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Ever wonder what a TiVo looks like on the inside? Sure, there's plenty of manuals floating around the internet showing you how to void your warranty, remove the lid, and update the hard drive. But none of them involve smashing your machine to bits with a crowbar.



After running into a few technical problems with his TiVo, YouTube users Kevin decided to take matters into his own hands rather than order a replacement unit. And he gets a tiny TiVo sticker from the front of the unit as a souvenir.

My favorite two lines from the video:

• "I don't know what any of that does."
• "I feel a lot better. And now it probably works about as well as it did yesterday."

In this instance, by "incredible restraint" what I really mean is "I can't believe he didn't pop the guy in the face and then plant his steak knife in his neck while showing full "Bonaduce Rage Out Mode." If you've ever watched more than five minutes of Breaking Bonaduce, Danny's reality show/nightmare/trainwreck, then you know he will flip out with no warning, almost like Bruce Banner turning into the Hulk. At least with good ol' Bruce, there was the odd behavior, the shaking, the turning green and all that jazz, so you'd have at least a few seconds warning. However, when you're dealing with Danny (that would've made a better name for the show), all bets are off.

Now, here's where the restraint comes in. Danny is chowing down at a sidewalk cafe somewhere in Los Angeles, and John Conner (no, not the guy from the Terminator movies) approaches him with a video camera and a microphone and proceeds to ask him questions about a conspiracy concerning our government's involvement in the 9/11 attacks. Now, I'm not even a Z-list celebrity, but if this guy came up to me, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be quite as composed as Danny manages to be. He calmly lets the guy have it verbally, dropping a few F and S bombs here and there, while still eating his lunch. Impressive.

Although, it does seem like Danny would strip naked and bark like a dog if President Bush asked him to. Let's hope that W doesn't use these powers of persuasion over him for evil purposes. However, if he asks Bonaduce to move to Korea and start bugging Kim Jong-il, I think I'd be okay with that.

(S06E07) Green Arrow is injured when he intervenes in the world's slowest carjacking, which happens on the street below his penthouse.

Such is the danger of super-heroics without Kal-El's invulnerability, although a bullet-proof costumer would have been a good idea. I guess Ollie hasn't seen the Batman films. However, Ollie compensates for the injury with experimental drugs. Add in the prospect of the Kent's first Thanksgiving without Jonathan and there's your plot. Now that Jonathan's dead, Annette O'Toole's role as Martha has been steadily shrinking into non-existent. That might start to change now, but is Lionel working her, or is he sincere?