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ICYMI: Gus Fring Of 'Breaking Bad' Is Back With Los Pollos Hermanos Commercial
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- Gus Fring, Breaking Bad's most terrifying villain, is back for Better Call Saul, and there's a Los Pollos Hermanos commercial to go with it.
- Woody Harrelson has signed on for Star Wars, possibly to serve as Han Solo's mentor. You mean to say that Han used to be a barback at Cheers?
- Researchers have determined that baboons can make human-like vowel sounds. So it begins...
- That news about how we "discovered" a new organ called the mesentery? Looks like that was greatly exaggerated. Part of the problem is that researchers can't seemed to agree on what an "organ" actually is.
- The Hollywood Foreign Press says that they're totally hip with Meryl Streep.
- Here some commercials from the 1980s, when things were a little less disastrous:
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