CIPC #210: Futurama S3 E14, Time keeps on slippin’
A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post about The Simpsons. It still remains, and will probably remain forever, one of the most lamentable, lacklustre, lackadaisical things to...
CIPC #209: Monsters S2 E2, Portrait of the Artist
If I had been a little smarter, I would have done this episode in the Halloween season, but I’m not so I haven’t. So yeah, it’s going to be Monsters...
CIPC #205: Father Brown S2 E1, The ghost in the machine
I have sung the praises of Chesterton’s Father Brown stories before, so I will now just suffice by saying that I still stand by those praises. Unfortunately, I cannot be...
CIPC #198: De regels van Floor S3 E16, Fanatiek
De regels van Floor is a still-running Dutch television series. The title means ‘Floor’s rules’ and the concept is that, every episode, Floor comes up with one rule to help...
CIPC #191: The odd couple S2 E9, Chess nuts
When I first watched Fawlty Towers I wasn’t precisely blown away, but the more sitcoms I watch the more I appreciate it. Take for example today’s subject: The odd couple,...
CIPC #188: The rifleman S4 E7, The knight errant
Television may be a relatively recent phenomenon, but the ‘relatively’ in that sentence is becoming more pertinent with every passing year. Already, there are more than seven decades of television...
CIPC #186: Abenteuer 1900 – Leben im Gutshaus E12, Warten auf Nachwuchs
Today, we feature our first German television series. Abenteuer 1900 – Leben im Gutshaus, German for “adventure 1900 – live on a manor”, was shown in 2004 on ARD. It...
CIPC #169: The wire S1 E3, The buys
The wire is one of the most critically acclaimed television series in history, charting at number six in IMDB’s top list at the time of writing. If we leave out...
CIPC #160: Jonny Quest E.19, Attack of the tree people
By a bit of an accident, I recently stumbled upon the existence of a franchise with three different TV-series, two made-for-TV movies, a series of comic books, and three computer...
CIPC #157: Tales of tomorrow S1 E2, Blunder
Tales of tomorrow is a sci-fi anthology show that aired in the beginning of the fifties in the USA. It doesn’t seem to be very well-remembered now, but it starred...
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