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Flotsam & Jetsam
7:47AM Jess McGuire | Okay, I realise this is an advertisement, but the following informercial featuring Mr T has managed to thrill and delight me two nights running for a number of reasons, including the fact it reminds me of of the Tracy Jordan Meat Machine storyline on 30 Rock. Naturally I had to share it with you on the off chance you’re not a night owl like me.
HIGHLIGHTS:
· The crazed audience of actors who manage to outdo both the standard Ellen crowd and the audience during an Oprah’s Favorite Things special when it comes to enthusiasm.
· Mr T’s entrance. Bashing the door down!
· “Darla, are my eyes deceiving me, or am I looking at the frozen food section of the supermarket?”
· “These are all frozen solid! I pity the fool who tries to get this down!”
· “Mmmm… this is delicious. My taste buds is goin’ wild!”
· “I love it when a plan comes together, Darla”
Oh god. All of Mr T’s “jibber jabber” during this infomercial is wonderful. Also, when ones brain is slightly fried after attending a festival over a long weekend, watching the food cook in seconds is strangely soothing and hypnotic. More »
YouTube Clip Of The Day
7:47AM Jess McGuire | Okay, I realise this is an advertisement, but the following informercial featuring Mr T has managed to thrill and delight me two nights running for a number of reasons, including the fact it reminds me of of the Tracy Jordan Meat Machine storyline on 30 Rock. Naturally I had to share it with you on the off chance you’re not a night owl like me.
HIGHLIGHTS:
· The crazed audience of actors who manage to outdo both the standard Ellen crowd and the audience during an Oprah’s Favorite Things special when it comes to enthusiasm.
· Mr T’s entrance. Bashing the door down!
· “Darla, are my eyes deceiving me, or am I looking at the frozen food section of the supermarket?”
· “These are all frozen solid! I pity the fool who tries to get this down!”
· “Mmmm… this is delicious. My taste buds is goin’ wild!”
· “I love it when a plan comes together, Darla”
Oh god. All of Mr T’s “jibber jabber” during this infomercial is wonderful. Also, when ones brain is slightly fried after attending a festival over a long weekend, watching the food cook in seconds is strangely soothing and hypnotic. More » 
Mr. T Pities The Fools Who Think He Isn’t Gay-Friendly
8:05AM Defamer Hollywood | On the defensive after appearing in a Snickers commercial yanked for homophobia due to its swishy speedwalker, 80’s icon Mr. T appeared on The O’Reilly Factor and made it up to gays everywhere the only way he knows how: with glorious, glorious camp. The arm-wrestling brawler immediately produced a long-winded, written defence which he then read from on air; highlights include the passages, “I have been pitying fools for 28 years, Biiiiiill,” “Speedwalking is an Olympic sport,” and desperate pleas for someone, anyone, to talk to “SPEEDWALKA!” for his reaction. T particularly triggered our sympathy (not pity, we leave that to the experts) when he whined, “On The A-Team, I called the bad guys a disgrace because they was harassin’ helpless people. No problems. No complaints.” Too true, T. Compared to GLAAD, those bad guy lobbyists really need to get it together. [Amy Proctor Blog] More »
John Singleton Brings Impossible Dream of ‘A-Team’ Adaptation to Screen
4:40AM Defamer Hollywood | We’ve long believed that of all of Mr. T’s deeply subversive acting work of the ’80s, nothing demands a more serious reappraisal through the prism of contemporary social issues than The A-Team. Especially an A-Team directed by John Singleton, whom Fox has nabbed for its feature-length adaptation to open in summer 2009. Alas, with the updating reportedly focusing on a group of Iraq War veterans railroaded for a crime they didn’t commit, Singleton requires a kinder, gentler, less gold-plated ‘Nam vet anti-hero B.A. Baracus to carpool his batch of mercenaries in that famous black van. More »
