Jezebel: Heavy Metal

Berlin Gets Baby Hippo • Headbanging Can Seriously Hurt

Maria — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:30:00 EST

• A cute, unnamed 18-day-old hippo calf made her first public appearance at the Berlin Zoo yesterday. She is the first hippo to be born in Berlin in three years. • More »

Sci-Fi For Women: Marrying Your Vibrator

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:00:00 EDT

Remember that South Park episode that spoofed that sci-fi, fanboy-jerk-off-material movie Heavy Metal? Here's a clip from the original, in which a woman has sex with a robot and decides to get married to it after "experiencing ecstasy with mechanical equipment." It's kinda NSFW due to naked cartoon breasts.
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South Park Takes A Trip To Heavy Metal

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:00:00 EDT

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Last night's episode of South Park was a take on Salvia, that legal drug that kids can take that make them freak out and fall over, only to wake up and find that their friends had immortalized their trip on YouTube. In the episode, the kids learn they can get high from inhaling cat urine, so Kenny tries it out. He quickly becomes addicted when he discovers that tripping on cat urine brings him into the universe of the 1981 movie Heavy Metal, where everything is pretty much boobs. The song from the movie, "Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride)" might be our favorite new track. Clip above. More »