Spurious Awards Of The Week

Doctor Who, Star Wars (lots of Star Wars), Torchwood some really scary Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and a whole load more

THE FIRST EVER GOLDEN SPURIOUS AWARD OF THE WEEK

A special award for Services To Spuriosity goes to the Torchwood finale. Insert your own reasons here…

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CROSSOVER CONUNDRUM OF THE WEEK

Y’know, something has been bugging us ever since the Bionic Woman made a crossover appearance from Warehouse 13 into Alphas a few weeks back, and this week’s Warehouse 13 highlighted the problem. It’s not just the fact that the two shows have such an entirely different tone that makes it feel unlikely they exist in a shared universe; the two concepts make contradictory bedfellows. If this shared universe has Alphas – in other words people with superpowers (and, as many have speculated, Jinksy and Pete Latimer could both be Alphas) – how come whenever the Warehouse 13 team encounter someone with strange abilities, they immediately assume an artefact must be involved? They were so convinced this week that radiation girl must have an artefact they spent half the episode looking for it, when you’d think one or other would just go, “You know what – maybe she does have superpowers?” Okay, she didn’t, but you get the point.

And while we’re on the subject of Warehouse 13, anyone else think that using the binoculars that belonged to the pilot of Enola Gay as the artefact of the week was a bit, well… tasteless? Bet they wouldn’t use the cell phone of a passenger on one of the planes that ploughed into the Twin Towers in the same context.
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WIMPIEST ROBOT OF THE WEEK

Defeated by some paper. Rubbish. And anyway, shouldn’t it be canvas, not paper? Not that canvas would be much deadlier. Oh, hang on, apparently Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa on wood. Now, that might have scrambled a few circuits. But we shouldn’t be surprised it was a fake – it was probably one of the six Mona Lisa copies that were painted over the canvases with “This Is A Fake” written on them in felt tip by Tom Baker’s Doctor in “City Of Death”. Then again, it was paper not wood. Hell, they probably bought it in the National Art Gallery shop and hoped nobody would notice.
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WORST BODY PIERCING OF THE WEEK

Stick to the day job, Stefan…
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ADDAMS FAMILY REUNION OF THE WEEK

Or maybe best in-joke of the week? In True Blood, Arlene and Terry dress up for Halloween. “We’re zombies,” says Arlene. “Zombies are the new vampires, didn’t you know that?”
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HARDCORE MAKOVER OF THE WEEK

Those Teenage Turtles got all grown up, thanks to artist Dave Rapoza. Click on the image to go to his site, where there are bigger versions, more characters and the chance to buy this lot as posters.
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FELINE ACCESSORY OF THE WEEK

A couple of weeks back we featured an Enterprise scratching post, but this truly is the height of luxury for time travelling moggies with claws of Axos. Discovered over at Icanhascheezburger.com.

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