Three cheers for that comic genius Tracy Morgan. Sorry for the crappy video—for some reason NBC.com's link to the "Astronaut Jones" video (with Britney Spears) was dead. [SNL]

In 2007, a muscular robot programmed to lift heavy stones malfunctioned in a factory near Stockholm, Sweden, and some poor devil—who thought he'd turned off the power—nearly got himself killed when the robot grabbed his head and shook him around. He ended up with four broken ribs, but managed to "defend himself" and live. The judge awarded the guy 25,000 Swedish kronor, which sounds nice except that it's only about $3,000. The judge also reprimanded the guy for being at least partially at fault, if I'm reading the Swedish translation correctly.

My point is, if the guy had only had Old Glory robot insurance, he'd have gotten way more than $3K, and probably wouldn't have gotten that reprimand either, because we know how Old Glory feels about robots. (Sorry in advance to people outside NBC.com boundaries—the video below is damn funny.) [SvD via io9]

The MacGruber Pepsi ads were sandwiched in between the usual commercials that populate Saturday late night television. The first, for example, came after a trailer for Pink Panther 2, which had conveniently played after Steve Martin's monologue—as well as one of SNL's "real" fake commercials, featuring Kristen Wiig pitching "edible pampers" (it was as gross as it sounds).

At least the ads were self-depreciating, with MacGruber's character constantly flubbing up the escape with incessant references to soda, new Pepsi clothing, and even a name change. All the while, the real MacGyver plays the straight man, criticizing the product placement and eventually calling our hero the sell out he is.

Even the musical lead-in, which features a machismo singer laying down what MacGruber is all about, succumbed to the product placement fever:

I'd say it's a sad, sad day, but I'm laughing. Oh well. [YouTube]