Articles tagged "the armchair anthropologist"

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Dropping the Bombshell

by Jodie Janella Horn

[23.Oct.06] :. Notes on the (hair) color code, from one of those (you know), blondes.

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Stars

by Jodie Janella Horn

[10.Jul.06] :. If it's July, it's time for another installment of CBS's voyeuristic reality series. Unfortunately, while she loves the show, our arbiter of televised treats isn't thrilled with the 'all star' format.

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Cancelled Companions

by Jodie Janella Horn

[7.Jun.06] :. Does it seem like every interesting, innovative series that you adore and worship gets yanked before its time? According to this rabid small screen fangirl, you are not alone.

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Three Ring Circus

by Jodie Janella Horn

[8.May.06] :. While polygamy has a place in the study of human history and culture, it has long been considered taboo. Leave it to HBO and its new hit drama series to make this socially profane subject seem... almost normal.

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An Anthropologist on Mars

by Jodie Janella Horn

[30.Jan.06] :. Want to learn more about the human race? Just turn on the TV and experience the foibles and frivolities of mankind as seen through the eyes of 'the others' -- filters in the form of aliens, robots, and talking animals.

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Norm!

by Jodie Janella Horn

[22.Nov.05] :. While not necessarily looking for a place where everybody -- including the busboy -- knows your name, Horn would like to locate a new drinking establishment that offers a sitcom-style sense of community.

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Not the Cosbys

by Jodie Janella Horn

[27.Oct.05] :. You know how they say everyone has a twin somewhere? Well, members of the Horn family look just like those people on (name that sitcom).

 

Gatherers

by Jodie Janella Horn

[19.Sep.05] :. Before Katrina, network news had spent a lot of time bemoaning the lack of viewers, to which I would like to respond; maybe you shouldn't have been so stupid.

 

Coffee Stalk

by Jodie Janella Horn

[18.Aug.05] :. In her celebrity filled Hollywood strip mall coffee store job, Horn is trying to figure out in what episode of Quantum Leap 'iced old-school Americano with two Splendas' guest starred.

 

How to Find a Mate in Five TV Shows or Less

by Jodie Janella Horn

[27.Jul.05] :. Scientists have spent a great deal of time deconstructing physical desirability among humans. But all they had to do was watch 100 Hottest Hotties and call it a day.

 

There’s no ‘TV’ in ‘Team’

by Jodie Janella Horn

[29.Jun.05] :. If the degree to which art imitates life can be a measure of greatness then The Office is king of the workplace comedy.

 

High School of Hard Knocks

by Jodie Janella Horn

[2.Jun.05] :. One of the benefits of no longer being a teenager is that I don't care if the high school dramas I watch are realistic because I no longer expect to be validated by television.