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I only now realize I should have called this blog That's So Rubin!

This week, a trailer dropped for the upcoming comedy Let's Go To Prison, a film with an unprecedented pedigree.

- Cowritten by Reno 911/The State's Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant, and Michael Patrick Jann. I was unfamiliar with Jann's name, but his IMDb profile helpfully notes he "was the primary director of film/video material for 'The State." He also directed the underrated Drop Dead Gorgeous.

- Starring Arrested Development's Will Arnett, aka GOB (sidenote - third season of Arrested Development finally comes out on DVD this week).

- Directed by Mr. Show's Bob Odenkirk.




There's actually nothing particularly exciting about the trailer. I winced at the lame Brokeback Mountain joke (which, to be fair, doesn't look like it will actually be in the movie). Still, for anyone that knows even some of those names this is a must see.

A few months ago I went on a fake-banner-ad production spree.

I did a few of them. I wanted to use them on CollegeHumor, but I could never figure out where I could fit them in. I really like them, so I'd like to figure something out one day.

Here's the first in the series:



In other news, images uploaded via Blogger.com end up getting scaled down. Every time I want to post a larger image, I end up having to use my Flickr account. Is there some obvious soloution everybody but me knows about?

From YouTube:



So let me get this straight. It's an ad, brought to you by another ad, on a branded channel, and you can buy a ringtone of the whole mess?

I signed up for a MySpace comedy account tonight.

When you sign up, you can categorize your comedy by choosing up to three keywords from a list. And what a list! They included everything but prop comic!



Oh wait, nevermind - they got it.


(more on why I signed up for a MySpace comedy account soon)

Nobody's exactly sure who wrote this update for CollegeHumor, but have you ever noticed how Professor Amazing and Jeff Rubin are never in the same place at the same time?

NBC made a special promoting their new Fall shows. So that anybody might be interested in watching, they shot eight-and-a-half glorious minutes of original The Office footage to wrap around it.

Here's all The Office stuff and none of the previews.

(via OfficeTally, an Office blog that manages to post several The Office releated news items every day)

A good way to measure the the relative worth of two topics is to compare the word count of their respective Wikipedia articles.

For instance, the article about He-Man's nemesis Skeletor is 7,002 words long. However, the article about Optimus Prime is a staggering 10,004 words. Thus, Optimus Prime is about 1.4 times more important than Skeletor.

The article about air is 1,878 words. Therefore, Optimus Prime is about 5.3 times more important than air.

I always feel bad for people that snore. Everyone hates them, but it's not their fault! They can't help it.

They're like werewolves -they wake up and everyone's just horrified by them and they're like "what did I do last night?!?!"

There's a lot of street performers at Fisherman's Wharf. Usually they are pretty easy to ignore, but this is one we couldn't resist.

This guy sits next to a sign that says "Live Impressions - Shout Out a Star! $1." You have to pick a celebrity off his list, but there were many to choose from. My friend Dave ponied up two dollars and requested Sidney Poitier.

It's a scene from 1963's The Long Ships.

My friends and I realized when we walked away that none of us had any idea what a good Sidney Poitier impression was like. What do you guys think?



Sidney Poitier Impression on Vimeo

Scott went on The Star Ledger's Munchmobile to find the best pizza in New Jersey. Over the course of a single day, him and a group of strangers got to visit seven great NJ pizzerias in search of the best slice. Then, someone asks them what they thought and writes an article about it.

"If you pass out, I get your slices," Scott Wiener of Cranford announced at one point.

As I write these very words my first ever unsupervised baking project (chocolate chip cookies, of course) is hurdling towards ediblility in the oven.

If all the raw dough I ate is any indication, they're going to be delicious.

I believe everyone is born with a mission. I was fourteen years old when I discovered my mission - to introduce as many people as I can to Bike Safety Camp.

As the name implies, Bike Safety Camp is a children's educational video about bike safety.

Now, I'm something of an expert on stupid children's safety films. Blockbuster used to rent them for free, so my bored friends and I would take them out and rip on them. Please, try to understand how serious I am when I say that Bike Safety Camp is the greatest safety video of all time.

I first saw this masterpiece in 7th grade health class. I can still remember how my class facetiously pumped their fists in the air in time with "Wear A Bicycle Helmet (Every Time That You Ride"). That summer, I obtained a copy on VHS from a friend in summer camp (he sent it to me after the summer was over, thanks again Justin).

For a time, I worried what would happen if my VHS of Bike Safety Camp suddenly fell apart. Would I ever be able to find another copy? How would I share it with my children?

Thankfully, I no longer have to worry. A friend of mine graciously indulged me and ripped the VHS to DVD. Of course, I then began to wonder if anyone would even know to look for the DVD if something horrible happened to me. So just to be sure, I uploaded it to YouTube.

I've shared this video with every friend I met in public school, private school, college, work, and everywhere in between. Now, dear blog reader, I am sharing it with you.

Bike Safety Camp is a little over 20 minutes long, so I had to break it up into three parts. Trust me, it's worth it. I'm going to go ahead and embed part 1. Please, share and enjoy!



Here's part 2 and part 3.

I see some vile footage while sorting through CollegeHumor movie submissions, but I can think of very few times a video has made me say "oh god" and turn away. I had another one last week.

I don't want to say what it was of just yet. You should see the reactions it elicited first. Thanks Ricky's flickr!

The Perry Bible Fellowship website has a new layout. It's as good an excuse as any to read them all over again.

I've been struggling to decide which three I'd like to order prints of. I'm leaning on Orbitoid Jones, Sgt. Grumbles, and Suicide Train. I'm only getting three because I had to draw the line somewhere.

By now, even grown-ups know that MySpace is the radical new place for kids to hang out.

This was the featured video on MySpace's front page today. I can only assume it's prominent placement means a lot of money changed hands. I think it's also safe to assume that someone was paid to write this description:


The best part about advertising on MySpace is that it's not just any website. It's a community. Look at the users rave about Garfield, and build excitement for the product:

Ugh. Survivor: The Ride. I don't know where to begin.

During college, my roommates and I were pretty into Survivor. It was a weekly house event. So I was ecstatic to learn that there was going to be a Survivor: The Ride within driving distance while we were on vacation in San Francisco together. It promised to combine three of my favorite things - roller coasters, Survivor, and stupid shit.

I'm sorry to report that the ride itself is pretty poor. However, the pre-ride Tribal Challenge made it all worth it.

Before you board, a park employee splits a ride's worth of people up into four teams. The challenge is hosted, via video, by Survivor All-Stars Jenna Morasca and Ethan Zohn. The pair teach you a dance and a song. Supposedly, the team who performs the best will get the other teams wet. The clearer (and meaner) way to put it is the team who performs the worst gets the wettest.

The problem with the game, beyond it's own inherent stupidity, is that it's immediately clear nobody is paying attention. The park employees are too busy contemplating how much they hate their job and making sure nobody falls off the ride - in that order. Also, while waiting in line you'll watch the ride go by at least a dozen times. Eventually, you'll notice a conspicuous lack of water on the ride. So, during most cycles of the game Jenna and Ethan's instructions and awful chant are barely even acknowledged.



Survivor: The Ride - Tribal Challenge on Vimeo

I tried to document every aspect of my whole Survivor: The Ride experience so that Survivor fans can see everything there is to see without actually wasting their time.