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  • 17 May
    Thursday

    Real World Cast Member Loses Entourage Lawsuit, Ending History’s Douchiest Litigation

    Johnny Bananas Lawsuit Ends

    Former Real World cast member John Devenanzio, aka “Johnny Bananas” apparently, has failed in his attempted lawsuit against the show Entourage, claiming that the show’s “Johnny’s Bananas” animated character – a dumb cartoon monkey voiced by Kevin Dillon’s Johnny Drama – was stolen from his own existence.

    The sexy details, Via THR:

    In the lawsuit, Devenanzio charged HBO, parent Time Warner and Entourage creator Doug Ellin with featuring an “unwarranted, unauthorized and unfavorable mention of plaintiff’s name and personality and allusions to plaintiff’s physical and mental character.”

    …But New York Superior Court Judge Lucy Billings has ruled that Devenanzio filed his claims too late.

    Hahaha, perfect. Looks like THE MOVIE’S BACK ON! (YEEEAHHH! OH YEAAAHHHH!!!)

    This closes the case of Real World v Entourage, a veritable “Alien vs. Predator” of societal greatness. Still Pending: My lawsuit against Doug Ellin for me defending Entourage way after it got stupid, then being repaid with the worst series finale in tv history.

    (via The AV Club)

  • 17 May
    Thursday

    Donna Summer’s Greatest Simpsons Moment

    Simpsons Work Hard For The Money

    Disco icon Donna Summer passed away today from cancer at the age of 63.

    To be honest, we feel slightly inadequate attempting to properly eulogize someone whose career largely predated our upbringing (save for the occasional “Last Dance” karaoke butchering in our adult lifetime), so instead, here’s our personal favorite Donna Summer-related moment.

    Here’s Homer Simpson singing “She Works Hard For The Money” using a tape-recorder-robot to successfully get out of a day of work. Apologies for the poor video quality, but I was ecstatic this was on the internet at all:

    RIP, Donna Summer – thanks for the hits, and Homer thanks you for the flawlessly-executed day off.

    You can watch a higher-quality (and WAAAAY stranger) Spanish version after the jump:

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  • 17 May
    Thursday

    One Kid’s Epic Tribute To Flo Rida And Captain Crunch

    Capn Crunch VideoHere’s a kid singing about wanting to punch Captain Crunch in the face, set very loosely to the tune of Flo Rida’s “Wild Ones” (which, coincidentally, is already a song about punching Frankenberry in the face.) It is equal parts inexplicable, amazing, absurd, and really not-blown-out mics.

    This video is like, internet stem cells. I realize it’s controversial but I’m sure science could learn untold amounts about the origin of the internet by studying pieces of this video in a lab:

    (Thanks, @lindseyweber!)

  • 17 May
    Thursday

    New High Tech Scooters Awesome For People Who Have Absolutely No Need For Them

    Guys, can we be real here? This new personal mobility device from Honda is just a fancy motorized stool. You know what no old or disabled person wants to perch on all day? A goddamn stool. 30 seconds on a bar stool and my spine becomes a question mark. Stools aren’t even comfortable when they aren’t zooming through an office building; why would we make anyone sit on one forever?

    Maybe in the future when our legs become cyborg legs we can just plug into an already existing vehicle, then okay. I’m on board. Until then, this moto-stool seems like it requires a completely able-bodied person to use it. And if that’s the case…just use your stupid meat legs already! It’s not that hard to get around the aquarium!

    (via VVV)

  • 17 May
    Thursday

    It Seems Yankee Candle Forgot A Few Important Scents In Its Man Candle Line

    Yankee Candle Man Candle Line
    Yankee Candle debuted its new Man Candle line recently (and finally!) for everyone in your life with a Y chromosome whose hairy, testosterone-filled body rejects the smell of vanilla or lavender. So far their selection is really bringing the heat (candle joke!) with current scents like Riding Mower (fresh-cut grass), First Down (leather) and Man Town (musk)(which is a little on the nose), but I noticed a few gaps in their odor portfolio. Feel free to use my suggestions, Mr. Yankee or Mr. Candle!

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  • 17 May
    Thursday

    LOL FOREVER At This 90s Punk CD Commercial

    Punk CD Compilation

    Yo man, you like Punk music? Nah, not that wussy Stooges / Clash BS, I mean like, REAL Punk. I’m talking Huey Lewis And The News, Men At Work, Crowded House, Tommy Tutone – you know, PUNK Punk. Bands that are so punk, you almost need a punkier term to refer to them. Let’s call it “Punkpunkpunk” cause they’re like triple the Punk.

    This early-90s ad for a CD compilation called “Punk” has all your favorite Punk tunes and more! It’s like stepping into CBGB’s in mid-1979 just in time to catch the Thompson Twins launch into a heroin-feuled rage and drop their instruments right in the middle of their generational punk anthem “Hold Me Now”. TUNES, MAN:

    (via Uproxx)

  • 16 May
    Wednesday

    Red Pandas Hugging Because LIFE IS TOO SHORT FOR NOT THIS

    Here are some photos of a mother red panda hugging her red panda cub, because this is one of the few permutations of animal cuteness I’ve never seen on the internet, and because holy crap it is immensely adorable (Click For Full Size):

    Two more pics of the mother and baby red panda from the Chester Zoo in Cheshire, U.K. are after the jump. The panda cub is all, “I am not vewwwy wed yet but I wove popping my head out fwom holes!” (For the rest of my thrilling red panda fanfiction, though, you’ll have to buy the Audiobook.)

    Take it away, other adorable red panda pics:

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  • 16 May
    Wednesday

    TBS Developing Norm MacDonald Talk Show That Better Not Get Instantly Canceled

    Norm MacDonald Talk Show TBS

    TBS held their network upfronts this week, and if you don’t know the term “upfronts,” that’s when the network unveils its potential new shows for a roomful of advertisers then the William Morris Agency sends over 400 prostitutes to the Yum Brands hotel suite and everyone’s like “I love this town!” and they go down on champagne bottles and that’s how art is made.

    Anyway, one of TBS’s new projects caught our attention, because we’re huge Norm MacDonald fans and constantly want him to be doing more things (even if tv apparently does not want him to be doing more things):

    “Norm MacDonald is Trending”

    The network has ordered a pilot presentation for a talk show centered on MacDonald. SNL’s former “Weekend Update” anchor and his team of correspondents will sort through the churning mass of pop culture and social media. (THR)

    So basically, it’d be a very general talk show on basic cable allowing MacDonald free reign to talk about all sorts of topics? That sounds great, but should we just skip the “Pick up this show, TBS!” phase and go straight to the “Don’t cancel this show, TBS!” phase four weeks after the show’s inception? Seems like a sadly practical approach.

    In the meantime, let’s all watch the Norm MacDonald 1998 ESPYs monologue then stream “Me Doing Standup” on Netflix and hopefully miss the impending announcement that the show hasn’t been greenlit.

  • 16 May
    Wednesday

    Illinois May Allow Mini Horses As Helper Animals In Honor Of Li’l Sebastian

    RIP Lil Sebastian

    The Illinois state senate just voted to add miniature horses to the list of ‘helper animals’ for people with disabilities, a move that is already being referred to on this blog and nowhere else as “The Li’l Sebastian Amendment,” in honor of Pawnee’s most beloved deceased miniature horse.

    Sure, on one hand, Li’l Sebastian was technically from Indiana and is fictional and has nothing to do with any of this, but on the other hand, who’s to say this new law isn’t entirely because of Li’l Sebastian? The truth is probably somewhere in between.

    Proponents of the law argue that miniature horses are ideal alternatives for people in need of helper animals who have severe allergies or phobias to dogs, plus they live longer, but critics have cited the potential sanitary drawbacks to having horses walking around in indoor spaces. I haven’t studied this issue long enough to have an opinion other than “Miniature horses are completely hilarious and I’m in favor of them doing whatever,” so feel free to use this sentence I just typed in your debates or whatever, senators who are reading this.

    In closing, let’s just use this as an excuse to re-watch Tom’s touching Li’l Sebastian In Memoriam:

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  • 16 May
    Wednesday

    Simpsons Did It: Man Protests All-You-Can-Eat Seafood Restaurant For Cutting Him Off

    I don’t use the world hero very often, but Bill Wisth, the man who called the police on Wisconsin all-you-can-eat fish restaurant Chuck’s Place after they refused to serve him his 13th helping, is the greatest hero in American history.

    I mean, this is clearly the most fraudulent case of false advertising since that case against The Never Ending Story! Also that guy’s cardboard sign is breaking my heart so please just give him some more fish. You did offer to give him more? 8 more? What about the steam tray? We have to get his man all he can eat, people!

    (Gawker)