Morning Meme: How Mississippi Sucks Even More, Geoff Stults In "Happy Town", plus Hubble 3D and "Robot Chicken" Goes Legit

Plus William Shatner, choose your tan lines, is Star Trek coming soon, Sons of Tuscon is dead, and Wil Wheaton heads to Eureka.

I’m going to go ahead and get this out of the way:  The rumors that the bigots in Mississippi sentConstance and six learning disabled students to one prom while all the other kids went to the real prom are true. I originally wanted to run with the righteous indignation of Pam’s House Blend on this one, but then Joe.My.God came up with photos of the “real” prom from a Facebook page.

On to the silly and ridiculous: Winona Ryder has been cast as Kevin James' wife in Cheaters. Only in Hollywood could Kevin James get Winona Ryder. Only in a fantasy film would Kevin James cheat on Winona Ryder.

Robert Zemeckis is set to direct Disney’s Dark Life, which sounds like a mashup of a ecological disaster flick and teenage Aquaman.

An NYU graduate student has figured out that weird, asymmetrical makeup can render all the fanciest facial recognition software useless. Adam Lambert just became the world’s most successful bank robber.

 Wil Wheaton is going to be headed to SyFy’s Eureka for a guest spot. He’s going to play Dr. Isaac Parrish, head of the Non-Lethal Weapons Lab and a comic foil for Fargo, which might entertain. If we’re lucky here at AfterElton.com he’ll order a tuna melt from Vincent - dude needs some screen time.

Marvel continues to spin out properties for profit, this time courting Peter Sollett (Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, which I loved) to direct The Runaways under their existing X-Men deal with Paramount. The House of Mouse may never make the money back it paid for Marvel.

But it might help that a judge has dismissed a $750 million lawsuit against Marvel and Stan Lee on a new media venture that tanked during the dotcom era.

I hate it when dad and dad fight. Bil Browning has responded back to one of The Bilerico Project’s bloggers quitting over adult content on the site. Both of these guys fight for all our rights, so I don’t want to pick sides.

Here we have 25 Amazing Sandwich Art Creations. My mom just cut mine diagonally.

I’m always a little disturbed when a show is described as so quirky that even the stars have a hard time explaining what it’s about. That’s what happens with ABC’s new Happy Town, which sounds anything but. The upside is that it stars a well aged version of Geoff Stults (pictured young) and Amy Acker.

Fox thinks it can do better with reruns of American Dad than it was doing with Sons of Tuscon. I think they could do better with a test pattern.

Lucasfilm and Seth Green are going to develop a comedy series based in the Star Wars universe, like some extended Robot Chicken sketch. No word on live action, animation or silly little dolls. I’m hoping for Jar Jar Binks in a starring role. 

New York City had a giant pillow fight, which sounds fun, looks pretty, and has a lot more injuries than you’d expect.

GQ has an interview spanning the career of William Shatner. It’s true – he has more in common with characters like Denny Crane than not.

This next picture I've tried out all sorts of caption ideas. Most center around meeting your girlfriend's mother for the first time and knowing that's where your date is going to end up, looks-wise. But I encourage alternate thoughts in the comments.

Or it could just be side eye.

This tunnel effect is similar to others we've done before, but different.

I'm not at all sure what's going on here with Chris Colfer.

I mentioned last week that swim suit season was upon us, and also suggested we put the cookies down. This was not received well at all - you guys have a serious fondness for cookies. Well, here's another side effect of swimsuit season.

I'm hoping not to have the "Tumblr" again this year.

Mermen are inherently gay, so this shouldn't surprise me. But I guess the leather merman surprised me because leather doesn't get along with saltwater.

Yes, that's what I noticed about this picture.

An apple a day.

Half the time I find this little guy cute, half the time I'm really disturbed.

Zoe Saldana thinks her next project is the Star Trek sequel, even if nobody else has heard anything about it. Then she'll do Avatar 2. Isn't it cute how Hollywood's new "it" girl talks about paying the rent like it's something she has to worry about?

There a promo for Chace Crawford's drug dealer movie Twelve. It looks like Gossip Girl to me, except some of the violence is physical instead of just emotional.

And this calming teaser for Hubble 3D talks about space and the vastness. It's really elegant in some ways.

Here's the teaser trailer for Happy Town. I just can't see this catching on, so I doubt I'll invest myself in another doomed show.