2nd Trailer For MTV's Jersey Shore Reminds Us That This Is An Actual Show

This remains completely unbelievable. This is clearly your show. Starring all of your boyfriends. And all of your girlfriends. Living in your house. On your shore. For now. (Thanks for the tip, Edith.)

Posted by Gabe at 1:15 PM in New TV Shows, What America Wants
Tags: Assholes | Douchebags | Jersey Shore

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Wait, Is The Monopoly Movie Actually Going To Be Amazing?

Hollywood, as you may know, is moving ahead with a movie based on the board game Monopoly, because the world is out of ideas and we're all just trying to find a way to fill the hours between now and 2012 of course they are. But this week, the LA Times has an interview with the screenwriter behind the movie, Frank Beddor, who discusses what the movie will actually be about, and let's just say you should put in your prescription for crazy pills now, because I have a feeling we're headed for a NATIONAL SHORTAGE.

"I created a comedic, lovable loser who lives in Manhattan and works at a real estate company and he's not very good at his job but he's great at playing Monopoly. And the world record for playing is 70 straight days - over 1,600 hours - and he wanted to try to convince his friends to help him break that world record. They think he is crazy. They kid him about this girl and they're playing the game and there's this big fight. And he's holding a Chance card and after they've left he says, 'Damn, I wanted to use that Chance card,' and he throws it down. He falls asleep and then he wakes up in the morning and he's holding the Chance card, and he thinks, 'That's odd.'"

Wait, the movie actually starts with a guy who really likes to play Monopoly? Haha. First of all, no one really likes to play Monopoly. (And also, no one is "great" at playing Monopoly? It is a game of the most tedious chance.) Second of all, isn't that kind of like if the Pirates of the Caribbean movie had been set in Disneyworld? ANYWAY, it gets better (worse):

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Posted by Gabe at 3:00 PM in What America Wants
Tags: Monopoly | Monopoly: The Movie | Ridley Scott

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You Crazy For This One, Twitter

They're making TV shows based on Twitter accounts now? Hold on, let me just get my stationary out.

Dear Hollywood,

Really?

Signed,
Professor Tumbldore

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Twitter sensation Shit My Dad Says is headed to television.

CBS has picked up a comedy project based on the Twitter account, which has enlisted more than 700,000 followers since launching in August and has made its creator, Justin Halpern, an Internet star.

Don't get me wrong, that is a perfectly funny Twitter account. I'm sure it would make a perfectly decent coffee table book. But a whole TV show? So it's a show about how dads say stuff? I'm glad Arrested Development got canceled and that The Wire is over, this engrossing idea is going to require all my attention! Although it is going to have to share some of my overwhelming enthusiasm with another show based on a Twitter feed (basically):

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Posted by Gabe at 3:00 PM in WebJunk, What America Wants
Tags: Shit My Dad Says | Twitter

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Finally, Sheneneh And Wanda On The Big Screen!

Jamie Foxx and Martin Lawrence are in talks to make a Sheneneh and Wanda movie? I never thought that I would live long enough to witness two Heats in my lifetime! These guys know what I'm talking about:

I read somewhere (I didn't read anywhere) that A Righteous Kill was originally pitched as a Sheneneh and Wanda movie, but Foxx and Lawrence turned it down because the number of fart jokes was not up to their exacting standards. From Variety:

Screen Gems has acquired "Sheneneh and Wanda," a vehicle for Jamie Foxx and Martin Lawrence to star in a comic caper playing female characters they developed during their stand-up comedy days.

Foxx will write the script, which he and Martin will produce through Foxx's Foxxhole and Lawrence's Runteldat production banners.

Oh good, Jamie Foxx is writing the script. It's important, when making a Sheneneh and Wanda movie, that you get as good of a script as possible, written by someone who is very good at writing, so this is perfect.

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Posted by Gabe at 9:30 AM in What America Wants
Tags: Jamie Foxx | Martin Lawrence | Sheneneh | Wanda

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Area Man Spends Weekend Programming DVR • Comedy Central has ordered a pilot from The Onion. It's about sports, which some of us (could be anyone, really) don't care about, but, you know, The Onion. Sometimes you have to take a little bit of the boo with the yay!

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The Berenstain Bears: The Movie • Speaking of children's movies, Hollywood has greenlit The Berenstain Bears: The Movie. Hopefully they go Where the Wild Things Are with it, and make it really dark and sad. Children crying. Nightmares.

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The Bigger Biggest Loser • ABC is developing a variation on The Biggest Loser called Obese for people pursuing extreme weight-loss. Perfect. We're gonna need a bigger pair of Terrible Idea Jeans! Get it? Bigger? Because of fat.

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The Videogum "Tracy Morgan Promise": Tracy Morgan Is On Twitter • A few days ago, the Internet launched a campaign to get Tracy Morgan on Twitter, as the Internet will do. And now, Tracy Morgan is on Twitter. Success! Here is his first Tweet: "my dickhead is shaped liked a darth vadar helmet. my dick is so fat it looks like r2d2." So this is going to go great.

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