Morning Meme: Batman Invades Comic-Con (and "Harry Potter"), Cops Gets Uncuffed, and Are Bronies a Thing?

So when I heard Queen Latifa was appearing on Single Ladies as a woman who had slept with one of the female characters in college, but didn't identify as lesbian, I may have raised an eyebrow. It turns out Queen was giving everyone a little side eye with that move. "And not to stir the rumor-mill pot, but I have no problem confronting things like that. There's no need to discuss it any further, but, hey, if [the tabloids] can have fun with me, I can have fun with them, right?"

So exactly what kind of doctor is Rep. Michele Bachmann's husband? Because basic math makes it hard to have him with a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. In fact, he's not even a licensed therapist, and he's practicing reparative therapy. It seems Minnesota is one of the rare places you don't have to be licensed to practice therapy.

Fox is working on a new animated cartoon called Cops Uncuffed, which is described as "Cops meets Family Guy meets The Office." So it's an animated version of Reno 911?

While we're talking about Fox animation, they've just ordered additional scripts for Allen Gregory, which we talked about here, as well as for Napoleon Dynamite.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has booked Last Stand, which isn't a movie about his divorce from Maria Shriver. Instead, it's a western. You read that right – Schwarzenegger's big comeback movie is a western.

Mel Gibson's gay stepbrother says the star is no homophobe. I remain amazed that Mel Gibson is absolutely nothing like Mel Gibson if you talk to people who know Mel Gibson.

A mother is using her dead son's sperm, harvested on his deathbed, to father her own grandson for her to raise. But she's not carrying it herself. Because that would be creepy.

Ryan Seacrest decided to have a giant music festival outside Las Vegas, and got a huge list of A-listers like Lady Gaga and John Mayer to play it. Because the only thing better than a soggy, rained out music festival is a music festival in the desert at 130 degrees with heat stroke.

ABC Family has renewed Melissa & Joey, which wasn't terrible the few episodes I watched, and had a couple small gay plotlines.

Rihanna has been named the new body of Emporio Armani jeans and underwear. Don't get me wrong, I like some of Rihanna's music, and a ton of it is about sex and sex appeal, but I just never got that vibe from her. Almost like she tried so hard to sell that it didn't work.

Because Texas isn't already a parody of itself, Glenn Beck is relocating there to start his new network, even building a studio from scratch.

I'll always regret that I never went to Comic-Con while I lived in San Diego, but if there's one thing you don't do when you live in San Diego, it's go to Comic-Con. In fact, if you live anywhere near the Convention Center, you leave town for Comic-Con. But a Batman panel with Adam West, Julie Newmar, and Burt Ward? That I might've gone for.

In awkward news stories, thrice-married Newt Gingrich wants changes to the marriage fidelity pledge that Bachmann and Santorum already signed. Granted, they signed it when it still endorsed slavery, so revisions can't hurt.

Speaking of Batman, the rumor is that Dark Knight Rises will have a new teaser trailer, likely featuring Bane, to run prior to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. 

If America's Got Talent, why is Canadian Avril Lavigne performing on the live show?

The reason Beyonce fired her father as her manager is that a Live Nation investigation determined he stole money from her last tour. Beyonce commissioned an independent audit and they agreed. Papa Knowles protests he's innocent and is fighting back.

Yesterday I featured the latest video from Ari Gold, but the singer was recently a victim of homophobia on the Short Line Bus (which pops up often in my reading but I have no clue what it is). It seems Gold was sitting in the front seat holding hands with a man, and the bus driver thought that was so icky, he called a state trooper to make them stop. The trooper told him to put on his big boy pants and drive the bus.

The News Corp. scandal is getting so complicated that I'm having trouble following it while working three jobs, but as far as I can tell, they may have been hacking at more than one news property, in more than one country, and this is far from over. The decision to refer the deal to buy BSkyB back to the Competition Commission may have been a savvy one.

I guess that Robert Downey Jr. appears in drag in the new Sherlock Holmes movie, and Entertainment Tonight thinks that's so naughty they have to preview it.

Stoopid Monkey isn't just the production company behind Robot Chicken, it's also now a cartoon in its own right. Premiering two episodes each week starting July 15th, the original show that mixes stop motion animation and live action will run on YouTube.

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