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We're used to seeing Alex Ross' hyper-realistic style being applied to such straight-faced comic projects as Kingdom Come and Marvels, so it's a bit of a mindblower seeing him mash up the cast of 30 Rock with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. And given that this painting has Judah Friedlander as a Martian, this is the Alan Moore/Kevin O'Neill League we're talking about, not that pretender of a movie. More »
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Last night 30 Rock prepared for the apocalypse, by filming a preemptive "fill in your disaster here" benefit. Robert De Niro had the pleasure of listing off how it might all end. Fingers crossed for Bird Apocalypse! More »
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Need more proof that geek humor has gone mainstream? Check out the new trailer for Christian Slater's new show Breaking In, which name-checks Star Wars, Dragon*Con and Avatar. These days, TV shows prove they're hip by referencing geek culture. More »
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The more realistic a CG human is, the creepier they become. There's nothing spookier than a half-computer half-child CG face on the big screen. We've ranked all the worst CG humans, in order of creepiness. More »
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The perils of introducing your more popular friends to your favorite television shows were laid bare in last night's 30Rock. Now all we have to do is hope that the show's writers didn't have any real inside information. More »
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Okay, we're officially calling Time of Death on the whole vampire thing. True Blood and Robert Pattinson love we could stomach, but Timbaland telling interviewers that his new single will follow the Twilight trend? It's gone too far. More »
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We've all seen the big spoofs of scifi classics. Family Guy just recreated Star Wars and the Simpsons' Prisoner tribute was perfection. But nobody salutes science fiction better than 30 Rock's sly one-liners, which just slip it in there. More »
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Liz Lemon, the sexy comedienne played by Tina Fey in NBC's 30 Rock, knows a foolproof way to get out of jury duty every single time her number is up. It involves a Princess Leia costume and a dash of mind control; if you missed it, you'd better check out this 7-second video dose of hilarity. In fact, last Thursday's episode "Believe in the Stars" was loaded with sci-fi references: In it, unkempt writer Frank sports a giant "ALIEN ABDUCTEE" hat, and movie star Tracy Jordan admits he watched nine episodes of Boston Legal before he realized it was not the new Star Trek. Whoops! Happens to the best of us, I suppose .... More »
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