The Biggest Loser–Joe vs. Tyler 2008

2 men. 10 weeks. Who will lose the most weight? Who will be crowned the Biggest Loser? Which man has the guts to lose the most gut?
Here’s the lowdown: these fine young gentlemen wish to shed those last few layers of baby fat so they can be lean and mean by the time they hit [...]

And the Oscar Goes to…

Reptastic live blogs from the red carpet at the 80th Annual Academy Awards

Last night we at Reptastic blogged live from the Red Carpet (by red carpet we mean the blood-stained carpet in our Seattle apartment) to bring you all the goings-on of the 80th Academy Awards. It was a night with a few surprises and [...]

Ad Naseam: The Super Bowl of Advertising

Super Bowl Sunday saw two unexpected results–a Giants championship and a game which vastly outperformed an unimaginative crop of commercials

After large events happen, sometimes it’s good to sit back, reflect, and ask the question, “what have we learned?” Last night was the most watched Super Bowl ever and we learned quite a bit actually. Those [...]

Dr. Drew Pinsky’s Celebrity Rehab

Unlike Amy Winehouse, these celebs are willing to say “Yes, yes, yes” to rehab in this reality show with Dr. Drew Pinsky

A culture obsessed with celebrity has risen in step with the rise of the internet, but it’s unlike the celebrity obsessions of yesteryear. In the past there was a reverence and respect for the [...]

Ad Nauseam: Riggle Me This…

The Daily Show’s Rob Riggle and Budweiser team-up for an extremely inane and unimaginative ad campaign

Over the years, when it comes to commercials that deliver the funny, most people looks toward the beer companies to appease our jonesing for 30 seconds of low-brow humor. Beer enjoys the fact that their product is one [...]

30 Rock: “Episode 210″

30 Rock provides one last outstanding episode before heading back to their Writer’s Strike-imposed hiatus

Like finding an oasis in the arid, bleak desert that is the Writer’s Strike, 30 Rock unexpectedly aired a new episode Thursday amidst little fanfare. It was a beautiful and refreshing respite from what seems like an intractable labor impasse. Sure, [...]

Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares

Chef Gordon Ramsay shows unexpected heart and humor in his restaurant consulting-meets-reality show tour de force

On the high streets of London, the Champs Elysee in Paris, and the catwalks of New York City one can see how fickle fashion can be. Styles, materials, the hot-designer and over-arching trends change constantly, led by a wide assortment [...]

Empire Makers

Volatile chefs Marco Pierre White and Gordon Ramsay set the culinary world ablaze

The line separating insanity from genius is razor thin. The singular drive and focus which may lead someone to greatness may also lead them to madness. Such is the line epic English chef Marco Pierre White straddled everyday in his crusade to [...]

The Return of Late Night…Sort of

After two months on the sidelines due to the Writers Strike, Conan, Letterman, Leno, Kimmel and Ferguson returned to the air last night, a few of them sans writers. Most of the shows were pretty flat with the highlights being Dave and Conan’s strike-beards. Letterman did come back with his writers after negotiating independently with [...]

The Most Reptastic of 2007

Like any young man who read Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in their formative years, I’m a huge fan of lists. So I’ve gone through 2007 with a fine-toothed comb to create these definitive lists of the most Reptastic films, albums, songs, TV Shows, books, athletes, and sports scandals of 2007. We (the Royal we) here [...]