Earlier this month, a 1991 painting of The Golden Girls star Bea Arthur, by artist John Currin, sold for $1.9 million at an auction. Why so much money, when she’s not even depicted wearing her Mos Eisley Cantina wardrobe from The Star Wars Holiday Special? Because Arthur’s wearing nothing at all, nothing at all, nothing at all. At first, the identity of the Mona Maude bidder was unknown, but yesterday, word broke that a certain late night host dropped nearly $2 million for something I see every night in my dreams for free. But which one was it?

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The gimmick of Will Smith rapping The Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme should have long since worn off. Not only because he’s done it so many times, but because he’s now the kind of guy who turns down playing a “supporting” character in Django Unchained for a leading role in an M. Night Shyamalan movie. And yet every time he does it, it’s a delight, even when his wiener son Jaden, and his Eraserhead hairdo, is around.

Last night on The Graham Norton Show, Smith was joined by DJ Jazzy Jeff and Alfonso “Carlton” Ribiero to perform “The Fresh Prince” and the infamous “Carlton Dance,” set to the sweet sounds of the Sugarhill Gang’s “Apache (Jump On It).” Please take note of Heather Graham in the background, still dancing like she’s on roller skates.

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Bummed about the lack of Game of Thrones tomorrow, especially because the next episode is episode nine and episode nine is when good (read: bad) things happen, like “Baelor” and “Blackwater”? Yeah, me too, but Jimmy Fallon’s Game of Desks is the next big thing. Actually, having a dragon butler is the next best thing on the Next Best Things Power Rankings, but Game of Desks is up there, somewhere between winning a lifetime supply of red velvet cake and “Slack Motherf*cker” replacing “The Star-Spangled Banner” as our National Anthem.

But I digress. Game of Desks is a spot-on parody of HBO’s Game of Thrones, with Rockefell as Winterfell, an Iron Throne made out of old cell phones, and Fallon playing many of the show’s characters, including Ned Stark and Khaleesi, while the Roots help out as members of the Night’s Watch (they’re wearing the black? DAS RAYCESS.)

Jay of Leno also makes an appearance, though not as Walder Frey, his GoT spirit animal.

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Well this is interesting: fresh off of buying Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion, Yahoo! is making a bid for Hulu.

Reports Reuters:

Yahoo Inc has submitted a formal proposal to buy Hulu, joining a growing list of bidders for the video service owned by News Corp and Walt Disney Co, two sources with knowledge of the bid told Reuters on Friday.

As someone who once worked at Yahoo!, I think the reaction of Chris Lehmann, my former boss at Yahoo!, sums up my feelings about this perfectly…

Arrested Development (Netflix, Sunday 12:01 a.m.) — It’s here! Some show that no one watched when it originally aired on Fox from 2003-2006 is being resurrected. Smells like desperation to me. Ain’t nobody gonna watch some show with a bunch of obscure jokes and gags that you don’t even catch the first time around. Whose silly idea was this? You should all ignore it (and save the Netflix bandwidth for me, because if it melts down on Sunday, I’m going to be supremely upset). Here are some new clips from the upcoming season.

Behind the Candelabra (HB0, Sunday 9 p.m.) — In lieu of Game of Thrones and Veep this week, HBO is running a biopic on Liberace, which the Pajiba Cannes reviewer called “joyously gay.” I saw a screener last night, and couldn’t agree more. I didn’t know much about Liberace, but that guy was one creepy old queen. At one point, he had so much plastic surgery, he couldn’t close his eyes, which meant he slept with them open, to the dismay of his lover, played by Matt Damon, who was manipulated into getting plastic surgery to look more like Liberace. Like I said, creepyway too much done to his face. He is HILARIOUS.

Mad Men (AMC, Sunday 10 p.m.) — Matthew Weiner is not going to give us a holiday break, however, so we’ll still get to spend Monday overthinking the most recent episode. Has Don Draper turned a corner? I think he may have.

Orphan Black (BBC America, Saturday 9 p.m.) — There’s also a new Orphan Black to look forward to while you wait for Arrested Development to start. In fact, if you start around 2 p.m. Saturday, you can catch up on ALL of Orphan Black, and just stay up through the night and well into the next day binge-watching TV. That’s a quality Memorial Day weekend, y’all.

The Borgias (Showtime, Sunday 10 p.m.) — Well, what do you know? This is a new episode, too. Haven’t watched it since midway through the second season. It was an all right show, but period pieces running on the same night as Game of Thrones? I don’t think so.

Smash (NBC, Sunday 9 p.m.) — How appropriate that the incredibly low-rated drama would get shifted to Saturdays, and blow off its two-hour season finale on Memorial Day weekend. I’m only curious with how low its ratings will be.

Programming note: Josh is going to binge on the new season of Arrested Development as soon as it goes live and will write up a recap/discussion post that will go up at some time on Sunday. On Monday, Cajun Boy will post his recap/discussion post on the previous night’s episode of Mad Men around noon or 1pm EST. Otherwise, we’re going to try to take it a little easy this weekend, just as I’m sure a lot of you are planning to do. Have a good one.

As a final easter egg for easter eggs, if you will, Netflix has just launched an interactive container poster with five hidden items that can each be unlocked, revealing new Season Four clip.

Not to brag but I’m five for five and will be your partner at Magic Photo Hunt for the affordable price of a single drink. Anyhoo, the motherboy smoking scene has been on the Netflix YouTube page for a couple of weeks, but four new previews were just launched minutes ago and I’ve included them after the jump. You know, if you’re not into doing things the hard way and finding pride in your accomplishments.

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Two of my favorite things in the world are dudes with big huge mountain man beards and hilarious fake mustache shenanigans, so this story is so squarely inside my wheelhouse that I might have to start charging it rent. GQ interviewed Jay Ferguson (who plays Stan Rizzo on Mad Men) and asked him a ton of questions about his character’s tremendous beard. Here are the main takeaways: 1) He shaved it off after the season ended (BOOOOOOOOOOO), and 2) GINSBERG’S MUSTACHE IS FAKE.

GQ: Ben Feldman (who plays Michael Ginsberg) told me that your beard was the hardest thing for him to get used to this season.

Jay Ferguson: Well, if we’re being honest: for Ben specifically, the hardest thing for him to get used to was not being allowed to smile. A couple times in the beginning of the season, when he laughed, his mustache would fall off. So he developed an involuntary reaction he would have to himself smiling, which was to instantly throw his thumb and forefinger up to either side of his fake mustache to hold it on. It was a fun running gag all season long, how we were all trying to make him crack up and laugh, because he’d have to do this stupid thing where he held his mustache on and didn’t laugh. And then one night we were out somewhere at some party together [laughs] and I said something that made him laugh, and I caught him doing it. I said, “Did you just try to hold your mustache on? You don’t even have it on, pal! It’s the weekend!”

If there’s not a gag reel on the DVDs for this season that’s full of Ginsberg’s mustache half falling off during important scenes like he’s an Italian waiter in an SNL sketch, I will be furious.

Here is all you need to know about this clip:

• There is a giant penis-shaped building in China.
• Jimmy Kimmel finds this hilarious.
• So do I.
• Kimmel sent a crew out onto the street to ask a bunch of kids about it.
• The second kid, pictured above, is MY DUDE.

Hi, I’m 11 years old.

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If you’re reading this website, and you obviously are, there’s a good chance you’ve seen HBO’s Boardwalk Empire at some point, and you’ve probably found yourself wondering, “Is this for real?” Well, in an effort to get to the bottom of this, our video team tracked down a “real life” bootlegger named Jebediah Shane. Here, he gives us the “real” scoop on the bootlegging life.

You’re welcome!

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