So there’s this blog called Springfield Punx run by a guy named Dean who is apparently an uber-fan of The Simpsons, because he takes the time to regularly draw and post famous people and fictional characters in the singular art style of The Simpsons. He’s posting a new drawing every day this week of characters from Lost.

Monday he posted Hurley, Tuesday he showed us his version of Charlie, and today (Wednesday), he drew Benjamin Linus. No idea who he plans to draw for Thursday or Friday, though it looks like he’s been picking his personal favorites. Personally, I’d love to see him draw the entire cast.

Click on the links for full-sized, full-body images.

The ODI has turned up three billboards in Europe — showcasing Sayid, Hurley, and Locke — and promoting Season 5’s premier. Each one has a different tagline that refers to current happenings with that character, and I predict at least two of them will make you smile.

I’d love to show them to you here, but I’m not going to swipe them from The ODI cause that ain’t cool. So view them here and here.

Ever wonder how many times Hurley has spoken the word “Dude” on Lost? The answer, according to the following video, is two hundred and twenty-two. So far. Every single one of them (along with a few non-Hurley “Dude”s) is captured in this video, to comical — and surprisingly entertaining — effect.

For added fun, after the jump you’ll find a couple of videos that feature every one of Sawyer’s many nicknames for his fellow castaways.

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Lyly Ford Blog turned up ten new promotional pictures for Season Five. The pics are individual profile shots that match the cast shots from the Season Five poster (that “Destiny Calls” one you’ve probably seen a dozen times by now), which were obviously Photoshopped together to create the poster. Here’s your chance to see each character image from that poster solo, if that strikes your fancy. Note that these are not official ABC images, but instead appear to be the cut-and-paste (but still very professional looking) concoction of a TV network in Brazil, using the Destiny Calls poster as source material. But they still turn up a few interesting tidbits…

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Lost Season 5
Filming Spoilers

Lost was spotted filming again at the campus of Windward Community College in Kaneohe this week where they shot a scene at the Santa Rosa Mental Institute.

Ryan at Hawaii blog shares this report from Grappler:

• Hurley relaxes on the hospital grounds. He sits on a bench and paints.
• Locke arrives. He’s in a wheelchair with a cast on his right leg.
• They begin speaking. Hurley jumps up and calls out to someone named Susie. He asks her, “Am I talking to a guy in a wheelchair right now?” She affirms that Locke is in fact there.
• Hurley sits down and they continue talking. Locke gestures over his shoulder.
• Hurley jumps up again and says, “What? Don’t you know? He’s evil!”
• Hurley sticks his fingers in his years and begins yelling. “I’m not hearing this! This is not happening!”
• He calls for Susie and says, “I’m ready to go back now!”
• Susie takes Hurley back into the hospital.

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Character Profile
Hugo “Hurley” Reyes
Flash Forwards

These flash forwards are presented in the order that they were viewed on the show. In parenthesis are numbers corresponding to the order that they flash forwards would appear chronologically for Hurley’s life off the island.

Episode 4.01: The Beginning of the End
(5) Hurley drives a Camaro through a pile of fruit. Police are chasing him. He runs through a pile of fruit. The police tell him to get out. He is taken to an interrogation room. They watch a tape of a convenience store where Hurley was earlier. Hurley sees something off camera, gets scared, and runs out.

Alone in the room Hurley looks to the window. It is now a tank and the ocean is on the other side. Charlie swims over. The window breaks, spilling water into the room. Hurley runs to the door and bangs on it, asking for help. When he turns around, nothing is in the room. The police officer returns and threatens to toss him in the “nut house”. Hurley hugs him and says “Thank you!”
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Character Profile
Hugo “Hurley” Reyes
Flashbacks

These flashbacks are presented in the order that they were viewed on the show. In parenthesis are numbers corresponding to the order that they flashbacks would appear chronologically for Hurley’s life.

Episode 1.18: Numbers
(4) Hurley is on the couch at his mother’s house. He’s eating chicken and watching TV. His mother tells him to go out and find a nice woman. Hurley catches the lottery results. After the last number is read he faints and breaks the coffee table.

(8) Later Hurley is surrounded by reporters. Hurley says that the numbers just came to him. His grandfather Tito, keels over dead.
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Jorge Garcia opened up to TVGuide.com on his reaction to discovering he is in the Oceanic Six!

TVGuide.com: What was your reaction when you found out that you would be the third member of the Oceanic Six? Were you like, “Time to put in a pool at the house”?
Garcia: [Laughs] No…. But it was pretty exciting. There are so many more possibilities now, seeing where you are in your character’s life if you make it off the island. But it feels like a lot of pressure when it’s your episode coming out of the gate. You feel rusty, and that makes you nervous.

TVGuide.com: What is Hurley trying to “escape” from in the future, by getting recommitted?
Garcia: I think it’s the presence of whatever he’s haunted by, something that manifests itself in Charlie coming to visit him.

TVGuide.com: What are we to make of the fact that Hurley’s pal there also saw Charlie? Does that make it harder to write off Charlie as a mere figment of Hurley’s imagination?
Garcia: I think it does. What exactly the real-world explanation is, I don’t know. It’s somewhere in when Charlie says, “I am dead, but I am here as well.” Somehow both are true.

TVGuide.com: As Naveen [Andrews, who plays Sayid] pointed out to me, the Oceanic Six might just be the people who “officially” get off the island — there might still be people back on the island at this point. Is that your take, too?
Garcia: Yeah, that’s the interpretation I got. As for why we all have to go back, why we need to go back, that has to do with the people who are left behind. Why were they left behind? What exactly happened?

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I love Jorge Garcia. I really do! I think he is genuinely funny and sincere and down-to-earth… and I love the character of Hurley.

Doc Jensen had the incredible opportunity to chat with Jorge over the phone… here’s some bits from the interview:

What did you think when you got the season premiere and it was all about Hurley?
A little pressure. A lot of times, after a lengthy hiatus, you want to get into the swing of things a bit before you get your episode. But I was really excited, too. It was a different direction for a season premiere, and I felt the fans would probably dig it.

You had a moment in the premiere that I thought was priceless: Hurley’s quiet, deflated reaction to the news of Charlie’s death.
For that scene, I wanted the sensation that the blood had drained out of my face and down to my feet. Actors like to cry a lot, but it’s also very human to not cry and stop yourself from crying.

Charlie died last season, yet you got to work with Dominic Monaghan again in the premiere when Charlie’s ghost (?) visited Hurley at the mental hospital. What was that like for you?
Awesome. To see his name on the cast sheet on the front of the script was great. It would be fun for Dominic to pop in a lot in a similar way — kind of make him the Obi-Won Kenobi type of character for the show.

Think that will happen?
You never know.

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Episode 4.01: The Beginning of the End - Hurley
Airdate: January 31, 2008
Spoilers

The first image we will see is a giant pile of fruit. Next we hear a rumbling. There’s a bang and the fruit explodes.

A car comes piling through the fruit. It’s a car chase. It’s a flash-forward!

We see the cops chasing a car and eventually the car spins out of control, crashing into a building or something. The cops tell the driver to get out of the car and it’s… Hurley! Why is he running?

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Source: Lost Spoilers