Anybody Remember Jonathan Franzen on The Simpsons?

18th season of The Simpsons, episode title: Moe 'N' a Lisa.

Audience member: Who are your biggest influences?

Michael Chabon: I’d have to say my good friend Jonathan Franzen. I thought his novel The Corrections needed none. 

Jonathan Franzen: Well in turn, I’d have to say my biggest influence is…Albert Camus. 

Chabon: You were supposed to say me! I blurbed you!

Franzen: Yeah, and it looks real sweet on my dust jacket. How do you like me now?

 

Chabon: Oh, you fight like Anne Rice!

TV Show Blogfest by Alex J. Cavanaugh

Alex J. Cavanaugh recently held a "Top 10 TV Show Blogfest". Here are my entries, albeit a day late. My entries are in no particular order.

Battlestar Galactica
 

Intelligent sci-fi at its finest.

The Sopranos 

 

The only time TV became an artform.

The Simpsons

Greatest comedy of all time.

South Park 

Pushing the limits since its inception.

The Colbert Report

  

As truthful as Fox News, but funnier.

The Daily Show 

The voice of reason.

The Big Bang Theory 

Comedy for geeks.

Frasier

  

There's never been anything like it.

  

Futurama
 

An accurate portrayl of the future.

Anything with Gordon Ramsay

A personal hero of mine.

 

(And no, I didn't forget Lost. It just doesn't make the list.)