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The girls from Next Door, some off-color tuna jokes and Dr. Drew's floating head. What more could you want out of a clip from tonight's Soup special, TV Under the Influence: Intoxicated Mayhem on TV? Oh, topless reality stars making out in a hot tub? You got it.

Also, don't forget to read The Soup Blog, served daily, and tune in tonight @ 10 on E!

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People of Scranton, make room for beets. The Office is coming to town.

Pressman Toy and NBC Universal will be hosting a day of Office-themed festivities in the real-life version of the Pennsylvania burg where the Dunder Mifflinites push paper for a living to mark the release of a DVD board game and a trivia game revolving around the hit NBC sitcom, which is shot in Los Angeles but has become an important vein of tourism in Scranton.

Writer and executive producer Mindy Kaling, who also plays reliably obnoxious customer-service rep Kelly Kapoor, will preside over The Office Games July 19 (a Saturday, so people won't have to call in sick to their actual offices) at the Mall at Steamtown.

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He's already the unlikeliest leading man in Hollywood, but are you ready for Seth Rogen: Action Hero? He is, kinda, as he preps for his tights-wearing close-up in The Green Hornet, set for summer 2010. But do his Knocked Up fans even know the old comics or '60s TV series?

"When you say The Green Hornet to people, the first thing anyone says is, 'Hey, Bruce Lee played [the sidekick] Kato on that show,'" Rogen told us recently, while out promoting The Pineapple Express.

Everybody knows the sidekick, see, but not the hero.

To introduce the world to Kato's second fiddle, Rogen wrote the script with his Superbad and Pineapple partner Evan Goldberg. Here's what they cooked up...

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Paramount Pictures is hoping Booty Sweat leaves a good taste in America's mouth. (We know, it felt disgusting just writing that.)

The studio has announced plans to market a real version of the aforenamed energy drink that can be spied periodically throughout the upcoming Ben Stiller-directed comedy Tropic Thunder, starring Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black as actors who get left behind in an actual war zone after ticking off the director of the war film they're supposed to be acting in.

While product tie-ins and increasingly viral marketing campaigns are nothing new—what would McDonald's and Burger King do without Disney, hobbits and superheroes?—Paramount believes that by actually creating a usable product to promote an upcoming film, not to mention one that will compete against Rockstar and Red Bull, they've broken the mold.

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Jerry Seinfeld is going multimedia to honor his favorite monster, George Carlin.

In a New York Times editorial today and an appearance on last night's Larry King Live, Seinfeld recalled his final conversation with Carlin, which devolved into a riff on mortality.

"The honest truth is, for a comedian, even death is just a premise to make jokes about," Seinfeld writes in the Times. "I know this because I was on the phone with George Carlin nine days ago and we were making some death jokes.

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Jerry Seinfeld is wondering how a show about nothing has turned him into an "actor."

Lawyers for the former sitcom star have asked that a defamation lawsuit brought against him by a steamed cookbook author be tossed out on First Amendment grounds, arguing that any statements she perceived to be derogatory were made while he was in comedian mode.

"Nobody who was listening to Jerry Seinfeld thought he was doing anything but making very funny jokes," attorney Orin Snyder told E! News Monday. "Nobody believed him to be stating facts. Everyone understood him to be doing what he has done so well for so many years, which was telling jokes and entertaining. So the claim against him is frivolous and we have asked the court to dismiss it too."

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50 Cent has no problem telling Taco Bell where to stick its chalupa.

The feud-sparking rapper, whose legal team is already engaged in a mother of a battle with his conspiracy-theorist baby mama, has lashed out at the fast-food franchise for having the cojones to suggest he change his name to 79, 89 or 99 Cent (his choice) to help promote the chain's value menu.

Apparently, that was a little too much thinking outside the bun for the lawyered-up rapper, who not only took issue with the promo stunt, but threatened to sic his legal team on the chain.

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This was supposed to be a big weekend for comedy, with both Mike Myers and Steve Carell cranking it up to 11 for your pleasure—with a little Timberlake thrown in. But we've seen the results, and your choice is between bad and really bad. Or The Incredible Hulk.

Get Smart: A mediocre spoof, with two bickering spies (Carell vs. Anne Hathaway) trying to thwart a plan to nuke L.A. But the gags fall flat, and those two have no chemistry, maknig this another big summer movie that should have heeded its title's advice.
Grade: C

The Love Guru: Myers does the same character he always does, just with a new accent. So you're in for frozen grins, urination scenes, midget jokes, blatant product placement and that annoying "promised myself I wouldn't cry!" thing he does.
Grade: D+

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Bruno is all set to pull a Borat.

Universal has announced that Sasha Baron Cohen's latest R-rated comedy romp, Bruno—featuring the funnyman as a flamboyant fashionista with a penchant for tight leather clothing—will sashay his way into theaters May 15, 2009.

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There once were seven words that you couldn't say on TV. Luckily for George Carlin, you could say them on stage.

The 71-year-old comedian, whose half-century in stand-up has been spent pointing out the funnier foibles mankind has to offer, will receive the 2008 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

The honor will be presented to the bearded society-skewerer Nov. 10 at the JFK Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The ceremony will later be televised on PBS.

Richard Pryor was the first comic to receive the award in 1998. Past honorees include Steve Martin, Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg and Lily Tomlin.