​Today's contest is sponsored by OtherTees, makers of fine t-shirts like the "Duel in Space" I featured yesterday. Indeed, today's contest is also directly inspired by the shirt OtherTees is releasing next week -- the Imperial Academy Pilot Institute school logo -- pictured over on the right. It got me thinking about fictional schools... and how actual schools are including more nerd-centric classes in their curriculum, like examination of comics and the like.

So here is this weekend's contest: Tell me the classes that the educational institutes of nerd franchises should teach. For example:

• Imperial Academy Stormtrooper Institute -- Hitting the Broad Side of a Barn
• Hogwarts -- Defense Against All the Deadly Creatures We Leave Loose on School Grounds
• Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters -- How to Make Out Your Will
• Wolverine's Jean Grey School for Higher Learning -- Why Cyclops Is a Dick 101

Now, it doesn't have to be an established fictional school; feel free to think up classes for Arrakis High or Winterfell Public School 303 or whatever. You might earn bonus points for thinking up a clever/funny school, but the main draw will be the classes. Also feel free to include the classes' teachers if you want.

Three entries per person; three winners will receive the Imperial Academy shirt, courtesy of OtherTees. If you haven't purchased your "Duel in Space" shirt, you've only got a bit over a day to do so. Meanwhile, the contest ends at 12:01 am EST on Monday, January 30th. Have a great weekend, everybody, and please, if you've got milk, get rid of it as soon as possible.

Ryan Sullivan has just broken the world record for most videogame consoles played in one minute. The previous record was nine, held by Jimmy Fallon. If you've not heard of this prestigious record, that's because it's dumb. Really, I resp[ect Sullivan for actually trying to do something with each game, like attack an enemy or enter a location, but I don't really know why that counts as "playing." Hell, in Crazy Taxi, he just goes forward for a bit; if he had just tapped a button, he would still have technically performed an act in the game, iand probably worked several more consoles in there. It all just seems a big waste of time to me. Although I just spent the last several hours critiquing an erotic My Little Pony fan fic, so maybe I should shut the fuck up. (Via Kotaku)

Update: I have no idea why the embed code keeps putting up the wrong video, but it's actually not my mistake this time. You can watch the actual video here. Meanwhile, feel free to enjoy the gof ball/mallet/tennis ball/paddle ridiculous aove.

​You know what I like about Bronys? It's that while they enjoy a cartoon primarily targeted to young girls, they aren't necessarily perverts. They simply enjoy the show, realize there's something inherently ridiculous about grown men enjoying a girl's cartoon, and have turned it into its own little thing. While obviously there are more than a few people who enjoy taking MLP to its most perverse levels, I seldom see those people identify themselves as "Bronys. I haven't taken a very close look, of course, as I have enough problems. Anyways, I just appreciate that, for the part, the Brony movement is seemingly benign.

Today's story comes to us from a MLP fan whose love is by no means benign, by the name of Hotsauce. He has a small collection of stories at the My Little Pony Explicit Fan Fiction Archive (sigh), and I've had several people beg me to run oen of his tales on FFF, mostly because I'm under the impression the author cannot take any form of criticism at all. So be it!
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Unlike some, I'm damned excited about part two of season two of Walking Dead coming out next month, so I really didn't need an exciting, action-packed trailer for it, full of guns, running ,car wrecks, fighting, yelling, stern looks and other shit. I certainly don't mind it, though. My only wish at this point is that Rick's "WE ALL KNOW THIS IS NOT GONNA END WELL" run at the end of every single Walking Dead commercial, promo, and everything else. It's just too perfect. (Via Nerd Bastards)

I SWEAR TO GOD I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP. Go-Gurt is running a promo with Star Wars for The Phantom Menace 3-D; the Go-Gurt tubes glow-in-the-dark like lightsabers, which is all well and good. What's less well and good is THAT THEY'RE CALLING THEM SLURP SABERS.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT. Really? Really no one felt there was a double entendré there? For a product that is already a long tube of yogurt? KIDS, SUCK HARD ENOUGH ON THAT SLURP SABER AND YOU'LL MAKE THE GO-GURT COME OUT! Dont squeeze too hard or you'll make a mess! Don't forget to play with the balls a little! Okay, that las one doesn't quite work, but you get the idea. Honestly, I'm going to have a hard time finding an FFF as depraved as this.

​This time, it's some kind of pool toy, but it's the first full-body look at the Lizard to my knowledge. I'm putting it after the jump not really because it's a spoiler, but because I found this art of the Lizard flushing Spider-Man down the toilet and I'll be damned if I wasn't going to use it.
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Here comes some new challengers to the Street Fighter x Tekken fighting game mash-up... and they're goofy even by Tekken's ridiculous standards. Joining the fray are awful original U.S. NES game box art Mega Man, Pac-Man in some kind of power armor, Cole from Infamous and the Japanese cat Sony mascots Kuro and Toro. These will be exclusive characters on the PS3 and PS Vita versions, and lord only knows what if any characters the Xbox 360 version will have (Gears of War's Marcus? Enh). I can't stress enough to you how fucking bizarre this Mega Man looks, so please, watch the video. If only to let me know I'm not the only one seeing this little nightmare. Thanks to Michael P. for the tip.

That video that went around like wildfire yesterday -- the video that's above -- is almost certainly a teaser for a Super Bowl ad (which happens to be on February 5th, 2012), and not an ad for a complete Ferris Bueller's Day Off 2 movie which had somehow escaped the notice of every single Hollywood trade and entertainment newsite. Which is fine by me. Ferris Bueller is an asshole. Besides, they already made a Ferris Bueller sequel and it was called Election, where Ferris ends up a sad high school principal himself, who is tormented by his super-popular student Reese Witherspoon, the fact that his glory days are long over, and that he's getting exactly what he deserves.

One more thing: A friend once told me that he thought -- knew, actually -- that Alan Ruck's character Cameron was obviously fucking Ferris' girlfriend behind his back. Next time you see the move, pay close attention to Cameron and Sloane. You'll never unsee it.

Although Chris Nolan's Batman films don't have credit sequences per se, some enterprising nerd decided to make his own for Dark Knight Rises, and the nerdosphere loves them. Personally, I think they're very well done, but I'm having a hard time getting my head around why Bane apparently covered all his newspapers in ice before reading them. (Via First Showing)

​After five years, the nerd/spy comedy Chuck is finally coming to an end tonight, having unofficially earned the title "Geekiest Show on Television." Not only are their series regulars a who's who of sci-fi -- aside from star Adam Baldwin (Firefly), the show has featured Linda Hamilton (Terminator), Timothy Dalton (Rocketeer), Brandon Routh (Scott Pilgrim), Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap) and Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix) -- their guest stars frequently drew from the casts of the very TV shows and movies that the main characters grew up watching. These are 10 of the show's geekiest guest stars (pro wrestlers not included. On purpose).More >>