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The Afternoon Meme: Godric Wrestles, "In It To Win It" RuPaul Dishes, Faghampton, and more

Somehow I ended up with a lot of commercials for mid-season replacement shows today. Don't worry, I skipped the Jerry Seinfeld one, I'm not cruel. HBO has something called How To Make It In America, and it looks like all hot guys and the fashion industry. Oh, and I think they're all straight, so it must be the "fantasy genre."

NBC has a new game show called Minute To Win It that looks silly. Well, game shows other than Jeopardy are silly by definition, but this one is so low rent it uses toilet paper as a physical challenge. Classy.

Last night Jay Leno talked about the image rehab he did by appearing in the Super Bowl commercial for David Letterman's show. Jay is so decidedly nice that he's either a robot, or he eats nothing but puppies and kittens behind closed doors.

This trailer is for a film called Mr. Right. It released in November, so I can only assume the trailer is out for a DVD or TV release. No movie in America would use some of the words in this film, much less title the trailer "Faghampton" so I'm hoping our Brits can do some cultural translation.

Just because I find him adorable, Allan Hyde (Godric on True Blood) messing around in the park with his buddy Hadley Klein. As Hadley says, it's "on like Donkey Kong."

Kelly Cutrone from Bravo's Kell on Earth was on The Bonnie Hunt Show yesterday, and I really love how she describes her relationship with her gay assistant Andrew.

After seeing Kelly on The Bonnie Hunt Show, I went over to Bravo's website to look for more footage. Instead I stumbled on Rikki Lake and RuPaul on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. First Ru used the low-rent version of the Dragulator to play a game, "Lean, Mean, Who's That Queen."

After the game, Ru describes spending Christmas with Cher and Kathy Griffin, which was definitely making the Yuletide gay.

This Old Spice commercial has been making the rounds and spurring discussion of masculinity and imagery. I have no doubt it will do the same here.

We all know I love big, complicated constructions, like domino falls and such. This is like a giant game of Mousetrap®, except with more fire and less mouse.

The Large Hadron Collider harbors a giant secret, and CollegeHumor.com is here to expose it. On another website I frequent, people would accuse me of inciting suicide by showing this.

I'm not entirely sure what to make of this short film. It's not what I expected, but it does prove one universal truth: There's always a blond girl with pigtails that's mean.

This dog is determined to get up the slide. I have a feeling this went on long after filming stopped. Dogs aren't really smart enough to quit.

And also from The Bonnie Hunt Show, we have her Feel-Good Moment of the Day, as submitted by Lorrie Sullenberger, with puppies destined to grow up and guide the blind. Is there anything sweeter?

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FakeName's picture

NBC anticipated me

My first thought was "I can rip open the box and empty the tissues in about three seconds" but I see NBC thought of that and put the tissues inside a plexiglass box.

My pointless Jay Leno story: I saw him do stand up in Kalamazoo in I think 1985. In one of his jokes he asked if anyone knew the magazine with the most subscribers. I answered correctly (TV Guide) and he said that usually no one knew.

Re: Mr Right, it appears that the filmmakers are marketing it by saying that it makes homosexuality look like so much fun that straight male viewers might end up going gay. Which...ooookay.

 

Liz's picture

awww puppiieeees

so cuteeeee

here is another cute puppy vid that i am sharing because it is just very cute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kQnrKvOTNg

i prefer canines over felines anyday! :-D

Logan's picture

Canines FTW

I don’t want to incur the wrath of any cat lovers but the dog videos are much more my speed too.  The kitten in the morning meme was very cute but the fact of the matter is that he only fell on his back in that cute way because he was trying to claw the hand of the nearby human!  I can’t deny I’m a dog person; I don’t like to feel intellectually threatened by my pets.

So feel free to show more cute/stupid/cute and stupid dog vids!

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Liz's picture

i do like cat videos like this

i do like cat videos like this one though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjdvpHBNfo4

 

 

woodroad34's picture

Butterball

I actually thought the next video in the "butterball" series was wonderful.  The other dog helping Butterball go up the stairs.  Do cats do that for their friends?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6TE6RJmFkI&NR=1
Tom Caddell's picture

NBC's "new" game show

was called "Beat the Clock" sixty years ago.

isoron's picture

Isn't Logo connected to AE?

Mr. Right has been on the site, indeed, since November. The film was entertaining to me - but then I am not a "critic". But Bret's review was favorable last November.

http://www.afterelton.com/movies/2009/11/review-mr-right

 

 

I think the point of the trailer is that the film didn't have the gay stereotypes or the violence the small town Brits are used to.

Ed Kennedy's picture

I blame my cable company

I blame Suddenlink. I would have to subscribe to some bizarre packages to get channel 650, which is Logo, and my bill would top $220 a month once I had all the packages it takes to get there. So I don't actually watch who I work for.
FakeName's picture

Extortion

My cable company extorts me too. I can't have Logo unless I also get Showtime. Showtime has a really terrible and limited movie library (although it did snag Twilight...zzzz) but I do like most of the original series. Which get doled out in ten episode increments every two years, so I spend months at a time griping that I'm paying for channels with nothing to watch.

Logo (including Logo online) isn't the place to watch movies anyway. Logo censors language and nudity in its effort to secure mainstream advertisers, which I've bitched about many times before. It's insulting to its target audience.

isoron's picture

But I don't get Logo

I get expanded basic but I also get the internet which, as fakename points out, censors the content - but they don't gut the basic content - just the dirty words that AE won't allow and the cracks and junk that is not appropriate for all the folks watching while they "work".
FakeName's picture

Sometimes

...the "dirty words" and the junk are the basic content. Logo should at least offer a choice online. Keep the "adult content" available for the big boys who can handle it.
AnotherGayRyan's picture

At the risk of asking the obvious...

....wouldn't Logo offer to subsidize the difference? 

 Or, if that's too laughable a question to consider, it certainly would qualify as a deductible expense over the course of the year.

 Somehow this question feels like peeing upwind.

Ed Kennedy's picture

Bwahahaha!

Oh, thanks, I needed a laugh. Wait until I tell that joke at work tomorrow!

Deductible, yes. There are a surprising number of deductions available in this job that shock an accountant at first.

Geoff's picture

Mr. Right

Mr. Right was on Logo during the Super Bowl.  I thought it was just ok.  It had a few interesting characters and funny moments.
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