Since at least a half dozen of you seemed to moderately enjoy last week’s installment, we’re back with another edition of the internet’s funniest, lulziest takes on the most recent episode of Game of Thrones.
“Second Sons” was pretty hilarious on its own (“And so my watch begins”), so you’re probably wondering if the world wide web has been up to the challenge. Well, based on the next entry’s take on this classic alone I think the answer is yes. Above via.
The Mona Lisa. The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Other things created by famous artists who would later share their names with Ninja Turtles. Paintings by legends like Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet, Cezanne, Renoir, and O’Keefe. Sculptures by Rodin.
Garbage. All of them.
You see, earlier this afternoon the official Twitter account for TNT’s Franklin & Bash tweeted out this fan-made LEGO version of Jared Franklin (Breckin Meyer) and Peter Bash (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) chilling at the beach, based on the footage in the first commercial for the show’s third season, and after looking at it for the last 10-15 minutes, I feel extremely confident when I say that the art world is about to be turned upside-down. Grab the prints off your walls and throw them in a dumpster. Burn down the museums and all the obsolete, glorified finger-painting they contain. Dig up the heroes of the past and spit on them.
A new Renaissance is starting. Nothing will ever be the same.
David Call is an actor probably best known for his portrayal of Nick Lane on the Fox sci-fi series Fringe. Additionally, David played Ben Donovan on Gossip Girl and Connor Gavin on FX’s Rescue Me. He can currently be seen on big screens across the land starring in Dead Man’s Burden, a Western about a struggling couple living in New Mexico in 1870.
David was nice enough to take a few minutes out of his busy schedule recently to answer a few of our questions.
It was nearly a year ago today that we all had a very uncomfortable pre-Memorial Day BBQ when news broke of the “Causeway Cannibal” in Miami, Florida. On May 26th, Rudy Eugene, likely wonked out on bath salts, assaulted Ronald Poppo, who was homeless at the time, and bit off his large chunks of his face. Poppo amazingly survived, and after a month spent in a trauma center, he was transferred to a long-term care facility Jackson Memorial Perdue Medical Center. Earlier today, he released a video from the Jackson Memorial, updating everyone on his condition.
ABC has announced the host, celebrity contestants, and judges for its new summer competition series Sing Your Face Off. Please peruse the names on the list, then meet me after the blockquote for a brief discussion.
Actor John Barrowman (Torchwood, Arrow) will host the show, where five celebrity contestants take on the identity of an iconic music performer each week.
The judges are former Saturday Night Live cast member Darrell Hammond and pop singer Debbie Gibson.
And the show’s contestants learning to perform the hits of famous music stars are ex-Skid Row frontman and heavy metal singer Sebastian Bach, comedian Jon Lovitz, Toronto Raptors player Landry Fields, teenage Disney Channel actress-singer China Anne McClain and former soap star Lisa Rinna. [EW]
Okay, ABC. I have to ask. What the hell are you doing?
We’re days away from Arrested Development premiering on Netflix and here at UPROXX we still have SO MANY QUESTIONS. Thanks to our obsession with all things Bluth, a Netflix executive was nice enough to answer ten of our team-compiled most burning Netflix-related questions in the midst of the final countdown.
Answers are informative and to the point. Consider this your Arrested Development on Netflix best practices FAQ. May we all binge as effectively as possible.
There’s not much that can be said about the situation in Oklahoma that hasn’t already been said. It’s awful, and terrifying, and, in all likelihood, it’s only going to get worse in the next few days as we find out more about the extent of the destruction. So when a little sunshine breaks through that mess of black, nasty-looking clouds, it’s probably best if we all take a second to be thankful for it.
And that’s what this video is: a tiny ray of sunshine. During a live interview with CBS News, Oklahoma tornado survivor Barbara Garcia found her missing dog, who she had been holding in the bathroom of her house when the storm started, when the dog started crawling out from under the wreckage.
The short YouTube clip and full CBS video are after the jump. If you can get through both of them without tearing up, you’re probably a robot.
Oh man this is hard to watch.
By now you know that the tornado that ripped through Oklahoma yesterday afternoon was devastating — “the most destructive tornado in the history of the world” — and one of the scariest things you could ever see. I can’t even imagine what seeing it up close and personal must be like, but this clip from KFOR in Oklahoma provides some insight into just how utterly heartbreaking it must be.
In the clip, veteran reporter Lance West is on the phone with two studio anchors describing what he’s seeing as he tours the area post-tornado. Then, he happens upon the bodies of third grade children being pulled from the rubble of a school building and just loses it. You may want to have some tissues handy before you watch/listen to this.
Arrested Development debuts on Netflix this weekend, seven years after it was first cancelled. You already know this, or you wouldn’t be here. On the Internet. My guess is that more people know that Arrested Development is debuting this weekend that people who know where Arkansas is on a map.
Accordingly, there are an incredible amount of features and news pieces being written about Arrested Development. I sincerely hope that this is one of the ones that you read, because I had a great time pulling it together, mostly by scouring the individual episode pages on Wikipedia, spending more hours on Reddit than should be allowed, and watching several key episodes. I will say this, though: I don’t know if it is my connection, or if there are simply a lot of people watching Arrested Development episodes this week, but I spent a good hour or two of my research time in buffer mode. I hope this is worked out before this weekend’s release.
Anyway, the more hardcore Arrested Development fans have probably seen some of these, but as someone who hasn’t watched the series in a few years, the gags were not only fun to research and locate, but seeing them again gave me an all new appreciation for the series ahead of its season four release. The details that Mitch Hurwitz brings to Arrested Development are simply astounding.
