David Odd

"Top Ten Other Odd Presidential Auction Items" from May 22, 2012.

"Top Ten Other Odd Presidential Auction Items" from May 22, 2012.

If you thought the Herman Cain smoking ad was odd, watch this.

If you thought the Herman Cain smoking ad was odd, watch this.

Ho Jack runs into his former pimp (David Cross).

Ho Jack gets the once-over from his potential pimp (David Cross).

Ho Jack runs into his former pimp (David Cross).

Julie Chen spoke with actress Susie Essman about Larry David's odd behavior in the HBO show "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

Ho Jack gets the once-over from his potential pimp (David Cross).

Being gay, it s easy to appreciate public figures coming forward to lobby for my rights to love, marry, and be proud. It s nice. But sometimes, it feels a little weird when the message gets lost among some strange semblance of self-importance and vanity, like the NOH8 photos, in which people dress up like they re going to a Lady Gaga concert, and then put masking tape over their mouths to symbolize oppression, I think. It s like thank you, Jeff Probst, Brooke Hogan, and Bobby Zarin, for siding with the idea that everyone deserves to be treated equally. But it just feels doesn t feel like activism. It feels odd, like a half-hearted excuse to look intense under really good lighting. Good on NO H8 for raising funds to help campaign for tolerance and acceptance of marriage equality and anti-discrimination. But in this video that calls on President Obama to legalize gay marriage, are David Hasselhoff, Trina, and Verne Mini Me Troyer really the best celebrities to sell a serious message to the leader of the Free World? Do they really expect POTUS to stop what he s doing and say, You know what? Until now, I figured the LGBT population wanted to get married, but who knew The Hoff felt that way? Somebody get me a pen and a scroll. It s time to change history, Baywatch-style. [via Jezebel]

Just as coast-to-coast networks threaten to make local children s programming a thing of the past, we get this report from Peaks View, Montana, last bastion of mom and pop programming… Froggy Doo has been kidnapped. That s right folks, Froggy Doo, local TV legend and certified puppet, disappeared during a live show in front of hundreds of young fans. And if that s not strange enough, J. Edgar Hoover himself has sent two agents in to investigate the disappearance of Peaks View s favorite frog. I kid you not. David Brinkley, on the Huntley-Brinkley Report in 1968 Froggy Doo, the wisecracking marionette operated and voiced by Happy Herb, is loved by all the kids all the kids except young Elliott Plumm. Elliott (13) has outgrown the show and no longer believes in Froggy Doo; in fact, he doesn t believe in much of anything anymore, least of all himself, which causes a considerable amount of tension between him and his five year-old brother Rocky, who believes in everything especially Froggy Doo. What s real for Elliott is the anxiety he feels at home. His father, Mick, an ex-boxer, treats his oldest son as though he s invisible, and secretly blames the boy for his not going to the Olympics thirteen years ago. His mother, Roxie, loves him dearly, but is so busy trying to keep the bills paid, her husband sober, and her marriage together that she doesn t have much time left for her firstborn son. Initially, Elliott has no interest in the Frog-napping, but when an odd-looking trailer pulls onto the empty lot next door carrying young Haley (a new neighbor, junior sleuth, and Trixie Belden fan), everything changes. Soon, Elliott, Haley, and Rocky band together and embark on a mission to find Froggy Doo. And what starts out as a lark for Elliott becomes increasingly essential as the stakes for him rise dramatically: if he can crack the case before the FBI, he could win the heart of the girl he s falling for, bond with his little brother, give his mother the

Meet Matt and Lara, an assured LA couple in the thirties. Matt (Stephen Jenkins) is an ambitious designer. Laura (Joyce Hyser) runs a charity, and has supported Matt for years, waiting patiently for him to agree to have a baby. But when his big break comes, Matt heartlessly leaves Laura to enjoy the fruits of his new career with a string of young - less controlling - women. Reeling in shock, deprived of the future she'd been longing for; Lara decides to set Matt up with the 'Woman of his dreams'. That might seem odd until it becomes clear that the seductive vision Lara has in mind is a grafter named TUESDAY, a viciously bad seed with the demure face of an innocent angel (played by the beautiful Nichole Hiltz). Lara pays Tuesday to be the fictional 'Juliet', Matt's image of perfection - Who's really going to turn out to be his worst nightmare instead. Lara's motive is simple; to crush Matt and make him pay for humiliating her by shattering his career, his life, and his ego for all time. But there are wild cards in the plan. Can Tuesday really be trusted? Will she play along or could she steal Matt for herself? And will Matt and Lara's best friends Ben (David DeLuise) and Izzie (Tembi Locke), bust Lara's scheme wide open or find themselves trapped in the intrigue themselves?