“My Extreme Animal Phobia” is one of the greatest sources of unintentional comedy on television — who can forget Marvin, the tattooed badass who cried at the sight of a pit bull puppy? — and the Animal Planet series hits paydirt once more with Sandra, who attempts to face her fear of cats. Sandra must walk down a hallway of cats behind glass doors, and though they can’t touch her, the animals’ plaintive meows bring Sandra to tears. Her crippling phobia isn’t quite as hilarious as Marvin’s, but it’s still worth it for the moral support she gets from the show’s other star:

The cuts to that lady in the confessional  room really make this video worthwhile. “The cats are behind GLASS! What’s her problem?” Thank you, No-Nonsense Black Woman. You say what we think.

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It’s been a rough 24 hours. The last best hope for an NBA season fell apart. “Community” got pulled from NBC’s midseason schedule. The NYPD prevented journalists from accessing its Gestapo-like raid on Occupy Wall Street. And then we watched the Jerry Sandusky interview, and suddenly it feels like the entire world is filled with evil and stupidity and greed and more evil.

And I can’t argue against that. The good, the intelligent, the charitable, the kind, the reasonable: these are the people who are ground beneath the boot heel of history. Fodder for a machine that turns humanity into capital. It only gets worse from here.

So f*ck it all, here’s the cutest kitten I’ve ever seen. Let’s spend some happy moments with it while the world ends around us.

Okay, this is a lot to process. The video below aired during the “MAD” sketch show on Cartoon Network, and it is a dizzying assault of memes. At its core, it’s a battle between the new Thundercats and Dogfort characters, but along the way there’s a lot of impact font and lolcats and ragetoons and other memes. It all makes perfect sense to me, but normal people — that is, people who don’t spend 12 hours a day on Tumblr and Reddit and Uproxx — will be absolutely baffled by it.

But that’s all moot. I’m just posting the video because Lobster Dog was finally on TV, as a cloned foot soldier in the Dogfort army. Oh man, can you imagine a platoon of Lobster Dogs? I can. I dream about it every night.

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Video Music Awards (MTV/VH1, Sunday) — Of course, MTV hasn’t played music videos in years, but it’s an annual rite of summer: MTV spends a week praising itself for creating this awards show and remembering all the CRAZY and UNPREDICTABLE moments before airing something that’s less an awards show than it is repeated attempts to create the next CRAZY and UNPREDICTABLE moment for next year’s montage. I’m sure I’ll end up writing about it Monday, unless Hurricane Irene can save me by knocking out New York City’s power grid. Fingers crossed, people. (Video below: cat in a wedding dress doing Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” performance.)

Doctor Who (BBC America, Saturday) — Summer premiere. The more love I see for this show, the harder I dismissively wank in my little corner of the internet. But hey, at least Hitler gets punched.

Man Vs. Wild (Discovery, Friday) — Season finale. Since when is this on Fridays? The season concludes by looking at the average humans behind the camera.

Jersey Shore (MTV, Sunday) — MTV’s airing a new episode to lead into the VMAs. I no longer make the effort to watch “Jersey Shore,” but I’m addicted to MTV’s official Tumblr for the show, which is nothing but endless, sweaty, mattress-throwing GIFs. A+.

George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview (NatGeo, Sunday) — The former president opens up about his decisions following the terrorist attack. It will be almost as intellectual as the VMAs.

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I Photoshopped Cool Cat into Cool Dog’s picture. This is what happens when there are no NFL games on a rainy Sunday. [roboshark]

The Greatest Unscripted Scenes in Film. Everything Robopanda does is golden. This is no exception. [Uproxx]

Breaking: Alex Smith still terrible at football. Burnsy breaks down this past weekend’s NFL preseason “action.” Much better than actually watching the games. [With Leather]

U.S. Presidents: Complete Badasses. Artist Jason Heuer — the man responsible for the Internet-famous image of Abe Lincoln toting an assault rifle while riding a grizzly — has several other paintings of commanders-in-chief looking heroic. See also: FDR the Transformer and George Washington, Zombie Killer. [GammaSquad]

Yep, that looks like the Batwing. I skipped out on watching these spoiler-ish videos of Dark Knight Rises videos, but the Internet certainly didn’t. [FilmDrunk]

The Best and Worst of WWE Summerslam 2011. I’m still not entirely sure what Summerslam is, but I’ve ruled out “music festival.” [With Leather]

More links + a new Alison Brie GIF below.

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