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Those famous voice-over guys in one car… Yeah, the first guy is the one everyone hears, but I remember all those Disney DVDs with the Disney Guy’s voice.  What about Victor Caroli ? I loved this guy's voice on Transformers . “It is the year 2005.”

RIP Michael O'Hare (Commander Jeffrey Sinclair from Babylon 5) Well, this was a total shock to me. From Io9.com, (( O'Hare suffered a heart attack on Sunday, after which he fell into a coma until he passed away Friday afternoon. Our condolences to O'Hare's loved ones. If you've been postponing your Babylon 5   rewatch, this might be the weekend to start. )) He was only 60 years old.   I remember watching the first TV-film on B5 and enjoying his restrained performance. He only starred in the first season of the show, and JMS replaced him with the stronger   Bruce Boxleitner, which in turn was a stronger character. Boxleitner's John Sheridan is just a better character all around. O'Hare's role in the overall mythology shouldn't be overlooked. His character on the show actually plays a huge part in the history of the B5 storyline. His departure from the show changed the very concept of B5, which is for another post all together. ...

Random Thoughts ~ Cutthroat Island: Man, this movie is bad. This movie ruined the careers for a whole bunch of people. Renny Herlin (Director) was put in movie jail. Geena Davis' career was completely destroyed! It also destroyed the studio Carolco Pictures. It just comes across as a stupid and expensive movie that only received 10 million. ~ Kylie Minogue bares her ass for insurance(NSFW) : I am not sure revealing your backside for an London insurance ad is the right message, but why should I care? She shows her ass in the ad and I can't complain. And, I get the joke about being fully covered. Yeah, I get it. ~ Johnny Lewis (Half-Sack) had Scientology connections : Hmm, it looks like the former SOA actor that killed an old woman had strong ties to Scientology. His father is a member and Lewis went into their Narconon program. Yet, he was not in the program when he committed suicide and was in another program. What is interesting is Lewis' photo ...

Berries and Cream: Starburst A grown Dutch Boy promoting a Starburst product.  I want to know what the guy was smoking when he came up with this promotion and the first reactions from the Starburst people.   I just discovered that there is a rap song that samples the Berries and Cream ad.  It is very strange… Blapstar And, one rapper is even wearing a Dutch Boy haircut.  WTF?  I’m speechless. 

So long, Opie Well, they killed off the “good guy” character from Sons of Anarchy.  It was shocking that they did it considering all the hell Opie went through all these years.  The man saw his wife and father killed off by members of the biker club.   I guess after all the shit he went through he had to die in the end.  

That new Burger King ad freaks me out Why are that woman’s lips so plump?  That takes me out of the ad every time.  I always thinking a bee stung her or she had botox injected into her lips.  Why would someone think this is appealing for a food ad? And, it bothers me every time I see it too.  Since we’re already focused in on her mouth, this just makes it worst.  I know the ad is about salad wraps, but it seems to be an ad for botox.

I thought Punching the Clown meant something else... I heard of “punching out” for work, but this is crazy. Getting punched in the face is probably the funniest thing this clown has ever done. I am against random violence like this, but I fear real clowns a lot and this made me laugh. You have to love the woman laughing after the punch. I think the guy did all of us a service today. I think he likes punching clowns on a subway. I remember this being an actual term. So, I looked up the term “Punch the Clown” on the Urban Dictionary, (( The act of male masturbation "I Punched the clown yesterday while thinking of you" )) Being an single guy that is fully aware of masturbation, I don't think the act of masturbation involves any “punching”. That's the last thing you want to do to your instruments. Why is it called a clown anyway? Is it because when women look at it they can't help but to laugh?   It doesn't make a honking noise when you...

A Thousand Words Eddie Murphy’s character is a book agent that talks fast and really doesn’t mean what he says.  While visiting a guru, he finds himself connected to a tree that grows into his backyard.  He then discovers that every word he says means the connected tree loses a leaf.  When all the leaves are gone, Eddie’s character will die.  So, he has to make every word he says count and mean something.  Sounds like an interesting premise.  If it weren’t shoehorned into a mainstream comedy, it probably would have worked as a drama with comedic elements. First off, I want to make a witty remark about “You don’t need to make 1k words to review this movie”, but it has been done too many times by reviewers.  Yet, I am also forced to agree with the rest of the RT reviewers, this is one bad movie.  Is it Eddie’s worst movie to date?  Nope, but that doesn’t make it any better.  It is certainly better than Pluto Nash and M...

Green Day: I agree with you... You know I agree with him. I would have liked to have seen the chaos off stage after this. From Slate.com, ( ( "I've been around since fucking 198-fucking-8. And you're gonna give me one fucking minute? You've gotta be fucking kidding me! You're fucking kidding me. What the fuck! I'm not fucking Justin Bieber, you motherfuckers." He then proceeded to smash his guitar. )) I don't know much about Green Day, but I am glad someone threw Bieber under the bus. Things have certainly changed over the years. Back in 90s, a Bieber act would have been laughed off stage. You don't see too many good meltdowns like this anymore. Of course, Billie Joe Armstrong is going into rehab after this meltdown. From USA Today, (( His rep tells USA TODAY's Edna Gundersen that the Green Day rocker is "seeking treatment for substance abuse." )) Maybe, the eyeliner is getting to him or maybe his frosted ti...

Paris Hilton: Desperate for attention?  After years of people ignoring her and her attempting to become a DJ, Paris Hilton is in the news again.  Except, now it is for bashing gay men.  I find it odd given that the people that are in her demo are the gay men.  You would think she’d understand the community a little more.  From CNN, ((Paris Hilton continued to do damage control Thursday, apologizing for saying gay men were "disgusting" and "probably had AIDS.”)) My problem is this; why does this outrage people? She's a stupid rich girl with little to no talent. She can barely communicate let alone have anything intelligent to say. She doesn't deserve this attention because it will only help with her 15 minutes of fame. Before this incident, she was barely in the news, with exception of her fake DJ-ing. Sure, she has no room to talk given that she probably has a couple of STDs (Gotta catch them all). But, don't give her the attention. We were fin...

Sega Master System memories Man, this video brings back memories, fond memories.  My brother and I would play the hell out of the Sega Master System.  And, we got this system way before NES.  I also remember the “hidden” snail-maze game embedded into the system.  Catchy tune, right? The reviewer brought up the card-slot games that I had totally forgot about.  Sega had these thin cards that you slipped into the front of the system that had simpler games that were more throwbacks to the old games.  But they were fun.  Sega called them Sega Cards . From the Sega Wiki , ((Overall, Sega published only a dozen games in the format (in 1986–1987) before moving to using solely game cartridges. The revised model of the  Sega Master System , Sega Master System II had no Sega Card support. [2]  reflecting Sega's move away from the format. )) What is interesting about this that Sega would use a super-version of this format wit...

Fraggle Rock and Ben Folds Five Man, I remember the Fraggle guys.  It was actually a very good show.  We will see enough interests in this franchise to bring it back?  Probably not.  But, it is fun to see them come back for this music video.  There were talks of making a Fraggle movie back in 2005, but its been in development hell for years now.  By the way, I used to get these guys mixed up with The Littles for some reason.  Down in Fraggle Rock

Max Rice makes Fried Rice with Fox News It isn't the best prank ever, but it embarrasses FOX News. It is such a sad state of affairs over at FOX when they will try at nothing to make Obama look bad that they don’t even do a background check into someone.  I can see it now, “Find anyone 20 something that can bash Obama, quickly.”  Fox probably should have known something was up when he said, “S’up”.  From Politico , (( “ I said I was a huge fan of your show, which was probably my biggest lie,” Rice said. “They never called to ask me how old I was, they never called the University of Texas, they never asked to see my driver’s license because I’m 20 years old – how could I have possibly voted?” )) In this day and age, it is really easy to look up if this guy was lying or not. But, FOX had its marching orders and needed to find something negative to say about the President. Not to mention the guy has a permit smirk on his face the whole time. Max Rice...

Brand New Apple product...nothing CollegeHumor’s Favorite Funny Videos Apple brings you...nothing. I only wished the real Apple would pull this type of stunt. I generally hate that they announce another version of the iPad and iPhone every few months so the Apple Zombies are forced to buy another one. There is the type of hipster vibe to they're buying habits and you can't fault Apple for digging into that stupid trend. Could you imagine if game consoles followed the Apple iPhone business model? The only thing that's closest to this are sports games that come out every year. I admire Steve Jobs for changing his company into a winning team after they fired him from his own company years ago. However, he started becoming a bad version of Microsoft. Check this video out to get the bigger picture. I've always hated the old iMac models because they reminded of the stupid Scion designs from the 2000s.  Boxy and ugly...

Random Thoughts ~Friend from the past: I was thinking about some of my closest friends from my teenage years. I had about three really close friends. They were Henry, Joey and Michael. When I look back at it all, we were all complete outsiders from all the groups during that time. Joey was the super nerd that spent more time playing videogames than going outside. Henry was a black guy that loved rock music and people considered him a sellout. Michael was just a wild man that did crazy things.  We weren't popular and no girl wanted to look our way.  It was brutal not being a popular kid because no girl wanted to talk to you.  That's probably why we were so tight because we shared in our inability to get laid.   It is kind of interesting that we all started to fade from each other as the years passed on. Then again, nothing lasts forever. You have to love pre-show promotional photos that have nothing to do with the premise of the show.  They're n...

Nerdy Comedian has a nice comeback with a heckler... The woman comes in with her remark perfectly, but he comes back with the power. I love this clip. I bet she thought she had him, but that comeback was way better. Tens points for Gryffindor!

Tom Rothman leaving FOX From EW.com , (( Fox Filmed Entertainment co-chairman and CEO Tom Rothman will step down from his posts at the end of this year, announced Fox on Friday. )) I say good riddance. I've never liked this guy. Rothman seemed to actively try to run the FOX studio in the ground with poor decisions. (Like rushing X-Men 3 into production without Bryan Singer) And, you don't leave a company with another year and a half on your contract unless you pissed someone off. I remember hearing rumors of Bryan Singer being escorted off of FOX studio when he took the job for Superman Returns. And Hit Fix brings up a good point about the X-Men Franchise, ((   Even so, it's always been a matter of friction between his vision of the franchise and the vision of the filmmakers in charge of things.  In a perfect world, Fox would be five or six films into a strong unified franchise, taking full advantage of the story opportunities that exist in decades wort...

Michael Clarke Duncan (RIP) This actually makes me very sad. He was really a very good actor and important to pop culture folks like me because he's been in so many movies and voice-over works. I know he was having major heart problems, but I didn't think it would have killed him. I mean he was at the age of 54. Duncan was a very good actor that rose above his size to make some impressive roles over the years. Here are a few I'd like to discuss. Early on, he worked in smaller roles on WB sitcoms before going to major movies. He also played bodyguards and bouncers. He also showed up in a few many animated shows. Armageddon :  This was the movie I remember him in first.  He was the wacky big guy.  He was really good in the movie, but the movie hasn’t held up as well as his character.  So, yeah the movie is a mess, today.  A Night at the Roxbury :  I remember his bit part as a doorman at the Roxbury.  It was kind of strange seeing ...

Alison Pill and her topless tweet... “We are sex bob-omb! One, two, three, four!” You have to love when someone “accidentally” tweets naked pictures of themselves. Didn't that congressman do the same damn thing. I'd much rather see a cute girl do it than someone old dude's dong, which seems to be the trend.  While I truly loathe Twitter, I will give it credit for creating new forms of drama.   I kind of like Alison Pill because she has that nerdy girl look that makes you think you have a chance dating her.  I liked her in Scott Pilgrim  and thought she was cute in the role.   Part of me wants to buy it that she sent the photo out there by mistake, but there have been too many accidents like this to call it an accident.   However, it makes her cute that she owned up to the accident. From her twitter page, (( Yep. That picture happened. Ugh. My tech issues have now reached new heights, apparently. How a deletion turned into a tweet... ...

Probably one of the strangest Gangnam Style dance versions I've seen... This old lady has some moves.   

G4: will be no more: and gets a D-bag face-lift I kind of figured it was coming, because my local cable company makes people pay for the channel now instead of having it as part of your normal package.  But it almost seems like a bad April Fool’s joke.  But, TNN ( The Nashville Network ) did morph into Spike TV (which had to pay Spike Lee a lot of money to keep the name).   Channels do go through format changes.  Remember what FX was before The Shield?  It was a completely different channel.  Actually, the early FX was closer to what G4 is today.   I hate cell phones, but I wish I was one now.  Is that an app?   From Kotaku.com, (( NBCU, the station's owners, are reportedly looking at turning it into a TV version of GQ, ditching the nerd focus in favour of something more "modern male". )) And, there you go. The channel that started out as a videogame-based channel, and combined with TechTV, will now morph into s...

Random Things ~ That is a massive catfish. I have never seen a fish this big before. Holy crap. What do you do for bait? A small child? ~Miley Cyrus: Does this woman even sing anymore? I've read more stories about her getting engaged, having a stalker and being accused of fighting . Does she do anything else anymore than walk around showing her ass in public. We get, Miley. You don't want to be know for those kiddy shows anymore. But, how about doing something worthwhile then? What is up with that stupid haircut too? Are you just itching for negative press? ~ Jessica Simpson, STFU and do something: I am sick of hearing about Simpson and her baby and her baby fat. Why is getting fat and then getting skinny her current career? She tried her hand at pop music and that failed. She tried being a reality star and that failed. She tried being a movie star and that blew up in her face with some really bad movies. She tried country music and was booed...

D-bags Sadly, I have a few friends on my Facebook list just like this.  They speak in this d-bag language and take pictures in the mirror with their shirts off.  I’m probably like “A Dose of Buckley” than anyone else in the world.  Anyway, sometimes self-pictures work on a superficial way.  If they are dude photos, they don’t.  And, is a clear sign of D-bag-ery.

Back To The Future I vs II intro and endings Technically, they re-shot this ending/beginning scene two times and re-dubbed it two times. First, it was shot for theatrical cut, which we presented here. Second, they re-dubbed it for TV replacing the lines “We've become assholes” to “jerks” in both versions. Third, they re-shot it with Elisabeth Shue and added a reaction shot with Doc Brown. They did a great job recreating the scene. -The house on the side is a different color between both versions. I guess the people next door changed colors between the years. Even the plants are slightly different. The yard is well kept in part 2, while in part 1 it is uneven. -The car gray is shinier in part one. -The Asshole reaction is completely different with an added reaction from Doc. Very nice addition. -Shue has a bigger reaction than Wells. This was something I noticed when as a child, but I didn't know they were different actresses at the time. Cl...