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Celebrate Festivus With TV Squad!
by Joel Keller, posted Dec 23rd 2010 3:00PM
Happy Festivus, everyone! If you're a television fan, you know that December 23 is the day where we gather 'round the aluminum pole, air our grievances, and perform the feats of strength. Thanks to the writers at 'Seinfeld,' Festivus has become a funny tradition for people who are either sick of the holiday folderol or just like the vision of George and Frank Costanza wrestling each other in a living room in Queens.As has been our tradition, we at TV Squad have been celebrating Festivus for a few weeks now, culminating in the end of our 12 Days of Festivus, where we celebrated the fact that 2010 is the year of New Jersey.
Links to all of our Festivus and year-end coverage is below:
Airing of Grievances -- All Exclusives:
R.L. Stine
Nick Offerman
Gillian Jacobs
The 12 Days of Festivus:
12 Underrated Actors
11 Biggest 'Real Housewives' Feuds
10 Memorable 'Daily Show' and 'Colbert' Moments
9 Unanswered 'Glee' Questions
8 Elder Statesmen (And Women)
7 Reasons Why the 'Lost' Finale Was Satisfying/Dissapointing
6 Late-Night Talk Show Hosts: The Winners and Losers
5 Shows For the Bad Economy
4 Swell AMC Shows
3 Series Farewells: 'Lost,' '24' and 'Law & Order'
2 Dancing Divas: Kate Gosselin and Bristol Palin
1 State to Rule Them All: The Year of New Jersey
Other Year-End Stories:
Best and Worst: Mo Ryan
Best and Worst: Joel Keller
Best and Worst: TV Squad Staff
2010's Biggest TV Jerks
TV Shows Canceled or Retired in 2010
The Year in Magic on TV
The Top Commercials of 2010
2010's Short-Lived Shows
All-time scariest TV characters -- #7: Widow Fortune
by Liz Finn-Arnold, posted Oct 24th 2007 12:00PM
Character: Widow FortuneShow: The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
Episode: Mini-series
I recently watched R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About it with my children and I had an epiphany -- TV was a lot creepier when I was a kid. We didn't watch water-downed kiddie horror. We watched what the adults watched when they obviously didn't know we were watching.
My parents didn't allow me to see scary movies, such as The Amityville Horror or The Exorcist. Yet, somehow they didn't stop me from viewing all sorts of frightening TV, including the The Twilight Zone , Chiller Theater, Salem's Lot, Frankenstein: The True Story, The Dark Night of the Scarecrow, and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.
However, it was The Dark Secret of Harvest Home that left the greatest impression on me -- thanks in a large part to Bette Davis in the role of the creepiest senior citizen ever. Davis played the sinister Widow Fortune so brilliantly that almost 30 years later, I still remember it vividly.
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