Pleated-Jeans has put together Follow the TV Reference, a clever compilation of back-to-back television shows referencing each other. I have to admit that I wanted it to go on longer, just to see how far it could go.

In order, here are shows used in the compilation:

Saturday Night Live
30 Rock
Community
South Park
Hannah Montana
Law and Order
Beavis and Butthead
Full House
The Simpsons
Scrubs
Gilmore Girls
The Office
Entourage
Arrested Development
Family Guy
The Fresh Prince
Saved by the Bell
Married With Children
Friends
…AND back to Saturday Night Live

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor recently stopped by Sesame Street to have a cup of coffee with her friend Maria and ended up settling the Goldilocks v. Baby Bear case. Next on the docket: The Three Little Pigs v. The Big Bad Wolf.

“Are you kidding? I wish all my cases were this easy.”

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First Lady Michelle Obama participates in a tug of war with Jimmy Fallon in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House during a “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” taping for the second anniversary of the “Let’s Move!” initiative, Jan. 25, 2012.

First Lady Michelle Obama and Late Night host Jimmy Fallon battled it out in a friendly fitness competition inside The White House to raise awareness for the Let’s Move! initiative. They competed in several games together including a potato sack race, hula hoops, tug-of-war, dodge ball and more. Let’s Move! is a campaign “to bring together community leaders, teachers, doctors, nurses, moms and dads in a nationwide effort to tackle the challenge of childhood obesity.”

photo by Chuck Kennedy

Television host Jimmy Kimmel of Jimmy Kimmel Live! recently issued another viewer challenge. This time he asked his viewers to unplug their television at a crucial moment during the Super Bowl game, film what happens and upload the results to YouTube. In Hey Jimmy Kimmel I Unplugged the TV During the Game, we get to see the best (and most irate) results of folks unexpectedly being pranked during the Super Bowl.

His challenges began last year when he first asked parents to tell their kids they ate all of their Halloween candy. Then he had a two part holiday challenge where he asked parents to give their kids an early but terrible present [1, 2].

Portlandia, the television comedy series from IFC, has really outdone themselves with the hilarious song created for season 2, episode 5: Dream of the 1890s. This song plays off the original song that promoted Portlandia titled Dream of the 90s, but this time they compare today’s Portland with 1890s Portland. Also take a look at the behind the scenes video where the show’s creative team discuss the inspiration behind this new version of the song.

You may remember we recently posted about the stark minimalistic “falling man” poster that was created to promote the upcoming fifth season of Mad Men. Well, the street version of that poster has taken on a meme of its own, where it has been humorously altered (either in real life or digitally) to incorporate the “falling man” into a funny scene. He can now be found breakdancing, bouncing on a trampoline and being saved by Superman. Someone even brought beloved Muppet, Cookie Monster of Sesame Street, into the act. Gothamist has been taking submissions of the altered image and has posted two galleries of the best ones [gallery 1, gallery 2]. If you wish to alter your own, here is a clean digital version from AMC, the producers of Mad Men.

via Karen Finlay, Slate and Gothamist

images via Gothamist

CollegeHumor brings us Breaking Bad RPG, a fabulous video that gives the AMC hit television show, Breaking Bad, a retro 8-bit makeover.

The only game that’s also a controlled substance.

via Geek Gestalt and BuzzFeed

The fine folks at Vulture have taken on the task of creating a venn diagram for Reality Television (larger version).

The following Venn diagram maps the overlapping relationships between reality shows. Included on this chart are only shows that aired in 2011, 2012, or are scheduled for or are in development for this season (and in a few rare instances, there are notes on reality-TV niches not yet filled). The reality-TV universe is even more repetitive and connected than you could have imagined.

via Vulture

New York City-based animation studio Nathan Love is behind these cartoon character mashup identification bumpers for the Cartoon Network. We previously posted How The NBC Peacock Logo Was Created, another fun animated project from the studio.

via Quipsologies

Conan O’Brien wondered what it might look like if we watched Guy Fieri eating in reverse. Yeah, that’s not a pretty sight.

via The Awesomer

In Unreal Estate, Austin-based serigraph artist Tim Doyle re-imagines familiar locales from popular culture in a series of hand-printed screenprints and original art. Spoke Art Gallery in San Francisco, California is hosting a solo exhibition of these pieces beginning with the opening reception on February 2, 2012 from 6 PM until 10 PM. The show runs through February 23, 2012.

From Moe’s Tavern to the Bluth Banana Stand, Doyle’s realistic and illustrative reinterpretations of television’s most iconic places is a captivating voyage. In the artists words, “Unreal Estate’ is a collection of locations that many of us know and have been to on a weekly basis at times, but can never actually visit. These places are in our memories transmitted and entrenched there through a cathode-ray tube. Some of us have been going to these places for decades, some of these places were taken from us, way too soon.”

For these pieces Doyle moved away from his usually big bold colors and comic-book line quality to create a more illustrative style, with muted tones and colors that reflect a mood or time of day. He attempts to preserve and honor the non-physical spaces found in this show with the same care and intention given to iconic real world locations. This series is one artist’s intensely personal journey through a world which is universal to us all.

images via Spoke Art Gallery

According to Entertainment Weekly, television network CBS has reportedly greenlighted an untitled ensemble comedy pilot about “young people trying to achieve their creative dreams in these tough financial times” from
comedian Louis C.K. in collaboration with former Seinfeld writer Spike Feresten.

via Entertainment Weekly

image via A.V. Club

Spyke and Iris plan a really cool wedding on episode 3 of the 2nd season of Portlandia.

via Tastefully Offensive & Rats Off!

It looks like NBC is proposing a mid-2013 spinoff of the hit television comedy series, The Office, which would feature Dwight Schrute, the character played by actor Rainn Wilson. According to TV Editor Nellie Andreeva of Deadline, the spinoff will most likely take place on the fictional Pennsylvania-based bed-and-breakfast, Schrute Farms.

Some details from Deadline:

I hear that NBC is working on an Office spinoff starring Rainn Wilson for a potential midseason 2013 launch. No deals have been closed yet but I’ve learned that the proposed spinoff is a family comedy, which was the brainchild of Wilson and The Office executive producer/showrunner Paul Lieberstein. It will have Dwight (Wilson) living at the Schrute family beet farm and bed & breakfast, which have been featured on the show several times, including in an episode where Jim and Pam visited Dwight there.

via Deadline

Stephen Colbert talks with author and illustrator Maurice Sendak (best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are) in Grim Colberty Tales (parts 1, 2), a hilarious two-part interview on The Colbert Report.

California-based design studio, DKNG, was recently asked by IFC’s Portlandia to create a poster for their upcoming Season 2 release. The poster they created was for the episode 201 titled “Mixology” in which Carrie makes a mixed tape for a mixologist (hence the image of a rustic wooden boombox). While the poster was used only for promotional purposes and is not for sale, it is available to download as a free desktop image.

DKNG has also included an interesting video on how they created the art for the poster:

images via DKNG

“INTERMISSION” is a hilariously absurd spoof of a 1970s-era British movie theater intermission film. It was screened at the 10th anniversary celebration of the “Look Around You” BBC comedy series. The film was created by “Look Around You” co-creators Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper.

via Boing Boing

The commercials have only aired in the Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois and have been posted online from folks recording their actual televisions.

As the Old Milwaukee slogan says, It doesn’t get any better than this!

via Business Insider

Thanks to Chip Beale for the tip!

Andrewjcm made a compilation featuring The Many D’ohs of Homer Simpson from seasons 1-20.

via reddit

AMC’s hit television show, Mad Men, is promoting their upcoming fifth season with this minimalistic one-sheet teaser poster. The show returns on March 25, 2012 with a much-anticipated two-hour premiere.

via Entertainment Weekly and The Daily What

Ricky Gervais returns to host the Golden Globes, giving a somewhat toned-down follow-up to last year’s controversial opening monologue.

Jaaam, a wonderful remix of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air by Pogo.

Last night Stephen Colbert announced he is forming an exploratory committee for his possible candidacy for the “President of the United States of South Carolina.” In order to do so, he transferred command of his super PAC, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow to Jon Stewart. Colbert formed his super PAC—a political action committee that can raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions, individuals, and other PACs—in June of 2011.

Colbert is currently exploring a run for President of the United States of South Carolina. Because of this, he cannot be associated with any Super PACs, although he has asked Americans For A Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow to forward any periodicals of an “adult nature.”

Kogonada on YouTube has created Breaking Bad POV Compiliation, a stunning montage of every point-of-view sequence from the hit television show, Breaking Bad,

Montage of POV shots mostly from inanimate objects (e.g., frying pan, toilet, wood floor, dryer, shovel, sidewalk, parking lot, clipboard, roomba, grill, pizza, bathtub, refrigerator, pool, vent, cleaning brush, etc)

via MetaFilter

These wonderful animations (1 and 2) based on the art of Edward Gorey were used in the memorable opening sequence to the PBS Mystery! series. The opening animations, which took several different forms from 1980 to 2008, were created by animator Derek Lamb.

via Brain Pickings