EPISODE NUMBER: 6034 (March 9, 2010)
GUESTS: Annie Leonard
SEGMENTS: Stephen Colbert Consumer Alert, The WØRD: Define & Conquer
VIDEOS: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
First, I’d like to thank MsInterpreted for helping with the guide yesterday (and with a few power boosts for today’s episode as well). Secondly, I would like to say that it’s 6:30a and the full episode video is not up and I’m seriously missing Hulu right about now.
I’ve got the fever for the flavor of a new episode, Zoners! The ingredients in Taco Night Pringles? A thing of beauty. And while the news cycle is overrun with health care coverage, I’m so ready for something to be passed. I’m insured, and it still cost me $530 to get an MRI yesterday morning due to the deductible. And I’m seriously worried if they find they’re going to have to do surgery on my knee. Paying 30% of a buttload (plus the deductible) is still a buttload. *sigh* Can I please move to Canada long enough to get my knee fixed?
Nothing makes you realize how much stuff you have than moving. And after last month’s move, I realized that sweet baby Jesus, I have too much crap. I found it seriously ironic that she puts down watching TV on a television show. I do see her point though – too much time is wasted shopping and watching TV as opposed to reading, conversing, and generally being a sociable person. Even last night, I stayed home and watched “Lost” because I was just too worn out to go out with some friends. (But a Ben Linus episode?! Sign me up! Love him, LOVE him! So glad they didn’t kill him off. And that moment at the end where he says, with tears in his eyes, “He’s the only one who will have me”, I just wanted to pick him up and hug him, even if he has murdered pretty much everyone who’s ever died on the island. Also, Alex being his student in the Flash Sideways was total awesomesauce. So great to see Guyliner back, and seeing that Widmore is in fact, on his way. But I digress.)
Don’t forget to check out the movie The Story of Stuff, and let us know what you thought of it in the comments!
- I hope you already have sent back your previously recalled item, the Agribaby Cribside Mulcher.
- I know, I know — Taco Night! Which doesn’t just deliver the flavor of a taco, hell, even a taco can do that. These capture the whole Taco Night! It’s right here in the ingredients, see? It says, um: whey, vegetable solids, sunflower oil, opening the refrigerator and seeing there’s nothing else and deciding to make tacos even though you made them two nights ago, cheddar cheese, maltodextrin, salt, Alex tell your sister to come downstairs it’s taco night — what do you mean she’s at Brian’s house? — rice, flour, onion powder, no we can’t eat in front of the TV we’re gonna dine as a family, dried tomato, malic acid, fine — if you don’t want to eat what’s being served, everyone can fend for themselves and watch this family fall apart, but if anyone wants to join me, I’ll be in the dining room enjoying tacos, disodium phosphate, paprika extract, take off that sombrero Alex, I will not be mocked! Oh, and potatoes.
- No! We can’t lose Rush! If he leaves, who will make fun of people with Parkinson’s? When the rest of us do it, it seems kind of mean.
- Words have power, they can hit you like a fist. Especially if you write them on your fist.
- Hahah, she is great. [G-R-A-T-E]
- [Instead of "Offensive Stereotype," "The Situation"]
- It seems like people still like the idea of health care. And why not, health + care. Those are just two positive words jammed together. [Like Cheeseburger + Pringle]
- And couldn’t breathing just be “oxygen addiction?” [Or Restless Lung Syndrome]
- Now who wants the Democrats to pull a legislative gang bang so rubber gloved ass probers can keep you from going to heaven? You know what? We might need health care, because you people are sick.
- Though I’m not sure I trust a public official who has to cut people open to see that they have arms and legs.
- The red circle represents my unquestioning support for the troops, and the blue circle represents my universal condemnation of anything gay, including but not limited to boxer briefs, Jersey Boys, smart cars and baby carrots.
- Yeah, that’s better, I like lady boobs. They got those, whatchacallit, those niblets on the front.
- This can mean only one of two things. Either he believes that respecting the integrity of my fellow humans is more important than my safety, or the pope is hiding something.
- Maybe the Pope doesn’t want to be scanned because he’s a lady. Think about it – he never wears pants, he loves his Prada pumps, and I’ve never seen him with a girlfriend. And I gotta say, as a man, he’s kind of spooky. But as a woman, those are some smokey come-hither eyes.
- Look, I’m not saying I want to be eaten. I’m just saying it’s nice to be asked.
- Our diet has practically made us a new species – Hoho sapiens.
- You must be going “Whee, let’s have a depression!”
- Are you saying that my beanbag chair is …. gay?
- I hate to tell you this, but this book is stuff.
I loved when the Venn diagram turned into boobies. I am a child.
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GRATE show! But I voted TipWag. Spinny lights excite me.
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The pringles thing was hysterical!
Funny, the intersection of the Venn diagram didn’t look like a rainbow on my TV. And I did think that it was supposed to be rainbow colored and was a bit confused at the color that it was. It just looked like red, blue and yellow stripes on my TV. But maybe I was just laying down and watching the the TV at an odd angle, so the color looked a bit distorted. Or maybe I’m just color blind. Who knows. But I swear I thought it was supposed to be a rainbow, so when I saw that screen cap above I was just like, “I knew it!”
Can I also say how great the interview was last night on The Daily Show?
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Oh man. I love when Jon gets all heated like that. It seems like the angrier I get when talking to someone, the less articulate I become. But with him it’s like the complete opposite. He’s even more well spoken and elegant in the way he makes his points, if that’s even possible.
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I agree with everything you said about Jon. :]
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I was finally just able to watch it and I loved it! Though I will admit that once in a while Jon has so much to say that he talks over someone, Thiessen rolled over throughout the whole interview. Then he felt the need to whine at the end of it about not getting his point across. You agreed to go on the show, knowing full well what kind of interviewer Jon is, and then you’re going to b***h at the end of it? Jon rocked the entire thing, it was a thing of beauty. I love how he was so exhausted at the end of the show that the camera showed him laying on the floor by his desk ha! :D
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I agree. I thought Jon gave Thiessen plenty of space to get his points across. Thiessen was just too caught up in trying to be as combative as possible to actually say something when he opened his mouth. I thought Jon was quite gracious at the end to apologize, explain that the rest of the interview would be online, and keep apologizing as Thiessen kept whining. I would have just said some variant of “Shut your pie-hole.” But, I would have said that much sooner, too.
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I died laughing at the line “take off that sombrero Alex, I will not be mocked.” I don’t why but I had tears in my eyes it was so funny.
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Me too! My favorite line of the night and I don’t even know why!
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Even my ten year old got that! And she thought some of those flavors must be fake, especially the ones recalled. I told her to look it up if she wanted but she didn’t care enough.
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Count that as my favorite line as well! The whole scenario has most likely been played out by my family at some point! Funny cause it’s true!?
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I was my favorite line of the
evening, too! Maybe we’re on to something! “Sombrero” is a great word.
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That was one of my favorite lines. The other one that had me laughing out loud was, “I hate to tell you this, but this book is stuff.” :D
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The Pringles bit was so fantastic – I had absolutely no idea there were THAT many flavors. And I laughed so hard when he read the ingredients for Taco Night Pringles. “take off that sombrero Alex, I will not be mocked!” – that line was too funny!
I loved TotH/WotF, as always. He looked adorable when he started dancing to that music. Oh, and I loved The Word too! I will definitely be checking out that movie, The Story of Stuff, online tonight. I thought the guest was great – it’s nice when you can really tell that the guest knows what they’re talking about.
Was it just me, or did he look particularly lovely last night? I loved that suit and tie.
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At what point do the Pringles flavors start tasting the same? It is always fun when Stephen works with props and the vast amount of Pringles cans being placed on the desk was scary and hilarious. I wouldn’t have been suprised if he had shown a Prescott brand Pringles as well!
Wonderful show. I feel like I need to see it again. So much to see, laugh and think about!
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Anyone else get an overwhelming hankering for some Pringles last night? Loved how he just shoved them off the desk when he was done with them.
Ditto to everything you said about Lost, DB. Loves me some Ben. I liked how they had him lecturing on Napoleon at the beginning; very fitting. My favorite line of the night though was after Ilana finds out how Jacob died, and Miles just looks at Ben and goes, “Uh oh.” Something about the way he said it just cracked me up.
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I just loved the Pringles segment! Especially when Stephen stopped, then stopped again, and kept on pulling out more cans to the delight of the audience. It does seem hard to believe they are all real, but it fit in so well as it happened with the guest and her point of view that we Americans have way too much stuff (I know I do).
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you love lost too? i love lost! but i’m glad its going out wonderfully.
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LOVE me some Lost! Have you seen the Ack Attack? It’s nine kinds of awesome for Lost fans.
http://www.theackattack.com
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