Did you wake up this morning to an email from your co-worker, an avowed and militant anti-spoiler-activist, totally spoiling last night's House for you? Well, I did. Friday Fight came a little early this week. Anyway, I am not going to spoil it for anyone (though the rest of the internet has/will), so if you haven't heard today's Kal Penn news, don't read past the jump. Some people care about not spoiling things for people.
There are no spoilers here, because I know people take their House very seriously. I know this in part because of all the FAN TRIBUTE VIDEOS that ALREADY EXIST based on the Big Thing That Happened on House last night. What was it? Did Amber come back from the dead? Did House and Wilson finally consummate their simmering bromance? Did Kal Penn allow his scrubs to slowly fall to the floor of the supply room, revealing prime time television's first intentional incident of full frontal...BUT FOR REAL, the thing that happened and an adorable fan tribute video are after the jump.
Kal Penn has a get-out-the-vote video! It's about Adopt Five, a voter rallying strategy to get people in Florida to vote who might otherwise forget or be disenfranchised. Kal Penn is so wonderful and awesome and humble and just the best. He doesn't try to be clever or do some stupid cliche reverse-psychology gimmick. He's just himself. I wanna Adopt Five -- of his babies! Opposite of Zing!:
Be sure to stay tuned until the very end, with the flag lady. (I think this post should technically be filed with the baby animals under "Cute As Balls," so that's where it will be filed.)
The other night, I was watching the convention on CNN when I became convinced, crazy-person-style, that I saw Harold And Kumar and House star and my personal crush Kal Penn in the background wearing a neon vest, carrying a walkie-talkie, and appearing to be some sort of DNC security staff member. I rushed to try to record it but my Tivo was being weird (great story, huh?) Anyway, I've been talking about it nonstop for three days, this mysterious Kal Penn sighting, but Google searches revealed only what we already knew: that Penn was an Obama supporter. But what explained the outfit? Was he really working at the convention, or pretending to work at the convention for some sort of project? Finally, a friend sent this LA Times blog story: Kal Penn really is working at the convention, as a Virginia delegation worker and not as any sort of celebrity at all. It's almost like Kal Penn wakes up every morning and asks himself: "Is there any way I could possibly be cooler?" And then he finds that way, and he does it. I love Kal Penn. (If anyone happens to see Kal at the convention on TV, by all means tip me off!)
The Harold And Kumar: Escape From Guantanamo Bay DVD comes out July 29, and will have a special feature that no other movie has probably had, via CC Insider:
the DVD release of Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay will include a Choose Your Own Adventure-style feature called "Dude, Change the Movie." It appears that viewers can alter the movie, which will have access to 27 additional scenes.
Ooooh! Oooh! I know this one! Pick me! Spoiler alert: the first five minutes of the movie will totally ruin your crush on Kal Penn if you had one, which I did. To describe it in detail would not be appropriate for a family blog, but let's just say he has terrible diarrhea in the same bathroom where Harold is taking a shower and then does himself in a scene that required the prop department to prepare by buying yogurt. It's really incredibly gross. The old lady sitting in front of me in the theater jumped up and literally ran out. That may be some sort of sign that I should give up watching stoner comedies, but if there's a chance to dude, change the movie, I say dude, take out the first five minutes.
(Also, whatever you do, never ever ever do a YouTube search for kumar toilet. It's not the movie.)
Can you feel the excitement in the air? No, not Spring, but this weekend's much-anticipated much-hyped comedy movie smackdown. This weekend, funny-film lovers with less than 198 minutes on their hands will face a gut-wrenching Sophie's choice: Baby Mama and Harold And Kumar: Escape From Guantanamo Bay are coming out. On the same weekend! After months of zero decent comedies! (Forgetting Sarah Marshall notwithstanding.) I will be seeing both, of course, but I did an informal lunchtime IM poll of fourteen friends to try get an idea of which movie is winning among people who have, in the past, been willing to give me their instant messenger usernames. Turns out, one of them is really kicking the other one's ass:
John Cho and Kal Penn were on Leno last night, promoting their sure-to-be-awesome Harold And Kumar 2: Escape From Guantanamo Bay. Jay asks John Cho about his next project, playing Sulu in JJ Abram's upcoming Star Trek prequel/remake, and John explains why there's only one Asian guy in the Star Trek future:
Later in the show, we learn that Kal Penn was planning to take his "parents and brother" to the premiere of Harold and Kumar 2. What, no girlfriend? Kal, if you're Googling yourself and reading this, I will go to premieres with you!
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