Afternoon Meme: Meet Bucky, Lando's Lessons, Being a Billionaire, Tim Urban's Charms, plus "Peeps: The Movie"

Plus, The Human Centipede, the Viagra thief, surprised pandas, plus mashup of Muppet Babies and The Guild is full of WIN.

Marvel has reportedly cast Bucky, the sidekick to Chris Evans’ Captain America. And there’s a gay connection because it’s not other than Prince Jack, Sebastian Stan. I was searching around for beefcake photos of Stan and was largely disappointed. Then I took a moment to look up what Bucky looks like, and felt a little dirty.

The Japanese are convinced that they can invent robots to care for their rapidly aging population. Turns out that elderly folks don’t necessarily want a Cylon for companionship, so instead they tucked connectivity, cameras, sensors, and AI into a teddy bear to see if that flies. I don’t want to have to throw a cuddly bear into molten metal, but I will if I have to. 

Everybody excited about NBC allowing free streaming of their shows to your shiny new iPad? Yeah, you can kiss GE’s behind, because that’s now out. Why go free when you can charge through iTunes? Still waiting in line?

It’s true – I’m cheating on you folks. I write a similar column themed more to fantasy/scifi/comics over at TheTorchOnline.com. Today’s column has the most amazing mashup video you’ve ever seen at the bottom: Lil’ Guildies combines Muppet Babies and Felicia Day’s The Guild.

I hate stealing jokes from Shoeboxblog.com, but sometimes they get it so right, nothing else works. The best I can do is ask that you read them too. A man in Spain was arrested for robbing drug stores of all their Viagra. Processing was delayed however, because no one wanted to frisk him.

This is a Daily Mail link, so you’ve been warned. But what a story: a new study says a classic English breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms, beans and black pudding may be the most healthy way to start the day, better than cereal, oatmeal or fruit. Wait until I tell my doctor, who’s trying to put me on Statins. Or maybe Jan Moir is just trying to kill me.

NSFW blog Guilty Pleasured is for straight women who like gay adult film. I don’t understand it, but the reviews are good.

I now present Lando’s Lessons: Eight Simple Rules for Getting Galactic Tail.

Would Charlie Sheen really do the world a favor and quit Two and a Half Men, or is this just a negotiating tact because he wants more than the $1 million/episode they’re offering? I’m betting more negotiating tactic than him walking away from $50 million, after his agent’s cut.

The producers of Modern Family remain under fire for product placement for the iPad episode. Even though they didn’t get money for it. And the plot point of Phil being a gadget hound is well established. And everybody does product placement deals anyway. Loudest voices condemning it? The head of CBS, which had David Letterman licking an iPad on last night’s Late Show with David Letterman.

Did you know Lady GaGa did voice work for children’s audio books before she was a pop star. Wingnut meltdown in 3-2-1.

The Advocate talks to singer-songwriter Nhojj, who we featured after his video for “Love” shot to the top of the MTV Music Video Charts last month.

The Obamameter tracks the President’s nearly 500 campaign promises to see which he keeps, which he breaks, and which he’s working on or gets blocked. Some of our stuff is in there.

What if you were a billionaire for five hours? One guy was, thanks to a banking error that put $88,888,888,888 into his account one Friday night. They didn’t let him do anything with it once he notified them, which was obviously his mistake. His initial thought? Transfer it into an interest bearing account, collect the $7 million and donate it to charity, and give back all the principle. Nope – that would have cost the evil, incompetent bankers’ money.

Pixar just added Coraline director Henry Selick to their collection of the world’s best and brightest. No word on how many solid gold Mickey Mouse statues that cost them, or what he might work on.

Some of you are getting shiny iPads this weekend. Then some of us aren’t. Still, here are some upcoming alternatives to Apples latest shiny Precious.

A couple weeks ago, I featured a picture of a young Viggo Mortensen that got a lot of motors running. Thanks to a tip from our friends at VLGMen, we find out that picture had friends. And that it came from a photo shoot with a really interesting history.

A reminder of the photo that caught your eye.

I have no idea why, but this picture of a surprised panda made me laugh - hard.

I don't know if this is a prank or an art project. Either way I'm in love

There's just no easy way to break this news to you: they're writing a Baywatch movie. The only way I can support this is if Spongebob Squarepants gets a cameo appearance. He did save David Hasselhoff's career, after all.

Hoff owes the yellow dude.

Using this towel at the gym might send a message.

When watching Idol in 60 Seconds below, I need you to keep this image in mind so you understand the results show from this week.

Tim Urban is around for one reason, and one reason only.

In this week's Idol In 60 Seconds, we get to meet Bizzaro Seacrest. I'm not exactly sure what that means, because Seacrest has always been a little bizzare. And yes, of course we all miss Dunkleman.

On Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, they showed the preview for Peeps: The Movie. Looks better than Hot Tub Time Machine. Also, it makes me less guilty about the carnage involved in making Peepshi.

Solitary Man has a geriatric Michael Douglas hitting on college girls and actually getting laid. And this is after he's lost all his money. That's a twist worthy of a M. Night Shyamalan movie.

The most disturbing film I've heard about in years is The Human Centipede. I can't come up with a concept that has disgusted, terrified and fascinated me so much. The first trailer makes it more of a movie that I was expecting, but maybe less of a campy gore fest. I'm torn.

And finally, it's the weekend, it's Easter holiday for some, and for others it's an excuse to party, be it for a day off from work, spring break, or it being a day ending in "y." Regardless, here's the complete video for Green Day's "Last of the American Girls" which I teased Tuesday.