Shasta McNasty marked an embarrassing nadir for television/western civilization. But it did God’s work in helping Scott Adams’ Dilbert get cancelled.
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An Ohio lawyer sued to get the rights to co-write and starred in a “sequel” to Easy Rider. Tragically and hilariously, he succeeded.
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In this exclusive excerpt from the extended. version of Gary the Rat, the third head in the three-headed monster that was Spike TV’s Adult Animation block.
Read MoreIn this excerpt from The Joy of Trash we go DEEP into one of the most mortifying moments in pop culture history: the notorious “Your brother is standing in the middle of Afghanistan!” scene from Studio 60 in the Sunset Strip.
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In 1986 canine narc McGruff the Crime Dog put out an album that honestly, fucking slaps. Shame about the lyrics, though.
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In this excerpt from The Joy of Trash I write up the single most fascinatingly obscure piece in the book, a mortified look at a self-released 1974 comedy album from self-described “impressionist for Christ” Dale Alan Cooper that’s deeply sad and revealing and never remotely funny
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All he wanted was for us to respect his neck. Is that really that much to ask for?
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Did 9/11 sink Emeril Lagasse’s sitcom or did it fail because it was literally the worst idea ever? Read and find out!
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In a desperate bid to stay on the air Baywatch Nights turned into an X-Files clone in its second season.
It did not go well.
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Celebrate Christmas in Malibu with this excerpt from The Joy of Trash on the mind-meltingly cheesy first season of Baywatch Nights, which manages to be even more ridiculous than the year that followed, which took a bizarre, notorious turn into The X-Files territory.
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