Welcome to Rabbit Ears’ weekly collection of must-see TV-related links
- Cartoonist Dennis Culver has unveiled a poster that shows Community‘s cross-dressing Dean Craig Pelton in all 34 wacky costumes he’s donned since the start of the show. You can buy it for $40 here.
- In other Community news, Josef Adalian dishes out some real talk at Vulture about showrunner Dan Harmon’s ouster.
- After Doctor Who debuted its Olympics 2012-themed mini episode yesterday, the BBC confirmed that Matt Smith, who plays the space-time explorer’s most recent incarnation, will be an official torch-bearer in Cardiff on Saturday.
- Over at Tiger Beatdown, Garland Grey, who is watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer for the first time (lucky!) explains exactly why Buffy’s college boyfriend Riley Finn sucks.
- At Tor.Com, Chris Lough explores how this season of Mad Men highlights science fiction as a tool of expression.
- Game of Thrones‘ season 2 soundtrack will feature a rendition of “The Rains of Castamere,” the folksong about a Lannister victory that strikes fears into their enemies’ hearts, as imagined by indie darlings The National.
- Torontoist’s Steve Fisher writes about a campaign to save Canadian comedy troop Picnicface’s sketch show on the Comedy Network. If you haven’t seen any of the group’s YouTube videos, do so now. These Haligonians got me through most production nights at my student newspaper.
- What’s the plural of apocalypse? Lisa Vox at Slate discusses how characters in Joss Whedon shows and movies react to end-of -the -world scenarios.
- An oldie but a goodie: Alyssa Rosenberg from Think Progress explains why Glee is an immoral television show and it’s time to stop watching it.
