gerbils

The Enemy Has Been Living With Us the Whole Time and It's Gerbils 

Caity Weaver · 02/24/15 11:23AM

For centuries, mankind has lived in harmony with the gerbil, welcoming it into our homes, allowing it run inside our smallest wheels, and encouraging it to raise our human children as it saw fit with little to no outside interference. Now, a new study has found that gerbils have been trying to kill us for 700 years.

Please Stand By

Mark Graham · 06/30/08 12:00PM

As you may have noticed, we have been having some technical difficulties again this morning. Remember those prarie dogs we told you about? Well, in an embarrassing turn of events, we weren't able to get their Visas processed, so we were forced to once again to dip our toes into the difficult world of hamster recruiting. And now that hamsters have been empowered by Hollywood casting directors, it makes our job just that much more difficult. Our thanks to you for bearing with us as we try to get things shipshape...

Do They Keep The Editors Of 'Big Brother' Trapped In That House, Too?

Mark Graham · 03/14/08 04:37PM

The second installment of our newish feature, Scrambled Eggs, comes to us courtesy of an eagle-eyed friend of Defamer, People Paula. But before we get into the contents of the clip at hand, we'll give you a quick refresher on what exactly makes a Scrambled Egg. It's a term we invented to describe those glorious moments that happen in television shows when a bored (or possibly stoned) editor cuts an inexplicable and altogetherly out-of-context image into a scene, likely as an inside joke for themselves. Got it? Good.

Now that your memory has been rebooted, we are glad to present this Scrambled Egg from Wednesday night's episode of Big Brother. As the Chenbot attempts to engage the castmembers of the 412th season of the show in some casual conversation while they dangle from some sort of unusual swinging device (forgive us, we haven't followed the show since the days of Dr. Will and Mike Boogie), the show's sleep-deprived editors make what can only be described as an unusual choice for a cutaway shot.