They didn't even bother to bring in all of Coldplay for voices like they do with most bands, just Chris Martin. Geez, even the half-assed cameos are becoming more half-assed.

Debating the twist…
On one hand, I hate it because it's completely ludicrous & almost laugh-out-loud dumb.

Too lazy to look it up right now, so…
…What were the other 11 indie albums to debut at #1? The Billboard article mentions Pearl jam's Backspacer, but I'm drawing a blank on the rest at the moment.

F*** you, Brown & Coakley
…Because of your damn election coverage (which involved too many f***ing smear ads from Coakley that actually ran back-to-back(-to-back) at times), I missed an A-worthy episode of Better Off Ted. And I don't even like in Massachusetts, dammit. Hell, I don't even live in the US, I'm in…

Whoops, you're right McGone, I meant actor/actress. Still, voice be damned, I want Lily in that outfit. Thanks as well, YG.

They so needed…
…To put smoke-ravaged Lily in a sexy butterfly costume. That's win right there. (Actually, was that the same voice actress? Or was it Harvey Firestein?)

No mention of…
Vanilla Thunder? Dude, that is so what I am naming my future son. So he can be branded from day one as pure awesome.

I'll just say what everyone's thinking:
I totally f***ing want a copy of the Slap Bet board game advertised at the end.

It could be possible that when Armand first came back from 'Nam & adopted Skinner's persona, he didn't start out entirely cool, but he did go through/make up a gradual personality change over the years. He could've attributed any personality changes to an event like 'Nam as well, for that matter. Also, I don't think…

No, remember that he wasn't always Seymour Skinner…He used to be Armand Tamzarian (or however the f*** you spell it). Maybe he wanted to use his powers for good a little bit after coming back from 'Nam.

Well, the Canadian version of iTunes screwed me over again, but I was able to break into the US version to see what they were. I just hope none of them turn out to be exclusives or anything, or unavailable on our version.

So…
Because people will eventually ask, I may as well get it out of the way: Does anyone know the names of all the MMJ song in tonight's American Dad? Sweet episode, btw. If I ever become a rock star somehow, I am totally getting a chimp butler & an Eight Is Enough pinball machine.

Score.
This episode could have just been nothing but excerpts from the playbook, & it still would have gotten at least a B+ in my eyes. The clincher, though, was the My Penis Grants Wishes. Seeing Barney in that genie costume trying something so simplistic, crude, & crazy was just so damn over the top that I still…

I'm sorry…
…But I just can't give this episode anything less than an A-, despite any flaws, if only because of Marshall's musical photo montages. Seriously, by the time we were into "Cat Funeral", I was actually beginning to produce tears of laughter.

Exactly! And you just know he was the one getting a view of the whole ordeal, making sure it went off exactly as planned.

Definitely Staged.
Take a look, Beyonce was never a nominee up until the big night:

For video games here, four words…
…Conker's Bad Fur Day.

While ultimately flawed, I must confess that I actually liked The 11th Hour. However, I think the reason it didn't make this list (or won't) is because it was a direct sequel to the original success, unlike everything else on display.

Where the feck is…
…Joe Madureira? For better or for worse, he played a HUGE part in bringing anime-styled artwork to mainstream American audiences with his unique style & works on comics like X-Men & Battle Chasers. In fact, when I read Wizard magazine as a kid, he was (one of) the most popular artist(s) of the…

Suddenly it makes more sense…
So during E3, Sunny Day Real Estate turns out to be one of the bands confirmed to appear (or have at least one of their songs show up) in Guitar Hero 5.