Grade: D- Hungry-Man makes three varieties of TV dinner, but I chose the Salisbury Steak because it's a stereotypical TV dinner dish and because it looked the grossest.
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Others related similar experiences on the TV dinner manufacturer's website.
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"It's amazing, because I am literally a TV-dinner person," she said.
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I quickly heat up an Indian food TV dinner from Trader Joe's.
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In the beating sun, it was like sleeping inside a TV dinner.
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It tasted like a high-brow TV dinner, which is to say, pretty good.
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The eight new snack staple flavors are presented in a TV dinner-like tray.
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Though, obviously, that Moschino TV dinner dress from the most recent collection makes sense.
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So many of the contestants seem like identically programmed farm-to-TV dinner child stars now.
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Most are by Jeremy Scott and are consistently heavy-handed — especially the monstrous TV dinner dress.
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He dubbed the product a "TV dinner," drawing on the growing popularity of the appliance at the time.
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Somewhere, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick smiles as she deactivates her app and goes home to her TV dinner.
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Even subpar TV dinner can seem more attractive than a home cooked meal because of its immediate nature.
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I went with the $3 TV dinner (it was chicken nuggets, microwaved, with a brownie and macaroni and cheese).
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It's difficult to think of a reality TV dinner that seems more sad, or more serious, than this one.
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Fast-forward to 2018, where he has TV dinner-inspired dishes on the menu at his very own restaurant.
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We usually don't eat fast food, but I'm glad he got it since the TV dinner was not particularly filling.
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The company has released a new limited-edition Thanksgiving Dinner-flavored kit, which looks a lot like a TV dinner.
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So I put his name on the list, throw in a TV dinner, watch 'The Wire' and forget about it.
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I had always dreamed of eating a TV dinner as a kid and my mom never bought that kind of thing.
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Frozen peas, which they ate like popcorn, one Hungry-Man TV dinner, which they opened and left out for the dog.
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Every recipe has a difficulty level, and some even come with a TV-dinner-style roasting pan that you pop in the oven.
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It might sound like you're just popping a TV dinner in the microwave, but that isn't what you're doing because this isn't a microwave.
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I'm really romanticizing what a TV dinner is right now, but there's these delightful little compartments of all these different components that you could have.
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Perhaps it was the orchestrated slaughter of a family, a pregnant woman's belly stabbed again and again like the film over a frozen TV dinner.
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Make enough of this TV-dinner style meat loaf for a crowd, and then gather around the tube for a night of wholesome family fun.
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Salisbury steak is such an instance: a good idea and a good name, though its reputation as a TV dinner has stained the prettiness somewhat.
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Ms. Rich and her husband, Jonathan, bought the space in 2017 and outfitted it with vintage armchairs, bookshelves, rugs, lamps, even old TV-dinner trays.
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The telltale orange-yellow of a Taco Bell wrapper under a beech wood TV dinner stand caught our eye, as did several ketchup packets, both unopened and spent.
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One of the standouts is Jeremy Scott's kimono cape for Moschino that looks like the compartments of a TV dinner — vegetable medley on one side; mashed potatoes on the other.
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But most are as flat as the royal family sitting on their thrones eating from TV dinner trays, while the queen complains about having to watch the jester while they eat.
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The Italian label is known for going the extra mile, with Katy Perry's chandelier look at the Met Gala and that TV dinner dress from fall 2019 immediately coming to mind.
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In 1979, Swanson (which already made the foil-wrapped TV dinner) announced a line of 14 frozen foods formulated and packaged for microwaving, including chicken in wine sauce and three breakfast items.
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There was a toothpaste duffel, a cash register handbag, and a complete TV dinner evening cape, with Salisbury steak and mashed potato as the entrée, diced carrots and peas on the side.
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The sunglasses are sitting in front of the TV with a TV Dinner, watching the Home Run Derby on a mid-sized TV. Todd Frazier wins his round, slaps hands with everyone in sight.
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And if we choose to do a TV dinner, which is usually on a Sunday, everything is placed on trays with little napkins and little tablecloths and nicely plated with everything laid out properly.
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Devices like microwaves, baby monitors, and cordless phones often use the same 2.4GHz band too, causing more problems with interference (it might be why YouTube goes down every time you try to cook a TV dinner).
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At stage left is a café patronized by theatregoers who have paid for the privilege of being served four courses, plus the signature Mad as Hell cocktail, by white-jacketed waiters—one very sophisticated TV dinner.
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Perry's video is a musical riff on the craze, a tiny cooking show that ends in a TV dinner in which hamster Mr. Parsons gorges on miniature fries, tacos, hot dogs, pasta, and what I think is some sort of pizza.
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" It means they've concocted a scene specifically to make some boob tube aficionado in his stained undershirt stand up from his Lay-Z-Boy, kick over his TV dinner tray and scream to his wife, "Hey, Myrna get in here … the hot redhead just took off her necklace.
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The overall theme will be comfort food with a nutritious spin: cabbage rolls stuffed with turkey and cauliflower rice (a nod to his Polish heritage), and TV-dinner-inspired trays, like macadamia-crusted fish sticks with maple parsnip mash, that fit into the low-carb ketosis diet. (Mr.
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As my little sister, April, and I would fight over who would get the last pea or who would get the bigger half of the peach cobbler in the dessert corner of our Hungry Man TV dinner, our mother told us that her mother spent her whole life cooking old-fashioned food.
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Similarly, Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who—oddly—attended Trump's inauguration just days after meeting with Trump lawyer Michael Cohen at Trump Tower and was at the infamous RT TV dinner in Moscow in 2015 with Putin, Michael Flynn, and Jill Stein, was surprised on the tarmac at a US airport by FBI agents from Mueller's team when he visited the US. 2.
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It featured 15 or so of his pieces, including a prosciutto dress from early in his career and the TV-dinner gown from the Moschino show last season — and that, in its train/tray, beef-'n'-mash glory, became a talking point for almost anyone who went to the museum, whether or not she had ever paid attention to the fashion show.
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8, 2005 However, Pinnacle Foods, which currently owns Swanson, still credits Thomas with proposing the TV Dinner concept.Pinnacle Foods web site And an Arizona Republic editorial termed the debate over his TV Dinner involvement "surprisingly vindictive."Arizona Republic, "A TV Dinner Dust-up: Who Knew?" Aug.
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It is now common for TV dinner trays to be marketed as "retro" or kitsch items.
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A German TV dinner (currywurst with French fries) A TV dinner (also called prepackaged meal, ready-made meal, ready meal, frozen dinner, frozen meal and microwave meal) is a packaged frozen meal that comes portioned for an individual. A TV dinner in the United States usually consists of a type of meat for the main course, and sometimes vegetables, potatoes, and/or a dessert. The main dish can also be pasta or fish. In European TV dinners, Indian and Chinese meals are common.
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Carnation Cafe also offers sandwiches. The restaurant offers special seasonal food during the holidays. For Christmas 2019, the menu included a Fried Bologna Sandwich and a Pork Chop TV Dinner, the latter served in a classic TV dinner tray with seasoned apples, mashed potatoes, peas and carrots, and a cheddar and chive scone with bread pudding.
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Thomas' wife described him as a gourmet cook who "never ate TV dinners."Associated Press, "Gerry Thomas, inventor of the TV Dinner, dies at 83," July 20, 2005 In recent years, Thomas' TV Dinner role was disputed by former Swanson and Campbell employees, frozen food industry officials, and Swanson family heirs, who said the product was created by the Swanson brothers, Clarke and Gilbert.Rivenburg, Roy.
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Swanson is a brand of TV dinners, broths, and canned poultry made for the North American and Hong Kong markets. The TV dinner business is currently owned by Pinnacle Foods, while the broth business is currently owned by the Campbell Soup Company. Current TV dinner products sold under the brand include Swanson's Classics TV dinners and pot pies, and the current broth lineup includes chicken broth and beef broth.
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The TV Dinner Hour is an American sketch comedy written by Richard O’Donnell, directed by Amy McKenzie, and performed by the New Age Vaudeville theater company in Chicago.
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The term TV dinner was first used as part of a brand of packaged meals developed in 1953 by the company C.A. Swanson & Sons (the name in full was TV Brand Frozen Dinner). The original TV Dinner came in an aluminum tray and was heated in an oven. In the United States, the term is synonymous with any packaged meal or dish ("dinner") purchased frozen in a supermarket and heated at home. Now, most frozen food trays are made of a microwaveable and disposable material, usually plastic.
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A Swanson "Hungry-Man Country Fried Chicken" TV dinner The Swanson & Sons' TV dinner branded frozen meal, sold 5,000 units when it was first introduced in 1953; just one year later, the company had sold over 10,000,000 TV dinners. The company discontinued its successful butter and margarine business to concentrate on a poultry-based line of canned and frozen products. In April 1955, Swanson's 4,000 employees and 20 plants were acquired by the Campbell Soup Company. By 1956, the Swanson brothers were selling 13 million TV dinners annually.
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"Tray Chic," Baltimore Sun, Feb. 5, 2003 He also said he coined the name "TV Dinner," brainstormed the idea of having the packaging resemble a TV set, and contributed the recipe for the cornbread stuffing. Thomas later said he was uncomfortable with being called the "father" of the TV dinner, because he felt he just built upon existing ideas. Thomas became a marketing and sales executive after Swanson was acquired by Campbell Soup in 1955. He retired in 1970 after suffering a heart attack, then did consultancy and briefly directed Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City.
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Lifetime brand TV tray or personal table A TV tray table, TV dinner tray, or personal table is a type of collapsible furniture that functions as a small and easily portable, folding table. These small tables were originally designed to be a surface from which one could eat a meal while watching television. The phrase tray-table can also refer to a fold-away tray, such as those found in front of airline seats. TV tray tables became popular in the 1950s as a way to hold food and beverage items while watching TV, the iconic item being a TV dinner.
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Freezer Queen was an American frozen food packaging company. It was a pioneer of the TV dinner industry beginning in 1958. For many years, it was an important employer in Buffalo, New York. It was founded by Buffalo businessman Paul Snyder and at one point had over 1,000 employees.
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For the majority of its run, Swanson sponsored the game show, The Name's the Same, with Robert Q. Lewis, alternating sponsorship with the Bendix Home Appliance division of Avco, and then Johnson's Wax. In a few 1980s and 1990s commercials for the TV dinner, the announcer was Mason Adams.
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Swanson, a large producer of canned and frozen poultry in Omaha, Nebraska, was able to promote the widespread sales and adaptation of frozen dinner by using its nationally recognized brand name with an extensive national marketing campaign nicknamed "Operation Smash" and the clever advertising name of "TV Dinner," which tapped into the public's excitement around the new device.
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National advertising for TV tray tables first appeared in 1952, a full year before Swanson introduced the TV dinner in October 1953. A set of four TV tables were sometimes sold mounted on a small rack where they could be hung when not in use. This rack was popularly placed in a corner of the living room. The inventor of TV tray tables is unknown.
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In 1987, Close mounted his first scripted show, Honor Finnegan vs. the Brain of the Galaxy, created by members of Close and Halpern's Improv Olympics from a scenario by Close, at CrossCurrents in Chicago. Running concurrently at the same theater was “The TV Dinner Hour”, written by Richard O’Donnell of New Age Vaudeville, featuring Close's running routine as The Rev. Thing of the First Generic Church of What's-his-name.
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Ramen (ラーメン) a dish of noodles in broth, usually with meat and vegetable toppings, is occasionally referred to as Chuka Soba (中華そば, lit. "Chinese noodles.") In Japan, ramen is one of the most popular fast-food options. Though every Japanese city has numerous inexpensive ramen restaurants specializing in these noodles, numerous varieties of instant ramen (much like the Japanese equivalent of the frozen TV dinner) are available.
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Between 1992 and 1998, Hewitson appeared on the Ten lifestyle show Healthy, Wealthy and Wise, in which he presented the cooking segments.Healthy, Wealthy & Wise Until December 2005, Hewitson was a regular chef on the networks morning talk program GMA with Bert Newton. Ensuing programs with his participation include Huey's TV Dinner and Never Trust a Skinny Cook. He has been the main host of Huey's Cooking Adventures (1997 - 2010) and Huey's Kitchen (2010 - 2014).
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Fifteen-year-old Billy is still friends with Doug even after the accident. One night, an argument occurs over a TV dinner with Larry, now a belligerent and profane alcoholic. Billy accidentally knocks over the dinner and it lands on him, burning his back. When Doug overhears what is going on, he intervenes and gets into a short scuffle with Larry, as Billy blames his brother for the burn on his back.
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Gerry Thomas (February 17, 1922 - July 18, 2005) was a Canadian who moved to the US to become a salesman. He is sometimes credited with inventing the TV Dinner in 1952. Thomas, who worked for the Swanson food company in America in the 1950s and went public with his account decades later, said he designed the company's famous three-compartment aluminum tray after seeing a similar tray used by Pan Am Airways.Hirsch, Arthur.
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Frankenshark Two songs, "TV Dinner" and "Stink Eye", were tweeted by the band as a Soundcloud link under the name of Frankenshark. To date, "Stink Eye", (later renamed "Tito, Don't Give Me Stink Eye") has been played live several times as SWMRS. Matt Grocott & The Shrives In 2014 two UK bands called Matt Grocott & The Shrives toured with Emily's Army. They booked these dates under the name "Swimmers", conceiving the name for Emily's Army.
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Willie and Eva watch football in the afternoon and late-night sci-fi movies. His esteem for her increases when Eva comes back from an excursion with a few canned food items, a TV dinner "especially" for Willie, and to Willie's astonishment, a carton of cigarettes, all obtained without money. Willie smiles and shakes her hand, telling her "I think you're alright, kid." Eva, smart, pretty, and low-key, likes to play her favorite song, Screamin' Jay Hawkins's "I Put a Spell on You" which Willie dislikes.
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Their construction was possible due to the introduction of the high-rise crane, which to this day remains a common feature of city skylines. The arrival of television had an effect on eating habits. In 1953, C.A. Swanson & Sons introduced the TV dinner to the US market. The pre-cooked food items, including, meat, potatoes and a vegetable were placed in the segments of an aluminum tray and frozen. The consumer purchased the frozen product and heated it in the oven for about 25 minutes.
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Other prepackaged meals were also marketed before Swanson's TV Dinner. In 1948, plain frozen fruits and vegetables were joined by what were then called 'dinner plates' with a main course, potato, and vegetable. In 1952 the first frozen dinners on oven-ready aluminum trays were introduced by Quaker States Foods under the One-Eye Eskimo label. Quaker States Foods was joined by other companies including Frigi- Dinner, which offered such fare as beef stew with corn and peas, veal goulash with peas and potatoes, and chicken chow mein with egg rolls and fried rice.
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Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed serve as main characters and antiheroes in Timon & Pumbaa. They are given their own segments titled "The Laughing Hyenas" where they wander around the Serengeti looking for food. At the end of the episode "TV Dinner", the hyenas replace television host Martin Pardon, which may indicate that they are living a new life as directors and stars of the wildlife documentary show Kingdom of the Creatures, where they get fed during their new career. In later seasons, they made minor appearances trying to attack Timon and Pumbaa.
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Bob Mills locks the doors and lets down the shutters to entertain his pals with another selection of top video clips and mementoes of his incredible life. Tonight, a man who likes to discuss shaving on first dates, and another who likes to discuss salt. There's also rare footage of Bob's sister's wedding, including his mum's party piece and a small contretemps at the reception. The repossession of Rod Hull's house is recreated, with 'Emu' playing a starring role, and Ulrika Jonsson meets Bob for a high-powered TV dinner.
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Bradford attempts to derail Edison's success by stealing his formula for glow in the dark, which does not exist in the world of the film. Bradford shares it with a consumer who covers himself in it and alleges that Edison's prize invention—a portable TV/TV dinner combo—leaks radiation. When Edison reveals that radiation causes sickness and death, but not a literal glowing, the company is saved, Bradford is arrested, and Grace Kosik (Raquel Welch) makes a deal with the company to testify against Bradford. In the end, Edison appoints his girlfriend Natalie Stockwell (Courtney Thorne-Smith) to run the company.
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Pfanni was sold in 1993 to CPC Germany, later renamed CPC Bestfoods. Knorr also belongs to Bestfoods. In 2000, this group of companies was taken over by Unilever, which offers Pfanni branded potato products such as raspeball, dumpling dough, mashed potato, TV dinner and gnocchi. The dumpling varieties also includes bread dumplings. After the company had moved to Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, in 1996 the huge former factory site of the Pfanni company that was located in Munich’s Berg am Laim district became a nightlife and party district called Kunstpark Ost, hosting more than 30 discotheques and spawning several internationally renowned nightclubs such as Ultraschall, KW – Das Heizkraftwerk and Natraj Temple.
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Many companies in the American food industry developed new products requiring minimal preparation, such as frozen entrees. One such example is the TV dinner in which a multi-course meal was assembled in aluminum packaging in a food factory and flash frozen, then reheated at home in a thermal oven to be served while watching TV. Convenience foods of the era were designed to simplify home preparation. One example is macaroni & cheese created using a powdered artificial cheese product that is reconstituted at home with fresh milk. Newspapers and magazines ran recipe columns, aided by research from corporate kitchens, which were major food manufacturers like General Mills, Campbell's, and Kraft Foods.
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"Time magazine Alan Sepinwall on HitFix said that, "Earlier this week, I wrote about how terrific this season of "The Good Wife" has been, and tonight's episode was a cut above even what's come before.Hitflix On The A.V. Club it won the Golden TV Dinner in their Tournament of Episodes by beating the "Cooperative Polygraphy" episode of Community. In the discussion Myles McNutt praised it for "pulling every piece of the show into the fray and never looking back" while Scott Von Doviak voted for "Cooperative Polygraphy" instead as he felt "Hitting the Fan" might be best for longtime viewers. Zack Handlen also indicated "Hitting the Fan" might be less rewarding to newcomers.
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Serving as a collection of television theme songs and music from Cartoon Network's programming, Cartoon Medley is presented as a fake TV dinner meal. The CD's cover advertises containing "Flaky fried Cow and Chicken, Space Ghost-Zorak-Brak veggies, and [a] Yogi gelatin treat". The project was first unveiled in the fourth volume of Film Score Monthly in 1999, before being released on July 6, 1999, by Kid Rhino, the children's label of Rhino Entertainment, as both a CD and a cassette tape. Bonus features on the CD-ROM include six downloadable games and children's activities, such as liner notes including the lyrics to the corresponding tracks and samples of video games featured on Cartoon Network's official website.
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Armed Forces of the Philippines mess kit similar to US military mess kits skillet, food tray, canteen and cup While functionally similar to a one-man civilian mess kit, military mess kits are designed to be even more compact, using their space as efficiently as possible. Thus lids will almost always be used for preparing, cooking, and/or eating, and usually come in two or three pieces. As such, it may sacrifice certain features, or use other features to complement it. When in a large camp, it is common for soldiers to use either normal dining wares, or a multi-compartment mess tray similar to a TV dinner tray, but much larger.
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Cavanagh was an original member (1984–1987) of the professional theatre troupe New Age Vaudeville (formerly the Comedy Cabaret) founded by Richard O'Donnell and Amy McKenzie. An Actor's Equity (AEA) theatre troupe, the Comedy Cabaret landed a summer residence at Peninsula Players in Fish Creek, Wisconsin, where it developed works for a predominately tourist trade and then relocated to their winter home in Chicago at CrossCurrents. Throughout her tenure, Megan Cavanagh (who thus earned her Actors' Equity union card) starred in numerous productions including the cult-hits An Evening with Elmore & Gwendolyn Putts - The Neighbors Next Door and The TV Dinner Hour (the latter featured IO Theater founder Del Close). Rick Kogan of the Chicago Tribune hailed both productions as "Among the most polished and clever productions of the season, a pair of devilishly inventive and challenging shows that won over critics and audiences".
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After streaking and robbing a convenience store, Billy and Doug are playing when he causes an almighty crash with a bowling ball and a moving car, actually killing Doug's father by accident. Just a few days after the incident, Larry's incessant harassment causes Billy to fight against his older brother, and when Gloria breaks up the scuffle and discovers a gauze on Billy's back (after Billy knocked the TV dinner and injured himself, and on the newspapers regarding the robbery that Billy was wearing the gauze), Larry immediately tells her that Billy and Doug went streaking and stealing things as evidence, but is still taken away by Ray, who came to cause another argument with Gloria over their divorce. Because Billy has no way to hide any of the evidence, an incensed Gloria reprimands and admonishes him, restricting him from seeing Doug permanently. Although she knows what Billy and Doug did, Gloria does not know what really happened at the car crash.
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McKenzie has worked and lived in Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago, where she has produced and performed for the stage and television. She co-founded the New Age Vaudeville theater company as well as co-producing and directing their biggest cult hits, An Evening With Elmore & Gwendolyn Putts, The Neighbors Next Door and The TV Dinner Hour, both written by Richard O’Donnell and featuring herself, O’Donnell, Megan Cavanagh, Todd Erickson, Bobby McGuire, Peter Neville, Michael Dempsey, Lisa Keefe, Caroline Schless, Tom Purcell (writer for The Colbert Report) and Del Close. Rick Kogan of the Chicago Tribune hailed both productions as "Among the most polished and clever productions of the season, a pair of devilishly inventive shows that won over critics and audiences alike." McKenzie has directed and acted in numerous productions at the Peninsula Players, America's oldest residential summer theater, as well as founding and producing their fall season in the early 1980s.
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Also headquartered in Omaha are the following: First National Bank of Omaha, the largest privately held bank in the United States; three of the nation's ten largest architecture/engineering firms (DLR Group, HDR, Inc., and Leo A Daly); and the Gallup Organization, of Gallup Poll fame, and its riverfront Gallup University. Notable modern Omaha inventions include the following: the "pink hair curler" created at Omaha's Tip Top Products; Butter Brickle Ice Cream, and the Reuben sandwich, conceived by a chef at the then–Blackstone Hotel on 36th and Farnam Streets; cake mix, developed by Duncan Hines, then a division of Omaha's Nebraska Consolidated Mills, the forerunner to today's ConAgra Foods; center-pivot irrigation by the Omaha company now known as Valmont Corporation; Raisin Bran, developed by Omaha's Skinner Macaroni Co.; the first ski lift in the U.S., in 1936, by Omaha's Union Pacific Corp.; the Top 40 radio format, pioneered by Todd Storz, scion of Omaha's Storz Brewing Co. and head of Storz Broadcasting, and first used in the U.S. at Omaha's KOWH Radio; and the TV dinner, developed by Omaha's Carl A. Swanson.
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In 1972 he moved to Sydney and joined the Filmmakers Co-op, which at the time not only counted experimental film makers such as Albie Thoms, Aggy Read and Mick Glasheen as members, but also filmmakers who would become some of the most popular and commercial directors including Peter Weir, Phillip Noyce and Bruce Beresford. Fabinyi, who had shot independent works in Adelaide, received a grant from the Experimental Film Board to make The Vacuum, one of the first projects in Australia to be shot on portable videotape. A satire on the personalities behind religious cults, featuring a game show starring Johnny O'Keefe and drag act Sylvia and the Synthetics, the video premiered at the Co-op and toured universities with a live performance from the Synthetics and Fabinyi's earlier work, including the controversial TV Dinner, which polarised audiences due its uncompromising and unerotic sexual subject matter. Fabinyi, who was influenced by German artist Otto Muehl, continued to work in video and was a founding member of Bush Video, the group which wired up and broadcast on-site during the 1973 Aquarius Festival in Nimbin, an event that has become the epitome of the hippie movement.
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