Last week on South Park, Cartman and the gang ridiculed literary censorship by penning the most vile book in history and this week, Cartman and Randy went to extraordinary lengths for some crispy fried chicken and Rainy Day Woman after the town turned its only KFC into a medicinal marijuana dispensary. After the jump, Movieline tallies the victims from last night's episode, which managed to combine a Scarface homage, hippity-hop testes and the image of Cartman snorting a line of KFC gravy fried chicken skin. And Pope Benedict, if you are reading this, you might not want to click through.
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Considering Fringe has been off the air for nearly two months, you'd be forgiven if you didn't remember who the characters were, let alone the show's the labyrinthine plot. Not to worry though: the series comes back tonight to finish up its choppy second season. And since it has already been picked up for a third, you can watch with full confidence knowing that whatever cliffhangers get thrown out in the final episodes will be addressed next fall. After the jump, check out the four things you need to remember about Fringe before watching tonight.
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The most significant annual religious feast in the Christian year is upon us, and last night, the late-night hosts celebrated accordingly. Jimmy Kimmel and Tom Arnold fought off evil Peeps, Stephen Colbert resurrected a Peep crime and George Lopez asked streetwalkers offensive questions about Bibles "in their sacks." The best of those segments, as well as the other highlights you missed last night while crafting the perfect CBS April Fool's joke, after the jump.
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As Tim Urban enjoyed another three-minute bath in elimination lighting during last night's Idol, our beleaguered Princess Toadstool -- the lovely Didi Benami -- stood by his side as Seacrest announced she was the lowest vote-getter. A stirring performance of "Rhiannon" wasn't enough to save the Los Angeles waitress, and Simon reluctantly flushed her down a CBS Television City urinal. You may have caught on to my slight Didi adoration over the past few weeks. Hehe. I'm sure I'll be fine. Let's give her a stately eulogy after the jump. Spoiler: Caps Lock approaching.
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Network executives do have a sense of humor. Case in point, CBS Chief Les Moonves, who made a surprise announcement about the Tiffany Network's fall 2010 schedule this morning:
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· If you were disappointed that neither Elisabeth Moss nor January Jones took home a Best Actress Emmy at last year's ceremony, you were not alone. The people behind Mad Men figure that the two actresses, both nominated in the lead category last year, nullified each other's chances. Hoping to make up for the loss, the Matthew Weiner production will position Moss as a supporting actress this year, even if she finds competition in her Mad Men co-star Christiana Hendricks, to give Jones a better chance at the Best Actress trophy. [THR]
A&E gets Twisted, Ice-T develops a Peacemaker, and more TV Bites after the jump.
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The Peabody Awards annually honor clumps of accomplished TV series, news specials, and radio programs, but "no more than 36" per year, claims the official site. That's a lot of plaques! While the Peabody Board can boast an accolade that traces back over 60 years (predating the Emmys), they've also ignored a fair amount of top-notch programming, even in the face of this year's just-announced winners. Here, then, are three of the 2009 award winners in television and the under-honored shows that came before them.
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High-five to Lindsay Vonn, who, after trudging up through the Olympic ranks to gold-medal stardom, will finally achieve her real dream of appearing on an episode of Law & Order. It's not just any episode, though: According to NBC, Vonn will have a bit part on the season finale as "an administrative assistant with a vital clue in a case involving a terrorist." She'll shoot next week; the air date hasn't been specified beyond some time in May. Developing... [AP]
Three days into filming the dramedy series Scoundrels, ABC replaced its lead actor Neal McDonough with David James Elliott. The casting change seemed strange since ABC had a history working with McDonough, who had co-starred on over 20 episodes of Desperate Housewives as Edie's deranged husband, but no other insight was offered into the network's decision. Until a production insider revealed that the actor had duped ABC into hiring him only to refuse filming intimate scenes with the project's beautiful, Oscar-nominated lead.
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Only a day after starting a Twitter feud with George Lopez, Lindsay Lohan has agreed to appear on the comedian's TBS show on Tuesday to discuss the joke he made about white powder on her shoes. Lopez confirmed the booking on his Twitter feed: "Here's the latest @lindsaylohan is scheduled to appear on Lopez Tonight next tuesday .. Chill !" [@georgelopez]
Previously on Lost: Sawyer plays a record, sadly. Sayid returns from the dead. Kate seems useless. Ilana makes Ben dig his own grave, then doesn't make him climb in. Richard experiences existential despair, applies more eyeliner. Jack smashes some mirrors in the lighthouse out of fear and frustration. Desmond types a string of numbers into an old computer deep inside an underground bunker to stop some unknown "bad" thing from happening. A plane crashes on a mysterious island. A network exec approves a show about a plane crashing on a mysterious island.
Please join us, if you will, as we finally fling open the Door of Questions on the Lost submarine and release the Answers within for this week's episode:
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Jay Leno is a man of many contradictions. He said he was retiring his version of the Tonight Show in 2009. He did not. He specializes in low stakes interviews about iPod playlists and pets but will occasionally lay into a guest, like Monday night's Karl Rove, with a no-nonsense line of questioning about suicide, low self-esteem and shame. He has generated over a billion dollars for NBC and owns close to 100 expensive, vintage vehicles -- but he houses them in a "crappy garage" packed with cheap knickknacks, thousands of Headlines cards and presumably a few dead cats trapped under the debris. Jay Leno is a hoarder, and with the help of his wife Mavis and a cable channel you've never heard of, the Tonight Show host is seeking help.
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Dancing with the Stars's first castoff proves just how cockamamie the voting public is. It wasn't the lowest-scoring or even lowest-potential contestant who won a stiletto kick to the curb, but a middle-pack contender who'd done nothing to offend us so far. Which isn't to say we'd have never been offended. That was around the bend, to be sure. At any rate, let's mourn the lost jive-stepping soul after the jump.
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As any aggressive, scientifically-enhanced super shark could tell you, you do not mess with LL Cool J. Imagine his surprise, then, when he was announced as one of the marquee interviews for a new Fox News special hosted by the not-polarizing-at-all Sarah Palin. This was news to LL Cool J, who began angrily tweeting until Fox News agreed to pull the interview. What exactly went down?
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After divorcing and reconciling on Monday's teary Dancing with the Stars, Kate Gosselin and her partner, Tony Dovoloni, are still hoping to convince viewers that their fractured partnership deserves votes. Kate explained to the Hollywood Insider this morning that her squabble was driven out of the fear that her sub-par jive skills would send her home. Her partner, meanwhile, explains that viewers should connect with Kate as she "represents the everyday person" among the show's stars. Pity votes, anyone? [EW]
