Break out the wrist corsages and sparkly tiaras — it's prom week! Yes, I know it's only January, but the pop culture universe has brought everyone's favorite spring formal back this week, big time. Consider:

• We kicked off the week with the new trailer for Prom Night [1], the remake of the '80s horror flick that makes your own prom night, no matter how heinous, seem tame.
• Then, NBC Entertainment Co-Chair Ben Silverman invoked the memory of the formal in an interview with E! [2] when NBC was still angling to keep the Golden Globes [3] on the air, saying: "Sadly, it feels like the nerdiest, ugliest, meanest kids in the high school are trying to cancel the prom. But NBC wants to try to keep that prom alive." The ugly, mean, nerdy writers then retaliated by promising to throw Silverman the prom of his dreams [4] outside NBC next week.
• And finally, in what can only be described as perfect timing, Project Runway went to prom [5], too, trotting out a parade of candy-colored gowns for 17-year-old aspiring goddesses. The dresses were just the second-best part of the episode, though, next to the prom photo flashbacks to the designers' awkward years.

I'm not sure what caused this sudden prom frenzy, but — just like real prom — I'm fretting less about that and more about whether anyone will ask me to the dance. Think Michael Cera [6] would be my date?

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