Morning Meme: Major Fall Pilot Pickups, When Leonard Met Sheldon, Will Forte's Naked Celery, and Sue Sylvester Talks Neutering

Plus, the Loud family returns to television, Jake's hair was all the rage, Katerine Hepburn's stamp, plus UNIX humor.

Many TV series got pickup orders today, and the gay content just hasn’t happened as far as we can see, but I need to research ABC’s pickup of No Ordinary Family. It’s been described as a live action version of The Incredibles, but it comes from out producer Greg Berlanti, who also gave us Kevin and Scotty.

Fox also picked up Chicago police drama Ride Along, a Texas con man drama Midland, a comedy about three dudes called Traffic Light, and Keep Hope Alive, which the network describes as "a 25-year-old single parent raising an infant with the help of his quirky family after the mother of the baby — with whom he had a one-night stand — ends up on death row." Yeah, they put that one together with a grab bag. They later picked up a comedy called Running Wilde about a rich jacka** in Beverly Hills who falls in love with a tree hugging woman. So it’s Dharma and Greg 2.0

NBC picked up a comedy called Perfect Couples. All three couples are straight, so the show sounds less than perfect to me. They’re trying to convince Jimmy Smits to join Law & Order: Los Angeles, especially now that The Rockford Files tanked with executives.

GLAAD has decided it needs to speak up on Ramin Setoodeh and Newsweek.

Ryan Gosling is at Cannes pimping Blue Valentine with Michelle Williams. It’s documentary style, shot on no budget, and they even filmed Michelle Williams peeing three times. If they had Ryan peeing on film, I might have an interest, depending on the angle. I can’t begin to describe this thing, just go read it.

The Bilerico Project seems dissatisfied with ABC’s plan to explore Mitchell’s fear of PDA on Modern Family, and has a fairly scathing editorial up on the site.

Europe is putting a mind-controlled prosthetic arm on the market. I for one welcome our cyborg overlords.

Oprah and Alan Ball are producing The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks for HBO about a poor black woman from Baltimore whose cancer cells, taken without her knowledge, led to a mountain of lifesaving cures that she never benefited from.  It’s a true story about the past, and our possible future.

Mark your calendar for July 8^th, because that’s when Joel McHale and Sofia Vergara take the stage to announce the Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Thomas Jane, who plays the title character in HBO’s Hung, says he’s average in every way:  “I'm 5'10", I wear a model suit size -- 40 regular, 32-inch waist pant -- and a size 10 shoe. Everything about me is prototypical. Everything. I even have a right-down-the middle-exactly-average d**k.” I could handle a gay actor playing straight, but this just ruins the character for me.

As ridiculous and mockable as Jake Gyllenhaal’s hair is in Prince of Persia is, it’s historically accurate. I still like him better in Jarhead.

Wipeout is my guilty summer pleasure. So congratulations to host John Henson on his impending wedding. I think in lieu of a prenup your bride should have to traverse the big red balls.

You know the “war on drugs” that we dump billions into? Maybe it’s working – Columbia only produced 390 metric tons of cocaine last year instead of 2008’s 430 metric tons.

Katherine Hepburn will grace a 44-cent stamp. The picture chosen is a publicity still from 1942’s Woman of the Year, and isn’t my favorite shot of her. Most surprising was finding out stamps cost 44 cents!

You can buy pubic lice on the internet. The site specifically says that the crabs are not to be used to get revenge on someone, but the domain is CRABREVENGE.COM, so I’m not sure how true that is.

Tim Robbins and James Gandolfini have joined HBO’s Cinema Verite, the movie about the 1973 PBS documentary An American Family. The series is often called the first reality show, documenting the Loud family, whose son Lance eventually became what’s generally called the first openly gay reality show personality. Robbins will play Bill Loud opposite Diane Lane’s Pat Loud.

This is from Futurama's second episode.It looks like the Tea Party movement survives to the year 3000.

The love that dare not woof its name.

If you can see the dirty joke in this picture, you are a certified geek. What makes it even better is that this photo made Wednesday's New York Times, intact, because no geeks work in copyediting there.

Hint: It's written on the chalkboard.

I'm assuming this sign is in Dupont Circle.

This actually exists - it costs $149.95. I'm not sure why it exists, but it does, and I really want to see Edith Ann sitting in it. Is that too much to ask?

Could you cuddle in it? Is it really portable?

Are you going to enjoy it or ask if the spelling is meant ironically?

And your morning dose of cute.

Jane Lynch did a PSA for PETA about spaying and neutering your pets. You can tell that it's Jane doing the ad and not Sue Sylvester – Sue would be asking you to spay and neuter your children.

This just goes to prove that with some dramatic, wistful dialog you can make anything sound like a dramatic, important time in life, like the war protests or the birth of rock'n'roll.

Matt Damon has a new movie called The Adjustment Bureau that's based on a novel by Phillip K. Dick. I've read a lot of Dick, but not this particular book. It seems to be about a plan, and a group charged with making sure life goes according to plan with no fun deviations.

Ramin Setoodeh is in major damage control mode. He's fortunate that there aren't any real journalists on television to ask probing questions, just hosts willing to let him fill airtime with whatever justification he thinks might work this time. This one was such a softball joke Newsweek decided they came out looking good enough to pimp it themselves.

Will Forte was on Letterman talking about inappropriate nudity and MacGruber. Then he jumped over to tell about kissing James Franco, and having a friend send him a link to a gay blog that complained about SNL having "the ugly one" kiss Franco. On what bitter queen's blog is Will Forte considered unattractive?

Ellen played some web videos on her show. The first one, with the guys doing electrical work: Does anyone else's gaydar go off? 

Toy Story 3 has released a trailer based around the Potato Heads. It has some moments that are cute, but I'm starting to feel like I've seen the whole film via clips.

On The Big Bang Theory, we're preparing for a flashback episode. Here you can see when Leonard met Sheldon.