Today at Gawker.TV, John Oliver introduces America's "Freedom Packages," MTV's Skins finishes its first season, John Lithgow joins the cast of How I Met Your Mother, John Travolta's airline message and Steve Martin breaks out his banjo on the Colbert Report.

Asked on live television about his history of violence, Chris Brown reportedly flew into a violent rage at Good Morning America today. Everyone agrees Chris was foolish not to expect that line of questioning—not least of all because GMA pre-approved it with Brown's handlers, according to TMZ and The View.

John Travolta was rumored to fly Oprah and all her guests to Australia aboard a Qantas jet, but the airline's actual pilots are upset that the actor now appears in an in-flight safety video wearing a Qantas uniform.

Most can agree that Stephen Seagal has made a career out of breaking bones and kicking ass on screen. So, a person with an outstanding tolerance for Steven Seagal movies created this cringe-inducing compilation of every bone broken by Seagal in all of his films. Can you guess how many he's broken?

The Parent's Television Council will not be pleased to see this. Clearly, teenagers (and their parents) have nothing else to talk about. Although it is a fact, universally acknowledged, that teenagers talking excessively about sex are probably not getting any.

Your favorite television show is delayed, I'm afraid. Indefinitely. Also today: Total Recall casting continues, as does TV pilot casting. Plus, The Office plans big fireworks for its finale.

Back in January, MTV released several gormless and repellent teenagers onto an unwitting Baltimore suburb in an experiment called Skins. What would happen? Would the teens run rampant? Would they organize? Would they produce a whole generation of dead-eyed youths who do nothing but give each other handjobs while high on club drugs? Last night, the Skins study came to a close, finally giving us the shocking results that we've been long awaiting.

The Phenakistoscope is one of the earliest forms of animation, predating actual filmmaking. Here, artist Lori Pepi shows off her own modified device, using LED strobe lights to take the phenakistoscope out of the 1800's and into the modern technological world.

Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown's daughter Bobby Christina was recently in the news when pictures of her doing cocaine surfaced. Bobby Brown appeared on today's Wendy Williams to talk about his new album and squash the rumours about his daughters drug use.

A tipster sent us this picture he took on Sunday night of a big, furry rat curled up in the window of the Skechers store in Manhattan's Union Square. (Click here to view the full-size photo.) Is that seriously nasty, or what? Who on earth would wear such hideous shoes?

In your unequal Tuesday media column: women aren't the boss very much, a look at Rupert Murdoch's underling, Glenn Beck's murky future, a self-publishing superstar, and NYT paywall hacks are beside the point.

Avril Lavigne showed up on Chelsea Lately sporting a pair of fake glasses and a bunch of rubber band bracelets to talk about her "girl crush" on Chelsea and her "friendly" relationship with ex-husband Deryck Whibley. But I just can't get past her annoying laugh!

Headline News anchor Nancy Grace invited Accuweather meteorologist Bernie Rayno on her program last night to talk about the (very minimal) health threat that Japanese radiation poses to Californians.

Last night, How I Met Your Mother worked even more of it's Daddy-issues out when John Lithgow turns up as Barney's long-lost father. After 30+ years of expectations, Barney was less-than-thrilled to find out that his father's a boring Driver's Ed teacher.

New York's most obnoxious homosexuals, Dustin and Jayden, sure have been busy since last week, and boy do they have a lot of current events to discuss. Here's what we overheard them talking about this afternoon.

The wonderfully crass Lisa Lampinelli showed up on the Tonight Show and rapidly insulted everyone from Larry King to Zsa Zsa Gabor and Snooki. Zachary Levi looked adorably scandalised and begged Lisa to never "rock his world".

Much has been written about Michael Vick's dog fighting ring. Vick returned to the NFL after serving 23 months in prison. Now he may return to the cover of the most popular football game of all time, Madden NFL. [Kotaku]

In Spring, Texas you can be a christian and still go to poll dancing class, the only catch is you must dance to upbeat contemporary christian music.

Today on The View, the women discussed Chris Brown's morning show meltdown, with Sherri personally taking offense at the fact that Chris Brown was being called 'a thug' while the same term has never been used against Charlie Sheen. But not all the women thought it was a race issue.

Hours after Chris Brown smashed a dressing room window at Good Morning America, a tipster photographed a man working on the window. But was he repairing it, or preserving it as evidence?