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The third film in Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s “Blood and Ice Cream” trilogy will detail what it’s like to run into a global apocalypse while you’re in the middle of a pub crawl. It’s called The World’s End and the movie’s first poster does a pretty good job of putting all of that in context. Here it is…

The Doctor should never travel alone and, luckily for us, most of the time he doesn’t. Over the decades Doctor Who has been on television we’ve had a lot of different Doctors, and for each Doctor there’s a different group of companions. After awhile, it’s a lot to keep track of. We’re here to help.

Here’s everything you’ve ever wanted to know about The Doctor’s companions, in a handy infographic. My favorite fun fact? 2% of them have been robots. Take a look…

The real events behind Ben Affleck’s new movie, Argo, are the sort of thing the phrase “stranger than fiction” was invented for. If you’ve seen the trailers, you know the score: a CIA agent comes up with a crazy scheme to smuggle six Americans out of Iran by inventing a fake science fiction movie production and using it as a cover to sneak his targets out as “crew members.” It’s a plan that would probably be dismissed as ridiculous if you pitched it as a storyline, but it is nevertheless based on real events. And believe it or not, the story behind the “fake” movie script at the heart of Argo is nearly as bizarre and intriguing as all the CIA shenanigans. And now, to make things even more confusingly metafictional, a new documentary project has appeared on Kickstarter, promising to tell the story of the story behind the story of Argo. Wait, I may need to diagram that sentence…

So, the CIA needed a fake movie to establish their cover for the Iran rescue mission. Rather than having one of the interns at Langley cobble something together, they seized upon a failed science fiction script called Lord of Light. Based on Roger Zelazny’s award-winning 1967 novel of the same name, the Lord of Light script was the passion project of a dude named Barry Ira Geller. He bought the rights to Zelazny’s book and had big, big plans for it. Not only did Geller want to turn Lord of Light into a $50 million blockbuster, he wanted to build the world’s first science fiction theme park (dubbed, appropriately enough, “Science Fiction Land”).

Over the years Star Wars fans have mashed up their favorite epic space opera with seemingly everything under the sun. One of the latest mixes is with Angry Birds, but there have been Jawas (Jaws), Look Who’s Tarkin (Look Who’s Talking), and Obi-Wan Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (that one should be obvious) posters; Star Wars detective noir book covers; and oh so many more.

Some of these pairings go together naturally, while other attempts are a definite stretch. This video, embedded below, falls into the latter category. Sound in theory, Star Wars and NBC sitcom 30 Rock may just be too incongruous to properly combine into some unholy new creature.