ABC Primetime!
Drama and intrigue lurk in Wisteria Lane.
Desperate Housewives
Nathan Fillion and his crew of space cowboys starred in this nerd classic that was infamously broadcast out of order.
Firefly
This New York band championed by Andy Warhol is often cited as a forerunner to indie rock.
The Velvet Underground
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
Darwin's On the Origin of ___________
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Jennifer Garner stars in this J.J. Abrams spy thriller that was nominated for Outstanding Hairstyling for a Series at the Emmys 5 years in a row!
Alias
"De plane! De plane!" Malcolm McDowell leads as the Master of Ceremonies in this first remake of this 70's show. It was re-rebooted in 2021!
Fantasy Island
This music website is criticized for being pretentious, mean-spirited and elitist. Perfect for an indie tastemaker!
Pitchfork
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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America Ferrara stars in this remake of the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea.
Ugly Betty
Pitched to networks as "Grey's Anatomy in space," this series featured astronauts wearing libido-suppressing devices called HALOs. Only 8 of the 13 episodes ever aired in the United States.
Defying Gravity
Major alternative acts of the 1980s named this Alex Chilton-led band as an influence.
Big Star
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
"Sonnet 43" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Jiminy Cricket served as Pinocchio's ____________
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The FCC fined this police procedural $1.2 million for an episode entitled "Nude Awakening."
NYPD Blue
A couple who learns that the Manhattan apartment building is possessed by a demonic force, but this deal with the devil only lasted 13 episodes.
666 Park Avenue
This Southern music collective launched 90's indie icons like Olivia Tremor Control, of Montreal, and Neutral Milk Hotel.
Elephant 6
When I come to the end of the road
And the sun has set for me
I want no rites in a gloom filled room
Why cry for a soul set free?
"Let Me Go" by Christina Rossetti
the third person plural possessive pronoun
t-h-e-i-r-s
This 2009 reboot of a 1983 sci-fi miniseries chronicles the efforts of reptilians to conquer the world.
V
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun are a sitcom couple who live in matrimonial bliss until they become neighbors to a Jewish couple. This British spoof was cancelled after one episode.
Heil Honey I'm Home
Elizabeth Fraser led this 4AD band with her ethereal, incomprehensible singing.
Cocteau Twins
I sing this song, full of sadness,
this song which is myself. I will tell, what I am able,
about what hardships I have faced—since I grew up,
recently or long ago, never more than now.
Always I suffer my misery of exile.
"The Wife's Lament" by anonymous
The wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia
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