Ted Mosby has been boring his kids with the same story for eight years now, recalling, in vivid detail, every step that brought him closer to meeting their mother on "How I Met Your Mother." One of those steps, a vital one at that, was "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?" — the last record from the now-kaput band the Unicorns. A sad, dark record, its inclusion in Mosby's drawn-out road to his future wife makes former frontman Nick "Diamonds" Thorburn wonder: "Is she a capable parent?"

Thorburn's record makes a cameo in the fifth season of the CBS sitcom — seven or so years after its release. In one episode, Ted meets a woman named Cindy while teaching a class at Columbia University and goes back to her apartment, where he starts picking up books and other objects that he's surprised and thrilled that she owns — one of those objects is the Unicorns' CD, which he snaps up and exclaims, "The Unicorns? Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? I have never met anyone else who has this album." Cindy replies, "That's my roommate's." That roommate? She's destined to be Ted's future wife. Sorry, Cindy.

Fast-forward four more seasons to when we — the audience, not Ted (yet) — finally meet the mother, played by Cristin Milioti. Then cue the massive sigh of relief that the show will not, in fact, end in an asylum, where we discover that Ted has been talking to his doctor for nearly a decade, recalling the elaborate tale of ...

Even the Norse God of Thunder may not be able to change the weather this weekend.

After a successful mini-run in New York and Los Angeles, Chris Hemsworth's will expand nationwide. But the mountain of a man who plays Thor in the Marvel movies won't be able to beat Sony Animation's which features the voice talents of "Saturday Night Live" alums Bill Hader and Will Forte, among others.

Both "Rush" and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's writing and directorial debut will be in significantly fewer theaters than "Meatballs." Even with the considerable draw of Hemsworth's fellow Avenger Scarlett Johansson, the pornography-related subject matter and R-rating of "Don Jon" will prevent the Sundance Film Festival hit from making a "Meatballs"-size splash.

All but one of the weekend's new releases have earned praise from film critics: Paula Patton's PG-13 romantic comedy "Baggage Claim" had notched just 14 percent on Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer going into the weekend.

The skies look clear for "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2" to grab the #1 spot at the box office. The first "Meatballs," based on the children's book of the same name, opened four years ago with $30.3 million and went on to make $125 million at the domestic box office. Industry forecasts put the sequel's opening around $45 million. Adam Sandler's ensemble animated flick with its $42.5 million debut last year, leading to making almost $200 million worldwide.

Set in the world of Formula 1 racing in the 1970s, "Rush" is the latest from two-time Oscar-winning director Ron Howard. "Rush" should collect ...

Gleeks finally got to see the season-five premiere of "Glee," which kicked off Thursday night with some covers of classic Beatles tunes and a "Klaine" proposal. And now that the first episode is in the can, Ryan Murphy has released a promo image for the October 10 tribute episode to Cory Monteith, who died in July at age 31.

The image is a black-and-white photo of Monteith with the tagline, "The hardest word to say is goodbye."

Details about the episode have been kept under wraps for the most part, but show creator Murphy did share that it would be a "heartfelt look at how young people grieve." He also noted that fans might not even learn how Monteith's character, Finn, dies.

"There were a lot of things that we had to decide — how are we going to deal with his death?" Murphy said over the summer. "At one point, we were going to have his character die after an accidental drug overdose — that was something we had considered. But we have decided that we're not going to have him pass from that.

"Basically, what we're doing in the episode is we are not telling you yet, or maybe not at all, how that character died," he explained." The idea being, how somebody died is interesting and maybe morbid, but we say very early on in the episode, 'This episode is about a celebration of that character's life.' "

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It's been an exhausting week in Kanye Westland. Not only did 'Ye go off on Jimmy Kimmel
 over a bit the comedian did on his talk show, but he also went off on, well, pretty much everything and everyone in the known universe during his marathon one-hour sit-down interview
 with BBC Radio 1 host Zane Lowe.

Rolled out in four parts, the final segment of the enlightening chat went up on Thursday and in it West stops raging against the machine for a minute and hands out some props to Jay Z, Kendrick Lamar and, yes, the paparazzi.

No Kanye If There's No Roc Chain
Kanye shouted out many of his collaborators and inspirations in the interview. But he saved his highest praise for his Watch the Throne co-pilot, Jay Z. "I would not be here if it was not for a Roc a Fella chain," he said. "If it wasn't for Jay Z's blessing and his co-sign and his protection when I was in New York City, dolo ... I would not be here in the way that I am ... Me as Kanye West, as a young revolutionary coming out of Chicago would not have made it that far without Jay Z being my big brother and watching my back at all time."

Don't Try To Understand Me
When Lowe said he understood Kanye's frustration at not always being understood by the media and public, West, well, said Lowe misunderstood him. "No. I don't expect to be understood at all," West said. "I think that there's people who ...

Taylor Swift may be joining the cast of "The Giver," a film based on Lois Lowry's 1993 novel.

According to The New York Post's Page Six, Swift is locked in to appear in the film — set to shoot later this year in South Africa — which also stars Academy-Award winners Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges, and up-and-coming Australian actor Brenton Thwaites. "True Blood's" Alexander Skarsgard is reportedly also in talks to join the film.

Swift was apparently offered a supporting role in the film by Harvey Weinstein, who introduced her to Thwaites during the Toronto International Film Festival — reportedly Thwaites and Swift were also seen "talking for hours" at a festival party, so update your TayTay Relationship Lineup accordingly — and she's officially signed on to the project.

A spokesperson for Swift could not be reached for comment by MTV News at press time.

Swift made her film debut in the 2010 romantic comedy "Valentine's Day," starring alongside then-boyfriend Taylor Lautner. She also lent her voice to last year's film adaptation of Dr. Seuss' "The Lorax."

"The Giver" tells the story of a boy named Jonas who grows up in a Utopian community, free of war, pain or emotion. After he is given the feel, however, he slowly realizes that his society is much darker than he had ever imagined, and he attempts to free himself and enter the world at large. Swift can no doubt relate; not only did she once date an actual Jonas, but she somehow managed to free herself from the ...

Demi Lovato got the girls, Paulina Rubio was given the guys, Kelly Rowland landed the Over-25s and Simon Cowell nabbed the groups as kicked into high gear on Thursday night.

More than 80 percent of the contestants were sent packing when the finalists were narrowed from 218 to 40 over the course of the hour-long episode. Among those sent away, hopes withered and dreams dashed, was 29-year-old Keith Beukelaer, whose creepy-crawly rendition of "Like a Virgin" from season two of "American Idol" a decade ago still makes "worst audition ever" reels. Early on Thursday's episode, his hopeless take on "Baby Got Back" somehow earned a pass from the judges — mostly because it gave Rubio, Rowland and Lovato a chance to dance and actually got Simon to smile — but that was as far as Beukelaer made it. Later, when names were called for the 10 finalists in each group, he didn't make the cut, and Simon had the last laugh yet again.

Among those who will go on in the competition are Denny "Santa Claus" Smith, a 69-year-old Kris Kringle look-alike and pastor who's also a wailin' blues singer, and Victoria Carriger, a 41-year-old mother of eight (her children are between the ages of 4 and 20) who lives in Waynesville, Missouri. Her version of Kelly Clarkson's "Because of You" led both Rubio and Lovato to say they felt the pain in her voice. Both are in the Over-25s with Rowland, where they will be joined by season-one semi-semi-finalist James Kenney and female football player Lorie Moore, ...

Britney Spears isn't joking around in her new video for The singer released a new teaser for the Ben Mor-directed clip and it's pretty sexy.

The clip features Spears in several setups surrounded by sexy female dancers. The singer gyrates in front of a white wall, takes a lingering look at herself in a vanity mirror in the desert and later stands at attention, surrounded by scantily clad dancers, as a white Lamborghini drives around in the background.

In addition to all that, E! News has released another image from the visual. In the still, Spears wears a gold bra and hot pants. She sits under a neon sign that reads "Bitch," while one of her female minions is on all fours. Britney is also holding a bullwhip.

This week MTV News spoke to Mor, who revealed what else Spears will be up to in the eye-popping video. "You're gonna get to see a lot of Britney that you haven't seen in a long time. A lot of different wardrobe changes, a lot of different setups," he said. "It's one of the more ambitious Britney videos in a while, I guess."

Mor, who also worked with Spears on the , shared that Spears will be dancing a lot in the video. He also noted that they were embracing "edgy Britney." He said, "It's about creating iconic backdrops for her and really letting her create iconic moments that represent the theme of the song [which] is called 'Work Bitch.' And she's definitely letting people know that if you ...

Don't let the porn confuse you: Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut, is a romantic comedy. It's just not the sort of romantic comedy you're used to. (So keep that meet-cute to yourself, Katherine Heigl!)

The film centers around Gordon-Levitt's porn-addicted playboy Jon, who can't seem to connect with real-life women in the way he's able to with digital bed buddies. Even when said ladies look like Scarlett Johansson.

But Gordon-Levitt, who also wrote "Don Jon," isn't just singling out romantic comedies (or porn, for that matter) alone for their often fantastical visions of reality; it's all forms representing unattainable ideals.

"Well, it's sort of making fun of the movies that you're talking about, and not just movies — all kinds of media is constantly giving us unrealistic expectations about what men and women are supposed to be, about what love and sex are supposed to be," Gordon-Levitt told MTV News' Josh Horowitz recently.

And some of his own past roles (most notably, "(500) Days of Summer") may be partially to blame.

"I hear it all the time," he said. "It's probably why I was interested in making this movie. People saying, 'Why can't I find someone like you in that movie?' And it's like, well, it's not that simple. Real life is more complicated than that, which makes it more beautiful, but you'll miss it if you're too busy comparing your real life to these sort of simple fantasies you sort of see on screen, whether that's a fantasy in a romantic Hollywood movie or in a pornography video or in a commercial ...