Results tagged “exhibita”

On this Valentine's Day, we also take the time to honor the kind of love that exists between two straight dudes -- the primarily heterosexual feelings that a man has for his BFF. Exhibit A: Stan and Kyle. Exhibit B: Jay and Silent Bob. Exhibit C: Matt and Ben, the celebrity spoof of the relationship between Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, focusing on the period right before they became famous (i.e., the making of Good Will Hunting). Except in this case, the duo didn't so much write the Oscar-winning screenplay that catapulted them to celebrity status as it literally fell out of sky, fully composed, into Ben's apartment while the two aspiring stars were working on a whole other project: their film adaptation of Catcher in the Rye.

Courtney Love) and we more or less recall the political foment of The Evergreen State College, the lo-pro, no-letter-grades hothouse that produced Rachel Corrie, the student-activist who was killed when she was struck by bulldozer in Gaza three years ago today.

Oh, how the television gods have smiled on us today. After months, nay, years—wait a minute....ten, carry the one—nay, months of cringing at each week's Meredith-dispensed nuggets of, um, wisdom, and begging for mercy, or at the very least a quick and painful execution to put us out of our misery, we're greeted with the sweet, sweet clemency of a George-dictated show. What, oh what have we done to deserve this? Oh, yeah. (Take that, Stacy Keibler. That's right, we said it.) The universe has been righted, once again.

Note to programming execs: Surprises are generally more surprising when they aren't teased within an inch of their life in the week prior to said surprise. Exhibit A: The bombshell info Izzie drops on us halfway through this week's episode that we just Did. Not. See. Coming. Just when we had written off these pre-Super Bowl episodes as a month of filler, you snap back to it and rock us like a hurricane. Nicely done.