Afternoon Meme: Vibrating Broomsticks, Sacha Baron Cohen Gets Paramount's Goat, Rachel Maddow and the Chicken, and more!

Workin' at the carwash, Michael Urie takes a punch, NBC shows Mercy some mercy, and meet The Fargonator.

Them’s fightin’ words! The cast of Party Down proclaims “We’re better than Glee.” Naturally that just some good natured ribbing towards their former castmate Jane Lynch, who’s riding a career high thanks to Fox’s juggernaut.

The Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket Constance McMillen’s graduation in a desperate attempt at relevancy. I need to ask – where do they get money for travel? It seems like they’re always on the road.

Now that they’ve been on every single talk show making me feel bad about what I eat, Food, Inc. has been made available to watch online in its entirety by PBS. Warning – video autoplays.

Rosie O’Donnell had Mike “Puppies” Huckabee on her Sirius-XM radio show, and naturally gay parenting came up. He pressed ahead with the concept of “ideal parents” which she translated for him to mean “straight.” If he’d like to trot out these ideal parents sometime, June and Ward Cleaver are ready to get their parenting lessons.

Cracked has an amazing list of 15 Unintentionally Perverted Toys for Children that raised even my eyebrows. The Harry Potter Vibrating Broomstick alone made me blush – and then check availability on Amazon.com

A Long Island girl performed the Heimlich maneuver on her choking friend and saved her life. She says she learned it from a Spongebob Squarepants episode where Squidward swallows his clarinet. Two possible punchlines: 1)See, watching cartoons is more useful than algebra homework; 2) Does anyone know if Squidward is single, because if he can swallow a clarinet …

Idol Gives Back managed to raise $15 million for charity while the show was one the air for 3.7 days (sorry, I thought it was never going to end). But as of this morning, they’re up to $45 million.

Sacha Baron Cohen has a new comedy that he’s developing with writer from Curb Your Enthusiasm. Rather than pitching it to a single studio, they went on tour in Hollywood and pitched to six companies in two days, and ignited a bidding war about a comedy involving goats. Paramount was so desperate to buy they sent trained goats wearing Paramount t-shirts to Cohen agent, Ari Emmanuel. They weren’t terribly well trained goats since it took a dump inside Ari’s office, but they did get the movie.

Comcast is denying it’s behind the RightNetwork which we’ve spilt considerable pixels on this week. And technically they’re not. A company they own is behind the RightNetwork. See how that’s different? No?

As we debate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and ENDA in this country (O.K., it’s less of a debate than trying to keep the right make it about men in dresses teaching kindergarten), in Britain, they have a fighter pilot in the RAF undergoing gender reassignment surgery, and it’s no big deal.

Sir Elton John has written a touching open letter to Ryan White twenty years after his death from AIDS. He credits the stability and the joy in his life to this brave young man.

Robert Friedman says that Sondheim on Sondheim starring Ugly Betty alum Vanessa Williams is brilliant, and that all of us should drop everything to go see it. Meet you at Studio 54, O.K.?

It may be that Angel has a guardian angel – NBC is moving Mercy to the 9pm slot next week to see if that fits the demographic a little better. I think it’s more of a 10pm show, really, and it’s been steadily improving content, IMHO.

Don't you hate it when the magic of something is destroyed for you? That's how I feel about this TwitPic by Cory Monteith showing the audience for Regionals.

It's like a game of Where's Waldo.

It's almost like Michael Urie saw the picture I posted of the cherub the other day and staged a reenactment.

This is gonna hurt.

We all know print magazines are a dying breed, but I'm not sure we've realized the implications.

We just need some seltzer water.

I never could solve the original Rubik's Cube.

Stranded on a deserted island? There's an app for that.

And in advertising, we have a twist on why straights need to use condoms.

But he could also be a happy guncle because the condom kept him STD free.

So a woman named Sue Lowden is running against Senator Harry Reid and decided health care was her platform. Then she decided to say that you shouldn't worry about insurance, you should just barter with your doctor, maybe pay with a chicken instead of cash. The press gave her a chance to back away from the statement and say it was a metaphor, but she won't. So it got remixed, and Rachel Maddow go her hands on it. This is gold. I've been watching it on loop all morning.

Bonnie Hunt likes to dress her crew up and have them do themes. Halloween had them dressed up like The Facts of Life. But she held a drawing for a car, and wanted it to be delivered clean. And that's how we get the sexy carwash trope turned on its ear. I love that they went for it, and a couple of the guys are really hot. Car wash starts about one minute in.

I love Eureka. Sure, it's annoying that they never do anything with their token gay, but the quirky humor just hooks me. Plus the men on the show tend to be hot. And then there's Fargo, who's not precisely hot, but he is extremely adorkable. Here's a teaser for the new season called The Fargonator which allows us to see a lot of Fargo.

India has a monkey problem. Which is weird, because I have a monkey problem too - except my problem is that I don't have any monkeys. They seem to have mean monkeys. But since the monkey is sacred there, they can't do much about mean monkeys, except bring in monkey trainers, and additional monkeys to police the mean monkeys. Which could lead to monkey-on-monkey violence.

There are some serious pluses to working for MTV Networks. Sure, being part of a massive media conglomerate can seem limiting, but as massive media conglomerates go, they're pretty easygoing. And they don't get upset when we choose to criticize other parts of the company. Just look at what I've said about Jersey Shore. But my hatred of reality television pales in comparison to what Jon Stewart unleashed last night after Comedy Central censored South Park. Oh, and he makes some points about religious tolerance too.

Finally, the ridiculously dramatic trailer for Twilight: Eclipse has been released by the power of the mighty Oprah. I wouldn't even know where to begin to mock this thing, but it hardly matter since Twihards are going to fall all over themselves praising it and throwing money at it.