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SuperNews! Investigates Footballis Interuptus

aaron — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:45:11 +0000

Last night’s SuperNews! episode featured a piece that so many sports lovers can relate to – when your girlfriend texts during the game. If you’re lucky enough to be dating someone who likes to watch the games with you, please write a book, and then send me the first copy.

SuperNews! Attacks Twilight Vampire Overload

aaron — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:44:07 +0000

Twilight: New Moon came in third this weekend at the box office (clarification: third biggest opening of all time), but, unlike the rest of the media, we still think it’s worth talking about. And so does the crew at SuperNews!, who bit into this Hollywood-centric parody about a city obsessed with vampires. It’s titled Vampires: Hollywood Bloodsuckers, and SuperNews! airs on Current 11pm / 10pm central.

SuperNews! Gets Its Swerve On

aaron — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:45:42 +0000

The second season of the Flash-animated SuperNews! half-hours is officially underway (10 p.m. ET/PT on Current TV). So merge into this new season with a sample from the first episode – Texting While Driving.

Season 2 of SuperNews Kicks Off Tonight

aaron — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:01:28 +0000

The second season of the Flash-animated series SuperNews! kicks off tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT, as part of Current TV’s new hour-and-a-half Thursday Night Block Party. So, get your monitor wipes ready, ‘cuz below is a short from the new season called Emoticons Have Cybersex.

SuperNews Doubles Down

aaron — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:46:05 +0000

What’s better than an episode of SuperNews? Two episodes of SuperNews. You are so dumb. How could you not get that one? Think over your failure while watching McCain’s VP Rejects followed by Uncle Sam & 911.

McCain’s VP Rejects

Uncle Sam & 911

Olson Breaks Down Subprime Breakdown

aaron — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:08:07 +0000

Steven K.L. Olson, the animation director on Current TV’s SuperNews, has released his very own animated TV series. And now my head hurts, because Olson made me learn. Noooooo!

Explanotions is an animated musical series that is best explained as Schoolhouse Rock for adults. For instance, in this episode below, titled Mortgage Crisis Blues, we learn about securitization. I can confidently say I know twice as much about that loan concept as before – which was nothing.

Schlafman Short Screened by Gore

aaron — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:19:48 +0000

Early last month, Nobel Prize winner Al Gore spoke at the Technology Entertainment Design (TED) conference in Monterey, California. He delivered a shortened version of the world’s most famous PowerPoint presentation, the slide show that turned into the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. The video of Gore’s 30-minute speech can be seen at the TED website, but below you can view a short segment pulled from the middle. It features Dave Schlafman’s Flash-animated PSA, Sky is Falling, which won Current TV’s Sixty Seconds to Save the Earth contest. We’ve now featured this short on the site 3 times, but it’s just cool to see Al Gore introduce it.

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Rambo and SuperNews Tackle the Terrorists

aaron — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:39:34 +0000

Rambo would surely agree that the terrorists drew “first blood,” right? So he’s bringing the fight to them in the latest installment from Current TV’s SuperNews! In Rambo vs. Terror Pt. 1, John Rambo teams up with Erik Prince, the billionaire CEO of Blackwater USA, and along with a few blood-thirsty battle-pals Yosemite Sam, Boba Fett and The Predator, they head out to kick some terrorist butt.

SuperNews Envisions Bush’s Horrible Life

aaron — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:07:00 +0000

Josh Faure-Brac and the SuperNews team have placed their longest episode yet under the YouTube tree. It’s a spoof of Frank Capra’s 1946 film It’s a Wonderful life. While the original film was actually a box-office disappointment, this episode, It’s a Horrible Life, delivers with dialog like “You can’t abort me – I’m in my 187th trimester” and “I wish I was never born-did.”

SuperNews Reports On The British Football Invasion

aaron — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:10:00 +0000

Current TV’s SuperNews series has released a brand new episode – Becks Strikes the USA. Hollywood’s most recent import, David and Victoria Beckham, are joined by Rolly the Football, and together they try to re-introduce the Spice Girls and teach us how to love soccer. Along the way the gang wrecks Tom & Katie’s mansion and gets some new nicknames from W.