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More Penn State "Spirited" Foolishness - TV

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Penn State grad student Ryan Buell and a slew of other Nitts are now showing their "spirit" in a campus based knock-off of Ghost Hunters, which will air on A&E. (Dec10 - 10pm).

His web/blog site has lots of background on this whole thing -

But the priceless stuff comes from Variety in their review of the show, which will be called Paranormal State (geddit?).

No extraordinary powers are required to visualize the drool puddle that formed when A&E was pitched "Paranormal State" -- a series about investigators of the paranormal who happen to be (wait for it) college students at Penn State. It's a demographic bull's-eye, which is hardly the only bull in these heavily produced half-hours from the producers of "Laguna Beach," including a first episode about a kid who sees dead people not-so-subtly subtitled "Sixth Sense." Another eerie dose of unscripted hokum, this series should nonetheless find an audience alongside cable's teeming ranks of psychics, seers and ghost hunters.
Ryan Buell founded Penn State's Paranormal Research Society six years ago, claiming a relationship with strange phenomenon extending back into his teens. Unfortunately, his craft doesn't include smoothness, delivering stilted direct-to-camera confessionals as part of his "director's log," as in "Mat-thew ... is ... a ... trained ... specialist...."
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As if this immediate downgrade for a show never even seen was not enough the writers at Variety then show they are football savvy.

Given that Penn State's football team has been decidedly mediocre in recent years, students are to be forgiven for finding alternatives to pass the time, and let's face it, scaring classmates witless is a tried-and-true method for attempting to get laid.
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"We are students. We are seekers. And sometimes, we are warriors," Buell says earnestly in the opening credits.
That's right: The ghost-busting Penn State Nittany nitwits. Hear them roar.
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Oh, yeah - here's the Paranormal State "team"

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Ooooooooh! I get chills just lookin' at them!
(sarcasm detector activated...moving to redline)

Maybe while their looking for ghosts they can find Nitany fans who aren't drunken white trash!
 
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sandgk;1023418; said:
Penn State grad student Ryan Buell and a slew of other Nitts are now showing their "spirit" in a campus based knock-off of Ghost Hunters, which will air on A&E. (Dec10 - 10pm).

His web/blog site has lots of background on this whole thing -

But the priceless stuff comes from Variety in their review of the show, which will be called Paranormal State (geddit?).

As if this immediate downgrade for a show never even seen was not enough the writers at Variety then show they are football savvy.

:slappy:

Oh, yeah - here's the Paranormal State "team"

rparanormalstate.jpg
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"I see Dead People"
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