Even though the episodes are often hit or miss lately, one of the things I love about “South Park” is how timely it can be. The show’s short production time allows it to rip on current events. Tonight’s episode was no different — it had fun with the results of this year’s presidential election.

If you ever wondered how the show manages to keep to such a tight schedule, check out “6 Days to South Park.” This series of video clips gives some behind the scenes insight.

If, like me, you happened to “miss” the 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards — I opted to watch my DVD set of “the Simpsons: the Complete Sixth Season” while folding my laundry instead — chances are you missed the medley of television theme songs performed by Josh Groban. Honestly, I’m sorry I missed seeing that live, not because I’m a Grobanite (I’m not.), but because I thought it really kicked ass.

The video is below. An annotated list of the 27 included theme songs (complete with theme titles [if available], cameo appearances and the points in time where each theme occurs) is after the jump.

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Rent will hit the big screen again. This time around it won’t be a film adaptation, but rather a filmed performance.

Playbill reports that the musical’s final Broadway performance on September 7 (June 1 was the original closing date.) will be filmed as part of Sony Pictures’ venture “the Hot Ticket.” The performance will play in movie theatres nationwide in late September.

The film version of Rent was released in late 2005. Tracie Thoms (pictured at right with Anthony Rapp) played Joanne in the film and will reprise the role onstage. Her run begins today and ends on the show’s closing night. By all accounts, it looks like she’ll have the distinction of appearing in two film versions of Rent in the same role.

Prior to starring in the 2005 film, Thoms auditioned several times for the stage production but was never cast.

Despite banking on the character’s popularity, Portfolio.com illustrates how Warner Bros. has seen a loss of revenue (adjusted for inflation) with each successive Batman movie.

These are my links for 7 Jun:

• “Are We Rome?” | Salon Books - Hollowed out by arrogance, corruption and a bloated military, the greatest empire the world has ever known fell. Is America doomed to follow in its footsteps?
• What was so special about the ‘57 Chevy? - Why an otherwise unremarkable car has a devoted following.
• Deluge of peanuts brings back ‘Jericho’ TV show - An online protest involving 20 tons of peanuts delivered to CBS Entertainment in New York and California has succeeded in bringing back the television show Jericho, which the network canceled last month.
• Apple, AT&T stores prepare for iPhone frenzy | CNET News.com - With a little over two weeks until the iPhone hits store shelves, Apple and AT&T retail sales representatives say they are preparing for a quick sellout and huge crowds on the June 29 launch date.

I went to see Meet the Robinsons the other day, a fun, albeit slightly predictible movie about saving the future. (Get it? Predictible? Future? HA!)

The movie centers on Lewis, an incredibly bright pre-teen orphan who is regularly turned down by parents who consider adopting him. The rejection motivates him to find his mother, and neither he nor anyone at the orphanage know anything about her. Lewis, a young inventor, designs a machine to unlock his memories and help him find her. His invention, like many before it, fails and he is then approached by a mysterious stranger who encourages him to fix it.

Entertaining as the movie is, I couldn’t help see similarities to another movie — a series of movies, really — about time travel: Back to the Future. Besides the obvious (time travel), you’ve got inventors, run-ins with relatives distant by generation, and a bully bent on keeping it from happening. Meet the Robinsons is also a formulaic Disney movie with no real breakthrough characters or concepts. It’s just fun, and that’s all you need.

(image via IMDb)

Alanis Morissette offers her video rendition of the Black Eyed Peas ditty “My Humps.”

I absolutely hated the song when it first came out a few years ago. I now have a higher appreciation for it.

(video via Excalibear)