Lost ROFL

THE ONION / BURBANK, CA— Executives at ABC announced Monday that the network will premier a new Lost spin-off series this fall based around that show's popular smoke monster character.

The new series, a half-hour family-oriented comedy called Where There's Smoke, is touted by ABC as the new anchor of its Thursday-night lineup.

"Somewhere between the smoke monster's first appearance on Lost— when it was depicted as a strange unseen force uprooting trees—and that episode in season three where it grabbed Mr. Eko and smashed him against the ground until he was dead, this character became the breakout star of the show," said Stephen McPherson, president of ABC Entertainment. "And that's exactly why we're so excited about Where There's Smoke."

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(Wow I looked up the names in the article and they are all real people haha.)

From the community at The Lost Wiki comes not a top 10 list but more like a top 100 list of signs you watch too much lost. It's a wiki, so you can even add your own. (but geez, how many Lost wikis are there? )

Some examples:

1. You refer to your bathroom as "the Hydra." 2. You now count to 5 whenever you're afraid. 3. You even tell your non-Lost friends what happened in the last episode. 4. You put DHARMA Initiative labels on the canned food in your pantry and on the beer in your fridge. (Um, see our previous post here) 5. You already made a list like this one. 6. You play with "the numbers" on a calculator. 7. You've begun referring to memories as "flashbacks." 8. You can immediately tell the difference between a fan and a canon website. 9. When you're walking down the street and you see an open manhole you start to scream "IT'S THE HATCH!!" 10. You overhear your friends talking about Dr. Shephard and Dr. Burke performing surgery, and you jump right in and say how creepy it was when Ben woke up, and they have no idea what you're talking about since they were discussing Grey's Anatomy. And 11. You kill a cow with your bare hands and process the meat, bake a bun, and render the fat.

Wait... shouldn't no. 1 be the Tempest (instead of the Hydra) because of the danger of the release of toxic gas? And no. 3 should be preceded by "You have 'Lost' friends". Wait no, editorializing the fine points of a Lost nerd list is nerdier than the Lost nerd list itself, so I take that all back. Anyways: read the entire list here.

We reported previously on vintage DHARMA ads "discovered" by Hot Meteor. At that time he had posted seven such images to Flickr. Since then he's made one more, and it's just great. Read the fine print to the very bottom of the page. To view the full resolution (1333x2000) poster for printing, see the original here at Flicker. And in case you missed them the first time, see the set of all eight vintage DHARMA ads here.

Guy Who Says 'Previously On Heroes' Wishes He Was Guy Who Says 'Previously On Lost'

THE ONION / LOS ANGELES — David Cavanaugh, best known as the guy who says "Previously on Heroes" at the beginning of the hit NBC program, revealed to reporters Tuesday that his true career ambition is to become the guy who says "Previously on Lost" on the popular ABC show Lost.

"I'm extremely proud of the crucial part I play on Heroes," said the 47-year-old voice-over actor, whose role on the show primarily entails alerting viewers that they are about to watch a short montage of scenes from prior episodes. "I've taken this unseen narrator character as far as anyone can, and I've done everything I set out to accomplish on Heroes. Now I'm ready for the big leagues..."

"First and foremost, I would hit that t in 'Lost' a little harder, instead of trailing off and leaving the viewer confused and directionless," Cavanaugh added. "That's 'Previously on' 101, if you ask me."

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We just found the Idea Peepshow blog's Battlefight on LOST vs. LOLcats, which essentially pits the pros and cons of each, to decide once and for all which is absolutely superior to the other.

Are LOLcats better than LOST? Or is LOST better than LOLcats?

Readers are then encouraged to join in the fray and present their arguments. To read more, see the original post.

One particularly astute sample is below:

Jp- Mom? SP- Hi, buddy. Jp- Ok- weird question, but what do you think is more entertaining- LOST or LOLcats? SP- Lowl kitz? Jp- LOL cats… Like L-O-L. You know, those cute pictures of cats doing funny things with a little tagline at the bottom. SP- I don’t know what those are… Jp- LOLcats, you emailed me one just a few weeks ago. Remember? Cute pictures of kittys doing funny stuff with a tagline like “me like cheeseburgers” but all mispelled? SP- Well… since I don’t know what you’re talking about i must not have found it very funny **… so I guess I’d say LOST. Jp- But you… you know what, that actually works. SP- Ok, bye.

Of course, as we at LOSTROFL (as well as the kittehs lurve lost blog) know, fans do NOT have to choose between the two.