Year One

Welcome to the Caption It game on BuzzSugar! Every Wednesday, I'll post a photo still from a TV show or movie here and challenge you to think of the most hilarious caption possible. I'll announce the finalists the following Tuesday, and you'll get to vote for the best caption!

First, let's wrap up last week's challenge. At the time I wrote this post, akosijen was winning the poll with this caption:

"Pull on these to inflate flotation device."

Congrats! Now on to this week's challenge from Year One:

Leave your captions in the comment space below before 5 p.m. PDT on Monday, June 29, to be considered for a spot in the voting round. Have fun!

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The Proposal, starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, took the box office by storm over the weekend earning $34.1 million and securing the No. 1 spot. This was Bullock's best opening ever! Woo-hoo!

Both The Hangover and Up continued doing good business coming in second and third place respectively. Jack Black and Michael Cera's primitive buddy comedy, Year One, came in at No. 4 earning an estimated $20.2 million. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 rounded out the top five.

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The trailer for the new movie from director Harold Ramis, Year One, kind of confused me. How were two cavemen types (Michael Cera and Jack Black) bumping into Romans? What? Well, it turns out nothing regarding an accurate historic timeline in this movie makes sense, but that's OK. It's the least of its problems.

If I had to describe this comedy in one sentence I would say it's as if a Mel Brooks comedy and a so-so Saturday Night Live sketch had a baby. It's a gross-out buddy comedy set in the Old Testament that generates a few good laughs. As a comedy duo, Black and Cera are surprisingly good together — although each relies heavily on his respective well-worn shtick. I'm also genuinely surprised at how much mileage the script is able to get out of riffing on what is essentially one big joke about ancient humans and the Bible.

So that's the good news. There is some bad news, though, which you can learn about if you read more

Michael Cera and Jack Black coordinated in purple accents for the premiere of Year One in NYC last night. Their costar Christopher Mintz-Plasse was lucky enough to have gorgeous Zoe Kravitz on his arm, who stood out in her glittery dress among all the funny men on the red carpet. Ed Helms also came out to show his support, and even though The Hangover will be getting some competition at the box office this weekend, he and the boys already have a sequel in the works.

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• Kelly Clarkson's "I Do Not Hook Up" video: Love it or leave it? — PopSugar
• Ten actors ready for a breakthrough. — TV.com
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It was like movie preview-palooza during the Super Bowl this year with spots airing for Transformers 2, Star Trek, G.I. Joe, Angels and Demons, Monsters vs. Aliens, Land of the Lost and Pixar's Up. Did you catch them all? Which one did you like the most?

I was more impressed with the preview for G.I. Joe than I thought I would be and the spots for Up and Monsters vs. Aliens are adorable. I think my favorite, though, is the one for the Judd Apatow-produced comedy Year One starring Jack Black, Michael Cera and Paul Rudd. There's a longer preview for it that came online over the weekend which you can check out after the jump.

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• According to ComingSoon, Salma Hayek will play the bearded lady in the horror drama Cirque du Freak, which also stars John C. Reilly.
• First Reuben and Taylor, now this: Former American Idol contestant Katharine McPhee has also left RCA Records, Billboard reports.
• Vanessa Hudgens will star in the coming-of-age dramedy Will, writes The Hollywood Reporter.
• Variety reports that Steve Buscemi and Stanley Tucci are starting a production company together.
• Forbes wonders: Why so many save-our-show campaigns these days?
• The Hollywood Reporter has new details on Sons of Anarchy, a new FX pilot about motorcycle clubs from an executive producer of The Shield.
• Variety reports that Olivia Wilde (who plays 13 on House) will star opposite Jack Black in the Judd Apatow-produced "biblical-era comedy" Year One.
• Networks are going overboard to make sure people know they have new shows, writes the Wall Street Journal.

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Here's the deal:
Now that Judd Apatow is kind of a big(ger) deal, let the profiting from his name begin! Variety is reporting that Apatow will produce a comedy called Year One, starring Jack Black and Michael Cera. The article has no details about the movie's plot, but does mention that some of the script's writers also worked on "The Office," and Owen Wilson will be an executive producer.

Here's what I hope will happen:
Merely producing a project doesn't necessarily mean Apatow will be closely involved in forming of the movie, so my hopes that Apatow could work his magic and bring the funny back for Jack Black may not be realized. At the very least, here's hoping the hilarious Michael Cera paired with Black will make for some laughs.

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