Original Back To The Future footage to be released

Geeky fans of Back To The Future know that Eric Stoltz was the actor originally cast as Marty McFly. After realizing what a huge mistake that was, producers eventually talked Michael J. Fox into taking the role. The 25th anniversary Blu Ray of Back To The Future (25 years? FML!) will finally contain some of the 5 weeks of footage shot with Eric Stoltz. It's safe to say that the movie would have really sucked with Stoltz in the role.

The old wooden spoon prank returns

You may have seen this before... but the foreign-speaking target of this prank makes it worth revisiting:

Napoleon Dynamite cartoon is coming!

Fox just ordered 6 episodes of an animated version of Napoleon Dynamite. The best news: It'll feature all of the original voices, including Jon Heder as Napoleon.

Boris and Brandi in the HV Business Journal

Here's a link to the story in this week's Hudson Valley Business Journal (We're on page 13).

The Banksy opening of The Simpsons

If you're wondering why Twitter was trending "Banksy" over the past couple of days, it's because British grafitti artist, Banksy, was behind the opening credits to this week's Simpsons episode. It was a very dark and sinister take on the evil empire that is 20th Century Fox and their practice of outsourcing animation to South Korea. Here it is if you missed it:

Background story on Community

Community's not a bad show... Not as good as Parks and Recreation (which NBC bumped to mid-season for that terrible Outsourced show), but the writing is pretty good and the very funny Joel McHale is actually one of the least-funniest actors on the show. Anyway, I have to start watching more closely because I totally missed an entire storyline on last Thursday's show. Check out the background. Now Shirley's conversation with Abed at the end of the episode makes much more sense:

There's a Bieber on your back

Justin Bieber's bodyguard better be getting paid some big bucks...