I usually don’t post videos that are ten minutes long, because who has the attention span for that these days? But I’ll make an exception in the case of this GI Joe PSA compilation.

You may have seen one or two of these, but I doubt you’ve witnessed all of them before. The story is that there used to be short PSAs at the end of every GI Joe episode to promote safety among dumbass kids. Fenslerfilm came along and decided that they would be infinitely more hilarious with redubbing, and he was right.

Watch about to see “pork chop sandwiches!” and so much more. The full ten minutes is worth it.

We seem to be hurtling toward the end of this season of Game of Thrones now, and it saddens me that only three weeks remain. It’s just one of those shows you could watch forever, and I don’t know many that would complain if each episode was four hours long.

Last night’s “A Man Without Honor” might be one of my favorite entries of the season. Yes, there was blood and guts and the plot leaped forward in many ways, but it was the quieter moments that really showed how the show shines because of its writing and performances, not spectacle alone.

I’ll start with my favorite scene from the episode, one that both humanized Jamie Lannister for a moment, then made him perhaps the most monstrous soul in the land a moment later. You know of what I speak. Continue Reading »

Every generation is defined by certain pop culture phenomena. In the 1930s and 1940s, there was the Jack Benny radio program. In the early 1970s, we had The Brady Bunch. For Generation Y, there is South Park.

South Park has grown with its viewers. Starting life as an attempt to televise the crudest, most offensive content possible, the show has evolved to take in what happens in the world and spit it back in a distorted, often hilarious fashion. Everything from scientology to Obama’s election to Pokemon have been skewered at the hands of Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The timelines of more recent episodes reflects the fact that each show is made, from inception to air date, in about six days.   In addition, the installments that don’t address the outside world are some of the most memorable.

Perhaps the best part of South Park is that each viewer  will slightly differ in what they love most. I’m a Randy Marsh guy, but my girlfriend loves Butters. Auxiliary characters like Jimmy have grown into integral members of the show. You could be a political science major or an aficionado of bathroom humor – you’re covered either way.

Presented in chronological order, these ten moments highlight the best of a show that has served as the backbone of my adolescence.

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As you may or may not know, we’re pretty big fans of Game of Thrones.   Honestly I think all you really need to see is Joffrey get slapped in the face and you’ll be hooked.   In all seriousness though, few shows come around that have the quality and aesthetic that this show does.

There’s not enough you can say about Peter Dinklage.  But there’s also not enough you can say about the way the show moves, portrays a time period in a unique but also seemingly accurate way right down to the clothing, trees, and rust on s sword.   It’s simply brilliant.

But there might be things you don’t even know about the show!   Things we were surprised by.  Check them out after the jump…

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Say goodbye to your lunch hour. Anyone with a humor bone in their entire body can appreciate Whose Line Is It Anyways? and I don’t need to extol its virtues here. Needless to say it’s one of the funniest shows ever made, and as it’s improv, things don’t always go according to plan.

This is 44 full minutes of bloopers from Whose Line, and I’m sure there are dozens of hours more. The show is funny when everything goes smoothly, but it might even be more hilarious when it doesn’t.

Did anyone watch that new improv show that had some of these guys that came back last year? I didn’t hear a singular word about it. Was it any good?

How big is Peter Dinklage these days? So much so that a member of the Beastie Boys DIED and he got to keep his Rolling Stone cover.

It’s really hard to think of a TV character that is more universally beloved than Tyrion Lannister, and in turn, audiences now fawn over Dinklage as well. There’s just something about his story, hearing how much shit he took for being a little person, and then seeing him ascend to one of the greatest roles in TV history, that’s just satisfying for everyone.

Seeing him on Rolling Stone only furthers his rock star status, and hopefully goes a long way to obliterating the “last acceptable prejudice” as he calls it toward little people.

No, I don’t believe this is an official couch gag (though I couldn’t tell you as I haven’t watched the show in five years), but it’s a great illustration nonetheless.

Like The Simpsons here, I am also fully prepared for Diablo III. I pre-bought it through Blizzard and it’s already downloaded on my computer, just waiting to be installed on launch day. What? I don’t want to waste four hours download 7 gigs of game the day of launch. I’m already taking off that day of work to play (though with pre-posting article, you’ll never know).

Anyone taking time off from an actual office job to play Diablo? There’s got to be a few of you out there.

Alright, I know we’re going a little superhero happy this week as the Avengers comes out on Friday and I can’t stop talking about it. Yesterday, I postulated that we’re a bit to saturated with costumed heroes these days, and today I have video proof.

This montage showcases every costumed hero from every TV show and movie released in the last fifty years or so. It shows that yeah, we might be on overload, but damn, a lot of these movies really are great. Maybe we don’t need to take a break from the genre after all if it’s given us so many classics?

Anyway, I watched the entire thing, and the Weezer soundtrack is more appropriate than you first may believe.

Thanks to Jessica for sending this in.

We did it folks, an entire episode of Game of Thrones without ANY nudity. Who ever thought that was possible? Instead we had to compensate with some killing, and lo and behold we have our first major character death of the season. Oh George R. R. Martin, you never fail to disappoint.

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I’ve always been distrustful of people who learn how to unicycle. Why would you spend so much time getting good at something that is no way ever relevant to daily life or other people’s hobbies or interests? Unless you’re training to be a juggling circus clown, I don’t understand.

But now it seems there is a reason to unicycle I can get behind: Cosplay. Specifically, GizmoDuck cosplay. I loved Duck Tales more than almost any other cartoon growing up, and GizmoDuck made every episode even more awesome. Then he moved to Darkwing Duck and shit got real.

In any case, I fully approve of this costume, however crude it may be. It’s no sexy Gadget cosplay, making our childhood memories all the more confusing, but it’s damn good in its own right.

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