With the Fourth of July just days away, Jimmy Kimmel aired a hilarious and informative video involving drunk mannequins and the potential danger involved with lighting off your own homemade fireworks.

Today the The View hosted Helen Hunt under the guise of talking about her current gig on the New York stage, but really all they wanted to do was geek out about her classic 90s sitcom Mad About You.

As sure a sign as any that New York is slowly returning to the recession-plagued madness of the '70s and '80s, Central Park is now full of rabid raccoons. There's an outbreak! 114 new cases this year alone. [NYDN]

Arizona is currently besieged by insane politicians, idiot citizens, racist educators, even more racist laws, and a nationwide boycott. Nobody's visiting, for some reason? The clear solution: better PR.

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having interest in Top Chef Season 7 DC, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the season is now screening. God save Tracey and her clairvoyant sadness.

Justin Bieber's fans are having a vote contest to see what countries he should tour. In second place and gaining momentum: North Korea. Obviously, this is the work of web-prank powerhouse 4chan, which also originated Bieber's recent syphilis rumor.

While most agree that the "bros icing bros" phenomenon is over, Daniel Tosh and company only got around to addressing the fad in last night's episode. Watch Tosh take the most bad-ass icing we've seen yet—with blood!

Politico's muckrakers have filed a disturbing report on illicit Obama administration Twitter activity: whoever set up the White House's new health care account "favorited" some P. Diddy tweets, one of which mentioned vodka! How completely will this ruin Obama's presidency?

Second week of Gawker.TV Trivia, a daily question & answer game that tests your knowledge of television—past and present. The answer to today's question, inside.

Daily Profile: Bee Shaffer

What's with morning shows always giving us what we don't want to see while we're eating breakfast? Anyway, here's a clip of my two favorite morning show hosts sampling the flavors bacon, beer, booger, and "better than sex."

If you missed 2008's Let the Right One In, an ethereal but deeply unsettling vampire movie (based on a book) from Sweden, go and watch that before you see Let Me In, the inevitable American version of the same tale.

After a former bodyguard filed a report that Britney Spears beat her two sons, the L.A. Department of Child and Family Services paid a visit her home. Social workers found nothing wrong, except Britney's collection of Daisy Dukes.

First you hide in the fridge to scare your friend, then you steal his Burger King? Shame on you.

Wild-maned ad whiz Alex Bogusky, famous for weird Burger King ads and being a sickeningly stereotypical "creative," has resigned from his company, and is reportedly retiring from the ad business for good to focus on outside "initiatives." God speed, dude.

Is it a case of theft, or maximum shrinkage? Only The Colbert Report has the balls to expose this chilling mystery.

Gerald Posner—the former Daily Beast writer who's recently been found to have plagiarized one bazillion times—is also an attorney. Mahmood Karzai is the crooked brother of Afghanistan's president. Together, they're a legal PR combo that cannot lose!(?)

In case lighting a candle, listening to "Rhiannon" on repeat, and saying "wingardium leviosa" aren't working, here's how to cast a magic spell.

Global Mundo Tapas, a restaurant in Sydney, Australia, has replaced its menus with the MenuPad app for iPads.

Freakishly good ballet dancer, Alex Wong, wowed the SYTYCD studio into a wild standing ovation with his insane hip hop number last night. After the cheering ceased, everyone calmed down... well... almost everyone. Adam wasn't exactly subtle with his praise.