GRRR SEXY DARK AGES. This video from Funny or Die doesn’t have a lot of laughs, but it does a pretty good job of making fun of “The Borgias” and “The Tudors.” Plus it stars Natalie Zea and Diora Baird, so if you don’t feel like watching it then you can scroll through the following pages for screencaps. I get the clicks, you get the best parts without watching the video, everybody wins. [Funny or Die]

Great Moments in Dog Driving History. Not dog driving like cattle herding, but dogs driving as in dogs driving cars. It’s just as awesome as it sounds. [Uproxx]

Next Week on ‘The Killing.’ Holder and Linden trace Rosie’s death to the Seattle Seahawks. [Kissing Suzy Kolber]

One man, 170 costumes. When a one-legged man found out his son’s school bus route went directly past their house, he decided to wear a different costume in front of the house every school day of the year. [Gamma Squad]

Luxury cat looks like Mythbuster. I knew I hated Jamie Hyneman’s face! [The Daily What and reddit]

Surf dogs! The best of the 2011 Coronado Bay Surf Dog Competition. Or as I call it, “Yay! Dogs on surfboards!” [With Leather]

Scene Breakdown: the Breaking Dawn trailer. I can’t wait for the Twilight series to be over, and for all the Twilight fans to die of diabetes. [FilmDrunk]

Internet History: Ron Swanson’s Love Affair with Meat. Very different from your mom’s. [Alex Leo]

YEEHAW CHURCH AND FAKE TITTIES! Watch the trailer for CMT’s new reality show, “Texas Women.” Why “Texas Women”? Because “Real Housewives of Texas” violates Bravo’s copyright. [Inside TV]

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I’m always hesitant to endorse single-serving Tumblr sites, because you never know when the person running the blog will just get bored and stop posting (lookin’ at you, Faces of the Last Season of Oprah), but this one seems noteworthy: The Cosby Sweater Project. The author is going through the show season by season (he or she is presently working through Season 2) and posts the more woeful fashion decisions paired with a drawing of the design. It’s simple but elegant, and a refreshing break from the recent spate of ’90s nostalgia.

Besides, The Cosby Sweater Project more than justified its existence with this post:

I’d forgotten all about that episode! Theo gets a fancy designer shirt, then Cliff makes him return it, and then Denise tries to make a knock-off for him. Oh my God, I just did some Googling and the episode is on YouTube. Gotta go, see you in 22 minutes.

[via BuzzFeed]

“The Electric Company” was a children’s television show from the 1970s that continued airing re-runs well into the ’80s (which explains why I vaguely remember it). But I never realized that the show featured Morgan Freeman, Bill Cosby, and Rita Moreno (Anita in the film version of West Side Story).

Anyway, here’s video of Freeman rockin’ with the letter “G” — sometimes it’s hard, sometimes it’s soft, baby. That’s right, before he was Hollywood’s go-to septuagenarian granddaughter-humper of gravitas, he was just a groovy hippie in a tasseled vest and peach bellbottoms dancin’ with a white woman to improve reading skills. The ’70s were a crazy time, man. Vote Nixon!

[Funny or Die - thanks, WWSM]

Koos van den Akker, the septuagenarian designer responsible for the most lasting image of 1980s fashion vomit — the Cosby sweater — spoke candidly in an interview at VBS.tv about the rise and fall of his eye-raping pullovers, and his candor is pretty impressive:

“This is a very thin line between absolutely awful and something of genius. I mean, somebody can look at this and say, “What the f— is this? This is the most horrible thing I’ve ever seen.”

You just don’t get those kind of admissions from people who unleash abominations across humanity.  I should know.  I brush up on the Nuremberg trials every couple weeks.  It really adds a lot of depth and perspective to my collection of Third Reich propaganda films.  What?  They’re collectors items.

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