What do you do on Christmas if you're Jewish? Chinese food and a movie. Brandon Walker sings about this perennial pairing, after the jump....
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"I wanna nog your egg." If you watched Stephen Colbert's A Colbert Christmas last night, I'm sorry. That was an hour you'll never get back. Only marginally funny, the show's best bit was perhaps the John Legend performance. The R&B star played a visiting forest ranger singing a song about nutmeg. Legend: "I'll sprinkle your Christmas cream with my spice supreme Colbert: "What about all-spice?" "You know it leaves me cold as ice" "Cinnamon?" "Don't even think of putting that in" "Cardamom?" "It won't let me drop my love bomb" The video, after the jump....
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Singing animated vegetables really complicate the issue of eating more vegetables. They're just soo cute. Especially the family of singing pea pods. In this animated series called Making Fiends, which started as a web show and will premiere this Saturday on Nickelodeon, Charlotte is sick of seeing her cafeteria's usual spread of beef jerky, clams, and grape punch. She needs more vegetables. While she gets her chorus of carrots, bananas, and broccoli promoting the message: "eat vegetables with every meal or your lips will start to peel," of course, she can't actually eat them. Adorability factor interferes. Making Fiends is from the same creator of Muffin Films, the series of muffin shorts where anthropomorphized muffins do muffin dances and...
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Craig LaBan, food critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, was so inspired by the blue cheese–stuffed burgers at Philly's Good Dog Bar & Restaurant that he wrote a song about it. No truer words have been sung about burgers: All my life, I’ve been a burger chaser That perfect simple sandwich shouldn’t be so hard to find But how many times have I been sorry, after just one bite To find a fraud between the buns And it looks like LaBan's roundup of Philly's best burgers also doubled as an excuse to shoot footage for a wacky video to illustrate his song....
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