To thwart the sinful, moral-corroding, cousins-marrying influence of the Western world (that’s us!), Iran has banned the sale of “Simpsons” dolls within its borders. Now Iranian children and Jon Lovitz fans will have to travel all the way to Turkmenistan to get their talking Artie Ziff action figure. According to Reuters:

“The Simpsons dolls are merchandise from an animated series, of which some episodes are even banned in Europe and America,” Mohammad Hossein Farjoo, whose agency oversees what Iranian children can play with, told the Sharq newspaper.

“We do not want to promote this cartoon by importing the toys,” added Farjoo, whose full title is Secretary for Policy-making at the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in Tehran.

Executive producer Al Jean responded to news of the ban by saying, “This means war!” which is a terrifying sentiment when you think about it. Considering Iran’s only getting around to banning “Simpsons” toys in 2012, some 20 years after people here stopped caring about the nationwide-threat that was Bart saying, “Eat my shorts,” just think how pissed they’re going to be in 2020, when “Family Guy” becomes all the rage.

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In today’s feature, we’ve got GIFs from last night’s game (including the middle finger seen ‘round the world), as well as selections from “Archer,” “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret,” “Parks and Recreation,” and even something from “Community.” That’s right, if you needed a new movable Alison Brie image, we’ve got you covered. Also Madonna doing a dance that looks a lot like one from a favorite show of ours…

World peace and GIFs, or GTFO.

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More “Simpsons” football goodness below.

UPROXX “Archer” Open Thread: “The Limited” With Executive Producer Matt Thompson — Matt dished out a ton of behind-the-scenes info, including how long it takes to animate an episode and about the time he and Adam Reed went to the Times Square Howard Johnson’s. He also makes fun of Twilight. I like him. (Uproxx)

Here’s the Best F-You Letter Written By a Slave To His Former Master You’ll Ever Read — There’s just something so refreshing about an old-fashioned “fu*k you” letter. Don’t make ‘em like they used to. (Uproxx)

30 Funny, Catty, and Bitter Twitter Reactions To DC’s “Before Watchmen” Announcement — I think Baby Watchmen has officially become the most popular post-Golden Era “Simpsons” reference. (Gamma Squad)

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes — Remember a few days ago when I asked which celebrity couple make no sense? Well, Nacho and Kim Kardashian makes PERFECT sense. Let their babies be attractive and useless. (With Leather)

Remember When Michael Shannon Was In Groundhog Day? Hint: He Loved Wrestlemania — I don’t, but I do remember Kangaroo Jack, which he played the villain in. That’s what “Boardwalk Empire” needs: more marsupials. (Film Drunk)

First Look: NBA All-Star 2012 Jerseys — Good to know that the West will be playing for China during the All-Star Game. Go communism! (Smoking Section)

26 Meanest Quotes From Reviews of Lana Del Rey’s New Album — TL;DR She’s a robot who runs on Diet Mountain Dew. (Buzzfeed)

The Best Football Fan Raps — The video of a Packers fan singing “Packarena,” a parody of “Macarena,” from EARLIER THIS YEAR is the single most depressing thing I’ve ever seen, and I watched the Miami Dolphins’ 1990 squad rap “Can’t Touch Us” right beforehand. It’s funny ’cause they lost. (Adult Swim)

Kristin Bell Offers an Explanation For Her Sloth Meltdown — I hope sloths become the new cats. Those guys have hogged the spotlight for far too long. (The FW)

7 Most Embarrassing “I’m Going to Disney World” Super Bowl Ads — Walt’s wondering from beyond the icebox where all the Jews are? I mean, Jews…at Disney World?! Now that’s embarrassing! (Screen Junkies)

20 Movie Posters that Have Been Banned Somewhere for Being Too Profane, Gruesome, Provocative, or Offensive — OH GOD, IT’S HIDEOUS /looks at poster for Sex and the City 2. (Pajiba)

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Tim Doyle is an Austin-based illustrator and print-maker. For an exhibition entitled “Unreal Estate” that opens today at Spoke Art in San Francisco, he recreated some of TV’s most memorable fictional settings, from Moe’s Tavern to Satriale’s Pork Store. And by recreate, I mean he made them kind of terrifying, or in artist speak:

“Unreal Estate” is a collection of locations that many of us know and have been to on a weekly basis at times, but can never actually visit. These places are in our memories transmitted and entrenched there through a cathode-ray tube. Some of us have been going to these places for decades, some of these places were taken from us, way too soon. (Spoke Art)

As someone who goes out of his way to visit pop culture locations, I really like Daly’s work, and he does a nice job of getting the little details right, like the car outside of Monk’s with the ASSMAN license plate. That being said, I’m really glad he only did three Springfield locations — looking at his vision of Uncle Moe’s Family Feedbag would make me not believe in sunshine and puppy dogs anymore. Take a look at some of his work.

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I don’t really understand fingernail art. To be honest, it kind of skeeves me out. It’s unnatural; there’s something strangely Wicca about it. Maybe it’s just me, but the idea of spending $100 on something that might break off in your boyfriend’s clavicle next week gives me the heebs. But when the fingernail art is inspired by TV shows, it makes me slightly less squeamish, especially when those television shows are as awesome as these are (I’m particularly fond of the “Doctor Who” art).

Most of the images in the following gallery came from Flavorwire’s collection (and you can see there entire post, which includes a lot of not-awesome shows like “Glee”), but where indicated, the fingernail art comes from elsewhere. Also, yes: I searched all morning for Greendale fingernail art, but the Internet let me down on this one.

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