"It's on like Donkey Kong" at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Nintendo wants to trademark the catchphrase "in honor" (read: publicity) of the newest game in the series: Donkey Kong Country Returns, where Donkey Kong will throw subpoenas instead of barrels. Just one problem, it's not their catchphrase. The earliest ... [Read More]

Conan killed the competition with his debut on TBS. He received 4.2 million viewers, easily beating all his competition: Colbert (1 million), Stewart (1.3 million), Letterman (3.4 million), and even Leno (3.5 million) in the ratings. Conan's ratings will probably drop below his network competitors, which have a greater ... [Read More]

Fox's Animation Domination celebrated the true meaning of Halloween this year. On the Cleveland Show "It's the Great Pancake, Cleveland Brown" Junior's dad explains that he's too old to dress up for Halloween but that it's okay for his sister because "Everybody knows Halloween is just a free pass for teenage girls to dress like ... [Read More]

Jackass 3 has broken all kinds of  records, not just for the biggest October opening, but also for being the first movie I've seen in the theater since Deep Blue Sea (1999) and the first 3D movie that didn't need red and blue glasses. If ever there was a movie made for 3D, it's Jackass. However, there's a great ... [Read More]

Perhaps it's the result of companies downsizing in tough economic time that so many gaffes seem to be going unchecked. Everything from factual errors like a see-through crescent moon in Superman#704 to Google's questionable choice of Halloween logo, in which a tentacle monster appears to be trying to lure children with ... [Read More]

DC Comics is letting fans choose who will be the new leader of the Legion of Superheroes but unless you're a major nerd, you probably don't know who half the candidates are (just like real politics). Fortunately, there's only one name you need to remember this November: Earth-Man, AKA Kirt Niedrigh. The Legion initially ... [Read More]

If the United States continues spending at its current rate, China will own it by 2030 warns a new ad by the Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW). Never mind that Japan recently overtook China as America's largest creditor, the ad is effective in that it gives the national debt a face instead of some abstract number like ... [Read More]