Morning Meme: "Always Sunny ..." Does Gay Marriage, More Kristen Chenoweth, and "The Big C" First Look

Plus homoerotic sandwiches, Scott Pilgrim vs. the Animation, and the similarities of Inception to Scrooge McDuck.

At some point today, Judge Walker will be handing down his decision in Perry et al vs. Schwarzenegger et al Prop 8 trial. We’ll be watching and will attempt to provide some info as well as a place to discuss as it happens. Remember, this settles very little, and regardless of verdict, this will end up at the Supreme Court in short order.

Did Christopher Nolan get the idea for Inception from a Scrooge McDuck comic book?

On the passing of Lisa Simspon’s wedding day (ultimate child bride), here are 11 Predictions About 2010 That The Simpsons Got Right.

An original musical based on Alice in Wonderland is coming to Broadway from Frank Wildhorn. We can now take bets on how much money it will manage to lose.

On the Top 20 Films That Make Men Cry, I don’t really understand what is so sad about The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. But The Shawshank Redemption and Up have both gotten me misty.

Despite what some gossip rags are saying, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is not canoodling with Lucy Lui.

At the TCA, the FX panel on Always Sunny In Philadelphia (which I just can’t watch) says that while their characters will never develop judgment or maturity, the show will have an episode this season about gay marriage. This will either be brilliant, or an offensive train wreck of the highest magnitude.

On August 12^th, sometime between midnight and 12:30, Adult Swim will air an original Scott Pilgrim vs. the Animation four minute piece of material that didn’t make it into the movie. From the previews, it looks like a prequel story of Scott in high school.

Monday we mentioned that Kristen Chenoweth was developing a sitcom. Now comes the news that she’s developing it with Glee’s Ryan Murphy, which certainly adds some heat to the project.

For the record, the police discourage use of Tasers to haze problem bears. 

Old hotness, fish emblem on your car with feet. New hotness: Chrome fish with warp nacelles. 

It turns out that pretty much anything Kanye West tweets can be used as the caption of a New Yorker cartoon. I’m not sure if that mocks Kanye, or the New Yorker.

Finally, someone in Hollywood gets it: They want to murder The Situation. Well, Bones wants him to play a murder victim. Then they plan a whole dissection of the guido culture by treating it as a tribe.

Buried in this Hollywood minutiae about new studios taking over development of projects I don’t care about like The Rockford Files is a note that Dirty Sexy Money creator Craig Wright is developing a new series based around political campaigners. He’s been good for fun shows with GLBT representation, so I’m adding it to the monitor list.

Here are the 15 Funniest Newspaper Retractions of All Time.

I don’t know who Neil Jordan is, and whether it’s a good thing that he’s directing Skippy Dies, but the description for the film caught my eye, “South Park meets Tom Brown’s Schooldays.” That’s just strange.