May the Beans Be Ever in Your Favor
I’m cutting out a little early to go see The Hunger Games (the review will be up tomorrow), but I can only hope it’s as brilliant, accurate, and moving a movie as this incredibly straight-faced rendition of the book, only starring Beanie Babies. Warning: The above video contains some seriously graphic beanie violence; also, it covers the whole damn first book, so you’re waiting to see the movie without being spoiled, you better skip it. But then watch the movie, and come back watch this. Frankly, I have no idea how I’m going to see the movie now without being disappointed all the characters don’t have big TY tags on their ears. (Via The Mary Sue)
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.