In this witchy edition of Angry Puppy:

• Doctor Who: “The Stolen Earth” and “Journey’s End”
• Stuff We Watch: Primeval, Spaced, Birds of Prey, Eureka
• Stuff We Play: System of a Down on Rock Band
• Reviews: Shutter, High Tension
• Stuff We Read: Reignbow and Dee-va, Pride High, Hunters of Dune
• Plus: Our 15 Favorite Witches (look for the full list tomorrow)

I came across the game Escape from Rehab on Kotaku and thought I’d share it with you fun kids. I swear that I had no intention of bringing up Willow (again), but look what happened!

Lee: “Oh, fun! Someone made a Flash game in which Amy Winehouse must battle her way out of rehab! Haha, oh lulz, she uses drugs as her weapons. And she’s…fighting Batman? And Iron Man…and Hellboy? (Wait. What?)”

Internet: “Pssst… It’s a promotion for Disaster Movie.”

Lee: “You mean that franchise with all the random pop culture non sequiturs that stopped being funny after Scary Movie 2?”

Internet: “Yeah, that’s it. But Scary Movie 3 was decent, no? Anyway, shut up a minute. You know, you can kill at least another quarter of an hour by reading the comments on this post. Look! There’s one about a spoof of these spoofs called Vague Genre Movie.  Let’s watch?”

Lee: “No, really, I have things to d…”

Lee: “Hey, that’s Willow at the one minute mark! I mean, Alyson Hannigan. Is that a scene from Date Movie? Why, oh, why, cruel Internet, have you reminded me of her filmography just as I was coming to terms with it?”

In conclusion, I’ll be over here re-watching Buffy Season 6 now. Oh, and that Amy Winehouse game sucks ballz.

What with all the health rumors and MobileMe troubles, Steve Jobs is not having the best of quarters. Fortunately for him, brave iPeople are willing to stand up for their leader.

Leave Steve Jobs Alone!!! [Language NSFW]

Let’s just hope he doesn’t see “Calvin and Jobs” in the latest edition of Mad Magazine.

[Via Gizmodo]

I’m sure all of you have seen the fake script for Michael Bay’s The Dark Knight. If not, read it here.

Now some enterprising soul has created a mocku-trailer (see what I just did there?) for Michael Bay’s A Nightmare on Elm Street.

I don’t know. Needs more explosions and bikini babes to capture that authentic Krueger experience.

The big difference between this clip and the script for Bay’s The Dark Knight is that Michael Bay’s production company Platinum Dunes is actually remaking A Nightmare on Elm Street, along with Friday the 13th, The Birds and a few others.

The worst part is that I feel compelled to watch them all.

[Via /Film]

Last week, this unaired clip from Buffy the Animated Series appeared on YouTube.

The series, greenlit for Fox Kids in 2001, was meant to take place somewhere around the end of Season 1 in the Buffyverse, but when no suitable timeslot or network could be found for it, the whole project was shelved. The timing explains Willow’s continuing boy-crush on Xander in that clip, but something tells me that if this project had happened, Fox-Kids-Willow would never have come out at all.

Now that we have Season 8 in comic form, the slot for an animated/drawn Buffyverse in my brain is already filled (partially with shirtless, boxing one-eyed Xander), so this clip doesn’t excite me as much as it would have a few years ago.

I have my doubts that anything will come of this series, and, frankly, I don’t want to see Willow neutered in terms of sexuality or witchery! But if you want to join the movement to “support and hype Buffy the Animated Series and to have it possibly return at some point in the future”, here’s a Facebook group for you.

(Who am I kidding? I just joined too. Long live the Buffyverse!)

[Xander image via Shirtless Superheroes]

Deep Space Nine is our favorite Star Trek series, so we don’t need the escapism of the mirror universe anywhere near as badly as we do in its sister franchises. And we love Major Kira in our universe too.

Nevertheless, it’s always a pleasure to watch the adventures of Kira’s “evil” bisexual counterpart, Intendant Kira. Well, they say “evil,” we prefer to say “colorful”.

See her and other “colorful” characters in the gallery.

The Legend of Zelda, Felicia Day and auto-erotic asphyxiation fans:

Check out episode 1 of this (NSFW) web series from Sandeep Parikh (who played Zaboo in The Guild).

Marc won’t get any of the references (He’s really never played a Zelda game. Really.), but at least there’s a shirtless Link/Neil for him and others like him to look at instead.

Episode 1 Cast:

• Tony Janning as Neil
• Mike Rose as Old Man
• Felicia Day as The Fairy

YesButNoButYes (best. blog. name. ever.) posted this video of the B&J Supersquad.

Whether or not I want to feel his quads depends on which Batman actor is under there. And is that just a bromance or did I notice a little flirting on the Dark Knight’s part?

Every other feed in my reader this past week has been about the new search engine Cuil [pronounced like "cool"]. Before the launch on July 28, there were mixed reviews, but it’s been pretty much panned by everyone at this point. I like bandwagons, so here we go.

You can read about all the technical, marketing and other problems all over the internet. I suggest Googling “cuil”; as of the time I am writing this, Cuil doesn’t seem to have indexed itself as a website. Let’s look instead at a couple of things I know rather well: this blog/vlog and me.

Search for “angry puppy” on Cuil. I’m fairly sure that I put these vlogs together, but I don’t remember any of the images that appear alongside our episodes.

On a side note, a Google search for “angry puppy” has us (this blog, I mean, not a link to our vlog on another site) in the top spot. We don’t get any kind of financial remuneration for this project, so I consider that our reward for the many hours we’ve put in to keep this puppy barking. And, of course, that’s thanks to those of you who’ve clicked, linked, watched and read. (Thanks, thanks!)

We did make it onto the second page of the Cuil results, but I didn’t know we were affiliated with I Can Learn Education Systems (TM).

I will resist the urge to insert “i can haz learning?” jokes here.

Now, on to the second subject: me! This is an experiment in ego-dickery, but I suggest you all compare the Google and Cuil results of your own names. You know you do in it private, so let me know in the comments if you notice anything interesting!

A search for “lee waters” on Google shows that I have the top spot (Huzzah!). I didn’t earn that particularly, but it’s quite nice.  Cuil has me on page 3, but at least they didn’t put a picture of a shark or a squeegee or something by my entry.

Actually, a shark would have been cool.

Bear with me on this admin post, and I promise to put a fun clip with Felicia Day and Neil Patrick Harris at the end.

FriendFeed: Look at the top of the right column on this page. That’s the Angry Puppy FriendFeed widget. If you haven’t used it, FriendFeed is sort of like Twitter++.

I like it better than Twitter because:

• There are fewer Fail Whales.
• It aggregates various other social network goodies (including Twitter) into one stream that you can view by web page or by RSS.
• Some of you may have noticed my dirty secret: I’m not a writer. FriendFeed lets me share links without all the messy English.

Let me know if you have a FriendFeed (or Twitter, for that matter) account so I can follow you!

• Angry Puppy FriendFeed
• Angry Puppy FriendFeed RSS
• You can see my personal one on my website, though there is some overlap.

San Diego Comic-Con 08: Neither of us could make it to Comic-Con. (Hell, I barely leave the East Village.) I know some of you went, though. Share your pictures and stories! Head over to our Facebook page and post your photos in the Fan photos section (under that lovely Batman picture).

Promised video: If you’re a Felicia Day fan, you’ll find this clip from a Doctor Horrible panel at SDCC08 cute. If not, go educate yourself.

Wait for Neil Patrick Harris’ comment at about the 35 second mark.

Naughty, naughty.