Spurious Awards Of The Week

An R2-D2 beanie, tons and tons of robots, what you need to tighten up Doctor Who, randy rabbits and loads more spurious guff…

EXQUISITE TIME WASTER OF THE WEEK

Can you find WALL-E among all these other famous robots? Click on the image for a larger version. This masterpiece was created by Richard Sargent and if you go to his site, there’s a compo to see who can name the most robots. (Actually, we found WALL-E within seconds, but just trying to work out who all the other robots are is more fun.)

That’s one brave fawn there, sneaking into a meeting of True Blood werewolves. We assume it was a bet…

Yeah, it’s an obvious gag, but Warehouse 13 does it with such panache!

BIZARRE BUNNY SADOMASOCHISM OF THE WEEK

The artefact on Warehouse 13 this week was apparently Beatrix Potter’s tea set, though this rabbit porn looked like it should have been bagged and tagged too. This sort of thing is usually restricted to HBO…

QUEASIEST MOMENT OF THE WEEK

Evil guy on Torchwood uses pen to draw blood… arf, arf!

MAP OF THE WEEK

It’s the Indiana Jones Chronicles in map form. This huge 24” x 36” map – officially authorised by Lucasfilm – has been created by fan and illustrator Matt Busch illustrating the locations of all Indy’s archaeological discoveries, not just from the films, but the novels, comic books, Young Indy TV show and videogames as well. Busch is selling the limited-edition poster on his web site, and all the proceeds from the sale of this print go to American Disabled Veterans.

The latest in the How It Should Have Ended series turns its sights on the Harry Potter saga. Gotta admit, it’s a little overlong (and seriously, couldn’t they have got a better voice for Snape? Our office cleaning woman sounds more like Snape than that!) but the last couple of minutes are a blast.

DULLEST ORIGIN STORY OF THE WEEK

Ever wondered how Marty McFly and Doc Brown – a seemingly mismatched pair – got to be best buddies? Nah, not us either. Though if we were forced to come up with an explanation, we’d probably come up with something a little more exciting than the official version, as revealed by Back To The Future scriptwriter Bob Gale on mental_floss: “Okay, from the horse’s mouth (yes, I’m the horse – er, co-writer, co-creator): we never explained it in the movie. But the history of the characters that Bob Zemeckis and I created is this… For years, Marty was told that Doc Brown was dangerous, a crackpot, a lunatic. So, being a red-blooded American teenage boy, age 13 or 14, he decided to find out just why this guy was so dangerous. Marty snuck into Doc’s lab, and was fascinated by all the cool stuff that was there. When Doc found him there, he was delighted to find that Marty thought he was cool and accepted him for what he was. Both of them were the black sheep in their respective environments. Doc gave Marty a part-time job to help with experiments, tend to the lab, tend to the dog, etc. And that’s the origin of their relationship.” So now you know. Do you feel enriched?

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