If you missed South Park last night, go home and DVR that shit right now.  What, you’re telling me your stupid job can’t wait?  What’s that, you lost your job and can’t afford DVR?  Whatever, Professor Poopypants, this attitude of yours is bringing everyone down.

Anyway, they somehow used the election to do a send up of the Ocean’s Eleven movies, and one of the most impressive things was that they used material from the election night speeches.  Granted, we’ve known Obama was probably going to win for a while now, but they included stuff like Obama taking a puppy to the White House that wasn’t in the news until a day and a half ago.  They probably did the animation with the candidates’ lips moving a while ago, and then all they had to do was change the voice overs last night, but… Okay so maybe it wasn’t that crazy, but whatever, science, you’re not gonna ruin this for me again.  Feel how soft this puppy’s fur is! It’s a miracle!

UPDATE: You can watch the whole episode online now.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (trailer here), starring Brad Pitt and directed by David Fincher, based on a 1922 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man born old who ages in reverse, opens Christmas Day, and looks pretty badass.  Therefore I don’t want to read the full NY Times feature on it, lest it give anything away.  Meanwhile, the LA Times had this picture and an explanation from Fincher:

“You’re looking at Brad’s CG face on another person’s body. To my way of thinking, it all has to be a knock out,” Fincher said of the shifts from age to age and from computer effects to practical make up. “You have to make it all work. The whole thing that we called the hand offs — you’ve got to make it all seem like the same guy, and one of the things that was key was Brad is in every frame. The CG stuff is motion-capture, and it has to be his performance.”

If I was friends with this makeup artist guy, I’d hire him to make my wife up like an 80-year-old man or a miniature Brad Pitt before we f-cked.  Hey, it never hurts to spice shit up.

Someone just sent me this video.  The pitch:

Down in the polls and with his ads increasingly ineffective, McCain hired a series of guest Hollywood directors to make attack ads for him. (Namely John Woo, Kevin Smith and Wes Anderson).

Yes, perhaps an unnecessarily timely concept and the John Woo part goes on way too long, but give them credit, that is a solid Wes Anderson parody.  I heard they wanted to do a Brett Ratner parody but Chris Tucker was busy that day.  Ditto George Lucas, because they didn’t have time to make a family of CGI ferrets.

Someone sent me video of Obama’s speech at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner, and I thought hey, why not. I don’t think it’s too political to say whichever comedian wrote his speech did a pretty good job.

Lately on the campaign trail they’ve been asking a lot, “Who is Barack Obama?  …Contrary to the rumors that you’ve heard, I was not born in a manger.  I was actually born on Krypton, and sent here by my father Jor-El to save the planet Earth.  …Many of you know that I got my name from my father.  What many of you may not know is that “Barack” is actually Swahili for “That one.”  And my middle name… I got from somebody who obviously didn’t think I’d run for president.  …If I had to name my greatest strength, I guess it would be my humility.  Greatest weakness, I guess it’s possible that I’m a little too awesome.

See?  A Superman reference, that makes this movie-related.  …Shut up.  Anyway, I’ve got McCain’s speech too, I just didn’t feel like typing it out. (Though he did say something really creepy about a “thrill up Chris Matthews’ leg” around the 6:30 mark).
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Yep, this is pretty much exactly like it sounds – someone pasted John McCain’s head over Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski. Seems like they could’ve at least made his mouth move up and down. Even though according to South Park rules that would’ve made him Canadian. F-ck, is this election over yet?

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