Operation Hot Mother

Buster: My Army training tells me... that this is going to be a hot mission.

Michael: What? A hot mission?

Buster: Yes. I create a diversion, and you grab George Michael and go. We need a name. Maybe "Operation Hot Mother".

Michael: No, le-let's try to top that.

Narrator: They never did, and later, "Operation Hot Mother" was underway.

Illustrator Kyle Hilton's latest Arrested Development paper doll, Buster Bluth.

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Yabba-Dabba-Don't

"At this point the dinosaur in the backseat pokes its head through the roof and the driver places two small children on top of it. Now he's not only endangering his own life, but their lives as well. "

(From the Family Guy, episode Quagmire's Baby)

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Mr. Manager Of The Banana Stand

Illustrator Kyle Hilton has released his paper doll of George Michael Bluth. That's one fine banana mascot costume.

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Watch Out for Hop-Ons

I Tawt I Taw An Angry Bird

Daffy is already insane and Tweety Bird is clearly repressing a lot of anger. I can forgive the inclusion of Woody Woodpecker to fill out the line up, even though he's not a Looney Tunes. (Angry Birds meets Looney Tunes Birds by Olechka via Gamefreaks)

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Cyber Bowl Sunday: The Battle For Planet Robot

Autocons vs Deceptibots: What team are you on?

To be honest, I'm about as invested in this as I am in the Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Green Bay Packers game. But I suppose if the Super Bowl was being played by intergalactic transformers, I'd probably tune in. (Cyber Bowl Sunday by D4N13L at Riptapparel)

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The Dude Invitational

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Let's do the Time Warp (Again!)

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Come Together, Right Now, Over Me

So Paul McCartney is Boba Fett to John Lennon's Darth Vader? (StarWalk at TeeFury, by low718)

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Cantina Road

King's Quest's Silver Hammer

A Day in the Life of Abbey Road

Can You Tell Me How To Get, How To Get To Batman Street?

Sesame Street meets Batman by Matthew Benkner. Grover is Batman, Elmo is Robin, Ernie is the Joker, Bert is Mr. Freeze, Telly is the Penguin, Oscar is Two Face, Cookie Monster is Clayface, and the Count is Ra's al Ghul. (Link via Gamefreaks)

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The Vitruvian Big Bird

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The Anatomical Very Hungry Caterpillar

The inside of a caterpillar is quite disgusting, but it doesn't explain how he managed to eat one apple, two pears, three plums... (The Anatomical Very Hungry Caterpillar by Jason Freeny)

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The Very Explosive Caterpillar

Inappropriate Little Golden Books

The Battlestar Bears Learn About Cylons

CSI: 8-Bit

Things really went to pieces after the first guy jumped. (8-Bit Investigation by Aled Lewis)

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Donkey Kong In The Mist

The Tragedy Of Blinky, Pinky, Inky And Clyde

Sincerely Yours, The Breakfast Club

Claire's Breakfast in the East by Augie Pagan for Gallery 1988's upcoming John Hughes tribute show. Of course I don't think John Bender (or Judd Nelson for that matter) was ever that young.

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Super Mario Porn

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McBaaaaaaaaaain!

How have I possibly missed this all these years?! The clips of McBain movies shown in several Simspsons episodes are all part of the same film, lovingly strung together above. I am in awe! (Link via Splitsider, thanks @boyreporter)

Ice to see you!

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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: The Board Game

The question isn't "what are we going to do," the question is "what aren't we going to do?"

Illustrator Maxim Dalton's piece for Gallery 1988's upcoming John Hughes tribute show. Click through to his site for some game board details. (Link via Nag on the Lake)

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Laura L.I.N.N.E.Y.

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Cosplay Star Wars Last Supper

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SNOMG! It's The Snowpocalypse, A Snownami!

“But first, let’s check the death count from the killer storm bearing down on us like a shotgun full of snow!” – Kent Brockman

“Well Kent, as of now the death count is zero, but it is ready to shoot right up.” – Meterologist

“Oh my god. Damn you, snow!” – Brockman

I think the Simpsons, as usual, captured it best. Though we did out best at work today, crowdsourcing the terms: oblizzarate, snowmageddon, The Blizzard of Oz and The Fast and the Flurrious.

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Captain RibMan has a dream: "From the sandy hills of Tatooine, let freedom ring; Let freedom ring from the mountains of Mordor; Let freedom ring from the plains of Rigel VII; Let freedom ring from the hallowed halls of Hogwarts. From every tree in Pandora, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every alien village and every shire, from every castle to every city in the clouds, we will be able to speed up that day when all of The Force’s children—black men and white men and half-black-half-white men from Cheron from that one Trek episode, Muggles and wizards, those who want to believe and the skeptics, Jedi and Sith, Time Lords and Daleks, will be able to join hands and sing the words of the old Ewok spiritual, “Yub nub, yub nub.”

Available on redbubble and for cheap for a couple more hours on TeeFury.

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