Jay Gerland's The Black Dog » TV http://www.theblackdog.org Sit down, Maddy. Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:45:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Dream House http://www.theblackdog.org/2006/01/27/dream-house/ http://www.theblackdog.org/2006/01/27/dream-house/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:03:53 +0000 Jay http://www.theblackdog.org/2006/01/27/dream-house/ My love for TV game shows started way back in the early 80′s, maybe even the ’70s. I remember walking home for lunch everyday in grammar school, making a sandwich and sitting in front of the tube for a half hour watching the 12:30 game show.

And I totally remember Dream House. The point being, obviously, to win a house. That’s a big prize, even for today’s game shows, so it had a lot of excitement. I was 12.

To have this as your favorite game show, OK. To have screen caps of it, hmmmm. To make a website putting it all together, awesome.

Thanks to Tim for the link.

]]> http://www.theblackdog.org/2006/01/27/dream-house/feed/ 1 Worst. Name. Ever. http://www.theblackdog.org/2005/02/24/worst-name-ever/ http://www.theblackdog.org/2005/02/24/worst-name-ever/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2005 02:38:15 +0000 Jay http://www.theblackdog.org/?p=97 It was like a dream, or I just wasn’t really paying attention, but Sunday night I was either playing with the boy or talking Jen (probably both) and I vaguely remember The Simpsons being on in the background and "Comic Book Guy" was on and I thought to myself "did he just say his name?" but i was too distracted and forgot about it.

Anyone who follows the show closely knows that he has never had a name, he’s just "Comic Book Guy" and I know and work with people just like him.

Well, I just happened to stumble across this article on tvguide.com that tells me it wasn’t a dream and he does have a name now: Jeff Albertson. Which apparently has no significance, they just wanted to be sly and slip in an unassuming name in the dialog as if no one would notice.

Not a huge deal I suppose but if nothing else, it’s another of life’s mysteries. solved.

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