As you may have read, during the taping of last Friday's episode of the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, during a sketch in which Conan raced Teri Hatcher into the studio, Conan slipped and hit his head. He was later taken to the hospital and it was revealed that he had a concussion. Yikes! A rerun was aired instead of the episode, for obvious reasons. Jeez Oh Pete, well that is awful. Stupid Teri Hatcher. NBRTH, you guys, Never Be Racing Teri Hatcher. Anyway, Conan was released from the ICU (I am assuming he was in the ICU, using my years of medical training and in-field experience as a basis for my assumptions) and returned to the air last night. However, after the jump is the unaired clip of his horrifying slip and fall. Is that what you want, monsters? Is that what your eyes hunger for?
I'm a few days late on this, obviously, but that long weekend wasn't going to enjoy itself. Anyway, this is the new German PSA about AIDS that people keep sending in to tips@videogum.com. It is basically the 9/11 PSA of German PSAs about AIDS, and it is also NSFW.
Yikes. What a terrible ad! Although it would be funny (not funny) if everyone stopped overusing the term Nazi when they thought someone was being overbearing or malicious and started using "pandemic incurable retrovirus." You know, like, "Jesus, my algebra teacher is such a pandemic incurable retrovirus about showing your work on the daily five-point pop quizzes she makes us do every day before class." Or, you know, like, "the DMV is staffed by a bunch of sadistic, half-literate pandemic incurable retroviruses." You get it. Not to mention the classic Seinfeld character, the Soup Pandemic Incurable Retrovirus. Wouldn't that be hilarious? Ugh. This lady knows what all that which I is talk about. (Get it? She is not a professor of smarts.)
The last time I wrote about Jay Leno a bunch of people rushed to his defense like an enraged pack of Mrs. Lenos. Relax, you guys. Jay Leno has over one million dollars, twice as many fans, and an airplane hangar full of obnoxious cars. He doesn't care about what anyone on the Internet* has to say about him, and he certainly doesn't need you guys to take his side. Hush now. In any case, I do think that there is one thing that we can all agree on, and that is that Jay Leno is not a substitute for a healthy diet and exercise.
Oh, and even if laughter was the best medicine--which it is not, medicine is the best medicine--Jay Leno would be a placebo at best. Sugar pill. Horrible horrible sugar pill. Spit it out. Yuck. (Thanks for the tip, Joe.)
Oh no, Frankie Muniz has been hurt! In a race car accident! From MTV Movies Blog:
A few weeks ago, he tweeted that he'd broken his wrist during a race. Then he tweeted this last Friday: "Update on my hand... Every ligament connecting my thumb is torn... also chipped bone in my thumb. Can't move it, surgery Monday night..lame." Ouch. Muniz had surgery on Monday.
Oh gosh! First Shia LaBeouf's hand and now Frankie Muniz's hand? HOLLYWOOD STARS, PLEASE BE MORE CAREFUL WITH YOUR HANDS.
Rupert Grint, the professional actor who portrays Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter movies, got the swine flu! Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Whoa! I made him a Get Well Soon card!
Looks like some dude was hanging out at your library the other day and just happened to catch some footage of your girlfriend.
This is one of those situations where at first you think "You know what, good for her. She's just having fun. I wish I loved something half as much as she loves whatever she's listening to. I wish I was less inhibited with my false sophistication and innate but often misguided sense of social propriety and could just be free with my enthusiasms." And then about ten seconds later you think "Someone call a hospital."
BoingBoing reports today (late!) on a study a pair of Canadian psychologists are conducting in Montreal on patients who are convinced that they're the stars of reality TV. This delusion has been named the Truman Show disorder:
The five patients Dr. Gold treated were white men between the ages of 25 and 34, the majority of whom held university degrees. "I realized that I was and am the centre, the focus of attention by millions and millions of people," explained one patient, an army veteran who came from an upper-middle-class upbringing.
"My family and everyone I knew were and are actors in a script, a charade whose entire purpose is to make me the focus of the world's attention...."
The weirdest thing about this delusion is the idea that for some reason the world would feel the need to trick you into being the center of its attention. I mean, I know that was what was happening in The Truman Show, but a) that was a make-believe fantasy film of wonderment and imagination, and b) this is a psychological disorder based on chemical impulses and paranoia, not a mental transcription of the screenplay. So it's just a weird misconception that persists somehow. Because in the real world there is no confusion over who is the center of all the attention. Brangelina. True storayyyyy. Actually, I lied, the weirdest thing about this delusion is that the psychiatrists claim that they could "have easily called their new disorder the EDtv Delusion". If you are suffering from a medical condition that could easily be considered a reference to EdTV, you should check yourself into a grave stat.
Anyway, after the jump, some other delusions that are a real problem in Canada.
Carrie Prejean turned the video camera off, put on some clothes, and stepped out of her house. It was a beautiful day outside. The air smelled like apples, and the late morning light hit the world in just such a...
After watching Death Sentence, a terrible movie starring Kevin Bacon as a father in search of vigilante justice directed by Saw's James Wan, Gabe embarked on The Hunt For The Worst Movie of All Time. This is his sad journey.
If you are a sassy and sarcastic young man in an American sitcom who represents the sitcom writer's desire that a nerdy Jewish teenager can somehow be the desirable romantic hero in this world, then eventually you will get a...
I shouldn't even be here right now. I SHOULD BE GETTING INTO MY COSTUME! If I don't hurry, my facepaint won't be dry before I get to the MOONVIE theater, and everyone will be like "hahah, you look like you're...
Blogging about TV and movies isn't all fun and videogames. Every week, Lindsay or Gabe will be presented with a physical or mental challenge that tests their bravery,patience, and taste.
The Challenge: I had to go on a 3.5 hour bus tour of totally random TV and film locations in New York City. Alone, and wearing a specific ridiculous tshirt. And I had to find someone to take my picture...
Uh. OK. Well, first let's address what this movie did well, like the disappointed parents we are (or at least that I am), recognizing that the negative feedback won't be useful or constructive if it isn't preceded by something positive....
