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Viacom cuts internet access to 'Daily Show,' 'Colbert' and other shows

You know how there's a Viacom blackout on DirecTV and everybody's all, "Oh, I'll just watch on the internet" about it?

Not so fast!

That's what DirecTV was advising customers to do (watch online), so  Viacom cut off internet access to some of the most popular shows on their darkened channels.

Here are the shows you can't watch online: "The Daily Show" and "Colbert Report" (Comedy Central); "Spongebob Squarepants," "Victorious" and "iCarly" (Nickelodeon); "Dora the Explorer" (Nick Jr.); "Jersey Shore" and "Teen Mom" (MTV); and "Hot in Cleveland" (TV Land).

Update: CNN is reporting that DirecTV is giving $10 discounts to subscribers who call and complain about the missing content.

Today's giveaway lives under the sea

Lucy & My Three Sons, The Universe, and the Men have found homes.

This one's for the young or the young at heart.

We've got a SpongeBob SquarePants gift pack. You'll get Season 6, Volume 2, a two-disc set of 23 adventures. Special features include How to Make SpongeBob SquarePants (can you say that enough?!) and Bollywood Bob.

But wait! We're throwing in "Triton's Revenge," seven episodes including the special "SpongeBob and the Clash of the Triton," with guest voice Victoria Beckham. It's 89 minutes of laughs!

And there's more: "Legends of Bikini Bottom," six legendary episodes featuring adventures at Bikini Bottom Triangle. That's 68 minutes of animated glory!

All FREE!!! Just send an email by 10 tonight with your mailing address and luck will pick the winner AKA a random drawing.

Durham mayor proclaims Friday a day of happiness

 

Tomorrow, Nickelodeon is beginning its celebration of the 10th anniversary of SpongeBob SquarePants -- that absorbent, yellow fellow who lives in a pineapple under the sea -- with "The Ultimate SpongeBob SpongeBash Weekend."

As part of that celebration the network has proclaimed tomorrow, July 17th, the first Global Day of Happiness.

And it seems that Durham Mayor Bill Bell is on board.

He even signed a proclamation urging Durham residents to make special note of this observance.

Johnny Depp, meet SpongeBob

Ten years later, he still lives in a pineapple under the sea.

He still hasn’t passed that pesky boat-driver’s license test, so he
still rides a bike to his dead-end job flipping Krabby Patties. And
when he’s not toiling for fast-food wages at the Krusty Krab, he still
wastes his time chasing jellyfish with a butterfly net or practicing
karate with a tomboy squirrel from Texas.

Ten years later, SpongeBob SquarePants is still living the American slacker’s trippiest dream.

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