The Simpsons - Stepping Up Their Game

The Simpsons has been on the air for 23 seasons, and it's run the gamut in terms of standing with the American TV viewer. It went from underrated to well regarded, to overdone, to overrated, to nearly forgotten, and now I think it's turned the corner and become underrated again. I've been impressed lately by how current and genuinely amusing recent episodes have been, not to mention their Game of Thrones intro in the 501st episode.

Générique Simpsons : parodie de Game of Thrones

If anyone has been watching the show lately, please confirm or deny that the show is in fact good again, because it's been so long.

TDZ and the Quantum of Flawless - Weekly Trivia!

Talk about rock stars! This week, the TDZ trivia triumvirate was successful in identifying "h" as the letter representing the Planck constant. I don't think I would have remembered that without reading the book, so I'm impressed. Congrats to all.

If you secretly want to own this T-shirt, you are a hipster of the worst order.

My admiration quickly turns to disappointment, however, since no one knew the TV show that uses the name Heisenberg. The answer is Breaking Bad. You nerds need to watch more TV, for real.

Part of me thinks I should abandon physics and stump you on sports or pop culture, but that would be taking the easy way out. So here we go:

Whose perspective revolutionized the understanding of the double slit experiment by suggesting that electrons do not go through one slit or the other, but through both?

• Richard Feynman
• Erwin Schrödinger
• Louis de Broglie
• Max Born
• Albert Einstein

Good luck, and have a great week.

Revisionist History: The 2011 TDZ Emmy Awards

I'm going to make a brief departure from the sports world. I'm going to ignore such topics as the Red Sox's inability to win a freaking game, or the early demise of my fantasy football team thanks to a torn ACL for Jamaal Charles. Instead of acknowledging such cruel realities, I've chosen to avoid my first world problems altogether and escape as so many do into the wonderful world of TV.

They just don't make TV shows like they used to.

The 2011 Emmy Awards were held this past Sunday, and I'm going to wield my considerable powers of analysis/highfalutin opinions on the subject to crown my own winners of the small screen. Here's a sneak preview: Two and a Half Men is not "winning."