I have a friend. Yeah, I know, hard to believe. That one was a great line 20 years ago. Funny.

Anyway, I have a friend. This guy, we’ll call him, “Cliffy,” is a front-runner. I mean this in a good way though. Not in the typical d-bag front-running way like most White Sux fans can be considered. No this guy is straight up. He’s cool, likes to joke around and drink beer and eat doughnuts. Well, I don’t know how much he likes to eat doughnuts, but I’m guessing he does.

So, this guy is a front-runner and I need to get him to teach me the tricks. See, he was way out front on getting all hyped up on Ndamukong Suh. Two years ago, he was asking me about this guy, texting me and wanting to know what the hell his name meant. And then last year when Suh blew up during the season, “Cliffy” was emailing and texting me practically non-stop for six months with all the stories on the Internet that he could find.

It was pretty funny and I enjoyed it. But it wasn’t the first time that he got out in front of something that turned out to be a hit. The reason I know this? This week’s Playboy and Sporting News.

“Cliffy” told me about this TV show a couple years ago that was awesomely funny. He said it was hilarious and disgusting and kinda life-like, if you’re from a family that’s completely fucked in the heads. That may be a direct quote, but I don’t remember exactly. Anyway, I haven’t seen any of the show before, but this week I found out that he must be dead on.

When I got the new Playboy, the cover was littered with Kenny Powers–the main character from this show–quotes and stories. I couldn’t believe that Playboy would have that much to do with the show that they’d do so much on the front, but then I realized it was an advertisement. It was one of those fake covers, the kind that the advertiser gets to blow his show up and you don’t realize it’s fake unless you open the cover.

Well played, sir. Well played.

I didn’t think much of it until today when I got my Sporting News and it was another Kenny Powers cover. Seriously, this must be a sweet show because they’re sinking some legit money into advertising it.

So it made me think, “How can I see this show?” Well, I don’t have HBO so that’s not going to happen, so I did the next best thing.

Here are a few of the best scenes from Eastbound and Down, a show that I am going to have to rent and start from the beginning because I’m still laughing my ass off just from these clips.

“What’s his fucking name? Shrek?” Awesome.