damages

Bright and sharp law school graduate Ellen Parsons becomes the protégée of the successful and hard-hitting high stakes litigator Patricia Hewes. But nothing is what it seems. [imdb]

In law, damages is an award of money to be paid to a person as compensation for loss or injury; grammatically, it is a singular noun, not plural. [wikipedia]

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friends – gag reel

rachel: okay. should we get some coffee?
chandler: sure… where? [wikiquotes]

friends is my favourite tv show. i started watching it in when i was 25, a couple of years after they had stopped shooting it. today i finished the whole series for the 6th time and just like previous times i got so sad that there is nothing left to watch although i know i’m going to watch it again from the beginning.

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barney’s playbook

“the playbook contains every scam, con, hustle, hoodwink, gambit, flim-flam, stratagem and bamboozle i’ve ever used, or ever hope to use, to pick up chicks and give em the business.”
-barney stinson (how i met your mother tv series)

you can download parts of it on scribd.

creature comforts

Creature Comforts was originally a 1989 British humorous animated short film about how animals feel about living in a zoo, featuring the voices of the British public “spoken” by the animals. It was created by Nick Park and Aardman Animations. The film later became the basis of a series of television advertisements for the UK Electricity Board, and in 2003 a television series in the same style was released. An American version of the series was also made. [wikipedia]

les brigades du tigre (the tiger brigades)

les brigades du tigre (english: the tiger brigades) is a french television series in 36 episodes of 55 minutes, aired from december 21, 1974 to november 11, 1983 on the second channel of the ortf and then france 2. [wikipedia]

at the beginning of 20th century a brigade of police led by motorized divisional commissioner faivre has been created. inspired by georges clemenceau , the minister of interior at the time, who had “tiger” as his nickname, the unit was named tiger brigades. [wikipedia]