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There might be no childhood experience purer than the devouring of cotton candy at the circus or a baseball game. It’s fluffy sugar delivered in the strangest way, and you don’t eat it so much as you coat yourself—your fingers, your hands, and all over your content face—in all its glory. And it’s worth all the trouble (well, maybe not for parents), because cotton candy is delicious. That’s why they make so many other treats cotton candy-flavored. But does it work in the reverse? If you turn other flavors into cotton candy, would the result be good? That question is being put to the ultimate test, as you can now order both BBQ Sauce and Spicy Jalapeño cotton candy.

The wonderful mad geniuses at Vat19, who previously brought us the world’s largest gummy pizza, are now selling all new cotton candy flavors. Most of them sound incredible and/or delightfully intriguing, like Orange Dreamiscle, Key Lime, Rosé, Cinnamon, Birthday Cake, Strawberry Cheesecake, and more. Two of them, BBQ Sauce and Spicy Jalapeño, definitely sound… less enticing.

Their BBQ Sauce Cotton Candy, a “sweet snack” that blends “brown sugar, ketchup, and smoke that make up the condiment you would slather on your meal at your favorite BBQ joint,” doesn’t seem like a flavor combination our brain and mouth will be able to reconcile.

But that’s a bona fide dessert compared to their Spicy Jalapeño Cotton Candy, which they say “isn’t spicy enough to put you in serious pain, but its robust heat is enough to scorch your tongue.” Sounds like something an evil witch hands out on Halloween.

Do we want to eat either of these? No. Would we? Of course we would. And if you want to try either of them you can order a 1.2 ounce container of each for $3.99. After all, is there any adult experience purer than taking something you loved as a kid and making it weird?

Images: Vat19

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Normally when you are a huge fan of a band, and that certainly describes me and The Lonely Island, you are highly protective of them. Even when a group wants you to laugh at them, the last thing you want to see or hear anyone doing is criticizing them, and not just for a specific song or album, but for their entire catalogue. It’s a personal insult to hear an artist you care about so much be besmirched by Philistines who clearly have no tastes in art, either comedic or musical. But there’s now one clear exception to that general rule: it’s not only fine, it’s totally amazing, to hear a bnd you love insulted when a robot will play their songs when you cask to hear “some hot garbage.”

The comedy musical trio shared a video of themselves telling Amazon’s Alexa “to play me some hot garbage,” and on command she started shuffling songs by The Lonely Island before settling on “Like a Boss.”

Alexa, play me some hot garbage (this actually works) @amazonmusic pic.twitter.com/MpxreUI2R4

— The Lonely Island (@thelonelyisland) June 13, 2019

I can confirm this is one hundred percent real. I tried it three times, and every time my Alexa started shuffling songs by The Lonely Island. However, you must say, “Play me some hot garbage,” because if you just say, “Play hot garbage,” she plays a station based on a song called “Hot Garbage.” You really have to ask for “some” hot garbage, you know, like The Lonely Island.

Now obviously there are only two ways this is possible. The first is Amazon set up a very funny, very appropriate way to access songs by a band who constantly make fun of themselves. This seems almost certainly what happened. The second is Alexa has become self-aware, gained an “Incredibad” sense of humor, and she has owned the band better than they ever could. This is what I hoped happened.

Either way, now I feel like listening to The Lonely Island. I really love some hot garbage, and I can say that because I’m a huge fan.

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Wonder Woman‘s Patty Jenkins was part of a TV directors roundtable for The Hollywood Reporter, where she discussed her TNT miniseries I Am the Night. The miniseries saw Jenkins reuniting with her Wonder Woman actors Chris Pine and Connie Nielsen to adapt the memoir One Day She’ll Darken: The Mysterious Beginnings of Fauna Hodel, about Hodel’s experiences with her grandfather, George Hodel, one of the prime suspects in the Black Dahlia murder.

Jenkins talked about working with Pine again, and the ease with which they collaborated, saying,

I’ve had it happen with several actors where you really get up to speed and you really know that person, so you see this incredible skill that they’re capable of, so you can spin them this way, and that’s fun. You can spin them that way. Chris and I definitely have that. I also think that he has a bunch of dimensions of him that I haven’t quite seen him get to explore. Now, at this point, I’m feeling like I just want to keep working with so many of the same actors because it is so fun. I have Connie Nielsen in it too, and you just spin her in a whole other direction and watch this whole other side of their personality come out and now you have a shorthand … I love that, I love working with the same people.

Jenkins didn’t reveal the hows and whys of Steve Trevor’s return in 1984, which has led to internet speculation that Trevor could be a figment of Diana’s imagination or an illusion designed by an enemy. Considering the role the Greek Gods play in the series, my money is on Hades bringing Trevor back to life. No word on whether or not Hades appears in the film, but we do know that Pedro Pascal (Kingsman: The Golden Circle) has been cast in a major role.

Jenkins and Pine are hardly the first actor-director power duo in Hollywood. Film history is filled with powerhouse collaborations, like Robert De Niro and Martin Scorcese, the Coen Brothers and Frances McDormand (who is married to Joel Coen), and Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, to name a few. These lifelong collaborations highlight the importance of creative chemistry and collaboration between actors and directors, who often push one another to achieve career bests.

Pine weighed in on his working relationship with Jenkins during a Variety interview with Wonder Woman co-star Robin Wright, saying,

“I found this time, the tables had turned on me as a man, in terms of how I interacted and played on the screen. I loved, as the character, my woman. My partner. She’s my partner. So that came to define this man. What a wonderful thing, as a character, to be in love. As a man on screen in a big film, it was interesting because my ego comes out: ‘Well, I want the big f–king fight. Let me climb something.’ And Patty’s like, ‘No, not about you.’ She said ‘not about you’ more times making this film.”

Pine’s work in Wonder Woman saw him take on what would traditionally have been known as “the girlfriend” role: supporting and being saved by the film’s hero, Wonder Woman. One of the pleasures of that first film was Pine’s performance, where he took a backseat and gave focus to Gal Gadot—as well he should have; the film is called Wonder Woman, after all.

We can’t wait to see Pine and Jenkins reunite in 2020 for Wonder Woman 1984.

(via ComicBook.com, image: Gregg DeGuire/Getty Images)

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