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The many faces of Nick Offerman

We’re all familiar with the Ron Swanson Pyramid of Greatness, which tells us B.O. is a virtue, crying is only acceptable at funerals and the Grand Canyon and deer protein is on par with romantic love. Due to the ever-evolving physical appearance of Nick Offerman, the actor and comedian who plays Swanson on NBC’s awesome Parks and Recreation, we now need the Nick Offerman Pyramid of Facial Greatness. How else are we supposed to process all the dye-jobs, cornrows and risqué poses?

To help you stay current, here’s a rundown of five of Offerman’s most striking looks. Vote for your favorite below.

Classic Ron: Plastic hair, epic mustache, basking in the glow of bacon and eggs.

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by MR on May 23, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by MR on May 23, 2012

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Game of Thrones Power Rankings: The Prince of Winterfell

Welcome to Punching Pete Campbell’s fourth edition of the Game of Thrones Power Rankings. Before proceeding, be sure to review last week’s rankings to track the movement. This week’s satisfying episode was all about building to the season’s conclusion, and fear was the pervasive theme as the characters moved toward war.

Three major factors go into our rankings: 1) overall likability/how much we want the character to die, 2) developments from the most recent episode and 3) how much actual power the characters currently hold in the show. And of course, there’s our own subjectivity, which we won’t hide.

One last very important order of business: SPOILER ALERT: The following entries contain information from the most recent episode of Game of Thrones: “The Prince of Winterfell” (Season 2, Episode 8).

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by MR on May 22, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by MR on May 22, 2012

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Let’s get it on: The most anticipated hookups in TV history

Castle and Beckett first kissed in Season 3′s “Knockdown,” but it didn’t really count since it was part of a ruse.

SPOILER WARNING: This post contains significant plot details from Battlestar Galactica, Castle, Fringe, The Office and Lost. If you haven’t watched the show listed in the subhead, move on to the next section. Then go home, boot up your Netflix live stream and watch every one of these shows. Don’t you want some love in your life?

I’ve watched the penultimate scene from last week’s Season 4 Castle finale approximately 4,731 times. Anyone who’s ever seen an episode of Castle knows there’s only one thing that would warrant such repeat viewing: After four seasons of unrivaled will-they-or-won’t-they tension, Castle and Beckett FINALLY got it on. And it was fucking fantastic.

It also got me thinking: Where does Caskett’s consummation rank among the most anticipated hookups in television history? Turns out, pretty high. This is just one (deranged) woman’s opinion on the top five, so feel free to offer up other suggestions in the comments.

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by MR on May 16, 2012  •  Permalink
Posted in Battlestar Galactica, Castle, Fringe, Hookups, Lost, The Office, TV Shows

Posted by MR on May 16, 2012

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‘How I Met Your Mother’ Season 7 Finale: A step in the right direction

The gang celebrates the birth of Marvin Waitforit Eriksen during the ‘How I Met Your Mother’ finale.

SPOILER ALERT: The following entry contains information through the most recent episodes of How I Met Your Mother: “The Magician’s Code, Parts One and Two” (Season 7, Episodes 23-24).

So it ends. Season 7 of How I Met Your Mother, officially over. Monday’s two-episode finale saw Marshall and Lily have a baby, Ted reunite with Victoria and Barney successfully propose to Quinn, a development that — based on the season’s long-awaited final image — seems inevitably destined to fail. There was more plot advancement in a one-hour span than during the previous two years combined. That point is almost inarguable.

But something else struck me about “The Magician’s Code, Pts. 1 and 2”. For the first time in a long time, How I Met Your Mother was funny again. That, more than anything, was the biggest surprise of all.

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by BG on May 15, 2012  •  Permalink
Posted in CBS, How I Met Your Mother, Jason Segel, TV Shows

Posted by BG on May 15, 2012

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Game of Thrones Power Rankings: A Man Without Honor

Welcome to Punching Pete Campbell’s third edition of the Game of Thrones Power Rankings. Before proceeding, be sure to review last week’s rankings to track the movement. It wasn’t a great episode this week, but we’ve got a new face (or two) vying for the top spot while some of last week’s major climbers tumbled out of the top 10.

Three major factors go into our rankings: 1) overall likability/how much we want the character to die, 2) developments from the most recent episode and 3) how much actual power the characters currently hold in the show. And of course, there’s our own subjectivity, which we won’t hide.

One last very important order of business: SPOILER ALERT: The following entries contain information from the most recent episode of Game of Thrones: “A Man Without Honor” (Season 2, Episode 7).

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by CW on May 14, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by CW on May 14, 2012

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NBC giveth, and NBC taketh away

NBC renewed ‘Community’ for a fourth season, but cut it to 13 episodes and moved it to Friday night.

For TV fans, May is a time of sweeps, finales and cancellation/renewal suspense. It’s also a time to marvel at NBC’s inconsistency. What does the network want? Cookie-cutter shows with broad appeal? High-concept offerings with small but loyal followings? Both? Neither?

NBC’s Thursday night lineup decisions serve as a perfect microcosm for this cognitive dissonance. A quick rundown:

• Community: Despite a midseason cancellation scare and consistently mediocre numbers, the cult hit was picked up for a 13-episode fourth season. However, it’s being bumped from the Thursday night comedy bloc and will air Friday at 8:30, after Whitney and before Grimm. So The Greendale Seven live on, but for how long?

• 30 Rock: After a sixth-season resurgence, Tina Fey and Co. will return for a 13-episode seventh season. Initial reports indicated the 2012-13 run would be 30 Rock’s last, but NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt has since said the “final season” designation is not set in stone.

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by MR on May 13, 2012  •  Permalink
Posted in 30 Rock, Awake, Community, NBC, Parks and Recreation, TV Shows

Posted by MR on May 13, 2012

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Roundtable: ‘Veep’ off to a good start

HBO Veep

Tony Hale (left) plays Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ right-hand man in HBO’s new comedy Veep.

HBO has busted out another new series, Veep, and though we’re just three episodes in, we’ve got a clear picture of what the show is bringing to the table. The PPC writers are all pretty bullish (finance term!) on the show. Why you ask? Well, you’ll have to read on to find out, of course.

1. In 10 words or less, how do you feel about Veep?

CW: Love it, fantastic cast with hilarious dialogue.

MR: It’s bizarre, scatological and insanely awkward. So, totally awesome.

BG: A smart, funny look at Washington ineptitude. Elaine does DC!

2. Where does it stack up on your list of comedies?

MR: It’s got a way to go before it ranks alongside Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The (Original/British) Office and my other all-time favorite comedies, but it’s already become appointment viewing. And given how loaded the Sunday night slate is, that’s really saying something.

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by MR on May 11, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by MR on May 11, 2012

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New ‘Time’ cover features Lysa Arryn?

When Catelyn Stark first traveled to the Eyrie seeking her sister Lysa’s help in dealing with those pesky Wannisters (said in Elmer Fudd voice), she came to a terrible realization: Lysa fell off the deep end and brought her runt of a son with her! The creep-o-meter went through the roof when the breastfeeding began. “But I’m hungry!” Then go get a bowl of Cookie Crisp and stop grabbing your mother’s tits!

Needless to say, we at PPC were shocked by the impact Game of Thrones had on the outside world when Time decided to follow suit with a similarly creepy cover photo. I’m certainly no expert on motherhood, but here are three quick takeaways:

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by CW on May 10, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by CW on May 10, 2012

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Walter White wants your vote … or else

As always, Walter White is the one who knocks.

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains significant plot details from the first four seasons of AMC’s Breaking Bad.

Over four seasons, Breaking Bad‘s Walter White has evolved from neutered sadsack to duplicitous badass, adding “wholesale meth manufacturer” to his résumé, beating Mexican drug lords on their own turf and winning some power back from perhaps the toughest of all foes: his wife. As can be expected after such a journey, White has all but turned his back on morality (see: Lily of the Valley). But at least he still values the righteousness of democracy, even if he’s using his burgeoning reputation and an implication of physical harm to sway votes. (On second thought, maybe that’s not really democracy after all.)

Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences, a real institution in California, is gearing up for its student body presidential election. Candidate Summer Kennedy sought out White’s enemy Gus Fring (killed by White in Season 4 using an elderly kamikaze and a wheelchair rigged with explosives), to film an endorsement video. So Maxwell Ulin, another candidate, one-upped his foe using the same cunning of a behatted Heisenberg, getting White to oppose Fring — and his candidate of choice — one more time.

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by Edward Appleby on May 10, 2012  •  Permalink
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‘Mad Men:’ The end of the beginning

Don listens to The Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows” at the end of “Lady Lazarus,” (Season 5, Episode 8).

“When did music get so important?”

Don’s question to Megan on this week’s Mad Men is one all our grandparents must have asked, and the answer is an in-joke to music snobs everywhere: right now. That is, 1966, the year when four of the greatest albums in the history of popular music — Blonde on Blonde, Face to Face, Revolver (central to this week’s “Lady Lazarus” episode), Pet Sounds (featured prominently in “Far Away Places,” i.e. the Roger acid trip one) — were released within four months of each other.

If Mad Men was going to splash $250,000 for one Beatles song and one only, it couldn’t have chosen better than “Tomorrow Never Knows,” maybe the greatest closing track in the history of pop (sorry, Prince), which, despite not being heard until the end, was Sunday’s thematic centerpiece. Listen to Revolver today. You can try to deny it in an attempt to seem less obvious, you can point to a lot of other groups that are just as important — but, really, can you say anyone did this any better?

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by Jimmy Chairman on May 8, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by Jimmy Chairman on May 8, 2012

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