Category Archives: This Wins the Internet
Batman Has Never Been More Adorable
Than in this massive picture of Wayne Manor by artist Les McClaine. It’s an intricate picture of Batman (with a little help from Robin and others) repelling an assault on Wayne Manor and the Batcave by all of his worst villains! Click the picture to expand, and visit McClaine’s blog for an even bigger version!
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In A Perfect World, This Would be Our Dark Knight Rises Trailer
The Internet is bountiful with humor and parody, and the fruit is very ripe today! Some outfit called Happy Dragon Pictures has put together The Dark Knight, as if it were like the opening to the 1960s Batman TV show. The same art style, the same song we all know and love. This is a thing of beauty. If only it could be considered a trailer for the Dark Knight Rises.
Batman Finds His Voice
Another lazy posting day, but thankfully College Humor came to my rescue with another one of their hilarious Batman parody videos. These are almost as good as their Ninja Turtle Videos.
A Doctor Who Musical Celebration
I’m a big Doctor Who fan, at least the recent revival since 2005. The show is a mega hit and shows no signs of slowing down or losing steam. That’s in large part to the fact that they’re constantly changing up the actors and the producers. Doctor Who keeps the same character – The Doctor – but it’s written into his mythology that he regenerates into a new body every time his mortal body is killed. That’s a great excuse for getting a new lead actor into the show and surrounding him with new sidekicks.
Well at the end of the fourth season, show-runner Russell T. Davies, the guy who launched the revival in 2005, left Doctor Who. It also marked the departure of producer Julie Gardner and current Doctor actor David Tennant (as well as Tennant’s era of sidekicks). Tennant had been around for three seasons and was hugely popular, so him, Davies and Gardner leaving was a huge deal.
The show’s still been great since they left, but that whole era had some real charm.
Which has been nicely captured in a pair of farewell videos that the actors produced for the Fourth Season Wrap Party that are only now reaching the Internet. Enjoy some Doctor Who based musical fun!
The first is sung by Tennant and sidekicks Catherine Tate (my favorite Who sidekick) and John Barrowman. It’s an ode to Davies and Gardner covering their entire production run of Doctor Who.
The second is Tennant leading the entire cast and crew in a rousing chorus of ‘I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)’ by The Proclaimers.
