Every Friday morning I hazily mine the web for ideas and content I intend to delight you with prior to sending you off for the weekend. I always find myself kind of bummed out by the amount of media goodness spawned from everyone’s favorite TV night that I want to share with you guys and don’t get a chance to. If only there were a premise that allowed me to do so…

What it? What if I scrapped together the ten best pieces of fan-created media to come out of the previous night’s comedy offerings? What if I took the web-made items from Parks & Rec, 30 Rock, and Archer (*pours some out for Community*) that I think have the most staying power and reusability and put them all in one place?

For today that’s exactly what I’ve done. It may be a one-off thing, or it may go until the end of time. Like my Brita filter there’s no way to tell. If you missed any of the fantastic work from GIF-making extraordinaire Chet Manly in last night’s Archer live blog I’ve included my two favorites here. Dude makes me want to be a better man.

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Okay, so I have never heard of any program, internet-based or otherwise, called “Nemo’s Advice,” so I have absolutely no idea where this clip originated, but any video of a joint-smoking Snoop Dogg offering the following advice to Kris Humphries about Kim Kardashian is, in my mind, the perfect way to end the week: “You shouldn’t have tried to wife the bitch, man — she’s not that type of a ho…Can’t make a ho a housewife. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Let her do what she was born to do — ho.”

Snoop Dogg, national treasure…

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Way back in 2006, when YouTube was still in its infancy stages, a man in Russellville, Kentucky named Kige Ramsey signed up for an account. A few months later, in January of 2007, he launched “The Kige Ramsey Show,” a random, seemingly theme-less assortment of unintentionally hilarious videos in which Kige, a pot-bellied country boy with a Southern drawl that makes him sound like a character in O Brother Where Art Thou, discusses whatever the heck is on his mind. (Prior to today the most recent video Kige had posted was a 16-second review of a Chili’s restaurant as part of his occasional “Dinning with Kige” segments.)

At some point later in 2007, the sports blogosphere, for lack of a better term, discovered Kige and made him one of the first bonafide YouTube celebrities. Lots of people, myself included, initially didn’t believe he was real — I was convinced that Kige was some sort of a performance artist playing the part of a rural hick with a YouTube show. But then Deadspin dispatched Clay Travis to find him and it was confirmed: Kige Ramsey was the real deal.

With all of that said, Kige posted a video earlier announcing that today is the 5 year anniversary of “The Kige Ramsey Show” — for which he remains the “Host/Executive producer/production manager/writter” — so I thought I’d put together a collection of a few of my favorite videos that Kige has posted over the past few years (His was the first YouTube channel I ever subscribed to). I have to say, I’m kind of shocked that his fame never really extended out from the sports blog world — I thought by now that Letterman or Howard Stern or someone like that would have hired Kige to send him to do awards show interviews on red carpets and such. Watch a few of the clips after the jump and I think you’ll understand why I feel that way.

In the meantime, keep on keepin’ on, Kige. Shine on you crazy diamond.

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"If you got a landscaping problem, yo I'll solve it."

I have a confession to make: My favorite show on TV right now is The Vanilla Ice Project. Man, it feels good to get that off my chest. Sure, I love the UPROXX prerequisite shows like Parks and Rec, 30 Rock and Archer, but there’s just something about seeing the guy who gave us “Ice, Ice Baby” and “Ninja Rap” injecting his fake urban speak and style into large scale home restoration projects. It’s absolutely fascinating.

So that got my brain’s hamster wheel turning a little, and I reached out to my some of my UPROXXian colleagues – Vince, DangerGuerrero and Matt – and asked the greatest question of them all: What other one hit wonder artists deserve a pop culture comeback with their own reality TV show? The quick answer? A lot. Were you alive during the 1990s? It was incredibly underrated in terms of terrible music and style. When all is said and done and this planet stops spinning, I think the 90s will be remembered as worse than the 80s.

The only thing that disappoints me about The Vanilla Ice Project, though, is that the name is so bland. We love puns, so we want something catchy, clever and familiar, like Price, Price Baby or To the Extreme Home Makeover. That’s why if DIY or HGTV chooses to use any of our ideas (free of charge, I just want a producer credit) they need to have punny titles. Sorry, but that’s the deal breaker.

Enjoy our terribly photoshopped suggestions after the jump and feel free to add your own in the comments so I can respond, “Ohhhhhh yeah, I forgot about them!”

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Last year, I emailed rapper and Miami mayoral candidate Luther Campbell to ask if I could interview him for a magazine article I was writing about the state of Florida college football. He had been tweeting like crazy about the Miami Hurricanes’ search for a new head coach, so I thought it would be fun to pick his brain. He ended up calling me at 11:45 p.m. on a weeknight (hey, I need my beauty sleep) and we spoke for over an hour about a bunch of things, including the heyday of his seminal rap group – 2 Live Crew.

Of course I ended up losing the recorder and I never even got to transcribe the interview, but I might just have to call him again now that he has officially announced that 2 Live Crew is reuniting for a summer tour. Campbell, AKA Uncle Luke, has been at the Sundance Film Festival this week promoting his short documentary, The Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke, and he confirmed that the group that gave us “As Nasty as They Wanna Be” was indeed going to take the stage once again.

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The goal for my room as a kid was for no portion of the walls to be visible. Every square inch was to be covered by the literal visual manifiestation of an athlete and their nickname. I haven’t been in any young boys rooms in the last couple of decades (swear) so I’m not sure if they have their equivalent (Fatheads, maybe?), but these posters are pretty much my prepubescent years in a microcosm.

Never mind that I wasn’t even a fan of a lot of the players I had posters for. Never mind that I didn’t get half of the references because I wasn’t allowed to see whatever movie or TV show the nickname was pirated from. Never mind that they’re pretty much all nonsensical and corny as hell. Back then I was certain their wasn’t anything cooler than having the Bash Brothers staring back at me from my wall (if you didn’t have that poster we couldn’t be friends, true story).

So it was a big bucket of unexpected nostalgia to the face when I was pointed to Colt Rane’s collection of the most popular and retroactively hilarious 80′s sports posters. I’m still a little shaken by it, and as a grown @ss man I now have so many questions I didn’t know to ask back then. Why did Karl Malone think a basketball would fit into a mailbox? Did Elway and Chuck Person ever have a Rifleman standoff? Is James Worthy taking new clients? Did 80′s dads not sense the homoerotic undertones of the Bermuda Triangle?

If you need me I’ll be spending the rest of the day imaging a LTerminator-Mad Mac Aliens Vs. Predators-like battle to the finish.

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We here at UPROXX would never speak ill of our saintly mothers, and not just because they may be reading this, of course. Some people aren’t so lucky to have mothers as benevolent and graceful and generous as ours, which may be why the Forever Resentful Mother meme is suddenly so popular.

The first version of the meme was posted at Quickmeme on Wednesday evening and caught on quickly at Reddit and Buzzfeed. Over 300 variations were created last night alone, and we’ve collected some of the best in the slideshow below. Don’t have time to look at them? Oh, that’s okay. You’re very busy. You wouldn’t have time to look at something we spent all morning making. Go ahead and leave, just like your father. We’ll be fine.

[All images courtesy of Quickmeme.]

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This year’s Oscar nominations are in, which means another year of drinking games, Twitter cattiness, even more Twitter cattiness, and photoshopping the Oscar-nominated movies’ posters to reflect what the average person thinks about the Oscar bait contained therein. All of the modified posters below are for films nominated in the screenplay, acting, best film, or other Academy Award categories (full list of nominees here). These photoshops come from The Shiznit and from frequent Frotcast guest Justin Halpern, @notzombies, and @PMSchumacker.

Our favorites start on the next page, and you can view the rest at The Shiznit and These Fries Are Good.

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We really hate to play to stereotypes, but Japan was, after all, the country that had such a problem with upskirt photos that they passed a law requiring all cell phones to make a shutter sound when a photo is taken, even on “silent mode.”

So we don’t find it very hard to believe a teenage male used an object with a camera to take upskirt photos of his female classmates, in addition to pictures of his own pimply peen. (Are you kidding, Japan? Our congressmen do that all the time! Be thankful he didn’t tweet them to you!) But apparently Japanese schoolteachers were “outraged” to discover that a student had indeed used his Nintendo DSi to take upskirt photos, along with pictures of his tallywhacker.

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Newly minted Apple CEO Tim Cook read yesterday’s report in the New York Times about how the factories in China that make your iPads, iPhones and iPods are basically salve labor camps and he is calling shenanigans on those dastardly communists at the “paper of record.” You see, this is why Apple always leaks to the Wall Street Journal!

In a strongly worded email sent to Apple employees, Cook insisted that “we care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain” and that “any suggestion that we don’t care is patently false and offensive to us.” Cook added that screwing over foreign factory workers to keep profits flowing is “not who we are” said that he’s “outraged” anyone would ever suggest such a thing. He then rang a little bell and demanded that his chalice be refilled with the blood of a Pomeranian lest someone be lashed with wet bamboo.

You can read the full email after the jump.

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Did you watch President Obama’s State of the Union address the other night? Yeah, well, Drake probably watched it harder than you.

“I hope somebody makes a movie about Obama’s life soon because I could play him…That’s the goal. I watch all the addresses. Any time I see him on TV, I don’t change the channel. I definitely pay attention and listen to the inflections of his voice. If you ask anyone who knows me, I’m pretty good at impressions…I want to do something great. I want to do something for my culture: the younger people who are still in tune with everything going on.”

Don’t fret, Drizzy. You’ve already done your culture an invaluable service by inspiring this, one of my favs from the deader than dead “Shit XYZ Says” meme…

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Still over a week away but this is how you know we’ve officially entered countdown mode. Super Bowl commercial teasers.

As much as I’ll probably dislike the end — as of now unknown — campaign when I realize Matthew Broderick is reprising Ferris Bueller to sell me car insurance and not fashionable sweater vests, I have to say the ten second teaser released yesterday (after the jump) is a viral marketing triumph. Closing in on 500K views supports this assertion. It’s just a fun blend of nostalgia, brevity, and likability. There are few things we can all agree on, and one of those things is Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is a national treasure of a film.

Also nice to see Broderick can transform into Bueller in the blink of the eye. I like the idea of him waking up some glorious mornings and blowing off whatever Broadway show he’s currently starring in to run reckless around the city, getting into assorted shenanigans while Sarah Jessica Parker attempts to track him down. Fingers crossed this campaign is for Ashley Madison or Four Loko.

CHICKACHIKA! Amirite? Seriously, I’ve seen it written phonetically like five different ways.

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