Five Jokes: 3-27-2025
Shark Sounds, The Next 'Avengers' Film, A Government Official's Venmo Account, A 'Snow White' Fiasco, and A Live Action 'Scooby-Doo' Series
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A shark’s sounds have been recorded for what is believed to be the first time. Those most familiar with sharks have translated the sounds to“Where’s my f****ing money?!”
Marvel has confirmed much of the cast for the next Avengers movie — and it pulls together a huge list of stars from films like The Avengers, X-Men, Black Panther, and the upcoming Fantastic Four: First Steps. To simplify the matter, the studio is testing a re-brand for the series titled The Marvel Bunch.
A Venmo account under the name “Michael Waltz,” carrying a profile photo of the national security adviser and connected to accounts bearing the names of people closely associated with him, was left open to the public until yesterday afternoon. For months, world organizations have been trying to crack the code for purchases described on the app as “toilet paper, thumbs up, winky face.”
A Snow White producer’s son criticized the film's lead Rachel Zegler in a since-deleted Instagram comment. But I heard the brother of a production assistant on the film’s nephew told him to do it.
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Netflix announced that it will soon be distributing the first-ever live-action "Scooby-Doo" television series, with a story set before the Mystery Inc. gang officially got together. Series creators Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg secured the IP after pitching the origin story as “a prestige cooking video about weed brownies resulting in the mass hallucination of a 3D dog.”
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