Pajiba Love 07/10/09

Does the World Really Need a "Small Wonder" Movie?

By Stacey Nosek | Posted Under Pajiba Love | Comments (41)

Is that even a serious question?! Here’s “Small Wonder” and a bunch of other obscure 80’s sitcoms which totally deserve film adaptations. (Spout)

Jerry Seinfeld says that he enjoys “the creative process” of doing commercials. HA HA HA. Dude, just admit that you like money. (Webster’s)

With Bruno and I Love You, Beth Cooper both coming out this weekend, here’s a diva chart comparing Bruno and Hayden Paniterwhatsherface. (Screen Junkies)

Dustin posted this viral meme-thingie on Facebook last night which totally freaked my shit out. So naturally, I’m passing it along to you guys. (Frenzied Waters)

Everyone can relax, because the Berlin Zoo is going to be able to keep Knut the Polar Bear after all. (Agent Bedhead) And just for fun, remember this? (YouTube)

Which TV show character would you most want to be roommates with? I would say Charlie from “it’s Always Sunny” except that I basically already live with him and, oh yeah, he’s also my boyfriend. (KSK)

I could have sworn Mary-Louise Parker complained about her nude scene in “Weeds,” but apparently she has no problem taking it off for Esquire. (Popoholic)

This is something to give you the heebie-jeebies: Joe Jackson thinks that his late son’s children have “a future in showbiz.” Just slowly back away from the kids, you asshole. (Celebitchy)

After yesterday’s “There I Fixed It,” (which I totally forgot to credit Melody for — sorry Melody!) Tris send in another funny photograph-based gimmick site. (Don’t Judge My Hair)

Jerms says: “This is the single stupidest or the single greatest video I’ve ever seen.” Judging by the enormous smile I had on my face the entire time I watched it? I’m gonna go with “greatest,” buddy. (Notes On Bar Napkins)

Lookin’ good, Helena Bonham Carter! (Yeeeah!)

If you like a good ‘batin session after a relaxing, leisurely smoke, here are a bunch of bongs shaped like genitals. (Jezebel)

Some tampon company thought it would be a good idea to parachute a bunch of tampons down over Dutch beaches. Will no one think of the seagulls?? (DListed)

From Atom.com, here is an early 90’s rap tribute to LOL. It’s about time LOL finally got the recognition it deserved:

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All "Small Wonder" means to me is late Sunday afternoon, the worst part of the week for a young student. I don't even want to think about that show.

Posted by: Jay at July 10, 2009 1:18 PM

Jay's going to cry when he see Helena - either that or make excuses for her.

Which TV show character would you most want to be roommates with?

Brenda from Six Feet Under. She's interesting, fucked up, fun. Plus, who knows when Billy would stop by?

Posted by: Cindy at July 10, 2009 1:19 PM

'the hell is to be "excused"?

Posted by: Jay at July 10, 2009 1:21 PM

2 words....HELL NO!!

Posted by: dammitjanet at July 10, 2009 1:24 PM

That show "Small Wonders" has been haunting my dreams for years. I now have a name to go with the creepy...yay.

Posted by: CJ at July 10, 2009 1:26 PM

Billy Corgan should play Small Wonder's brother. I don't care if he has to walk around on his knees.

Posted by: agent bedhead at July 10, 2009 1:28 PM

You know what movie would make a great series? Mansquito.

I'm gonna keep saying it until it happens.

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at July 10, 2009 1:31 PM

Mary-Louise Parker's words were twisted around for that piece, she clarifies a bit in this interview with the AV Club.

Posted by: Animale at July 10, 2009 1:32 PM

I still think Kunt is a strange name for a polar bear. Crazy Germans.

Posted by: Matt at July 10, 2009 1:32 PM

I'm about to sound really young here, but what's Small Wonder? I have honestly never heard of this show.

And for the record, I would totally room with Olive Snook from Pushing Daisies. She's adorable, she lives with a golden retriever, and she breaks out into song!

Posted by: Jeremy Feist at July 10, 2009 1:36 PM

Does the World Really Need a "Small Wonder" Movie?

FUCK YEAH.

Matt: how about Cunth?

Posted by: figgy at July 10, 2009 1:37 PM

C'mon people, Stacey went to a lot of work to supply something as awesome as genital shaped bongs for a Friday post, and I'm the first to notice? When I saw the title I was worried it would just be a bunch of dick shaped pipes, and was (at first) pleasantly surprised by clitoris shaped bongs! Then I looked a little closer, and realized that while I might like to munch on the real deal, smoking my weed from it doesn't look like as much fun as I initially thought. And the other girly shaped bongs look an awful lot like you'd be taking hits from some girls anus. Again, not as much fun as it initially sounded. Nothing like doing blow off a hookers ass, that's all class my friends. Expensive, but classy.

Posted by: Xtreme at July 10, 2009 1:54 PM

Small Wonder had a little girl robot who spoke in monotone and walked around with a vacant look in her eyes. She got into all sorts of hijinks trying to learn how to be more human. Both a mirror image of and nothing like Alf.

Posted by: Kballs at July 10, 2009 1:56 PM

I could have sworn Mary-Louise Parker complained about her nude scene in “Weeds,”

She addressed that on Craig Ferguson some weeks ago. Apparently there was some misquoting or something.

Hey, she is naked again. I suddenly don't really care.

Posted by: Vermillion at July 10, 2009 2:00 PM

I mean, i don't care about the misquote.

I do care about the nudity. I care very much. And several times a day if I get plenty of rest.

Posted by: Vermillion at July 10, 2009 2:01 PM

Ohh, that's really good Jeremy. You could live with Digby AND Pigby! And she could bring pie home from work.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at July 10, 2009 2:02 PM

I remember the most memorable moment of Small Wonder:

Vicky is asked to open a can of...juice or something. Because she's, well, a robot, she could always open them really easily.

So Vicky gets the jar and starts shaking. Herself. The mom asked her why she was shaking and she answered in her robot voice

"The jar says 'shake before opening'"

And my eight year old self thought that that was the funniest thing ever uttered by anyone in the history of the universe and the memory is forever imprinted on my heart.

I was a very weird child.

Posted by: figgy at July 10, 2009 2:06 PM

Actually, Mary Louise Parker set the record straight on...I think it was Craig Ferguson. Apparently, she made a joke to a reporter about that nude scene, and the reporter blew it up to grab headlines. She claims that she has no problem with being naked on camera, and I can't say I mind that sentiment at all.

Posted by: ChristianH at July 10, 2009 2:07 PM

that video from notes on bar napkins was generally pretty dumb, but the screen frame he captured IS the greatest 2 or 3 seconds ever--it even beats the dude cheering in the stands from yesterday.

Posted by: gem at July 10, 2009 2:09 PM

Okay, I went to the "frienzied waters" site, but I got scared before anything could really happen... are there sharks? What's going on?

(I'm the full grown adult who shields her eyes during the "scary parts" of movies. Mock if you must.)

Posted by: slappymcgee at July 10, 2009 2:17 PM

Oh bloody hell.

frenzied, not frienzied

Posted by: slappymcgee at July 10, 2009 2:26 PM

I used to watch "Small Wonder" and wonder (no pun intended) why the little boy on the show never tried to fuck that robot. You know damn well all young boys just hitting puberty who had a cute female android roaming around the house would try to stick it to her at least once. But, noooo, not that little mary. Completely unrealistic.

Posted by: Case at July 10, 2009 2:37 PM

Matt, it's Knut, for fuck's sake.

Posted by: FabMax at July 10, 2009 2:45 PM

Joe Jackson, you are a complete fucktard. You know damn well those kids share no Jackson DNA. So you wan to turn them into Brody Jenner and Paris Hilton then? Well fuck you sideways.

Posted by: ed newman at July 10, 2009 3:36 PM

That polar bear is so cute! SO CUTE!! It kills me. I'm not sure it's fair for things to be that cute.

Posted by: tamatha at July 10, 2009 3:53 PM

Sorry to hijack for a quick detour, guys, but I have to do this to not feel guilty tomorrow.

If anyone was following my blog, I had a stickied post about a charity softball tournament in honor of my late cousin where all money earned goes to the New York Organ Donor's Network and PS85 in the Bronx. That event is all day tomorrow.

So please, if you happen to be anywhere in the Rockland County area tomorrow, in particular Sloatsburg NY, please stop by the fields behind Characters and come say "hi." I don't bite...hard.

Really, it's for a great cause and my entire family has been working very hard for months getting tons of donations for raffles, food, music, and the softball tournament itself. All the details are at the WHUD site.

Now back to your regularly scheduled afternoon of sexual harassment and foreplay. Please to enjoy.

Posted by: Robert at July 10, 2009 4:05 PM

Yeah. What ed newman said.

Posted by: tamatha at July 10, 2009 4:13 PM

That video ... you know, at least in America, kids have to be 16 to drive and have a license and follow a bunch of other rules now about who and how many people they have in the car and how late they can stay out, so they don't theoretically kill themselves and their two nitwit friends and a vanload of orphans on a field trip ... But TPTB let just ANY kid at ANY age pick up a guitar and a mic and kill adult brain cells by the fuckin' BILLIONS.

There's no justice.

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at July 10, 2009 4:38 PM

You know who I'd want to live with? Chuck, from the tv show Chuck. We're both geeks, he's freakin' gorgeous, AND he knows kung-fu.

AvB - keep hope alive, my friend.

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at July 10, 2009 6:17 PM

You know, whenever I see Mansquito airing on SciFi, I watch a couple minutes until I realize that the monster in question will not be Jeff Goldblum - like my brain is incapable of recognizing any other human being in the role of part man, part insect.

Oh, and yeah..Small Wonder. Wasn't there a super creepy, snoopy neighbor or friend or something? Always lurking about?

Posted by: HB at July 10, 2009 6:58 PM

agent bedhead
there is a big italian urban legend that says Billy Corgan is in fact the brother, I spent a lot of my teenage years trying to explain the absurdity of the it. if your idea actually makes it I will have waisted a big part of my life, and you don't wanna do that! DO YOU?
but, since you are on the same page with my people, you can always come over and be our own queen, I think the job only requires from you bad jokes, and sleeping with underage teenagers, can you do that??

Posted by: rio at July 10, 2009 7:24 PM

Maybe I misunderstood that Frenzied Waters thingie, but it sounded like a dog yipping in terror before the blood showed up in the water. I fail to understand how that's entertaining.

Posted by: snapnhiss at July 10, 2009 8:01 PM

If I have to explain it to you Jay, well then, there's just no hope.

Posted by: Cindy at July 10, 2009 8:18 PM

You know what I think we need? Its this!

Posted by: therickoning at July 10, 2009 10:25 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SgnVLmUMS0

Posted by: therickoning at July 10, 2009 10:26 PM

OK, somebody please tell me because I wonder about it every time I hear about her: is her name Helena-Bonham Carter, or Helena Bonham-Carter, or Helena Carter with the middle name Bonham? I must know how to emphasise!

Posted by: James at July 11, 2009 3:45 AM

The tampon thing cracked me up!I feel bad that the youtube clip doesn't have English subtitles for you all cause the marketing dude is hilarious. He basically said that "Tampons are in fact as much a summer product as sunscreen and icecream" haha I love my country, we give so much airtime to stupid ppl.

Posted by: Mona at July 11, 2009 11:09 AM

It's official: RR has been selected to play The Green Hornet.

It shows that even this event will not be enough for one of the publishers to post during the weekend.

Posted by: Recondite at July 11, 2009 5:40 PM

I remember very little about Small Wonder except that I happened to be watching it when the '89 Loma Prieda earthquake struck (For non-SFBayAreans, that was the one when the Bay Bridge lost a section and the Embarcadero Freeway collapsed). Ah, fun childhood memories...

Posted by: Major Etiquette at July 11, 2009 7:05 PM

oh wow, automan was a favorite when i was a kid. i just flashedback during that clip.

i haven't thought about that show in forever.

so random.

Posted by: gp at July 12, 2009 11:38 AM

oh shit! voyagers!

Posted by: gp at July 12, 2009 11:41 AM

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