Louisa Mellor Feb 16, 2018
To mark the release of Netflix’s 90s-set Everything Sucks!, here are a dozen more recommended nostalgic comedies…
The 90s felt so good that some of us never left. We’re still there, wearing Converse All-Stars, drinking blackcurrant Hooch and listening to Natalie Imbruglia. When we zone out in the monthly budgetary planning meeting, we’re doodling band logos and daydreaming about Alicia Silverstone in that Aerosmith video.
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This Friday welcomes new nineties-set high school comedy Everything Sucks! to Netflix. A sweet comedy set in the real-life town of Boring, Oregon in 1996, it’s the story of two outsider kids Luke and Kate, a would-be filmmaker and the principal’s daughter. It’s piled with retro references that will wrap around nineties kids like a warm blanket (and,...
To mark the release of Netflix’s 90s-set Everything Sucks!, here are a dozen more recommended nostalgic comedies…
The 90s felt so good that some of us never left. We’re still there, wearing Converse All-Stars, drinking blackcurrant Hooch and listening to Natalie Imbruglia. When we zone out in the monthly budgetary planning meeting, we’re doodling band logos and daydreaming about Alicia Silverstone in that Aerosmith video.
See related Collateral episode 1 review New on Netflix UK: what's added in February 2018? 28 British TV dramas to watch in 2018
This Friday welcomes new nineties-set high school comedy Everything Sucks! to Netflix. A sweet comedy set in the real-life town of Boring, Oregon in 1996, it’s the story of two outsider kids Luke and Kate, a would-be filmmaker and the principal’s daughter. It’s piled with retro references that will wrap around nineties kids like a warm blanket (and,...
- 2/15/2018
- Den of Geek
Code Monkeys
Showcase Inventory
Created by Adam de la Pena
Produced by Jennifer Saxon Gore and Tony Strickland
Aired on G4 for two seasons (26 episodes) from July 11, 2007 – August 17, 2008
Cast
Adam de la Pena as Dave
Matt Mariska as Jerry
Andy Sipes as Bob “Big” T. and Dean Larrity
Dana Snyder as Todd and Benny
Tony Strickland as Black Steve
Gretchen McNeil as Mary
Suzanne Keilly as Clare
Show Premise
Set during the home entertainment boom of the early 1980s, the show follows the daily lives of the video game programmers of a fictional company by the name of GameAvision. The episodes regularly focus on two employees: Dave, a slacker programming savant and Jerry, his office mate/workhorse. The series begins when former CEO owner Steve Wozniak sells the company to a wealthy tycoon named Bob Larrity, who has his own ideas on how to run GameAvision. The series stems a...
Showcase Inventory
Created by Adam de la Pena
Produced by Jennifer Saxon Gore and Tony Strickland
Aired on G4 for two seasons (26 episodes) from July 11, 2007 – August 17, 2008
Cast
Adam de la Pena as Dave
Matt Mariska as Jerry
Andy Sipes as Bob “Big” T. and Dean Larrity
Dana Snyder as Todd and Benny
Tony Strickland as Black Steve
Gretchen McNeil as Mary
Suzanne Keilly as Clare
Show Premise
Set during the home entertainment boom of the early 1980s, the show follows the daily lives of the video game programmers of a fictional company by the name of GameAvision. The episodes regularly focus on two employees: Dave, a slacker programming savant and Jerry, his office mate/workhorse. The series begins when former CEO owner Steve Wozniak sells the company to a wealthy tycoon named Bob Larrity, who has his own ideas on how to run GameAvision. The series stems a...
- 1/10/2015
- by Jean Pierre Diez
- SoundOnSight
Comic-Con is releasing its daily schedules over this long holiday weekend and the schedule for Saturday, July 20 has just come out. The day features panels on TV favorites like How I Met Your Mother (at the Con for the first time!), True Blood, and The Vampire Diaries as well as upcoming shows like Dracula and The Originals, and much more. Many of the major film panels are Saturday, including a look at the upcoming Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the Marvel panel, which will feature the Thor and Captain America sequels, and WB and Legendary’s panel featuring Godzilla, and Gravity.
- 7/6/2013
- by Laura Hertzfeld
- EW.com - PopWatch
Have you ever watched a movie or TV show that featured a video game and thought to yourself, "I'd love to play that game"? Sadly those amazing titles are created specifically for that other world (since it's a lot easier than securing the rights to an actual game), and exist only in the realm of fantasy. While the games may be fake, it's hard to deny the allure of them, ridiculous concepts and all.
Cock Goblin (Code Monkeys)
This is from one of my favorite video game based shows out there: Code Monkeys. Cock Goblin is a fantasy RPG who's main character was a half-chicken, half-goblin hybrid...hence the title. Needless to say, many jokes spawned from this like the sword polisher (who rides an ass) and even a secondary player known as the big black cock goblin.
Sounds like fun for the whole family, right? RPG games are always...
Cock Goblin (Code Monkeys)
This is from one of my favorite video game based shows out there: Code Monkeys. Cock Goblin is a fantasy RPG who's main character was a half-chicken, half-goblin hybrid...hence the title. Needless to say, many jokes spawned from this like the sword polisher (who rides an ass) and even a secondary player known as the big black cock goblin.
Sounds like fun for the whole family, right? RPG games are always...
- 3/8/2013
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Jordan Maison)
- Cinelinx
Actor, comedian and musician Tommy Chong announced Saturday that he's fighting prostate cancer. At 74, one-half of the Cheech and Chong comedy duo told CNN that he first was noticing symptoms about eight years prior but was only diagnosed one month ago. As of now, its only at a "slow stage one."
"I’ve got prostate cancer, and I’m treating it with hemp oil, with cannabis," he told CNN’s Don Lemon. "So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested."
Known for his real life marijuana-loving ways that's even transcended on screen with his role on That '70s Show, Chong's use of the drug isn't a surprise to anyone. He did reveal though they he was drug free for about three years and that's the time when he started having issues with his health.
To many he's...
"I’ve got prostate cancer, and I’m treating it with hemp oil, with cannabis," he told CNN’s Don Lemon. "So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested."
Known for his real life marijuana-loving ways that's even transcended on screen with his role on That '70s Show, Chong's use of the drug isn't a surprise to anyone. He did reveal though they he was drug free for about three years and that's the time when he started having issues with his health.
To many he's...
- 6/10/2012
- by Stephanie Webber
- Filmology
Actor, comedian and musician Tommy Chong announced Saturday that he's fighting prostate cancer. At 74, one-half of the Cheech and Chong comedy duo told CNN that he first was noticing symptoms about eight years prior but was only diagnosed one month ago. As of now, its only at a "slow stage one."
"I’ve got prostate cancer, and I’m treating it with hemp oil, with cannabis," he told CNN’s Don Lemon. "So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested."
Known for his real life marijuana-loving ways that's even transcended on screen with his role on That '70s Show, Chong's use of the drug isn't a surprise to anyone. He did reveal though they he was drug free for about three years and that's the time when he started having issues with his health.
To many he's...
"I’ve got prostate cancer, and I’m treating it with hemp oil, with cannabis," he told CNN’s Don Lemon. "So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested."
Known for his real life marijuana-loving ways that's even transcended on screen with his role on That '70s Show, Chong's use of the drug isn't a surprise to anyone. He did reveal though they he was drug free for about three years and that's the time when he started having issues with his health.
To many he's...
- 6/10/2012
- by Stephanie Webber
- Filmology
Actor, comedian and musician Tommy Chong announced Saturday that he's fighting prostate cancer. At 74, one-half of the Cheech and Chong comedy duo told CNN that he first was noticing symptoms about eight years prior but was only diagnosed one month ago. As of now, its only at a "slow stage one."
"I’ve got prostate cancer, and I’m treating it with hemp oil, with cannabis," he told CNN’s Don Lemon. "So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested."
Known for his real life marijuana-loving ways that's even transcended on screen with his role on That '70s Show, Chong's use of the drug isn't a surprise to anyone. He did reveal though they he was drug free for about three years and that's the time when he started having issues with his health.
To many he's...
"I’ve got prostate cancer, and I’m treating it with hemp oil, with cannabis," he told CNN’s Don Lemon. "So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested."
Known for his real life marijuana-loving ways that's even transcended on screen with his role on That '70s Show, Chong's use of the drug isn't a surprise to anyone. He did reveal though they he was drug free for about three years and that's the time when he started having issues with his health.
To many he's...
- 6/10/2012
- by Stephanie Webber
- Celebsology
Actor, comedian and musician Tommy Chong announced Saturday that he's fighting prostate cancer. At 74, one-half of the Cheech and Chong comedy duo told CNN that he first was noticing symptoms about eight years prior but was only diagnosed one month ago. As of now, its only at a "slow stage one."
"I’ve got prostate cancer, and I’m treating it with hemp oil, with cannabis," he told CNN’s Don Lemon. "So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested."
Known for his real life marijuana-loving ways that's even transcended on screen with his role on That '70s Show, Chong's use of the drug isn't a surprise to anyone. He did reveal though they he was drug free for about three years and that's the time when he started having issues with his health.
To many he's...
"I’ve got prostate cancer, and I’m treating it with hemp oil, with cannabis," he told CNN’s Don Lemon. "So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested."
Known for his real life marijuana-loving ways that's even transcended on screen with his role on That '70s Show, Chong's use of the drug isn't a surprise to anyone. He did reveal though they he was drug free for about three years and that's the time when he started having issues with his health.
To many he's...
- 6/10/2012
- by Stephanie Webber
- TVology
ust a few seconds of watching this one and you can tell Code Monkeys’ creator Adam de la Peña is behind it. Your Dungeon My Dragon bowed this week as one of Microsoft’s most ambitious multi-platform animated series to date. The 8-bit styled animated comedy is a classic incompetent faceoff of good vs. evil guilds fighting in a neverending daily grind of mediocrity. Microsoft is calling this a first-ever on Xbox and MSN, with an original episodic series woven together with two original games. For now the episodes are not embeddable, so you’ll have to click out to the microsite to watch. A YouTube channel is being set up for the series, but as of now has not launched. Related News:‘The Guild’ Season 3 Begins on XBox, Inks Retail DVD Deal ‘The Guild’ Season 5, Comic-Con, Honeybadger and Jones Soda ‘The Guild’ Renewed by Microsoft for Season 5...
- 11/11/2011
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
This week: Will there be a sequel to Shelter? What makes an anti-slur word offensive? Are gay foreign films better than American ones?
Have a question about gay male entertainment? Contact me here (and be sure and include your city and state and/or country!)
Q: Hey Arnold, the popular 1990s TV show on Nickelodeon, is known for subtly touching on issues which most, if not all, other children's shows wouldn't touch. For example, one of the character's moms was obviously an alcoholic, and the kids' fourth-grade teacher was gay (this was confirmed by the guy who made the show, Craig Bartlett). Are there any other children's shows with gay characters, whose gayness has been officially confirmed? -- Selina, Suny Oneonta
A: You’re right that creator Craig Barlett did confirm, after-the-fact, that Robert Simmons, Arnold’s second fourth grade teacher (voiced by Frasier’s Dan Butler, an out actor), was gay.
Have a question about gay male entertainment? Contact me here (and be sure and include your city and state and/or country!)
Q: Hey Arnold, the popular 1990s TV show on Nickelodeon, is known for subtly touching on issues which most, if not all, other children's shows wouldn't touch. For example, one of the character's moms was obviously an alcoholic, and the kids' fourth-grade teacher was gay (this was confirmed by the guy who made the show, Craig Bartlett). Are there any other children's shows with gay characters, whose gayness has been officially confirmed? -- Selina, Suny Oneonta
A: You’re right that creator Craig Barlett did confirm, after-the-fact, that Robert Simmons, Arnold’s second fourth grade teacher (voiced by Frasier’s Dan Butler, an out actor), was gay.
- 8/30/2010
- by michael
- The Backlot
It's like someone stole one of my babies. Except that baby is made of money, instead of useless baby meat. -Mr. Larrity
"Code Monkeys" is a vile and offensive show without the slightest redeeming value. And I love it.
It airs on G4, which is exactly the channel that pops to mind when you try to think of the channel that just epitomizes original television. Honestly, until I stumbled across "Code Monkeys" online at a friend's recommendation, I'd have told you that G4 was just a home shopping network channel for expensive but crappy gadgets, hosted by Olivia Munn's cleavage. The show has aired two seasons, with 13 episodes each, and a third season is planned for the summer of 2010.
Set at Gameavision, a video game company in the 1980s, the show is rendered entirely in 8-bit graphics with the sound and video effects closely mimicking video games of the era.
"Code Monkeys" is a vile and offensive show without the slightest redeeming value. And I love it.
It airs on G4, which is exactly the channel that pops to mind when you try to think of the channel that just epitomizes original television. Honestly, until I stumbled across "Code Monkeys" online at a friend's recommendation, I'd have told you that G4 was just a home shopping network channel for expensive but crappy gadgets, hosted by Olivia Munn's cleavage. The show has aired two seasons, with 13 episodes each, and a third season is planned for the summer of 2010.
Set at Gameavision, a video game company in the 1980s, the show is rendered entirely in 8-bit graphics with the sound and video effects closely mimicking video games of the era.
- 3/17/2010
- by Steven Lloyd Wilson
A few days ago I had to opportunity to do a phone interview with “geek culture” music legend Jonathan Coulton. Whether singing about zombies, robots, or bacteria, Coulton’s witty and scifi oriented songs have become hugely popular, so much so that Coulton’s music is now used for the opening of the G4 show Code Monkeys and the popular and catchy theme song from the video game Portal. Check out the interview below.
Rebekah Mckendry/Starlog- I first became really familiar with your work because of the Portal song and recently I saw you again when you did the live Riff Track performance. So let me start by asking you how you got involved with Riff Tracks?
Jonathan- I’ve been a fan of theirs for a long time, actually. I used to watch Mystery Science Theater 3000. I was doing a show in San Diego which is where Mike Nelson lived.
Rebekah Mckendry/Starlog- I first became really familiar with your work because of the Portal song and recently I saw you again when you did the live Riff Track performance. So let me start by asking you how you got involved with Riff Tracks?
Jonathan- I’ve been a fan of theirs for a long time, actually. I used to watch Mystery Science Theater 3000. I was doing a show in San Diego which is where Mike Nelson lived.
- 9/20/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (Rebekah McKendry)
- Starlog
A few days ago I had to opportunity to do a phone interview with “geek culture” music legend Jonathan Coulton. Whether singing about zombies, robots, or bacteria, Coulton’s witty and scifi oriented songs have become hugely popular, so much so that Coulton’s music is now used for the opening of the G4 show Code Monkeys and the popular and catchy theme song from the video game Portal. Check out the interview below.
Rebekah Mckendry/Fangoria- I first became really familiar with your work because of the Portal song and recently I saw you again when you did the live Riff Track performance. So let me start by asking you how you got involved with Riff Tracks?
Jonathan- I’ve been a fan of theirs for a long time, actually. I used to watch Mystery Science Theater 3000. I was doing a show in San Diego which is where Mike Nelson lived.
Rebekah Mckendry/Fangoria- I first became really familiar with your work because of the Portal song and recently I saw you again when you did the live Riff Track performance. So let me start by asking you how you got involved with Riff Tracks?
Jonathan- I’ve been a fan of theirs for a long time, actually. I used to watch Mystery Science Theater 3000. I was doing a show in San Diego which is where Mike Nelson lived.
- 9/20/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Rebekah McKendry)
- Fangoria
Cannes -- Comcast International Media Group's Asia Pacific operation opens the MIPCOM programming market Monday with 700 hours of licensing deals signed over the past six months, including a new deal for The Style Network branded block on Foxtel's Arena Channel in Australia.
Managing director Christine Fellowes also said at the weekend that the Asia Pacific business would end 2008 up on last year, with ad sales being the biggest growth area.
New licensing deals for E!, The Style Network, G4 and Versus titles include India, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand.
Australia's Fuel TV bought G4 series "Code Monkeys," and Discovery Asia's just-launched Discovery Turbo bought Versus1 "Rock the Boat."
Newly branded Philippines' free-tv channel, TV5, acquired "Holy @#$%!"
Comcast's Asia licensing deals follow the announcement of The Style Network's launch on Singapore's StarHub cable TV platform and Japan's World On Demand Iptv service this month.
Managing director Christine Fellowes also said at the weekend that the Asia Pacific business would end 2008 up on last year, with ad sales being the biggest growth area.
New licensing deals for E!, The Style Network, G4 and Versus titles include India, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand.
Australia's Fuel TV bought G4 series "Code Monkeys," and Discovery Asia's just-launched Discovery Turbo bought Versus1 "Rock the Boat."
Newly branded Philippines' free-tv channel, TV5, acquired "Holy @#$%!"
Comcast's Asia licensing deals follow the announcement of The Style Network's launch on Singapore's StarHub cable TV platform and Japan's World On Demand Iptv service this month.
- 10/12/2008
- by By Janine Stein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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