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Ready for the cutest Good Deed For The Day you'll see all week? This fox in Russia presumably found something tasty at the bottom of a mason jar and went in for a closer look...only to have that brilliant plan backfire on it in pretty grand fashion. With its head firmly tucked within the jar, the fox then took the rather unusual step of seemingly coming to humans for help, and was lucky to find a pair of gentlemen willing to remove the jar from its head...and with a minimum of laughter at the situation, no less.

If you were an alien who knew nothing about cats, I feel confident that just watching this video would teach you pretty much everything important there is to know about them in record time. 

We've seen a few previews of the Fox animated version of Axe Cop, and so far it's everything we could want a show that's basically written by a five-year-old to be. This latest trailer comes as part of Fox's upfronts presentation giving advertisers a look at their fall lineup. In it, we see a lot more characters from the Axe Cop universe, and we learn what's even better than friends.

Homeland is a show about a potentially turned prisoner of war starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis that's produced by Fox for Showtime. Homeland is also a book by Cory Doctorow about...well, it's complicated, but it's a sequel to Little Brother. Fox doesn't seem to care that they're two different things, though, as they're apparently issuing DMCA takedown notices for both.

Earlier this week we looked at a paper that examined the physics behind the train stop scene in Spider-Man 2 that put a little science before our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, but that clearly wasn't enough for the people at Fox's Animation Domination High Def. They went a few steps further to create Scientifically Accurate Spider-Man to give us a look a what a real man/spider hybrid would look like, and it isn't pretty. It's also not safe for work, unless your work is writing about weirdly graphic Spider-Man parody cartoons. Then you're probably fine.

Slender Man is one of those things that's crawled up from the underbelly of the Internet back in 2009 to make its mark on popular culture. When the games featuring the creepy creation began to crop up, it was only a matter of time before the mainstream took hold. There have been countless videos and stories shared about Slender Man, but this particular music video from the folks at Fox's Animation Domination HD takes the cake for being both soothing and terrifying.

"Fringe has had a good run," I tell myself. "At least it got more of a chance than Firefly." It's a cold comfort to acknowledge that the latest sci-fi series to get punted by Fox had the good fortune to run for more than a season. It's a lot more than some of the other shows the network has started and then stopped over the years. As of tomorrow's finale, Fringe is done and over. I'm likely not alone in being sad to see the show go, but that's not what I'd like to focus on here. What I really want to say is this: Fringe has been a thrilling ride, and it'll be one of those shows that I watch again and again.

Many are the times we have wondered to ourselves "In a world of so much turmoil both at home and abroad, wouldn't we really be better off with Axe Cop running the show?" The answer, you will be unsurprised to learn, is "Yes, and by magnitudes of order." If these first couple teaser clips are any indication, we're starting to move from excited to drooling over the prospect of full episodes of Axe Cop coming to Fox this summer. Get a load of the latest clip below and learn just the latest reason we don't want to be caught on Bad Guy Planet, and also why we're never voting for a non-magical President again.

If you think a comic written by a five-year-old and then drawn by his 29-year-old older brother would be awesome, you would be right. That's the story behind Axe Cop. It started in 2010 as a webcomic written by then five-year-old Malachai Nicolle and drawn by his older brother Ethan Nicolle. It's grown into a comic book published by Dark Horse Comics, a series of animated web videos, and now a full-fledged animated series. Fox has announced the show will premiere on Saturday, July 27th as part of their new Animation Domination High Definition line up.

When a friend of 16-year-old Norwegian Lars Andreas Bjercke got a text message that read "Jlv In ø \ a0ab 34348tu åaugjoi zølbmosdji jsøg ijio sjiw," he wondered why his pal would send such a random assortment of characters. Little did he know that the message was written by the fox that had stolen Bjercke's cell phone. What was the fox trying to say? It might have been bragging about snatching the cell phone, or maybe asking for some delicious rabbits. Foxes love rabbits.

When the name Battlefield: Bad Company is uttered, it certainly doesn't bring to mind an hour long mix of action and comedy television. This is apparently not the case with Fox, however. Electronic Arts is milking the franchise for as much as they can get. The show, simply titled Bad Company, will be written by John Eisendrath and star the characters from the video game. At least there's that.

Waiting for a major film release to finally hit store shelves can be a pain. Lack of availability is something often brought up during the discussion on piracy. Studios, for their part, have to battle with theaters when trying to release their movies to home viewers earlier than the current status quo. In an effort to revive flagging film sales, Fox will start digitally releasing high-definition versions of their films about three weeks before they can be bought on disc or viewed through on-demand services.

Everyone's favorite show about ridiculously attractive people time traveling and also dinosaurs, FOX's Terra Nova, has been canceled. Though the show had Steven Spielberg and Peter Chernin as executive producers, this isn't exactly coming as a surprise, as the ratings weren't ever as attractive as its cast, and the show had a fairly large budget. For fans dismayed at the thought of losing one of the only shows on television prominently featuring dinosaurs, there's still a bit of hope, as the studio is said to be aggressively looking for another network to host the sci-fi epic.

Not too long ago, a site claiming to know what you have downloaded via torrent showed up on the scene. The site, YouHaveDownloaded.com, aims to call attention to the fact that torrenting, as it stands right now, is not a very private activity. You can go there right now to see if they have anything on you. Of course, it was only a matter of time before the folks at TorrentFreak decided to use the service to see if the big, anti-piracy companies live up to their own standards. Spoilers: They don't.

ABC Studios has sold an hour-long police procedural script to FOX based on The Punisher. If you're wondering how that is possible, ABC Studios is owned by Disney, and Disney owns Marvel. Former Chicago police officer Ed Bernero, who had done previous work on Third Watch and Criminal Minds, will executively produce the series. For Punisher fans hoping this never comes to fruition, I'm sorry to say, FOX has already committed to shooting a pilot, so at the very least, there will be one episode floating around at some point. The FOX series will focus on NYPD detective Frank Castle, whose alter ego is a vigilante seeking justice for people who slipped through the justice cracks. Punisher will obviously be wary of that description, as the sentence makes it sound like Frank will be on the force by day and murdering criminals by night, rather than not on the force at all and living in a sewer. English is a funny language, though, so we can only hope that the NYPD detective bit is referring to Frank's past, not his present.