Republican presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is becoming quite adept at sticking things in her mouth, like her foot. On the Tonight Show, Jay Leno challenged her positions on everything from taxes to the gays. Leno asked, “If you become president, and you seem pretty strident in your views, could you comprise?” Bachmann interrupted “Convicted. I’m convicted.” The comedian corrected her, “Convicted? No, you don’t get convicted until after

Rule One: The Doctor lies. Not just little white lies but big self-serving lies that get people killed, namely Amy Pond in “The Girl Who Waited.” While visiting the planet Apalapucia, the #2 destination for the discerning intergalactic traveler, Amy gets trapped in a faster time stream where she is hunted by robots that literally kill with kindness. By the time they come to rescue her, Amy has aged 36

Fans of Sesame Street have long speculated that roomies Bert and Ernie are gay but those rumors have been put to bed. In response to an online petition by Change.org to let Bert and Ernie get married, Sesame Workshop issued the following statement, “Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves. Even

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)

Torchwood, the British organization charged with protecting the world from extraterrestrial threats, has been renditioned to America by Starz. Last season, Torchwood disbanded after coming to the realization that people in their line of work have a very short life expectancy. That won’t be a problem this time around as people have stopped dying altogether, an event dubbed Miracle Day. However it causes a population explosion that will consume the

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.

Have you thanked a programmer? It’s Video Game Week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and to celebrate the opening credits have gone 8-bit with a digitized Jimmy running across the screen à la Ninja Gaiden. Jimmy is showing off his video game skills each night with demos of Modern Warfare 3, Gears of War 3, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, Battlefield 3, and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. All

Keeping track of the weather can seem like a full-time job but Subaru’s new marketing campaign suggests “It doesn’t matter what the weatherman says if you have a symmetrical all-wheel drive Subaru.” The commercials feature bloopers of weatherman Pete Mertz standing in front of the wrong map, wearing green in front of a green screen, and just generally being a doofus. The funniest one is when an inquisitive anchor plays

The Doctor often travels with young women but his latest companion is so young that we may need a sequel to “The Trial of a Time Lord.” Spoilers In the mid-season finale “A Good Man Goes to War” the Doctor’s future girlfriend (River Song) reveals that she is Amy’s baby (Melody Pond). Initially, the Doctor seems appropriately uncomfortable and says “But you and I we… (kissing noises)” but then he

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

Stargate Universe ended with not with a bang but a whimper. It’s almost as if they knew it was going to be cancelled. After several episodes of being beset by nameless drones the crew of Destiny does the interstellar equivalent of taking their ball and going home. They decide to freeze themselves in cryogenic pods and put the ship on autopilot until it exits this galactic bad neighborhood. The drama

Aqua Teen Hunger Force may have a new name (and theme) but it’s still the same old nonsensical hijinks. The new theme belies the nature of the show just like the old theme did. Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad aren’t really detectives. In the first episode, Shake gets sidetrack from finding a missing cat and accuses a very large, very black demolition worker of insurance fraud and not really being black.

As predicted in a previous post the Impossible Astronaut was all but revealed to be the hybrid daughter of Amy and the Doctor in the subsequent Doctor Who episode “Day of the Moon.” In a deserted orphanage, Amy discovers old photographs of the girl in the space suit, including one of Amy holding her as a baby. At the end of the episode, Amy tells the Doctor that she was