Tweet that Shi* - NBC Edition

So everyone's heard how Conan is following just that one girl's twitter account, right? Well did you also know that he's following just one fake twitter account? That's right! It's this one!

@Conan: Thx for the add, man! This has totally changed my life and stuff! I can't believe you're following me!

RT@Leno@me: Just like OJ followed Nicole?

@Fallon: Despite everyone forgetting you exist, you put together the best three minutes of television this year. Or maybe because of everyone forgetting...


@SimpleMinds: Forget about me.

@OJ: Tampa's Tropicana Field is totally bugged in MLB 10: The Show, freezing my season. I hate frozen juice...

@friendsandfamily: OMG guise @Leno just retweeted my last tweet!

@nature: You always look so beautiful in video games, so why do I stay in my house so much?

@BluemoundRoad: Oh yeah. You're why.


@suburbanliving: lol jk. Love ya, babe!

@KatherineMcphee: I thought you were Samaire Armstrong for all of tonight's Community episode. Isn't that funny?

@KatherineMcphee: Seriously, though. Let's have sex.

@KatherineMcphee: Huh? Husband? Yeah... Just talk to my friend @nature to find out why I don't care.

@KatherineMcphee: I received your restraining order. It says I'm not allowed within 140 characters of you.

@friendsandfamily: OMG guise @Leno just retweeted my last tweet!

@camwhores: I "wandered" into some random chatroom the other day where a teenage girl was showing off a wall of fan mail she received? For being on the internet, I guess? Kids...

@camwhores: So I told her she had a nice ass and was banned.

@Leno: Of course I'll be on The Marriage Ref once they stop getting real celebrities. I'm hilarious! And on next Thursday!

@friendsandfamily: He did it again. He keeps retweeting...

@nature: I miss you so much...

Kids Today: Relationship Drama

I've had a difficult time getting into the new season of 16 and Pregnant, and yesterday I think I may have figured out why that is.

I still enjoy watching the show, for the most part. I thought maybe I was just bored with the concept--if you've seen the story of one teenage pregnancy, you've seen them all. But that can't be true, can it? Of course I assume that MTV picks a certain type to appear on this show. There has to be some drama, after all. I wouldn't really want to watch a show about a girl who got pregnant, decided to have an abortion/give the baby up for adoption/keep the baby and everything turned out OK, no major drama. The people who typically are cast for any MTV show are pretty high-drama people. But when I was watching Tuesday night's episode, I finally realized--it's not that I'm tired of watching the same type of teenage girl over and over. I'm tired of watching teenage girls stuck in what I would consider abusive relationships.

I realized that most of the drama on 16 and Pregnant has little to do with the pregnancy or even the young women's decisions to keep these babies. Most of the drama is generated from the terrible, horrible relationships that these girls are in. And if one watches these kinds of relationships portrayed on "reality" television over and over again, they become the norm.

Of course the girls' parents are not happy with the jerk boyfriend/baby daddies either. But more concerning to me are the attitudes displayed by the girls' friends, and the attitudes of the girls themselves who can't seem to see that these guys really are jerks and that they deserve better, baby or no baby. It was heartbreaking to watch Nikkole deal with her jerk of a boyfriend who treated her like crap even through her entire labor, painful to watch as Valerie (only 15 years old and pregnant) received a message from her boyfriend saying he wanted nothing to do with her...and this week's episode was the worst yet. I wish the show would take more time to deal with, not only the fact that these girls are having babies, but that these kinds of relationships are not OK.

Another reason that these relationships have me upset: these girls are all way cuter than the guys they are with. Way cuter. So you're dating a douche bag and he's not even very good looking?? Dump that sh**! He knocked you up and he still won't commit or treat you with respect? Your boyfriend, the uggo, gets upset and calls you a whore when you go out with your friends? But you want to make things work because of the baby??? It is NOT better for a kid to have a douce bag father than no father. That is a myth. Your babies will be better off with one parent who is actually mature enough to love another human being.

In this week's episode, our teen mom did eventually cut the bad news baby daddy out of her life, and I was happy about that. I'm not giving up on this season yet, and hopefully in the coming weeks MTV will show a little variety or at least address the fact that these guys are total jerk faces. I'm also a little tired of the fact that every girl this season has been a "party girl." Don't non crazy party girls sometimes end up pregnant, too?

Whew, sorry for the rant, blogosphere! In happier news, the newest cycle of America's Next Top Model began this week! Hooray! This cycle's theme is social networking. Each girl had to create a "My Fierce Page" and hope to "Friend" Tyra. If the girls' friend requests were not accepted, they were eliminated. Perez Hilton gueststarred because he won a bet that he made six months ago on the Tyra Show. Tyra said that if he could go six months without blogging about celebrities' kids then he could appear on an episode of ANTM. None of the girls stand out so far, but I'm sure I'll come to love and hate them as the cycle continues.

Angry Amy Ads It Up Angry Style

You know what makes me angry?! Babies talking like adults! Not only are talking babies a strange concept -- because they are not quite animals but something feels creepily anthropomorphic about them -- they are NOT funny. So in this blogger's opinion, E*Trade should have picked a more worthwhile comedy sketch to get sued over. But then again, maybe this is karma for bad commercials.




According to The New York Times:

Lindsay Lohan is suing E*Trade Financial over a popular television commercial that made its debut during Super Bowl XLIV and has appeared subsequently during coverage of the Winter Olympics and other programs. [...]

The lawsuit asks for damages of $100 million and an injunction to prevent the commercial from appearing again. [...]

In the commercial, a baby boy and a baby girl are chatting over a video camera. He explains he did not call her last night because he was taking care of his portfolio. She asks, suspiciously, “And that milkaholic Lindsay wasn’t over?” The baby boy replies, “Lindsay?” At that point, a second baby girl enters the frame, in front of the boy, and says, “Milk-a-what?” In her lawsuit, Ms. Lohan said the second baby girl was modeled after her because the one-word name “Lindsay” was identified with her.

Clearly E*Trade Financial's lawyers must have slept through that whole semester of Trademark and Copyright Infringement class. So Angry Amy is here to catch them up to speed. See, some people can't understand why Ms. Lohan is suing the company for using her identity to sell their product. These people say that it is ridiculous to think that the baby in the commercial resembles Lindsay Lohan at all, so I've compiled a list of similarities between the baby in the ad and LiLo:

1) First, there's the obvious. They're both babies -- whinny, and need constant attention.

2) Neither babies nor Lindsay succumb to the pressures of the social norm to hide one's shame in public.



















3) Usually babies don't really have any financial assets of their own. Similarly, the cash flow is looking a little sparse for Lindsay.

4) Lindsay and babies alike just loves boobs.

5) Like Lindsay, the baby in this advertisement has a bit of a substance abuse problem.

6) Also like Lindsay, the baby in this advertisement doesn't understand what a substance abuse problem is.

7) Just like a little baby, Lindsay falls asleep on long car rides. Ahhhhh, isn't she a little angel?!

8) Like most growing babies, it would be a healthy idea for Lindsay to put on some weight.

9) Finally, it is very important for all babies and Lindsay to be monitored at all times.

So you see E*Trade and Lindsay haters, it's really more than just the name. This ad constitutes a blatant attack on Ms. Lohan (or simply Lindsay, as the rest of the world knows her). With so many similarities between Lindsay and the baby in the ad, I can't see how she won't win this lawsuit.