This is just too funny not to share with everyone. My brother showed it to me a a few months ago but the episode just aired this past weekend here in the U.S. and it just reminded me of how it feels to laugh so hard you hurt.

Yay, at least we get to win something

Although Scrat and his preshistoric buddies from Fox/Blue Sky’s Ice Age: The Meltdown may have been snubbed by many of the year-end critics and awards groups, they are laughing all the way to the bank. According to a report released last week by Kagan Research, the movie was the most profitable, widely released feature of 2006. Produced with an estimated price tag of $256.4 million, Ice Age: The Meltdown brought in $1.1 billion during its all-release windows, placing it high on the list of Kagan’s profitability index.

read the entire story on Animation Magazine  

Thanks to the good folks at The Futon Critic I have been made aware of a bunch of shows that were cancelled or ended and aren't returning for 2006-07. Good riddance to many, but some of them I found interesting or surprising, or I just felt like pointing them out to you.· AIRLINE (A_AND_E)I loved this show when it came out. Real life behind the scenes at Southwest Airlines. It was kind of cool to see the insanity that these people deal with. More accurately, the insane passengers they deal with. But eventually, it got boring because the issues were all the same. Usually drunk passengers.· ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT (FOX)Now that I am addicted to the show and love it. It's gone.· BERNIE MAC SHOW, THE (FOX)I never watched it. I don't like him. But thought it was doing okay.· BONDS ON BONDS (ESPN)ha! yeah...· CHAPPELLE'S SHOW (COMEDY_CENTRAL)I don't blame him. I remember when he was just getting discovered back in 1995 in the Aspen Comedy Festival with Anthony Clark and Dave Attel. Funny. Take some time off dude.· CHARMED (WB)No more Shannon? Did anybody watch this crap?· COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF (ABC)Woman president? Cool. Gina Davis? Please...· CURRENT AFFAIR, A (SYNDICATION)10 years too late. · EVERWOOD (WB)Dawsons Creek 2· FEAR FACTOR (NBC)A reality show biting the dust! Joe Rogan will always be Joe Girelli to me. Long live News Radio!· FOUR KINGS (NBC)I actually tried to watch this and convince myself it would be good. That was so hard.· JOEY (NBC)I admit it. Being a Friends fan I enjoyed Joey. It wasn't Friends but it helped fill the void. Favorite moment on this show is when Joey went out in front of his apartment where Alex had arranged a fake snowfall with a machine that used spuds. He sat down by himself to ponder his love for Alex and then pulled a fork out of his pocket and started eating the potato snow. This was a nice hommage to the episode of Friends when Joey comes home to see Chandler and Rachel eating a pie off the floor in the hallway and Joey sits down and pulls a fork out of his pocket and says, "Alright... what are we having?"· MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE (FOX)Man I hated this show.· TEACHERS (NBC)I think this show had potential but just didn't catch at the right moment. I watched it and liked a lot of the characters.· THAT '70S SHOW (FOX)I never got this show. It was very predictable and not that funny to me. I'm probably not the demographic for it but still... At least it was better than That 80's Show· TONY DANZA SHOW, THE (SYNDICATION)Again... ha ha ha!· TOO LATE WITH ADAM CAROLLA (COMEDY_CENTRAL)Another guy I cannot stand. Who the hell gave this guy the idea that a) he was funny b) he has the authority to give his opinion about anything c) anyone cares what he has to say?· WEST WING, THE (NBC)Like Arrested Development, I didn't get into this until later. John Spencers death was very unfortunate. But the show had a great run. Endured a poor writing spell, came back and finished on top. I'm psyched for Aaron Sorkin's new venture Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. · WILL & GRACE (NBC)This show was funny like 8 years ago. Talk about overstaying ones welcome. They should have cancelled this show a long time ago. It was great once. · YES, DEAR (CBS)I didn't watch this show much but it was mildly funny. I'm a big fan of Anthony Clark, though this role was pretty lame for him. He was much better on Boston Common and even better as a stand-up comedian. He'll find something else though. Everyone loves a sweet looking hick from Gladys, VA. "If you only got one year to live, go to Gladys, VA cause every day there feels like a fucking eternity" I think I watch too much TV.  Anyway, check out The Futon Critic for:Upcoming Premier ScheduleAll shows not returning in 2006-07The new shows this fall

I realize I've been pretty absent here recently. I will return shortly. Until then... Todd, this one's for you:

Lorraine at the Buffet

no doubt boo... no doubt (on Vimeo)

Originally uploaded by KP.

A few years ago, Fox Sports aired 4 promotional spots for the Lakers featuring Allan & Jerome ("that's us!"). They were hilarious and also technically cool as they superimposed these white boy posers in with actual game clips.

I found them again and have posted them to various sites to get them back in circulation.

Check them out at http://www.vimeo.com/user=orangehat

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I saw this video last night on SNL, which I haven't watched in a while. I have heard that it's another transition year... But this video had be laughing so hard I was almost crying. Top notch stuff by the boys of the lonely island

Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg rap about going to see The Chronic What?-cles of Narnia.View the flash video online

 
Update 2: iTunes now has the video available for free download

Update 3: I found a download version in MP4 and posted it on rapidshare. download snl_lazy_sunday.mp4

Update 4: The New York Times has a feature article about Lazy Sunday

Update 5: Teetastic.com has Lazy Sunday shirts that are crazy delicious. Pick up a bakers dozen today.

Thanks to Jake at Gothamist for doing most of the transcription, I cleaned it up a little and got this to throw atcha... Feel free to correct anything you see that is wrong.

Lazy Sunday wake up in the late afternoon
Call Parnell just to see how he's doing
Hello what up Parns! Yo Samberg, whats crackin'?
You thinking what I'm thinking? Narnia! Then it's happenin'!
But first my hunger pangs are stickin' like duck tape
Let's hit up Magnolia and mack on some cupcakes
No doubt that bakery's got all the bomb frostings
I love those cupcakes like Macadams loves Gosling
2 no 6 no 12, bakers dozen!
I told you that I'm crazy for these cupcakes, cousin!
Yo wheres the movie playing? Upper West Side dude!
Let's hit up Yahoo maps to find the dopest route.
I prefer Mapquest! That's a good one too.
Google Maps is the best! True that! Double true!
68th and Broadway step on it sucker!
What you want to do Chris? snack attack, mother ****er!

The chronic-what? -cles of Narnia!
Yes the chronic-what? -cles of Narnia!
We love that chronic-what? -cles of Narnia!
Pass that chronic-what? -cles of Narnia!

Yo stop at the deli, the theater's overpriced!
You got that backpack? Gonna pack it up nice.
Don't want security to get suspicious!
Mr. Pibb and Red Vines equals crazy delicious.
I reach in my pocket and pull out some dough
Girl acted like she never seen a 10 before!
It's all about the Hamiltons baby
Throw the snacks in a bag and I'm ghost like Swayze.
Roll up to the theater ticket buying what we're handling,
Call us Aaron Burr from the way we're dropping Hamiltons.
We're parked in our seats movie trivia's the illest!
What Friends alum starred in films with Bruce Willis?
We answered so fast it was scary
Everyone stared in awe when we screamed Matthew Perry!
Now quiet in the theatre or it's gonna get tragic
We're about to get taken to a dream world of magic!

What the chronic-what? -cles of Narnia!
Yes the chronic-what? -cles of Narnia!
We love that chronic-what? -cles of Narnia!
Pass that chronic-what? -cles of Narnia!

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Blue Sky Studios is auctioning original concept art from their movies "Ice Age" and "Robots" for the victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

We have been working for weeks on acquiring rights to auction off artwork in order tohelp raise money for the hurricane victims this year. It may seem late in the game, but the impact from the hurricanes will unfortunately last for many years, so will it still help? Hell yes.

The auction will launch on Friday Dec 9th and run for 10 days on Ebay. Please pass this along to your friends and anyone else who you think might be remotely interested. Our auction campaign is entirely grassroots and we have no official promotional channels to use.

You can digg this, you can email the word along, and if you have a website or blog, there are banners and stickers you can steal to use on your site. The auction is open to everyone on the planet earth.

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162 days and counting until the release of Ice Age 2. This schedule is and has been insane. March 31 will be a very happy day for all of us and for Ice Age fans.

USAToday writes 'Ice Age 2': The great meltdown escape

Robots was released on DVD yesterday. We haven't received our copy of it yet, but it'll be nice to have it and share it with everyone else.

I particularly like the synopsis (nevermind the production credits from "The Kid").
Hollywood the latest dint in utility room in blue sky made, ...

Someone here also provided some insight about how even the Chinese is bad.whoever translated that paragraph is not only bad in English, but also incrediblely terrible in Chinese.

the last line in Chinese was saying "and there is also romance with upper-class female robot". but because the word "robot" in Chinese has 3 characters meaning "machine human", and it happened to break the line between "machine" and "human", so it got translated into two unrelated sentences "still have upper-class woman's machine" and "The Person's love..."

thanks Doug.