Tv Roundtable

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  TV Roundtable Boobies, pee-pees, codependence, and grounding the shenanigans with heart

  Two interlopers have very different effects on the core group in an early episode of Friends.

  May 22, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  TV Roundtable When My Boys tested its prickly chemistry by inviting some new faces to the poker table

  One of the ultimate hangout shows considers a few characters who just might be a “bad hang.”

  May 15, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  TV Roundtable A classic Simpsons episode explores the universality of being Frank Grimes

  The beleaguered everyman meets his doom: the incompetent whirlwind that is Homer Simpson.

  May 8, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  TV Roundtable TV Roundtable begins anew—if that’s what you’re into

  Usher in a new TV Roundtable theme with Flight Of The Conchords—if that’s what you’re into.

  May 1, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  TV Roundtable Futurama’s opera was a poignant final bow—until it wasn’t

  Fry’s deal with Robot Devil gives him musical prowess that comes with a price. How ironic! (That’s not what ironic means.)

  April 24, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  TV Roundtable Scrubs took its time to make a musical episode, but made it count

  The medical comedy was bound to make an all-singing, all-dancing half-hour—all it needed was an assist from the Avenue Q guys.

  April 17, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  TV Roundtable Taxi asks, “How much of a sitcom needs to be comedic?”

  Before Girls and Louie, a different Louie pushed the boundaries of TV comedy.

  April 10, 2013 | 10:00am -

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  TV Roundtable It’s okay to laugh at It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s musical trainwreck

  Enter the Dayman.

  April 3, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  TV Roundtable The 7th Heaven musical is one of the worst episodes of TV ever made

  Watch as our panel attempts to survive its stultifying stupidity with sanity intact!

  March 27, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  TV Roundtable After Ally McBeal captured the zeitgeist, Robert Downey Jr. found the show’s heart

  “That’s what Christmas is all about, Ally McBeal.”

  March 20, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  TV Roundtable Daria’s musical episode comes off like a dare—but does it hit the right notes?

  An all-singing, all-dancing episode of this down-to-earth cartoon makes no sense, but it’s still an endearing experiment.

  March 13, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  TV Roundtable Frasier forgets the words in one of the funniest sitcom episodes of the 1990s

  The glare of the spotlight makes the show’s characters sweat, copiously and hilariously.

  March 6, 2013 | 10:00am -

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  TV Roundtable The far-reaching stakes of How I Met Your Mother’s slap bet

  The following rule gets delightfully complex: The winner gets to slap the loser across the face as hard as he possibly can.

  September 27, 2012 | 1:00pm -

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  TV Roundtable When Columbo’s metaphorical chess match became literal

  Never underestimate Columbo, or Columbo.

  September 20, 2012 | 1:00pm -

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  TV Roundtable Law & Order: Slave to formula, or crackling entertainment?

  Doink doink.

  September 13, 2012 | 1:00pm -

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  TV Roundtable Why Friends’ fake game show epitomized ensemble comedy 

  Big Fat Goalie, Chanandler Bong, and embryos infuse a single episode with backstory and glimpses of future storylines.

  September 6, 2012 | 1:00pm -

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  TV Roundtable Alfred Hitchcock Presents proposes a squirm-inducing wager

  Is this high-stakes episode more than a clever twist? 

  August 30, 2012 | 1:00pm -

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  TV Roundtable Better Off Ted’s last hurrah trades tickets for laughs 

  The brilliant, perceptive, and short-lived Better Off Ted never won any ratings competitions.

  August 23, 2012 | 1:00pm -

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  TV Roundtable A new form of reality TV emerges from the sands of Laguna Beach 

  A show really about nothing? 

  August 16, 2012 | 1:00pm -

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  TV Roundtable Gilmore Girls’ silly little dance contest has some serious repercussions 

  We begin our look at how TV handles competition by dancing ’til we drop with the Stars Hollow gang. 

  August 9, 2012 | 12:30pm -

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  TV Roundtable Friday Night Lights', "I Think We Should Have Sex" 

  The TV Roundtable team takes on a sensitive installment of Friday Night Lights.

  July 26, 2012 | 1:00pm -

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  TV Roundtable The Big Valley, “Lost Treasure” 

  A ’60s-era TV Western examines identity and family on a 19th-century California ranch. 

  July 19, 2012 | 1:00pm -

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  TV Roundtable The Wonder Years—“Nemesis” 

  When Becky Slater came between Kevin Arnold and “Miss Priss.” 

  July 12, 2012 | 2:00pm -

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  TV Roundtable The Cosby Show—“The Infantry Has Landed (And They’ve Fallen Off The Roof)”

  This ahead-of-its-time season-seven episode dealt with menstruation and womanhood without taking the very-special-episode route. 

  June 28, 2012 | 2:00pm -

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  TV Roundtable The Mary Tyler Moore Show—“Mary’s Delinquent”

  The show drafts some young adult ringers into its workplace family.

  June 21, 2012 | 2:00pm -

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  TV Roundtable The Andy Griffith Show —“Opie The Birdman”

  Death and responsibility come to Mayberry.

  June 14, 2012 | 2:00pm -

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  TV Roundtable Boy Meets World — “Who’s Afraid Of Cory Wolf?”

  Boy cries werewolf. 

  June 7, 2012 | 2:20pm -

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  TV Roundtable The Wire — “The Boys Of Summer”  

  We begin our look at how TV handles adolescence with the first episode of the fourth season of The Wire.  

  May 31, 2012 | 2:00pm -