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# Pop Chart: Shell With Shoes News and Alan Simpson’s Miscues

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## Video: Pop Chart: Shell With Shoes News and Alan Simpson’s Miscues

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_Published 2011-03-10. Marcel the Shell inks a book deal, a former senator misnames Eminem ‘enema man,’ and aliens attack in the Pop Chart this week_


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## Transcript

>> I'm Claire Suddath with TIME magazine and this is what's on Pop Chart this week.

>> Do you want to see me talk on the phone?

>> Finally, there's an internet book deal we actually like. Marcel the Shell, the tiny animated snail shell with one googly eye, two pink sneakers and web videos, voiced by former SNL member, Jenny Slate, is going to get a picture book. It comes out November 1st. Frank Gehry, the architect behind the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, has another masterpiece. His new apartment building, the 76- story skyscraper, in New York City just south of the Brooklyn Bridge is the tallest residential building in the western hemisphere, but not the world. That belongs to the Q1 in Australia. So most movies are filmed in Los Angeles, right?

So why do they always try to destroy their own city? A new movie, Battle Los Angeles, has the City of Angels attacked by aliens.

>> Fall back, fall back.

>> It's coming out.

>> Can't take them, we got no [ unk ].

>> So what are some other disasters that have happened to L. A .? Well, there have been earthquakes, a nuclear bomb, a volcano and with massive tornadoes. Also, did you know that former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson recently referred to Eminem and Snoop Dogg as " Enema Man" and " Snoopy Snoopy Poop Dog ."

>> Christmas presents, they're walking on their pants with the cap on backwards listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy Snoopy Poop Dogg.

>> Huh?

>> Here are 5 things you do not have to worry about this week. You don't have to worry about snickering in church anymore because the New American Bible is replacing the word " booty" with " spoils" of war. And you don't have to worry about taxidermy becoming unpopular because a new show, Mountain in Alaska, displays the gruesome hobby's ins and out. If you're tired of Woody Allen always filming in the U. S ., well, you don't have to worry anymore because the famous director will film his next movie in Rome. If you're worried about George Lucas' sense of shame, well, you don't have to because the famous Star Wars director is rereleasing all of his Star Wars films, this time in 3D- enough already.

And we all heard that Phil Collins retired and you don't have to worry about him because he's gonna to be fine. So that's it. That is what's on Pop Chart this week. Check back next week when we'll have more ridiculous stuff for you.

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