For this week's entertainment-themed Round 2 podcast, Catherine and Terri chatted about the star-studded Saturday Night Live 40th anniversary special that took over NBC this past Sunday night. Though they both missed the red-carpet portion (red-carpet portion? really?), Catherine recorded and watched most of the special, while Terri dipped in and out of it and caught up with online clips. They mentioned some likes and dislikes about the special, reminisced about Saturday Night Live of old, and generally wondered if this is really where anybody would have expected the scruffy disrespectful comedy show that started during Terri's high-school years to end up. (To watch clips that Terri mentioned, you can find Paul Simon in his turkey suit on Vimeo and John Belushi talking about feeding fingertips to the wolverines on Yahoo!)

Speaking of over-hyped self-congratulatory star-studded entertainment, we'll be live-tweeting the Oscars on Sunday, and hope you'll join us. Look for the hashtag #OscarsPRP, and study up on Terri's 10-Point Comfort Scale for Oscar dresses to get in the mood for our red-carpet commentary.

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For this week's Round 2, Terri and Catherine looked at entertainment related to Valentine's Day, which (warning to the unprepared) is coming up this weekend. Catherine gave a thumbs-up review to The Hundred-Foot Journey, with a couple of romances making it worthy Valentine's viewing. Catherine and Terri both gave a squeamish thumbs-down to the idea of seeing 50 Shades of Grey in a movie theater with people or really anywhere or even the trailers or the book or really, can we just scrub it out of our brains? On a sweeter note, Terri talked about the many adorable romances and friendshps on Parks and Recreation, and shared a list of her favorite love-themed episodes. And for those for whom Valentine's Day is a little melancholy, Terri recommended two gorgeous recordings to wallow in: a mash-up of Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" and "Style" by Louisa Wendorff and Devin Dawson, which started life as a viral video and is now available on iTunes, and the sad ballad "Just Like It Sounds" on Dawson's SoundCloud page. What are you watching, reading, or listening to this Valentine's week? Share in the comments.

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For this week's Round 2, Catherine and Terri chatted about Super Bowl commercials, including that super-buzz-kill-y Nationwide ad about how while you're watching the game, your kid's probably in the kitchen going through the hazardous chemicals. We talked about how, if you're going to run an ad that will traumatize children, you might want to not put a dog at the start of it; the difficulty of explaining that Fiat ad to kids; the halftime show starring lip-synching sharks; and the fun of watching the ads with Twitter accompaniment (shout-outs to @parksandrecnbc, @TheTonyAwards, and this tweet from Time columnist James Poniewozik). To view the ads we talked about, follow the links below, and then tell us in the comments what you liked and loathed.

Nationwide | Nissan (Cat's in the Cradle) | Fiat | Toyota (Amy Purdy) | Microsoft | McDonald's | GoDaddy | Always | Budweiser | Clash of Clans (Liam Neeson) | Snickers (Brady Bunch) | Jublia (Toenail Fungus) | Cure Auto Insurance | Loctite | Coke

In this week's entertainment-themed "Round 2" mini-podcast, Catherine and Terri started out talking about the impending Snowpocalypse aimed at the northeast (and hyperbolic Weather Channel stormcasting in general) and moved on to the Super Bowl and who should be providing halftime-show color commentary; Downton vs. Oscar; Cougar Town's effortless defusing of a potentially show-love-killing issue; a Twitter account that tweeks former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg; and two books that didn't quite work for us: The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls and the audio version of Neil Patrick Harris's Choose Your Own Autobiography. Agree? Disagree? Got some other pop-culture rants or raves to share? Join the conversation in the comments.

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Talking about parenting all the time gets a little tiring, you know? For a between-podcast break, Terri and Catherine are bringing you a weekly "Round 2," dedicated to movies, TV, books, and all that entertainment we'd be consuming if we could just stop podcasting and catch up on our work. In this week's mini-podcast, we discussed Oscar nominations (and the total of 1 Best Picture nominee we've seen between us); the January return of Downton Abbey and Parks & Recreation (sniff); the treadmill as a vehicle for guilt-free TV binging; and an unfortunate recent football outcome. Do you share our viewing interests? Got some other pop-culture topics you'd like to discuss? Join us in the comments.