Toy soldiers: After mining ’70s cop shows, ’80s sitcoms and every nerdiculous superhero, Hollywood directors are finally turning to toy lines for movie ideas. Transformers is a hit, G.I. Joe is on its way, and wait—Stretch Armstrong? A rubber guy filled with sand as a movie hero? Isn’t that basically Jim Carey? Film School Rejects made a list of 10 other toylines that should get their own movie, along with plot, director and casting suggestions. Will you wait in line for Hungry Hungry Hippos starring Eddie Murphy and Jack Black in fat suits? Probably at bit.ly/toymovies.
Gone: Sometimes popular TV shows have unpopular characters who simply disappear, forgotten, like the victims of some South American dictatorship. Sloshspot remembers. Giovanni Ribisi as Phoebe’s kooky brother on Friends? Gone. The middle sister from Family Matters? Vanished. Cody from Step by Step? Replaced with a gay hairdresser. The original Aunt Vivian from Fresh Prince? History. Eric’s sister from That ’70s Show? You can guess the rest at bit.ly/vanished.
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