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		<title>Because NBC Only Has Room for One Harvard Grad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Qichen Zhang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noice shout out to the Zuckster for letting his alma mater slip into his network&#8217;s highest-rated comedy for the past two seasons. Tonight&#8217;s episode of 30 Rock not only gave Keith Powell some well-deserved lines but also included a truly gratuitous Cambridge reference. But we don&#8217;t want to commend Tina Fey&#8217;s oeuvre for merely dropping [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Noice shout out to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Zucker">Zuckster</a> for letting his alma mater slip into his network&#8217;s highest-rated comedy for the past two seasons. Tonight&#8217;s episode of <em>30 Rock</em> not only gave Keith Powell some well-deserved lines but also included a truly gratuitous Cambridge reference. But we don&#8217;t want to commend Tina Fey&#8217;s oeuvre for merely dropping the H-bomb. Instead, we want to revel in the fact that the writers got the usually collar-popping, sometimes random, and always hilarious loftiness of Ivy pompousness dead on. During the episode, Liz (Fey) mentions that the show is going to Boston, Toofer (Powell), wearing a red Veritas tie and a tennis sweater, pipes up about his academic roots in the &#8216;burbs, only to be pwned by Jenna (Jane Krakowski)&#8230; sort of.</p>
<p><strong>Toofer:</strong> &#8220;You know, I went to school in Boston. Well, not in Boston, but nearby. No, not Tufts&#8211;&#8221;<br />
<strong> Jenna:</strong> &#8220;Oh, shut up. It&#8217;s 14 degrees there.&#8221;<br />
<strong> Toofer:</strong> &#8220;&#8230; Harvard.&#8221;</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 381px"><img src="http://i40.tinypic.com/23ubnzq.jpg" alt="Yeah, its really that cold here." width="371" height="250" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Yeah, it&#39;s really that cold here.</p></div>
<p>Conan <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/01/21/after-conan-obrien-leaves-nbc-what-happens-to-his-comic-characters/">just peaced</a>, Toofs. The pressure&#8217;s all on you.</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 335px"><img src="http://i40.tinypic.com/33ym5ox.jpg" alt="Miss you, Coco!" width="325" height="182" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Miss you, Coco!</p></div>
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		<title>Ways to Become an Olympic Sex Symbol*</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Qichen Zhang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Vancouver Winter Olympics approach, I become distinctly aware of the fact that network television is conspiratorially trying to vault certain athletes onto a certain pedestal. I&#8217;m not referring to different earthly minerals here, but I&#8217;m thinking more along the lines of brainwashing the public to believe that certain dudes in sterilizing tights happen [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As the Vancouver Winter Olympics approach, I become distinctly aware of the fact that network television is conspiratorially trying to vault certain athletes onto a certain pedestal. I&#8217;m not referring to different earthly minerals here, but I&#8217;m thinking more along the lines of brainwashing the public to believe that certain dudes in sterilizing tights happen to be God&#8217;s gift to ice skating aficionados. After years of analyzing Bob &#8220;I Only Work Leap Years&#8221; Costa&#8217;s special reports on NBC about specific athletes, I think I&#8217;ve built a pretty comprehensive list of qualities that a gymnast, speed skater, and&#8211;Jesus help us all if this ever happens&#8211;curler must possess to make it big into the collective consciousness.</p>
<p><strong>Have the name of a Greek god. </strong>This one&#8217;s pretty obvious. How many gold medalists do you know named Andy Stitzer? Partly the doing of NBC&#8217;s prescient obsession with him the year of the Salt Lake City Games, Apolo Ohno definitely benefited from his dad totally freeloading on a pompous and possibly super traumatic naming decision. It&#8217;s unsurprising that the Olympic Committee granted him the gold medal even though he finished one of his races second&#8211;the man can bend people at sheer will, especially with hair like that. And it doesn&#8217;t really matter that Ohno wasn&#8217;t named specifically after the god, because really, who can focus on that when your last name is an exclamation in itself? We can all only stop hating him for him winning the genetic lottery when we find out how many times he was beat up in grade school before he started working out for future retribution. (I hope it&#8217;s a lot.)</p>
<p><strong>Be a super-dee-duper All-American do-gooder. </strong>Pie-eating nationalists will always be predictably easy to please&#8211;you give them a wholesome, hardworkin&#8217; teenager from the midwest just hoping to bring some honor to the heartland and they&#8217;ll stop being pissed that &#8220;My Name is Earl&#8221; won&#8217;t be the regularly scheduled programming for two weeks. That&#8217;s why all of the blond, freckle-faced youngin&#8217;s from Texas get all the attention during these two weeks <em>every single time</em>. Shawn Johnson, Sasha Cohen, that one chick who was actually really crappy at diving and yet got more camera time than the non-American gold medalist&#8211;they all had <a href="http://ownedgymnast.ytmnd.com/">one creepy thing in common</a>, and that was America&#8217;s capitalization on their patriotic cuteness and absurdly happy-go-lucky cheeriness. With their scarily vehement &#8220;GO USA!&#8221; chants captured on film for eternity, they might as well have been wearing eagle-emblazoned letter jackets onto the podium. Can we please just lay it all out? Because basically, Paul and Morgan Hamm are just two short dudes in tights wearing some ugly-ass primary colors.</p>
<div id="attachment_2901" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 239px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2901" src="http://verynoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/hamms-229x300.jpg" alt="hamms" width="229" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Double the trouble is too much to handle.</p></div>
<p>Read more qualifications (or maybe disqualifications) after the jump.</p>
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<p><strong>Use as many &#8220;stoked&#8217;s&#8221; and/or &#8220;brah&#8217;s&#8221; in your interviews as possible.</strong> &#8220;Any medal would be good. A big gold one even better.&#8221; &#8220;My goal that day was to get a sunburn. That&#8217;s all I wanted.&#8221; And the best one: &#8220;Where would one find a Fabio cutout?&#8221; Yes, these words were all physically spoken by Shaun White.</p>
<div id="attachment_2903" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 224px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2903" src="http://verynoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/shaun-214x300.jpg" alt="I love lamp!" width="214" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">I love lamp!</p></div>
<p><strong>Engage unabashedly in douchebaggery out of the arena. </strong>Learn the best from <a href="http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008-8-19/just-asking-is-michael-phelps-a-douche/">Michael Phelps</a> for this one. To be fair (and generous), cocking a baseball cap sideways and being stupid enough to get caught with a bong is probably the best way he knew how to celebrate depleting the earth of gold for centuries to come. Congrats, Phelpers! You&#8217;ve won our hearts AND our respect!</p>
<div id="attachment_2902" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 235px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2902" src="http://verynoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/phelps-bong-225x300.jpg" alt="Say nope to dope, kids." width="225" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Say nope to dope, kids.</p></div>
<p><strong>Have great hair.</strong> Did I mention that Apolo Ohno has great hair?</p>
<div id="attachment_2900" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 232px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2900  " src="http://verynoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/apolo-hair-222x300.jpg" alt="Maybe he's born with it..." width="222" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Shaun! Over here! We&#39;ve found Fabio.</p></div>
<p><strong>Compete on </strong><em><strong>Dancing With the Stars<span style="font-style: normal"> in between consecutive Olympics and dance a lot of tango in tight pants</span></strong></em><strong>. </strong>I forget where I was going with this.</p>
<div id="attachment_2899" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 258px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2899" src="http://verynoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/apolo-dancing-248x300.jpg" alt="Oh, right." width="248" height="300" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Oh, right.</p></div>
<p>I know I&#8217;m making it really vague who I&#8217;ll be rooting for this time around, but I like to keep things a surprise. GO CANADA!</p>
<p><em>*(you know, minus the whole being born, naturally endowed with the biceps of a raging roid abuser thing.)</em></p>
<h6><em>Photos courtesy of The Evolution of Jeremiah, Athlebrities, Celebrity Justice, Detroit Buckeye, and TV Guide.</em></h6>
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		<title>J-term: Where Productivity Goes to Die</title>
		<link>http://verynoice.com/2010/01/j-term-where-productivity-goes-to-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alisha Ramos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish I could say that I am having a productive or even semi-productive J-term. But I&#8217;m not. Did I just watch an entire season of The City? Yes. This show is addicting, okay? There ought to be more reality shows about perfectly polished, matte-skinned girls out there. What am I going to do now? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_2736" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://verynoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Picture-6.png"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2736 " title="Picture 6" src="http://verynoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Picture-6-300x207.png" alt="Picture 6" width="300" height="207" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Like, that dress is soooo pretty.</p></div>
<p>I wish I could say that I am having a productive or even semi-productive J-term. But I&#8217;m not. Did I just watch an entire season of <em>The City</em>? Yes. This show is addicting, okay? There ought to be more reality shows about perfectly polished, matte-skinned girls out there. What am I going to do now? I am tempted to write an ode to Whitney Port&#8217;s parted, pouted mouth or Olivia Palermo&#8217;s strangely angular and small face. In the meantime, I&#8217;ll have to watch reality shows about <a href="http://www.mtv.com/shows/jersey_shore/series.jhtml">perfectly tanned, pouf-haired girls</a>.</p>
<p><strong>What shows have <em>you </em>been watching this J-term?</strong> I need recommendations to further the rotting of my brain.</p>
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		<title>CW Medical Drama to Film at HMS Campus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bella Wang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CW, that inexhaustible source of dubiously acted teen dramas, has green-lighted HMS, a new medical drama about Harvard Medical School which is supposed to &#8220;put a younger twist on &#8216;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy.&#8217;&#8221; And! As if this description isn&#8217;t! Exciting! Enough! Hayden Panettiere of Heroes is signed on as a producer for the show. So, what [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 210px"><a href="http://www.blogcdn.com/insidetv.aol.com/media/2009/11/hayden-panettiere-getty-200-111309-1258397515.jpg"><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/insidetv.aol.com/media/2009/11/hayden-panettiere-getty-200-111309-1258397515.jpg" alt="Doesnt this image scream executive producer?" width="200" height="244" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Doesn&#39;t this image scream &quot;executive producer&quot;?</p></div>
<p>The CW, that inexhaustible source of dubiously acted teen dramas, has green-lighted <em><a href="http://insidetv.aol.com/2009/11/16/hayden-panettiere-cw-medical-HMS/">HMS</a></em>, a new medical drama about Harvard Medical School which is supposed to &#8220;put a younger twist on &#8216;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy.&#8217;&#8221;  And! As if this description isn&#8217;t! Exciting! Enough! Hayden Panettiere of <em>Heroes</em> is signed on as a producer for the show.</p>
<p>So, what could they possibly include in this show? We&#8217;ve come up with a few plot ideas:<span id="more-2331"></span></p>
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<li>Racy student-professor affair ends in a stormy breakup causing the student to miss the Longwood Medical Shuttle.  Unforgivable.</li>
<li>Lack of money causes an HMS postdoc to have to TF for Harvard College students.  After the fifth pre-med comes in to complain about his test grade (but I say this with the greatest affection for pre-meds! You&#8217;re all great people!), the hapless TF threatens to overdose on Valium.</li>
<li>Multiple relationships are destroyed because everyone is too busy studying.  Okay, probably not.  After all, since when do people actually do work on TV?</li>
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<p>Clearly, the head writer Amy Jones should hire us to help write her script.</p>
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		<title>NBC Comedy Spoofs Gates Arrest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Qichen Zhang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if Harvard doesn&#8217;t provide enough material for pop culture to crap on, the Gates incident over the summer will probably supply enough to meet satirical demand infinitely. The new NBC Office-inspired sitcom Parks and Recreation recently spoofed the arrest of the African American Studies professor, opting to portray an Asian perspective instead when Tom [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-1090 alignright" src="http://verynoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/park-196x300.jpg" alt="park" width="157" height="240" />As if Harvard doesn&#8217;t provide <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2009/08/harvards_new_fashion_line_the.html">enough</a> <a href="http://gawker.com/5377377/harvard-students-now-living-how-they-imagine-poor-people-must-live">material</a> for pop culture to crap on, the Gates incident over the summer will probably supply enough to meet satirical demand infinitely. The new NBC Office-inspired sitcom <a href="http://www.hulu.com/watch/97956/parks-and-recreation-the-stakeout">Parks and Recreation</a> recently <a href="http://onharvardtime.blogspot.com/2009/09/parks-and-recreation-spoofs-skip-gates.html">spoofed</a> the arrest of the African American Studies professor, opting to portray an Asian perspective instead when Tom Haverford comes under suspicion for breaking into a van and is asked to &#8220;jimmy&#8221; his way out, to which he responds appropriately:</p>
<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ll step out of your momma&#8217;s van.</p></blockquote>
<p>So&#8230; when&#8217;s the beer summit episode going to air? Watch the comedic gold <a href="http://onharvardtime.blogspot.com/2009/09/parks-and-recreation-spoofs-skip-gates.html">here</a>.</p>
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