Morning Meme: MTV is trying "Hung" For the Teenage Crowd, And What's Scooby Doo Smoking?

Sick of talking about Glee while not being able to watch the series yet? Well, I’m not done. It’s starting to look like Fox is going to make a super-season of their hit show next year, with 25 new episodes instead of the planned 20-22 episodes.

If you want to watch HBO’s extremely boring-but-pretty WWII series The Pacific but don’t subscribe, you can watch the first episode online for free.

You can vote for several out actors and gay favs like Neil Patrick Harris and John Barrowman for Actor of the Month. 

Director Michel Gondry already has one time travel film, The Master of Space and Time, in the can. Now he says he’s working on another one about “kids who travel [into] the future by mistake and a machine [that] keeps people younger.” They have some of the good stuff down at SXSW, don’t they?

Speaking of the good stuff, here is a list of ten children’s characters who were definitely on drugs – and what they were taking. I’d never considered Pepe Le Pew being on ecstasy, but it would explain a lot.

I thought I was on drugs when I read that Animal Planet is producing Taking on Tyson about boxer Mike Tyson as he “explores the world of competitive pigeon rearing and racing.” Evidently Tyson has always raised pigeons, and this just expands on his love of birds. Oh, crap. Fess up, somebody slipped me something in my Red Bull.

Now that he’s not playing Spider-Man anymore, Tobey Maguire has time for “important” roles, like Bobby Fischer, the chess master who ended up going off the deep end later in life.  What’s truly disturbing is how much they look alike in photographs.

You may have read how the land above the iconic Hollywood sign is about to be developed unless they can raise a little over $12 million to buy the land and preserve it. Why Hollywood big shots can’t come up with the marketing budget for All About Steve to save the sign, I have no idea. But the graphics firm that’s been creating eyesores by wrapping whole buildings with ads for TV shows offered to pop for the full amount if the city will stop suing them.

A federal court has ruled that cable companies that also own television networks must share those networks with other providers, like phone companies and satellite. Could you imagine, for example, with Comcast buying NBC Universal, if they’d been able to yank all three dozen networks they’ll own from the competition? Game over.

ABC is reportedly resurrecting the Star Search platform, and they’re going to hand it over to Paula Adbul. That’s something I might watch, if only for the contact buzz.

The head of Sony Pictures, Michael Lynton, spoke to theater owners and told them to skip the popcorn and start serving healthy snacks in theaters. Frankly, the popcorn in my local theater is so bad at this point I wouldn’t notice if they replaced it with packing popcorn.

In sad news, the world’s shortest man, He Pingping, has passed away at age 21. He Pingping was 29 inches tall.

The Green Lantern stars Ryan Reynolds, but he has friends. Today two were cast, both with New Zealand actors. Temuera Morrison, best known as Jango Fett, will be playing the pink-skinned Abin Sur of the Lantern Corps. Taika Waititi will be playing Hal Jordan’s best friend on earth.

I'm just guessing from the photo, but I think the kitten may like to play a lot more than the dog does. He looks worn out.

Did somebody give kitteh speed?

IKEA has upgraded some high-traffic subway stations in Paris with their signature minimal furniture. Unfortunately, it's not permanent.

What do they do with the grubby subway furniture after the exhibition?

CoCo's writers are going full steam ahead. This is clever.

So that's how that happens.

This never, ever gets old.

I assume it's a fancy paint job. Conceptually I like it, in practice it's likely annoying.

MTV has a new version of HBO's Hung, set in high school. Well, I guess HBO's version is set mostly in high school but in this one the guy with the huge endowment is a teenager, which creeps me out when I say it, but the trailer looks promising. The Hard Times of RJ Berger premieres June 6th after the MTV Movie Awards. I should say that AfterElton.com is a division of MTV (completely irrelevant here).

Matthew Morrison, I seriously have the hots for you, you're exactly my idea of a hot guy. But that ridiculous thing you have on your head in this interview is working my last nerve. You are way too cute for whatever you've trying for here. kthxby

I almost feel sorry for former Rep. J.D. Hayworth of Arizona, who's challenging Senator John McCain for his seat. On any other day, this exchange he had with Rachel Maddow last night on what was written in the Massachusettes marriage equality ruling would have gotten the label of my favorite video. Watch as he tries to convince Rachel that it's possible to disagree about what words are on a sheet of paper.