It’s not every day you hear about a casting announcement and think “Why haven’t they thought of this before?” But that’s what we thought when we saw that Sigourney Weaver was set to play a divorced, former First Lady who becomes the Secretary of State. A role that is such a blatant fan-fiction/alternate universe version of Hillary Clinton, and no one is even bothering to deny it. Love it. Love it.

Be prepared, everything about this parody is perfect. I love The Lion King and I love Batman but I never imagined I’d see them together and certainly not like this. I don’t even know how or why YouTube user MovieMaestroTen (Brad Hansen) thought combine the two but we are so, so glad he did. I’m not ashamed to say Michael Caine doing the voice of Zazu almost made me lose it.

Watch and be amazed.

(via The Awesomer)

Big cats playing with empty pizza boxes, because this is the internet, and we can do things like this.

If you’re not American, this may come without any kind of context, but understand this: we have this holiday called Thanksgiving. Feel free to look it up and dig into it’s colonial origins, but the part of it that is most relevant to our discussion is that Macy’s, a national department store chain, throws a giant Thanksgiving parade in New York City. Famously, this parade has parade balloons. Usually of fictional characters, and in fact, getting your character as a balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is a measure of how your creation (or creations) has become a part of American culture.

And now you know why it’s cool that Tim Burton has designed a balloon for the 2011 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Ahead of the release of The Lion King 3D next month, a video of bloopers and outtakes has been infiltrating the Internet, and we are all too happy to post it. You know all those epically dramatic moments in The Lion King? Well, they are epically silly now. Especially the Mufasa moments.

(Best Week Ever)

Why do we find this interesting? Because we’re always interested in the places where science shows us something we’d only seen in science fiction. So, guys, totally: the Mulefa. Those things from the third book in the His Dark Materials trilogy. The animals that had wheels. These weevils are totally like that!

At least, as much as any other tangentially related to science fiction real science discovery out there.

The two lead actors performing in Broadway’s production of Oscar Wilde‘s The Importance of Being Earnest, Santino Fontana and David Furr, made an unbelievable discovery — transcripts of MTV‘s Jersey Shore sound positively smashing when read by their respective characters, Algernon Moncrieff and John Worthing. Along with Playbill, Fontana and Furr have embarked on this video side project, Jersey Shore Gone Wilde. The entire series is here for your enjoyment. And you will need a brain condom. (Some language NSFW, but bleeped)

First, the good news: Kids still read non-electronic devices at the breakfast table! More good news: some of them will get to read things by Roald Dahl at the breakfast table! Puffin, who publishes Dahl’s work, has worked out a deal with the author’s estate and the UK supermarket chain Asda to print excerpts of stories such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, and The Twits, among others.

Fair readers: We could not decide on a one-liner for this video. We thought about holding a vote, but then we just decided to include all of them, RiffTrax style. Pick your favorite, ignore the rest, or collect the whole set!

“This was inevitable.”

“Who wants to start the campaign to get ‘America: F*ck Yeah!’ on the official soundtrack? Can this please happen? What our campaign was to get him to say ‘I’ve had it with these muthaf*cking Hydras on this muthaf*cking Eastern Front?’”

“Sorry, Cap. It doesn’t matter how human and conflicted writers make you. You’ll always be susceptible to this kind of thing. Your name is Captain America.”

“Sooooo, skinny Chris Evans was a puppet? That’s how they did that?”

(The High Definite)

Hey, everyone! A bunch of researchers are saying that they’ve located the lost city of Atlantis, and it was right there in the mud flats north of Cadiz, Spain! The reason they’re saying “No, really” this time is because of new discoveries made using “a combination of deep-ground radar, digital mapping, and underwater technology to survey the site.”

To solve the age-old mystery, the team used a satellite photo of a suspected submerged city to find the site just north of southern Spain. There, buried in the vast marshlands of the Dona Ana Park, they believe that they pinpointed the ancient, multi-ringed dominion known as Atlantis.

We will get to see their findings tonight during their special, Finding Atlantis, which airs on the National Geographic Channel tonight … Hey, wait a minute …