The Los Angeles Times put together a fascinating list that reveals who the most overpaid and underpaid television stars working today are. You might be surprised at the results. Basically, the newspaper took the personality’s salary and divided it by the number of viewers to arrive at a dollar figure per viewer, and left us to decide whether he or she is overpaid or underpaid.
Hey, remember that time Time put a picture of a woman breastfeeding a toddler on the cover of their magazine and people around the world got all skeeved out by it? Guess what. It’s going to be a TV show now. Produced by the creator of Dance Moms. Yeah.
Thematically, the series will stick to the Dance Moms formula of exploring eyebrow-raising childrearing practices. “I’m interested in peeling back the curtain to look at choices other people make that will have a huge impact on their children or their lives,” Collins said. “I’m fascinated by the way other people raise their children. I grew up in a very conservative small town and everyone kind of raised their kids with the exact same values so it’s interesting to me to see so many people breaking the mold of tradition.” [TV Guide]
Nononono. No. NO. Absolutely not.
Breaking Bad is the greatest TV drama of all-time (THIS IS A FACT), so UPROXX is going all-out on coverage of the show this season. Cajun Boy will be writing an episode recap (with GIFs!) every week, while I’ll be handling the Breaking Badass Power Rankings, which will, well, rank the most badass characters from every episode. Why “Badass?” Obviously, the so-not-clever-that-it’s-clever name, but also because Breaking Bad is the kind of a show that makes you want to drink an entire bottle of bourbon before watching it, to soothe your soon-to-be tense nerves. That’s pretty badass.
Episode: “Live Free or Die”
Unrated: Old Joe the Crazy Junkyard Owner, Holly, Police Officers Who Have to Put Everything Walter and Jesse Messed Up Back In Their Proper Place, Denny’s Waitress (she earned her $100), and Jim Beaver.
“HOLY SH*T WALTER WHITE!!!”
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve yelled that spontaneously over the last few weeks in the course of getting caught up on Breaking Bad via Netflix. It’s happened too many times for me to deliver an accurate count and I lost track somewhere along the way. I have a feeling I’m not the only one.
With that said, unless you’ve been living on another planet for the past few days, you know that last night marked the return of Breaking Bad and the most bad ass high school chemistry teacher in the history of high school chemistry teachers, Walter White. We’ll be discussing each episode this season on the Mondays after they air — and we plan on having a guest or two from the show join us from time to time as well. Additionally, Josh will be doing character power rankings each week.
I suppose this as good a time as any to let you know that RJ Mitte — aka Walter Jr. aka Flynn — will be joining us for a live discussion this coming Thursday afternoon at 3pm EST. Get excited, and be sure to eat a hearty breakfast that day, because you know RJ will.
So let’s get right to it, shall we? Here are a few notes I made during last night’s Breaking Bad about characters, scenes, etc. I found interesting for one reason or another.
I’ll be honest, the first time I saw one of those Underground Festival sketches on Saturday Night Live, I didn’t realize it was a parody of the Gathering of the Juggalos infomercials. I just thought it was a goof on the whole subculture of weird, non-mainstream concerts and events. Then a friend directed me to the actual Juggalo videos they were spoofing, and the SNL versions immediately became less funny. Don’t get me wrong, they’re still enjoyable, but this is one of those situations where the parodies can’t do any justice to the originals. They must be seen to be believed.
Point being: The infomercial for the 2012 Gathering of the Juggalos was released on Friday, because OF COURSE it would be released on Friday the 13th, and it is 23 minutes of joyously random insanity.
Joel McHale, the lovable smarm-bag on Community, is set to take on yet another douchebag role, this time in Kurt Sutter’s fifth season of Sons of Anarchy. Katey Sagal broke the news (along with the image), and TVLine scooped up the scant details:
According to Variety, How I Met Your Mother is trying to pull an Office, extending itself way beyond its expiration date. Early negotiations have begun with showrunners Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, who will have to be extended before CBS can move on to the principal cast, none of whom are signed on through next year’s eighth season.
True story: they gave away hats during the Fringe panel at Comic-Con, but only a limited amount. For those who weren’t lucky enough to grab the swag, they were reduced to begging for one from people who did — or make a cardboard sign that read “Need Fringe hat, will pay $20″ and wear it around their neck. I hope he got his wish.
‘He Makes Damn Good Meth’: The Best Moments From Breaking Bad‘s Panel At Comic-Con — (Uproxx)
Lori Grimes Knows You Hate Her: Observations From The Walking Dead Comic-Con Panel — (Uproxx)
Theon Seems Cool: Our Takeaways From The 2012 Game Of Thrones Comic-Con Panel — (Uproxx)
Chupacabra Of D*cks: A Comprehensive Guide To The Archer Panel At Comic-Con — (Uproxx)
The 25 Best Costumes We’ve Seen So Far At Comic-Con — (Uproxx)
Funny People Doing Funny Things: Photos From Adult Swim’s Comic-Con Panels — (Uproxx)
Sylvester Stallone’s son found dead — (Film Drunk)
WWE Money In The Bank PPV – Open Discussion Thread — (With Leather)
Miyamoto Misses — The 5 Worst Games From The World’s Greatest Game Designer — (Gamma Squad)
5 Predictions For “Breaking Bad” Season 5 — (Smoking Section)
In Pictures: Joss Whedon Hangs Out with the Unwashed Geek Masses — (Pajiba)
Considering you haven’t torn your eyeballs away from Gillian Jacobs’s adorable dress that she wore to the Community panel at San Diego Comic-Con yesterday, you haven’t yet seen the season-three gag reel. I know it’s difficult, but it can be done. Does the thought of Alison Brie rapping do anything for you? Or maybe Joel McHale taking his shirt off and accidentally hitting an (lucky?) extra in the face? Of course, there’s also Chevy Chase and Donald Glover saying “tits on my ankle” and “look at those tittays,” which is obviously the main draw of the clip.
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