Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which came out 10 years ago this August, had a strong reception at San Diego Comic-Con and received glowing reviews from critics, but the third best comic book movie of the 2010s was a dud at the box office. It made $48.1 million (including only $10.5 million during its opening weekend) on a reported $60 million-plus budget, causing Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane to tweet, “World: 1, Scott Pilgrim: 0.” Edgar Wright has not forgotten this since-deleted burn.

“It opened the same weekend as The Expendables and Eat Pray Love. I remember getting an email from Marc Platt, one of the film’s producers, on the Friday asking Universal to put more into the spend and predicting doom for the weekend. And I thought — naively — I thought, Well, it’s only Friday morning, how could they know? They know,” the director and co-writer told Entertainment Weekly in a new oral history about Scott Pilgrim. “It opened at number five.” The low box office gross became a punchline, Wright remembers, including the aforementioned MacFarlane tweet:

“I’ve never liked Seth MacFarlane, because that weekend he tweeted [‘World: 1, Scott Pilgrim: 0’]. I was like, f*ck you. And then I lay in wait until 8 Million Ways to Die in the West came out, or whatever it was called [Ed. Note: close enough, it was A Million Ways to Die in the West], and I rubbed my hands with glee. I didn’t tweet anything because I’m not a total monster [laughter]”

That’s impressive restraint from Wright, because while A Million Ways to Die in the West made more money, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a million times better. If only Million Ways star Charlize Theron was in Scott Pilgrim. Every other famous person we love (Chris Evans, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin, Brie Larson, Aubrey Plaza, Anna Kendrick, Ellen Wong, Alison Pill, Mae Whitman, Bill Hader, etc.) was.

(Via Entertainment Weekly)

Peter Sarsgaard is one of those actors you know, but who you might not know you know. He has a credits list a mile long and has worked with more or less everyone. He’s been in awards darlings, he’s been in bombs. And unlike a lot of prolific “that guy” actors, he doesn’t have a terribly memorable face. He’s somehow both an oddball and a chameleon, a guy who seems to show up in everything but never quite in the same way.

Because he seems like the kind of actor who’s in everything but whose name my aunt or in-laws probably couldn’t summon were they to ever encounter him, I asked him who he most often gets confused for. He mentioned John Malkovich, a connection I never made before, can instantly understand. They’re both carefully spoken and kind of indefinably odd. Sarsgaard is more vulnerable somehow though, more ingratiating in his oddness. I’ve seen him play a lot of bookish intellectuals — like the “house tuner” in Sound Of Silence — but also tough guys and rednecks and sensitive tough guy rednecks — Chuck in Lovelace, memorable roles in Jarhead and Salton Sea. It’s a combination that’s… again, mostly unique to him.

This month he’s in Mr. Jones, a movie about a Welsh reporter who travels to the USSR in the 1930s to see “Stalin’s Famine” first hand. Sarsgaard plays Walter Duranty, the NY Times Moscow bureau chief who initially won acclaim for his reporting and even a Pulitzer Prize, but later was found to have helped whitewash a famine in Ukraine to avoid offending Stalin, and even smearing reporters who tried to tell the truth.

Duranty is a fascinating character, a sort of drugged-out, sexed up, one-legged Stalinian Colonel Kurtz, who trades his morality for a life of cushy decadence among the Soviet literati (or so the movie depicts it). In fact, one of my biggest criticisms of Mr. Jones is that it’s about the teetotalling boy scout, Gareth Jones (played by James Norton), and not about Sarsgaard’s Duranty, who seems far more interesting on just about every level. But that’s kind of Peter Sarsgaard, he’s made a career embodying weirdos and creeps you secretly want more of.

I spoke to him by phone this week, and though he speaks slowly, seeming to choose his words as carefully as one of his characters, all he needed was a little nudge to dive into some great stories. I asked him about Salton Sea (2002), probably the first role I ever noticed him in (playing Val Kilmer’s sensitive speed freak buddy), and he told me about Val Kilmer playing weird pranks. I asked him about method acting, and he told me about the director of Boys Don’t Cry telling him she thought she’d hired a man. I felt like I barely scratched the surface in the time we had, but it was a fun one.

Well, I’m just going to get into the highbrow stuff first. Is this the first time that you’ve had your bare butt in a film?

Oh, no. No. Endlessly, endlessly. No, it’s the first time I’ve had a prosthetic leg and a bare ass in a movie, probably. Being naked is one thing, being naked in the way that I was, was strange.

Any special preparation for that?

No, no. I think my special preparation is to just chill out. The nice thing is [Mr. Jones director] Agnieszka Holland is such a straight shooter, such an excellent person and has lived through so much personally that it was nothing to her. It was just what it said in the script. So we did it.

I’ve always been interested in actors with your level of recognizability, where you’re so prolific as a character actor that people might have trouble pinning you to one specific role. Are there any other actors that you get confused for?

Definitely. No. I would say that when I first started acting, I would get asked if I was related to John Malkovich or something. But I think that just has to do with the way I sound, or maybe some of the characters I’ve played. But no, not particularly. Not really anyone else in particular.

So your character in this, Walter Duranty, he feels kind of like, I don’t know, like the Stalinist Colonel Kurtz. Did you do a lot of research about him? What did you think about the character?

Yeah, I read this book called Stalin’s Apologist, which is a fantastic read. I perused another one that I don’t remember the title of, but it’s pretty interesting as a life. The people that he knew, the people that he associated within the art world, he really wanted to be like a novelist, to be an artist. And the journalism was more of a fallback, even though he ended up winning the Pulitzer for it. So I think a lot of his bad decisions were to try to keep up this lifestyle that he had going. Like most of us, most of our bad decisions come from personal greed. I don’t think he had much of a true personal ideology.

I was interested in that storyline of him living this sort of decadent lifestyle in Moscow. Was there any more of that that didn’t make the final cut?

No. That was basically it. I mean, the movie was so sprawling and such a massive movie. It was always really focused on Gareth, as it should be. I mean, yeah, there’s plenty of stories about… You could do a whole movie about Walter Duranty. He had a child with, I think she was his maid, a Russian woman, and I personally think that’s one of the reasons why he had trouble crossing Stalin or anyone in the government or saying anything bad and ruining his access. It was all about access for these journalists that were coming, and the fancy people that are coming to visit him, his access to Stalin and all that stuff. So, I think if he had been a problem and not been allowed to stay in the country, he couldn’t have been with his own kid, couldn’t have even taken the kid with him. So he got into plenty of sticky situations.

I mean, what’s wild is like, this guy was a reporter in World War I, where people were dying and losing limbs all over the place. And then when he actually did lose his own leg, it was not war-related. He was on a train that went off the tracks. But no, he ended up in Hollywood kind of wanting to be involved in movies. The guy just… pretty wild, the scope of his life.

So my favorite role of yours I think is Salton Sea. I really love that movie. Do you have any memories from that set at all?

Oh, my God, Yeah. I really loved playing that character. That was a fun part. I remember my hair weave. I had a good hair weave in that movie. I actually remember, when I got the tattoo of Val on my arm, and when we did it, it actually was Val, and he hadn’t seen it. And I remember doing that, and I ad-libbed that whole portion because I think my line was just like, “Oh, look at the tattoo I got.”

And I was like, “Yeah, it’s of you.” And I don’t remember everything I said, but I was like, “Is it weird? Is it okay?”

I just remember the look on Val’s face. He was really fun to act with. He was such a prankster and… a really alive and keen guy. He was naughty, but really fun. And we just had a blast. He and I in some of those scenes were just riffing.

What kind of stuff did he pull on you?

Oh, I remember once, it was his closeup, and he dropped out of frame, and he put up a little doll and started doing all of his lines with a doll. He once gave me a rewrite that he had done of the scene. And he said, “I think we should do this.” And I’m pretty sure he was joking, but it’s always hard to tell with him. And it was in rhyming dialogue. Like, “I’ll be back.” “Oh, come on, Jack.” like back and forth, all rhymes for like two pages of one line each. And he was like, “No, I think this is what we should do.” And I was like, “You’re telling me I should memorize this and we’re going to do this?” He’s like, “Yeah.” “Have you shown Caruso this?” And he’s like, “No, but I think it’ll be good.”

This is a time when we were on a big movie, and I don’t find this to be true anymore, where you could really stretch the limits and explore all kinds of stuff, including changing some dialogue, especially in scenes that were not plot focused. …Yeah. Different time, really fun. All fun memories, like Vincent D’Onofrio, yet another intergalactic performance from him [as a speed dealer with a prosthetic nose named “Poo Bear”]. I mean, God, he really stretches it right to the edge. I loved it. It was a wild cast.

Are there sets that you’ve been on that maybe haven’t been fun while you were doing them, and then you saw the way the movie turned out, and you were blown away?

Most of the best movies I’ve done. Yeah. I wouldn’t say Salton Sea is one of the best movies I’ve done. It was a fun character, and it was fun to do, but sometimes it’s like if you’re having too much fun, no one’s minding the store. It’s hard work to make a movie. Confrontation is necessary. You have to have your idea, they have their idea. You’re hashing it out. It doesn’t need to be a fight, but it is two people that have a point of view. This is the way it works. It’s not just all like hanging out, having a barbecue. You know? Boys Don’t Cry was one of the most contentious sets I’ve been on, and it kind of needed to be. I don’t think the movie would have been what it was without it.

Do you remember any specific fights from that one?

Yeah. They never involved me, really. I mean, except Kim Peirce kept telling me that she thought she had hired a man, and why was I such a pussy? That’s a quote, actually. I think she thought that she was hiring a tough guy, and I wasn’t really a tough guy. I had to act it, and I didn’t walk around being like that. And she really wanted to create an environment where we were walking around being like that. I didn’t enjoy doing that. I’m not a very confrontational person, even though I play a lot of people who are. Really proud of the movie though. I feel like if you think about the issues that it contains, and I think this is its 20th anniversary or something this year. Pre-COVID we were going to do something, just because all the issues are so in the news right now.

But yeah, it was really hard, and there wasn’t enough money, and people will get upset when there’s not enough money, and people walked off the set, and all that kind of stuff. It was intense. I remember actually once Hilary Swank said, “I need you to treat me like I’m a man.” Because I wouldn’t treat her like she was a man when we weren’t acting, she was just Hilary. She was like, “I need you to do that.”

And later that day, we were standing on a hill, and I didn’t really realize we were on a hill, and she said something, and it kind of pissed me off, but not like that much. But I was like, “Oh, I’m supposed to like treat her, like, tough.” So I pushed her, and she rolled down the hill. And then of course, I was like, “Oh, my God. Oh my God. I’m so sorry.”

Is that a common thing, like maybe a director or other actors wanting you to be more method than you would be naturally?

Sometimes. Yeah. I mean, I think most of what I encounter is I wish people would have their heads more in the movie. I am from the method, I studied method acting with Actors Studio in college. So I’m from that background, and they used to always say, the method is whatever method you use. They would say Peter Sellers was a method actor. So the definition of that is kind of wishy-washy. To me, really, what it means is, we are here to work. There may be some people involved in this business that think that they’re doing this job to not work, that being an actor means having a good time. It’s hard work. It’s: have a method, have a way of doing it, have a point of view, pursue the point of view, fight for what you need, create your own dance floor and fucking dance on it.

You were talking about the director wanting you to be a tough guy. It seems like you always either play a white trash character or an aristocrat. It seems like you have this polarizing thing with your characters. What do you think that quality is about you?

Trying to think if that’s true. Recently, I feel like I’ve played a lot of people in government jobs, CIA, FBI, federal narcotics officers. I don’t see those as either. But I do kind of know what you mean. I think that, that’s the way people write scripts. I think people frequently latch onto the social position of someone in society and have that kind of lead. I will say that my favorite kind of character to play is probably just got like a background that’s very similar to my own, which is probably somewhere in the middle. My favorite characters, those types of things are not the most important. That’s why I like playing someone who’s in jail or in the military because you have a haircut that you probably didn’t spend a lot of time on, you wear all the same clothes as everybody else. And so, all the stuff that an audience will normally judge you on right away, they can’t. They have to look for something deeper, and that’s what I’m always hoping for.

‘Mr. Jones’ is available on digital June 19th and On Demand on July 3rd from Samuel Goldwyn Films. Vince Mancini is on Twitter. You can access his archive of reviews here.

Kentucky’s primary election took place Tuesday and many voters turned out to the polls. But because of the pandemic, several polling sites had shut down. Louisville, home to over 600,000, only had one single polling station open for its entire population. The lack of voting options led to some citizens waiting in line for hours to cast their ballot, and others being turned away completely. Ariana Grande saw news of the long voting lines and jumped into action, providing relief and words of encouragement to Kentucky voters.

Ariana Grande decided to support Kentucky voters by providing refreshments as they waited to vote. Announcing her actions on social media, the singer directed several coffee and food trucks to be stationed outside Louisville’s polling station. The singer urged voters to stay in line, even if the polls were closing. “please pull up, enjoy and use your voice today we need u,” she wrote.

This isn’t the first time the singer has supported local businesses in the past month. Last week, Grande used her massive platform to promote a local Black-owned coffee shop, South LA Cafe. After posting a photo of their coffee on social media, the coffee shop said they had over 150 customers in under half an hour.

Psst. Hey. You. Yeah, you, who else would I be addressing? Lean in. A little closer… a little closer… You looking to get your mind blown, friend? ‘Cause we’ve got the stuff. As you may know, fast food can get boring in a hurry, especially if its a weekly habit for you. That’s why “secret menus” exist. We’re not talking about menu hacks here, those involve too many complicated maneuvers or worse, self-assembly. We’re talking about the menu items that your favorite fast food joints are perfectly capable (and willing) to make but, for whatever reason, remain off-menu.

From Taco Bell to In-N-Out, we’ve put together a guide of all the secret menu fast food items that you need to try to be considered a true aficionado of the genre. Read on to peep all the secret deliciousness they have to offer for the people in the know, which after today, will be you!

Burger King

Unfortunately, because we decided to alphabetize this list for ease of navigation, it means we have to kick off our guide with Burger King, which you’ll find has one of the weakest secret menus across the whole fast food industry. Still, Burger King did a better job than Carl’s Jr — which doesn’t even have a secret menu. And while that isn’t saying much, the burger monarch does have some curious offerings.

The Rodeo Burger

The Rodeo Burger was once a BK menu staple until it was taken down and probably replaced with those awful chicken fries. Luckily, ordering a Double Whopper with cheese, ketchup, and mayo, and requesting that they add BBQ sauce, bacon and onion rings will get you pretty darn close. One bite into the Rodeo Burger you’ll wonder why Burger King has been playing you all this time by keeping this one a secret.

If your cashier doesn’t respond to the term “Rodeo Burger” just add the BBQ, bacon, and onion rings as additions and they’ll still put it together for you. Burger King has temporarily brought back the actual Rodeo Burger for a limited time over the years, but now that we’ve tried the secret menu method we’ve found that if it doesn’t have the double patty or bacon, it’s just not our kind of rodeo.

Frings

Seriously Burger King, why do you gotta do us like this?

Frings — a combination of french fries and onion rings in a single serving — should absolutely be a menu staple. When you order fries from Burger King and a stray onion ring or two makes its way into your order, it’s a pleasant surprise. But when you have an equal share of both fries and onion rings? You can plan out every bite of your meal and truly “have it your way.” Plus, you can add those fries and rings straight to whatever sandwich you’re eating.

Yes, you can simply ask for “Frings” and BK should know what’s up.

“The Suicide” And Other Notable Orders

When a secret menu item amounts to little more than additional meat patties, it just feels lazy. Burger King’s “Suicide” burger combines four meat patties with four slices of cheese for one heart attack. In addition to the Suicide, Burger King Whoppers can also be prepared with mustard in place of mayo and ketchup, or you could opt for the Burger King Club, which combines the crispy chicken sandwich with cheese bacon and tomato. These options are middling at best.

Chick-fil-A

Chick-fil-A has an official secret menu, but unfortunately, it’s only filled with menu hacks that require you to self assemble the food, like the Cookie Icedream Sandwich, which requires you to purchase soft serve ice cream in a cup and buy two chocolate chip cookies and press the thing together yourself. Luckily, Chick-fil-A fans came up with a few tweaks of their own that are definitely worth ordering and an improvement over the stock menu.

Fried Chicken Club Sandwich/Bacon On Everything

Chick-fil-A serves bacon at breakfast, so why they don’t have an official sandwich with bacon is puzzling. To enjoy a delicious chicken club sandwich, request that your Chicken Club — which consists of grilled chicken, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and cheese on a multigrain brioche bun — be made with a fried chicken breast instead, and you’ve instantly got yourself a better sandwich than anything on Chick-fil-A’s official menu.

You could also order a Deluxe Chicken Sandwich and just add bacon, it’s essentially the same thing but you get pickles with it and a white bun. See Chick-fil-A, this is why you need an official Chicken Bacon sandwich. Stop playing with us.

Spicy Char

Some Chick-fil-A’s will do this, and some won’t, but the Spicy Char is basically a spicy version of Chick-fil-A’s Grilled Chicken sandwich. Arguably, this is a better way to enjoy the grilled sandwich, offering an added kick of flavor to an otherwise dull piece of grilled chicken.

Now if only we could get some spicy nuggets.

Chipotle

Chipotle doesn’t have an official secret menu but considering their entire menu is fairly customizable, there are a lot of simple changes you may not be aware of that considerably expand the stock menu.

Nachos

You’d think Nachos would already be a Chipotle staple, but alas, you’re still required to order a burrito bowl and sub out that rice for chips. We’d recommend any meat and beans of your choosing, with grilled fajitas, green mild sauce, corn, cheese, and guacamole for an almost perfect serving of nachos.

The only thing that would make it better is some melted cheese on top, which is almost impossible considering everything at Chipotle is lukewarm at best.

Quesarito/Burritodilla

What’s better than a burrito? A burrito wrapped in a quesadilla. Chipotle’s got it, it’s called the Quesarito and it’s fairly popular. For a less extreme take, grab the Burritodilla, which is just a Chipotle quesadilla filled up with your favorite burrito fillings.

Five Guys

Five Guys doesn’t have much to offer by way of secret menu items because the menu is totally customizable. You want a hot dog in your cheeseburger? Just ask. Five Guys can grill onions, which means they can grill any vegetable, so get some grilled jalapenos, grilled green peppers, and grilled mushrooms on your burger. Anything goes at Five Guys! There are rumors that you can even add cheese to your cajun fries, but we have yet to see any photos circulating online of such a thing. (Send us some!)

Five Guys does have one major menu item that they might as well make a permanent addition.

The Patty Melt

Five Guys has a grilled cheese offering for those who want to skip out on the meat, but what that essentially means is that Five Guys is perfectly capable of making you a patty melt, all you have to do is add a meat patty to your grilled cheese. Go HAM and add some bacon to that baby and you’ve got one of Five Guys’ best menu items ever.

To think, it’s been lurking in plain sight all this time!

In-N-Out

In-N-Out has one of the best secret menus in the whole fast food industry. It’s so good that we wouldn’t be surprised if they invented the concept of the fast-food secret menu to begin with, so we thank and recognize them for that. With just three meal numbers, In-N-Out has a lot under the counter, but unfortunately, they still don’t have bacon.

Because In-N-Out has a visible Secret Menu on their website — dubbed the “Not So Secret Menu” — we’re going to skip over the advertised hidden items and go straight for the stuff they don’t tell you about. But in case you aren’t aware, at In-N-Out you can order your burger bunless (Protein Style), with a mustard grilled bun, grilled onions, and pickles (Animal Style), totally bunless (The Flying Dutchman) or stack meat and cheese as high as you want (3×3, 4×4, XxX). Now that we’ve covered the basics, let’s get wild.

Animal Style Burger With Chopped Chilis

A favorite of burger master Alvin Cailan, adding chopped chili peppers to your Double Double takes your Animal Style burger to the next level by adding some subtle heat. Chopped chiilis add a nice layer of complexity and an extra crunch to In-N-Out’s just-the-basics burger construction.

Animal Style Fries

For whatever reason In-N-Out doesn’t advertise the Animal Style fries on their Not So Secret Menu, but the customization is so popular that they even serve it in a special box that reads “Animal Style.” If you’re wondering, “can I add chopped chilis to this too?” The answer is absolutely! In truth, it’s the only way you should have them.

Neopolitan Shake/Rootbeer Float

In-N-Out’s Neopolitan Shake is simply an equal mix of their chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry shake flavors. Any of In-N-Out’s shakes — including the Neapolitan — can be turned into a rootbeer float, personally mixed by In-N-Out’s dedicated employees. We won’t show a picture of that because it tastes a million times better than it looks, but trust us: It’s bomb.

McDonald’s

McDonald’s has a few really great secret menu options and a lot of weird menu hacks that can get you the same food for cheaper. We won’t go into those — there are just too many — but let’s run through some of the lesser offerings real quick. Like at all the other fast-food burger joints, you can stack as many patties of meat in a burger that you want. So if you roll up to McDonald’s and suddenly have a hankering for a Pound and a Quarter Pounder(whoa), you can totally do that. You can also make a killer affogato by pouring McCafe coffee over a vanilla milkshake. And of course, you can shove a McNugget into anything, and it’ll be delicious. Now let’s get into the good stuff.

The Land, Sea, and Air Burger

Look, we’ve all been there. Driving up to that McDonald’s drive-thru feeling like Noah, you know, from the bible, with a hunger the size of the Ark. “Give me all the meats!” You say, to yourself. Why wouldn’t you want a sandwich that combines a McDonald’s Big Mac patty, the fried Filet-O-Fish, and a McChicken into one giant ball of ultra-processed protein? Yum!

Okay, the Land, Sea and Air Burger feels more like a challenge than anything else, but it truly is a sight to behold, and if you miss the state fair this is as close you’ll get to fair food this summer.

Chicken Cordon Bleu McMuffin

Like the Land, Sea, and Air Burger, this McDonald’s alteration is all about piling the meat. Simply ask for a chicken patty to be added to your McMuffin and you’ve got yourself a Chicken Cordon Bleu McMuffin. Never has something so fancy sounding looked so basic.

Hashbrown McMuffin

Okay, so this one does require some self-assembly, but it takes such a low amount of effort we had to include. Because it’s f*cking delicious. Order a McMuffin and a hashbrown, open up your sandwich, stick the hashbrown in and now you have a Hashbrown McMuffin. Hey Ronald, put this on your menu immediately!

Raising Cane’s

Founded in Baton Rouge Louisiana in 1996, Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers has spread throughout the states of Louisiana, Texas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Georgia, Colorado, and Texas in recent years thanks to their delicious fresh chicken fingers made with never-frozen chicken. They’re a bit like In-N-Out in that they specialize in exactly one thing: chicken fingers. Before we get to the off-menu items, I’d like to recommend, as a hardcore Caniac, to always order your chicken “extra-crispy,” it’s a massive improvement on the whole experience.

Cane’s Sandwich On Texas Toast

The sandwich at Raising Cane’s consists of three chicken fingers on a Kaiser Roll with lettuce and Cane’s Sauce. It’s delicious, but the sandwich is massively improved when you ask for it on Texas toast, which swaps out that Kaiser roll for Raising Cane’s delicious garlic butter French toast.

B.O.B.S

Raising Cane’s Texas toast is delicious, but the bread is taken to a whole other level when you ask for it to be buttered on both sides. Roll up to Cane’s and ask for a “BOB” and you’ll receive a perfect piece of thick Texas toast that is buttered and toasty on both sides, and soft and doughy in the middle. It’ll be the only way you’ll ever order Raising Cane’s again.

Taco Bell

Before we get into Taco Bell’s best secret menu items, we’d like to take this time to highlight a hack of sorts — every meat item in the menu can be swapped out for additional beans or potatoes. Which is great if you’re trying to avoid meat and want options, though we’d like to note that Taco Bell potatoes are fried in the same oil as the meat. If you’re looking for a vegan twist, most of the items can also be ordered “fresco style,” which cuts out cheese and any other animal products making the menu vegan friendly — even the crunch wrap!

The Cheesarito

The Cheesarito looks, well, we don’t want to say “gross” but — no yeah, look at it, it’s gross. But it tastes good, and at the end of the day, that is all that matters. The Cheesarito consists of a taco shell filled with cheese, scallions, and taco sauce. You can order it by name, but in the event that you’re speaking with a newbie, just ask for it in parts.

The Incredible Hulk Burrito

To order the Incredible Hulk Burrito, ask for a Beefy Five-Layer Burrito and swap out that nacho cheese for guacamole. It’s actually a straight-up improvement on the original, and if you still really need cheese, you can ask for shredded cheese to be added.

Enchirito

If there is anything on Taco Bell’s Secret Menu that deserves it’s own combo number and spot on the main menu, it’s the Enchirito. This is as close to a wet burrito as you’re going to get and your Taco Bell likely knows it by name. If not, just order an Enchilada and ask for it to be stuffed with beans, beef, and cheese. The only thing that would make this better is if they offered in it green sauce.

Wendy’s

Unless you really like meat, and we mean really really like meat, then you’re going to be disappointed by the Wendy’s secret menu. It’s pretty much just several different options for piling up meat. Luckily Wendy’s has arguably the best menu in all of fast food. Everything they do, from burgers to chicken sandwiches to sides, they do well. Including piling meat!

The Grand Slam/Meat Cube

We’re not completely sure why Wendy’s secret menu community felt the need to give what is essentially just a quadruple cheeseburger its own name, but here it is, the Grand Slam or Meat Cube. Meat Cube is probably a more apt name, Grand Slam sounds like it calls for eggs and bacon. Either way, if you really want the meat, grab a Meat Cube and call it a night.

The Barnyard Burger

Almost as wild as McDonald’s Land, Sea, and Air Burger, the Barnyard Burger piles the meat with a quarter-pound beef patty, bacon, and Wendy’s fried chicken filet. We highly suggest you opt for Wendy’s spicy patty if you really want to kick up the flavor a notch.

Asiago Beef Burger

The Asiago Beef Burger is just Wendy’s Asiago Chicken Sandwich, which consists of Ranch, bacon, fried chicken, lettuce, and asiago cheese between a buttery brioche bun, but with a beef patty instead of the chicken. It’s pretty delicious, but you gotta be down with the flavor combination of beef and ranch — which is suspect at best.

A good photo of the creation doesn’t exist online, so we had to settle on a Baconator with ranch. Just imagine that the above burger has Asiago cheese instead of American, and you’re essentially there.

The T.Rex Burger

We weren’t going to include this because it’s essentially just a Meat Cube gone aggro, but look at this thing! We had to include it, in fact, we can’t look away. You never think you’re going to see something in fast food that will surprise you, and then life finds a way. Incredible.

Rap newcomer Jack Harlow looked to be a burgeoning star with the release of his breakout single “What’s Poppin” this spring but with the stunning collection of co-signs on the song’s remix, that designation has become obsolete — he’s just a plain old star now. That’s what happens when you turn a bouncy party anthem into the most star-studded posse cut to come out this year so far, as DaBaby, Lil Wayne, and Tory Lanez join the Louisville, Kentucky-bred rap young gun on his trunk-rattling remix.

The four rappers blaze through their machine-gun-speed verses as the spare beat backs their boasts with tinkling piano keys and snickering snares. Harlow himself takes the lead, followed by DaBaby, with Tory Lanez and Lil Wayne running anchor, bringing the relay race across the finish line with jackhammer delivery and rewind button-worthy punchlines that just might extend the song’s life and bring Jack Harlow to the attention of a lot more rap fans. The 22-year-old rapper also features on G-Eazy’s single “Moana,” so that star-in-the-making moniker is looking more and more like a sure thing by the day.

Listen to Jack Harlow’s “What’s Poppin” remix above.

Jack Harlow is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

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Will Ferrell and Demi Lovato are starring in the upcoming Netflix film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga alongside Rachel McAdams. The satirical film was one of the first times Ferrell and Lovato worked together on a project, and they’re both big fans of each other’s work. Ferrell recalled meeting the singer on set and sharing a “really special moment.”

Ferrell recently chatted with the podcast Las Culturistas, hosted by Matt Rogers and SNL cast member Bowen Yang. In the episode, Ferrell discussed his time filming Eurovision Song Contest and detailed his experience working with Lovato. The actor said he’s a huge fan of Lovato, and she told him that his movies helped get her through difficult times in rehab:

“She was fantastic. David Dobkin, our director, kind of has all these ties to the music world because he still does a lot of music videos. He was like, ‘I think we can get Demi to play this role.’ And she was so sweet and lovely and she was actually shooting during her birthday. We kind of had this really special moment. She had just come out of her last rehab stint. I really wanted to work with her on this because I’m a fan. I go, ‘You’re so sweet I can’t believe you’re doing this, I just can’t believe.’ And she said, ‘Well I had to tell you, watching your movies really, kind of, helped me go through what I had to go through. It’s weird when you get hit in the chest with something like that and it’s so personal to her, it was one of the sweetest things ever. […] It was really beautiful. She was up for anything and the thing that struck us too was, you forget that, oh my god, she’s an absolute pro.”

Listen to the clip above and check out to the full Las Culturistas podcast episode here.

Ever since Muppets Tonight went off the air in 1998, it’s been a rough two decades for the Muppets on television. (Some would argue Muppets Tonight wasn’t very good. I counter with this clip of Prince singing “Starfish and Coffee.”) Sure, there was ABC’s short-lived The Muppets, but that show fundamentally misunderstood everything people love about Kermit and Miss Piggy. Disney, which acquired The Muppets Studio in 2004, is hoping for better results from Muppets Now, coming next month to Disney+.

Muppets Now is an unscripted six-episode series where “Scooter rushes to make his delivery deadlines and upload the brand-new Muppet series for streaming. They are due now, and he’ll need to navigate whatever obstacles, distractions, and complications the rest of the Muppet gang throws at him,” according to Disney. Guest stars include RuPaul, Aubrey Plaza, and Seth Rogen, who looks like Fozzie Bear’s stunt double.

The trailer above features an appearance from the newest muppet, Joe the Legal Weasel, who is “recycled from one of the Prairie Dogs seen on The Muppet Show and other productions.” Speaking of The Muppet Show: when’s that hitting Disney+, huh? The people (me) need to see an HD version of the “Hugga Wugga” sketch.

Muppets Now premieres on July 31. The world is better with more Muppets in it.

Ahead of dropping her new record The Album on Juneteenth, Teyana Taylor revealed the stacked tracklist, and one of the more notable features was Erykah Badu, who guested on “Lowkey.” It turns out Taylor and Badu have another collaboration on the way, albeit not a musical one: Badu will be delivering Taylor’s next child.

Taylor, who showed off her baby bump in the recent “Wake Up Love” video, spoke about her upcoming birth with Nick Cannon on his radio show. Speaking of Badu, who is a doula and midwife, Taylor said, “I’m considering home birth, and I’m actually going to be doing it with Erykah. Her and Iman are going to deliver my baby. I’m super excited. I’ma have her just sing her verse from “Lowkey” to me to calm my nerves.”

Taylor also recently spoke about getting Badu to feature on the new album, telling Apple Music’s Ebro Darden, “I have to brag about this because I’m very excited about this. Erykah’s just not giving anybody features. I get the chills every time I hear her on this track because it took me three months to ask her. That’s how scared I was. Even if she would’ve said no, I would have been happy to even know that she heard the record. I was prepared for her to say no because this is Erykah Badu. It meant a lot to me because it also showed me that my hard work wasn’t going unnoticed.”

As protests against police shootings grow into official demands for police reform, the music industry has gotten involved with an open letter to Congress showing support for the Justice in Policing Act of 2020. The three major record labels, Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group, joined with their artists, such as Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Justin Bieber, Lizzo, Post Malone, Rihanna, and more, to call for tangible reform in the way justice is enacted in the United States. More than 450 artists, actors, and organization executives have signed the letter.

The Justice in Policing Act of 2020 is a bill currently being considered in the House Of Representatives with the aim, “To hold law enforcement accountable for misconduct in court, improve transparency through data collection, and reform police training and policies.” It would establish federal oversight of police, restrict qualified immunity protections (which prevent individual officers from being sued in civil court for wrongful death in the course of executing their duties), restrict the militarization of municipal police, and prohibit no-knock warrants of the type that led to the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, among other things.

The letter reads:

Since the killing of George Floyd just one month ago, our country has seen protests grow, attitudes shift, and calls for change intensify. We in the music and entertainment communities believe that Black lives matter and have long decried the injustices endured by generations of Black citizens. We are more determined than ever to push for federal, state and local law enforcement programs that truly serve their communities. Accordingly, we are grateful for movement of the Justice in Policing Act of 2020 in the U.S. House of Representatives and urge its quick passage.

The Justice in Policing Act is not about marginal change; it takes bold steps that will make a real, positive difference for law enforcement and the communities they serve. ‘We celebrate the long-overdue rejection of qualified immunity, emphasising that law enforcement officers themselves are not above the law – that bad cops must be held accountable and victims must have recourse.

Our communities and nation look to you to take a stand in this extraordinary moment and we respectfully ask that you vote YES on the Justice in Policing Act of 2020.

Many of the same artists previously signed another letter pushing the state of New York to repeal its 50-A statute which prevents public access to officers’ disciplinary records.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.