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Earlier this evening the good folks at MTV sent along word that their new show DJ & The Fro will be premiering on June 15th (just less than two weeks from tonight). It’s a new animated show that in the words of its creators…

Deep in the soul-crushing cubicle maze of Oppercon Industries sit DJ & The Fro, two 20-something slackers who spend their days blowing off work while they find and mock the sickest and most hilarious videos ever to grace the Internet.

What Beavis & Butthead were to the music video generation, DJ & The Fro are to the YouTube generation. They find the best web videos and make jokes about them so you don’t have to.

When they’re not watching videos, DJ & Fro kill time by doing things like blackmailing pedophiles into doing their work for them, drinking the breast milk of a co-worker, stalking alpacas

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Tonight at 7 p.m. will herald the wide release of J.J. Abrams’ wildly-anticipated Star Trek movie. But while we’re ticking down the hours, how ’bout revisiting the show that started it all: YouTube is hosting most of the episodes of the original Star Trek series.

Among the classic episodes: “Amok Time” (Spock must return to Vulcan to satisfy his sexual urges or die trying), “Mirror, Mirror” (a transporter mishap sends Kirk and company to a twisted parallel world), “A Piece of the Action” (welcome to Sigma Iotia II: a planet inspired by Chicago gangsters!), “Space Seed” (Kirk’s first encounter with a certain 20th century warlord named Khan Noonien Singh), the always-hilarious “The Naked Time” (one of my personal favorites), “The Trouble with Tribbles” (MUST-viewing even if you’re not a Star Trek fan) and “The City on the Edge of Forever”, considered by many to be the ...

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Three decades ago there was another swine flu scare. In retrospect, the government then over-reacted and a lot of folks who received the flu shot got sick from that. Some even died.

But I must admit: even knowing that, these public service announcements from 1976 about swine flu are darkly hilarious…

Thanks to Lee Shelton for finding these!...

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Today is the Super Bowl, which means that big entertainment studios (among many other companies) will be dropping unconscionable amounts of coin on measly 30-second spots to shill for movies, some of which won’t even be coming out ’til August. And thanks to the glorious wonder of the Internet, we can take a gander at them several hours before they air.

This first spot is for Disney and Pixar’s Up. I know some folks who have seen advance footage of this one, and they cannot stop raving about how good it’s already looking. Go to Disney’s website to see the commercial in much higher resolution. This will definitely be on my “must see” list this summer…

The next one is for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, due out in May. Another one that I’m eagerly anticipating, for one reason because this looks totally unlike anything that has been ...

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