Sometimes I just want to pat America's Internet on it's little dumb head and say "It's okay, you just be pretty." Like when this fake video of John McCain's regular non-bad words being obviously bleeped Unnecessary Censorship-style goes around again and gets a bunch of people's panties in a bunch even though nothing has ever been more obviously fake, ever. It's actually a little embarrassing to even have to point that out:
The only thing shocking about that video is how poorly it was done. And couldn't they have had him say some more creative bad words? Unnecessary Censorshipshould be left to the pros. (Via Fimoculous.)
There's no accounting for the sudden, inexplicable resurgence of this video of Britney Spears's real vocals isolated from her Las Vegas concert special, other than it being August. So fine, we'll jump on that bandwagon. If you haven't seen it, it's new to you, and it's probably still one of the most entertaining things happening on the internet this week:
I have no idea whether Tiki Barber is widely known for being likeable, because I don't follow sports, but he seems immensely likeable, so if someone was going to say the C-word in the context of a joke while covering the Olympics on live television with Jenna Wolfe and his boss Brian Williams standing right there, I think the person most likely to be forgiven would be Tiki Barber. Hopefully the people in charge of freaking out about things (Elisabeth Hasselbeck) won't make a big deal out of this:
Via Jezebel, where they say they don't think he said that, which is kind of weird, because he says it loud and clear and then everyone gets uncomfortable about it.
Ugh, I hated Jason, the biggest loser on the last season of The Bachelorette, and not just because he tried too hard. When he told Deanna he had a child from a previous relationship, that was cool, but then on the hometown date he trotted the kid out as Deanna- and America-bait, even allowing the kid to be interviewed confessional-style. Not okay. ABC announced last night that Jason is the new Bachelor, which is unsurprising because every single episode of the franchise includes an increasingly desperate plea for Bachelor candidates (never Bachelorette candidates, though, as the standards are much lower for Bachelorettes, who aren't required to have careers.) But the worst part is a quote from Bachelor host Chris Harrison, who recently told a conference of TV critics that if Jason were chosen his kid "Would have to take center stage." Unless they have a change of heart on the kidsploitation issue, expect the next Bachelor cycle to involve a lot of women fawning over a very confused little boy. Gross.
Continuing our meta tradition of bringing you the best of The Soup each Monday morning, it would be a shame if anyone missed what will hopefully become some sort of talk show inside joke (but probably not). McHale and team were paying attention last week when the Morning Show With Mike And Julia, during a show about drunk driving, mistakenly cut to, and lingered on, a picture of a cat eating spaghetti:
So far there are no answers as to why that picture was all cued up and ready to go, but let's just all insert this into our videos and TV shows from now on:
Last week in an "Olympics: Who Gives A Shit?" post I said that we would start covering the world-uniting, inspiring games when they started being funny or when they made "ill-advised trampoline tricks an Olympic sport." Then Gabe made up some Olympic sports and included Trampoline Basketball. Well, thanks to a combination of the efforts of a tipster named Alicia and paying a very low level of attention this weekend, I now remember that the Olympics involve trampolines, trampoline accidents, and even Trampoline Basketball (though the latter two are not officially sports.) Could Women's Wii Fit actually be next? Anyway, here's a trampoline accident from the halftime show of an Olympic basketball game the other day:
After the jump, a collection of trampoline accidents from past Olympic-related competitions.
The best section of IMDB is the "goofs" section. But like the rest of the internet, even the vast majority of IMDB goofs are boring. Like, the continuity errors? Who really cares if some chick in American Pie had a clear cup and then it was red and then it was clear again? One of my favorite goof-conventions are the ones where you can imagine the exact kind of nerd who sent it in. Sometimes you can even pinpoint the exact *person* who must have sent it in. Like:
Everyone is obsessed with ALF, right? My friend Greg Johnson put this video of ALF bloopers on his blog today and I couldn't stop myself from watching. Wow, is it just me or was ALF kind of a dick? I always thought Jerry Stahl was sort of exaggerating the misery of the ALF set in Permanent Midnight, or that it had more to do with his heroin addiction, but I've watched a lot, and I mean a LOT of TV show bloopers, and I've never seen sitcom actors seem like they were having less fun than Max Wright and Anne Schedeen trying to work with Paul Fusco as ALF. As ALF himself yells at one point, this is Sitcom Hell. Also, ALF was on Matlock!
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