TV Junkies

Good results for last weeks poll that asked:
What TV show are you most looking forward to seeing again?
LOST, which airs again starting February 7th, won the poll with 6 votes, 2 votes more than 24 received, which had its season premiere last night.
Heroes, which returns to NBC on January 22nd, lost by one vote to 24.

Complete poll results are below

POLL RESULTS:
LOST 6 votes
24 4 votes
Prisonbreak 1 vote
Heroes 3 votes
The Sopranos 1 vote
American Idol 1 vote
Rome 2 votes
The L Word 0 votes

Tony Soprano is back, and he’s had his dirty mouth cleaned out.

Even the strippers get cleaned up!

Tonight A&E begins airing reruns of the acclaimed crime drama, scrubbed up for basic cable with less cursing, less violence and less sex but the same compelling plotlines and whip-smart dialogue.
The show’s first appearance outside HBO comes four months before the mob drama returns for its final eight original episodes in April and could lead to an uptick in viewership if people who had never watched the show before become fans.
A&E paid a bundle, a record $2.5 million per episode, to acquire rights to the show’s 86 episodes. It took a year for the editing team from HBO and A&E to clean up the episodes, including popping bathing suits on the Bada Bing strip club dancers, and A&E has rolled out a very aggressive ad campaign to promote “Sopranos,” which will air back-to-back episodes Wednesdays at 9 p.m.
A&E is also hyping the show with an online “Sopranos Connection” game that promises $100,000 to the winner. Players must collect game pieces from “Sopranos” ads that run online, in magazines and elsewhere, which help them predict the plot of the episode.

Courtesy of MediaLife Magazine

Mark Your Calendars!

NEW YORK (AP) -- It may feel like looking into the mirror for Bill O'Reilly and Stephen Colbert next week. The Fox News Channel host and Colbert, who has essentially based his comic character every evening on Comedy Central on him, will trade appearances on each other's programs Jan. 18.

"I'm really looking forward to speaking to a man who owes his entire career to me," O'Reilly said.

On "The Colbert Report," Colbert portrays a self-involved talk-show host who has tried to bring "truthiness" to the world. His character owes an obvious debt to O'Reilly, who holds court in the "no-spin zone" each evening.

On "The O'Reilly Factor," O'Reilly portrays a ... um, he hosts the top-rated program in cable news.

"I look forward to the evening," Colbert said. "It is an honor to speak face-to-face with a broadcasting legend, and I feel the same way about Mr. O'Reilly."

Happy Birthday HBK!

Only Birthday Boys get to wear blue flowers in their hair.
Happy Birthday H!!

Carbs win the poll

So what do you like best about Hanukkah? Carbs!!

Potato Latkes narrowly beats out Drinking Dreidel in the last TrashyPantz poll!
I guess after some drinking dreidel you need some latkas to sober you up!

Here are the final results:
Potato latkes 42%
Chocolate gelt 8%
8 nights of gifts 0%
Playing drinking dreidel 33%
Lighting candles 0%
It means Christmas is soon! 17%

The Polling area has been update and given a new name. Also, in this weeks poll you are allowed to vote for more than one answer! Who hooks you up, huh???

Friday Video

Click HERE to watch this educational and informative video on the effects of drugs and alcohol on spiders. Happy Firday!!

It was no Melrose Place...

Fox's once-hot `The O.C.' is canceled

The O.C. burst onto TV with so many fights that ended up crashing a catering table at a fancy party, you lost count! Mothers were sleeping with daughters boyfriends, pool houses were made into luxury accommodations for a kid from the streets of , family sailboats were taken to escape all the pressure of high society life and relationships, girls dressed as as Superwoman, tragic deaths of a surfer and a socialite...

Ahhh, it was all so dramatic and exciting... until this season. The show has been losing it's audience season after seasons. Season 1 maintained 10 million viewers and this now final season has only managed to grab 4 million viewers.

The final episode of the drama will air 9 p.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 22 on FOX.
Click HERE for more on the cancellation of The O.C.

RIP James Brown

James Brown, the singer, songwriter, bandleader and dancer who indelibly transformed 20th-century music, died early Christmas morning in Atlanta. He was 73. Only Elvis Presley had more records make the music charts than Mr. Brown . Ninety-four of Mr. Brown's recordings reached the Top 100, and he had more Top 20 singles than any other recording artist.

The TrashyPantz Holiday Dance

TrashyPantz wishes you Happy Holidays!

Click HERE to see the official 2006 edition of the TrashyPantz Holiday Dance!

Holiday Decorating, Dirty Jersey Style

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Only in NJ could you find a Christmas lawn decoration like this.
Click HERE to find out where to buy it!

Unbreakable!

After an extremely poor voter turnout, the most recent poll is a tie!
After waiting an extra week for more votes, it seems that half of you shop on line, the other half at the mall. A new poll is posted, so vote or Santa will put you on the naughty list!!

Grammy Nominations

This years Grammy nominations are for less crappy then they have been in the past few years. Although, one nomination for Justin Timberlake is one too many, he did somehow manage to get 4 nominations.

The most nominations went to Mary J Blidge, with eight nominations in total. Second highest number of nominations (six) went to... The Red Hot Chili Peppers, TrahyPantz's favorite band (would I ever steer you wrong?) for their double disc album Stadium Arcadium. John Mayer received 5 nominations for his newset and most blues influenced album, Continuum. James Blunt got 5 nominations for his way overplayed song You're Beautiful and the album it came off of. How many people did his girlfriend, Petra Nemcova, have to sleep with to get him these undeserving nominations??

Unfortunately, the Black Eyed Peas got one nomination because someone thought My Humps wasn't the worst song in the world. This person should be hung by thier toes and made to listen to Fergalicious over and over and over again.

On the flipside of that, much more deserving artists, with real talent, received nods, like... Tom Petty, The Arctic Monkeys, Death Cab For Cutie, John Legend, Keane, Coldplay, David Gilmour, Gnarls Barkley and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, just to name a few. (By the way, these artists have all been featured on the sidebar at one time or another over the past year!)

The 49th Grammy Awards will air live on CBS from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 11.

Click HERE for the complete list of nominations.

Cowboys-Giants game is highest rated since 1997

Last Sunday's highly anticipated battle for first place in the NFC East between the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys delivered first-place ratings for Fox. The game was the highest-rated regular-season NFL game in nearly a decade. The game, which aired just after 4 p.m., scored 27.6 million total viewers and a 17.8 household rating and 32 share, according to numbers from Nielsen Media Research. It was the highest-rated game since 1997's Dec. 15 Monday night battle between the San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos, which aired on ABC. The game was likely given a shot in the arm from the "Bowl Championship Series Selection Show," which followed immediately after and which announced which schools would be participating in the controversial collegiate championship. That show averaged an 8.4/13 and 13.3 million viewers. Season to date, Fox’s national game average has now jumped ahead of "Grey's Anatomy" as the top-rated show on TV. It’s averaging a 14.3/27, up from last year’s 13.1/24.

So, more people than ever saw the Giants get beat down for the 5th time in a row. Awesome. Can Neilsen create a formula to see how many pissed of Giants fans there are after each Sunday??

No Bar B-Que For You!

The Onondaga County Health Department has shut down a popular eatery in Syracuse after numerous incidents of sickness after people ate the restaurant’s food. The Dinosaur Bar-B-Que on Clinton Street will be closed until Monday as a precaution after the health department received reports that as many as 270 people got sick after eating there last weekend.

Click HERE to read the enitre article (courtesy of News 10 Now).

Pepe has arrived!

Its a 1-month early baby!
Meet 7lbs 10oz Kaitlyn Jennifer Gunn!

Congrats to Pete and Emily on becoming proud parents to a beautiful baby girl! Pete has already installed extra locks on the doors and windows for when she starts dating.

"Kramer's" Racist Tirade -- Caught on Tape

Michael Richards exploded in anger as he performed at a famous L.A. comedy club last Friday, hurling racial epithets that left the crowd gasping, and TMZ has obtained exclusive video of the ugly incident.

Richards, who played the wacky Cosmo Kramer on the hit TV show "Seinfeld," appeared onstage at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood. Kyle Doss, an African-American, told TMZ he and some friends were in the cheap seats and he was playfully heckling Richards when suddenly, the comedian lost it.

Click HERE to see the uncensored video

Poll Results

Poor Bob Barker has had enough of Plinko and has decided to call it quits.
Last weeks poll asked Who should replace Bob Barker on The Price is Right?

Many voted, and we even had a write in vote! Suprisingly, the guy who has the most game show experience, Wink Martindale, got no votes. Neither did the most popular game show host right now, Howie Mandel. The write in vote was a good choice, Donald Trump. I would love seeing the Don give away crappy living room sets. Good times!
Pee Wee Herman came in second place.
The winner of last weeks poll is....

CBS EARLY SHOW WEATHERMAN DAVE PRICE!

While no one can actually be as good as Bob Barker, this mild mannered reporter could be a success when it comes to a Showcase Showdown!

Below is a break down of how the voting went.

Regis Philbin 0%
Pat Sajak 11%
Drew Carey 11%
Wink Martindale 0%
Jeff Probst (Survivor Host)11%
Dave Price(CBS Weatherman)33%
Graham Norton 0%
Howie Mandel 0%
John Goodman 0%
Paul Reubens(Pee Wee Herman) 22%
None of the above 11%

The Seven Phases of Owning an iPod - An Illustrated Journey

All iPod owners can relate to this illustrated journey of iPod ownership.
I would add a few things to this story, like...

You quickly learn about the "this battery sucks" phase after only using your new iPod for an hour and half and it dies.

You experience the "automatic update screen phase" where are prompted to download a new version of iTunes every month and notice no differences from the old version.

And of course, the phase of "You can be my wedding DJ" which happens when an iPod-less friend sees your awesome playlist and wants to save a few bucks on his wedding by borrowing your iPod. The upside to this that youdon't have to give them a wedding gift and you still get to drink for free.

Feel free to add your own comments based on your own experiences!

Click HERE to see the whole iPod Journey.

POLL RESULTS

Last weeks poll proved to be the most popular poll in the history of TrashyPantz.
Don't forget the new poll posted this week! Feel free to submit a write in vote in the comments section if you choose 'none of the above.'

I spent some time monitoring the results, which had a surge of votes at the end of the voting period.
COUNTDOWN TO TAMPA: Who will be the first person to get drunk and make an ass out of themselves?

No Name and I were tied for first place at the beginning of the week, and then Bartley crept into the running putting him and I in a tie. Yours truly was given one extra vote to leave Bartley in the dust, and No Name squeezed into the lead later in the week. Kenny, Pete and Jdubb each scored votes in their honor of first to make an ass out of themselves. This move came as a shock due to the fact that Kenny and Jdubb should have received more votes much earlier in the week.

The winner of Last Weeks Tampa Poll is...NO NAME!!

The complete breakdown of the results is below.
Kenny 8%
Pete 8%
Dawn 0%
Roach 0%
Jdubb 8%
Dana 23%
Ian 0%
Jordana 0%
J-Bird 0%
No Name 38%
Bartley 15%
Rachel 0%
NOT Emily (haha) 0%

The Best Worst Promo Ever

While flipping channels last night during the commercial breaks of Jeopardy, I was lucky enough to see a promo that aired last night during the CBS broadcast of The Insider. Apparently, the interview of the month is the one that they have with Anna Nicole Smith, who has granted the show her first interview since the birth of her daughter, the death of her son and her marriage to Howard K Stern. The interview is set to air starting Thursday, which means they will drag it out over a few days time.

I really could give a shit about this, but the reason that I am making a post about this is because the promo for this interview is one of the most absurd things I have ever seen. They take it so seriosuly! I could see an interview with Kim Jong Il getting a seriosu promotional spot, but Anna Nicole Smith? The best part of the whole thing was when the host of The Insider interviewed the guy who interviewed Anna Nicole Smith. I mean REALLY... How lame!!

Click HERE for the best worst promo from the Entertainment Tonight website about the upcoming interview. It is located on the right hand side of the page.