The miniature humans who comprise the cast of “Entourage” gathered on a mountainous overlook of Los Angeles for the new poster promoting the show’s eighth and final season. As you can see, each “Entourage” star is barely taller than a golden retriever (and about as likely to put his face in a woman’s crotch without first asking permission). I heard that this is the show’s last season because the budget for shoe lifts and stepping stools has spiraled out of control.

[EW]

Midget Wrestling, AKA "The Beautiful Game"

Back in February, I wrote about “Half Pint Brawlers,” a new show about midget wrestling that Spike was developing (they consider the term “little person wrestling” to be too respectful). Well, the day has finally come: “Half Pint Brawlers” premieres tonight, and the promo for it (below) is exactly what you’d expect: all the midget-exploitation you love about TLC, but with the extra dumbing-down you get from Spike in  order to cater to unemployed paint-huffing males.

Of course, that’s not to say it won’t be entertaining. I’m sure it’s the perfect show to watch while your rectal burns heal from that fart-lighting accident.

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Spike TV has always sucked, but usually in an endearing way: the channel may shamelessly cater to retarded young males, but stuff like “World’s Most Dangerous Stunts Gone Wrong” is surprisingly watchable. However, as Spike delves into more original programming, the content gets bleaker for people with intact frontal cortices. (Yeah, that’s the plural for “cortex.” I know, it looks weird.)

Now, with the execrable “Blue Mountain State” paired with “Entourage,” the network has plans to make a copycat of “The Man Show” and is also going to make a docu-series about a band of traveling midget wrestlers. Midgets who wrestle, that is. Not big people who wrestle midgets. Although that could be another show.

“Half Pint Brawlers” is a six-episode series following a chaotic traveling troupe of little person wrestlers that journey around the United States and is led by their gregarious owner, Puppet “The Psycho Dwarf” [pictured]. The series is billed as a cross between “Jackass” and “Little People, Big World.” [THR]

Let that sink in for a moment. A cross between “Jackass” and “Little People, Big World.” How does something so insultingly dumb come to life? ”You know, I like TLC’s block of little-person-related programming, but I wish the little people did more stupid things that got them hurt. I also have a vast collection of interspecies porn.”

The hosts of “The Today Show” dressed up in Star Wars costumes for the typical “here’s how you can decorate for Halloween” segment, and they hired a couple people to be in Ewok costumes, which was a nice touch. An even nicer touch? This email from a friend of mine: “For what it’s worth, a friend who works at the Today Show confirms that they were both midgets and drunk.” *looks skyward* Thank you, God!

It takes a while for this video to get going, but the payoff provides all sorts of unexpected delights. Ewoks fighting, moonwalking, leg-humping… If George Lucas had made the Ewoks like this in Return of the Jedi, it totally would have justified their existence.

[Buzzfeed]

The Little People of America held their annual conference in Brooklyn this week, and one of the results was a filing an official complaint to the FCC, requesting that the word “midget” be banned from on-air use.

“The word ‘midget’ objectifies you,” said Clinton Brown, who co-chaired this year’s conference… “Growing up as a little person, because you’re different, you experience the ups and downs of some cruelties and prejudices. How many times have people I don’t know come up to me and wanted to pick me up?” [...]

In April, Little People of America protested an episode of NBC‘s “Celebrity Apprentice,” in which contestants created a detergent ad called “Jesse James and the Midgets.” The contestants, including Joan Rivers, suggested bathing little people in the detergent and hanging them to dry.

I don’t want to come off as callous, but I’m pretty sure that you can swap out “midgets” for “little people,” and bathing them in detergent and hanging them to dry is still demeaning.

Listen, little people, I’m behind the whole “Don’t call us ‘midgets’ thing” only  — ONLY! — because I don’t want to sound like the old man who still thinks it’s okay to call Asians “gooks.”  (“Whaddaya mean I can’t call slopes gooks? What am I supposed to say, ‘Oriental’?”)  Just because a word is inappropriate doesn’t mean it needs to be banned from TV.  That’s retarded.

…Oh, great.  Here come the emails from the tards.