Barack Obama was on Leno last night, attempting to change the world and fix the financial crisis in one late-night TV appearance, but nooooo, everyone is focusing on one offhand comment he made comparing his bowling skills to the Special Olympics:
I think the non-mentally-disabled Special Olympics organizers who are mad about this should ask themselves: if there is a bowling category in the Special Olympics, is 129 considered a good score? Are we all just supposed to pretend that what occurs at the Special Olympics are feats of unprecedented sports ability, that the thing that SO participants earn is not self-esteem, sportsmanship skills, and the pride of accomplishment, but actual world records? Because if not, Obama's metaphor, while a goof and a mistake and something that hopefully won't hurt any real feelings, fits pretty well.
But Obama better not slag the paralympics. I've seen Murderball and that shit is real. (You can watch the entire interview on Hulu.)
This morning The Today Show worshiped at the feet of Queen Beyonce (really -- they played royal music as she strutted down a long red carpet like in The Princess Bride), and she played a concert and sang her songs. Also, this gross gross gross thing happened:
Thank god Beyonce wasn't with Willard in person, or he might have done to her what he did to Ann Curry a few weeks ago. Get that guy something that cancels out Cialis, stat!
Last's night's episode of The Office was written by the great Mindy Kaling, which explains all the extended makeout scenes with B.J. Novak, jk! But seriously, so many people write TV show episodes that it's not often that you can actually notice little touches by a credited writer. In this episode, though, there were at least two instances where Mindy Kaling's voice (or, more specifically, her character Kelly Kapor's) came through -- in two scenes where Ryan is either deliberately or accidentally picking up Kelly's singular way of speaking. It was amaaazing to notice. Video evildence (and an Office boom mic goof) after the jump.
Despite an unhealthy obsession with movie goofs, I somehow missed this all these years. It seems that at the end of the first Teen Wolf (the one starring Michael J. Fox), an extra standing in the bleachers revealed his stuff for a second and nobody noticed so it was in the movie:
This is definitely a better goof than the storm trooper who hit his head in Star Wars. Also, it's nowhere to be found on Teen Wolf's IMDB goofs page, though this is:
When it comes to goofs (which is what IMDB calls movie mistakes), The Happening is a special case because the entire movie makes no sense. IMDB's goofs tend to be about visible boom mics and unsubstantial continuity errors, which are boring. So here are five of the worst logic errors that made for delightful post-movie-drink "Can you believe _____?" conversation.
It's always a special moment when IMDB updates a new movie's page to include goofs sent in by viewers. For Sex And The City: The Movie, that moment came this week, when the hastily-made estro-sploitation flick was subjected to the not-so-rigorous examination of its audience. IMDB's SATC goofs are just okay, though, so I polled friends about the movie's mistakes, most of which fall into the "That would never happen!" category. After the jump, the top five mistakes that pulled shopping romance fantasy escapists out of their Mexicomas and into the harsh light of a Meatpacking District walk of shame.
It's hard, but I think it's time for How I Met Your Mother fans to accept that it's not Lost. While the show's creators do slip in clues to (or teases for) the identity of the Mother, they're usually in the form of really obvious deviations from sitcom format like "strange woman runs into Ted, who pauses to excuse himself before continuing the scene" or "what was that weird goat thing?". Last week, a sharp-eyed blogger at Seat 42F noticed that the same framed letter appeared in scenes from both 2030 and 2008, in Ted's future house and Stella's now-apartment, leading to speculation that Stella was the mother. It was a good catch, but in an interview with TV Squad today, HIMYM co-creator Carter Bays explained that it was nothing but a good old fashioned goof:
You know, I feel like I shouldn't respond one way or the other but it definitely - we were surprised to see it as well. It was a bit of a props snafu, I think. I'll just kinda say that.
Bays also talks about comparisons to Lost, the "medium cliffhanger" of Monday's season finale, and trying to avoid being "The Britney Show," which combined with common sense would lead us to believe that despite rumors, Alyson Hannigan calling Britney Spears "just a really really sweet girl" does not in any way mean that Britney is going to be a permanent star of the show.
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