The Birdy Bunch

When Larry Wilmore’s abruptly canceled Nightly Show ended this past Thursday,
I stuck around to watch @Midnight. Since the Presidential campaign and the Summer Olympics provide no shortage of springboards for Twit-friendly topical humor, I’m assuming we have the program’s two-week hiatus to thank for the evening’s mundane Hashtag Wars category: #BirdTV. Personally, I enjoy having an evergreen subject to riff on given that updates to the blog will remain infrequent for some months, so here, minus a few brainstorms that I’d seen others beat me to when I took a quick scroll through the feed on Twitter, are…

My Top Twenty-Five Avian Television Shows

25. America’s Got Talons

24. The Young and the Nestless

23. Feather Knows Best

22. Sesame Tweet

21. Harpy Days

20. Parrothood

19. The Eggs Files

18. Gilmore Gulls

17. Fowl Frontal

16. The Dove Boat

15. Macaw’s Navy

14. Boston Eagle

13. Schoolhouse Rook

12. Hill Street Bluejays

11. The Greatest American Heron

10. The Incredible Hawk

9. Mission: Unpluckable

8. Twin Beaks

7. A Murder of Crows, She Wrote

6. How I Molt Your Mother

5. Diff’rent Storks

4. CHiRPs

3. Orphan Blackbird

2. The Secret Life of the American Tanager

And My Number One Avian Television Show…

1. 3rd Flock from the Sun


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