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If you’re at all familiar with the recurring jokes and comic tropes of the best sitcom pre-AD (Arrested Development), you’ll know that one of Seinfeld’s less well-known but still delightful pleasures are Kramer’s (Michael Richards, yes, that one) entrances into Jerry Seinfeld’s apartment. To illustrate their subtle comedy, some seriously nostalgic person has assembled a [...]

So, as we noted earlier, X-Men Origins: Wolverine comes out today, and having already seen it we can safely say that young Wolverine’s bony claws are even weirder than the metal implants he acquires near the film’s end. Still, there are worse augmented fingers and cyborg hands to be stuck with, as our listicle of [...]

Looking over this year’s Best Picture nominees at the Oscars, one legendary female character archetype – the phallic mother – looms large in The Reader and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (is Harvey Milk a proxy phallic mother to the gay rights movement in Milk? discuss). We’ll therefore be taking this edition of our [...]

Saddam’s hometown commemorates The Man Who Threw the Shoe in bush and bronze.
Obama takes off his jacket, the world notices.
Jeffrey Tambor claims that the Arrested Development movie is for real, even if he has to kidnap Micheal Cera in order to make it happen .
Perez Hilton reports (creates) an Obamama rumor.
Ashton Kutcher really hates jackhammers [...]

Hollywood seems intent on gutting the TV Guide archives for script ideas. Sometimes these small-screen-to-big-screen endeavors work (The Fugitive), sometimes they don’t (A Night at the Roxbury), and sometimes they really, really don’t (Bewitched). Here are the upcoming and rumored adaptations that better not ruin my memories:

The A-Team Oh, A-Team movie, my requests are few: [...]

Airborne disease season is upon us, so put on your SARS mask and don’t lick any subway poles. I’m pretty sure they cured Bird Flu, but just in case, peruse these disorders and ailments you can’t catch from kissing or anywhere else:
Premature Aging (as seen in Jack): Robin Williams’s titular character was born with a [...]

Seven Pounds: worst movie ending ever?
Cute Things Falling Asleep
Matthew’s party (via BuzzFeed)
Is Michael Jackson dying?!
Barack Obama: too sexy for this presidency?
Burger King perfume sold out everywhere
Man sticks 2,000 toothpicks in his beard
VHS officially dead
It’s fucking freezing!
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Last week a very strange story about our favorite Ghostbuster came to our attention, and it seemed so bizarre that we didn’t quite know what to make of the Page Six reveal that Bill Murray had been showing up to random hipster parties in New York City in the last few months.
Thinking back on it [...]

With recent news that the Arrested Development movie is really happening, we dedicated and delighted fans pass along this list from Unreality: The 8 Best Recurring Arrested Development Jokes. Hitting most of the repeat-viewer-rewarding high-notes, Unreality blogger Sub-Zero still makes some questionable picks:
6. Gob’s “Final Countdown” opening

Shouldn’t this be around number 2? There’s not much [...]

Topless Robot reveals an octet of Jim Henson’s best supporting Muppets (many of whom have been retired to the big Sesame Street in the sky). Today’s tame iterations of Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster are no match for fourth-place holder “Lefty,” a shady, trenchcoat-sporting dealer of numbers and letters, seen here trying to [...]