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Before Listicles became a blog it was going to be a game show. Contestants would be given a theme and have to come up with a pertinent top 10 that they would then fill out, and the winner would be determined by whose list the audience liked best. In the final lightning round, the last [...]

If you’re at all familiar with the recurring jokes and comic tropes of the best sitcom pre-AD (Arrested Development), you’ll know that one of Seinfeld’s less well-known but still delightful pleasures are Kramer’s (Michael Richards, yes, that one) entrances into Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment. To illustrate their subtle comedy, some seriously nostalgic person has assembled a [...]

It’s strange, but non-human characters can literally make or break a TV show, overloading it with excessive and contrived whimsy (as on American Dad), or giving it just the perfect dose of eccentricity to make it uniquely appealing (as in Alf). Not surprisingly, one of those shows is featured in Unreality’s listicle of the 11 [...]

This listicle might be a moot point what with that perpetual cameo show called 30 Rock, but Best Week Ever chronicles some historic (and obscure) moments in TV comedy crossover synergy with its listicle of The Top 10 Sitcom Cameos Made by Other Sitcom Characters. It’s the formula every rap artist still uses to get [...]

Our ability to lose ourselves in endlessly repeating the antics of Seinfeld’s Kramer was trumped somewhat by an incident a couple years ago that you may remember. That said, we’ve been off the Kramer wagon for long enough now that even a little dose of the nutty next-door neighbor is enough to keep us chuckling [...]