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...least likely Peabody Award candidate, it's a good-natured celebration of American cheese--wrestling, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Girls Gone Wild videos--that pits Dwayne and Denny against their stepdad, a self-important, wealthy game-show host (John O'Hurley, who was the self-important, wealthy J. Peterman on Seinfeld). Co-creator Josh Weinstein says the clash is meant to be a throwback to the populist comedy of the Clampetts and Mr. Drysdale--as well as The Simpsons, on which he and co-creator Bill Oakley were producers and writers. "Like the Beverly Hillbillies or Homer," he says, "these guys...
...replayed often on BBC America; the British series is one of those exports that have developed an exaggerated reputation among a certain set mostly because it's hard to get here, like Marmite. In its BBC version, it's Friends with Sex and the City raunch and Seinfeld cynicism. NBC bought it and put it through the Homogenomatic 3000, hiring a perky cast, cutting the nastier edges. The sanitized-for-America's-protection version has still generated a lot of attention for, among other lines, an allusion to shaving a tender part of the anatomy...
Break out those Seinfeld tapes piled in your closet. Hewlett-Packard recently unveiled the DVD Movie Writer dc3000, the first device that combines a DVD recorder and an analog-to-digital converter in one box--meaning you can transfer your VHS tapes to DVDs. The gadget includes software for your PC and connects to a VCR or a camcorder using standard video cables. In a few clicks, more than two hours of footage can be transferred onto a single disc. The software breaks the DVD into chapters, allowing you to skip to your favorite scenes, and comes with an editing...
...context, and his one original explanation for I Love Lucy's enduring success is just weird: people love it because it is in black and white. "There is something incompatible," Kanfer writes, "about humor and color." (Let's see how Kanfer massages that theory should he ever write Jerry Seinfeld...
...next to Lekior's in intensive care, Steve Averbach, a victim of an earlier bus bombing, on May 18, watches Seinfeld on a portable television through eyes barely open. Seven people died in that blast, which left Averbach with a spinal-cord injury and lung damage. One of the nurses who cared for him was Naela Haeik, who was born in an Arab village in Israel's Galilee region. She recalls that after surgeons operated on Averbach's spine, she spent four hours settling him into his bed. She hooked the 37-year-old father of four onto a cardiac...