--- description: Wednesday September 29, 2010 - Wet Hot American Backwash Techland found out that Michael Ian Black, star of Stella and Wet Hot American Summer, will... title: Michael Ian Black's Backwash Goes Online, Reynolds on Green Lantern Gymnastics; Rumor PaTroll September 29, 2010 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Business](/section/business/) * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) # Rumor PaTroll: Michael Ian Black's Backwash Goes Online, Reynolds' Green Lantern Gymnastics by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) Sep 29, 2010 10:30 PM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) Sep 29, 2010 10:30 PM CUT ### Wednesday September 29, 2010 – ### Wet Hot American Backwash Techland found out that Michael Ian Black, star of _Stella_ and _Wet Hot American Summer_, will be joining comedy veterans Joshua Malina (_Sports Night, The West Wing_) and Michael Panes (_Easy to Assemble_) for his next project. [Crackle.com](http://www.crackle.com/c/backwash "undefined") will host their online web series _Backwash,_ which will debut on November 15\. The show revolves about the adventures of three friends, who travel around in an ice cream truck after one of them accidentally robs $100,000 from a bank while wielding a large salami (no sexual puns intended). If you’re not familiar with the three protagonists, stay tuned for the other stars who include John Stamos, Allison Janney, Sarah Silverman, John Cho and – my personal favorite –_Mad_ _Men’s_ John Hamm. Everything that Michael Ian Black has stared in has been wacky and nonsensical, and judging from the fact that this web show is supposed to be an “animated, surrealist humor, (with some) song and dance,” we’re sure _Backwash_ will live up to our high expectations. ### Ryan Reynolds Feels Gangly Doing G_reen Lantern_ Stunts Ryan Reynold’s latest movie _Buried_ has the actor moving very little in a tiny cramped space. That’s the complete opposite of the other movie he was filming at the same time, _The Green Lantern_. He joked that he had a hard time maneuvering around at his size. “For Green Lantern, I’ve spent five months doing gymnastics,” Reynolds told Techland at a press conference for _Buried_. “When you’re 6’2” that’s something that shouldn’t be done!” Although it might have been physically taxing, it seems that Reynold loved filming the Green Lantern role. He said the fact that he could do two different movies – _Buried_, an independent psychological thriller and _The Green Lantern_, his blockbuster superhero movie – is something that Reynolds hopes to continue to do for years to come. “I didn’t have meteoric success so it really allowed me to have an outside perspective,” he said. “I’m glad I got to do _Buried_ and _Green Lantern_ in the same year, and I’ll continue to do so – if they’ll let me.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7245503/rumor-patroll-michael-ian-blacks-backwash-goes-online-reynolds-green-lantern-gymnastics/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7245503/rumor-patroll-michael-ian-blacks-backwash-goes-online-reynolds-green-lantern-gymnastics/"},"headline":"Rumor PaTroll: Michael Ian Black's Backwash Goes Online, Reynolds' Green Lantern Gymnastics","datePublished":"2010-09-29T22:30:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T10:54:28.955Z","description":"Wednesday September 29, 2010 - Wet Hot American Backwash Techland found out that Michael Ian Black, star of Stella and Wet Hot American Summer, will...","url":"https://time.com/archive/7245503/rumor-patroll-michael-ian-blacks-backwash-goes-online-reynolds-green-lantern-gymnastics/","keywords":["Tech"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/7245503/rumor-patroll-michael-ian-blacks-backwash-goes-online-reynolds-green-lantern-gymnastics/","name":"Rumor PaTroll: Michael Ian Black's Backwash Goes Online, Reynolds' Green Lantern Gymnastics"}}]}] ```