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Nope — It’s Just Chuck Testa.

Did I mention it’s Friday? That entitles us to a little bit of off-topic fun — which is to say, the single greatest taxidermy commercial in the history of modern advertising. Don Draper couldn’t touch this. Click through for a look and the rest of your week-ending Buzz Break.

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Nope — It’s Just Chuck Testa.

Listen to a Folk Song Inspired By Poltergeist

Henning Ohlenbusch has more than just one of the most awesome names in contemporary music. He also now has a full-length album of songs inspired by movies. It’s quite the spectrum, too — Planes, Trains and Automobiles , The Straight Story , Amélie , Joe Versus the Volcano , Logan’s Run , Meatballs , The Year My Voice Broke , Superbad and, in an irresistible effort you can hear after the jump, a folk song inspired by that mellow, soothing cinematic bromide known as Poltergeist .

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Listen to a Folk Song Inspired By Poltergeist

Hollywood Ink: Does Lego: The Movie Have Cloudy Future?

On DVD: Cloudy With a Chance of Big, Fat, Scathing Satire

This week Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs emerges, like a flood of curdled cream from a giant mutant eclair, onto DVD, and you shouldn’t, if you skipped it, dismiss it as just another digital kids’ cartoon, the kind that usually features penguins or cows and has Patrick Warburton voicing a dim-witted lug character of some type (not that there’s anything wrong with Patrick Warburton or his voicing skills), and blah blah blah. It’s not Pixar, but its not Happy Feet , either. It is in fact a scalding, stomach-churning, essentially Swiftian mockery of Americans, American privilege, and American gluttony. It could not have been made in any other country in the world.

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On DVD: Cloudy With a Chance of Big, Fat, Scathing Satire

On VOD: Cloudy Satire and Helen Mirren’s Nude Debut

It’s a hard thing not to love: the fast, funny, adept digitally animated kids’ movie that actually, even secretly, comes packing double barrels of satiric subtext. Sure, you think of WALL -E , which for my money painted the most lacerating portrait anyone has seen this century of American consumerism run amok. Did those millions of happy Pixar consumers not get the point? More to the point, did the millions of chortling filmgoers absorbing Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs have any trouble last year shoveling the popcorn and Raisinets? As of today, it’s on demand…

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On VOD: Cloudy Satire and Helen Mirren’s Nude Debut