Granted, not all of these foods will actually devour you; some will simply kill you or turn you into their zombie slave. But all are best approached with caution, and should only be handled by chefs with combat training.

Killer Tomatoes (Attack of the Killer Tomatoes): After years of being made into ketchup and mistaken for vegetables, the tomatoes get their revenge, and a killer theme song.

The Stuff (The Stuff): It's not clear what would possess a man to taste a slimy substance he found out in the woods, but it turns out the Stuff is delicious, addictive, and contains no calories. It also turns out that the Stuff is alive, and it chews on your brain until you've transformed into a nice, pliable zombie.

Bubble Shock! (The Sarah Jane Adventures "Invasion of the Bane"): Another zombifying substance is Bubble Shock!, a fizzy organic beverage. But it's actually an alien life form, one that turns drinkers into slaves of Mother Bane. While it doesn't have quite the brain-mushing powers of the Stuff, Bubble Shock! has a viral quality, with Bane zombies offering the beverage to anyone who hasn't tried it.

Popplers (Futurama "The Problem with Popplers"): Another mysterious foodstuff found lying on the ground, popplers are incredibly delicious nuggets of meaty goodness. There are just two problems: first, popplers are intelligent; second, they're the juvenile form of the ornery Omicronians, and Lrrr, the Omicronian ruler, thinks it's only fair that he should get to eat a human to set things right.

The Blue Plate Special (Spaceballs): Poor John Hurt. When he tried to enjoy a meal in Alien, he had a chestburster pop right out of him. Then he sits down for the blue plate special at a diner in Spaceballs and meets with the same fate.

Curry Monster (Red Dwarf "DNA"): In a typically boneheaded move, the crew of the Red Dwarf test a DNA modifier on a container of vindaloo, creating a monster that's half man, half Indian takeaway.

Killer Pizzas (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles "Case of the Killer Pizzas"): The pizza-loving foursome find that sometimes their favorite food can get a case of the munchies. An alien species from Dimension X lays eggs that happen to look like meatballs, and they manage to land on a handful of pizzas. Pop your pizza in the microwave, and those little critters hatch mean and hungry.

TMNT - Case of the killer pizzas

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Pizza the Hut (Spaceballs): He's delicious enough that he ate himself to death, but woe unto those who cross this cheesy gangster. They'll learn what it's like to have Pizza send out for you.

Bezoar Eggs (Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Bad Eggs"): When Buffy and the crew are given eggs to babysit as a class assignment, it seems like a minor nuisance. But it turns out those aren't chicken eggs they're faux parenting; they actually hatch bezoars, little parasites that attach to your brain stem (and, like all good parasites, render you their zombie slave). And Xander gets a nasty surprise when he hardboils his egg son and decides to enjoy a mid-afternoon snack.

Evil Gingerbread Men (The Tick, The Gingerdead Man): Be they the product of an eager baker or possessed by the spirit of a serial killer, these confections can be downright deadly. You'd imagine, though, that milk would be a major weakness.

Werewolf (Angel "Unleashed"): Werewolf is considered a delicacy among certain sadistic members of the Los Angeles elite. Unfortunately, werewolves tend to revert to their human form once they're killed, so they have to be served alive while the meat is carved off. But if the werewolf isn't properly restrained, you could end up on the menu.

Wub ("Beyond Lies the Wub" by Philip K. Dick): Again, it's rarely a smart idea to eat a species you happen to find just hanging out on another planet, especially if it's capable of literary discussions. The pig-like wub will let you eat it, but there's a hefty price; the wub will completely take over your body, essentially booting out your soul through your stomach.

Martian Water (Doctor Who "The Waters of Mars"): Actually, you don't even need to drink water containing the Flood to contract its zombifying contagion — just touching it will do the trick. Still, drinking the water is ill-advised.

Kandy Man (Doctor Who "The Happiness Patrol"): The good news is that this licorice-based robot won't actually devour you. The bad news is that, if you aren't visibly happy at all times, it will kill you — likely by drowning you in super sugary fondant.

Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (Ghostbusters): Sure, Stay Puft nearly demolished the entire island of Manhattan in the service of Gozer. But that toasted marshmallow glop that dropped on the Ghostbusters at the end of the move looked mighty tasty.

Ebola Cola (Transmetropolitan): As the slogan goes, "You Drink It, It Eats You."

Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Aqua Teen Hunger Force): A mutated meatball, milkshake, and carton of french fries, the Aqua Teens get into all sorts of mayhem, which often gets various creatures (and occasionally Maser Shake) killed. I probably wouldn't put eating the remains past them either, given the right situation.

Triffids (Day of the Triffids): Triffids have a lot going for them. They're a great source of vegetable oil (making them valuable crops), and they can fight off any potential predators with their venomous whips. Plus, they love to feed on rotting meat, which is easy to obtain once most of humanity has been struck blind.

Tom Turkey (The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror XIX"): Since it's Thanksgiving week, this musket-wielding bird will cap off our list. After rescuing the children of Springfield from the murderous Grand Pumpkin, Tom Turkey gets invited to Thanksgiving dinner. But once he learns what people eat on Thanksgiving, he starts gobble-gobbling up the children himself.

This piece of awesomeness comes from Contamination aka Alien Contamination, the masterpiece by Luigi Cozzi, who previously directed the amazing Star Wars ripoff Star Crash — the one featuring a mascara-wearing David Hasselhoff fighting androids in a stop-motion sword duel. Having so perfectly captured the spirit of Star Wars, Cozzi moved on to Alien, with... uh, mixed results.

Luke's Landspeeder Bed, 17 Again

Ned Gold, played by Thomas Lennon, was mercilessly teased and bullied in High School. But later he grows up, gets rich, and builds his own nerd palace full of goodies, my favorite being his amazing bed. Take that jocks.

Still, the mural next to his foosball room is pretty grand as well. Apparently there's this whole other plot about Matthew Perry being transformed from and old guy into Zac Efron, but I didn't make it all the way through after all the pausing and rewinding to go and drool over Ned's wonderful toys. Here are some shots of the mural.

Dr. Lazarus' Fan Head Piece, Galaxy Quest

By Grabthar's hammer, by the sons of Worvan, I shall have my Galaxy Quest Dr. Lazarus cap.

Brodie's Comic Collection, Mallrats

You just know Jason Lee's stash has some serious classics hidden in there. Plus, this is the collection that stated the rules we all try to follow: "Touch not, lest ye be touched."

The Van, Fanboys

It has an R2-D2 up top. Enough said.

The Trio's Van, Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Since I'm trying to keep it realistic — because wouldn't we all want a working freeze ray — I'm going to have to say the second automobile I covet, and would happily hot wire home, is The Trio's ride. Especially the horn.

Oscar Goldman Acton Figure, 40-Year-old Virgin

Andy Stitzer's toy collection is, well, ridiculous. There were so many boxes around his house that made me go "ohhh and ahhhh" I lost count. He even had The Six Million Dollar Man's boss, Oscar Goldman, action figure. Second only to his toys is the video game chair...which was pretty amazing.

Darlene's Sandman Fodder, Roseanne

Every so often, Darlene would have poster's of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman up in her room. This is why we love her. I desire not just any Sandman poster but her poster, not just because she was a cool art school chick, but because Joss Whedon was crafty enough to get them posted up on the set.

The Detailed Toy Dioramas, Can't Hardly Wait

First off dioramas are cool, no matter how you cut it, but William Lichter's basement is basically his world recreated by his toys.

Milhouse's Watchmen Babies, The Simpsons

Who doesn't want a copy of the Watchmen Babies DVD that set off comic book writer Alan Moore?

Wayne And Garth's Batman Exit Strategy, Wayne's World 2

Additional thanks to Marc Bernardin and Kara Warner.

Galaxy Quest: Granted, the worst thing that happened at the actual convention celebrating the long-cancelled (and nonexistent) TV show Galaxy Quest was its star getting wasted and telling off a fan. But a long ways away, the Thermians were experiencing the minor crisis of genocidal war. For them, the convention is a bit of a salvation, as it puts them in touch with the actor they mistakenly believe to be the heroic Capitain Peter Taggart.

Futurama "Where No Fan Has Gone Before": Yes, the slaughter of all Star Trek fans (whose conventions had evolved into religious ceremonies) was pretty horrible, but the cast of the original Star Trek series seemed more miffed by the actions of noncorporeal fanboy Melllvar, who stages the most annoying Star Trek convention ever, and forces them to battle the crew of Planet Express.

Family Guy "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven": After watching the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation field a litany of irrelevant fan questions, a frustrated Stewie builds a transporter and kidnaps the actors to stage his own personal Star Trek convention (taking a page, it seems, from Futurama's Melllvar). And, in the spirit of the show, he kills off Denise Crosby early on.

Family Guy's Stewie meets Star Trek The Next Generation from Work Avoidance on Vimeo.

CSI "A Space Oddity" and "Fur and Loathing": Some fans will take drastic measures to keep their favorite shows from getting remade. In "A Space Oddity," a filmmaker looking to remake the cult TV show Astro Quest turns up murdered. As if that weren't a sufficiently obvious reference to Battlestar Galactica, Grace Park, Kate Vernon, Rekha Sharma, and Ron D. Moore all have cameos.

Perhaps more notorious is the episode "Fur and Loathing," where a dead murder victim is found wearing a raccoon fursuit, leading the CSI team to a furry convention. But it's portrayed as less a fan convention than an opportunity for costumed attendees to "yiff" one another.

Mr. Monk in Outer Space by Lee Goldberg: How do you get away with murdering a science fiction creator? Dress as one of the show's most popular characters and escape into the convention. That's the set-up for the fifth Monk novel, where Monk must investigate the creator of the fictional scifi drama Beyond Earth, and rely on his agoraphobic fanboy brother to help identify the killer.

Bones "The Princess and the Pear": When a booth babe from a science fiction and fantasy convention is found decomposing in a nearby sewer pipe, her fellow convention-goers seem less concerned for her well-being than for the fate of a sword she owned, a prop from an early fantasy film. The otherwise geeky team is out of their element here, relying on gloomy intern Colin Fisher and wunderkind psychologist Lance Sweets (who, amusingly enough, dons a redshirt Star Trek uniform) to infiltrate the con.

Numb3rs "Graphic": Admittedly, this episode of Numb3rs has occupies a soft spot in my heart, and not for the theft-of-priceless-comic-book-ends-in-murder primary plotline. It's because in addition to Numb3rs star David "Mr. Universe" Krumholt, it features Wil Wheaton as a douchebag collector.

Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb: Sharyn McCrumb's novel is an object lesson for all crotchety creators. Appin Dungannon is a fantasy author whose temper is so legendary that his fans attend conventions just to watch him throw furniture. When the small-statured author winds up dead, a hard science fiction author (implausibly named James O. Mega) has to figure out if one of Dungannon's fans took his insults to heart.

Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones: Jones' novel brings the entire multiverse down on an unsuspecting scifi and fantasy convention. Rupert is a Magid, a sort of magical lobbyist aiming to make Earth more magic-friendly. When his mentor dies, Rupert must take on an apprentice, and he gathers all the likely candidates at science fiction convention. Naturally, when things go awry, all multiverse breaks loose, leaving the convention vulnerable to rampant centaurs and assassins.

Atomic Betty "Cosmic Comicon": Conventions just wouldn't be the same without the occasional supervillain attack. When Atomic Betty's pal Noah publishes Atomic Chick a comic book based on her adventures, Dr. Cerebral becomes confused by a fan cosplaying "Dr. Brainy," and launches an attack on the convention. But, fortunately, a group of cosplayers portraying Atomic Chick make short work of him.

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Sandman "The Doll's House": The "cereal convention" described in the second arc of Neil Gaiman's epic comic series isn't precisely a fan convention, but it's too weird and disturbing to ignore. Like any other group of professionals, serial killers apparently need to meet, hold panels, and swap trade secrets. But woe unto any tourist who inadvertently wanders into panels titled, "Women in Serial Killing" or "There is No Sanity Clause."

Power Rangers: Dino Thunder "Drawn into Danger": Who knew that Artists' Alley could be weaponized? The Power Rangers run into typical trouble at a comic convention, where their nemesis/high school principal hands a famous comic book artist a magical pen that traps the Rangers in a superpowered battle with the latest monster of the week, Fridgia.

Roswell "The Convention": It's no surprise that the city of Roswell, New Mexico, would attract the occasional alien enthusiast convention. And, given that Jonathan Frakes numbers among Roswell's executive producers, it's hardly shocking that Commander Riker would make a guest appearance. What couldn't be anticipated is the bloodshed that ensues when a conspiracy theorist meets up with an actual alien.

The Simpsons "Mayored to the Mob": Generally, the worst thing to hit Springfield fan conventions is the Comic Book Guy and his perpetually superior attitude. But during one ""Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con," a riot sparks, threatening to kill Star Wars actor Mark Hamill. And in, a first for celebrity guest stars on The Simpsons, Hamill finds Homer Jay Simpson is his only hope.

Before we get to the massive gallery of Simpsonized science fiction characters, we need to give a huge amount of credit to the fan artists who drew all these fantastic designs. This gallery is, quite honestly, dominated by the work of Dean over at Springfield Punx, who has been cranking out Simpsons version of pop culture figures for the past year. As someone who can't even draw a straight line, I find what's he done simply staggering.

But we've also got a bunch of other artists represented, most of which come from the deviantART community. Finally, we have the work of Dylan Meconis, whose adorable Battlestar Galactica riffs (my personal favorite is to the left) were what first made me realize the awesome potential of Simpsonizing sci-fi icons. So thank you to them all. Now, without further ado, here's our gallery...

[Battlestar Galactica]

[DC Comics]

[Marvel Comics]

[Miscellaneous Movies]

[Miscellaneous TV and Video Games]

The show is actually called Ugly Americans (Now there's a title to help international sales), and is the work of former Simpsons scribe David Stern; it centers around a character working at the Department of Immigration in New York City who has to welcome aliens both human and, well, alien, to the US and all the hilarity that will ensue. Worryingly enough, Comedy Central seems to be trying to sell this as a tonic for the real world, as Lauren Corrao, president of original programming and development for the network, demonstrates:

During these tough economic times our viewers need a good laugh now more than ever... With the pick-up of 'Ugly Americans,' our viewers will be able to escape into a fantasy world like they've never seen before.

That's right; the economy sucks, so time to watch a show about how funny folks who aren't like us are. Not entirely sure about the logic there...

Ugly Americans will premiere 2010.

Comedy Central orders animated show, gets righteous [THR Live Feed]

This weeks Simpsons journeyed into the fanfic-writing mind of little Lisa Simpson. After she meets Juliet, voiced by Blunt, the two escape to a world in their imagination. But their new-found friendship isn't meant to last. Their magical world begins to bleed into their real lives a bit too much.

But the best part of the entire episode is when Nelson Muntz pops up with his headless Darth Vader doll, which he presses against his Vader's "girlfriend," a broke-down Malibu Stacy. Excellent.

Enjoy the entire episode below:

Secrets of the Shopping Mall.

In this young adult novel, two kids run away from home to escape a troubled home life and the King Kobra gang. They travel to find Paradise Park, which turns out to be a shopping mall, and then they don't have enough money to leave. But they soon discover that the mall's mannequins come to life at night. And the leader of the mannequins, Barbie, suspects the kids of being "mouth breathers," the mannequins' greatest enemies. If the kids are found guilty of mouth-breathing, they'll be executed! (Seems only fair.)

The Ultimate Mallworld.

Author S.P. Somtow collected all the stories he'd written for Asimov's Science Fiction about a planet-sized shopping mall into this collected edition. An alien race, the Selespridar, have locked the Earth and most of the solar system behind a force field because the rest of the galaxy doesnt want to associate with us. To keep us distracted, we have Mallworld, which includes deadly pursuits like "Human Pinball" and the Way Out Suicide Parlors, which include 300 different ways to die.

Chopping Mall.

In this 1986 movie, a group of teens sneak into a mall after hours to have some fun "testing out" the beds. But the mall has installed new security robots, which go haywire and turn into "Killbots." Every time one of the robots kills someone, it says, "Thank you. Have a nice day." Best line of dialogue: "Let's send these fuckers a Rambo-gram." You can watch the entire thing here, but here's the film's most famous exploding-head scene:

Dawn of the Dead.

The last survivors of the relentless zombie assault hole up in the Monroeville mall, and it works out okay for a while... until a biker gang breaks into the mall intent on looting. And those fuckers let in a huge swarm of zombies, killing everything in their path. Fuckers. The 2004 remake, directed by Zack Snyder, keeps the idea of people barricaded inside a mall, but no biker gang.

Rabid.

In this early David Cronenberg classic, a mutant strain of rabies spreads like wildfire, turning people into deadly zombie-like maniacs. Rabid shoppers tear people limb from limb, and the mall's Santa Claus gets shot to death by a careless police officer. Here's the trailer:

Project: New Man.

The first issue of this short-lived superhero comic is called "Mall Massacre," and it's just what it sounds like. New Man has to fight a shopping-mall killer who uses a super high-tech weapon that "doesn't leave a lot to body bag." His last rampage left 17 dead and 12 injured. (Click cover to enlarge.) You can read the whole thing online here. There's also an issue of Marvel Comics Presents, featuring Wolverine, called "Mall Massacre," but I was unable to find out much about it other than the fact that it's part of the "Against A Rogue God" storyline.

Doctor Who.

In the classic series, the Nestene Consciousness can implant itself into anything made of plastic — including special shop window dummies. And these dummies come to life and start massacring people. But the new series, in its first episode, finally brought these deadly Auton dummies where they belonged — to a busy shoppping centre. Here are some great Auton moments from "Rose":


Screams From A Mall.

When The Simpsons' Bart and Lisa start writing for the "Itchy and Scratchy" cartoon, they come up with an instant classic. Okay, it's not technically science fiction. (Although Itchy and Scatchy have visited the Moon before, and Scratchy can apparently survive without his skin.)

Night Of The Comet.

Thanks to Amy Vernon for suggesting this one! A comet passes over the Earth, killing most people instantly. Only those who are shielded by metal survive, and anyone who was partially exposed turns into a killer zombie. So our valley girl protagonists handle the desolation the only sensible way — by going to the mall! Ohmygod! Unfortunately, their mall jaunt turns into a shootout, and then they're taken prisoner by psycho stock boys:

Dead Rising.

You're a photojournalist, trapped inside a zombie-filled mall, in this awesome video game. Anything you can lay your hands on becomes a weapon, in your fight to survive and uncover the truth about the zombie plague.

Bonus: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Okay, this one isn't really a massacre, but we had to throw it in there anyway. Bill and Ted bring a bunch of historical figures to a shopping mall, where they cause total insane havoc. Check out Joan of Arc's aerobics routine:

Additional reporting by Katharine Duckett.

This film is famous for such awesome dialogue as "It was dusk. I could tell because the sun was going down." And the bit in the scene above, where Mary-Belle Monaghan says she'll love her guy until she day she dies... and then she dies a second later. [IMDB]

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Anne Hathaway Jodie Foster and Seth Rogen are all already down for celebrity cameos. Can you elaborate on their roles?

We actually recorded Ellen Page this week. Jodie Foster is in a trilogy episode, it's powerful women through history. We do a parody of The Fountainhead where Maggie Simpson is in a preschool, where she trying to build these beautiful block buildings and the preschool teacher keeps knocking them down for being creative. In at the end she goes on trial like in the end of The Fountainhead, and Jodie Foster does her voice.

Anne Hathaway is really sweet and Bart likes her and tries to hide his true identity from her, [and pretend] that he's not a brat. But she eventually she finds out that he lied to them and they break up, but she was so much fun to work with.

Seth Rogen also co-wrote the episode. What he does is the comic book guy creates a superhero called Everyman. His power is power that whatever comic book he touches, he gets that power. So they make a movie staring Homer and Homer is overweight and doesn't look like a superhero, so Seth Rogen plays the personal trainer who is going to get him into shape.

Does it frustrate you that you can't do something about Sarah Palin right now?

No I don't know what people are gonna think about her in 6 months, she may not even be around. I've already seen the Tina Fey sketch and I thought that was really funny. There was a big flip, last week, in terms of what people think.

Everyone loves the "Treehouse Of Horror" after 19 years of doing it are you having a tough time coming up with that big episode this year?

No,this year we really made a fun one. It airs November 2nd, so we're hoping doing a little thing about the election where Homer tries to vote for Obama but the machine keeps changing it to McCain and finally kills him. We do a satire of the fact that they can take dead celebrities and put them in commercials. So Homer starts killing living celebrities so he can put them in commercials. Then we have a parody for the first time of The Great Pumpkin from Charlie Brown. Our character The Grand Pumpkin, totally different legally, comes to life and is so mad about the way humans treat pumpkins that he tries to kill them all.

Do you think there should be an ending to the show?

We signed the cast for four years, including this one, just recently. The Emmy was wonderful. I really feel like creatively we're still doing terrific work I don't see an end for a while. The movie and the ride did really well.

Who are some of your favorite long-running side characters on The Simpsons?

Kelsey Grammer is always hilarious and can sing really well. It's so much fun having someone who is trying to kill Bart who is so smooth and the same time so violent. Phil Hartman — when he passed away we retired his character [Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz] because nobody else could do it like him. Jon Lovitz somebody makes me laugh. he would ad lib so much. As far as the regulars, Comic Book Guy and Moe.

So Homer is an Obama supporter?

It's time for a change, so he actually is going to vote for Obama. So he goes to vote and it says one vote for McCain, he tries to hit it again and it says two votes for McCain and then he hits it three times and there are three votes for McCain. The machine starts trying to kill him and it says, "must warn President McCain."

Everyone loves Spider-Pig. When is Spider-Pig coming back?

The biggest thing with the movie is we wanted it to be stand alone. But everybody like plopper so we thought we'd bring him back. If we had an episode we'll do it. I think he was the break out character of the movie

I love it when The Simpsons incorporates new technology into the episodes will their be any stunning or crazy science fiction moments like Homer breaking over into our world again?

We have an episode that will air in March where homer gets some poison to kill some rats in his kitchen that are like Ratatouille, and he leaves Maggie on the doorstep of the convent and they take her and it becomes a whole Davinici Code. They have some use for Maggie in this convent that may involve world peace. It's got National Treasure elements in it. It's a really cool complicated story. It's a little more visually stylistic.

If we had a funny comedic presence for something we haven't done before, I thought the 3D Halloween show I thought was really great. We did pretty much what you wanted to do with it. We try things as they come along, if something has a good comedic purpose, we will use it.

Previously, Jean told SciFi Wire:

What happens is Bart gets a Christmas present from a 99 Cent store, and it turns out to be a Transformer. They take over Springfield, and they’re fighting all over the place. Then Marge says to the Transformers, ‘Why do you have to fight?’ And they go, ‘We agree. We’ll just team up and take over you guys.’

When io9 contacted Jean to expound further on the plot, he would say only:

You haven’t been parodied till The Simpsons parodies you.

We're rooting for at least some attempt to parody that robo-watersports moment in the flick. And of course, it won't be difficult to make something funny-scary out of lying on top of your best auto-friend to make out with your girlfriend.

[via SciFi Wire]