Television Without Pity

752 Things We Love to Hate (and Hate to Love) About TV

By Ariano, Tara & Bunting, Sarah D.

Publishers Summary:
Calling all Dawson's Creek fans! Television Without Pity features irreverent entries about the shows, characters, actors, clichés, plot devices, memorable moments, and catch phrases that make watching TV such a guilty pleasure. From weekend-long Real World marathons to the People's Choice Awards, from favorite characters (Brenda Walsh, Seth Cohen) to the most unfunny recurring skits on Saturday Night Live, this is a celebration of television unlike any other. Written by the creators of televisionwithoutpity.com (hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "the industry standard" for obsessive TV fanatics), this snarktastic volume features 100 illustrations and an encyclopedic two-column design. It's great fun for nostalgic browsing and guaranteed to prompt more laughter than a whole season of Seinfeld.Read MoreRead Less

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ISBN
978-1-59474-117-3
Publisher
Quirk Books


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Library Journal

Reviewed on November 20, 2006

Ariano and Bunting, the brains behind Televisionwithpity.com, have assembled a wickedly funny encyclopedia of TV's people, plots, formulas and quirky phenomena, and loaded it with irreverent commentary. A typical entry, such as the one for Laverne & Shirley, begins with "Lord, what a terrible show," and only gets nastier from there, culminating in a list of cross-references both useful and sha...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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