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Author: Eric Berlin
I'm Eric Berlin, a terminally online writer, digital product guy, and pop culture nerd. Pop Thruster is my vehicle to showcase absurdly ambitious projects like the best 1,000 albums ever, ranking every Key & Peele sketch, and coverage of TV, movies, and music with weirdly obsessive passion.
Community, “Course Listing Unavailable”: the Greendale Seven
He also left me his ashes. He asked me to burn them. I don’t think he knows how ashes work.” – Abed
Community, “Cooperative Calligraphy”: case of the missing pen
“I still think that man will evolve into woman, not a three-headed dragon.” – Britta
Beck – Sea Change: #259 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I’m tired of fighting, fighting for a lost cause.
Community, “Contemporary American Poultry”: streets ahead
“Abed, the mafia movie is over.” – Jeff
Community, “Contemporary Impressionists”: post-break breakdown
“Hot. Hot hot hot. – Evil Abed
Community, “Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design”: fake guns, blanket forts, and Dean Danger
“If you conspire with every person who approaches you, you’re not even really conspiring with anyone, you’re just doing random crap.” – Annie
Community, “Competitive Ecology”: odd Todd out
“The way she left, I could tell that somebody – or something – had really put the scare on her. But what? Why? Stapler? Was I crazy, or were they somehow connected?” – Chang’s inner monologue
Community, “Blankets and Pillows”: a dramatic (re)telling
“Part man, part pillow, all carnage.” – Narrator
The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy solves all the animated sci-fi comedy ailments
Tup, Plowp, Sleech, and Vlam, sign me up!
Formula 1: Drive to Survive Season 6 switches everything else off
“To be a Formula 1 driver,” the Season 6 teaser trailer tells us, “you need to be able to switch yourself off from everything that is happening around you. But when you get in that car, the noise goes away.”
Poacher goes hunting after ivory hunters in Kerala, India
“There hasn’t been elephant poaching in Kerala since early ‘90s…”
Married to the Game shows off the Premier League WAGs life
Unprecedented access to the lives of the wives and girlfriends of Premier League footballers.
Apartment404: a Korean retro reality competition show where home front mysteries abound
“Would you like to login?”
Community, “Beginner Pottery”: SS Nose Candy
“This class is like a redhead who drinks scotch and watches Die Hard.” – Jeff
Community, “Biology 101”: magical tables and musical chairs
“You are human tennis elbow. You are a pizza burn on the roof of the world’s mouth. You’re the opposite of Batman.” – Troy to Britta
James Brown: Say It Loud docuseries highlights the Hardest Working Man In Show Business
Delve “into the immeasurable musical and cultural impact of the entertainment icon.”
Community, “Basic Genealogy”: Amber alert
“Guys, I’ll be back. But with booty.” – Jeff
Community, “Basic Lupine Urology”: lawless and disorderly
“Boiling water is the icicle-stabbing of yam-killing.” – Jeff
Community, “Anthropology 101”: for every Barbie with a Cosmo subscription
“Abed, why are you mining my life for classic sitcom scenarios?” – Jeff to Abed
Community, “Advanced Gay”: pocketful of Hawthornes
“I’m gonna eat spaceman-Paninis with black Hitler and there’s nothing you can do about it!” – Troy
Community, “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas”: the true meaning of the holidays
“There’s nothing left to do now but heal and share the experience with as many reputable journals as possible.” – Professor Duncan
30 Rock, “Idiots Are People Three”: midlife crisis averted
“I’m fighting a losing battle.” – Liz Lemon
30 Rock, “When it Rains, It Pours”: Red Light Challenge
“Full disclosure, most of my experience is putting babies in women.” – Dr. Spaceman
Eminem – Relapse: #260 of best 1,000 albums ever!
So crack a bottle, let your body waddle, don’t act like a snobby model you just hit the lotto.
Renovation Aloha gets its tropical house flipping on in Hawaii
Tune in for house flipping and home reno in Hawaiian paradise.
30 Rock, “The Fabian Strategy”: battle lines are drawn
“Okay. Season Five. Here we go.” – Liz
30 Rock, “Mrs. Donaghy”: honeymoon from hell
“She is… difficult.” – Dr. Spaceman on dating Squeaky Fromme
30 Rock, “Live Show”: east side
“But we can use ‘It’s Your B-Day, Bitch’ by Snooki’s mom.” – Pete
Naked and Afraid Season 17 slips into something a little less comfortable
“I guess we’re gonna eat leaches later.”
Eagles of Death Metal – Peace Love Death Metal: #261 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You’re always saying, it’s so easy.
30 Rock, “Let’s Stay Together”: diversity day
“You get an ‘I Met a Congresswoman’ sticker.” – Regina Goodman
The Dynasty: The New England Patriots spotlights a football dynasty
A new Apple TV+ docuseries digs into the New England Patriot’s incredible success (and controversies) during the 21st Century.
The Proof Is Out There digs into UFOs and other spooky phenomena
The Proof is Out There is a TV docuseries that investigates “mysterious” videos, photos, and audio recordings, using technology and experts.
Totally Funny Kids shows off America’s funniest and wildest young ‘uns
Totally Funny Kids features funny, absurd, and sometimes shocking videos from the youngest members of the family.
Bold & Bougie keeps it real down in Atlanta
“What is wrong with liking nice things? I like nice stuff,” so says Tameka. And that’s just the beginning, people.
David Bowie – Let’s Dance: #262 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And I’ve been putting out the fire with gasoline.
Suits: L.A. – Suits… suits back up for Los Angeles-based spin-off
Suits: LA is helmed by the same team that brought us Suits and has cast Stephen Amell in the lead role.
30 Rock, “Future Husband”: weakness tissues
“I’m either very happy right now, or having a pretty bad Donkey Spell.” – Kenneth
30 Rock, “Gentleman’s Intermission”: the Buck stops here
“I’m looking for D.I.C.K., Avery.” – Jack
30 Rock, “Khonani”: the tonight shift
“Have I not told you about my grandmother fetish?” – Jack Donaghy
30 Rock, “Klaus and Greta”: albino monks
James Franco in love with Japanese body pillows = funny.
30 Rock, “Lee Marvin vs. Derek Jeter”: prison weed
“Even you can’t pull this off, Jack. Mrs. Doubtfire shimself could not do this.” – Liz to Jack
The Millionaire Matchmaker, “Cookies and Ice, and Everything Nice”: squishy gishy
“It’s not like, hey world, see my tits!” – Patti
Good Morning, Vietnam: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: #263 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Baby, please don’t go down to New Orleans, you know I love you so, baby please don’t go.
Love & WWE: Bianca & Montez, “Long Distance Love”: going to Chamber
“I have to share him with the world even more now.” – Bianca
The Office, “WUPHF.com”: the next sensation
“If I can make mushed carrots seem better than a boob, I can pretty much sell anything.” – Jim
The Office, “Viewing Party”: gleeking out
“There’s this thing on Glee called mash-up where two things that don’t go together make one great song. Take Gabe. Take Michael. You make Gay Mike. Best friends.” – Erin
Miles Davis – Kind of Blue: #264 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Wherein we take the journey through the three phases that led to Kind of Blue.
The Millionaire Matchmaker, “Cooking and Queening”: plowing ’till the corn comes up
“I know you are because your tits are telling me.” – Patti