Afternoon Links: Breaking Bad's Back, You Heard?
It’s a lonely day for the handful of humans who aren’t watching Breaking Bad. The final season’s second-half premiere numbers almost doubled those of the Season 5 premiere, hooking 5.9 million pairs of eyeballs (the parties thrown in the show’s honor looked … interesting!), and now we’re all caught up in the aftermath: reviewing Badger’s Star Trek monologue (and animating it), MythBusting, and just enjoying the sweet climax that comes after so much Internet buzz buildup.
- A picture of Justin Bieber from Thanksgiving 2012, holding a guitar to conceal his genitals during a serenade for his grandmother, has been dropped out of a time machine drone.
- Stream the new Superchunk here, if you please.
- World War Z is Brad Pitt’s highest-grossing film.
- “Smash Mouth is what would have happened if Limp Bizkit made love to a Lisa Frank poster. In theory, that sounds kind of amazing. In practice, it is not.” —The 15 Most Hated Bands of the Last 30 Years
- You’re tumbling, it’s humbling, you’re falling, you’re mumbling.
- “They bite because they’re hungry, and testicles sit nicely in their mouth.”
- Baby got plans for retirement: Happy 50th, Sir Mix-A-Lot.
- Are you there, @God? I’m trapped in a church. See also: Good luck making the Twitter Party Suite the place to be.
- Garcelle Beauvais wrote a book for mixed-race kids.
- Here’s Jorma Taccone in a Haim music video.
- The Onion is always punking you.
- Blender of genres (Lincoln/vampires, Austen/zombies) Seth Grahame-Smith gets a put pilot commitment from NBC for his prison drama Paradise.
- Does my ass look terrifying in this Evil Dead Necronomikini? If this is the link to ring your bells, feel free to check out the NSFW gallery from Fetish Heat.
- The tight-knit pack of Bret Easton Ellis’s imaginary friends.
- Leno’s final show is scheduled for February 6.
- Dads at One Direction concerts: How did they forget their iPads?
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