So I did the whole chili and beer thing for the Superbowl last night — all good clean fun.

Needless to say, I didn’t particularly care what was going on. Fun fact: there’s a guy named Eli Manning who is the ball-thrower for the Giants and he is the brother of Peyton Manning — the cute southern guy who hosted SNL a while back. The more you know, indeed!

However, I like the Superbowl because the commercials are fun sometimes and there’s the Puppy Bowl. Everybody wins.

What I really want to get to thought, was that awful Sales Genie commercial with the pandas with the exaggerated Asian accents. Seriously? Who vetted that one?

Am I just being hypersensitive?

If you’ve ever watched TV with me, you’ll know I have a pathological need to identify every minor actor that appears on screen, whether it’s a background player in a Reebok ad or the latest corpse in Law and Order. After last night, though, I may want to retire my skills, because I proudly identified this guy in the fourth quarter Amp ad, and I don’t think I’ll ever have a better ID moment for as long as I live. [kml_flashembed movie="http://lads.myspace.com/videos/vplayer.swf" width="430" height="346" fvars="m=27487205;type=video" wmode="transparent" /]

Have you watched it?

Okay.

It’s Donkey Lips from Salute Your Shorts.

You’re welcome.

Favorite ad? Justin Timberlake. Least favorite ad? The peanut one with the unibrow lady. Honorable mention? The e-trade baby.

If you’re interested in the actual sports “plays,” that bit near the end when Eli Manning escaped a million defenders by the skin of his teeth — that was pretty great. Go Giants!

Holy crap!

Just when we expunged the idea of any more Arrested Development from our heads, they go and start getting us excited again. It looks like the possibility of an AD movie is very much alive.

The dream is still alive… just like that Wilson Phillips song.

Jason Bateman recently told Kristin from E! that support is snowballing for the movie. He says:

“I can confirm that a round of sniffing has started,” Bateman says. “Any talk is targeting a poststrike situation, of course. I think, as always, that it’s a question of whether the people with the money are willing to give our leader, Mitch Hurwitz, what he deserves for his participation. And I can speak for the cast when I say our fingers are crossed.”

Kristin reports that Mitch Hurwitz doesn’t have a script yet, but he has a solid idea of what he wants to do.

Obviously, this is incredible news. Click through to hear the audio of Jeffrey Tambor confirming his interest in participating int he movie.

Get out your upright bass.

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