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Justin Bieber is officially eating his own tail.

To promote his upcoming roast on Comedy Central slash desperate plea for respect, Canada’s cruel revenge on America participates in a parody of his much-buzzed about, possibly-but-he-swears-it-totally-wasn’t-Photoshopped Calvin Klein ads.

Jeff Ross dresses as model Lara Stone and does a good job of creeping hard on Bieber, who keeps playing the same drum fill over and over, like the greasy pop machine he is, posing as the real boy he seems to be.

It’s not as funny as Kate McKinnon’s SNL parody, but Bieber gets points for self-deprecation. And while he doesn’t really have to do anything special to be comical, he does up the ante a little, pretending to be anxious, rebuffing Ross’s grabs, and ultimately returning the favor.

The brief high point, though, might be the comedian’s jiggly beer-belly dance. Overall, the video makes for a pretty good teaser … or at least, a reminder that there might be some entertainment value in watching Bieber get chewed out.

And while it’s impossible not to wonder what Martha Stewart, Shaq and Snoop Dogg might have to say to Bieber, it can’t be a good sign—if not surprising—that Seth Rogen seems to have something better to do that night.

We know how much you love Anna Kendrick, so here she is in yet another commercial where she gets to be funny and charming—this time at Amy Schumer’s expense.

Schumer is hosting the MTV Movie Awards in April, for which this serves as an early promo. Nothing too exciting happens, but it’s entertaining nonetheless. If nothing else, Kendrick has shown time and again that she can make something out of nothing.

“It was great to work with such a variety of comedians and actors in the campaign,” said the director, Kim Nguyen of Backyard, in a statement. “It’s fun leading them into different directions and providing an environment where they are willing to take chances and bring something different to each take. That collaboration really opened up so many funny possibilities that our entire crew was holding back laughter take after take.”

The MTV Movie Awards air on Sunday, April 12, at 8/7c.

The end is nigh, as AMC on Saturday announced the premiere date for the final Mad Men episodes. The second half of season 7 will begin on Sunday, April 5, at 10 p.m.

“What an incredible journey this has been,” showrunner Matthew Weiner said in a statement. “We sincerely thank the fans for joining us on this ride and hope it has meant as much to them as it has to us.”

Weiner and several of the advertising drama’s stars—Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, John Slattery and Christina Hendricks—will be on hand Saturday at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif., to talk about the final run.

Moss recently spoke about the pain of filming the final scenes. “The last three days were kind of like a funeral,” she said. “It was just everybody crying all day long—these big, giant men bursting into tears.”

The image above, of course, is from the very first time we saw Don Draper—the first scene of the pilot episode, which aired on July 19, 2007.

As Twitter was erupting this afternoon with outrage over a grand jury’s decision not to indict the NYPD officer whose chokehold killed Eric Garner, Netflix made a rather odd marketing decision.

The streaming service posted a Peaky Blinders promo featuring hard-boiled Irish cop Chester Campbell, played by Sam Neill. The tweet message—”Just because you’re law enforcement doesn’t mean you’re law abiding.”—seemed especially topical when paired with the photo’s quote, “God help those who stand in our way.”

While the tweet didn’t spark much real anger at Netflix, it did draw a mixed reaction from those who felt the company was siding (intentionally or not) with protesters and others who felt it was simply insensitive.

@netflix I love you guys, but you really need to work on your timing with that tag line.

— Kate Kirby (@uncanny_kate) December 3, 2014

Spot on, netflix. “@netflix: Just because you’re law enforcement doesn’t mean you’re law abiding. #PeakyBlinders pic.twitter.com/5q52fwU7ch”

— Lianne Fitz (@lianne_fitz) December 3, 2014

@netflix Perfect timing with that tweet.

— cantona’s kick ? (@disney_doctrine) December 3, 2014

.@netflix EXCELLENT marketing. Synergizing with today’s horrific news about failure of justice system to indict murdering police. BRILLIANT

— Soylent Alan (@PennStateGuy) December 3, 2014

Shame on you @netflix! Are you really using the #FergusonDecision and #EricGarner‘s death to promote your show!? WTF! pic.twitter.com/c49k3Aj0Cn

— Katie Carman-Lehach (@katiecarman) December 3, 2014

@netflix Boy aint that appropriate.

— Scott Wyllie (@TheWyllieScott) December 3, 2014

FYI enlisted the cast of its show Epic Meal Time to raise hunger awareness with a new PSA campaign for the Ad Council and Feeding America, the country’s leading domestic hunger-relief organization.

The cast of the show talks about what they do with all the food from the epic meals they create it — eat it, give it to the crew — before segueing into a brief discussion of the “people out there who don’t have enough to eat, and don’t know where their next meal is coming from.” They then offer up an endorsement for Feeding America, who, “everyday give hope to those in your community who struggle with hunger” and direct viewers to www.FeedingAmerica.org. The show also donates “a portion of its production budget to the L.A. Regional Food Bank, a member of the Feeding America nationwide network of food banks.”

The PSA will run on FYI, debuting during Epic Meal Time‘s Thanksgiving-themed season premiere this, as well as on other A&E channels.

“At Thanksgiving, it is important to remember that so many children in our country are facing hunger,” said Bob Aiken, Feeding America CEO. “Thanks to ‘Epic Meal Empire’s’ PSA’s, a new audience will be made aware of efforts around the country to feed our children and avoid food waste.”

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If you thought there was no way to top a Paris Hilton-Hannah Ferguson slow-motion car-washing, sex-eating burger-palooza, you’d be wrong, Carl’s Jr. want to tell bros.

Supermodels and celebutantes don’t have the market cornered, after all, on using their scantily clad bums, stripper moves and garden hoses to hawk fast food. Along comes Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s Carl Brutananadilewski, a husky, hirsute late-night star, to show everybody how it’s done.

Just don’t eat that burger before you see the new commercial, airing online and during Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, where Aqua Teen Hunger Force anchors the block and Carl regularly heckles his neighbors Meatwad, Master Shake and Frylock.

Though lacking in the bronzed beauty and sex appeal of the burger joint’s former brand ambassadors—Padma Lakshmi, Heidi Klum and Kate Upton among them—Carl “brings a certain willingness to the role and a unique interpretation of fresh baked buns,” said Steve Lemley, svp of field marketing and media at Carl’s Jr. and sister chain Hardee’s.

The animated character is willing to wear a physique-inappropriate banana hammock, in other words, and writhe around on a Dodge Spyder while chomping a burger and slapping his ass.

The spot, written and produced by Aqua Teen Hunger Force creators with assists from 72andSunny and Initiative, promotes the chain’s bread, baked fresh in stores, which makes its buns “denser and a little sweeter” than competitors’ products, according to the press release.

Make that connection between the food and Carl’s lumpy posterior at your own risk.

Hungry yet?

Adult Swim has put its back into marketing Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland’s insane science fiction cartoon Rick and Morty. And well they might: It’s one of the best shows on the air, and last year it occasionally got more demo viewers than Harmon’s broadcast sitcom, Community.

So, it follows that the network would have a mild blowout around the release of the first season of Rick and Morty on Blu-Ray, too.

Accordingly, Roiland called on Ben Bayouth, puppet maker and costumer to the … well, to the very weird. (Seriously, the “creature suits and puppets” page alone is a huge productivity suck.) Bayouth made Rick, Morty and Meeseeks puppets and a giant Meeseeks suit (from this episode) in order to tell the world about the show.

Here’s the 90-second spot. It starts airing Wednesday evening on Adult Swim.

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When the cartoon premiered, Adult Swim erected a crashed spaceship in front of the Flatiron Building in New York, and the show got all kinds of attention at Comic Con, with a panel and a booth for its production company, Starburns Industries. (I don’t even want to tell you about the lines to get Harmon to sign things.) So, there are interestingly high standards for anything R&M-related over at Adult Swim, and they keep coming up with new tricks to promote it, not unlike FX’s various shenanigans around Archer.

We figured we’d also do an unboxing Vine (see below) so you can see the contents of the Blu-Ray, because another fun piece of the campaign is inside the box: Like the Jim Mahfood-drawn Kickpuncher comic book in Community’s Season 1 DVD set, Roiland and series writer Ryan Ridley collaborated with storyboard artist Erica Hayes to make a very cool little Jack Chick-style comic book fleshing out some of the show’s stranger sci-fi plot points.

As the Baltimore Orioles became the first Major League Baseball team to clinch a division last night, baseball fans, fairweather and hardcore alike, are gearing up for the most exciting time of year—the postseason. 

And TBS, which plays a major part in bringing the games into our homes and sports bars, has tapped Bryan Cranston to star in this amazing tribute to baseball’s big dance. 

Clocking in at almost six minutes, this extended ad is a delightful watch as Cranston impersonates some of the game’s great players in a comically earnest one-man theater show—citing his muse to be everyone’s favorite cartoon rabbit: “You never know when inspiration will hit you … the Bugster … Mr. B. Any actor that tells you that he is not inspired by Bugs Bunny is a liar, frankly—or just a hack.”

As an added bonus, Misty Copeland and Pedro Martinez make cameos, too, as we follow the former Walter White in his entertaining rollick around the diamond. 

Check it out, and someone please start a petition to get this on Broadway. 

Via Bleacher Report.

MAC Cosmetics is producing a Simpsons-themed cosmetics line—including eyeshadow, lip gloss, blush, mascara and nail stickers—to honor the show’s 25th anniversary.

One can only imagine the challenges they faced getting this out of R&D. For one thing, the show’s color palette doesn’t really look good on anyone. The dominant color is yellow, and one of the cartoon’s enduring design characteristics revolves around not making anyone, including celebrities, look too attractive. This obviously clashes with beauty products. (The lip gloss colors alone are called Grand Pumpkin, Itchy & Scratchy & Sexy, Nacho Cheese Explosion and Red Blazer.)

“We are celebrating the country’s favorite animated family and its beloved matriarch Marge with a vibrant color collection that screams That Trillion Dollar Look,” the brand says. “Our classic formulas and finishes you love are to blue dye for with an animated twist. All in limited-edition packaging that can only be described in one word: Eeeeexcellent.”

Also, the show has been bad to the point of unwatchable for at least 10 years, so they’re chasing a vanishing audience that mostly watches out of habit with stuff that will make them look, at best, super weird.

Not to mention, any real Simpsons fan involved in this project would have made at least one shade of lip gloss that referenced the monorail episode.

Rejoice, Friends enthusiasts! Your dream of sipping coffee at the iconic Central Perk will soon become a reality.

It’s been 20 years since Ross, Phoebe, Monica, Joey, Chandler and Rachel first graced our TV screens, and the love for the gang remains strong, if all of the people on my Facebook feed are to be trusted. To celebrate two decades of shouting “Pivot!” every time a friend announces he’s moving, Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Eight O’Clock Coffee are partnering to create a Central Perk pop-up in Manhattan.

It’ll be short-lived—the shop, created with help from agency Source Marketing, will open Sept. 17 at the corner of Lafayette and Broome Streets, and close Oct. 18—but fans can hang out on the weird orange couch, listen to a rendition of Smelly Cat, see some special guests (Gunther will be there) and maybe, I don’t know, try to figure out how Rachel afforded to live in a sprawling Manhattan apartment on a barista’s salary.

It’s a brilliant partnership for Eight O’Clock, which will also be adding a special Central Perk blend to its coffee line next month, if you want to K-Cup your way to a Friends-in-your-travel-mug experience.