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"content": "\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13262\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/cast-of-my-so-called-life-5.jpeg\" alt=\"cast-of-my-so-called-life-5\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/cast-of-my-so-called-life-5.jpeg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/cast-of-my-so-called-life-5-400x300.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/cast-of-my-so-called-life-5-800x600.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">The most important Gen X pop culture dye job happened 20 years ago today.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">On Aug. 25, 1994, Angela Chase colored her mousy hair Crimson Glow in the pilot episode of ABC’s \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">My So-Called Life\u003c/span>, and so launched 19 practically perfect episodes of television that captured the strange mix of fearlessness and terror, tenderness and rage, euphoria and heartbreak that make up high school.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">Under the deft touch of creator Winnie Holzman, Angela’s struggles with vexing teenage boys and the frequent waxing and waning of friends-turned-enemies (and enemies-turned-friends) was so real and raw that it was almost hard to watch, no matter how far removed from high school you were.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">The teenagers from Liberty High would all be 35 now -- except for Jordan Catalano, of course, because he was held back twice. 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She bounced around a bit, waiting tables at her dad’s restaurant then moving to California to live with Rayanne for a while, before landing a job as a photographer at \u003cem>The Baltimore Sun\u003c/em>. She now splits her time between photojournalism assignments and freelance art photography, which allow her to travel extensively. She’s married to a writer named Tom, and they have a 5-year-old daughter who Angela both hopes and fears will turn out just like her. 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She’s now the public information officer there and manages a staff of 20 people. She divorced her high school sweetheart Kyle after 12 years of marriage and shares custody of their two children, a boy and a girl (naturally). She and Angela get together for drinks when Angela’s back in town to visit her parents.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #222222\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-13253 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/Brian-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"Brian\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\">Brian Krakow\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"color: #222222\"> attended Stanford and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry. He moved back home and is now the lead clinical researcher specializing in endocrine disorders at Penn Medicine. He and Sharon don’t cross paths very often at work, but when they do, he’s as exasperating as ever. His wife is a sweet and patient woman, whom he loves very much, although he still feels a tinge of irritated fondness when he thinks about Angela. (Which isn’t terribly often, and definitely no more than the normal amount for a childhood neighbor. Once in a while is OK, right?) He spends an hour every weekend tweaking his novel about a bittersweet teenage romance. 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He’s still working there, and he’s still handsome, if a little soft around the edges. His dreamily taciturn style is popular with certain female Vertigo-goers. He’s got a 10-year-old daughter he sees every other weekend. When Angela bumped into him last year on a visit home, she briefly wondered whether things would’ve been different for him if he’d gone with her to watch \u003cem>The Bicycle Thief\u003c/em>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #222222\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-13255 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/Danielle.jpg\" alt=\"Danielle\" width=\"243\" height=\"262\">Danielle Chase\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"color: #222222\"> is the youngest state senator ever to be elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly. (Who knew, right?) 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Once it became clear to Hallie Lowenthal that Graham wouldn’t ever act on their flirtation, she ditched him for greener fields. Despite his personal and professional success, Graham is still occasionally bewildered by his two daughters.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"Normal\" style=\"color: #000000\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #222222\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-13258 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/08/Patty-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Patty\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">Patty\u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"color: #222222\"> \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-weight: bold\">Chase\u003c/span> sold the family business, Wood & Jones, when it became clear how tough it would be for a small business to compete with online vendors (and when it became equally clear that neither daughter wanted to join her in running the business). 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12931\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/strange-movies-netflix.jpg\" alt=\"strange-movies-netflix\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/strange-movies-netflix.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/strange-movies-netflix-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\">\u003cstrong>By Robin Hardwick\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\">The way we watch movies and television has undergone a major change in recent years, thanks to Netflix. Older films not appreciated in their time get a chance at becoming cult classics, indie films without wide theater release find their audience, and documentaries get the popularity they deserve. But for every great film or television show, there is a puzzling low-budget genre film, outdated rom-com, or someone's indie pet project that never saw the light of day. Here are some of the strangest finds from the deep well of generated recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70009636?trkid=439131\">\u003cstrong>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"color: #1155cc\">Sacred Flesh \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"color: #1155cc\">(2000)\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/ns5imcW0Tlk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\">This film is the most prominent example of the “nunsploitation” genre, which yes, does exist. Shot on a minimal background, these nuns wear heavy eye makeup and have graphic, holy communions (sorry for the pun) with each other, all in the name of defying religious conventions. The nontraditional narrative that switches back and forth between reality and fantasy may make it seem like there’s a deep metaphorical message about religion and the nature of female desire, but you could also just call it a senior film thesis from a women’s studies/film double major from Sarah Lawrence that somehow accidentally ended up on Netflix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70068660?trkid=2361637\">\u003cstrong>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"color: #1155cc\">Be My Baby\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"color: #1155cc\"> (2006)\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/haLtkGogYjg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\">You’d think that there are no original ways for characters to “meet cute\" anymore, but the creators of \u003cem>Be My Baby\u003c/em> weren’t discouraged. In this film, the protagonist is fed up with getting involved with married men who pretend to be single, so she cooks up the perfect revenge plan. She “borrows” a child from the daycare where she works and pays a visit to all her exes, scamming them into giving her money when she convinces them the child is theirs. Luckily, one guy doesn’t fall for this trick...but he certainly falls for her!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70270394?trkid=2361637\">\u003cstrong>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"color: #1155cc\">Crazy Enough\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"color: #1155cc\"> (2012)\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/kAjAAswZxAk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\">\u003cem>Saturday Night Live\u003c/em> alums have gone on to create zeitgeist-defining films, become legendary comedians, and even win Academy Awards. Others, like, say, Chris Kattan, have gone on to star in a direct-to-video film, in which they play twin brothers with mistaken identities. No, this film is not one of the fake films featured in \u003ci>Funny People\u003c/i> or \u003ci>Tropic Thunder\u003c/i>, it’s an actual 90 minutes of Chris Kattan playing both a man stuck in a mental facility and his twin brother. I guess people take different paths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70051464?trkid=439131\">\u003cstrong>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"color: #1155cc\">The Sex Thief\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"color: #1155cc\"> (1974)\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12923\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/SexThief_Bluray-844x1024.jpg\" alt=\"SexThief_Bluray\" width=\"350\" height=\"424\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\">A career cat burglar breaks into ladies’ apartments (but only pretty ladies who sleep naked). Lady wakes up, confronts the thief, threatens to call the police. Thief uses his power of seduction to convince her otherwise. Oh, the '70s and its ambiguous ideas about sexual consent (so kitschy)! The ladies report the theft, but leave out the part where they boned the thief, causing a major investigation by two plucky detectives who can’t seem to ever do their job correctly. “Cheeky British sex comedies” were a popular genre from the '70s and, if this is any representation of the genre, they seem to be neither funny nor sexy. Fun fact: one of the police officers is a dead ringer for Dave Foley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70084150?trkid=439131\">\u003cstrong>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"color: #1155cc\">The Last Word\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"color: #1155cc\"> (2008)\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/r7SJyrKX64I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\">How could a film about suicide notes, starring Winona Ryder, Ray Romano, and Wes Bentley’s brow, not be a hit? This film is like a rehab center for falling superstars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70236197?trkid=439131\">\u003cstrong>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"color: #1155cc\">Brother White\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"color: #1155cc\"> (2012)\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/U_eJofHCTOE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\">Although they are not for me, I can support films targeted at Christian viewers, unless they're absurd and offensive like this one. In \u003cem>Brother White\u003c/em>, Pastor White (get it?) reluctantly takes on a black church in Atlanta. I’ll bet he feels like a fish out of water! I’ll bet there are plenty of sassy black women to sass him up! Perhaps there are several scenes showing how he can’t dance. At least the movie stars the dad from \u003cem>Family Matters\u003c/em> and the mom from \u003cem>Sister Sister\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70053347?strkid=711683258_0_0&trkid=222336&movieid=70053347\">\u003cstrong>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"color: #1155cc\">Hunk\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"color: #1155cc\"> (1987)\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/iHXFpWT8cds\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\">“In this diverting comedy, computer geek Bradley Brinkman signs his soul over to the devil in exchange for being transformed into a strapping ladies’ man.” The '80s had a slew of “homely girl becomes pretty” films, so it’s somewhat...progressive to see the tables turned. The gratuitous shots of a hunky muscled man in the shower during the opening credits turns out to just be lip service to the ladies of the '80s; everything else about \u003cem>Hunk\u003c/em> seems to read like a parody of '80s films: red sports cars, feathered hair, Valley girls, materialism, a brainless script, and sexism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70215465?trkid=439131\">\u003cstrong>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"color: #1155cc\">Holiday in Handcuffs\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"color: #1155cc\"> (2007)\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/I24mL7Ax1aw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\">We no longer have to wait until Christmas to see what holiday fare ABC Family has spewed out for us because Netflix allows us to experience their Christmas movies on demand year-round. This family farce has Melissa Joan Hart kidnapping Mario Lopez at gunpoint and forcing him to pose as her boyfriend in front of her family for the holidays. A film about Stockholm Syndrome is perfect for cozying up to the fire next to the tree! As one astute commenter pointed out, this is essentially a remake of \u003ci>Buffalo 66\u003c/i>. I am sure Vincent Gallo will never find out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70147345?trkid=13466331\">\u003cstrong>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"color: #1155cc\">...At First Sight (Two Guys Talkin’ About Girls)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"color: #1155cc\"> (1995)\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/KpsPdzXWOQA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"normal\">Remember that brief period in the '90s when the world was in love with \u003ci>MTV Sports\u003c/i>’ Dan Cortese? 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12798\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/07/09/lost-in-translation-american-tv-shows-that-dont-quite-survive-the-foreign-exchange-modern-family-iran/gossip-girl-china/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12798\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12798 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/gossip-girl-china.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: CW and Wikipedia\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/gossip-girl-china.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/07/gossip-girl-china-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: CW and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen#mediaviewer/File:Tiananmen_beijing_Panorama.jpg\">Wikipedia\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the things that makes the family on \u003cem>Modern Family\u003c/em> so gosh darn modern is the inclusion of married gay couple Mitchell and Cameron and their daughter, Lily. That's what families look like in the 21st century; people have gay family members with families of their own, not to mention divorces, remarriages, step-children and zany Columbian second wives that become breakout stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iran didn't seem to get that memo when they decided to create \u003cem>Haft Sang\u003c/em>, an unlicensed version of the show; Mitch, Cam and Lily's characters are nowhere to be found. For a side by side comparison of the two shows, check this out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/_gKAF_t8wY8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foreign versions of your American television favorites are nothing new, but, over the decades, some have landed much further from the original creator's vision than others. From swapping cops and lawyers for bobbies and barristers on \u003cem>Law & Order UK\u003c/em> to the less inflammatory animated antics of \u003cem>Al Shamshoon\u003c/em> (a.k.a. \u003cem>The Simpsons\u003c/em>) in the United Arab Emirates, here's some shows that got lost in translation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Al Shamshoon\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/L7Eyyz-kGzc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remaking \u003cem>The Simpsons\u003c/em> for audiences in Dubai (actually, just redubbing) probably wasn't so hard once they got rid of Homer's (renamed Omar) drinking, epic pork consumption and any jokes that have to do with religion. Bring on the laughs! In this version, Omar and his wife Mona are constantly battling with their ill-behaved son, Badir. Is it really \u003cem>The Simpsons\u003c/em> without all-knowing, precocious and decidedly feminist Lisa and all the guys meeting at Moe's? No, it's \u003cem>Al Shamshoon\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does it work? \u003c/strong> Why you little! *chokes remake*\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Chrysa Koritsia\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/ttMbM1WTH6g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2008, Greek broadcaster ET1 premiered a modern version of universally beloved \u003cem>The Golden Girls\u003c/em> and, despite having to update and Hellenize a few things here and there, mostly stuck with the original concept. Sophia is Sophia, Dorothy is Dora, Rose is Fifi (we hope her stories all start with \"back on Skorpios...\"), Blanche is Bela, and they're all still ladies of a certain age with opinions on everything. Although nothing will ever replace the original series, the Greek version retains much of the humor, mood and overall tone of the American original. Greece also works in lieu of the original Miami setting, although we'd love to see the show get ultra-Greek and have that special episode one day where the girls deal with the Greek economic situation or get John Stamos to guest star as Bella's younger, American-born lover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does it work?\u003c/strong> Thank you for being a friend; it does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Moya prekrasnaya nyanya\u003c/strong> (\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>My Fair Nanny\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/5MihJtnOstg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Russian remake of the Fran Drescher sitcom \u003cem>The Nanny\u003c/em> has been a huge success since it debuted in 2004, and owes its popularity to sticking close to the original stories. Viktoria (Drescher's role in the original) becomes the accidental nanny for a wealthy family headed by handsome widower Maxim. Misunderstandings ensue immediately as blue collar meets blue blood (or proletariat meets oligarch?). What's sadly lacking here is the nanny character's strong Jewish heritage, which was such a hallmark of the original series and a major source of humor as Fran infused a little ethnic flavor into the stuffy WASP/Brit family. Russia's relationship with its Jewish population remains...complicated, to be kind, so Viktoria's culture clash story is as a Ukrainian living in Russia. In light of recent events in the Ukraine, we're not sure how to feel about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does it work?\u003c/strong> A lot of Russians seem to think so, but all I can say in the spirit of the original \u003cem>Nanny\u003c/em> is \"oy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Law & Order: UK\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://youtu.be/EjZ_dXzeBUw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are so many versions of \u003cem>Law & Order\u003c/em> out there. \u003cem>SVU\u003c/em>, \u003cem>LA\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Criminal Intent\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Trial by Jury \u003c/em>(and it wouldn't be surprising if a junior \"hall monitors and crossing guards\" version was in the works over at Nickelodeon). And that's just in the U.S. In the British series (because Brits love their crime procedurals as much as us Yanks), the laws are different and the cops don't carry guns, yet the spirit is the same. But it's so hard to take English trials seriously with those wigs. 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While I was lucky enough to receive guidance from loving, supportive parents (who also both happened to be teachers), I still marveled at Feeny’s ability to learn from any situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a mentor like that, it's no surprise that, 14 years and one revamp later, Cory has grown into the mentor’s role and become a teacher himself in \u003cem>Girl Meets World\u003c/em> (which premiered June 27th). The first episode featured Cory assuring his daughter Riley that he will be there as she navigates her world in New York City. But, to the delight of this viewer and fellow teacher, Mr. Feeny still mysteriously appears at the end of the episode to offer Cory his approval. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/17/behind-the-scenes-at-antiques-roadshow-the-characters-the-stories-and-the-treasures/antiques-roadshow/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12450\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-12450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/antiques-roadshow.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: PBS\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/antiques-roadshow.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/antiques-roadshow-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: PBS\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Out of the 30,000 who requested tickets to a recent taping of the PBS juggernaut, \u003cem>Antiques Roadshow\u003c/em>, 6,000 were given. I was lucky enough to be among them. The scene at the Santa Clara Convention Center was exactly what you would hope. People wandered the halls carrying everything from stained glass lamps to carousel animals, taxidermy bird scenes under glass to Danish moderne secretaries. \u003cem>Dukes of Hazard\u003c/em> lunch boxes vied for attention with Shaker tables, as people from every corner of California (and one couple I met who flew in from Hawaii) tried their best to impress appraisers and producers with their treasures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each week, the Boston-based \u003cem>Antiques Roadshow\u003c/em> travels to a new city with a team of staff appraisers and their host, Mark L. Walberg (he was plain Mark Walberg back when \"Marky Mark\" was still modeling jocks), to meet the people. Actually, the people can be slightly incidental, if the object they bring is fantastic enough. Of the 100 or so participants who get taped for the show, roughly ten or so make it onto an episode. Over and over again, I was told by members of the \u003cem>Antiques Roadshow\u003c/em> team that the antiques are the real star. So I set forth into the nerve center of \u003cem>Antiques Roadshow\u003c/em> and met the pieces.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"My daughter is getting this one day. I want her to have it to remember how important random acts of kindness are.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Before mixing with the public, I met Los Angeles-based appraiser Laura Woolley, whose specialty (appropriately enough for this blog) is pop culture memorabilia. Woolley, who started her career at Sotheby's after college and now has her own company, \u003ca href=\"http://thecollectorslab.com/about.php\">The Collector's Lab\u003c/a>, has evaluated everything from production items (a scene painting from the 1960s camptastic film version of \u003cem>Batman\u003c/em> is among her more recent fabulous appraisals) to pop collectables to major celebrity auctions (Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, Bette Midler, and Cher, to name a few).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past 20 years, the celebrity auction market has taken off and Woolley has been there almost from the very beginning. Appraising a celebrity item is two fold: there's the value of the item itself and then there's the value the celebrity name brings to it, which can raise the final price far beyond the object value. \"The best example I can give you of this phenomenon was the Jackie O auction,\" Woolley said. The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis auction in the mid-'90s was among the first major celebrity sales, where the prices of everyday items shot unbelievably high because of the star glimmer. \"There was a tape measure Jackie used at the tailor, a totally ordinary tape measure. It went for something like a hundred times its estimated value. That's when we knew the market had completely changed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/17/behind-the-scenes-at-antiques-roadshow-the-characters-the-stories-and-the-treasures/20140612-094143-jpg/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12398\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-12398\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/20140612-094143-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"20140612-094143.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"373\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Woolley was called off to film a segment, I wandered around the taping, eyes wide open and occasionally agog at some of the items people had brought in. I caught up with Steve and Marion, who had their hands full with an 8 foot tall telescope (in pieces). The antique stargazer, which Steve dated back to 1850, was purchased by the couple 50 years prior from a neighbor in Palm Desert who had taken it when the local school no longer had use for the archaic instrument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It still works,\" Steve said proudly. \"All I had to do was clean the lens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, I wandered from telescopes over to jewelry, where I met Maureen and her husband Larry from Berkeley. Maureen had been given a silver Chinoiserie bracelet from the \"Court of the Seven Seas\" at the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition by a patient when she was a dental hygienist in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/17/behind-the-scenes-at-antiques-roadshow-the-characters-the-stories-and-the-treasures/antiques-bracelet/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12457\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-12457\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/antiques-bracelet-853x1024.jpg\" alt=\"antiques-bracelet\" width=\"300\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This very elegant lady patient of the doctor I worked for was always so immaculately dressed,\" Maureen said. \"And when I admired her bracelets -- this was one of three in a set she was wearing -- she told me her husband had been the curator of Asian artifacts at the expo where it had come from. Then she told me she had no children to pass it on to, she unsnapped it from her wrist and passed it on to me.\" Maureen put the bracelet on, pointing out its pagoda scene and raised detailing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wear it at least twice a week. Now, when someone compliments a scarf or a pair of earrings I'm wearing, I love to do what that lady did and hand it off to them.\" Maureen learned that her bracelet was worth about $200, but she had no intention of selling anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My daughter is getting this one day. I want her to have it to remember how important random acts of kindness are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, I met Larry, who also had a piece appraised with better monetary results. His white 1968 Hot Wheels Camaro turned out to be one of the most rare toy cars from the period. He wouldn't say what the appraiser valued it, but said he was \"very pleasantly surprised.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it might be worth more because it was still in the package but not by \u003cem>that\u003c/em> much.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/06/17/behind-the-scenes-at-antiques-roadshow-the-characters-the-stories-and-the-treasures/20140612-094015-jpg/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12396\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-12396\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/06/20140612-094015-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"20140612-094015.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the most popular appraisal fields at any \u003cem>Antiques Roadshow\u003c/em> taping is painting and prints. It's almost always the field with the most requests. My eye was immediately drawn to to a woman in line with a large, turn of the century poster from France.\u003cbr>\n\"It's from between 1900 and 1906,\" Sandra said of her piece. \"I collect these French posters, but this is one of the earliest ones I own. My other ones are all more Art Deco and this is very Belle Époque.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I took in her poster, an advertisement for a major exposition/fair in Paris, a number of other people began to take notice of it. Sandra said the item would definitely be staying in her home, regardless of the value (\"it looks perfect on the wall I had to sacrifice so it could hang alone\"), but when word reached us later that Sandra and her poster had been chosen to be taped for the show, we wondered if she might hear that her poster was worth a price that might make her want to reconsider selling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what's the policy when it comes to buying at an Antiques Roadshow taping? 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/05/27/how-the-death-of-a-bachelorette-contestant-is-dismantling-the-fairy-tale-of-reality-tv-eric-hill-andi-dorfman/bachelorette/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12222\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-12222\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/05/bachelorette.jpg\" alt=\"bachelorette\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/05/bachelorette.jpg 770w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/05/bachelorette-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Hill & Andi Dorfman. Photo: ABC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I'm not sure whether to start with death or reality TV. Perhaps unsurprisingly, but still to unsettling effect, the two have recently become entwined. In the last few seasons, the facade of \u003cem>The Bachelor\u003c/em> franchise's faux-reality has been falling away bit by bit. Front-runners have sent themselves home at the 11th hour with no last minute cinematic change of heart. Bachelorettes have settled for their second choice. The word 'love' has not been uttered. Proposals have not even occurred each time! The oft repeated mantra of, \"This is like a fairy tale,\" is being dismantled, and it's thrilling to see. This thrill speaks both to the power in \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/opinion/sunday/the-marriage-plot.html?_r=0\">the desire for fairy tales\u003c/a>, but also in the delight at their upending and ruin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, despite its best efforts, this absurd reality show has finally revealed one of the most real things: that at the end of it all, we will die. In the latest season, the sudden death of one of the men competing for the Bachelorette, has interrupted \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em> fantasy entirely in a way nothing else could. Eric Hill died in a paragliding accident in the weeks between the filming and airing of the show. Most of the discussion leading up to the premiere of \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em> centered around how to sincerely honor and acknowledge Hill in the context of this show where nothing is ever really honored. Producers decided not to edit him out, and Chris Harrison somberly dedicated the season to him at the top of the premiere, before a jarring transition to the inane opening rituals we all recognize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, no matter what the producers did or didn't do with Eric Hill's footage, we're watching a fairy tale with a ghost prince. I don't know if it's the gravitas of being the ghost amongst all those tanned, muscular, oafish men, but I couldn't take my eyes off Hill during the first episode. He seemed to practically glow. He magnetized the edge of every camera angle that scanned the crowd of forgettable first night boys. When he got his one-on-one time by the fireplace I wanted to hear everything he said. These were some of his last weeks of words. Who among us will have those on camera?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a celebrity dies, we collectively mourn them, some combination of parasocial psychology, human empathy, surreal familiarity, and celebrity worship at work. We feel that we know them and we attach to some part of the death that we find sad or meaningful. There are, of course, also many people who think mourning the deaths of the famous is ludicrous since there are so many other tragedies every day, involving people whose names we'll never know. But whether death reveals itself through the famous or the non-famous, it still confounds and it still looms. Yet Eric Hill does not raise the usual questions of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2014/05/02/308925901/pop-culture-happy-hour-posthumous-projects-and-people-were-pulling-for\">how to proceed with a posthumous project\u003c/a>. What makes this public death different from others is that Eric Hill wasn't a celebrity yet; he was somewhere between famous and not-famous. We heard about him dying first and we saw him on TV second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fair amount of reality TV stars have died, but most of them died \u003ca href=\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/dark-side-reality-tv-27-432060#1-eric-hill\">after their shows aired or their death interrupted an already airing show\u003c/a>. The timing of this particular tragedy is unprecedented in the world of reality TV. \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/106222/the-bachelorette-death-eric-hill-andi-dorfman/\">TIME\u003c/a> calls Hill's death a \"glitch in the Matrix.\" When I see him in the Bachelorette mansion, I do expect an interruption of static, the curtain pulling back. What are we watching? We've always known it isn't real. We know it happened in the past. And yet something of the dark magic of reality TV makes us forget that, at least momentarily. But now, watching Hill, we don't forget. The surreality of his presence enhances the clarity of the truth: this spontaneous string of tropical weeks and socially awkward cocktail parties are in fact already over, the outcome already determined, the inevitable already occurred. This is the intrusion of actual real life into supposed real life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill's presence in this version of reality is a glitch, certainly, and a haunting, it's a lot of strange things: it's us watching someone in the last months of their life -- us knowing that, and him not knowing. And perhaps it's our knowing that feels so profound, so uncomfortable. It reminds me of this moment in \u003cem>Jesus' Son \u003c/em>by Denis Johnson, after the narrator has survived a car accident:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her such power over us. The doctor took her into a room with a desk at the end of the hall, and from under the closed door a slab of brilliance radiated as if, by some stupendous process, diamonds were being incinerated in there. What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I've gone looking for that feeling everywhere.” \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's what gives Eric Hill such power over us. We know he's dead even though he doesn't. And we know how it feels to be alive, yet more confronted now by the knowledge that we could so easily not be. We're reminded of mortality by watching this doomed courtship play out. When he talks about the next three years, we already know there won't be a next three years. And we wonder at the timing. Perhaps if the Bachelorette had given him a rose he would've stayed longer, his life would've played out along a different trajectory? Are each of us so beholden to such a random and uncaring universe? And how can it be that it's \u003cem>The Bachelorette\u003c/em> posing this existential concern? Fifteen years ago, there would've been no way to see someone's life (and death) in such an artificially curated, yet intimate, way. Fiction and non-fiction had cleaner lines. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Death is understood and interpreted, in large part, through our cultural lenses. In some cultures, being unconscious means you're dead. In others, people sleep with decaying corpses and meditate on the truth that one day their bodies will also decompose. We use different words to explain death, we believe different things to be true of death, we behave in different ways when confronted with death. In our contemporary Western lives, death is often hidden away from public view, and yet we are simultaneously bombarded by it through screens. We experience plenty of death in this second-hand way, through the sensational reporting of gruesome violent crimes, countless fictional deaths, or even Facebook, \u003ca href=\"http://mashable.com/2013/02/13/facebook-after-death/\">an ever-growing graveyard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With death so often such a private thing, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.socresonline.org.uk/14/5/1.html\">reality TV so public\u003c/a>, Hill seems all the more strangely powerful, a symbol of this ultimate and inexplicable specter we so often manage to ignore. He is our meditation on death and dying because we don't know how else to do it. So, week after week, we'll tune in to watch him, and we'll try to forget what happens next. But we know.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/05/02/24-is-back-but-are-we-grasping-for-something-well-never-get-again/attachment/24/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12009\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-12009\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/05/24.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Fox\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/05/24.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/05/24-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Fox\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Victor Beigelman\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jack is back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 5th, one of TV’s most beloved characters, Jack Bauer, will return to action in \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">24: Live Another Day\u003c/span>, a 12 episode mini-series event following the same real-time format as the first eight seasons of the show, with periodic jumps forward in the day between episodes. On paper, this is great. Fans of the show get to reunite with their hero and undoubtedly watch him shoot, scream, defy order, survive unimaginable torture, and everything else Jack Bauer stands for. But to what extent is our excitement for this rooted in a nostalgia for something that’s already seen its best days? Are we getting our hopes up for something that’s doomed to yield diminishing returns? If that’s the case, do we really want to \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Live Another Day\u003c/span> at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t get me wrong. I loved \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">24\u003c/span>. Although its formula became stale by the final season, the show always excelled at action-packed sequences, shocking twists, and how-did-he-do-it heroic victories that came with a serious toll. Jack was a tragic hero in the strongest sense of the term, and the ensemble around him was packed with great characters. No doubt,\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\"> 24\u003c/span> was a hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s important to emphasize, though, is that I\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\"> loved\u003c/span> the show\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">.\u003c/span> Loved. Past tense. It’s gratifying to fondly recall Jack Bauer as an iconic figure of the post-9/11 aughts, as with any happy memory. But when you have a positive, yet removed lasting image of something in your head, it’s strange to bring it back into your life and expect things to be the same. Jack might be coming back, and the core aspects of his world might be relatively constant, but we as viewers have changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the entertainment industry’s increasingly sequel-happy nature, it makes sense to view TV show comebacks with skepticism -- there’s a proven track record of brewing anticipation at a story or character’s return followed immediately by disappointment. Just look what happened with \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Arrested Development\u003c/span>’s return on Netflix last year. The show was brought back on the sheer volume of enthusiasm from its dedicated and growing fan base, thanks to post-mortem DVD sales and Netflix binges. However, its “triumphant return,” once digested, didn’t go down smooth at all. What’s more, \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">AD\u003c/span> was a show that was axed well before its time. What chance does \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">24\u003c/span> have of a successful return if its original premise had grown stale by the end of its initial run?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no question that money plays a big role in bringing shows and movies back; when profits are involved, its hard to let a smash hit just sit peacefully in its grave. But when all the creative juices around a story have run dry, it’s almost a disservice to the characters and original product to bring it back in any lesser form. Our intense desire to relive the glory days as viewers only enables that trend. Simply put, we’re bringing disappointment onto ourselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another more recent example, this one in film, was the return of Ron Burgundy and the channel 4 news team in \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues\u003c/span> last December. A look at the sequel’s \u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=abb0eb8fd34d461e988095c26f80feec&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.rottentomatoes.com%2fm%2fanchorman_2_the_legend_continues%2f\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cspan class=\"Hyperlink__Char\" style=\"color: #0000ff\">Rotten Tomatoes score\u003c/span>\u003c/a> relative to the original -- 75% to 66% -- tells you that it’s a better movie than the original, but these are just numbers. The reality is that, as nice as it was to revisit these characters, the same formula just didn’t have the same punch as it did back in 2004. We expected the same slew of quotable one-liners, but instead we left the theater generally dissatisfied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Granted, there are instances of TV shows (and film sequels) coming back after long gaps in time to match or exceed the brilliance of their original source material (\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Family Guy\u003c/span> and \u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Toy Story 3\u003c/span> to name a couple), but they’re very clearly the exception rather than the rule. As viewers, we’ve come to form a habit of missing what we don’t have, and demanding a way to bring it back only to inevitably discover the missing piece doesn’t fit that hole in our lives anymore. It’s sad, but true: we’re grasping for something we’ll never quite get back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This phenomenon is not surprising -- it’s really just a projection of typical human nature onto the landscape of the entertainment industry. We want what we can’t have, and we’re prone to playing a high-risk, high-reward game. If these comebacks could just work out, it would be the best feeling in the world. But much more often than not, they don’t. In reality, it’s best to let favorites and absolute classics lay where they are, and not potentially tarnish their image by forcing a shell of their former selves back to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So although I’m excited to see Jack back in my life next week, I’m welcoming him with a fair share of guarded skepticism. Of course I care about him, and I know he cares about me (I am an American, after all). But if it’s just a generic re-hash of the world we shared the first time around, I honestly don’t want any part of it. Neither should you.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/04/29/felicitys-ben-or-noel-conundrum-how-the-side-you-took-predicted-your-entire-love-life/felicity-porter/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11954\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11954\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/felicity-porter.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: The WB\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/felicity-porter.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/felicity-porter-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: The WB\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Meghan Lewit\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's a rather famous deleted scene from the film \u003cem>Pulp Fiction\u003c/em> in which Mia Wallace quizzes hit-man Vincent Vega on whether he's a Beatles man or an Elvis man, whether he prefers The Brady Bunch or The Partridge Family, and other character-defining questions. “My theory is that, when it comes to important subjects, there's only two ways a person can answer. Which way they choose tells you who that person is,” she states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve always found this to be a profoundly wise observation. My own cultural litmus test revolves around the love triangle at the heart of the late '90s college drama \u003cem>Felicity\u003c/em>. Or, more specifically, Ben or Noel?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show, which first aired on the now-defunct WB network in 1998, starred Keri Russell (currently kicking ass on \u003cem>The Americans\u003c/em>) as a good girl who thwarts her parents' expectations by following her high school crush to college in New York City. (Also worth noting, \u003cem>Felicity\u003c/em> was the first foray into television for a then-unfamous J.J. Abrams.) The show became a watershed cultural moment for me -- partly because I was, at the time, at home in Illinois plotting my own escape to an East Coast university, but mainly because \u003cem>Felicity\u003c/em> cemented my attitude toward romance for my entire adult life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As heroines go, Felicity wasn’t particularly cool. She studied a lot, clothed herself in an unending parade of giant fuzzy sweaters, and recorded long, embarrassingly earnest messages to her absent friend Sally on a voice recorder. For a smart girl, she made the dubious choice to follow an 18-year-old boy across the country. But viewers who saw themselves in Felicity understood that the move to New York was about much more than a guy -- it was about making a brash stab at independence, about carving out a place in the world where her uncoolness and her romanticism and penchant for oversized wool could flourish. In her insane, ill-considered moment of bravery, Felicity became the patron saint of nice girls who got good grades, followed the rules and more or less listened to their parents, and sometimes wondered what the hell it was all for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in the halls of the fictional University of New York, she found love in the form of two appealingly floppy-haired choices: Ben Covington (Scott Speedman), the mumbly, emotionally inscrutable crush she followed to college; and Noel Crane (Scott Foley), the charmingly geeky, nice-guy resident advisor. Although the Felicity love triangle came along before fans identifying themselves as “Team X” or “Team Y” had entered the vernacular, the Ben vs. Noel question became the basis of a four-season love triangle, the outcome of which can still spark heated debate among those who came of age at the turn of the millennium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Felicity Porter felt like my fictional spirit sister back in 1998, so her love life has provided the framework of a theory that has guided my beliefs about romance for the past 16 years: that every straight woman in the world is either a Ben-girl or Noel-girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noel established his good-guy cred early in the show when he became Felicity's confidante and Boggle partner. In the pilot, when Felicity is close to throwing in the towel on her New York adventure, he makes an endearing plea for her to stay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 284px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/04/29/felicitys-ben-or-noel-conundrum-how-the-side-you-took-predicted-your-entire-love-life/felicity/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11970\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11970\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/FAN-noel-and-felicity-6985617-355-500.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: FanPop\" width=\"284\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/noel-and-felicity/images/6985617/title/fan-photo\">FanPop\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You'll be the fancy doctor, with the fancy practice. You’ll be married and you’ll have like four phone lines in your home. And then, boom, it’ll grip you like a blast of freezing cold air. You know, ‘what the hell is my life?’ And you’ll be able to trace it back to this instant...when that geek RA gave you [these] words of advice: stay in New York or perish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From that moment we knew that Noel understood her particular brand of romantic idealism, and that he would have her back. And throughout their first season courtship and over the course of the show (with the exception of an out-of-character quickie marriage and divorce to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haMghffhJes\">the Doritos Girl\u003c/a> in season 3), he remained a steadfast presence in her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Noel/Ben choice reached its most dramatic climax fairly early in the show’s run, at the end of the first season when Felicity has to choose between spending her summer break in Germany with Noel, or on a cross-country road trip with Ben. The season ends on a cliffhanger with Felicity -- in slow motion of course -- getting into a cab en route to an undisclosed destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t have to make a decision between Ben and Noel,” she tells Sally in voiceover. “But I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade and a half later, it’s not a spoiler to report that she chose Ben, and that in season 2, just a couple of episodes into their nascent romance, he broke her heart. This event launched the infamous hair chop, and a series of forgettable romances with randoms until Ben eventually wins her back by tracking down a copy of the movie that had been playing when he stood her up (Charlie Chaplin’s \u003cem>The Gold Rush\u003c/em>). In his most swoon-worthy moment, he describes the film canister as a time machine that would allow them to rewrite their history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 245px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/04/29/felicitys-ben-or-noel-conundrum-how-the-side-you-took-predicted-your-entire-love-life/tumblr_mj26oau8dg1qkjkwao1_250/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11966\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11966\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/tumblr_mj26oau8Dg1qkjkwao1_250.gif\" alt=\"Photo: Tumblr\" width=\"245\" height=\"184\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://nickmillerturtleface.tumblr.com/post/44498303958/ben-and-felicity-1x06-looks\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And that was the trick with Ben. He wasn’t a bad guy. He wasn’t cruel or dismissive, although he could often be thoughtless. He was a little too good looking; a person for whom things had always come a little too easily. He was someone we have all known, and probably dated at some point. Even in the midst of their on-and-off coupledom, he remained, on some level, tantalizingly unavailable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want something with me, but you’re not strong enough to have it,” Felicity tells him at the beginning of their relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had a point because in the fourth season -- after Felicity and Ben have graduated and moved to Palo Alto together for grad school -- Ben cheats. This earnest and heartfelt drama then takes a bizarre turn into the supernatural when Felicity’s former roommate, Meghan, casts a spell that allows a devastated Felicity to travel back in time and live out an alternate reality where she chooses Noel instead. The storyline, which is just about as absurd as it sounds, sets off a sequence of events that results in Noel’s tragic death in a fire on campus, but Felicity is ultimately able to make things right by reversing the spell and returning to her life with Ben.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a deeply unsatisfying conclusion to a show that had dealt so thoughtfully with the college experience. At the end, we’re supposed to accept that she made her choice not necessarily because it was the right one, but because choosing Noel would directly lead to his untimely demise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fact that the Ben/Noel question still lingers is a testament to the viability of both characters. Unlike some other notable pop culture love triangles involving young people, Felicity’s choice never felt like a foregone conclusion. (By the end of their runs, was there anyone left who was still hoping that Joey would choose mopey Dawson over Pacey; that Katniss would pick volatile Gale over gentle Peeta; or thought there was a chance that Bella would end up with the werewolf instead of her creepily possessive vampire beau?) Felicity, for all its '90s trappings, holds up as a contemplative and authentic portrayal of the coming-of-age experience and the choices that it presents. The power of the Ben/Noel divide was that neither felt like a plot device, but rather a choice between two valid real-life archetypes: the nice (albeit somewhat predictable) guy who adores you, or the soulful sort-of bad boy you’ll never be quite sure of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also important to note that the choice between Ben and Noel has less to do with the guys themselves than it does with the girl doing the choosing. Each type has its own distinct appeal, perhaps depending on where a woman is in her life. 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Although the Felicity love triangle came along before fans identifying themselves as “Team X” or “Team Y” had entered the vernacular, the Ben vs. Noel question became the basis of a four-season love triangle, the outcome of which can still spark heated debate among those who came of age at the turn of the millennium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Felicity Porter felt like my fictional spirit sister back in 1998, so her love life has provided the framework of a theory that has guided my beliefs about romance for the past 16 years: that every straight woman in the world is either a Ben-girl or Noel-girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noel established his good-guy cred early in the show when he became Felicity's confidante and Boggle partner. In the pilot, when Felicity is close to throwing in the towel on her New York adventure, he makes an endearing plea for her to stay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11970\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 284px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/04/29/felicitys-ben-or-noel-conundrum-how-the-side-you-took-predicted-your-entire-love-life/felicity/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11970\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11970\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/FAN-noel-and-felicity-6985617-355-500.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: FanPop\" width=\"284\" height=\"400\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/noel-and-felicity/images/6985617/title/fan-photo\">FanPop\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You'll be the fancy doctor, with the fancy practice. You’ll be married and you’ll have like four phone lines in your home. And then, boom, it’ll grip you like a blast of freezing cold air. You know, ‘what the hell is my life?’ And you’ll be able to trace it back to this instant...when that geek RA gave you [these] words of advice: stay in New York or perish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From that moment we knew that Noel understood her particular brand of romantic idealism, and that he would have her back. And throughout their first season courtship and over the course of the show (with the exception of an out-of-character quickie marriage and divorce to \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haMghffhJes\">the Doritos Girl\u003c/a> in season 3), he remained a steadfast presence in her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Noel/Ben choice reached its most dramatic climax fairly early in the show’s run, at the end of the first season when Felicity has to choose between spending her summer break in Germany with Noel, or on a cross-country road trip with Ben. The season ends on a cliffhanger with Felicity -- in slow motion of course -- getting into a cab en route to an undisclosed destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t have to make a decision between Ben and Noel,” she tells Sally in voiceover. “But I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade and a half later, it’s not a spoiler to report that she chose Ben, and that in season 2, just a couple of episodes into their nascent romance, he broke her heart. This event launched the infamous hair chop, and a series of forgettable romances with randoms until Ben eventually wins her back by tracking down a copy of the movie that had been playing when he stood her up (Charlie Chaplin’s \u003cem>The Gold Rush\u003c/em>). In his most swoon-worthy moment, he describes the film canister as a time machine that would allow them to rewrite their history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 245px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/04/29/felicitys-ben-or-noel-conundrum-how-the-side-you-took-predicted-your-entire-love-life/tumblr_mj26oau8dg1qkjkwao1_250/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11966\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11966\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/tumblr_mj26oau8Dg1qkjkwao1_250.gif\" alt=\"Photo: Tumblr\" width=\"245\" height=\"184\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: \u003ca href=\"http://nickmillerturtleface.tumblr.com/post/44498303958/ben-and-felicity-1x06-looks\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And that was the trick with Ben. He wasn’t a bad guy. He wasn’t cruel or dismissive, although he could often be thoughtless. 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I know there's a Yellow King, and someone has antlers, and time is a flat circle, and the women are underwritten, and every episode inspired rapturous praise followed by an abrupt backlash followed by an even more abrupt backlash-to-the-backlash. But most of all I know that I \u003cem>have\u003c/em> to see \u003cem>True Detective\u003c/em>. While the show was airing, I got daily reminders of this urgent necessity. My brother sent texts shaming me for not having HBO. My Twitter feed was awash with in-jokes and arguments about the show's finer points. I had to skip over sizable chunks of my favorite podcasts when the conversation started getting spoiler-y.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'll see \u003cem>True Detective\u003c/em> eventually, probably whenever Netflix starts carrying the DVDs, but for the time being, I'm content with my outsider status. For one thing, I've always been something of a contrarian when it comes to entertainment. If someone gets too overbearing about how important it is that I see a movie or listen to an album, I tend to snub it out of sheer, passive-aggressive spite. (I'm sure the latest Arcade Fire album is deeply wounded by my indifference.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond that, who has the time? Looking at TV alone, the current roster of consensus must-watch shows includes \u003cem>True Detective\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Mad Men\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Justified\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Game of Thrones\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Orange is the New Black\u003c/em>,\u003cem> Homeland\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Downton Abbey\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Hannibal\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Walking Dead\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Scandal\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Sherlock\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Girls, House of Cards\u003c/em> and probably a dozen more. For anyone with a job, a family and/or an active social life, that's a staggering order. No matter how high the quality is, not many people have the free time to pack an extra 10 hours or so of required entertainment into their weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Older folks decry the loss of communal entertainment, that bygone era when you knew all of your neighbors were watching \u003cem>I Love Lucy\u003c/em> on Monday night and seeing the same movie at the single-screen theater downtown on the weekend. The current overabundance of entertainment options, coupled with the ascendance of social media, has somewhat ironically ushered in a new era of communal consumption, albeit a fragmented and specialized one. Pop into your Twitter feed on certain Sunday nights and you're likely wading into dozens of simultaneous \u003cem>Mad Men \u003c/em>live tweets. If you can't make it out to that big music festival, you can rest assured that all your friends will be posting envy-inspiring pics all day long. 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You can watch only what's available on your streaming service of choice, or focus solely on your local music scene, or set up viewing parties with your friends and agree not to watch anything until you're all together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To borrow a phrase, the key to this whole conundrum might be learning to accept the things one cannot change. There's always going to be a Hot New Thing that I \u003cem>have \u003c/em>to experience. This winter it was \u003cem>True Detective\u003c/em>. By fall, it'll be something else entirely. Some of those things I'll get around to, some of them I won't. In the meantime, I'm going to be left out of a lot of conversations I might once have dominated. As much as that stings, I suppose I can take some solace in my otherwise fulfilling, well-rounded daily existence. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/pop/2014/04/10/i-learned-everything-i-need-to-know-from-the-muppets/muppets-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11806\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11806\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/muppets-2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Jay Buchsbaum/Muppets Studio LLC \" width=\"640\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/muppets-2.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2014/04/muppets-2-400x252.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Jay Buchsbaum/Muppets Studio LLC\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Jenn Zipp\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, I found myself shoving and elbowing past children to get to the front of the ticket line on \u003cem>Muppets Most Wanted\u003c/em>'s opening weekend. I stopped to wonder, \"Even as a 31-year-old woman, why do I have this weird affinity for the Muppets?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every time I see Kermit on the big screen or Elmo doing interviews on daytime TV, it's like I'm seeing someone from my small town make it big. Like many kids, I grew up watching Jim Henson-created kid shows, such as \u003cem>Sesame Street\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Fraggle Rock\u003c/em>. And as I got older, I caught on to more of the jokes and pop culture references on \u003cem>The Muppet Show\u003c/em> reruns and \u003cem>Muppets Tonight\u003c/em>. It was as if those furry little guys were growing up with me!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while so many female Millennials compare themselves to Lena Dunham or ask \"What would Carrie Bradshaw do?,\" I find myself relying on the life lessons I've learned through watching the Muppets. Here are some of them:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Embrace Your Inner Uncle Traveling Matt\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/72DAmpVRe-Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Fraggle Rock\u003c/em> featured an explorer by the name of Uncle Traveling Matt, the only Fraggle that left the caves in pursuit of a life of adventure in the human world, or what they called \"Outer Space.\" His observations of humans (known as \"Silly Creatures\") were documented on postcards that were sent back to his nephew, Gobo Fraggle, who idolized Matt for his bravery in a brand new world. I always thought it was so sad that Outer Space was only a mouse hole away, yet the Fraggles were always too caught up with their every day lives of radish-stealing, sock darning, and \u003ca href=\"http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Doozer_sticks\">doozer stick\u003c/a> eating to explore the Silly Creature culture that fascinated them. So whenever I'm faced with an opportunity to travel, I take it. No matter how scared I might be of the unknown, the thought of wondering what I might miss is scarier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Get Control of Your \u003c/strong>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Eat-\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003cstrong>motions\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/9PnbKL3wuH4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Part of being a functional adult is learning how to recognize the difference between your wants and your needs, and not giving into every single indulgent urge you might have. I love to eat and often use food as a crutch. Usually, this particular type of binge eating comes with emotion, or as I like to call it, \u003cem>Eat\u003c/em>-motion. There are two Muppets that are cut from the same cloth: Cookie Monster and Animal. I've seen both these guys eat everything from cookies and drum kits to hubcaps and glass, and both have moved on from their binging: Cookie Monster has been put on a strict diet of vegetables and, in the last Muppets movie, Animal was put in an anger management program where his new mantra was \"No drums, no drums. Jack Black said no drums.\" Taking a cue from these two, I try to resist the temptation of a super carnitas burrito every time I walk by a taqueria. Looks like we're all growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Karate Chop Your Frog If He's Just Not That Into You\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/TZRB6dLIdG8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Matters of the heart become more and more complicated when you’re an adult. The older you get, the more you’re willing to overlook character flaws in your S.O. out of fear that you’ll wind up alone and/or eaten by your cats. But watching Miss Piggy over the years has helped me realize that, even though loyalty is an admirable virtue, not having a backbone leads to a whole lot of heartache. I mean, the whole cat and mouse thing (or pig and frog thing, in this case) has gone on for decades now. Miss Piggy wants a commitment, Kermit isn't sure, Piggy runs away, Kermie finds her and says he misses her, she caves... Miss Piggy, girl, you are a well-dressed, well-fed piece of swine. You could get any pig or frog or farm animal of your choosing. Stop wasting your time on a banjo-playing commitment-phobic amphibian. If your man won’t commit, then it’s time to look for someone who will (like the captain from \u003cem>Pigs in Space\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hoarding Leads to Misery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/mUXojQ_nhD4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Oscar the Grouch was initially brought onto \u003cem>Sesame Street\u003c/em> to mock bad attitudes. Instead, he instilled a fear in me that, if I didn't literally clean up my act, I would be teetering on hoarder status and become a miserable person as a result. Oscar was the definition of a hoarder, going as far as collecting living things, like Slimey, his pet worm, and Fluffy, his pet elephant. (I can only imagine what kind of pet skeletons he has down there.) Whenever I have a sink full of dishes, I remind myself that I'm only a dirty tupperware away from being a furry homeless Muppet that calls a trash can a home. Your attitude is highly reflective of your surroundings, so the tidier the environment, the happier the disposition. Take notes, Oscar, take notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Odder The Couple, The Better\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/E3yJOltPJ8U\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>When we seek relationships with other people, we sometimes focus so much on the similarities that we forget it's sometimes better to find someone that complements your personality rather than someone who matches it identically. A great example would be the odd couple of \u003cem>Sesame Street\u003c/em>, Bert and Ernie. Longtime friends/roommates, Bert and Ernie are vastly different from one another. Bert likes to read, watch pigeons, eat oatmeal and collect bottle caps. Ernie invites sheep over for late night dance parties, likes taking baths with his rubber duckie, and playing drums.They couldn't be more different, but they've made it work by teaching each other about sharing, how to fish, and why eating cookies in bed is a bad idea. It's all about acceptance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Work Hard, Play Hard\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/1abGUL626yo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>My mom would like to take credit for instilling my strong work ethic, that no-nonsense, “do whatever it takes to get the job done” sensibility that makes me a likely candidate for any job. But really, the Doozers of \u003cem>Fraggle Rock \u003c/em>are the ones responsible for teaching me about hard work. The Doozers were mini green construction workers stuck in an endless cycle of lovingly building entire cities, Fraggles being jerks and gobbling up those cities, and Doozers diligently rebuilding their towns. They all worked for the communal good, no one took credit for any particular achievements and they lived together in Doozer Dome, where the number one value was cooperation. Basically, Doozers were communist, but man, they had great work ethic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Take Yourself Out For A Walk\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/_yaP_kc3y9w\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>It's easy to get caught up with the hustle and bustle of life. Sometimes it's hard to remember to take life as it comes and enjoy the little moments. Whether it's soaking up some piano blues or a good snooze, Rowlf the dog seemed to know how to take things in stride. Rarely caught up in the drama and hype, Rowlf often provided a calmer perspective and a laid back approach to life's ailments. \"I finish work, I go home, read a book, have a couple of beers, take myself out for a walk and go to bed.\" He really follows the Matthew McConaughey approach to life and \u003ca href=\"http://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/matthew-mcconaughey-tells-teens-just-keep-livin\">just keeps livin'\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Don't Be Afraid to Call Your Own Shots\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/_qfuWJzo82k\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Just because you’re an adult doesn’t mean that you can’t have role models. 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The story is well thought out and the details and continuity are perfect -- like if \u003cem>Lost \u003c/em>had lived up to the hype. Sure, the grass is sometimes a bit too mowed and the girls don't appear to have hairy legs or armpits (no one would have time to shave in the apocalypse, guys), but we'll overlook that. Get over the hump and watch this show so we can start talking about it!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Are You The One?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/U0l0pClT5vE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Yes, this a highly contrived relationship reality show on MTV. Yes, it is set in Hawaii and involves enough alcohol to get the college-aged participants kicked out of school, if they were the types to go to college, which they are not. But look, you aren't going to watch every cheesy show MTV puts out. 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