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Top 10 Halloween specials to get students in the spirit

By Nathaniel Repay | October 30, 2017

Here are 10 of the best Halloween episodes available on streaming services, perfect to put on while carving pumpkins, between trick-or-treaters or while the friend with the complicated costume takes extra long to get ready.10. “The Slutty Pumpkin Returns”...

New series grabs viewers

By Hayden Perkins | January 26, 2017

What seems to be a successful formula for the "Harry Potter" series, the "Hunger Games" series and "Game of Thrones" is capturing the flavor of the story. In the case of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" on Netflix, just about every component makes this...

 

TV laugh tracks need to disappear

By Colin Remes | March 19, 2012

Laugh tracks need to be done away with. They are obnoxious, annoying and if you need to be told where the punchline of a joke was, then it was a bad joke. However, there is a scientific purpose for using them. Those in communication studies refer to it...