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List of episodes. " The Phone Message " is the ninth episode of the American sitcom Seinfeld, and the fourth of the show's second season. [1] The episode concerns protagonist Jerry Seinfeld dating a woman who likes a commercial for cotton Dockers he dislikes. Meanwhile, his friend George Costanza leaves an angry message on the answering machine ...
Turbo encabulator. The turbo encabulator is a fictional electromechanical machine with a satirical technobabble description that became a famous in-joke among engineers after it was published by the British Institution of Electrical Engineers in their Students' Quarterly Journal in 1944. [1][2] Technical documentation has been written for the ...
The Rockford Files is an American detective drama television series starring James Garner that aired on the NBC network from September 13, 1974, to January 10, 1980. Garner portrays Los Angeles private investigator Jim Rockford, with Noah Beery Jr. in the supporting role of his father, Joseph "Rocky" Rockford, a retired truck driver.
Jean Smart hosted the Season 50 premiere of "Saturday Night Live," which featured a political cold open with Maya Rudolph, Jim Gaffigan, Andy Samberg and Dana Carvey.
The Government Machine from Miles J. Breuer 's short story "Mechanocracy" (1932). The Brain from Laurence Manning 's novel The Man Who Awoke (1933). The Machine City from John W. Campbell 's short story " Twilight " (1934). The Mechanical Brain from Edgar Rice Burroughs 's Swords of Mars (1934).
The One More Light North American tour was scheduled to last for three months and would kick off with a pair of stadium dates alongside Blink-182 in late July, so both bands made a Funny or Die ...
A Rube Goldberg machine, named after American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is a chain reaction –type machine or contraption intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and (impractically) overly complicated way. Usually, these machines consist of a series of simple unrelated devices; the action of each triggers the initiation ...
This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day. [ 1 ] A parody of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in mid-September, around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced, for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".