Tiger King has been the breakout hit of quarantine in a variety of ways, as the Netflix docuseries has already spawned a bonus episode and plenty of parodies and memes since it first hit the internet in March. The latest news surrounding the wildly bizarre and often upsetting series is that it got its own Garbage Pail Kids set of trading cards.

Late last week, the trading card company Topps announced it would make some of the familiar cats and kittens from the series their own corresponding Garbage Pail Kids cards, a special collector’s item for fans of the Netflix series.

Topps tweeted out a preview of the series, including Schmo Exotic, with a tiger preparing to eat expired meat.

Other entrants in the series are Gangsta Garretson, who is fittingly bespectacled and riding a jet ski. Carole Baskin’s Garbage Pail Kid is here, too, as Cool Cat Carole, who blends in with tiger print extremely well. The listing on the Topps website, mind you, has Joe Exotic’s character renamed “Joe Chaotic,” so the 10-card set is actually five designs with two different names for each sticker. But they are available for $20 plus shipping, if you need to get your most Tiger King-obsessed friend or family member a gift that keeps on giving.

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People are spending a lot of time indoors lately, and that means for many watching TV shows. There are plenty of streaming services seeing record numbers and a lot of people are finally sitting down to watch classics they may have missed, such as The Wire or Community.

For those looking for a different kind of nostalgia, though, the MTV Vault on YouTube may have just what you’re looking for. It seems the music video network you probably remember playing more weird reality shows than playing actual videos has quietly uploaded some classic episodes on YouTube from series like the Ashton Kutcher celebrity prank show Punk’d.

Perhaps the most nostalgic, and the show that holds up the best, is the home tour show Cribs, which featured musicians, actors and sometimes athletes letting cameras take a look inside their homes to see where all the magic happens.

While some of these have been uploaded without copyright permission, or maybe clips of them may exist out there, an official full episode sitting on YouTube for easy access is pretty cool. A look at the official MTV Vaults page on YouTube reveals there have been a number of episodes online for a while now, but recent activity has seen some notable uploads and subsequent attention in the online media. Snoop Dogg’s Cribs episode, for example, is absolutely worth the watch.

Another blast from the past is Parental Control, a fairly unique twist on a reality dating show that first aired in 2005. Other full episodes on the page are from Silent Library, a 2009 game show that featured contestants trying to, you guessed it, stay quiet in an increasingly wacky library.

[via Entertainment Weekly]

In addition to wearing masks and washing your hands, social distancing is one of the most important practices to put into action in order to help the eventual plateau and decline of the coronavirus pandemic. While it is an adjustment to make, artists have been doing their part to not only follow through with the practice but encourage and thank their fans for doing the same as Lizzo did last night at the One World: Together At Home festival.

Blueface, on the other hand, isn’t exactly going along with social distancing guidelines based on his recent Instagram stories. According to TMZ, the rapper apparently held a party that quickly got out of hand, with a fight between exotic dancers captured on video.

Videos showed the group of women started fighting at one point while Blueface kept his distance, all while recording the fight on his phone. The women were all at Blueface’s estate to apparently shoot a music video, presumably for a song on his recently released Find The Beat album. Based on what we can see from the video, it seems that video shoot came to an early end as a result of the fight. It’s a very bad idea to skirt social distancing recommendations in general, but this seems to have been done for all the wrong reasons all around.

As artists continue to donate their earnings in order to ease the shortage of masks and other PPE (personal protective equipment) for people, especially healthcare workers all over the country. While supplying the protection of doctors and medical staff is important, keeping ourselves safe and protected without it is also important, something Blue Ivy is stressing in her latest video.

In a video posted to her grandmother Tina Knowles’ Instagram, Blue Ivy conducted a science experiment to show viewers why it is essential to wash your hands. Using a small countertop setup, Blue Ivy presented a small cup filled with a mixture of different soaps and a bowl of water filled with pepper.

“While we’re stuck at home, I have this little DIY experiment that you can do at home too. This is why it’s important to wash your hands,” she said before beginning the experiment. Taking her finger and dipping it into the soap, Blue Ivy then put the same finger into the water with pepper and as soon her hand hit the water, the pepper — or “coronavirus” as she says — rushes to the edge of the bowl. Concluding her PSA, Blue Ivy said, “I hope you guys are staying safe, wash your hands extra, and please stay at home. Love y’all, bye.”

Blue Ivy’s words came after her mom delivered a strong message to those who watched Saturday’s One World: Together At Home festival. Bringing attention to the coronavirus’ disproportionate impact on African Americans, Beyonce said, “Black Americans disproportionately belong to these essential parts of the workforce that do not have the luxury of working from home,” she said. “And African American communities at large have been severely affected in this crisis. Those with pre-existing conditions are at an even higher risk. This virus is killing black people at an alarmingly high rate here in America.”

The music world has done a lot to help those suffering during the COVID-19 pandemic, from donating their talents to charitable efforts such as Saturday’s Together At Home festival or simply hosting performances from the comfort of their own homes for those in quarantine to enjoy. One such event, however, had special meaning for fans of Adam Schlesinger, the Fountains of Wayne bassist who died tragically of coronavirus complications.

On Friday night, the cast of the movie That Thing You Do reunited virtually to watch the movie and share some stories from the formation of the in-movie band, The Wonders (or Oneders if you prefer the pre-Playtone name) and the movie’s filming. The cast had a virtual watch party of the classic 1996 film, which you can watch below.

Before their Music Cares event they talked about the song that serves as the lifeblood of the movie itself. The title track was written by Schlesinger, and in an interview with Variety the band (Ethan Embry, Johnathon Schaech, Tom Everett Scott and Steve Zahn) spoke about just how essential the song’s brilliance was to holding the film together.

EMBRY: Who mentioned the quote that Tom Hanks had said about Adam, that without him, there’d be no Oneders…

SCOTT: There’d be no Playtone. Yeah. It’s true. I mean, that guy threaded the needle on that song, right?

ZAHN: Yeah. I mean, he’s responsible for the entire thing. It’s the heart, the marrow of the whole movie. It’s everything. That had to be it, man! That had to be good enough, but not good enough (to make the band truly stars). It had to walk a really kind of fine line, that song. And not drive you nuts after a while!

The making of the movie itself, and the real-life band practices that were required to make the movie happen, are a fascinating behind-the-scenes about the Tom Hanks written-and-directed project. Their trip to Japan is on YouTube, too, if you need it. And it’s refreshing to hear just how obvious it was to everyone involved that the song would be a real-life hit.

EMBRY: When we started talking about this, it reminded me of a day that we were all sitting in the production office. It was very early once we all got together in Los Angeles, at a conference table, and it was all of us and Liv (Tyler), and I think Gary brought in a small stack of their favorites (from the songs submitted). And we sat there and listened to ‘em, and some varied from like the Who to a Led Zeppelin-y kind of vibe. But the one Adam wrote was just…. [He smacks his hands together.]

The interview also includes the fun times they’ve heard the song in real life as the years passed, including while grocery shopping. It’s hard to make an earworm that doesn’t get tired, and finding one that kept a movie about a one-hit wonder band afloat was essential to That Thing You Do‘s enduring popularity. Its celebration in 2020 is an unfortunate result of Schlesinger’s death, but it’s nice to see it still appreciated decades later.

[via Variety]

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Just hours before the 10-part 30 For 30 documentary about Michael Jordan’s last title season with the Chicago Bulls, ESPN rolled out a new trailer for a sports documentary that can change everything. Though, it probably won’t actually happen.

The much-hyped Jordan doc, The Last Dance, is a huge sports moment, especially in a world without sports. But on Sunday, hours before the first part airs, ESPN shared a trailer for a documentary about a very different Michael: The Office boss Michael Scott. The basketball episode from the brief first season of The Office was an early glimpse of what the show would become: Scott over-promising and soon leading to embarrassment.

ESPN’s 30 For 30 Twitter account shared a fake trailer for a documentary about Michael Scott’s athletic endeavors, complete with classic 30 For 30 voiceover asking questions, though these are certainly a bit different.

“What if I told you he wasn’t the greatest? That a country would fail to protect its greatest natural resource? That sometimes it is a matter of life and death? That no one can outrun the truth? That you can heal all wounds with a fight song? That the man no one could stop tragically was what if I told you running a marathon is easy?”

The voiceover is matched by some terrible shooting from Scott, finishing up with the Fun Run episode in which he made running a marathon look anything but easy. Steve Carrel, who played Scott on the show, soon retweeted it with one of the nonsense lines Scott says during the basketball episode.

It also sparked this incredible reaction on Twitter.

There have been a lot of great 30 For 30s, but this fictional one would certainly be interesting.

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Josh Brolin apologized after sharing an Instagram photo that featured his family paying a social visit to his parents’ house. While everyone is clearly seen wearing masks, including Brolin’s father and step-mother Barbra Streisand, the Avengers actor was chastised by his fans for violating social distancing guidelines amid the COVID-19 pandemic. After deleting the photo, Brolin posted a video apology where he fully agrees that bringing his wife and young daughter over to his parents’ house was irresponsible, and he thanks his Instagram followers for their passionate responses.

According to Comic Book, Brolin was taking his daughter over to briefly see his parents’ pool (the Deadpool 2 actor doesn’t have one at his house) and not be near them. But he takes full responsibility in admitting that the plan fell apart leading to a longer visit, which is a struggle that parents who are trapped indoors with young kids and grandparents nearby can certainly relate to.

“You know, it’s hard to be honest sometimes,” he continued. “It’s hard to be honest and say, ‘maybe I screwed up’ and I knew that that was in the air, not because of the responses, but because the responses brought me back to my own truth and it’s humbling as hell, man.”

Brolin went on to say that he felt responsible to his “fellow man” and apologized, noting that it was more important to get through this even if that means going “overboard” with safety measures, a message that helped to explain just how serious he really is taking the pandemic before thanking followers for helping to remind him.

You can watch Brolin’s full video apology:

While Brolin deleted the photo from the visit, his step-mother Streisand hasn’t done the same. Although, her photo simply shows Brolin’s wife standing safely outdoors while holding an adorable message for the two grandparents, which is way less controversial than a full family gathering around the pool.

(Via Comic Book)