Word: seasonal
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...show's fans love the randomness. This season's premiere (a spoof of the sci-fi series Sliders) was almost self-parody: evil tot Stewie invents a dimension-travel device and takes talking dog Brian (the best-developed "person" on the show) to a series of parallel universes, where we see them drawn as Disney characters, Washington Post cartoons and so on. The manatees were working overtime. (See the 100 best TV shows of all time...
...Family Guy, uses Stan to send up post-9/11 jingoism.) It's that the show has a point of view at all. It's about something - satirizing the war on terrorism - and it invests time in its characters without ping-ponging between gags. It's still outrageous: the season premiere had Stan take nerdy son Steve to a Vietnam War re-enactment to toughen him up. (Sending up Vietnam-flick clichés, it played "Fortunate Son" over Viet Cong paintball ambushes.) But by focusing on father and son trying to connect, the episode also ended up touching and real...
During the 2009 spring season, one of the most compelling stories about Harvard men’s lightweight crew was the dominance of its freshman boat. The Crimson rookies blew by the competition week in and week...
Eiermann acknowledged that the boat lineups had been shuffled, as the Harvard coaches are experimenting with different mixes before finalizing their boats for the spring season. He was encouraged by the Crimson’s performance across the board, especially since the 2V and 3V boats rowed well compared to their counterparts from other schools...
...article "Rookies Dominate Field at Princeton’s Carnegie Chase" incorrectly stated that the Harvard men's lightweight crew's freshman boat came up short against Princeton last April 25. In fact, Yale's was the only team to place ahead of the boat in the 2009 spring season...