Yet another head-shaking decision by NBC is making waves. This time, it’s of the culinary variety.

Apparently, someone in NBC’s New York studios decided on a — well, not very P.C. menu for February: Fried chicken, collard greens, cornbread, etc.

Let’s not forget that February is Black History Month, kids.

The drummer for the Roots, who are Jimmy Fallon’s house band on Late Night, was one of the first to point it out. ?uestlove sent out a Twitpic about it on Thursday.

But it was Wanda Sykes who really let NBC have it, when she appeared on The Jay Leno Show on Thursday night:

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Continuing in our famous director’s vein, we have found a video where a bigger tableau is taken on.

Namely the Super Bowl.

Here’s Slate V’s look at how it’d look if the annual NFL Films footage of the big game was directed by some of the more idiosyncratic auteurs of our time:

Thanks to FilmDrunk for the link! (Which in turn thanks the estimable CinemaBlend!)

He’s directed some of my favorite movies (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums), but Wes Anderson’s got some very definite mannerisms when he directs.

So whether or not he ever was or ever will be considered to handle the re-boot of the Spider-Man franchise, here’s what someone thought it might look like:

Thanks to BuzzFeed for the link. (Via Jezebel)

Oops.

Mel Gibson has worked hard to try and repair his image after a regrettable 2006 DUI arrest, but did an on-camera swear word send the whole thing unraveling?

Gibson’s slip-up occured on the WGN News at Noon, based out of Chicago. Anchor Dean Richards asked Gibson about if he felt the public had gotten past the negativity stemming from the ‘06 arrest — and subsequent revelations about said arrest — and Gibson said that, hey, it’s been four years, so maybe we can focus on other stuff.

(I mean, yeah, that’s always going to be hanging in the air about Mel, but this is a noon-time fluff piece, isn’t it?)

However, Mel wasn’t thinking about other stuff, and decided to mutter something under his breath. Understandable, to be sure, but THE CAMERA’S STILL ON!

What happens when NBA players watch Avatar one too many times? Well, the starting point guard starts to think he’s James Cameron, and ends up putting blue paint on his backcourt mate, who terrorizes his teammates on a team plane.

Introducing the directorial work of the Phoenix Suns’ Steve Nash, featuring Leandro Barbosa as … um… the Bar’Bo’Sa!

Thanks for the link, CinemaBlend!

Do you watch commercials for some restaurants or food products that proclaim they’re made with stuff that’s good for you, yet you know there’s no way their product is healthy?

So have the folks at New York deli The Pump. And their commercial pretty much hits it out of the park:

Thanks, Boing Boing, for the link! (And happy 10th anniversary!!)

As of Wednesday morning, it will have been exactly one week since the world was introduced by American Idol to Gen. Larry Platt and his song “Pants on the Ground”.

Since we first got introduced to the General, here’s some of what’s happened:

• Jimmy Fallon imitated Neil Young singing a cover of it.

• Gen. Larry Platt is called the General because of his work in the civil rights movement, and he marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• A poodle got called out for his choice of attire.

• Minnesota Vikings QB Brett Favre covered it following their win over Dallas in the NFC playoffs.

• And now, the General has ended up on ABC’s The View, complete with a great look:

(Top that, William Hung.)

A few weeks ago, the Taiwanese news network NMA gained some viral steam by providing a new look at the Tiger Woods scandal with computer animation.

They’ve struck again — this time, they explain the Jay Leno/Conan O’Brien situation with animation and, um, superheroes.

It’s in Chinese, but trust me, you don’t need to understand it:

This didn’t take long.

Just a day after Gen. Larry Platt introduced the world to “Pants on the Ground” on Fox’s American Idol, someone has spotted the excellence of this song and made it his own.

Ladies and gentlemen, (Jimmy Fallon as) Mr. Neil Young:

UPDATE: Platt is getting a lot of attention. Here is an Associated Press interview with him: Read the full story