The Simpsons 500th episode is “The most meaningless milestone of all,” warns the show’s opening theme, which combines 23 seasons of couch gags to form the number 500. In “At Long Last Leave,” the Simpsons are banished from Springfield for causing too many shenanigans. You can almost hear Comic Book Guy yelling, “Simpsons did it!” (see: The Simpsons Movie) The exiled family moves off the grid to the Outlands, which

The Cleveland Show will force you laugh about rape, no matter how much you resist. In “Y Tu Junior Tambien” Cleveland helps his nerdy son get a girlfriend by telling him to pretend he’s a Jedi, who won’t take no for an answer

Rape is never funny, unless it’s all just a big misunderstanding. Rob Schneider’s new sitcom Rob pays homage to the anime School Rumble in which a naked guy, who’s in the wrong place at the wrong time, grabs a girl to stop her from screaming. Of course, that only makes things worse!

Pikachu usually communicates by incessantly squeaking “pika” but when another Pokemon finds his weak spot, he uses another four-letter word

Last Halloween LAIKA, the animation studio behind Coraline, introduced us to their newest creepy kid ParaNorman with a spine tingling trailer set to the psychedelic song “Season of the Witch” by Donovan. In the new family friendly, but less groovy, trailer we learn more about Norman’s paranormal ability to see dead people including his Grandmother and other not-so-friendly ghosts. ParaNormal Release Date: August 17, 2012 Trailers below

Fans of anime and manga series Ranma ½ have long wondered if Ranma, the gender bending protagonist who transforms into a woman when splashed with cold water, could ever become pregnant. To which creator Rumiko Takahashi answers, “I don’t think about that, and neither should you.” Well apparently one of the writers on the British TV series Misfits has been thinking about it. In season 3 episode 6, a boy

The classic Marvel super hero cartoons are getting new life (so to speak) thanks to director Ivan Miguel Guerrero, who has seamlessly zombified the opening credits of Fantastic Four (1967) and The Marvel Super Heroes (1966). “I am a big fan of the Marvel Zombies books and the covers done by artist Arthur Suydam. In creating this fan art/trailer, I wanted to capture the same irreverent-retro concept used for the

Last weekend, Fox Network got hit by Hurricane Flozell, a storm so big that its effects were felt by all three of Seth MacFarlane’s series (Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show). In “Seahorse Seashell Party” the Griffins get trapped inside… with no power! Fresh out of Star Wars stories to tell, the family fights among themselves but Brian decides to ride out the storm with some magic mushrooms.

Last season, Ned Flanders and Edna Krabappel took a summer break after he learned about her promiscuous past. The fate of Nedna was left up to a higher power – the fans. The Simpsons season opener “The Falcon and the D’ohman” revealed the couple is still together. In fact, they’re sleeping together… in the same bed! This raises even more questions like are they married now or is Ned a

MTV is bringing back the original Jackasses: Beavis and Butt-Head. What’s next, actual Music Videos on Music Video Television!? Until then these misanthropes will be targeting MTV shows like Jersey Shore and Teen Mom. At Comic-Con, Creator Mike Judge joked, “I felt like TV was getting too smart.” In the first episode “Holy Cornholio” Beavis gets mistaken for the Messiah after Butt-Head drills holes into his hands. That’s the great

In the series Highlander, immortal beings decapitate each other to gain power known as the Quickening. The anime Manyuu Hikenchou has it’s own version of the Quickening but they cut off an entirely different body part – breasts! It’s a fate worse than death because women who are flat-chested are considered less than human. The Manyuu clan has passed down this involuntary plastic surgery technique called chichi giri (breast slice)

Futurama experiences “Reincarnation” in the season finale with 3 unique animation styles: a black-and-white Fleischer style, a low-res video game style, and an anime action style. Creator David X. Cohen says it’s one his favorite episodes of the season. “Our supervising director, Peter Avanznio, did an amazing job of redesigning our whole world in three distinctive styles for just one episode. We even used jazz for the black-and-white section, licensed

There are entire websites devoted to gender bender fan fiction and artwork (so I hear) but fans no longer have to imagine after last night’s Futurama episode, “Neutopia.” The men of Planet Express bankrupt the company so it’s only fair that they raise money by forcing the girls to do a calendar. Just one problem: actual girls. Even after Hermes tricks his wife into participating they only have three girls.

After 2 years, Paul “Otaking” Johnson finally finished his (fake) Doctor Who Anime trailer, only to take it down from Youtube a few days later (presumably due to complaints from the BBC). Fortunately it quickly went viral so if you missed it, you won’t need a time machine to see it. Below are three alternate websites: Metatube (top) high quality and no ads, Dailymotion (middle) is high quality but has

Forget Bennifer, the The Simpsons has its own celebrity couple – Nedna. In the season finale, The Ned-Liest Catch, Edna literally falls for Ned during a jailbreak from teacher detention for hitting Bart. Except for their tumultuous relationship with the Simpsons, Ned and Edna don’t seem to have much in common, especially when it comes to views on premarital sex. Their future together becomes uncertain when Ned discovers Edna has