This Was Pop May 26, 2012

A visit to the rock chart includes Linkin Park, The Offspring, Slash and others.

May 25, 2012 | 12:00pm -

Podmass May 17-May 23 

Alison Brie gets naughty, Stephen Tobolowsky does Broadway, and Doug Loves Movies has a busy week.  

May 25, 2012 | 12:00am -

Trailer Comedy Bang! Bang!, “Amy Poehler Wears A Black Jacket & Grey Pants”

May 24, 2012 | 12:00am -

Recap First you get the sugar, then you get the power: The A.V. Club visits the 2012 Sweets & Snacks Expo

We came, we snacked, we got stomachaches. 

May 18, 2012 | 11:00am -

Podmass The best podcasts for the week of May 10-16 

Dungeons & Dragons, dick jokes, and Don Draper populate this week’s podcast roundup. 

May 18, 2012 | 12:00am -

Great Job, Internet! Cool cool cool compilation of every time Abed says “cool” on Community. Cool.

Hot. Hot hot hot.

May 17, 2012 | 11:24am -

YA Why? Ghosts and institutionalized amnesia haunt a strange town in the YA novel Glimmer

There’s strange doings afoot in the town of Summer Falls.

May 14, 2012 | 10:00am -

Great Job, Internet! Celebrate Mother's Day with the best motherly advice TV has to offer

Ah, television: teacher, mother, secret lover. With Mother’s Day on the horizon, what better time to focus on that second descriptor and reflect on all the sound motherly advice television has given us via seminal TV moms like Carol Brady (“Yo...

May 11, 2012 | 10:48am -

Great Job, Internet! Coach Eric Taylor would like to tell you something 

Fans of the dearly departed show Friday Night Lights are well aware that no one delivers a talking-to quite like Coach Eric Taylor.

May 10, 2012 | 1:51pm -

Great Job, Internet! Jon Hamm and Reggie Watts make beautiful, Taxi-themed music together

As we saw previously with the spectacular Mad Men-themed episode of “Chris Hardwick’s All-Star Celebrity Bowling,” nothing brings out a comedic web series’ full flavor like a little dash of Hamm.

May 8, 2012 | 10:28am -

Great Job, Internet! Time-travel through 62 years of pop-radio history

Popular music has always served as a good snapshot of the era from which it came, and thanks to the Internet, it’s gotten easier and easier to riffle through those snapshots at top speed.

May 4, 2012 | 11:18am -

Podmass The best podcasts for the week of April 26-May 2

Jay Mohr has some stories, some modern witches have a podcast, and Comedy Bang Bang has a cavalcade of fan favorites.

May 4, 2012 | 12:00am -

Great Job, Internet! Remember Pride And Prejudice? It’s back, in vlog form! 

The world needs another Pride And Prejudice adaptation like it needs… nope, there’s no way to finish that sentence, because there is nothing the world needs less than another Pride And Prejudice adaptation.

May 3, 2012 | 2:26pm -

Great Job, Internet! Breaking Bad’s final season will include Satanic rituals, death-by-ATM, according to Taiwanese animators

Yeah science! 

April 30, 2012 | 2:45pm -

This Was Pop April’s Hot 100 includes one of the catchiest songs of the year 

A look at the Hot 100 includes Usher, Kirko Bangz, and one of the catchiest songs of the year. 

April 27, 2012 | 9:00am -

Podmass The best podcasts for the week of April 12-18

Jim Gaffigan makes the podcast rounds, Stephen Tobolowsky returns with a masterful lecture, and Jose Canseco talks about… something. 

April 20, 2012 | 12:00am -

Great Job, Internet! Double-oh-double-oh-double-oh-double-oh-seven, I presume? 

Look, the world may not need a supercut of 193 instances of someone saying “double-oh” from all 23 James Bond films, but I for one am glad that the Internet has fostered such weird, pointless creativity.

April 18, 2012 | 10:55am -

Great Job, Internet! This Prometheus video would like to introduce you to David, an android that looks suspiciously like Michael Fassbender

Setting aside the fact that loudly “debuting” a “viral video” is antithetical to the definition of a viral video, the new viral video for the upcoming Ridley Scott-helmed Alien sorta-prequel Prometheus debuted today, ...

April 17, 2012 | 11:43am -

Great Job, Internet! Celebrate Parks & Rec’s impending return with some light woodworking, courtesy of Nick Offerman

It’s been a long, gray five weeks since the last new episode of Parks And Recreation aired, time I’ve spent sadly tapping my Ron Swanson bobblehead as a single tear rolls down my cheek.

April 17, 2012 | 11:14am -

The Walkthrough Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks (Part 5 of 5)

The creator’s episode-by-episode look at the series concludes.

April 13, 2012 | 12:00am -

Great Job, Internet! The Fellowship Of The Ring rock their bodies right

April 12, 2012 | 1:35pm -

The Walkthrough Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks (Part 4 of 5)

A history of the show continues with episodes about drugs and ventriloquism.

April 12, 2012 | 12:00am -

The Walkthrough Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks (Part 3 of 5)

A five-part look back at Freaks And Geeks with creator Paul Feig continues.

April 11, 2012 | 12:00am -

The Walkthrough Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks (Part 2 of 5) 

Our weeklong look back at Freaks And Geeks with creator Paul Feig touches on teens’ reactions to sex and porn.

April 10, 2012 | 12:00am -

The Walkthrough Paul Feig walks us through Freaks And Geeks (Part 1 of 5)

A weeklong look back at Freaks And Geeks with creator Paul Feig begins at the beginning. 

April 9, 2012 | 12:00am -

Podmass The best podcasts for the week of March 29-April 4 

Moshe Kasher has a book, Jeffrey Tambor has an attitude, and yes, there’s a podcast for renaissance-festival music. 

April 6, 2012 | 12:00am -

Music Review Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded

The many faces of Nicki Minaj go to war on her sophomore album.

April 3, 2012 | 12:00am -

The Catch-Up George R.R. Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire 

A new reader and an old fan discuss the appeal of George R.R. Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire books, the inspiration for Game Of Thrones.

April 2, 2012 | 12:00am -

This Was Pop March 31, 2012

When is a Nicki Minaj song not a Nicki Minaj song? When is a Justin Bieber song a Justin Timberlake song?

March 30, 2012 | 12:00am -

Crosstalk Does One Direction signal the beginning of another boy-band invasion?

Ten years after the ’N Sync/Backstreet Boys era closed, are we starting it all over again? 

March 29, 2012 | 12:00pm -