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After Parks and Recreation and Community were so hilariously mashed together with Texts From Last Night, I was certain that we’d seen the last of any fictional characters from film and TV being coupled with TFLN quotes, because I didn’t think it could get much better. But then TFLN founder Lauren Leto posted this to her Twitter account the other day… “OMG” is right. Disney Ladies From Last Night will probably ruin your memories of an innocent childhood, what with quotes about blowjobs and pearl necklaces laid over stills of Disney princesses. It’s all so good and sick — just how I like it. So here’s a handful of my favorites from the site. Enjoy.

Call us old-fashion but you really can’t beat a few hours playing with LEGO can you? The possibilities are pretty much endless, but in an age where apps have replaced boardgames and Barbie isn’t quite the accurate portrayal of a girl as she once use to be, it can be a confusing time for parents who want to buy toys for their kids. What we do know, is there are certainly more than few gifts floating around that you really wouldn’t want to give your kids. That is unless you want to terrify them for life and ensure their teenage years are riddled with confusion. In which case, head down to your local department store and see if they have any of the following in stock….

Veebot is a start-up in California. They’ve built a robot that can insert IVs and partially automate blood draws. THANKS, WE NEEDED THAT. The patient slides his or her arm into an inflatable cuff, which acts as a tourniquet. An infrared light illuminates the inner elbow for a camera that searches for a suitable vein using software that compares the camera’s view against a model of an arm’s veins. Next, ultrasound confirms that the chosen vein has sufficient blood flow for a successful blood draw. Finally, the robotic arm aligns itself with the chosen vein and inserts the needle. The whole process takes about a minute. [Medgadget] The phlebotomist robot finds the best vein 83% of the time, which is about the same frequency with which human phlebotamists find the best vein. On the other hand, human phlebotamists probably won’t jab the everloving sh-t out of your elbow if they malfunction (we would hope). Richard Harris of Veebot says they want to raise the best-vein accuracy to 90% before starting clinical trials. He says a billion blood draws are performed in the U.S. each year (Half of those were performed on me last time I was in the hospital). He also says 250 million IVs are inserted each year in America. If improved, a machine like this could reduce errors and speed up the process. Or it could go all Judgement Day and END US ALL. Decisions decisions. Here’s a video of this nightmare beast at work, narrated by someone who seems to assume we’re all kindergarteners.

Remember when they made a TV show of The Flash? They're trying again, thanks to the success of Arrow. So we're celebrating with a few GIFs. The new series will, oddly, be tied to Arrow; we'll meet Barry Allen sometime next season and he'll be getting his spinoff late in 2014. It's been noted that TV makes sense for DC to bring characters to the screen, not least because it's cheaper to make a failed pilot than it is to make something like Green Lantern, which barely made more than its budget. Also, Arrow was one of the few freshman shows to actually survive the 2012 season and one of the few hits the CW has, so essentially, the CW would approve Ambush Bug at this point. It also raises a few questions since apparently there are hints Warner Brothers plans to bring Ollie and the Flash to film in the future. So does that mean Man of Steel happened in the Arrow universe? Does this mean all the in-jokes the show has been dropping, and there are a hell of a lot of them just in the first season, will actually have more relevance? These are questions only Warner Bros. can answer, of course, and it's possible even they might not know. But hey, more Flash! Let's celebrate with GIFs!

We already knew Mitch Hurwitz wanted to do another installment of Arrested Development, and we knew that Netflix was likely to renew the series, but certainty is always appreciated, especially when we still have some many open questions. Certainty is what we got from Mitch Hurwitz, who — when asked Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal if the show would be back — said “Definitely.” Then, turning to Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos, he said: ‘I don’t want to get into a whole negotiation right now… but I’ve got a family to feed.’ I can also confirm that Hurwitz does, indeed, have a family; he’s married to the lovely actress Mary Jo Keenan, and they have two daughters, May and Phoebe, the portmanteau of which equals “Maebe.” What Hurwitz is still waffling about, however, is in what form the series will return. From Chortle: ‘I kinda go back and forth between [a movie] and a series. But here’s the most important thing, whatever we do, I want to get the cast all together and not do another anthology thing, and that’s why I keep thinking about kicking off with a special or a three-part show and then going into a series. Then he asked Sarandos: ‘Are you game for that?’. ‘Absolutely,’ the Netflix boss replied. ‘In any form.’ Hurwitz also noted that they now have “the right idea” to take the next step, and I given the exchange, it seems that, even if it’s a movie, it’ll premiere on Netflix (and not in theaters). My only question is how they’re going to work around the Arrested Development movie within the movie being Ron Howard’s next Da Vinci Code when Ron Howard has already signed on to do the next Da Vinci Code.