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The 13 Best TV Episodes To Celebrate Summer

The Huffington Post | HuffPost TV Staff | Posted 05.25.2012

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Warm weather, sunshine, the beach, cursed tiki statues, this is the stuff of summer TV episodes. With the hot sun comes vacation, and our favorite...

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New TV Slates Prove Dramas Are So Last Season

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 05.22.2012

NEW YORK -- Broadcast television networks are determined to make you laugh. The resurgence of situation comedies is the clearest trend to emerge from...

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The Golden Girls & 5 More TV Characters Who Appreciate Food

HelloGiggles | Posted 05.08.2012

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I am a pretty big fan of food and an even bigger fan of people who enjoy a good meal. I can't tell you how annoyed I get when out to dinner with someo...

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Mad Men Through the Boomer Lens: Sleeping with the Boss Makes Everything More Fun!

Steven C. Eisner | Posted 04.30.2012

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There are many perils inherent in the husband-wife workplace duo.

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TV's 17 Best Issue-tainment Shows of All Time

Evan Shapiro | Posted 04.19.2012

TV is a medium of great power, influence... and profit. One can simultaneously entertain and inspire (enspire?) -- and garner big ratings while doing it. Here is my list of TV's 17 Best Issue-tainment Shows of All Time.

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Where Are You Pinky Lee?

Pat Gallagher | Posted 05.23.2012

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There are certain things I miss when I reminisce about my childhood, including watching one of my favorite television shows of all time: The Pinky Lee Show.

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Theater Production Of 'I Love Lucy' Engages Audience

Posted 03.22.2012

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"I Love Lucy" may have ended its seven-year run in 1957, but its comedy is timeless. Ball's quirky humor and slap stick delivery, paired with an equal...

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Couples Who Prove Divorce Makes Good TV

Posted 03.02.2012

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Watching "Q'Viva! The Chosen," there are moments could almost forget that its two most famous hosts -- Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony -- are no longe...

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Remembering Desi Arnaz on His 95th Birthday

Posted 03.02.2012

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Desi Arnaz would have turned 95 years old this week. Most recognized as the conga-playing Cuban bandleader on the television classic, I Love Lucy, ...

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Whatever Happened to the Good Ol' Days of Television?

Pat Gallagher | Posted 04.10.2012

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I'll never forget sitting in front of the TV watching the test pattern in anticipation of the greatest children's program of all time to appear on that sweet small screen, hearing Buffalo Bob Smith say: "Hey, kids, what time is it?"

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9 Things To Do Sunday Night Instead of Watching The Super Bowl

Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 04.06.2012

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There are actually other things you could do with those four hours Sunday besides watch the Patriots and Giants do battle: "Downton Abbey" is on, damnnit!

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Idiot's Guide to Belly Laughing

Anastasia Rubis | Posted 04.04.2012

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Imagine sipping a latte at your local coffee shop, and some crazy dude in the rest room throws open the door and hollers for more toilet paper. He's perched on the bowl, hairy legs spread apart. What would you do?

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Expando: A Conversation With Eagle Timothy B. Schmit

Mike Ragogna | Posted 03.03.2012

According to Timothy B. Schmit on the name of his new album, he says the word itself came from a mobile home he used to live in when he was a kid.

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GOP Candidate Compares Newt To 'I Love Lucy'

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.27.2011

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney compared former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to Lucille Ball Tuesday over his failure to qualify for the Virginia...

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The End Of Comedy: New Sitcoms Are Reruns

The New York Times | NEIL GENZLINGER | Posted 11.27.2011

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The other night while I was watching television, Zooey Deschanel said "penis," and I didn't laugh. I didn't even chuckle. "Doesn't this guy read th...

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Latinos On TV: Laughing At Culture, Laughing With It

NPR.org | Posted 12.12.2011

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A look at how Latinos and the Spanish language have been portrayed in, and shaped by, American pop culture over the years, from I Love Lucy to Modern ...

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Lucille Ball. Mehhhhhhhh.

Morgan Evans | Posted 10.07.2011

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It's important to note that Lucille Ball -- while a hilarious and very talented comedic powerhouse of a woman -- did very little to push society towards a thoughtful and intelligent place when women's rights are concerned.

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Google Loves Lucy

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 10.06.2011

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Google's home page on August 6 paid tribute to funny lady Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989), who would have turned 100 on that day. The Emmy Award-winning...

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Favorite Video Clips from I Love Lucy

Posted 10.05.2011

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She would have turned 100 today. So what was it that made I Love Lucy so historically good? Was it because the plots were thoroughly preposter...

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Why Lucy Still Makes Us Laugh

Posted 10.05.2011

In the nine years she reigned as America's most beloved housewife-mother-troublemaker-nutcase, actress-comedian Lucille Ball easily proved that ev...

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We Love Lucy... At 100

Marlo Thomas | Posted 10.04.2011

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Lucille Ball, whose 100th birthday we celebrate this weekend, made us laugh for 50 years. And all I can think of is... it wasn't enough.

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WATCH: Lucy's Longest Laugh

Posted 07.27.2011

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According to "I Love Lucy" aficionados, this is the longest recorded laugh in TV history. The set-up: Lucy is hiding a bunch of eggs ...

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HuffPost Review: Hall Pass

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

I'm not about to debate the value of vulgar humor. But I will say that I welcome the Farrelly brothers back to the R-rated fold with Hall Pass, their funniest film in a decade.

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The Mirror Scene From "I Love Lucy"

Posted 06.25.2011

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Remember the famous mirror scene with Groucho Marx in the Marx Brothers' film "Duck Soup?" Here's how Harpo and Lucille Ball recreated th...

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Who Shot J.R.? Remains the Best TV Cliffhanger Ever

Ed Martin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Americans flocked in record numbers to their television sets thirty years ago this week for the answer to a question that had been top of mind for mon...

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