Friday Free for All is the time of the week I reserve for all the things I really wanted to post that might not be strictly movie-related. So please, do not ask me “Dude, how is this movie related?” Or I will punch you. Send your tips to lance@filmdrunk.com, but only if they don’t suck.

Today’s Friday Free for All clip is an iguana that farts in the bath tub.  I mean really, that’s about all you need to know.  If you’re not interested in seeing that, I don’t know what to tell you, man.  I consider this an important scientific discovery.  For one thing, I suppose I could’ve assumed it, but I never knew that iguanas farted.  Not only that, but the iguana actually lifts one leg as he lets one go, just like I’ve always done.  Incredible!  It’s proof of evolution.  Lifting one leg to cut a fart is literally ingrained in our reptilian brain.  Before we even became amoebas, we were probably all just amino acids bathing in a pre-cambrian primordial stew, lifting one leg to fart on each other.  God himself probably lifted one universe-sized leg and farted the very building blocks of life into a hadean sea.

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Since last week’s discovery of F.A.R.T. the Movie (“about a man named Russell who is obsessed with farting. His girlfriend Heather despises farts and becomes angry with Russell because all he does is watch television and fart.), I’ve scarcely been able to sleep.  How could so magnificent a film escape my notice for so long?  Inspired by that fine piece of cinema, our video editor Oliver has put together a compilation of 20 classic movie farts in two minutes.  NEVER FORGET.  The tragedy that F.A.R.T. the Movie was lost for so long shall not be repeated.

Additional Trivia: If you’re keeping score at home, this compilation actually features fart scenes from three separate Best Picture Oscar winners (Rain Man, Dances with Wolves, and Amadeus).  To my knowledge, they are the only Best Picture Oscar winners ever to prominently feature farting, unless of course you count Crash, which was actually an unauthorized sequel to F.A.R.T. the Movie.  True story.

Oliver would also like to point out that he drew upon this list of cinema’s greatest fart scenes for inspiration.

Disliking Ed Helms is almost as hard as disliking Ryan Gosling or Paul Rudd.  Which is to say, nearly impossible.  But if I put his nice-guy attitude and adorable a cappella singing aside, I have to admit that the latest project to which he’s signed on sounds a lot like a Larry the Cable Guy or Martin Lawrence vehicle.  Ruh roh!  (*paws over eyes*)

Universal Pictures has acquired the spec script “Central Intelligence” as a star vehicle for Ed Helms.  Ike Barinholtz [a MadTV and Seltzer-Friedberg actor] and Dave Stassen’s script revolves around an accountant who’s thrown into the world of international espionage after reconnecting with an old friend through Facebook. [Variety]

My, can you imagine the hijinks that would ensue if a fast-talking black man dull-witted redneck GOOFY, MILD-MANNERED ACCOUNTANT were suddenly thrown into the HIGH STAKES world of COUNTER INTELLIGENCE?  This summer, ED HELMS is one fish, waaay out of water!  (*air guitar*)  (*fart sound*)