Lyrics/Chords:
Whoa, that’s a full rainbow all the way
bm G
Double rainbow, oh my God, double rainbow
D A
It’s a double rainbow all the way…damn bm G
It’s a double rainbow all the way…damn, oh my God D A f#m
What does this mean? It’s so bright, so vivid
G D
Double rainbow, double rainbow, it’s so intense (tense)
G f#m
What does this mean? It’s startin to even look like a triple rainbow
G D
That’s a whole rainbow, man, ahhhh!
G F#
Double rainbow all the way ‘cross the sky
bm G
Yeah, Yeeeeaaaaah, so intense
D A F#
Double rainbow all the way ‘cross the sky
bm G
Wow, wow, oh my God, look at that rainbow
D A
June 18
Auto-Tune the News #12 weed.lesbian allegaytions
Lyrics:
The market value of pot would go down, down, down if we legalize it
Then supersize it
Right now, now, now
$4,000 an ounce
That’s way too much
$400 an ounce
That’s ten times the blunts
We need to smoke a little more pot, right? right right now, now, now
That huge profit margin would go down, down, down if pot were legal
For the needy people
Right now, now, now
Does it lead to harder drugs?
No more than cigarettes
No, absolutely not
It leads to happiness
We need to smoke a little more pot, right? right. Right now, now, now
A photo of supreme court nominee Elena Kagan shows Kagan playing softball
Uh, uh…
That’s been sort of a signal like 2 men sunbathing together on a beach
Or something like that
The immediate implication is that they’re gay
That’s all, I’ve, I’ve known that for a long time
And as soon as I saw that picture
I knew the implication:
She’s gay, she’s gay!
I saw the allegation:
she’s gay, she’s gay!
Her sexual orientation
Significant in her confirmation
Is she gaaaaay? (a lesbian, lesbian)
Is she gaaaaaay? (a gay, gay lesbian)
Is she gaaay? (GAY)
Is she gaaay? (GAY)
Is she gaaaaaay? (a gay lesbian, lesbian)
Gay, gay, gay, gay like two men sunbathing together on a beach (3x)
Or something like that
The White House denies her gayness
But she got Village People on her iPod playlist
::laughing/chuckling/chortling::
There’s nothing wrong with a little levity
When we’re short on thoughts and long on brevity
::bantering::
Is she gaaaaay? (a lesbian, lesbian)……
we’re having a conversation
about the implication
of sexual orientation
a silly allegation
of extreme exaggeration
and pointless information
when it comes to confirmation
You would have to smooooke
14 joints in 1960
Today minus 50
To get just as hiiiigh
As in 2010 with just 1 joint
Goin back in time always disappoints
Isn’t that amazing?
It’s gonna be crazy in 2060
If we legalize marijuana
It would be a very dark day
In California
Dark with smooooke
Very bad idea
Would it balance our budget?
It would not!
Half of voters favor legalizing pot
If we legalize marijuana
It would be a dark, dark day
Very bad!
A dark, dark best day I’d ever have
A dark, dark, dark, dark, dark dark day.
June 10
OBAMA SINGS KICK ASS SONG?!?!
Obama declares his intent to kick somebody's ass, though determining the specific ass to be kicked may require an executive task force. The aggression of this declaration is made all the more resounding by its delivery as a dark, looming hip hop single.
Matt Lauer and Sarah Gregory contribute vocals and interviewing expertise.
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April 29
We Won a Webby
Thanks for voting for Auto-Tune the News! We are now not simply buffoons, but award-winning buffoons.
The Gregory Brothers discuss making boring news become interesting news with the help of Auto-Tune
April 16
Magical Streamys Remix
We won 3 Streamy awards! Along the way, we met some of the other nominees and winners. In this video we surf the Streamys nominee page in magical song.
Featured artists, in order of appearance:
Zach Galifianakis (Between 2 Ferns): http://bit.ly/LIsqt
Brigitte Dale: http://bit.ly/cGvXib
Michael Buckley: http://bit.ly/338PJm
Shane Dawson: http://bit.ly/P8bAx
Philip DeFranco: http://bit.ly/Mj3PC
Justine Ezarik: http://bit.ly/IUFQ2
Ed Helms (Subtle Sexuality): http://bit.ly/2YfCeR
Robin Thorsen (The Guild): http://bit.ly/4oYiwy
Amir Blumenfeld (Jake and Amir): http://bit.ly/4e5hmH
Molly Windman (Rocketboom): http://bit.ly/3E6V
Ass-Whooping (Angel of Death): http://bit.ly/2uMkD
David Wain (Wainy Days): http://bit.ly/sdfhB
^^ if you don’t know these shows/channels yet, you should. check them out.
PS–thanks to the homeys/fans, we’re nominated for 2 webbys!! vote for us here: http://nxtnw.tv/goATTN and here: http://nxtnw.tv/voteATTN
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April 6
Pure Poppycock. (ft. Joel Madden) // Auto-Tune the News #11
Nigel Farage teams up with the Angry gorilla to shout in the EU as Joel Madden sings a plaintive duet with Katie Couric.
Broadcasters become stars and stars become broadcasters as an ominous hip-hop sample infuses the news of the day. Joel Madden guests as a fictional CBS correspondent. UPDATE: any resemblance the intentional performers may bear to media personalities living or dead is purely coincidental.
Find Joel Madden online:
www.goodcharlotte.com
/www.twitter.com/JoelMadden
Mike Penny shreds the shamisen. His YouTube channel:
www.youtube.com/mikepenny01
Lyrics available in the closed captions (turn the on at the bottom-right-hand corner of the youtube player)!
and here:
NF: You have the charisma of a damp rag!
Gorilla: Damp rag!
NF: You have the appearance of a bank clerk!
Gorilla: Bank Clerk!
NF: Who are you? I’d never heard of you!
Gorilla: Eat my poo!
NF: Nobody in Europe had ever heard of you!
But I have no doubt that it’s your intention
To be the quiet assassin of European democracy.
Perhaps that’s because you come from Belgium
Which of course, is pretty much a non-country.
We don’t know you, we don’t want you!
The sooner you’re put out to grass, the better!
We don’t like you, we don’t want you!
Gorilla: Our logic and reason have proved you wrong!
Bølverk: Go back to Douchebagistan where you belong!
Gorilla: Don’t make me have to start World War III !
Bølverk: Bring it on, these guns are WMD!
NG: We don’t know you, we don’t want you!
We don’t like you, we don’t want you!
KC: Last month, comedian Bill Cosby
was surprised to read that he died.
JM: How can he read if he’s dead?
KC: Chief Justice John Roberts
was the last to know he resigned.
JM: Maybe he should check his head!
KC:All of those stories, of course are pure poppycock
that proliferated online.
JM: I do it all the time, makin up s— is so sublime.
KC: But that of course is little solace for the reader
who simply wants to surf the web
without getting pulled under by a riptide of lies.
JM: You can’t protect the web from a–holes like me, shorty!
KC: Truth can rip through cyberspace as quickly as lies
Bloggers gnaw at new information like piranhas in a pool
JM: Don’t play me for a fool you know as well as I,
we’re both getting owned by the
Both: Rip, riptide of lies
pulled under by a rip, riptide of lies
Pure poppycock!
I want to surf, surf the web
without getting pulled under
by a rip, riptide of lies!
GB: You hit on a guy at a wedding.
EM: I I So
GB: Explain that one first.
EM: Okay, so we’re at a wedding, New Year’s Eve,
everyone had too much to drink.
There were 300 people there,
I went with a bridesmaid, danced with her,
I grabbed a bachelor.
Now they’re sayin I groped a male staffer!
Yeah, I did! - Um. - Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Staffers: A manly back-rub. Just a back rub!
EM: We all live together, all the bachelors and me.
Staffers: Naked in the tub!
EM:You can take anything out of context!
Staffers:Huggin!
EM: You can take anything out of context!
Staffers: Scrubbin!
EM: You can take anything out of context!
Staffers: Rubbin and humpin!
EM: Yeah!
Staffers: Ticklin and jumpin!
EM: Yeah, yeah! I tickled him till he couldn’t breathe,
then four guys jumped on me.
It’s my fiftieth birthday.
GB: Whether you’re telling the truth or not,
An avalanche is coming your way.
An avalanche of lies,
SG: pulled under by an avalanche of lies!
KC/JM: Pure poppycock!
GB: Whether you’re telling the truth or not,
SG: you’re guaranteed to get caught
Both: in an avalanche of lies!
Staffer: Massa staffers! Droppin a St. Bernard of truth
But we already drank the brandy
My boss tickles me like a true G,
He straddles me so masculine
No stoppin’ when i’m askin’ him
When he cootchie-coo my armpits, i’m a goner
Tryna pretend that i don’t notice his boner!
Tryna distract him with headlines from China
He just drop his drawers and pull out his vagina!
——–
Staffers:
Whenever you hear the boss swaggerin down the hall,
you know he gonna drop a double cup on your tennis balls!
You have to be a soldier, a real man,
to soothe a male staffer with the stroke from a tender hand!
Ain’t nothin wrong with a Massa massage
when you’re in a chronic platonic quintuple menage!
The entourage gripped in a bear hug that they can’t escape
Tryna pretend they don’t notice when he ejacu- -
April 6
Songify the News - Auto-Tune the News: Behind the Scenes with the Gregory Brothers
The Gregory Brothers let you peek behind the magic curtain and reveal the secrets behind Auto-Tune the News.
February 23
Auto-Tune the News #10 Turtles
A congressman declares that 'you shall build a turtle fence' and the entire chamber breaks into an inspired anthem.
Original song, Aquarium Girl, by Kapluckus–album available here:
February 23
Obama Sings 'Reply'??
In a candid appeal to the American people, President Obama turns to the Top 40 for inspiration.
October 16
Auto-Tune the News #9 Nobel health care. United Nations.
Presidents and prime ministers sing in harmony. Love and happiness abounds.
Lyrics:
HC: Tun tun tun tun tun tun tun tun
Seamos un tilín mejores
Y un poco menos egoístas
Tun tun tun tun tun tun tun tun
Huele esperanza
FR: In this common endeavor
Huele esperanza
GB: All of us work together
HC: Tun tun tun tun tun tun tun tun
BO: We must embrace a new era of engagement
Because the time has come
UN Choir: To smell the hope!
GB: For growth to be sustained
It has to be shared
UN Choir: ohhh, We can smell the hope!
BO: The time has come
UN Choir: To smell a better world!!
FR: A better world to live in for future generations everywhere.
AG: Don’t get sick
That’s right, don’t get sick
If you have insurance, don’t get sick
If you don’t have insurance, don’t get sick
If you’re sick, don’t get sick
Just don’t get sick
That’s the Republicans’ health care plan
CC: He has a chart
AG: An angry chart
CC: A chart that helps us learn!
AG: ooh ooh ah ah
If you get sick in America, die quickly
That’s right–the Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick
AG: I agree!
CC: He agrees!
AG: Angrily!
CC: Cuz he’s angry!
KO: Afford to live?
Are we at that point?
Are we so heartless?
How can we not be united against death?
Us: My BFF Gilgamesh knows eternal life’s an impossible quest
The resources exist for your father and mine to get the same treatment
Us: Yeah, we’re in agreement
But first we gotta lay down some
All: High speed rail
Us: Bail out some
All: Banks
Us: Save your daddy with the leftover change
KO: How can we be so heartless?
Us: We’re nihilists!
KO: How can we be so heeeeaaartless?
Us: We’re tryna die quick!
KO: What more obvious role could government have
Than the defense of the life of each citizen?
KC: How is the Nobel Peace Prize decided?
BS: Well, uh, that is what people were asking all day today
Bølverk: We mix a secret potion,
And roll the ancient dice,
Then hire a focus group
And have a human sacrifice.
KC: A lot of people are asking today why do you think the committee elected President Obama?
Bølverk: I believe a prize for peace should go to the biggest wuss.
BS: They were giving Obama a prize for not being George Bush.
Choir: They can smell the hope!!
KC: Take a deep breath!
Choir: And hope a smelly world!
KC: A deep breath!
FR: A better world to live in for future generations everywhere
Contemporary Television
Television is dead; television is in a golden age. Can both statements be true? This course focuses on how the art and business of primetime television changed after the introduction of “new media,” from cable to the Internet. Readings will explore production, storytelling, identity and distribution of TV and web entertainment. Students will watch, analyze and have the option to pitch or produce television.
The goal of this course is to give students a deeper understanding of the complexity and ever-changing nature of a media business. Television is arguably the country’s most powerful medium, foundational to American culture and history in the post-WWII era. At first tightly regulated and controlled, television has fragmented, its networks folded into conglomerates and its programs spread across dozens of channels. Throughout the semester students are encouraged to question how changes in television production, regulation and distribution affects programming, culture and politics at large.
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WEEK 1: INTRODUCTION
Course overview: Syllabus
Introductory Lecture: How has television changed?
WEEK 2: NETWORK TO NETWORKED TELEVISION
Screening:
— Mary Tyler Moore, “The Good-Time News” (3:1, 1972) (CBS, Hulu)
— Sex and the City, “To Market, To Market” (6:1, 2006) (Amazon Prime, HBO)
— Broad City, (season 1, 2010) (YouTube)
— BKPI, (season 1:1, 2017) (SuperDeluxe)
Readings:
— Aymar Jean Christian, “Introduction: Independents Change the Channel,” Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television
— Amanda Lotz, “Understanding Television at the Beginning of the Post-Network Era,” The Television Will Be Revolutionized, pp. 27-48, 2014
— Todd Gitlin, “The Problem of Knowning,” Inside Prime Time
Suggested Readings:
— Aymar Jean Christian, “Indie TV: Innovation in Series Development,” in Media Independence: working with freedom or working for free?, pp 159-181, 2014
— Bonnie Dow, “Hegemony, Feminist Criticism and The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” in Media Independence: working with freedom or working for free?, pp 159-181, 2014 — Eileen R. Meehan & Jackie Byars, “Telefeminism: How Lifetime Got Its Groove,” Television & New Media, 1:1, 2000, pp. 33-51
WEEK 3: TECHNOLOGY
Screening:
-- Epic Rap Battles of History (most recent episodes, YouTube)
-- Got 2B Real, “Got 2B Trill: The Untold Story” (YouTube)
-- High Maintenance, “Jamie” and “Rachel” (2012, 2014) (HBO)
-- High Maintenance, “Meth(od),” (1:1, 2016) (HBO)
Readings:
-- John Caldwell, “Trade Machines and Manufactured Identities” (online via NUCat), Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television, pp. 150-196, 2008
-- Aymar Jean Christian, “Developing Open TV: Innovation for the Open Network, 1995-2005,” Open TV Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television
-- Wendy Chun, “Big Data as Drama,” ELH, 83(2), 363-382
-- David Gurney, “Auto-Tune the News: Remix Video,” in Thompson and Mittell
Suggested Readings:
-- Max Dawson, “Television’s Aesthetic of Efficiency: Convergence Television and the Digital Short,” Television as digital media, 204-229, 2011
-- Louisa Stein, “Gossip Girl: Transmedia Technologies,” in Thompson and Mittell
-- Chuck Tryon, “TV Got Better: Netflix’s Original Programming Strategies and Binge Viewing,” Media Industries 2(2): 104-116, 2015
WEEK 4: AUDIENCES
Screening:
-- Looking, “Looking for Now,” (1:1, HBO)
-- Empire, “Pilot,” (1:1, FOX)
-- Gay Of Thrones, (6:1-3, Funny Or Die)
-- Kyle Humphrey & Graydon Sheppard, “Shit Girls Say” (YouTube)
-- Franchesca Ramsey, “Shit White Girls Say…to Black Girls” (YouTube)
Readings:
-- Henry Jenkins, “Introduction: Why Media Spreads,” Spreadable Media: creating value and meaning in a networked culture, pp. 1-46, 2013
-- Suzanne Scott, “Battlestar Galactica: Fans and Ancillary Content,” in Thompson and Mittell
-- Gayle Wald, “The Black Community and the Affective Compact,” It’s Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television, pp. 70-103, 2015
-- Kristen Warner, “’I’m glad no one was hung up on the race thing:’ Grey’s Anatomy and the Innovation of Blindcasting in a Post-Racial Era,” The Cultural Politics of Colorblind Casting, pp. 62-94, 2015
Suggested readings:
-- Mark Andrejevic, “Watching Television Without Pity: The Productivity of Online Fans,” Television & New Media 9 (24), pp. 24-46, 2008
-- Eve Ng, “Reading the Romance of Fan Cultural Production: Music Videos of a Television Lesbian Couple,” in Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Critical Reader, eds. Gail Dines, Jean M. Humez, pp. 553-562
Gurney Auto-tune The News Remix Video Youtube
WEEK 5: FINANCING
Screening:
-- Breaking Bad, 'Box Cutter,' (4:1, 2011) (Netflix)
-- Whatever this is, 'Reality,' (1:1, 2013) (Vimeo)
-- RuPaul's Drag Race (2:7, 2010) (Logo)
Readings:
-- Amanda Lotz, “The New Economics of Television,” Television Will Be Revolutionized, pp. 167-206, 2014
-- Ted Magder, “Television 2.0: the Business of American Television in Transition,” Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture, pp. 141-164, 2009
-- Kevin Sandler, “Modern Family: Product Placement,” in Thompson and Mittell
Gurney Auto-tune The News Remix Video Song
Suggested readings:
-- Aymar Jean Christian, “Web TV Networks Challenge Linear Business Models,” Media Industries Project, http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/mip/article/web-tv-networks-challenge-linear-business-models, 2014
-- Amanda Lotz, “How to spend $9.3 billion in three days: examining the upfront buying process in the production of US television culture,” Media Culture Society 29, 549-567, 2007
-- Chad Raphael, “The Political Economic Origins of Reali-TV,” in Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture, pp. 123-140, 2009
WEEK 6: DISTRIBUTION
Screenings:
-- Insecure, “Hella Blows,” (2:6, 2017) (HBO)
-- Maude, 'Maude's Dilemma,' (1:9-10, 1972, CBS)
-- Brujos (season 1:1-4, 2016-17) (Open TV)
-- Kids React (YouTube)
-- Ratchetpiece Theatre, “Rasheeda (Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta)” (YouTube)
Readings:
-- Stuart Cunningham, David Craig, & Jon Silver, “YouTube, multichannel networks, and the accelerated evolution of the new screen ecology,” Convergence, 22(4): 376-391, 2016
-- Aymar Jean Christian, “Open TV Distribution: Struggling for an Independent Market,” Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television
-- Aymar Jean Christian, “Scaling Open TV: The Challenges of Big Data Television,” Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television”
Suggested readings:
-- Jennifer Fuller, “Branding blackness on cable,” Media, Culture and Society 32(2): pp. 285-305, 2010
-- Melanie Kohnen, “Cultural Diversity as Brand Management in Cable Television,” Media Industries, 2(2)
-- Patrick Vonderau, “The video bubble: multichannel networks and the transformation of YouTube,” Convergence, 22(4): 361-375, 2016
WEEK 7: PRODUCTION
Screening:
-- All in the Family, “Cousin Maude’s Visit,” (2:12, 1971) (YouTube)
-- UnREAL, “Relapse” – (1:2, 2015) (Hulu+, Amazon, iTunes)
-- The Lizzie Bennett Diaries (1:1-3, 2012, YouTube)
-- Joanne the Scammer (Instagram) https://www.instagram.com/joannethescammer
-- Joanne the Scammer (SuperDeluxe, 1:2+7, 2017)
Reading:
-- Aymar Jean Christian, “Open TV Production: Revaluing Creative Labor,’” Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television
-- Miranda J. Banks, “I Love Lucy: The Writer-Producer,” in Thompson and Mittell
-- Amanda Lotz, “Making Television: Changes in the Practices of Creating Television,” The television will be revolutionized, pp. 81-118, 2007 (online via NUCat)
-- Beejoli Shah, “In the White Room With Black Writers: Hollywood’s ‘Diversity Hires,’” Defamer, December 20, 2013, http://defamer.gawker.com/in-the-white-room-with-black-writers-hollywoods-dive-1486789620
Suggested readings:
-- Joseph Adalian & Maria Elena Fernandez, “The Business of Too Much TV,” Vulture, May, 2016, http://www.vulture.com/2016/05/peak-tv-business-c-v-r.html
-- John Caldwell, “Industrial Auteur Theory (Above the Line/Creative),” Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television, pp. 197-231, 2008 (online via NUCat)
-- Louisa Stein, “Collective Authorship and the Culture of Feels,” Millennial Fandom: Television Audiences in the Transmedia Age, 154-170
-- John Vanderhoef, “Guilds Struggle to Organize Reality TV,” Carsey-Wolf Center: Media Industries Project, December 2, 2013, http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/mip/article/guilds-struggle-organize-reality-tv-labor
WEEK 8: REPRESENTATION
Screening:
-- Brown Girls (1:1-2, 2017) (Open TV)
-- Transparent, “Man on the Land,” (2:9, 2015) (Amazon)
-- Her Story (1:1-6, 2016) (YouTube)
-- The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl (1:1-2, 2011) (YouTube)
-- White Fetish (1:1-4, 2014) (YouTube)
Readings:
-- Aymar Jean Christian, “Open TV: Representation: Reforming Cultural Politics,” Open TV: Innovation Beyond Hollywood and the Rise of Web Television
-- Herman Gray, “The Politics of Representation in Network Television,” Watching Race: Television and the Struggle for Blackness, pp. 70-92, 2004
-- Susan Stryker, “Biopolitics,” Transgender Studies Quarterly, pp. 38-42, 2014
-- Rebecca Wanzo, “Precarious-Girl Comedy: Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, and Abjection Aesthetics,” Camera Obscura, 31(2) pp. 27-59, 2010
Suggested readings:
-- Phillip Maciak, “Kill the Leading Man: Two Histories of 21st Century Television,” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 13, 2013, http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/kill-the-leading-man-two-histories-of-21st-century-television
-- C. Riley Snorton, “Referential Sights and Slights,” Palimpsest, 2(2) pp. 175-186, 2013
-- June Thomas, “Why Did Maura Pfefferman and Her Daughters Go to a Trans-Exclusionary Wimmin’s Festival?,” Slate, December 14, 2015, http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/12/14/writer_ali_liebegott_on_transparent_s_women_s_festival_episode.html
-- Kristen Warner, 'Girls: HBO and Insecure's Risky Racial Politics,' Los Angeles Review of Books, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/home-girls-insecure-and-hbos-risky-racial-politics
WEEK 9: NARRATIVE
Screenings:
-- Arrested Development, “SOBs,” (3:9, 2006) (FOX)
-- Louie, “Daddy’s Girlfriend, Part 2” (3:5, 2012) (FX)
-- Bojack Horseman, “Fish Out of Water” (3:4, 2016) (Netflix)
Readings:
-- Bambi Higgins, “Homicide: Realism,” in Thompson and Mittell
-- Jason Mittell, “Complexity in Context,” Complex TV: the poetics of contemporary television storytelling, 2015, pp. 17-54
-- Jeffrey Sconce, “Tim and Eric’s Awesome Show, Great Job!: Metacomedy,” in Thompson and Mittell
Suggested readings:
— Aymar Jean Christian, “Netflix’s Arrested Development Will Not Change TV. Web TV Already Did,” Televisual, January 11, 2013, http://tvisual.org/2013/01/11/netflixs-arrested-development-will-not-change-tv-web-tv-already-did.
— Richard Butsch, “Ralph, Fred, Archie, Homer, and the King of Queens: Why Television Keeps Re-Creating the Male Working-Class Buffoon,” in Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Critical Reader, eds. Gail Dines, Jean M. Humez, pp. 101-110
— Michael Kackman, “Quality Television, Melodrama, and Cultural Complexity,” Flow, October 2008, http://flowtv.org/2008/10/quality-television-melodrama-and-cultural-complexity%C2%A0michael-kackman%C2%A0%C2%A0university-of-texas-austin%C2%A0%C2%A0
-- Eric Thurm, “How BoJack Horseman Created the Boldest Cartoon Episode in Decades,” Esquire, July 27, 2016, http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a47069/bojack-horseman-season-three-silent-episode
