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The Beastly Trailer Is So Beastupid

Gabe — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:45:06 +0000

OK, so, admittedly, I saw the Beastly trailer a few days ago, and I have been wanting to post it ever since but I haven’t gotten around to it because I have been LAUGHING TOO HARD. Now it is your turn! Beastly trailer, you guys:

Oh no, that poor jerk! I sure hope that he falls in love and becomes beautiful again at the end but with more compassion towards other people and a focus on what’s on the inside rather than what is on the outside! Just kidding, I literally don’t care what happens to him at all. I hope he gets UGLIER!

Although, let’s be honest, he’s not really that ugly? His curse is to be super-ripped and have interesting tattoos? I guess the nose staples are a little weird, but lots of kids in high school experiment with unfortunate body modifications. And also, uh, Vanessa Hudgens wouldn’t date him? Sorry. Sorry make-believe asshole cursed by a billionaire teenage shopping mall witch. They really should have done a better job with the casting if they wanted us to believe that some stupid jerk we have no reason to care about finds someone to love him for who he is (which is still basically a jerk, right? But just an ugly jerk now?) than Zac Efron’s girlfriend. In real life she would be like, “ew, my bodyguard is going to murder you.” And then her bodyguard would murder him.

Speaking of terrible movie trailers of terrible looking movies intended for misguided teenagers: new Twilight: Eclipse trailer in your pants. Here’s an open letter to teenagers: Dear teenagers, like better stuff! Sincerely, adults.

How I Met Your Mother: Heidi And Spencer’s Cameo Was About…Poop

Lindsay Robertson — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:43:59 +0000

How I Met Your Mother fans have run the gamut from “What? Okay, whatever” to “Ugh” about Spencer Pratt, Heidi Montag, and Kim Kardashian’s blatant ratings-baiting “guest starring” appearances on the show, which finally aired last night. Well, the whole thing turned out to seem suspiciously like a “Fuck you, CBS executives” from the show’s creator/writers, as the reality stars appeared only and briefly as tabloid magazine covers “come to life” to shame Marshall as he carried the magazines to the bathroom at his office in an episode subplot that introduced “reading a magazine” as a euphemism for going number two. The joke’s on them, kind of!:

How I Met Your Mother: OMG Is Ted’s Sister The Mother?

Lindsay Robertson — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:17:39 +0000

No, of course not, that’s a very inside HIMYM joke about how we’re supposed to wonder that every time a new female character is introduced. So this was the Christmas episode, and Ted’s sister came to visit and Barney was really Two And A Half Men-gross about her. Here’s his holiday song, which is such a Two And A Half Men-gross thing that I actually yelled “It’s only 8:30!” at the TV in honor of the former innocence of all the poor children who were watching, but then the end part was moderately amusing, so whatever:

Jack Black And John C. Reilly Talk About Prop 8: The Musical

Lindsay Robertson — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:55:28 +0000

Jack Black and John C. Reilly went on Keith Olbermann after the viral success of Prop 8: The Musical, along with the producer Mark Shaiman. Jack and John start talking about civil rights and their idea for Gay: The Musical at 2:45:

John C. Reilly’s explanation of the separation of church and state is so childlike and simplistic it should be its own PSA. If anyone’s logic can penetrate even the most willfully ignorant Americans, it’s John.

How I Met Your Mother: This “Socks”

Lindsay Robertson — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:44:48 +0000

Hey, did you hear that Heidi and Spencer are going to guest-star as themselves on a January episode of How I Met Your Mother? I guess that’s fine. Did you know that Alyson Hannigan, who plays Lily on the show, is pregnant in real life? It’s true. Also, somebody at this new site called The Daily Beast thinks HIMYM is “The best show nobody’s watching,” which is funny because that was true for a long time, but then everyone (ratings-wise) just started watching it a few months ago. Um, hmmm, let’s see, what else, what else? Oh, I guess I may as well go ahead and address the elephant in the room…

How I Met Your Mother: New York Versus New Jersey

Lindsay Robertson — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:24:23 +0000

So, remember the episode about how everyone hated Staten Island? This one was like that, but with New Jersey. Ted and Stella have somehow been engaged for weeks without ever having a single discussion about whether they’ll live in NYC or NJ when they get married, which is a testament to how shallow, low-stakes, and disposable all of Ted’s relationships have been. Which is why we don’t care. Nobody cares. The biggest How I Met Your Mother fan in the whole world doesn’t care about the predictable, solve-able, and wholly external problems the characters on this show face in their relationships. Because it’s a sitcom, and it’s not Friends. BUT this episode, despite its cheesy Springsteen montage and plot-thickening devices, did have its moments. And the best one came courtesy once again of the great Jason Segel delivering a monologue:

How I Met Your Mother: The Night Of The Burger

Lindsay Robertson — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:51:37 +0000

How I Met Your Mother is back to being great again! Last night’s episode, “The Night Of The Burger,” had all the elements of a classic HIMYM episode — the gang goes on a geeky New York adventure based on an arbitrary obsession (in this case, the ultimate burger), Barney has a lot of great lines (“This burger is so good I’m getting my ass sewed shut”), a new phrase is coined (“The Underwear Radius”), and there’s nary a potential girlfriend for Ted in sight (Stella must have been home with that kid we never see anymore.) Regis Philbin’s appearance as himself was hilarious, but it was Jason Segel as the jobless, burger-obsessed Marshall who stole the show. This scene, in which Marshall gives an impassioned monologue about the virtues of the lowly burger is Jason Segel at his best, which is saying a lot:

First Clip From Britney’s Second How I Met Your Mother Appearance

Lindsay Robertson — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:46:30 +0000

Entertainment Tonight had an exclusive first clip last night from Britney Spears’s seemingly therapeutic stint as a guest star on How I Met Your Mother, which resumes Monday night. In it, Barney (Neal Patrick Harris) uses Britney’s obsessive character, Abby, to make his estranged friend Ted “jealous.”

“Girlfriends are lame! Unless they’re me.” It is fun to see Britney “play” crazy.

How I Met Your Mother: Is There A Barney/Robin Sex Tape?

Lindsay Robertson — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:28:15 +0000

Whoa! On last night’s only so-so episode (full episode here), Barney rebounds from his breakup with Ted by taking up with Will Forte as his “rebound bro,” and Ted and Stella’s relationship moves forward even though we know she can’t be The Mother because, as commenter Carol pointed out last week: “The kids would know if they had an older half-sister.” We know from the last two episodes that Barney and Robin hooked up, everyone found out, and now they’re pretending it never happened. There were few references to the incident in this episode, but this throwaway line of dialogue could provide clues for the future. Robin showed up to help Barney train Will Forte as a wingman:

Barney: My friend Robin here has agreed to help out.
Robin: Because you threatened to put a video of us on the internet which I’m still not convinced you have.
Barney: Right, which is why you came all the way from Brooklyn at midnight.

There are no clues on Barney’s updated blog, but there is an hilarious application to become his wingman (“For some reason you’re pretending to be British. Who is your president?”). Still, I predict a Barney/Robin sex tape Season 3 cliffhanger!