My head is in a little bit of a yogurt cup this morning, but this still made me laugh. A lot. And I don't even care about South Park! (Does anyone? It's 2009! "Beefcake" was a lifetime ago.)
Haha. That is what you guys sound like when you play that game, btw. It's like listening in a mirror.
UPDATE: This clip is a little different from the one that had my yogurt cup rattling on my head this morning (with laffs), but that clip has been removed, and at least this one works!
Marge Simpson appears "nude" on the cover of Playboy's November issue. TMZ "leaked" this image of the cover, and provided their classically important and insightful commentary:
This is the closest you'll ever get to finding out if the carpet really does match the blue drapes.
Yuck, TMZ. But more importantly: can we be done with The Simpsons now? Don't get me wrong, The Simpsons will go down in TV Herstory as one of the Greatest Shows of All Time (FILE UNDER: duh). But this season marks the 20 year anniversary of the show's 1989 debut. That is so many years. And has anyone even watched any of this season's episodes?
And now this. The Simpsons is Hentai now? Stunt casting on an ancient paper magazine for a show that passed its prime years ago. This is making me :(, and is NOT making me want to do the Bartman.
Look, regardless of where you fall on the Family Guy divide, whether you think that its endless, redundant, 3rd-grade pastiche of self-referential fart jokes and unclever non-sequiturs is terrible, or whether you think ahahah me like put this show in my face, there is one thing that I think we can all agree on: no one fucking cares about the politics of Family Guy. If there is one arena of the public discourse in which Family Guy need not even pretend to be competing, it is laughter politics. So will someone please tell that to Seth MacFarlane? From the Guardian UK:
American right-wing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh and former president George Bush's strategist Karl Rove are to play themselves in a forthcoming episode of Fox's animation Family Guy.
In the episode being produced for next season, Brian, the liberal dog of the cartoon's central family, the Griffins, gets bored and frustrated because he feels he no longer has anything to complain about with Barack Obama in the White House, so he becomes a Republican and starts listening to Limbaugh.
Hold on. That part is fine. Family Guy can have whatever type of slime-faced thumb head it wants on there. Have them all! I don't care. But, come on, Seth MacFarlane, with this explanation:
A crafty gentleman by the name of Neil was casually viewing an old-school episode of Paramount's Popeye cartoon when it occurred to him to slow down the audio track of a walk-on mouse character.
Much to his surprise, Neil discovered that the mouse's heretofore nonsensical squeaks were, in reality, the rather crass in-studio yelps of director Isadore Sparber or animator Seymour Kneitel.
Good thinking, Neil. Very crafty. I was just saying to myself we need to slow this down (this=everything).
Surf's up, dudes and empowered grrrrls! Jonas Brothers! As you may have read in the Hollywood Reporter this morning (every teen's go-to resource for da fresh entertainment gozzip), they are going to be making a new The Secret of NIMH movie, tentatively titled Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. "What's The Secret of NIMH?" you're probably asking, as you ride your Razor Scooter over to Jamba Juice for an awesome, healthy snack. "Sounds gay."
NO WAY DUDES, IT'S SUPER NOT GAY, AND WE DON'T CALL THINGS GAY ANYMORE, THAT'S NOT FRESH! MANDY MOORE!
The Secret of NIMH is an ancient movie (1982, pre-Pogs) that recounts the epic tale of a beleaguered family of field mice led by the widow, Mrs. Frisby (aka Brisby) beset on all sides by evil rats and murderous humans. X-BOX 360! But all of that is in the past, with skeletons and ghosts and your old rollerblades.
In your face, Transmorphers. Up in them gutz, The Day The Earth Stopped. Finally, an insane, hilarious knock-off that the whole family can enjoy. Ladies, I offer you: The Prodigy (or as it should be called, Karate Panda). Oh man, this thing is the best. Here is the synopsis (via CartoonBrew):
KG - the 'Kung Fu Girl' with a big heart - is an underdog. When the odds are against her, she discovers that there is no limit to what she can accomplish when she believes in herself. With the help of her brave yet zany Master Panda, KG sets off on a journey to restore justice to her beautiful kingdom and rescue her beloved prince. "A hilarious side-splitting animated feature, THE PRODIGY delivers Non-Stop Kung Fu Fun!"
Whatever. That doesn't even begin to do this MASTERPIECE justice. Trailer after the jump. Are your eyes sitting down?
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