Morning Meme: Celestial Steeds Are Big Business, Knock-off Of "The View" to Replace Nuke, and Johnny Weir Didn't Mean It

Plus, Archie and Veronica meet The Situation and Snookie, a George Lopez Show event, Eric Mabius gets spaced, and when James Dean met Ronald Reagan.

When As the World Turns ends this fall, Luke, Reid and Noah will be replaced by a knockoff of The View. At least that’s the plan. A female panel show targeted at moms and hosted by Julie Chen along with several co-hosts. One of the co-hosts is set to be Sara Gilbert, who’s a mother with her partner Allison Adler.

Technicolor, whose logo has appeared at the end of everything I’ve ever watched, wants to get into original animation. I don’t really know what their primary business is, but it seems they already own an animation studio, so all they needed to get started was original material, which they’ve found in Berkley Breathed's Pete & Pickles series.

Want to start watching Doctor Who but feel intimidated by the 50+ years of the show's history? Io9.com has put together a fairly exhaustive (back off Whovians, it’s a good place to start!) primer for the noobs.

Blizzard needed a new revenue stream for World of Warcraft, so they opened a store where you could buy virtual livestock for the game. This isn’t like a sheep for your Farmville – animals included a “Celestial Steed” which allows you to “travel in style on wings of pure elemental stardust.” They managed to make $2 million in four hours by selling this stuff.

Here’s a lawsuit you don’t expect to hear, yet sounds entirely plausible. A group of bisexual men are suing the Gay Softball World Series for deeming them “not gay enough” to compete. Just how gay do you need to be, on a sliding scale from John Wayne to Brian Kinney?

David Hyde Pierce is set to receive a special Tony Award this year to reward his non-profit work. He’ll receive the Isabelle Stevenson Award for his work in Alzheimer’s advocacy. It was just Monday I was reading a piece about how rarely GLBT folks advocated for causes outside gay rights and AIDS work. Here’s a lovely exception.

Johnny Weir spoke with GregInHollywood.com about his appearance on Chelsea Lately where he appeared to infer something about Evan Lysacek. Johnny swears he was trying to rein Chelsea in, which is kind of like trying to stop gravity.

Christina Aguilera will be appearing on the finale of American Idol to promote her new album. I love hearing Christina sing live, so this is must-watch for me.

Ugly Betty’s Eric Mabius went and got himself a job on the BBC series Outcasts. It’s a science fiction show about colonizing a future solar system after the earth suffers a terrible biological accident.

It sounds like Finn and Rachel will continue to suck up most of the oxygen on Glee this season. Don’t get me wrong, I kind of like the kids, but I get tired of seeing them in the spotlight all the time. And I’ve been sorely disappointed in the show’s use of Jonathan Groff so far – he can actually sing and perform, so let him do that before he graduates and heads off to London’s West End.

This makes me happy. I'm not so sure about the dog.

Yesterday, an unholy marriage was announced: Jersey Shore has invaded the Archie Comics. Fortunately this is my father's childhood memories that are being ravaged here, not mine.

I see what MTV gets out of this, but what about Archie's brand?

In the United States, we continued toying with adding color to our money instead of the basic monochrome scheme we seem fixated on. When I used to travel overseas, my wallet would look like a rainbow exploded in it by the time I landed at Washinton National. Frankly, if there's any currency that could use a makeover, it's the U.S. dollar.

Still boring.

Today from the world of advertising, we have some sage advice from Lego about the need for kids to unplug and create. It also proves that some advertising is directed at parents.

I hope this is directed at parents.

I know what you're thinking, but this is for a cream to make your heels soft an pretty for sandal season.

A new award we're thinking about, Asshat Extreme.

This isn't a new thought, but it is one to live by. Brownies help almost anything.

By the time you read this, the full-length version of this will have already aired. Assuming airing the full-length version of this doesn't cause the world to explode.

Gabourey Sidibe has recorded her Saturday Night Live Promo. Unfortunately, despite the gunplay, it doesn't look like she had the stones to actually rid us of Andy Samberg.

This has been going around the net all week, but I can't stop laughing at this poor guy at the Coachella Music Festival. He's completely wasted, and flip-flops are too complex for him to operate. When he does finally win, he knows it's something to celebrate.

So Lisa Kudrow has been producing a web series called Web Therapy, where bunches of celebrities stop by and interact with her personas. Yesterday it was announced that Showtime has purchased the shorts (I think there are over 30 of them) and plan to use them as filler between their programs.

Rachel Maddow enlisted the help of The Rachel Maddow Players to help explain why the Georgia legislature felt it was urgent for them to spend time and money enacting a law making it illegal for the government to implant citizens with a microchip against their will. It has to be seen to be believed.

Finally, CBS News brings us this rare find of Ronald Reagan and James Dean sharing the screen during a live performance on General Electric Theater. The episode was called "The Dark, Dark Hours" and I'd really like to watch it without the voice over by Katie Couric.