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The news this week that Barack Obama is distantly related to, among others, Brad Pitt, and that Hillary Clinton is, albeit at a distance, connected by family to Angelina Jolie, led to Pretty On the Outside blog fashioning these grotesque morphs of the Democratic candidates with their respective kinfolk.

I met Wilford Brimley once, on the set of Hard Target, John Woo’s first U.S. production. I had no idea he was a master of club music remixes, as these YouTubes, here, here, here, and especially here, of his Liberty Medical commercials clearly demonstrate.

Go ahead, Elastigirl: Look behind the door….

Here’s more proof, as if you needed it, that you can make anything look like anything else with a skilled-enough editor. On this trailer, a 22-year-old film student named Breanne (YouTube member name: forensicator8) decapitates director Brad Bird’s 2004 Oscar-winning masterpiece, The Incredibles, changing it from a high-spirited romp into a fever dream of dread.

Think of it as a meta-reversal on Rob Ryang’s 2005 Shining trailer, which reframed the terror of Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, giving it back as a cheesy-but-tender father-son dramedy. Now, I’m just waiting to see if some Gandalf out there can turn Last Year at Marienbad into a high-speed action movie. Impress me.

Some people find Hillary Clinton’s campaign logic confusing. You know: Offering the vice-presidency to Obama when he has more delegates; campaigning on “experience” when she’s held elected office for a shorter time period than he has, etc.

But it’s not all that hard to understand, as these 1-minute shorts make clear. Just watch, and ignore your better judgment. Soon it will all be perfectly clear.

The almost certainly pseudonymous Winston Rowntree is my new favorite comic strip artist in the world, just based on these two pieces from his ongoing Subnormality series: an explanation of how wack bands top the charts, and a quick guide on how to choose when picking air fresheners for your car.

This Skittles “Midas Touch” commercial is a thing of perverse beauty, but you’ve gotta watch the 45-second version, here, with the brief monologue in the center, to glom the true art of it.

Please: Would someone just shoot me?

According to this article in Animation Magazine, Tyler Perry is in discussions to do—help me—a Madea cartoon series:

Perry’s yet untitled project will follow his character Madea on her comedic trials and tribulations, and will teach “children about family values, in a way that only Madea could!” “After receiving thousands of letters from parents telling me how much their kids love Madea and realizing that a lot of the plays were not kid friendly,” says Perry, “I wanted to do something more appropriate and this seems to be it. A ‘Madea’ animation looks like the best way.”

Actually, the really best way would be for people to stop watching movies and plays with Madea in them, no?

Above: A finalist in the “Unintentionally Hilarious New York Times Headlines” category, awarded by MEDIA ASSASSIN, for a Wednesday piece about, of all things, small children…and television.

But, O.K. Let’s say they missed the last 300-plus years of slang. Didn’t anyone at the Times copy desk ever see the “Johnson! Pecker!” sequence, below, from Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me?