If you’re anything like me and someone tells you “hey there’s this new show coming to Discovery Channel that’s like BattleBots meets Twisted Metal” your response will either be “holy shit tell me more” or an uncomfortable erection (or both). A show of this caliber once existed… sort of… and it was called Weaponizers. Discovery Channel isn’t shy about the shows they produce because when they have an idea they will throw money at it until it rips apart at the seams even if it turns out to be total crap (see also: The Colony). Weaponizers was a show based around the idea that building gun-toting fighting machines is something that registers on the Scale of Badassery somewhere between “Dinosaurs With Jetpacks” and “Chuck Norris Jokes Circa 2001″ and for all inclusive purposes, it does. If the reasoning behind the show sounds so awesome, then why am I bothering to write an article about it?
Because Weaponizers was a show that missed its mark so spectacularly its flaming descent from the heavens was a spectacle to behold by all.
A logo made of auto parts, blades, and broken dreams.
Read more…
Kill Your TV, Man
battlebots, cars, crap, discovery channel, weaponizers
I think we all know the amazingly hilarious and random commercials made by E-Trade, but there was one very controversial (sarcasm) commercial that premiered during the Super Bowl.
Okay, I’m going to explain this as easily as possible…
The 23-year-old actress named Lindsay Lohan who believes that she is a one name person, like Madonna and Oprah, assumes that when somebody says Lindsay, it doesn’t mean that person has the 53rd most popular girls children name in America… It means they are referring the old, washed-up slut that has an extremely bad choice of judgment. I see no problem here…
I can already see the resemblence.
Read more…
Kill Your TV, Man
bawwwww, commercials, etrade, lindsay lohan, super bowl
Author’s Note: Portions of this article were originally written as a part of RFSHQ.com’s lineup on May 15th, 2006 (“Afterlife TV”). Excerpts have been modified and new content has been added to it since its original posting.
It’s Halloween and I’d like to be the first writer on GatorAIDS.com to usher in the holiday and wish you all the best, and by “all the best” I mean don’t eat razor blade apples and if you see Michael Jackson in his Thriller get up then he is actually a zombie and you should RUN. Halloween is that time of the year when everybody fawns over spooky stuff and television networks air all of their scary programming. Nickelodeon is airing special “Spooktacular” episodes of Spongebob Squarepants, Cartoon Network is beating Goosebumps into the ground (which is not even a cartoon great job), American Movie Classics is showing their stock of so-bad-it’s-great horror flicks, and C-SPAN is… well they are just doing business as-is because on any given day watching the American government system self destruct is scary in its own right.
Perhaps the most recognizable facet of Halloween, though, is Syfy’s annual marathon of their Ghost Hunters show, one of many shows on television that manage to never actually produce anything worthwhile but still get greenlit for second, third, and fourth seasons. Do I believe in spirits and ghosts? Well to some extent yes, that’s debatable, but that’s not the main idea of this article. Television shows like Travel Channel’s Most Haunted and Syfy’s Ghost Hunters are so poorly faked that they essentially become programming that would be better suited as late night drunken frat boy fodder on Comedy Central.
Read more…
Kill Your TV, Man
crap, ghost hunters, syfy channel, television
