There have been many, many sketch comedy shows throughout the years, but there have been precious few of them on this blog. Today we add…
CIPC #489: Benson S1 E18, Checkmate
Benson is a well-regarded but otherwise unremarkable American sitcom. It focuses on the antics of the titular character in his role as the state’s governor’s…
CIPC #485: Pat a Mat S1 E8, Světlo
With a title like Pat a Mat, of course there must be a chess scene in this series! Yet that’s apparently a bit of a…
CIPC #484: Het Klokhuis 07-09-2023
The big advantage of making stuff for children is that your audience doesn’t have taste yet, so you can get away with a lot. And…
CIPC #478: The big bang theory S10 E13, The romance recalibration
Kids these days may not know it, but almost twenty years ago the fledgling internet was abuzz with a memes, pictures, and quotes from a…
CIPC #476: Danger 5 S1 E1, I danced for Hitler!
Danger 5 is the most surreal television series I’ve spotlighted since Monty Python’s Flying Circus. It is set in a very unserious alternative universe during…
CIPC #473: Maigret S1E1, The patience of Maigret
Simenon is, by an enormous margin, the best-sold Belgian author — and he is very well sold indeed. According to Wikipedia, he has sold between…
CIPC #470: Tatort E281, Stahlwalzer
When I previously wrote about a Tatort episode, I quietly passed over the fact that that was episode one thousand three hundred and two of…
CIPC #468: Coupling S4 E3, Bed time
Coupling is mostly known from quantum theory, where it means that a change in states of one of the coupled systems will instantaneously produce in…
CIPC #467: The adventures of Tintin S2 E6, Tintin in Tibet
Tintin is perhaps Belgium’s most successful export product,1 so it’s not surprising that I feature him on my blog when he plays chess. And yet,…