For their latest prank, NYC flashmob collective Improv Everywhere invaded Manhattan's 5th Avenue Gap store, wearing white morphsuits under their Gap clothes, and tried to blend in with the store's regular mannequins.

Last night, IFC premiered the three-hour miniseries spoof The Spoils of Babylon. Starring the likes of Tobey Maguire, Kristen Wiig, Tim Robbins, Will Ferrell, and Carey Mulligan (voicing a mannequin love interest), it's one of those bits of pop culture that owes debt to a lot of things while being not quite like anything that ever existed. Created by SNL writers Matt Piedmont and Andrew Steele (and directed by the former), it exists to skewer the epic, multi-night network melodramas of the '70s and '80s (a la The Thorn Birds), which makes it the spiritual cousin of other high-concept retro spoofs that take on the format they're affectionately parodying. What Strangers With Candy was to ABC Afterschool Specials, what Grindhouse was to grindhouse schlock, what Far from Heaven was to women's pictures of the '40s and '50s, and perhaps what Dredd was to dumb '80s action bloodbaths, The Spoils of Babylon is to the network miniseries.

When it emerged that Lady Gaga intended to fight a $300,000 lawsuit, filed by her former assistant (and, Gaga would like it noted, EX-best friend), we braced for some bananas court documents.

How excited were you to see that story about Rick Perry calling on a mannequin during a Q&A session at South Carolina's Squat N' Gobble restaurant today? What a moron, that Rick Perry. That's precisely what you thought.

Ned Nefer and his wife Teagan are taking a walking tour of upstate New York on their way from Syracuse to Watertown. In Watertwon, they plan to visit the Children's Home of Jefferson County, where they met in the 1980s, when Teagan was "just a head."

Today's Malden, West Virginia update: Eddie Campbell, 61, was arrested for masturbating on a bench in a public park on Sunday morning. He was accompanied by an armless mannequin. This concludes your Malden, West Virginia update. [WSAZ via]

As the ideal male figure slims down to a wriggling indie nothing, so too must boy fashion mannequins. It's a new trend! A 27-inch-waist mannequin will soon hit our shores, sending all but the twinkiest into a shame spiral. Payback?